Lindbergh Jr Report Said Held Aboard Chesapeake Yacht
The Ledger Dispatch claims Charles A Lindbergh Jr is aboard a yacht somewhere in Chesapeake Bay. It reports three Norfolk citizens met the Lindberghs at Sourland Mountain and sought Colonel Lindbergh’s consent to a ransom plan. The article cites an apparently authentic source and New Jersey reports of a Virginia flagged car.
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Norfolk
the Ledger Dispatch
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr
New Jersey
Chesapeake Bay
Sourland Mountain
Lindbergh
Supreme Court Upholds Scottsboro Death Sentences
The Alabama Supreme Court affirmed the death sentences of seven Scottsboro defendants and reversed one, fixing May 13 for execution. Chief Justice Anderson dissented. Justices Gardner, Bouldin, Brown, Foster, Knight concurred. The youths were convicted of attacking two white girls aboard a freight train in 1931.
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Ala
Scottsboro
Alabama Supreme Court
Supreme Court
John C. Anderson
Gardner
Bouldin
Brown
Foster
Knight
Eugene Williams
Stevenson
Paint Rock
Alabama
Chattanooga
Debate on sales tax failure in House sparks party split
The House rejected a 2.25 percent sales tax by 223 to 153 after a sharp partisan struggle. The vote halted a revenue plan to balance the 1933 budget, prompting a search for alternative funding sources.
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Brough
Washington, Mar
Representative Doughton
Ways and Means
Doughton
Rankin
Mississippi
LaGuardia
New York
House
Rainey
Illinois
Byrns
Tennessee
Byrnes
Suitor who slays woman is killed
Raeford North Carolina March 24 A Hoke county coroner s jury exonerates Pierce Wright 30 after he shoots and kills Frank Russell 40 who murdered his sister Carrie Wright 25 a nurse Russell entered the Wright home and shot Carrie in the back then aimed at Pierce and Viola Wright Pierce killed Russell after Viola armed him Carrie s mother Mrs Wright was in the house when the attack occurred
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Raeford
N. C
Pierce Wright
Hoke County
Frank Russell
Carrie Wrigh
Wright
Russell
Carrie
Viola
Pierce
Jonas Loses His Bid To Keep Federal Office
The Senate rejected Charles A. Jonas of North Carolina for U S district attorney in the western district. Key opponents cited his criticisms of North Carolina courts and the Nye election probe, with Bailey and Morrison leading the opposition over alleged improper statements.
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Jonas
Washington
Mar
Senate
Hoover
Charles A. Jonas
North Carolina
Watson
Indiana
Bailey
Reed
Pennsylvania
Judiciary Committee
Nye
Bailey-Morrison
Cermak Promises Chicago Payrolls Up to July
Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak promised that by July 1 the city would stop issuing empty pay envelopes for municipal workers including 18 000 teachers. He announced a $4 133 000 payroll and said $23 000 000 in back salaries owed to teachers and other workers would be paid off with forthcoming checks as city finances were strengthened by county reassessment changes.
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Red Cross
William de Kleine
C. Wade Downing
Washington Oili
Alabama
Georgia
Tennessee
South Carolina
Kentucky
Sumter Smith
Alabama National Guard
Chicago
Anton Cermak
Cermak
China to kidnap bandits to free American on Yangtze
Shanghai report says the Chinese government agreed to seize bandit hostages in Kienli province to pressure for the release of Charles Baker, a Pasadena boat captain held since January. Negotiations have failed as bandits demanded ransom and used a river flotilla to exploit the captive.
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Shanghai
Mar
Charles Baker
Pasadena
Calif
Lansing Hoyt
Yangtze Rapids Steamship Company
Baker
Kienli
Nanking
China
Kienti
Yangtze
Sampan
Will Rogers on inheritance tax and dying for country
Will Rogers comments from Beverly Hills Calif about Congress 72 percent income tax and a new inheritance tax. He jokes that the rich are targeted whether alive or dead, and claims the bill makes patriots out of everyone who dies for their country.
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Beverly
Missing Woman Thought Kidnapped in Nebraska Ransom Case
Laurel Morrison, 30, of Aurora Nebraska, a beauty parlor operator, is missing and presumed kidnapped for a $1000 ransom. A letter demanding the money arrived at Aurora, stating the sum was dictated by another person, with the hostage to be mailed to Morrison in care of the Lincoln delivery. Sheriff J J Mohr leads the search at the request of her father, Robert Morrison.
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Lincoln
Neb
Laurel Miorrison
Aurora
Miss Morrison
J. J. Mohr
Robert Morrison
Central City
Dugan Aycock Closes Sixth In North-South Open Round
Dugan Aycock of High Point posted 38-85-73 to finish sixth after the first round of the 72 hole North and South tournament at Pinehurst. Paul Runyan led with 67, Craig Wood was second at 69, while others from New York to North Carolina and Georgia posted scores in a large field.
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Dugan Aycock
Paul Runyan
White Plains
N. Y
Aycock
Pinehurst
N. C
Runyan
Craig Wood
Deal
N. J
High Point
Sandy Armour
Washington
House Debates Tax and Banking Reform Bills This Week
The Banking and Currency Committee presses hearings on Glass banking reform while the House debates the billion-dollar tax measure. The Coinage Committee probes silver and the Interstate Commerce Committee weighs railroad holding company regulation. Transfer of public lands to states is studied by the Lands Committee.
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Banking and Currency Committee
HOUSE
Coinage Committee
Interstate Commerce Committee
McAdoo Jokes About Politicians In New York
Former treasury secretary William G. McAdoo left Washington by private plane for New York after 9 am. When asked if he would see politicians there, he quipped asking if there were any politicians in New York.
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Washington
William G. McAdoo
Elopement Ends in Bigamy Charge for Lloyd King
Greensboro reports Lloyd E. King of Coatesville Pa. arrested for bigamy after eloping with the daughter of C. K. Richards to his father’s home in White Oak. He leaves behind a wife and three children in Pennsylvania.
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Greensboro
Lloyd E. King
Coatesville
White Oak
C. KE. Richards
Pennsylvania
Elopers returned from White Oak as kingpin faces jail
In Coatesville Pennsylvania police escorted 20 year old Miss Helen Richards and 35 year old Lloyd King from White Oak North Carolina. King described as a former veterans hospital attendant allegedly has a wife and three children in Lexington Kentucky. Richards told her father C E Richards she eloped and stayed with Kings parents in White Oak.
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White Oak
N. C
Helen Richards
Lloyd King
Veterans Hospital
King
Lexington
C. E. Richards
Minister Becomes Inmate After Elopement Romance
The Rev. Lester G. Beers former pastor at Signal Hill Methodist Church in East St. Louis was ordered to the Anna State Asylum for observation after a jury found him not sane enough to stand trial. He had planned to elope with Serena Weil a 17 year old, quoted Bible verses to defend his actions and faced Mann Act warrants.
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Lill
Lester G. Beers
Signal Hill Methodist
East St. Louis
Anna State Asylum
Beers
Serena Weil
Miss Weil
Missouri
Kansas
Sugar
Beer
Dr. W. H
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