Division of Authority on Crime Opposed
Two United States Attorneys told the Senate racketeering committee that they opposed any constitutional amendment for federal state joint crime prosecutions. Medalie warned local authorities abdicate power. Amell urged reforms and federal arrest powers for state crimes with state prosecutions remaining. Chief Justice Kernochan lamented political ties to racketeers and warned of police dangers.
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New York
United States
Senate
George Z. Medalie
Southern
Howard W. Amell
U. S
Medalie
Royal S. Copeland
Congress
Amell
Frederick Kernochan
Special Sessions Court
Sugar freight rates cut spark barge appeal in St Paul
Mississippi River barge firm challenges Interstate Commerce Commission order lowering rail rates on sugar. Hearings before three federal judges examined whether rail discounts of 5 to 15 cents below barge costs violate statutory provisions. Barge line argues the rate cuts threaten waterborne sugar movement and overall distribution.
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St, Paul
Aug. i
Interstate Commerce Commission
Mississippi Valley ~ Barge Line Company
St. Louis
J. R. van Slyke
van Slyke
Gangland Vengeance Plot Ended In Chicago Shootout
An underworld love affair sparked an attempted gangland assassination in Chicago. John Tenuta, captured at 28, described plans involving Vincent Minneci 24 and Frieda Pratt 26. Bangora allegedly plotted the hit. a police chase followed with Tenuta wounded and others fleeing after a car chase.
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Chicago
Vincent Minueci
Leo Minneci
Planer Jarman
Gustave Hoeh
Minneci
John Tenuta
Frieda Pratt
Tenuta
Louis Bangora
Frieda
Ebangora
Brown
Louis
Bangora
Minnect
Julig Schneider
Tenute
Boarder Kills Man Shoots Wife Then Kills Self
In Missouri Valley Iowa Aug 15 AP Ralph Bittner 40 a boarder at Harwood Blunt 28 grocery store employee killed Blunt at his home then shot himself Bittner fired at Mrs Blunt who fled to a neighbor after leaping from a screen window with her eight year old son Blunt died of a heart shot police found Bittner dead in his room with a self-inflicted wound
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Missouri Valley
Ralph Bittner
Harwood Blunt
Blunt
Bittner
Blumt
Bitter
Wallace promises hog processing tax by October 1
Secretary Wallace said a nominal processing tax on hogs may be levied on or after October 1 to fund the emergency hog reduction program. The tax would be about one half cent per pound of live hog, with final rate to be decided, and the plan includes bonuses to farmers for marketing hogs and pigs under 360 pounds by October.
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Washington
Wallace
Bel
Hunger Cure for Striking Convicts in Tennessee
Nashville Aug 1 AP Officials move to starve striking convicts at Petros prison mines by withholding food after supper last night the planned measure aims to end the mutiny. Dr E W Cocke state commissioner notes most inmates are Negro and blames recent deputy warden appointment for unrest.
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Nashville
Tenn
Petros
E. W. Cocke
Dr. Cocke
Br. Goehe
O. C. Hen- Stix
Agriculture secretary weighs grain minimum price suspension
Secretary Wallace said the department is studying potential problems if minimum prices on the grain market are suspended after today. He said no decision has been made by the Chicago Board of Trade or by the department. Wallace will meet CBOT representatives and staff on the issue, noting Winnipeg's market peg could influence the board. The minimums based on July 30 prices have been in effect for weeks. He denied ordering the minimums or pressuring the board, stating they did not cause them.
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Washington
Wallace
Department of Agriculture
Chicago Board of Trade
Winnipeg
Chicago Board
Mills testifies on A F C fear of Couzens over loan
Detroit banker W. Mills, former chairman of First National Bank, told a bank grand jury that Herbert Hoover informed directors the A F C feared criticism by Senator Couzens if a $6.2 million loan to Guardian Detroit Union Group was approved. He said the loan block helped trigger the February bank holiday. Couzens plans to respond to Mills’ statements tomorrow.
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Detroit
Whlson W. Mills
Bank Grand Jury
Herbert Hoover
A.F. c
James Gouzens
Mills
First National Bank
Couzens
Guardian
Detroit Union Group
Tne
Capture of Urschel kidnapper linked to storm chase
Fort Worth reports a storm forced an American Airways pilot off course aiding the capture of Harvey Bailey and the discovery of Urschel’s hideout where the millionaire was held for ransom during a nine day kidnapping ending July 23 to July 31. A separate New York curb market note describes a lackluster session with firm oil and utility issues amid NRA uncertainty.
