Confessed killer Travers linked to four murders says police
Frank Travers a 26 year old suspect in a California prison case reportedly confessed to four murders including his father. Authorities said bodies found in Vernon California river on April 8 were strangled. Police seek further corroboration as Travers also implicated an Italian victim named Angelo in Oregon and forged a check in 1936.
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Frank Travers
Lesman
Copelandith
Chicago
Davis
Travis
Angelo Alo
Travers
Angelo
Oregon
Ter
PWA ready to advance funds for Buzzard hydro project
Washington June 21 The Public Works Administration said it is prepared to provide 150000 to Greenwood county for additional preliminary expenses on the Buzzard hydro electric project. PWA would honor the county’s requisition quickly as it prepares to seek a larger sum while Duke Power Company of Charlotte NC obtained a preliminary motion against the project in Saint Asheville NC.
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Washington
Public Works Administra
Greenwood Nty
D. C
Buzzard
PWA
Nty
Hhe County
Duke Power Company
Char. N. C
Saint Asheville
N. C
Steel strike prompts call for federal study by Republic official
Cleveland June 21 4) bm Girler chairman of Republic Steel urged the federal steel mediation board to study the strike and report facts to the public. He said Republic would enter into contracts while the CIO as constituted is irreponsible and noted major plants refused to sign.
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Cleveland
Bm Girler
Repub- Steel Corporation
Federal Steel Mediation Board
Republic
Youngstown and Tube
Inland Steel
Bethlehem Steel
Angell Attacks Labor Policy and Court Plan at Yale
Yale University at New Haven held commencement activities as President James Rowland Angell delivered his final baccalaureate address. Angell charged that the national government has appeared partisan in the labor conflict and attacked Roosevelt's proposed Supreme Court bill.
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Conn
James Rowland Angell
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Yale
Angell
Armed Bandits Rob Cashiers in Richmond Street Car Heist
Four armed bandits held up a street car motorman and two Virginia Electric Power Company cashiers in Richmond's West End, escaping with 12806 dollars and 23 cents. They also took 66 dollars and 11 cents in checks, leaving five bags with 2300 dollars in small change.
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Richmond
Virginia Electric Power Company
West End
Von Neurath London Visit Postponed
Berlin reports Baron Konstantin von Neurath the foreign minister will delay his planned London visit due to naval crisis sparked by Red Spanish attacks on German warships. German authorities cite torpedo attempts on the cruiser Leipzig off Algeria and Spain's denial, as four power talks proceed in London about the incident.
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Germany
London
Konstantin von Neurath
Leipzig
Algeria
Balearic Islands
Almeria
Britain
France
Italy
Chautemps Seeks To Form New Cabinet After Blum Quit
Paris residents watched trucks of mobile guards as Camille Chautemps moved to assemble a new cabinet to steer France from the government crisis. Steel-helmeted troops lined the Senate approach after the Senate ousted the Blum government yesterday and toppled the socialist trial.
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Blum
Paris
Camille Chautemps
France
Senate
Leon Blum
People's Front
New Treason Trial Hinted In Soviet Purges
Moscow June 21. A high party official joined those imprisoned in the cleaving purge of the Soviet ranks. Josef Stanislavovitch Umblicht acting secretary of the union executive committee disappeared June 16. Previous disappearances have preceded treason charges against Russian leaders. No specific accusation was given.
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Soviet Union
Josef Stanislavovitch Umblicht
Union Exeecutive Committee
United States
House of Representatives
Child Slayer Is Given Sentence
Riverhead New York June 21 Mrs Helen Tiernan was sentenced to 20 years to life in a New York state prison for women for killing her daughter Helen. The embroiderer attacked her daughter in a wood and attempted to kill her son Jimmy age 5 by beating slashing and burning.
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N. Y
Helen Tiernan
New York State
Helen
Jimmy
Fleeing Prisoner Killed as Other Captured in Baltimore
Two armed fugitives from the District of Columbia prison at Lorton Va fled toward Washington. Martin J Walsh alias James Bischoff 35 was felled by three patrolman shots when he reached for a pistol. Walter Forbush alias Billy Riggins 24 of South Boston Va was chased, captured after a several block pursuit.
