Tornadoes and Rain Hit Midwest Killing One In Okla
A tornado struck Fort Gibson Oklahoma killing 16 year old Mamie Landrum and injuring her mother. In Texas near Brady a tornado damaged the Whitehead farm injuring his wife and three children. Heavy rains fell across Kansas with Eureka reporting 3.19 inches and hail damaging wheat near Newton. Kansas City and St Joseph reported about an inch of rain.
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Kansas City
Oklahoma
Texas
Mamie Landrum
Donie McGowan
Fort Gibson
Okla
Brady
Jack Whitehead
Whitehead
Kansas
Eureka
Newton
Joan Cullinan
Cullinan
Lilly Cliff
St. Joseph
Springfield
Southwest Territory
Girl sailor challenges shipboard gender rules
Frances Jenkins, 22, posed as a boy aboard the S. S. Mandella sailing from New York to New Orleans via Havana. She continued the deception during a voyage to South America until an approaching crew physical exam prompted her to reveal she was female.
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Frances Jenkins
Mandella
New York
New Orleans
Havana
South America
Frances
Flashes of Life highlights and quirky notes
A jumble of brief items from across the country. Abby Collins, 81, wins the veteran women’s golf trophy with a net 69 as her handbag improves to 31. A plane is sold to become a hot dog stand in New York. Yale shows a 120 million year old dinosaur exhibit in New Haven. Bobby Jones sets a course record at Inverness East Lake with 66. Robert Smith’s combo lighter claims a grid glow via a photo electric cell. Two Leachman brothers, aged 76 and 74, live a life with no cars, phones, or travel beyond 25 miles from home.
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Associated Press
Lonscon
Abby Collins
Veteran Women's Golfing Association
New York
George Anderson
Flushing
New Haven
Conn
Yale
Peabody Museum
Medicine, Bow
Wyo
Atlanta
Inverness
Bobby Jones
East Lare
Fayetteville
Ark
Robert
Smith
Falls City
Neb
Leachman
Frank
Tom
Sunk cargo ship Shuben Acadia off Montauk after collision
New London June 12 AP British vessel Shuben Acadia believed to carry liquor sank fifty miles south of Montauk Point after colliding with Coast Guard destroyer Davis. Ten crew rescued as service craft trailing the ship was slightly damaged. officials suspect the ram occurred while escaping surveillance.
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New London, Conn
Coast Guard
Montauk Point
Davis
Rum Row
Parole Board Grants Ten Including Missouri Man Dee Redding
Governor Caulfield freed ten prisoners, including Dee Redding of St. Louis serving a life term for the 1917 killing of Alexander White. Other paroles cover offenses from robbery to burglary and attempted robbery across Clay, Jackson, St. Louis, Phelps, and Camden counties. Caviness of Camden county receives two years for selling whiskey. Redding’s March 15, 1917 conviction caused the long sentence amid a list of varied past crimes and paroles.
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Dee Redding
Missouri
St. Louis Ciy
Congress
Caulfield
Redding
Jasper County
Willie Caviness
Camden County
Russel Madine
Clay County
W. D. Woolsey
St. Louis County
Fremont Ward
Helly Graves
Phelps County
Arthur Hoerling
St. Louis
Alonzo Lark
Jackson County
Morris Hart
Fairfax hermit John Armand to start Michigan cult trek
Cult leader John Christian Armand, a 60 year old Fairfax County recluse and former follower of King Benjamin Purnell of the House of David, has sold his land and plans a preaching journey to Michigan to establish his own religious movement.
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John Christian Armand
Fairfax County
Benjamin Purnell
House of David
Michigan
High Squad Cops Sent to Sing Sing
Edgar P. McFarland and William B. Lewis former vice squad patrolmen were sentenced to Sing Sing by Judge Charles GC Nott Jr for assault on Mrs. Genevieve Potocki after raiding her apartment last September. Lewis received two and a half to five years, McFarland two to four years.
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New York
Edgar P. McFarland
William B. Lewis
Vice Squad
Sing Sing
Charles GC. Nott, Jr
Genevieve Potocki
Lewis
McFarland
Triangle stabbing case to jury soon
Kansas City June 12 AP The states case against Frank Snethen 33 charged with the fatal stabbing of Perry Sollars 40 St Joseph Mo was expected to be completed in district court here today Sollars was stabbed here last February State attorneys introduced what they said was a death bed statement by Sollars in which Snethen was accused of the stabbing Frank accused me of trying to take his wife away from him the statement said When he attacked me with the knife I cried for help but no one would help O W Harrison testified he wit-
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Kansas City
Kas
Frank Snethen
Perry Sollars
St. Joseph
Sollars
Sellars
Snethen
Witness Testimony Highlights Threatening Remark in Stabbing Case
A witness described witnessing the stabbing and recounted a threatening remark attributed to Sollars, forming a key part of the testimony in the ongoing case. The account emphasizes the sequence of events and the alleged warning before the violence occurred.
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Lous
John E. Wells, JR
Mibsourt
East End Drug High
Lafayette
Sam F. Stoll
Mer
Jefferson City
St. Regis
Penn
Agfa Kodak
Higgs
Potts
Tom C. Chambers
Jefferson St
Lewis Investment CO
Automobile Bankers
Kansas City, Ma
Automobile Bankers Ranges Gly
Nessed
Bones
iGay
Bradley
Geinsteins
Myers Tobaseo Ca
Uggett & Mygks Topacca Co
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