Death verdict commuted by New York governor
Governor Franklin D Roosevelt commuted the death sentence of Frederick Edel to life imprisonment for the 1927 killing of actress Emmeline Harrington in a New York hotel. New evidence prompted appeals and jurors urged reconsideration, leading to a reprieve and the eventual commutation.
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United Press
Albany
N. Y
Frederick Edel
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Edel
Emmeline Harrington
New York
Cosgrave Likely Reappointed Despite Irish Defeat
Dublin observers say Cosgrave’s Free State government lost to a labor independent Fianna Fail coalition but will likely return to office with the same cross party votes. De Valera’s republican issue remains unpopular outside Fianna Fail, guiding the likely political outcome.
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United Presse
Dublin
William T. Cosgrave
Cosgrave
Labor
Fianna Fail
de Valera
Bus Line Rerouted for Ninety Day Trial
The public service commission approved a ninety day trial rerouting of the Capitol avenue feeder bus line. The route runs from Thirty-eighth and Illinois to Kenwood Avenue, then north to Thirty-ninth Street, east to Illinois, north to Forty-sixth, west to Kenwood, north to Fifty-second, west to Capitol, north to Westfield Boulevard, along the boulevard to Illinois, and south to Thirty-eighth Street.
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Capitol Avenue
Public Service Commission
Thirty-eighth
Illinois Streets
Kenwood Avenue
Thirty-eighth Street
Thirty-ninth Street
Illinois Street
Forty-sixth Street
Fifty-second Street
Westfield Boulevard
Porker prices fall at yards amid light deliveries
Hog prices declined 20 to 40 cents at Union stockyards as light deliveries and adverse country conditions hit sales. The bulk, 150 to 275 pounds, sold at 10.15 to 10.65 with top 10.65. Receipts 3,500. holdovers 308. Cattle trading steady. calf and sheep sectors weak or firm. Chicago hogs 7,500 receipts, 6,000 direct. holdovers 3. Market steady near Friday averages for 190 and 215 pound weights.
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Chicago
Prohibition Bureau Finds Sheep Dip Cocktail Threat Seen
Prohibition chemists report strangers’ drinks include Jamaica ginger with creosote or carbolic acid and up to 90 percent alcohol. They note many unfit denatured formulas exist to deter human use, but such cases are exceptions.
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United Press
Ashington
Prohibition Bureau
Prohibition Commission Doran
Jamaica
Suui Winside Ao
Www
W. Linder
Linder
Hawks Test Glider in Hop Across Nation
Captain Frank Hawks prepares the glider Eaglet for a cross country test from San Diego to New York behind towing pilot J D Jernigan Jr. The eight day schedule covers Lindsbergh Field Yuma Phoenix Tucson El Paso Wichita Falls Oklahoma City Springfield East St. Louis Terre Haute Indianapolis Columbus Cleveland Buffalo Elmira and finally New York City.
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Los Angeles
Frank M. Hawks
San Diego
J. D. Jernigan Jr
New York
Ty United Press
Lindbergh
Municipal
Wichita Falls
Staley
Oklahoma City
Municipal Aviation Park
Tulsa
Garland
Springfield
McClure
East St. Louis
Parks
Terre Haute
Dresser Field
Indianapolis
Stoutfield
Columbus
Port Columbus
Cleveland
Buffalo
Elmira
van Courtlandt Park
Veterans to Paint House Numbers on City Curbs
Thirty World War veterans will be employed by J. W. Langley of Springfield Missouri to paint house numbers on street curbs. Solicitors with silver badges reading World War veterans' paint crew will canvass all houses in the city.
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J. W. Langley
Springfield
Parley Chiefs Haggle Over French Claim
Negotiations between French and British delegates at the foreign office reached a difficult stage over naval pact terms. French sources say Britain is reluctant to interpret league articles to meet France’s security demands, with eight years of deadlock noted. Discussions continue as Briand and Massigli join Henderson for a luncheon at Claridge’s.
