Uxoricide Suspect Admits Romance After Wife Died
Major Charles A. Shepard, U S Army officer, jailed in Colorado on murder charges for his Fort Riley wife, says he became engaged to Grace Brandon eight months after her death. He denies poisoning her, cites a prior blood transfusion, and notes their brief contact after cremation in Los Angeles and San Antonio.
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Denver
Colo
Charles A. Shepard
U. S. Army
Fort Riley
Kansas
Grace Brandon
Brooks Field
Texas
2Rad Shepard
Phasan
Shepard
Miss Brandon
Sos Angeles
San Antonio
Miles Brandon
Love
Grace
Mesars
Lawrence
Davis
Department of Justice
Brooksfield
Army
Rajah Nancy Miller's Plan Interferes With Caste Bar
Ex-Maharaja Holkar and his American wife Nancy Ann Miller halted the March 16 wedding of Manorama je to barrister Mather to challenge caste barriers. He plans to wed outside his caste following Kabirist doctrine and then leaves with their infant for Mussolie.
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Incorr
India
Maharaja Holkar
Nancy Ann Miller
Seattle
Manorama Je
Mather
Kabir
Mussolrie
Lila Jimerson Trial Opens for Murder in Buffalo
In Buffalo on March 19 Lila Jimerson a Seneca Indian woman went on trial for the murder of Mrs Clothilde Marchand wife of Henri Marchand Buffalo Museum of Science sculptor. Two jurors were selected and more talesmen questioned as the prosecution links Nancy Bowen to the crime and suggests Jimerson instigated the act.
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Buffalo
Lila Jimerson
Clothilde Marchand
Talesmen
Talesman
Guy B. Moore
Nancy Bowen
Nancy
Henri Marchand
Buffalo Museum of Science
Marchand
Norman J. Shea
Lawrence F. Roughan
Kenmore
John V. Maloney
John 8. Knibbe
Léla Jimerson
F. Bret Thorn
Moore
Daniels
Schwab
Eaton
Britain
Balfour
Candy Company
Spain
King
Senate
Kirkland Offers Porter's Measure to Register Schools
Special to The Morning Post Albany March 19 Senator Leigh G. Kirkland introduced Assemblyman Porter's bill for the registration of commercial or business schools. The measure was sent to committee. Also in Albany Goodrich proposed trout fishing in Allegany waters May 1 to September first.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Leigh G. Kirkland
Senate
Porter
Goodrich
Allegany County
Conservation Committee of the
Assembly
James W. Watson
Harry F. Hudson
Allegany Park Commission
Assembly Ways and Means
Senate Judiciary Committee
Kirkland
Fredonia
John Knight
State School of Cay
al University
Senate Finance Committee
Eberly Hutchinson
Fredonia Normal School
Exposer of Boy School Cruelty Fired as Farm Superintendent
James B. Peck, farm superintendent at the Connecticut School for Boys in Meriden, was dismissed after four inquiries into conditions at the school. Peck had protested alleged brutality and neglect, prompting Welfare Commission involvement. Trustees cited lack of harmony with colleagues as a probable factor in his dismissal amid concerns over ward discipline and a fatal incident involving a 16 year old inmate.
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Hartford
Conn
James 8. Peck
Connecticut School For Boys
Meriden
State Welfare Commission
Peck
Edward 8. Boyd
Justin J. Hadley
Welfare Commission
Austin Milla
Rudolph Brown
Senate Rejects Oil Tariff Amid Seven Hour Clash
In Washington the Senate spent seven hours in bitter personal exchanges over vote trading and tactics of the lobby investigating committee. It recorded a 38 to 29 vote against a proposed oil duty and gasoline by products tax with revenues earmarked for road construction. A Pine amendment on lower duties failed 32 to 23.
