Hoffman Ready to Use Full Ruling to Save Hauptmann
Rumors say Governor Hoffman plans a partisan push to back Hauptmann against the electric chair. A resolution for a full investigation of the Lindbergh case could pass with Hoffman and Hague support, while prosecutors defend delaying any reprieve and urge transparency in the court process.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Kerner
Union
Hunterdon County
Anthony M. Hauck, Jr
Negses
Hoffman
Frank Hague
Jersey City
Hoffman-Hague
Americanism Essay Contest Rules Outlined
Continued from page one the article describes identification rules for entries a code number on page two the competition to be conducted under school authorities ideally within class as part of English or civics and the district chairman to receive the winning essay by May 5 adjudication to be based on freedom of expression structure and evidence
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ges
Ocal
Americanism
Medical Pioneer Practiced In Elderton And Indiana
Obituary notes a physician from the University of Pennsylvania who began practice in Elderton and opened an Indiana office in 1880. He remained active in medical work until retirement. The brief notice highlights a long career and professional dedication.
Obituary: Dr St Clair dies after long Indiana life
The aged physician Dr St Clair dies at his home in Indiana at 2 pm Tuesday after a long career. He married miss Alice Wright in 1879, had three children Blanche Hart Daugherty Paul N St Clair and John G St Clair. He remarried Ada MecBryar in 1891 and had five children. He served in the First Presbyterian Church and Greenwood Cemetery Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elderton
St. Clair
Alice Wright
Jacob Wright
Blanche
Hart B. Daugherty
Indiana
Paul N. St. Clair
John G. St. Clair
Farmers Bank & Trust Company
Deaths, Goatspring Daughter of Hetricks Mourned
Obituary notes Mrs Myron Hetrick born in Goat Spring January 26 1865 married to Deemer in 1883. Resided Reynoldsville 27 years and valued member of Reynoldsville M E church. Survived by husband, multiple children and siblings. Obituaries for J Robert Clawson 74 and other local deaths listed with homes and funeral plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homer Smith
Janes Dickey
Reynoldsville
William Chaney
Ray
Earl Deemer
Detroit
Paul Leach
Beechwoods
Asa Deemer
Kittanning
Chadwick Hetrick
California
Willam
Marienville
Sylvester
Sigel
John Cochran
New York
Arthur Guimar
Rideway
Jamies Dobson
Dixonville
J. Robert Clawson
Punxsutawney
Horatio Street
John
Mary Clawson
Virginia Williams
Methodist Episcopal Church
J.C. Clawson
Hal Moore
Utica
N. Y
Homey Williams
Cloe
Minta Williams
Niagara Falls
William Clawson
Silver Creek
Charles Clawson
Indiana
Morrison Funeral Home
Hauptmann Fate in Lindbergh Case Dominates Pardons Court
The Lindbergh case swirled with new defendants as Paul Winidel and Gaston Means surfaced, but focus remained on Bruno Hauptmann. Prosecutors weighed clemency limits as Governor Hoffman’s reprieve power lapsed, while witnesses disputed Wendel’s guilt and a torture claim sparked fresh court debate.
Hauptmann Seeks Mercy as Legal Battle Looms
The article details appeals for clemency in the Lindbergh kidnapping case. Governor and Attorney General debate legality of another reprieve, with Hauptmann maintaining innocence. Defense cites possible new evidence while the warden and court weigh delaying execution for further review. A related case notes another inmate, Chas Zied, set for execution.