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Martin J. Walsh
James Bischoff
Walter Forbush
Billy Riggin
South
Boston
Injuries Fatal To College Boy
Edward Peter Parker student at the University of South Carolina died in a Columbia hospital from injuries suffered in an automobile accident near Bamberg on Saturday. He was the son of W. A. Parker of Graniteville. Parker, who would have graduated in pharmacy, was hurt when the car veered and overturned at a grade crossing en route to Charleston.
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Columbia
8. C
Edward Peter Parker
University of South Carolina
Bamberg
W. A. Parker
Graniteville
Parker
Charlestom
Hughes Says Preservation Big Problem at Brown Alumni
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, in a Brown University alumni address, warns society faces a shift from building democratic institutions to preserving them amid postwar economic dislocations and rising sectional discord. He notes enduring ideals of liberty clash with anxious, divided public sentiment.
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Providence
R. L
Charles Evane Hughes
Brown University
United States
Seven Arrested in Mill Strike at Lumberton
Seven men were arrested on charges of forcible trespass and assault after J. J. McMurray of Mansfield Mills said they tried to prevent the plant reopening. McMurray was shoved at the door as he entered for the day shift. About one hundred employees entered the mill to work while strikers and sympathizers clustered nearby. Patrolmen and county officers made the arrests amid ongoing tension at local mills.
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Lumberton
J. J. McMurray
Mansfield Mills
McMurry
Code For Soft-Coal Industry Put Into Effect By President
Washington June 21. The nations soft coal industry begins operating under a code of fair practices. President Roosevelt issues an executive order implementing the act which sets up a tax system and fixes coal prices by the National Bituminous Coal Commission. Senate moves to resume debate on the administration's 1.5 billion relief bill as judiciary committee advances child labor constitutional amendment proposal.
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Roosevelt
Supreme Court
National Bituminous Coal Commission
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Vendenberg
Mich
United States Seen Rising to Decide Europe Role
Spain's Julio Alvarez del Vayo, League delegate, warns that French and British weakness against German and Italian pressure makes U S leadership in European affairs inevitable. He cites the Bilbao fall as evidence of democracies' terrorizing factors and calls for U S decisive action.
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Valencia
Spain
United States
League of Nations
Germany
Italy
Julio Alvarez del Vayo
League Adiegate
Bilbao
Polar Route Seen By Fliers As Air Lane Of Tomorrow
Three Russian airmen completed a record trans polar flight, landing in Vancouver Washington after 63 hours 17 minutes of perilous travel. From Moscow they departed at 8 05 p m EST Thursday and closed within 892 miles of Oakland California. The trio hailed the journey as opening a new air lane for future commerce.
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Vancouver
Wash
Moscow
Oakland
Calif
Parsons Kidnappers Maintain Silence
Three Suffolk county officers investigating the disappearance of Mrs. Alice Parsons left for New York City on an undisclosed mission. Assistant District Attorney Lindsay R. Henry headed the trio who said they would give the kidnapers one last chance to indicate Mrs. Parsons is still alive.
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Stony Brook
N. Y
Suffolk County
Alice McDowell Parsons
Long Island
New York City
Lindsay R. Henry
Earhart to rest three days in Dutch East Indies stop
Amelia Earhart will rest for three days in Bandong after landing at 10 17 AM from Singapore. Her plane will be overhauled before the next leg of the around the world flight. Military planes escorted her to the field as she circled seeking guidance markers. She plans to fly next to Darwin Australia.
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Dutch East Indies
Australia
Bandobeng
Bandoeng
Singapore
Java Sea
Java
Dutch Air Service
Darwin
Roosevelt Suffering From Nose Cold at White House
President Roosevelt remains in the White House living quarters with a cold in the nose but received half a dozen callers as officials describe his ailment.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Enterprise Announces Sunday All Color Comics Section
The Enterprise will publish an eight page all color comics section on Sunday July 4 featuring existing funnies and new color strips including Lil Abner. The move aims to expand entertainment and strengthen the paper with a bigger, better issue for readers.
