Kidnaper Suspect Hangs Himself in Chicago Jail
Chicago police report Fred Mayer publisher of an Iowa paper was target of a kidnap plot. accomplice Jack Wyman alias Lacey was captured. the confessed plan involved abducting E P Adler Birmingham publisher. Wyman hanged himself in a police cell after the confession. Phillips named Wyman as confederate. wife detained and silent.
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Chicago
Adier
Iowa
Fred Mayer
Birmingham
Alu
Asius Chutes Phillips
Marouetie
Jack Lacey
Wyman
Jack Wyman
Lacey
Charles Phillips
E. P. Adler
South Side
Phillips
Wimar
Experts Aid Dean Defense in Kennedy Poisoning Trial
Greenwood Mississippi Tuesday heard expert testimony for Dr. Sarah Ruth Dean as two physicians and a college chemist defended her against the charge that she poisoned Dr Kenneth Kennedy with a whisky highball. Dr A E Gordian, a consulting physician, testified he believed the patient’s pain came from illness, not mercury poisoning, contradicting state evidence.
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A. E. Gordian
Kennedy
Jackson
MellonS sought air mail line from U S
Washington report mentions Andrew Mellon and sons on the Pittsburgh Aviation Industries board as Walter F. Brown testifies about an air mail contract. Also notes Washington Birthday holiday and Senate action on the economy act and veterans benefits as year proceeds.
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Washington
Walter F. Brown
Hoover
Andrew Mellon
R. K. Mellon
W. L. Mellon
Pittsburgh Aviation Industries, Inc
Brown
Pittsburgh Corporation
King Albert's example and American budgetary courage
A dated column contrasts monarchies and republics to argue humanity worships brave, unselfish citizens like King Albert. It praises his wartime leadership while condemning U S senators who balk at restoring 15 percent federal salary pay, urging gradual restoration to protect private payrolls as the nation borrows to sustain government.
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Elgium
Belgium
America
England
France
Albert
National Good Turn Day mobilizes Boy Scouts for relief drive
President Roosevelt urges Boy Scouts of America to solicit citizens for old furniture clothing bedding and utensils to aid the unemployed and needy. Hope residents are asked to contribute any small article with local truckers shops and cleaners aiding in collecting repairing and cleaning. A name and article record will be kept and circulars pinned on front porches. The national collection takes place early Saturday morning at 9 o clock on February 24.
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Roosevelt
Boy Scouts of America
Boy Scouts
Eight million cabbage plants bought for spring gardening program
The State Emergency Relief Commission announced by Edgar A. Hodson that eight million cabbage plants will support a spring gardening effort alongside 100,000 seed assortments and 5,500 bushels of onions. Recipients must pledge to plant a garden and commit surpluses to canning. ERC centers will assist. Hempstead county is allocated 160,000 plants. Babylonian students in 2000 B C studied quadratic equations, algebra nearly 4000 years old.
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Little Rock
State Emergency Relief Commission
Edgar A. Hodson
ERC
Belgium Mourns King Albert I as Nation Honors Hero
King Albert I of Belgium is buried in Laeken after an eight hour funeral procession. He died pursuing mountains and led Belgian forces in World War I, defying Germany in 1914. He twice visited the United States and shaped wartime neutrality policy.
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Belgium
Albert First
Albert
Leopold
Germany
France
Beligum
Louvain
Antwerp
la Panne
United States
James J. Hill
Queen Elizabeth
Nazis Gain Ground as Dollfuss Reshapes Austrian Politics
Vienna reports Chancellor Dollfuss moves to consolidate power by placing the director of the official news agency in charge of the seized Socialist party publishing house. Government aims to publish a workers newspaper next week. Nazi leaders claim emboldened by Socialist drift, while socialists dispute those claims and fugoive Soviet leaders abroad differ on the extent of the shift.
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Vienna
Miglebert Dollfuss
Socialist Party
Arbeiter Zeitung
S. Christian
Dollfuss
Fercus
Sandin rebel leader Sanding killed near Managua
Bulletins report General Augusto C. Sanding, famed rebel, and his brother Socrates Sandino along with two friends were killed by national guardsmen on the outskirts of Managua at midnight Wednesday, according to a government communique issued Thursday morning.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Augusto C. Sanding
Socrates Sandino
Vines in Critical Condition After Horseback Accident
Lum Vines, a 40 year old farmer from Shoyer Springs, remained unconscious in Josephine hospital after a Wednesday horseback accident near Wyatt's Service station. Doctors reported slight improvement but said his skull fracture and facial abrasions left him in critical condition. He was transported by a Hope Furniture company ambulance.