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Washington
Senate
Thomas
Oklahoma
Tariff Commission
Pine
Hale
Maine
Keyes
New Hampshire
Pittman
Nevada
Allen
Baird
Capper
Fess
Goff
Goldsborough
Hasting
Hatfield
Herbert
Johnson
Jones
Kean
McCulloch
Moses
Oddie
Phipps
Robsion
Shortridge
Steiner
Waterman
Bartton
Broussard
Connally
Kendrick
Ransdell
Sheppard
Blaine
Borah
Couzens
Fradier
Howell
la Follette
McMaster
Metcalf
Norbeck
Norris
Nye
Robinson
Indiana
Schall
Smoot
Vandenberg
Walcott
Ashurst
Barkley
Black
Blease
Copeland
Fletcher
George
Harris
Hawes
Hayden
Heflin
Overman
Simmons
Steck
Swanson
Trammell
Wagner
Walsh
Massachusetts
Montana
Wheeler
Colorado
Copeland Warns President Not To Burn Midnight Oil
Senator Royal Copeland warns President Hoover against overwork as he contemplates a long list of Supreme Court candidates. He advises sleeping on the decision and making it in the morning while noting the President looks healthier than a year ago.
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Copeland
Washington
Hoover
Royal
New York
Supreme Court
New Yorker
White House
Gandhi opposition to arrest sparks mass resignations in Kaira
Gandhi delivered a public address in Raas after Vallabhai Patel was arrested for a speech. A prohibitory order was enforced against nationalist speeches for a month from March 7, but only Patel was targeted. Gandhi urged five hundred volunteers for civil disobedience and has persuaded over a hundred officials to resign in 25 villages of Kaira district.
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Borsda
Bombay
India
Mahatma Gandhi
Leutenant
Vallabhai Patel
Raas
Gandhi
Patel
Mahatma
Kaira
Federal drive at gangdom asked in strike at Capone
Representative Black of New York urged Attorney General Mitchell to convene law enforcement leaders to plan a nationwide campaign to break up gang activity. He cited Al Capone and warned that gang leaders hire drug addicts to commit terror and murder while avoiding risk themselves. He called for a centralized unit backing authorities to stop the underworld’s assaults on business and citizens.
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Washington
Black
New York
House
Mitchell
New Yorker
al “Scarfare’ Capone
Philadelphia
Underworld
Capone Shadow Rumors Stir Chicago Homecoming
In Chicago a phantom Capone was spotted on grapevines and rail lines as police watched for the real gang leader. Reports claimed Alphonse Capone conferred in Cicero and feasted across several states, while a lookalike traveled with a blonde and a baby. No confirmation of Capone’s arrival, police vow to pursue if he appears.
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Chicago
Scarface al" Capone
Capone
Cicero
Indiana
Wisconsin
Alphonse
St. Louis
Old Age Pension Bills Favored by Senate Finance Committee
In Albany on March 19 the old age pension bills by Senator Seabury E. Mastick were favorably reported to the Senate by the Finance Committee. One measure carries a $60,000 appropriation to create a bureau of old age relief in the State Department of Social Welfare. Eligible residents are 70 years old with ten years in state, filing begins September 1 and aid may start January 1, 1931.
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Albany
Seabury E. Mastick
Westchester
Senate
Finance Committee
State Department of Social Welfare
Irresistible impulse debate in Irene Schroeder murder trial
In New Castle Pa on March 19 the Irene Schroeder murder trial saw defense seek to admit evidence of an irresistible impulse to rob stating insanity as a defense. The court upheld likely exclusion as Pennsylvania law does not recognize irresistible impulse as motive. Schroeder described a thrill from robberies and boy’s clothes and reenacted the patrolman Brady Paul’s slaying.
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New Castle
Pas
Irene Schroeder
R. L. Hildebrand
Ben Jarrett
Margiotti
Taft Estate Appraised At Six Million In Probate Court
In Cincinnati on March 19 the estate of the late Charles P Taft, philanthropist and publisher of the Cincinnati Times Star, was appraised at 6,267,374.63 dollars. The largest asset was 20,000 shares of Times Star stock valued at 5,000,000 dollars. Taft was a half brother of former President William Howard Taft.
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Cincinnati
Charles ?.Taft
Cincinnati Times-Star
Times-Star
Forme
William Howard Taft
Hoover Dedicates Memorial to War Red Cross Women
President Hoover dedicates a white marble memorial Red Cross chapter house for American women workers of World War I. Pershing presents building. Fess and Mrs. Hoover attend. tablet unveiled. aims to support Red Cross services in war and disaster relief.