Milk theft at Southmont High prompts mystery
In Johnstown on March 30 a theft occurred in the Southmont High School cafeteria. Seven quarts of milk were taken while 75 state policemen were dining nearby, leaving investigators rushing to determine suspects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnstown
Southmont High School
Fragmentary stock list hints at 1920s market activity
A garbled OCR listing numerous corporations and sectors. It references Adams Exp, Am Can, Am Com, Am Smelt, Am Tel, Anaconda, DuPont, Eastman, Johns Manville, Kennecott, Nash, Studebaker, US Steel, Woolworth and others, with stray percentages and ticker-like strings, suggesting a broad collateral stock table or market report fragment rather than a cohesive article.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams
Alco Am
St & Am
Auburn Auto Baldwin Lee Band
Cerro de Pascana'o
Chrysier
Douglas Aire DuPont Eastman Kod
el Auto
Elec
Gen Foods
Hudson Mto
Nick Can
Tel
Kennecott
Ligg
Lorillard
Monig Ward Nash
Nor Am Penna RR
Pha
J Phillips
NJ Pure Oi Radio Repub
Sears Roe Socony
Pac Sou Ry Spieg M
St . &T Brands
Cal
Ind
NJ Studebkr Tex Corp
Trapsama
Airc Corp
Uni Corp
Uni Gas
Rub US
US Steel Varadium West Tel Weet FA
Woolworth Curl Ark Nat Ga
Lindbergh case echoes in long trial tailspin
A tangled historiography centers on Wendel a former Trenton lawyer once jailed for perjury later pardoned and reinstated then resigning from the bar amid forgery charges. Prosecutors cite embezzlement and a confessed kidnapping link while others dispute his role. Governor Hoffman and Parker weigh Hauptmann innocence amid revived means and Means confessions.
Europe’s Statecraft and War News Across The Continent
The British cabinet invites German officers to confer with British French and Belgian staffs while Hitler signals possible new proposals on the Rhine and Locarno as Europe watches. Ethiopia reports bombing by Italian forces targeting hospitals and noncombatant sites including a Red Cross hospital and a French mission amid ongoing conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Great Britain
France
Belgium
Hitler
Planct
Hierive
Germany
Prarie
Ana Ttaly
Locarto Bact
Italy
Ethiopia
Aftica
Haran
Italats
Notable investigator Means linked to King case and Burns praise
C where he was charged with slain Mrs Maude A King widow of a Chicago philanthropist Means had been employed by relatives to investigate her Means published a book The Strange Death of President Harding which created a stir and later repudiated by the man who wrote it for Means At one time prior to World War I Means was an alleged confidential agent of Count von Bernsstorff and Captain Karl Boyed In 1921 he was made a special agent of the bureau of investigation later becoming confidential investigator for the head of the bureau W J Burns Burns called Means one of the finest investigators he ever knew Means now serves a 15 year sentence for defrauding Mrs McLean of 104000 in the Lindbergh ransom hoax
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Paul H. Winidel
Gaston 8. Means
Evalyr
Walsh
Leavenworth
Hauptmann
Court of Pardons
Harold G. Hoffman
Edwin B. Marshall
Mercer
Trenton
Wendel
James S. Kirkham
Mercer County
Sourland Hills
Kirkham
David T. Wilentz
New York
Ellis Parker
Burlington County
New Lisbon
N. J
Parker
State Hospital
Marshall
Yessterday
John Kates
Lindbergh
Mar.1
Wilentz
Hoffman
Gaston Means
Means
Hopewell
Imperial Hotel
Thoms S. Rice
Department of Justice
Tsidor Fisch
Fisch
Bronx
United States Department of Justice
Atlanta
Salisbury
Johnstown Hit Hardest by Flood Says Red Cross Advisor
Johnstown was described as the worst hit community in the Pennsylvania flood area by Red Cross medical advisor Dr. William Dekleine. Health conditions were reported excellent as stores reopened and merchants repaired damaged property while streetcar service resumed in part. In Blairsville over 500 people received typhoid inoculations as a precaution, and state health workers and Red Cross operatives continued vaccinations in Clarksburg and among relief workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salisbury and
