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Newspaper
Jefferson City Post Tribune
Location
Jefferson City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1936
Page
4
New York AP reports John Fiorenza, convicted of the murder of Nancy Evans Titterton, awaits execution by hanging scheduled for next month. The verdict and date finalize a high profile capital case tied to the city’s violent crime saga.
The author wife of a broadcasting company executive was sentenced today to die in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison during the week beginning Monday July 13. Her attorney Henry Klauber quoted her as condemning youth with apparent emotion as the sentence was passed.
Governor Alf M. Landon will address the University of Kansas graduating class Monday night. The commencement program, set for 15 minutes, is to be broadcast nationwide beginning at 8 p.m. and carried over a national chain.
Southeast communities urged prayers as drought damages mount with estimates around 150 million dollars. Georgia and South Carolina leaders called for rain prayers while scattered showers offered little relief. North Carolina faced the heaviest losses, with crop damage projected at 50 million dollars and Georgia and Tennessee each around 30 million. Minor rainfall failed to ease dust.
Washington Gov Alf and Rep Joseph W Martin of North Attleboro Mass shape Kansas Governor Landon’s national convention strategy in Cleveland. The veteran Lawrence-like politician, a House Rules and Foreign Affairs member, is praised for practical politics and party leadership, with speculation he may become national committeeman for Massachusetts.
Montreal dispatch reports Armand Marchand a jobless stone mason, executed at Bordeaux jail for the August 27 hammer murder of his sweetheart Jeanne Lemaire. He faced the scaffold calmly and paid the penalty as scheduled by authorities.
James Day, 21, acquitted of slaying Richard Loeb in a razor fight at Stateville, seeks parole hearing next month. Judge Wilson pledged help. Clarence Darrow defends Day’s acquittal as just. Day says he did what any normal man would under the circumstances.
Whitehorse Yukon river and tributaries rose after unprecedented heat melted snows. Dawson faced inundation while Mayo’s mining town suffered flooding. White Pass sent a river steamer to aid the homeless as rivers rose about an inch per hour.
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