Larceny verdict in Lindbergh kidnapping case shocks capital
Gaston Means, famed detective, found guilty on two counts of larceny in a case tied to the Lindbergh baby kidnapping plot. Jury of 12 plus one, after two hours, orders ten year terms per count with fines, while separate indictments for embezzlement are not guilty. Means to appeal. he was jailed after verdict.
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Washington
Gaston B. Means
Lindbergh
District of Columbia
Supreme Court
Means
Edward B. McLean
James M Froster
Big Wednesday Sales Bring Jefferson City Shoppers
Shoppers report high hopes for the next Big Wednesday sales day in Jefferson City. Merchants promise wonderful buys, with window displays and blue pennants guiding crowds to savings during the midweek event.
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Jefferson City
British cruiser Durban sails to Callao for Chile protections
London 14 June The admiralty said the cruiser Durban will proceed to Callao Peru to be ready for possible action to safeguard British interests in Chile. Santiago 14 June Chilean cabinet announces resignations and policy tweaks as Carlos Davila leaves for Europe and Rolando Merino is named to the governing committee. The government preserves the Brent Coast nitrate trust and keeps the State Bank as the Bank of Issue.
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London
Brent Cosach
Central Bank
State Bank
Bank of Issue of
Chile
How They Stand On Prohibition
Chicago dispatch summarizes state delegations at Republican caucus on prohibition. Highlights include New York backing repeal, Pennsylvania for resubmission, Rhode Island favoring a constitutional convention, Oregon and several states informal or explicit moves toward resubmission, and varied action or inaction across many others.
Hoover Keynoter Rally Spurs GOP Unity at Chicago
At the Republican National Convention in Chicago on June 14 the meeting opened in orderly calm beneath tension over Prohibition. Senator Dickinson framed the keynote, praising Lincoln and Hoover as platform fights begin, with Dawes revival rumors and Hyde noting a tentative plan for Prohibition resubmission to the states.
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Byron Price
Associated Press
Chicago
Stadium
L. J. Dickinson
Lincoln
Hoover
Curtis
Charles G.dawes
Dawes
Arthur M. Hyde
Resolutions Committee
Missouri
Women Leaders Spotlight at Republican Convention in Chicago
In Chicago's stadium scene four prominent women Alice Roosevelt Longworth Dolly Curtis Gann Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms and Eleanor Patterson led the coverage at the GOP convention. Mrs Gann and Longworth mingled with officials while Simms edited press access and Patterson spoke with reporters, signaling active campaign involvement and social influence among party leaders.
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Chicago
Stadium
Alice Roosevelt
Longworth
Dolly Curtis Gann
Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms
Eleanor Patterson
Alice
Nne
Gann
Simms
House
Senate
Mark Hanna
Rockford
Ruth
Washington, D.C
Capitol
Washington
Ogden Mills
Secretary of the Treasury
Vera Greathouse
New York
Mills
Princess Alice
Flyer’s Rescue at Sea Told by Ship’s Captain
The Circle Shell picked up Stanislaus Hausner after a crash over the Atlantic. Captain James William Wilson relays the rescue as the Polish flyer drifted in darkness, fell into a lifeboat, and was brought aboard to safety marked by calm action amidst rough seas.
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Flyer
James Wm. Wilson
Hausner
Stanislaus Felix Hausner
New York
Warsaw
Associated Press
James William Wilson
Circle Shell
Atlantic
U. S
Stanley Hausner
States Differ on Wet-Dry Issue at GOP Caucuses
Chicago report shows wide variation among state delegations to the Republican National Convention on prohibition. New York pledged to seek a repeal proposal, Rhode Island backed a constitutional convention, while Oregon Indiana California Wisconsin and Washington urged resubmission or expressed parallel sentiment. Pennsylvania faced a five repeal, one modification, and two dry plank deadlock. Louisiana supported the administration position. Several states including Idaho Arkansas West Virginia Kansas Oklahoma Texas and Maryland took no action.
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Chicago
New York
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Oregon
Louisiana
Indiana
Wisconsin
Washington
Minois
Michigan
Idaho
Arkansas
West Virginia
Virginia
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Maryland
Colorado
Ohio
Alabama
Massachusetts
California
New Jersey
Iowa
Delaware
Georgia
Arizona
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Alaska
Connecticut
Mississippi
Maine
Kentucky
Florida
Ydaho
Air force rescues exhausted aviator amid fog and night
A pilot, found after being sighted at sea or shore, was brought aboard by a crew of diverse workers, including Chinese crew, after a prolonged search. He sustained only superficial injuries and spoke little due to exhaustion while weather worsened with fog and falling barometer. Separately, American exports to Russia fell sixty percent from the prior year.
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Hausner
Finland deploys troops to quell farmer revolt
In Helsinki today the government sent an infantry battalion with machine guns to Mivala in northern Finland to crush a 300 farmer insurrection after they attacked police. Eighty policemen patrolled roads near Nivala to deter sympathizers and guard ammunition depots as reinforcements from Uleaborg arrived. The semi fascist movement, backed by farmers, had flared last February and March but was then quelled.
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Helsingfors
Finland
Mivala
Nivala
Uleaborg
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Badaville Road
G.O. P
Dickinson
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs. Schnepper
Mrs. Gann
Ruth Hanna McCormick
Patterson
Peltason’s
High St
Treland and
Adlers
Mist OF the Moon
Russia
Northern
Jefferson Candy Co. It. E
the Exchange National Bank
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