Chauffeur Kills Designer and Wounds Instructor in Apparent Double Fatal
Police report a chauffeur killed a dress designer and wounded a law instructor in a suspected case of mistaken identity. The designer and the instructor died after shots rang out at an apartment. a third man fled through a window. Foster mother describes tense dinner and a mysterious blond visitor.
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Bolte
Howard
Virginia
Berry
Karl Schlichter
Norris Stensland
Sheriliff
L. A
Wharton
Paul
Lon
Billys
Mrs. Wharton
Billy
Northwestern Alberta Faces Worst Flooding In History
Torrents along the Athabasca and Pembina rivers surge through northwestern Alberta in the worst flood on record. One trapper is missing as bridges are washed away and property damage climbs rapidly.
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Edmonton
Alta
Athabaska
Pembina
Alberta
Controversial bank bill to House soon
The administration's central banking bill will be presented to the House Monday under a permissive rule, allowing broad debate and criticism from all sides, per the House Rules Committee decision.
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Washington
House
House Rules Committee
Best Dressed Actor Adolphe Menjou To Become Father
Hollywood reports Adolphe Menjou, famed for his attire, expects to become a father. His wife Veree Teasdale anticipates the birth in October following their marriage last year after a divorce from Kathryn Carver.
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Hollywood
Adolphe Menjou
Veree Teasdale
Miss Teasdale
Kathryn Carver
NRA Price Fixing Ban Proposed in Senate
Washington April 26 AP Amendments to the NRA extension bill tighten antitrust enforcement and ban price fixing except in natural resources industries. Chairman Harrison proposes limits on codes authorities and gives the FTC power to issue cease and desist orders for destructive price cutting. He plans to discuss with President Roosevelt a request to extend the recovery law until the Supreme Court decides its constitutionality and to delay writing a new law until next session.
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Washington
NRA
Senate
Harrison
Inance Committee
Federal Trade Commission
Roosevelt
Clarke
D-Mo
Supreme Court
Release of kidnapped girl and ransom recovery details
A kidnapped girl was held for 29 hours before her father paid the ransom. She was released unharmed and most of the ransom money was recovered. She expressed sympathy for the gang leader and visited him, as well as his brother George, who is serving a life sentence in the state penitentiary for the crime.
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George
Death tax to pay off vets plan debated in Congress
The article analyzes a proposed death tax with five rates tied to recipient capacity, suggesting installments to avoid forced sales of large estates. It projects 1936 receipts from estate and inheritance taxes around 4.2 to 6.0 billion dollars, comparing with England's higher tax take. It notes Republican efforts to press the Vinson bill to pay bonuses in full, with McNary calling for a party conference.
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England
United States
Harrison
Vinson
Senate
House
McNary
Victim Urges Governor To Spare Walter McGee
Miss McElroy and her father met Governor Park’s secretary seeking mercy for Walter McGee as he sat on death row. McGee, denied a rehearing by the state supreme court, had another chance through Miss Knight to take the case to the U S Supreme Court. The kidnapping victim had been held in a farmhouse basement after being abducted from her home.
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Walter McGee
Kansas City
Co. Alen Thompson
McGee
Jackson County
State Supreme Court
Miss McElroy
Lilie Knight
Supreme Court of the United States
Madill Gunman Kills Night Watchman Then Self
In Madill Oklahoma on April 26 a man identified as W A Taylor shot 19 year old Geneva Viers Taylor a waitress then killed Night Watchman Homer Moss before turning the gun on himself. Moss had served as city manager for ten years. Sallie Perryman cafe owner said Taylor demanded his wife return and after she refused fired a shot at her and again at Moss before shooting himself.
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Madill
Okla
Dmars
Geneva Viers Taylor
W. A. Taylor
Night Watch
Homer Boss
Taylor
McKinney
Texas
Moss
Sallie Perryman
Perryman
Dutch Schultz Fate in Hands of Jurors
Syracuse N Y April 26 The income tax evasion case of Arthur Dutch Schultz Flegenheimer was given to a federal court jury today. The Bronx beer baron and policy slip racketeer went on trial two weeks ago on a three count indictment charging he evaded payment of 920,000 in taxes on income for 1929 1920 and 1931. Schultz did not testify but admitted through witnesses that he did not pay the levies because his income was obtained through illicit channels and thus was untaxable.
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Syracuse
N. J
Arthur
Dutch Schultz
Flegenheimer
Bronx
Beer Barton
Schultz
Uncharged Kidnapping Claim Dropped in St Louis
In St Louis on April 26 AP reports charges of attempting kidnapping for ransom were not pressed against Herman Tipton Kelley Fiorito and Ronnie Crets once the circuit attorney ruled Mike Accardi the alleged victim had proven an untruthful witness. Accardi had testified Tipton had extorted him in December with a $2500 demand.
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ST. Louis
Herman Tipton
Kelley
Fiorito
Ronnie Crets
Circuit
Mike Accardi
Tipton
Accardi
PLAN SANITY HEARING FOR TEXAS PARRICIDE
A sanity hearing and possible hard prosecution are planned for Howard Pierson, associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court, charged with killing his parents after luring them to a secluded spot. District Attorney James P. Hart stated the case would be investigated fully and pursued vigorously if Pierson is found sane. He possesses a signed confession detailing the killings of his father and mother.
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Austin
Texas
Howard Pierson
State Supreme Court
James P. Hart
Hart
University of Texas
Rumors of Mary Pickford and Buddy Rogers Revived
Mary Pickford and Budd Rogers, an orchestra leader and film player, are vacationing at Pasatiempo Country Club near Santa Cruz California. They have been at the club since Tuesday as Rogers plays golf. Rogers recently signed a contract to star in a film.
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Santa, Cruz
Cal
Mary Pickford
Charles
Buddy) Rogers
Pasatiempo
Tuesay
Rogers
Slander suits prepared in morals probe in Wisconsin
Madison Wis April 26 AP two slander suits were being prepared to answer sensational charges that University of Wisconsin faculty members were involved in misconduct and that Dr Glenn Frank president knew but did not act The allegations were made by Chester D Snell dismissed as dean of the university extension division before a state senate committee Snell said subordinates urged him to act and Frank urged him not to let private life affect a three year appointment
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Madison
Wis
University of Wisconsin
Glenn Frank
Chester D. Snell
State Senate
Snell
Benjamin Poss
Lines
Spooner
Frank
Milwaukee center staff member accused of improper conduct
A male faculty member at the Milwaukee center faced complaints of improper conduct with female students. Dr. Charles Purin, extension division director, supported Snell's testimony, saying he agreed. Puvin, the other witness, claimed the former regent threatened to wreck the extension division if the professor was not reappointed. Snell tied charges to overnight visits to the regent's daughter in the country, while the regent claimed everything was honorable, though Snell argued it should stop.
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Milwaukee Center
Charles Purin
Snell
Puvin
Extension Division
Prisoner Sentenced After County Conviction
A county inmate received a five year sentence after a guilty verdict. The proceedings listed nine men charged with manslaughter and two with other offenses. Among those tried was Fanning, one of eleven held at a farm near Jefferson City.
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Alga
Fanning
Jefferson City
Killing police officer en route to prison
Kansas City April 26 UP Myron K. Fanning the young motor vehicle officer who last fall killed Grant Schroder a fellow officer was taken to Jefferson City today to begin serving his sentence.
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Russell Maloney
Kansas City
St. Joseph Hospital
Myron K. Fanning
Motor- Revere
Grant Schroder
Jefferson City
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