Mellon Paintings for Washington Gallery Revealed
Pittsburgh reports on Andrew Mellon tax case shows he spent 19 million on art, including a million Madonna and other Old Master works. Mellon aims to establish a national gallery in Washington to rival European centers. Details name several paintings and note holdings by Mellon Trust.
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Pittsburgh
Andrew W. Mellon
Sis
National Gallery
Washington
Mellon
Frank J. Ho
Treasury
Hogan
Eoen
London
Paris
Fierenitase
Petrograd
Raphael
Jan van Eyck
Batticell
Titian
Perugino
The
Jerome
Cowper
4. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Omaha Man Fears for Safety of Wife
Lloyd Skinner of Omaha president of Skinner Manufacturing confesses a search for his wife who left for Kansas City to visit her father and has not been heard from since. He fears injury or foul play and is aided by Frances A. Peck and brother Charles Peck. The wife is 5 9, 160 pounds, wearing a black fur trimmed coat and black hat, driving Nebraska license 1 23353 Ford coupe.
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Omaha
Neb
Lloyd Skinner
Skinner Manufacturing Company
Kansas City
Kas
Skinner
Frances A. Peck
State Avenue
Charles Peck
St. Louis
Iowa
Red Oak
Maryville
St. Joseph
Nebraska
University of Missouri
Missouri University
Chicago Art Institute
Chicago
Waukegan
Lou Gehrig Signs for 30000 a Year
New York Feb 19 AP Lou Gehrig star of the Yankees signed a one year contract reportedly around 30000 a year. The deal sits between earlier offers of 27000 and Gehrigs demand of 35000 for 1985.
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New York
Lou Gehrig
Iwal
Strange Message With Bomb For Huey Long
A bomb mailed to Senator Huey Long's Washington office prompted an AP report. Interpreters translated a note mixing Greek, Yiddish, and Turkish words urging action. The device, postmarked Medford Ore, included a page from the Medford Mail Tribune dated February 3. Investigators doubt the note targeted Long directly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Huey PF
Long
War Department
Portland
MIFN
Medford
Ore
Wagner backs prevailing wage foes in relief fight
Washington reports a Capitol clash over the 4.88 billion work relief bill as Senator Wagner of New York urged local prevailing wage rules for public works. Roosevelt adds 45 million for projects to aid the jobless while Ickes notes 15 million unspent in housing funds. States submit bids for 1.09 billion in potential projects as applications near 2.0 billion in non federal and 1.01 billion federal requests.
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Washington
Way Prer
New York
Senate
Warner
Thomas
D-Okija
Wagner
Roosevelt
Relief Administration
Ickes
PWA
Whic
Congress Starting Legislation Against Utility Holding Firms
Washington February 19 AP Congress began work on a bill to abolish utility holding companies. Dr Waller WM Syawn presented recommendations and backed the Rayburn Wheeler control bill. The Interstate Commerce Committee heard from a commissioner who released year long findings on utilities and urged federal regulation of electric energy and elimination of holding companies with limited regional exceptions.
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Washington
Congress
Waller WM. W. Syiawn
House
Interstate’ Commerce Committee
Franklin students demand athletics over chapel in six day walkout
Indiana news reports Franklin College students stage a six day walkout to demand more athletics and less chapel. They voted 172 to 54 to reject a faculty compromise and continue boycotting classes, forming a strategy board to manage actions.
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Franklin, Ind
Franklin College
Brotherhood Day Explores Religious Tolerance Across Faiths
The Nations Conference of Jews and Christians promotes Brotherhood Day on Feb 24 to curb religious and racial prejudice. Leaders urge unity among Catholics Jews and Protestants amid economic strain, with programs nationwide and a Willamstown Institute planned for August. Roosevelt backs the observance and a trio of clergy and a rabbi tour to explain interfaith harmony.
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Brotherhood
George Washington
Washington
America
Baltimore
Willamstown Institute On Humans Relations
Williams College
Massachusetts
Williamstown Institute
Roosevelt
Edward Ross Clinchy
Yale and
Union Theological Seminary
Morris Samuel Lazaron
Baltimore Hebrew Congregation
T. Lawrason Riggs
Yale
Cure for Angina Pectoris Trial Report In Cleveland
In Cleveland at Lakeside Hospital doctors led by Dr Claude S Beel report hopeful progress from a new operation on angina pectoris, the former deadly heart ailment. A patient treated last Wednesday was resting easily seven days later after the procedure aimed to supply fresh blood to the heart. The operation, first done on animals, detaches the pectoral muscle to reconnect blood supply to the heart, a potential breakthrough in a condition once deemed incurable and fatal.
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Cleveland
Lakeside Hospital
Claude S. Beel
Beck
Mystery surrounds death of Dr Roy Hackett in Excelsior Springs
Kansas City dispatch reports Dr Roy F Hackett a 32 year old Independence physician was found dead in a tourist cabin at Excelsior Springs. Pathologists say the stomach contents show not enough alcohol to prove acute alcoholism though the cause remains undetermined. Cabin companion Dorothy Peglar 24 was taken away in a dazed condition as authorities await autopsy results and an inquest set for tomorrow.