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Lum ‘Vines
Stavisky Witness Killed in France
Paris reports another twist in the Stavisky pawnshop bond swindle case as Judge Albert Prince, a noted figure in financial scandal probes and slated to testify, is found murdered on a railway near Lison. Prince, bound and stabbed, had been lured by a fake telephone message claiming his mother was ill in Dijon and was slain en route. The case deepens public scrutiny of judicial handling of Stavisky.
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Paris
France
Stavisky
Albert Prince
Lison
Prince
Court of Appeals
I l
Dijon
Pariy
Pringe
Chamber of Deputies
CWA to Drop 271 in Hempstead Co Effective Friday
CWA will drop 271 workers in Hempstead County on Friday as part of demobilization. The new county quota is 100 across federal state and local projects, with payroll expected to fall from about 6000 to 4000 dollars weekly. Money spent totals roughly 150000 dollars including labor materials and equipment, with county roads and water mains projects prioritized as cuts proceed through May 1.
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CWA
Hempstead
Joe R. Floyd
Floyd
W. BR. Dyess
Tabernacle Sold to Highest Bidder in Jonesboro
Controversy marked two years of use as a Baptist Tabernacle in Jonesboro. Creditors bid the tabernacle at a chancery sale for 2800 dollars. Fixtures including stoves and benches sold to Eugene Sloan and Ivie Specer amid dispute. Spencer said he would seek to block court confirmation of the fixture sale.
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Jonesboro
Jonesboro Baptist Tabernacle
Tabernanele
Chancery Court
Eugene Sloan
Ivie Specer
Dale S. Crowley
L. E B. Isum
Chancery
Stean
Spencer
Dawes Credits F D R for Policy Driven Gains
Charles Gales Dawes, breaking a two year silence on business, told the Chicago Association of Commerce that prosperity began last October and would improve further. He credited President Roosevelt with balancing the budget in 1936 and restoring public confidence, outlining figures on bank checking accounts and payments to illustrate renewed activity. He cited the bank moratorium of 1933 as a turning point and praised the administration’s budget balancing as key to reviving prosperity.
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Chicago
Charles Gales Dawes
Chicago Association of Commerce
Roosevelt
Dawes
Henderson Band Will Broadcast on Friday
Henderson State Teachers College band, with several city students, will broadcast Friday afternoon over station KTHS at Hot Springs. The program begins at 2 40 and runs for a half hour. A news item on lightning in South Africa notes it is deadly yet science has no reason.
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Henderson State Teachers College
South Africa
Mountain Crash Wrecks Mail Plane in Snowy Ohio Field
Lieutenant D O Lowry and Lieutenant P Holstein, army mail fliers, were involved in separate crash landings in Ohio and Pennsylvania while delivering Cleveland to Washington and Cleveland to Chicago routes. Lowry was killed in Deshler near Uniontown after his plane struck trees. Holstein suffered severe injuries but survived. A third flier, Lieutenant Schlater, landed in Goshen Indiana during a snowstorm and transferred his mail to a train.
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Unionto Pa
Schlater
Cleveland
Chicago
Goshen
Ind
101 Russians Face Death in Ice Floe
Moscow reports 101 survivors of the sunken Cheliuskin marooned on drifting ice in the Bering Strait. Eight women and two children are among the castaways nine days without salvage, as a government commission in Moscow directs efforts to rescue the Wrangel Island expedition amid high winds and shifting ice.
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Moscow
Russia
Bering Strait
Cheliuskin
Iccefield
Otto Schmidt
Wrangel Island
Adams Denies Ownership of Air Stocks
Boston secretary of the navy under Hoover, Charles Francis Adams, denied ever owning stock in Douglas Aircraft or any aircraft company. He said he would testify before the House naval committee about naval airplane contracts and has accepted an invitation, date to be set. Portland Oregonian asks if the horse is returning. Dallas News notes uncertainty.
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Boston
Mass
Charles Francis Adams
Navy
Douglas Aircraft Company
Adams
House Naval Committee
Markets Hope Cotton Exchange Markets Hope Cotton Exchange
Markets report limited activity due to Washington's birthday. Pricing for farm produce shows hens heavy breeds Leghorn per pound and per dozen eggs, with roosters ducks geese turkeys and other items listed in fragmented form from the era's exchange. No other markets open Thursday.
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Little Bock
Washington
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