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London
Foreign Office
France
England
Arthur Henderson
Aristide Briand
Rene Massigli
Claridges
Honored Veteran Rail Employee to Be Retired
Frank J. Bagley 70 traveling auditor of the Big Four railroad will be honored at a dinner tonight at the Columbia Club. After fifty seven years in rail service and forty as auditor he retires Tuesday. He began as a ten dollar a month messenger at Crestline Ohio and rose to top postings including clerk agent and traveling auditor since 1890. Officials attending include P J White A P Burke J C Wallace J H Pierson and F M Brine.
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Frank J. Bagley
Big Four
Columbia Club
Bagley
Crestline
P. J. White
A. P. Burke
J. C. Wallace
J. H. Pierson
F. M. Brine
Prison Riot Leaders Striped at Missouri Penitentiary
Jefferson City March 29 Gray haired Leslie Rudolph veteran warden oversees a riot aftermath as more than 100 leaders are placed in solitary and receive striped uniforms. Rioters backed by searchlights double guards and machine guns marked a dramatic close to a brief but severe prison uprising.
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United Press
Jefferson City
Leslie Rudolph
Missouri State Prison
Arson Charges to Be Aired in Trial
Reese A Maxwell a county grand jury member in 1929 will face a criminal court jury on April 8 charged with arson in the attempted burning of his home at 27 West Pleasant Run boulevard. State fire marshal investigators obtained alleged confessions from a man and a woman said to have been hired by Maxwell to set the blaze.
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Reese A. Maxwell
West Pleasant Run Boulevard
Maxwell
Scandal’s Goddess Ada Hulett Held for Milton Ernest Poison Pen Case
Ada Hulett, 44, is jailed on bail for trial at Bedfordshire assizes accused of authoring a stream of poison pen letters that spread fear in Milton Ernest. Prosecution claims the notes damaged families and friendships while targeting Canon Holmes and the vicar. letters surfaced at the school grounds and were allegedly destroyed by a schoolteacher.
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United Prose
Harnbrook
England
Ada Hulett
Bedfordshire Assizes
Milton Ernest
Here
Na Neem
Fire damages Sacred Heart church in La Porte
A basement fire at Sacred Heart Roman Catholic church on Union and Palmer streets caused smoke damage to the interior estimated at over $1,000. Firemen attributed the blaze to a short circuited electric wire in a paint shop in the basement. In a separate item from La Porte, plans for a new $100,000 St Peter's Catholic church building were announced by Pastor Father John C Wakefer. the French Romanesque design will replace the 85 year old structure and is slated for completion in late November.
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LA Porte
Ind
St. Peter's Catholic Church
John C. Wakefer
Football Pair Make First Down and Bandit Capture in Indiana
Eugene Bales 21 and George Inman 25, attendants at a Phoenix filling station in Indianapolis, tackled and captured Clinton White 32 who attempted to rob them with a plier revolver replica. White charged with banditry. another attendant robbed of 25. two youths bound 53 and 16 during a drugstore robbery of 50.
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Eugene Bales
Indiana
Central
George Inman
Russell Avenue
Phoenix
Kentucky Avenue
Clinton White
South Arsenal Avenue
White
Bales
Daniel D. Goldrick
Broadway
Twenty-first Street
Capitol Avenue
Yollie Forsythe
North
Emerson Avenue
Roy Pope
Wallace Street
Forsythe
Pajama clad chanteuse causes hotel ruckus in Beaumont Texas
June Brooks of Beaumont Texas a pajama clad burlesque performer causes a hotel lobby uproar in downtown Beaumont. She fights with staff and police yelling she will not be arrested and is jailed on intoxication charges after a wild morning in a hotel lobby.
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Texas
Lone Prairie
June Brooks
Beaumont
Tex
June
Harry Thayer
Pat Moriarity
Crash injures prove fatal in Plainfield collision
Miss Christine Smith 18 Mooresville died at Methodist hospital after a Sunday night crash near Plainfield on the Plainfield Mooresville road. Ray Phillips 21 Mooresville was killed instantly. Four others including Martinsville High School star William Sadler were injured.
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Plainfield
Christine Smith
Mooresville
Methodist Hospital
Ray Phillips
William Sadler
Martinsville
City youth shot linked to liquor feud
Terre Haute special report says Scott McKinney and Miss Jean Rogers of Indianapolis were held for questioning after Forest Whitesell of Indianapolis was shot in Rockville. Police suspect Indianapolis hoodlums in a liquor feud. Whitesell's abdominal wound was critical and may be fatal.
