Frome Slayings Probe Expands Across Southwest
A week-old robbery torture slaying case of Mrs Weston Frome and her daughter Nancy prompts a coordinated El Paso effort. Four suspects questioned in Texas and New Mexico, with a mystery blonde and an ex convict hunted as leads. Luggage and papers found near the crime scene aid the investigation.
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EL Paso
Tex
Weston G. Frome
Nancy
Central Bureau of Information
Chris Fox
Laredo
Ed Wormser
Berkeley
Calif
Fromes
Nancy Frome
South Carolina
Rankin
W. C. Fowler
McCamey
Fowler
Bisbee
Frome
Kansas City
S&s. D. Shea
Sheriff's Office
van Horn
Albert Anderson
Sage
Lug-gage
San Francisco
Political ire over coal commission funds debate
Senator Holt blasted the National Bituminous Coal Commission as a political creation saying it was born and raised in politics and will die there. He questioned a 3 million dollar appropriation for the commission to stabilize the soft coal industry and charged the bill serves as a campaign debt repayment for a Democratic fund contributors led by John L. Lewis. The senate okayed the 300 thousand dollar higher appropriation than the house.
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Washington
Holt
D-Wis
Senate
National Bituminous Coal Commission
Indiana
Kentucky
Pennsylvania
Democratic Fund
John L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine Workers
CIO
House
Two Senators in Fracas Over Army Defense Funding
Senator McKellar lunged at Senator Copeland during a debate on seacoast defenses and anti aircraft guns, both Delta Kappa Epsilon brothers. Colleagues separated them as Clark restrained McKellar after Copeland denied using the word liar.
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Washington
McKellar
D - Tenn
Copeland
DNY
Delta Kappa Epsilon
MckKellar
Porters
Clark
D-Mo
Social Security Board Under Fire From Shockley
Missouri lawmakers clash with federal social security policy as Shockley accuses the board of drunken power. He warns of a coming revolt by Missouri congressmen and cites plans to curb old age assistance programs amid calls for restraint on federal aid. Burkhardt's death noted in Eldon case coverage.
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Shockley
Jack Burkhardt
Congress
Social Security Board
Washington
Missouri
Haworth
Mr. Haworth
Earth
Ozark
Furniture Movers Vote to Continue Strike in St Louis
St Louis April 6 AP Union furniture movers refused a wage cut offered by employers and reaffirmed their demand for renewal of last year's contract. The strike began last Friday, halting local and long distance moves. Drivers earned 8712 cents an hour and helpers 8215 cents under the old scale. The proposed reduced rates were undisclosed.
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ST. Louis
A. F. of L. Furniture, Piano Movers and Packers
Naval committee agrees on policy in closed sessions
The senate naval committee backed flexible U S naval policy arguing parity with Britain and superiority over Japan would keep war unlikely. Admiral Leahy opposed a rigid declaration and called the $1,121,000,000 expansion bill inadvisable. Chairman Walsh said Leahy spoke in closed sessions against a straight lackey declaration of naval aims.
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Washington
Senate Naval Committee
United States
Great Britain
Japan
William D. Leahy
Walsh
D-Mass
Leahy
Woman Pleads Guilty to Killing Nine Children in Texas
Center Texas April 6 AP Mrs Lillie May Curtis pleaded guilty as trial opened on six of nine murder charges. Jury to decide punishment. State will not seek death penalty. District Attorney Wardlow Lane said she confessed to kissing the children goodbye and shooting them March 16 as she could not provide for them. One son James Travis spared because he could support himself. Another son and a daughter were not home. Curtis previously served a five year suspended sentence for killing her husband Robert Curtis in 1935.
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Lane
Strike Settlement Effort In St Louis Construction Jobs
In St Louis AP reports a PWA representative will travel to seek settlement of the AFLs general strike on PWA funded public works. The Massman Construction Co Kansas City faces a wage dispute over requiring exclusive union labor on the St Charles highway bridge project. Bridge work halted though a $450,000 contract remains. A small group of union men picketed near the site.
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ST. Louis
John J. Church
Building Trades Council
PWA
American Federation of Labor
PWA Srants
Massman Construction Company
Kansas City
St. Charles
Fred Betts Announces Delay in Opening Senate
The formal opening of the Senate at 222 Madison Street was postponed today due to a delay in state inspection. Senator Fred Betts announces the postponement and cites inspection holdup as the cause.
