Bus Driver Faces Manslaughter Charge After Maryland Crash
Percy Line, 86, the Rockville area bus driver, was charged with manslaughter following a Baltimore and Ohio train collision that killed 14 students and injured several others from a senior high science trip. Line, held on $1,000 bail, was questioned as police cited rain and a blocked crossing sightline. Miss Louise Funk, 27, teacher accompanying the trip, was sheltered at a lawyer’s home and feared a nervous breakdown after the crash near Rockville.
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Rockville
Percy Line
Line
Here
Norris Downs, Jr
Baltimore & Ohio
Williamsport
Louise Funk
University of Maryland
Funk
Maryland
Miss Funk
Arkansas killer Henley caught in hill country
Leland Henley, convicted slayer linked to the Barnett feud, was captured near the Buffalo River 14 miles north of Marshall Arkansas after surrendering at his mother’s cabin. A posse including Sheriff Barnett and prison officials found him. he faced a tire sentence for the 1932 Fendley murder and related Barnett family killings.
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Springfield
Leland Henley
Liberty
Arkansas
Marshall
Ark
Oscar Barnett
Searcy County
F. L. Todhunter
Henley
Buffalo River
Captain Acklin
Tex Johnson
Henry Ramsey
Homer Iythe
Little Rock
W. W. Fendley
Fendley
J.H. Barnett
Marshall Public Square
Barnett
Vance Barnett
Arkansas Miliamen
Claude Goodman
Vance Baker
J. H. Barnett
Therio
Senate Advances Civil List Appropriation Bill
The senate passed its first appropriations measure the 37 page civil list bill adding 24 920 to the house passed total. The bill carries 5 623 194 with 1 530 834 from general revenue and 4 117 280 from fees and earnings. It returns to the house for concurrence in senate amendments.
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Senate
House
Auto license buyer not a taxpayer for school board eligibility
The attorney general’s office ruled that paying a motor vehicle license fee does not make a person a resident taxpayer. In a written opinion, J. E. Lavender asked if license holders are taxpayers eligible for school board service. the decision says only those with taxable property owe state or county taxes.
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Attorney Generals Office
J. E. Lavender
Montgomery County
Roy McKittvick
Oliver W. Nolen
McKittrick
Four Men Admit Perfect Theft in Kansas City
A $6,000 bank messenger heist at Commerce Trust Company lobby is exposed as a fake after four men including Chester C. Conrath and Edward F. Searls are arrested. Van Channell, Ralph Halliday, and Charles E. Halliday reveal the plan and how $4,100 was recovered, with $3,100 from an Iowa farm and $1,000 found in a Smithville hotel bathroom.
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Kansas City
Chester C. Conrath
Commerce Trust Company
Conrath
Olio P. Higgins
Higgins
Iowa
Smithville
van Channell
Edward F. Searls
Missouri Bank and Trust Company
Conrad
Charles E. Halliday
Halliday
Ralph Hallida
Howevver
Students Turn Peace Meeting Into Great Riot
Chicago University riot as about half the student body walks out and clashes erupt during an antiwar demonstration. Stench bombs eggs and rocks fly as police use night sticks to restore order. Robert Lovett and Thornton Wilder linked to speakers amid student group tensions.
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Chicago
University of Chicago
Mandelhell
South Side
Chicago University
National Student League
Public Policy Association
American Legion
Student League
Robert M. Lovett
The
New Republic
Thornton Wilder
Kappa Alpha Psi
150000 Students Join Nationwide Antiwar Parades
A nation wide student strike against war drew a record number of youths from college and high schools. In eastern cities drizzle did not stop parades and speeches with 50 000 participants reported, while New York saw the largest walkout with about 30000. Harvard students mocked authorities by parading as nazis and bearing replica machine guns.
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Harvard
New York City
Wallace Warns of Dust Disaster If Land Use Policy Isn’t Adopted
Secretary Wallace warned at the Izaak Walton League convention in Chicago that dust storms across the west signal looming disaster without a comprehensive land use plan. He said sufficient land exists to meet national needs and urged redistributing lands to restore wilderness and halt unprofitable exploitation. He also favored consolidating land use agencies and buying submarginal lands for wilderness preservation.
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Washington
Wallace
West
Izaak Walton League
Chicago
United States
Secretary of Agriculture
American acquitted of espionage charge
Richard Roiderer of Cleveland and Chicago was acquitted by the people's court on espionage charges. He admitted taking notes on German military matters but said others encouraged him. He cited a love triangle and claimed betrayal by the other man as the motive.
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Bergin
Richard Roiderer
Cleveland
Chicago
Peoples Court
Roiderer
Colgate campus speaks as 1000 gather to hear faculty
A large audience of about 1,000 students and teachers at Colgate listened to speeches by faculty members prompting concern and dialogue about campus issues.
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Harvard Yard
Colgate
Statehouse action blocks lawyers fee in tag case
The Missouri House refused a 7500 claim for Patrick Cullen and Charles L. Moore for services to the late Secretary of State Charles A. Becker in the 1931 automobile tag case. The body also adopted amendments to allow claims to widows and dependents of persons killed while employed by state departments amid constitutional objections from some lawyer-members.
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State Department
House
Missouri Holds Iowa Fugitives for Highest Bid
Missouri officials held fugitives Carl Evans and George Sawyer in Kirksville awaiting bids from Iowa Wisconsin and Illinois seeking the severest penalty for the escape and abduction case. Evans admitted abducting and robbing a Madison Wisconsin man while Sawyer denied involvement. The pair were captured after a chase with a third person, with about 606 dollars in cash between them and a pistol taken from an Iowa guard.
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Kirksville
Carl Evans
George Sawyer
Iowa State Penitentiary
Missouri
Iowa
Fort Madison
Nat Rieger
Adair
C. M.,parker
Wisconsin
Illinois
Parker
Evans
Sawyer
Madison, Wisman
Earl P. McCarron
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Madison
McCarron
Isabel Gerber
Muscatine
Brookfield
Iowa Penitentiary
Des Moines
Oskaloosa
Rieger
Oldest diseases and oddities dot 1930s notes
The text discusses severe penalties in Wisconsin, Ulingis, or Iowa if promises fail. It mentions apraxia as an ancient disease causing object recognition loss with odd behaviors. It notes horsepower taxation in Europe spurring small car production and recalls 1190 railroad crossing deaths in 1934 across the United States.
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Catholic University
Edward L. Stevens
Thelma Staley
Sacramento
Calif
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Sulong
Bulletin
Los Angeles
Los Angeles Junior College
Flora Turchinsky
Britain
Northcliffe Newspapers Ltd
Anthony Eden
Privy Seal
Europe
League of Nations
Doroter
U. S
A. Brandenbeger Drug Company
E. High St
J. C. Schmidt & Sons Shoe Store
J. C. Schmidt & Sons
J.C. Schmidt
Peters Shore Co
St. Louis
Ybuy
Childern
Vaathe
J. C. Schmidt @ Sons Shoe Store
Dunklin
Arch Shoes
Ulingis
Reiger
Atlantic
Joe Schmidli
Jefferson City Baking CO
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