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Times Special
Terre Haute
Scott McKinney
Jean Rogers
Indianapolis
Forest Whitesell
Rockville
McKinney
Whitesell
Wounded Youth from Haughville Reputed Driver Arrests Record
Forest Whitesell, hospitalized in Terre Haute after a bullet wound, is believed to be the youth who recently had a driver license revoked following an arrest for driving an auto while intoxicated. Whitesell and McKinney, both Haughville youths, had no prior records on file.
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Forest Whitesell
Union Hospital
Terre Haute
Whitesell
McKinney
Haughville
Warsaw Fireman Severed Artery In Bakery Fire
Warsaw fireman Leo lin Moon suffered a severed artery in his wrist when glass from a shattered window struck him while fighting a blaze that destroyed the second floor of the Howard Hemmer bakery. The fire caused an estimated loss of 3000 dollars. Another fireman was overcome by smoke.
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Warsaw
Ind
Leolin Moon
Howard Hemmer
Opening Markets Bri United Press New York March 29
The stock market rose to new year highs across industrials utilities and rails with gains from fractions to over 2 points. Large blocks traded included Hayes Body Radio Union Carbide Pennsylvania Missouri Kansas Texas American Can and others as demand surged for rails steels motor equipment and miscellaneous issues, with most issues firm and few slipping from the prior close.
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United Press
New York
Hayes Body
Radio
Union Carbide
Pennsylvania
Missouri-Kansas-Texas
American Brown Bovers
Commonwealth and Southern
Co-eds Lost At Sea Near San Francisco
A power yacht Gulnare carrying twenty University of California co-eds vanished early today amid heavy fog that has caused marine casualties on the coast. Grave fears for the passengers' safety prevail as fog blankets San Francisco Bay.
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United Press
San Francisco
Gulnare
University of California
Burglary Fight at Lipken Home Ends With Escape
A barefoot intruder attacked Samuel Lipken at 927 South Illinois street at about 3 this morning. Lipken woke, wrestled the burglar who forced a side window, wrecking a room before the burglar fled through the open window, escaping capture.
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Samuel Lipken
South
Illinois Street
Lipken
Raid on Castle Reveals Pirate Baron Bootlegger Leader
British forces raid Pir Pagaro fortress in Sindh exposing the Moslem leader as a robber baron revolutionary and bootlegger. Police find illicit liquor drugs and arms, imprison a man in a wooden box, and Pagaro collapses in custody after resisting with no plans for defense. Pagaro vows India will gain home rule once jailed.
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Pitea Pre Ondon
Pir Pagaro
Sindh
Oe Karachu
Pagaro
Emma
India
Woman Day Jailed On Liquor Charge In Pampa Jail
Miss Allred known as the Carrie Nation of Tex as is jailed in Pampa city jail after being indicted by a grand jury for possession of liquor. She denounces liquor and District Attorney Braly from her cell, vows to continue her anti liquor campaign and prints weekly mimeographs from jail. Her only companion is a mongrel cat described as the jail’s official food taster. She requests clean quilts, a cig painter, and a larger dress while in custody.
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Frances Harrell
June
United Press
Pampa
Tex
Pampa W. C. T. 0
Miss Allred
Carrie Nation
Braly
Miss Abred
Downs
Main Street
Alfred
Nishat
Ciga
Signia
W. C
Prospective mergers reshape nations trade and finance
New York March 29 prospective mergers in banking and oil signal a shift in the U S business landscape. Plans for a three billion dollar banking institution await court approval to combine two large Standard Oil units amid rail industry cooperation and fund realignment. Railroad shares show investment activity as holdings concentrate among major lines, with Allegheny Chesapeake and Pennroad cited as evidence of strategic ties and rising dividend potential. Edith Thomas administrator seeks weeks compensation from Charles Barnaby in Greencastle Indiana, claim tied to Harold Lane estate.
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Mi & McKinnon
New
York
Standard Oil
In Commerce Commission
Nority
Allegheny
Chesapeake
Pennroad Oc
Greencastle
Ind
Edith Thomas
Harold Lane
Putnam Circuit
Charles Barnaby
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