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Kansas City
Roy F. Hackett
Independence
Excelsior Springs
Hackett
Dorothy Peglar
Noted economist predicts good times after court ruling
In Phoenix Arizona on February 19 Roger Babson renowned economist and anti inflationist calls the Supreme Court decision on the New Deal gate policy the most momentous victory of Roosevelt era He says prices will rise with a recovery in living costs cattle sheep and farm products and that government spending will slow as cash transactions rise He warns inflation could trigger a reckoning someday and banks could limit long term loans if the trend reverses
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Phoenix
Ariz
Roger Babson
U. S. Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Babson
Kennamer Case Instructs Jury On Mental Quirk Defense
The document notes preparations in the Kennamer case with references to a father claiming kidnapping stemmed from a mental quirk akin to insanity but not as advanced. Judge Kennamer testified the interview was garbled and unclear.
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Kennamer
Strike turns violent in Willoughby Ohio injures deputy
In Willoughby Ohio on February 19 a deputy sheriff was beaten and six United Rubber workers pickets were injured as a strike began at Ohio Rubber Co. Leon DeBolt was attacked by pickets before realizing he was an officer. He was struck five times with clubs and his prisoners fled.
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Willoughby
United Rubber Workers
Ohio Rubber Co
Leon DeBolt
DeBoit
Ickes Probes Farley Onetime Interest In Stewart Co
Secretary Ickes said there was no probe of Postmaster General Farley by his division. A report on the James Stewart Company, in which Farley formerly had an interest, would be sent to the Senate. He joked when asked who sent the Long bomb to the Dick Long resolution.
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Washington
Ickes
Farley
James Stewart Company
Senate
Long
D. la
Farrey
German women go to block for death in Berlin prison
An AP witness describes the beheadings of Benita von Falkenhayn and Renate von Natmer at Plötzen prison. The two women, calm and composed, were executed at dawn after a swift six minute procedure, with witnesses noting their dignity and lack of emotion.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Benita von Falkenhayn
Renate von Nat
Mer
Pletzense
Germany
Frau von Falkenhayn
Perching National Park Bill Favored in Missouri
Washington Feb 19 A bill by Representative Rom Joe to create the General John J Pershing National Park at Laclede in Linn county Missouri was reported favorably today by the military affairs committee and placed on tomorrow's calendar.
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Washington
Rom- Joe
John J. Pershing
Possible verdicts in Kennamer murder trial
In Pawnee Oklahoma on February eighteen the AP reports the Kennamer murder trial may yield verdicts including acquittal by insanity or self defense, conviction with death or life sentence, or manslaughter with a four-years-to-life penalty. The judge will decide prison placement for a minor defendant.
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Pawnee
Okla
Phil Kennamer
Kennamer
McAlester
Granite Reformatory
New Jersey to Pay for Hauptmann Appeal Costs
Bruno Hauptmann's lawyers won permission for New Jersey to fund printing the trial record for his appeal. Justice Thomas W. Trenchard granted the request after a private 20 minute hearing in Flemington. The order requires Hunterdon County to cover the costs of the volume record and briefs.
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Trenton
N_ J
Thomas W. ‘Trenchard
Bruno Hauptmann
New Jersey
Hauptmann
C. Lloyd Fisher
Frederick A Pope
Trenchach
Flemington
Edward J. Reilly
Brooklyn
Campbell
Thomas W. Trenchard
Hunterdon County
Disabled veteran killed by hit and run in Missouri
Emil Hexem a 36 year old World War II veteran died from injuries after being struck by a hit and run driver on U S Highway 71 near Nevada Mo Investigators found a hub cap 50 feet from the body and T C Helm a Joplin real estate man was arrested in Peculiar and brought to Vernon County The fender of Helms car was dented and stained Hexem identified by wallet papers including two pension checks born April 10 1898 Hedrick Minn
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Nevada
Emil Hexem
Here
Hexem
Cass County
T. C. Helm
Joplin
Peculiar
Tom Hill
Helm
C. N. Dutton
J. Joe Simons
Vernon County
Charles P. Newman
State Highway Patrol
Newman
Bray
Sioux City
Stoneburg
Tex
Hedrick, Minn
Jury candidates examined in Lamson murder retrial
In San Jose California four men and four women faced questioning as a second jury was chosen to try David A Lamson for the murder of his wife Aliene Thorpe Lamson. The original pool was expanded as promatory challenges continued and the state planned to seek the death penalty again. Both Lamson and his defense deny guilt amid memories of the 1933 case and his prior conviction.
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San Jose
Calif
David A. Lamson
Stanford University Press
Thorpe Lamson
Standsampus
Lamson
Frank ‘Thorpe
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