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Enterprise
The
Lil Abner
Einterprise
Button Clue Solves Bus Station Theft Case
Police linked two torn buttons to Charles Reid Chandler, 714 Morris Street, charging him with breaking and entering and larceny in the Union Bus Station theft. The 2:10 a.m. break in last Monday yielded $213.25 cash and a torn shirt button used to identify the culprit. Chandler, a former bus station employee, confessed.
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Union
East High Street
Charles Reid Chandler
Morris Street
Chandler
Insurgents Begin Campaign For Drive Against Santander
Insurgent forces under Gener alissimo Franco move from Bilbao toward Santander, 45 miles away, to subdue Basque resistance. Bridges cross the Nervion as water famine fears prompt control of Bilbao. Government troops hold west of Bilbao and near Madrid where an explosion damaged University City hospital. Germany seeks support from Britain France and Italy at London talks over a Valencia apology for torpedoing the Leipzig.
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Italy
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Leipzig
London
Fort Bragg Garrison Under Inspection Review
Fayetteville June 21 Major General George Wat Horn Moseley commander of the Fourth Corps area inspected the Fort Brags garrison today. The review included 140 officers 3 200 men and 250 motor vehicles.
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Fayetteville
George Wat Horn Moseley
Fourth Corps
Fort Brags
Violent Storm Strikes Michigan Killing Four
A violent storm swept southeastern Michigan last night killing four people and causing extensive property damage. A sailboat with seven aboard was reported missing on Lake Erie but Toledo coast guardsmen believed it had possibly reached a harbor.
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Detroit
Michigan
Lake Erie
Toledo
Insurgent Leader Lauded By Il Duce
Mussolini telegrammed Francisco Franco praising the capture of Bilbao as a noble undertaking restoring a Spanish province. The Duce called the event a gigantic step forward in nationalist triumph and said Italians celebrated the news with great joy.
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Rome
Mussolini
Francisco Franco
Bilbao
Cleveland Faces General Labor Pressure Amid Steel Strike
In Cleveland on June 21 federal mediators pressed to end a work stoppage as about 24 000 workers faced potential return to plants and a general strike threat loomed from Warren and Youngstown unions. A judge issued an injunction against pickets at U S Steel prompting caution from CIO organizers while executives warned of rapid action if a broader walkout occurred.
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Little Steel
Frank Pw
Youngstown & and Tube
Republic
John M
John & Keown
C. IL. O
Warren
John L
Generalissiz
Feds
Quarrel Leads to Triple Slaying in Asheville
Herman Burton was jailed on a murder charge after allegedly killing his brother Sam Burton and two nephews Earl and Charlie during a family quarrel at a produce stand. Police say Burton claimed self defense as he fired with an ax and a pistol during the confrontation. A coroner's inquest was scheduled for tomorrow.
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Herman Burton
Sam Burton
Latts
Earl
Charlie
Charlies W. Demid
Burton
Dermid
Charlie Burton
Burton Sons
Charlotte
H Burton
Stock market slumps then recovers on gains in steel shares
New York June 21 gloom weighed on stocks with fractions lost early today though steel shares helped. late trading showed modest gains as prices rebounded from lows.
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New York
Plane Crash Near Graton Claims Three Lives
Three people were killed when a plane crashed near Graton Ontario. The aircraft fell from a height of about 1, 000 feet after takeoff. Investigating authorities reviewed the wreckage and noted no survivors among the occupants.
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Granton
Ont
Nazis Close Church Schools In Bavaria
In Bavaria, Catholic parochial schools were dissolved by a Nazi decree converting 966 confessional schools into secular institutions. In Munich and Upper Bavaria alone only about 100 Catholic schools remained. Vatican officials led by Pope Pius opposed the move while authorities claimed the closures were carried out with the church's consent.
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Germany
Bavaria
Upper Bavaria
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