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Fred Betts
Senate
Madison Sr
Multiple Mayoral Races Report Election Outcomes Across Cities
Washington elects its first Democratic mayor in years by 266 in a varied ballot. Butler reelects H L Ober to a third term 757 to 10. Kirksville sees Lee J Patton edge Albert Bartlett 2162 to 2061 on anti curfew. Cape Girardeau selects Edward L Drum mayor 8238 to 2450. Macon backs C R Shale over B H McQuay 4234 to 725. Linn keeps W G Jones with 184 votes. Salem reelects Dr George H Slawson over I F F E. Butler appoints Lillian Arnold city collector with 210 votes. Conway era shifts in Seneca and Harrisonville politics feature editors and mayors. Majorities and opposition line several races in Missouri towns with extensive council outcomes.
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Washington
W. H. Ray
Butler
H. L. Oberweather
Oberweather
W. E. Black
Oo Lee J. Patton
Albert Bartlett
Kirksville
Patton
Gail i A. Jacobs
Jacobs
Drum
Cape At Cape Girardeau
Edward L
Charles G. Wilson
Wilson
Macon
C. R. Shale
B. H. McQuay
Carl T. Buehler
Eldon
Noah Payne
Peoples’ Party
Linn
W.G. Jones
Salem
George H. Slawson
Iffe. Butler
Lillian Arnold
Versailles
W. F. Berry
Roy Hance
Norman E. Mitchell
Pat Riley
Riley
Hance
James D. Idol
Cass County Democrat
Central Missouri Press Association
Harrisonville
Lee Spicer
Idol
Leo C. Pitkin
Memphis
W. E. Wilsey
Wilsey
Mexico
Gus T. Graham
Cameron
J. C. Sloan
B. B. Witt
Fayette
A. D. Pattison
Pattison
Irwin C. Schnell
Victor Guerri
W W. B. Hall
Clyde McKee
Monett
Sugar Creek
Brookfield
F. Ef.burke
John NeGowan
Thomas
Marceline
R. J. Thomas
W. W. Wheeler
B. M. Little
Lexington
Cue Ussery
Boyd Curtis
Boonville
Col
R. A. Johnston
Johnston
Election results sweep Missouri cities and suburbs
Republican Joseph F. Memmel wins Carthage and Tryon leads a GOP sweep with Cowgill and other incumbents defeated. Belle, Lees Summit, Webb City, Sikeston, and Hayti show mayoral races and library mill tax. St. Louis keeps school levy. several suburbs report reelections and annexation votes. Migratory instinct persists in incubated birds despite isolation.
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Joseph F. Memmel
Carthage
John H. Tryon
James Mealey
Tryon
H. S. Cowgill
Charles Allen
Belle
John Manicke
C. F. Lehnhoff
Lees Summit
Joe
Noel
Cass W. Browning
M. S. Slaughter
Martin Spracklen
Webb City
Slaughter
Spracklen
G. W. Presnell
Sikeston
N. E. Fuchs
New Madrid
Dexter
Thomas Ross
Hayti
St. Louis
Jevy
Richmond Heights
Brainerd
St. Ferdinand
Arthur Bangert
Valley Park
Charles C. Scholl
Berkeley
S. W. Fordyce
Shrewsbury
A. J. Kinkel
St. Louis Municipal
Russia aids China. Amur region tension grows
April reports from Tokyo and Manchukuo claim Soviet Russia supplies military aid to China and may plan to recapture Amur Islands seized by Japan. Tokyo cites mobilizations along the Amur frontier and protests Moscow’s stance, while warning of possible renewed border clashes with Manchoukuo and Soviet forces.
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Tokyo
Manchukuo
Russia
China
Amur
Hsinjing
Mancheukuo
Moscow
Siberia
Manchukus
Japan
Hsinking
Amur Islands
Manchoukuo
Foreign Office
Korea
Bolshoi
Seniufu
Liu Fo
Destruction and Capture in Russia China Conflict Report
Report notes the destruction of Russian aircraft in China and the capture of a Russian pilot. It briefly mentions fluid dynamics comparing pipe capacities and comments on unusual features of the daddy longlegs insect as well as human tooth growth and eye placement characteristics.
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China
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