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Fort Worth
Tex
American Airways
Harvey Bailey
Charles F. Urschel
Urschel
Department of Justice
Biot
New York
American Gas and Electric
Stancard Oil
Indiana
NRA
Dawn of a new age for workers under recovery act
Prof Donald A Laird, a leading psychologist, foresees improved home life and happier families for industrial workers under the National Recovery Act. He says reduced hours will cut fatigue, lift spirits, and allow more time for home life and recreation, heralding a new era for American labor.
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Binhampton
Donald A. Laird
Laird
Houe
Jess
America
Oldest Johnson County Resident Dies in Warrensburg
Edward White Dobbs 92 died on a farm near his birthplace two miles from Warrensburg. He was Johnson County’s oldest native, survived by his widow three daughters Mrs Ben S Couch of St Louis Mrs Robert B Rice of Lexington Ore and Mrs S Murray Long of Kansas City and one son Dr Edward S Dobbs of Columbus. Burial at Memorial Park Kansas City.
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Warrensburg
Edward White Dobbs
Johnson County
Columbus
Ben S. Couch
St.Louis
Robert B. Rice
Lexington
Ore
S. Murray Long
Kansas City
Edwards S. Dobbs
Memorial Park
Capone to Face Chicago Trial Back in State Court
Aug 15 Chicago reports premature word that Al Capone was en route from Atlanta to Chicago for racketeering conspiracy trial. Officials later said Capone remains in his cell at Atlanta prison. State prosecutors plan to seek a writ of habeas corpus for Capone to return for trial in Illinois. Washington confirms a request for Capone’s return but will act after Attorney General Cummings resumes duties.
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Chicago
al Capone
Atlanta
Campone
Joliet
Capone
John J. Prystalski
Criminal Court
Washington
Cummings
Gambling joints crackdown eyed in Kansas City
Kansas City reports from the Kansas City Star say authorities plan a clean up of gambling houses saloons and other vice under orders from Democratic boss Tom Pendergast in New York. Councilman Byron Spencer prepared to attack open rambling houses and slot machines but held his statement to give city managers a chance to act amid unrest from racketeers and a recent string of violent incidents. Unrest grows among striking workers in upstate New York as reports say cows are no longer contented. A note on passenger pigeons recalls their decline with the last survivor dying in 1914 at Cincinnati Zoo.
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Kansas City
Union Station Plaza
Thomas Bush
Upstate
New York
Eeyn
Vandeventer Names Union Station Killers
Kansas City August 15 United States District Attorney William G. Vandeventer said Harvey Bailey now held in Dallas and Verne Miller a fugitive have been positively identified as the gunmen who killed four officers and Frank Nash at the Union Station plaza on June 17. Wilbur Underhill was also named as present, with the DA not confirming if he fired. Bailey will likely be returned to the Missouri penitentary once the case is ready for state murder prosecution.
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Kansas City
William G. Vandeventer
United States
Harvey Bailey
Dallas
Verne GC
Miler
Frank Nash
Union Station Plaza
Wilbur Underhill
Soldiers Guard Courthouse At Lynching Probe
National Guardsmen patrolled the Tuscaloosa courthouse block behind barbed wire as the county grand jury convened in special session to investigate the lynching of two Negroes and the wounding of a third, all indicted on a charge of killing a white woman. The wounded man Elmore Clark, 28, was found near the scene and expected to be called before the grand jury. deputies reported he could not identify the lynching party members. A plot to storm the jail led to the killings of Tom Pippen, 18, and A T Harden, 16, as they were moved for safekeeping. A stray note mentions a bear cub aboard the first airmail flight between Quebec and New York.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
National
Tuscaloosa County
Grand Jury
Elmore Clark
Clark
R. L. Shamblin
Tom Pippen
A. T. Harden
Birmingham
Pippen
Harden
U S Signals Willingness to Cooperate on Wheat Production
Secretary Wallace announced the United States would cooperate on wheat production plans satisfactory to Canada, Australia, and Argentina and would accept any reasonable European cooperation plan. The discussion noted methods for measuring mountain height and the accuracy of spirit levels versus barometers.
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U. S
Canada
Australia
Argentina
Washington
Wallace
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