Huff
Blairsville
Clarksburg
Red Cross
Johnstown
William Dekleine
Washington, D. C
Pennsylvania
Harar city bombed as Italians strike ruins
Capital sources declare Harar an open town now despoiled since December. Bombing of the great Muslim center may inflame Mohammedans worldwide. The European quarter suffered heavy damage with much of the city aflame. Several Coptic Christian churches were destroyed and four hospitale reported in Harar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harar
Surgeons Return From Tri-State Convention in Buffalo
Three local physicians Dr. Benjamin CoeDr G E Simpson and H P Buterbaugh and Indiana Hospital superintendent Migs Lillian Hollahan returned yesterday from Buffalo New York where they attended the American College of Surgeons tri state convention at the Statler Hotel. The meeting spanned Thursday through Saturday with keynote addresses by leading national medical authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana Hospital
Buffalo
N.Y
American College of Surgeons
Statler Hotel
Indiana
Benjamin Coe
G. E. Simpson
H. P. Buterbaugh
Migs Lillian
M. Hollahan
Hospital
Sagamore Man Fractures Foot in Mine Accident
Tony Scottile of Sagamore suffered a fracture of the foot Thursday in a mishap at the B. and S. Coal Company mines in Sagamore. The injury was reduced at Adrian Hospital Punxsutawney, where he will stay for several days. He reportedly caught his foot between two mine cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tony Scottile
Sagamore
B. and S. Coal Company
Adrian Hospital
Punxsulawney
Scotile
Westmoreland Farmer Personal Crisis Reported
Vandergrift March 30 Armstrong County Coroner A. W. Dosch said Myers 55 hanged himself in the barn of his farm near Leechburg. Mrs Myers investigated tardiness in returning from feeding stock and found him dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vandergrift
Armstrong County
A. W. Dosch
Tra Myers
Hi Farm
Leechburg
Also Mentioned on This Page
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Charles A. Lindbergh
England
Betty Gow
Scotland
John F. Candon
Panama
John Hughes Curtis
Norfolk
Gaston B. Means
Levenworth
Evalyn Walsh McLean
Ollie Whateley
Vila
Violet Sharpe
Dwight Morrow
David ‘T. Wilentz
Anthony Hauck
R. M. Offutt
Ladiata
Greenwood Cemetery
Alvin C. Carney
Indiana County
Wilkinsburg
Municipal Hospital
Pittsburgh
Salisburg
Adam E
Margaret Dailey
Carney
Lyman Carney
Merle
Norman
Charles Carney
John McCombs
Charles McCombs
C. P Callien
Conneaut Lake
C. A. Hunter
John Nichols
James Cramer
Patton
Cramer
Cherrytree Coal Company
Cooper Township
Clearfield County
Elizabeth (Maffet) Cramer
Patton Lodge
Order of Redmen
Margaret (Flegal) Cramer
Wilson Cramer
Barnesboro
Earl
Ernest Cramer
Emeigh
Charles Cramer
Mich
Elmer Crowell
James McGonegal
Burlington Evans
Harry Cramer
Clamer
John Hines
Patton Baptist Church
Fairview Cemetery
W. T. Piper
R. D
Amos Pifer
Plumville
Eugene Pifer
Bowser Funeral Home
Paradise Reform Church
R. E. Strine
Maple Grove Cemetery
Edward Allen
Alice Allen
First National Bank of
Parkers Landing
Mr. Frampton
Presbyterian
Tuk
Sarah Jane Deemer
James Deemer
Alfred Decker
Colin Chicago
Makers of
Strandclothes
Moorhead
Imelda Bailey
Earle Combs
North Tenth Street
Joseph M. Pierce
Fifteenth Street
A. G. Mooves
Burrell Street
Bruno
Bardont
C. Lloyd Fisher
Couisel
Fisher
Flemington
Brun Richard Hauptmann
Anna
Chas Zied
Paul Wendel
General Motors
Pontiac Motor Company
General Motors Corporation
Pontiac
Steelerahip
E. E. Stephenson
Moore
Pontiac Motor CO
Baum
Oraid
Alriefly
Westmoreland
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