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Hoover
RED Cross
Washington
American Women Workers of
American Red Cross
Pershing
Fess
Ohio
Mabel Boardman
The
Memorial Fund Committee
Stock Broker Licensing Bill Defeated in New York Committee
Albany March 19 The Assembly Judiciary Committee voted against the Hickey-Gimbrene bill to license securities brokers. The measure, urged by Attorney General Hamilton Ward, aimed to equip the state to combat fraudulent stock schemes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Assembly Judiciary Committee
Hamilton Ward
Maltbie Confirmed as Public Service Chairman
Albany March 19 Milo R Maltbie of New York was unanimously confirmed by the Senate today as chairman of the Public Service Commission.
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Maltbie
Albany
Milo R. Maltbie
New York
Publi Service Commission
Senate
Police Shoot Kills One During Greenwich Village Robbery
Three men attempted a restaurant holdup on Carmine Street in Greenwich Village. Patrolman James Rogers exchanged fire at a basement door, killing one suspect. Diners subdued another, wounding two, while the third fled as the man shot dropped dead upstairs.
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New York
Greenwich Village
Charles Triangle
Carmine Street
James Rogers
Rogers
Iberty
76 Die in Fire at Kirin Theatre in Manchuria
Dispatches report a fire at a Kirin Manchuria motion picture theatre on Tuesday night caused by an exploded film. About 76 people were killed, 16 missing, and numerous injured all believed to be Chinese including relatives of officials.
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Tokyo
Rengo
Kirin
Manchuria
Author Charles Francis Coe Divorced in Tucson Court
Mrs. Helene Coe was granted divorce from writer Charles Francis Coe in Superior Court Tucson after alleging more than a year of desertion. She was awarded custody of their two children. the couple married in Lancaster New York in 1912 and have resided apart since six months ago. Coe denied leaving home and lives at a hotel.
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Tucson
Ariz
Helene Coe
Charles Francis Coe
Coe
Lancaster
Fiie County
N. Y
Greek freighter Eugenia reports danger over
The Greek freighter Eugenia, after sending an SOS while drifting about 200 miles northeast of Bermuda, notified the American freighter Syron that she is out of immediate danger and will proceed on her course. Earlier, Syros and the British freighter Lady Hawkins were en route to aid.
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New York
Eugenia
Bermuda Islands
Syron
Brooklyn Radiomarine
Radio Corporation of America
Utilities Expert Dies in Scarsdale at 60
New York March 19 Peter Junkersfeld vice president of Stone and Webster died last night at his Scarsdale home at age 60. The obituary notes his long career in utilities and engineering.
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New York
le Peter Junkersfeld
Stone & Webster
Scarsdale
Daniels Forms Century-Long Prohibition Trial Proposal
Former Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels urged a 100 year trial of prohibition before the House judiciary committee. He said even at $300 million annual enforcement cost the program would save more than $306 billion in liquor costs during the trial. The hearing resumed with Daniel C. Roper opposing repeal or modification. Other developments included a Missouri senator and the Prohibition enforcement commission discussing beer and enforcement remedies. Horace Taft recalled his brother’s support for observance after the people spoke.
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Washington
Josephus Daniels
Internal Revenue
Caer Ae
8. E. Nichelson
New York
National Board
The
Society of Friends of Prohibition and
Public Morals
House Judiciary Committee
Prohibition Enforcement
Justce Department
Booth
Salvation Army
Herbeier
Horace Taft
Taft School For
Watertown
Mass
Irving Fisher
Yale
Days News Jurors Sentence Trial for Lila Jimerson
Two jurors were chosen for the trial of Lila Jimerson. Page 1 coverage notes juror selection details and trial setup.
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al” Capone
Eastern Penitentiary
Charles P. Taft
First Lady
Asia Theatre
Dyer
Salvationists
Prohibition
Taft
George A. Persell
Junior Clauss
Conenango Valley
Roscoe Knapp
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