New Mexico Intensifies Hunt For Missing Tourists
In a statewide effort Gov. Clyde Tingley ordered 12 state officers and four National Guardsmen to join private investigators in a desert area near Vaughn where four East St. Louis travelers vanished last month. Detectives found forged traveler checks and an abandoned car, leading authorities to suspect robbery and murder.
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Santa FE
N. M
New Mexico
National Guard
George Lorius
Albert Heberer
Vaughn
Clyde Tingley
Lorius
Heberers
el Paso
Tex
Albuaterque
East St. Louis
Tingley
Albuquerque
Loca
Gite Mismanagement of St. Louis Hospital
St Louis county grand jury condemned the county hospital as mismanaged threatening public safety and health. The report cited diffuse authority making accountability difficult and urged appointing a business man as superintendent.
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GITE
ST. Louis
Grand Jury
Storm Damage Hits Cape Girardeau County Crops
A violent hail wind and rain storm swept Cape Girardeau county causing extensive crop damage and temporary railroad and telephone disruption. A Frisco freight derailed north of town due to a creek washout. fireman Lou Moore injured with a fractured leg. Wheat corn and fruit suffered most. rainfall measured 1.43 inches.
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Cape Girardeau
Cape Girardeau County
Frisco
St. Louis
Memphis
Here
Lou Moore
Missouri Pacific
Scott County
Tornado Hits Texarkana Area Skewering Planes and Lives
At least two people were killed and four injured as a tornado ripped through Texarkana Arkansas on June a. The dead include farmer and Montgomery Dunbar a Texarkana Airport employee. The storm struck near the airport two miles north of the city wrecking 13 airplanes and causing about 20000 dollars in damage.
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Jtekarkana
Ark
Hére
da Iee
Montgomery Dunbar
Texarkana
Firestorm at Eureka mill as workers riot injuring police
In Eureka California June 21 a labor riot at the Holmes Eureka mill left one man dead and several wounded by gunfire. Six policemen were injured as officers and deputies countered the melee with gunfire and gas. Twenty strikers were jailed amid a citywide roundup.
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Eureka
Cal
Holmes Eureka
George Littlefield
Littlefield
Pair held after gun battle with officers near Pomona
A man and his woman companion identified as William Stiles and Marguerite Miller were captured near Pomona after hunger drove them from hiding. They faced possible charges of attempting to rob a local nightclub in Poplar Bluff Missouri, and patrolmen believe they are wanted for robberies in Hays and Russell Kansas. A third member, Lee Allen, an ex New Mexico convict, was killed near Willow Springs when the trio opened fire on Trooper Ben Graham and other officers.
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Poplar Bluff
Butler County
Pomona
William Stiles
Marguerite Miller
Dewey
Oklo
Hays and Russell
Kan
Lee Allen
New Mexico
Ben Graham
Willow Springs
Graham
Roper Defends Graft Charges in Senate Hearing
A Senate session centers on Roper defending graft allegations tied to Missouri politics. Mitchell cites influence from Democratic circles as key to his removal, while Clark and Copeland press for answers about Pendergast and the dismissal. The discussion touches on appointment approvals and political pressures amid the probe. Coins minted in U.S. history total $6.12 trillion from 1793 to 1935.
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Missouri
Mitchell
Clark
Senate
Roper
Pendergast
Copeland
Hannibal Pageant Delayed A Week
Hannibal Missouri expects a three day Mark Twain centennial pageant, postponed due to persistent rain. The event now runs Monday Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, honoring the town’s famed writer from birth onward with a solemn, historic observance.
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Hannibal
Mark Twain
Missouri City
Woman who lived in fear of vengeance dies in Chicago
Theresa Ranieri, 49, mother of kidnapped child Billy Ranieri, died in a Chicago hospital from poison her husband said was self administered. She had lived seven years under threat from "black hand" vengeance after aiding police in the 1928 kidnapping case. A police guard once protected her home to deter attackers.
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Chicago
Blackhand
Theresa Ranieri
Billy” Ranieri
Billy
Alex Ranieri
Eden Laval in Conference on European Peace Efforts
Paris June 21 Captain Anthony Eden British minister for League affairs and Premier Laval of France discussed a four point peace program during Eden’s two day visit. Topics include airpacts eastern European security Danubian accord and the Ethiopian problem. Laval indicated caution over excluding France from recent British Germany naval agreement.
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Associated Press
Paris
Anthony Eden
League of Nations
Pierre Laval
France
Europe
Washington
Versailles
Germany
Eden
Laval
Francois Pietri
Marine
Chamber of Deputies
Naval Committee
Ricci Gets 10 Years For Beating His Wife
A Macon circuit court jury found Gabriel Ricci a 52 year old coal miner guilty of manslaughter in the March 9 beating death of his wife Della 42 with a stove poker and sentenced him to 10 years in prison The jury deliberated about five hours Ed S Jones assistant counsel for the state argued Mrs Ric e was loyal and devoted and had reared seven children The defense said Ricci was kind and she died of natural causes
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Macon
Gabriel Ricci
Della
S. Jones
Ricci
Woman may be named to three member social security board
Washington reports prominent Democratic leaders expect a woman to be named one of three members on the Roosevelt social security board. The board will administer the $10,000 a year salaries for each member. Names mentioned include Clinton P. Anderson and Vincent M. Miles. Contenders seek eastern industrial state representation. Debate continues over independence versus Labor Department placement and tax exemptions for private pension plans.
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Washington
Roosevelt Social Security
Congress
House
Senate
Social Insurance Board
Clinton P. Anderson
New Mexico
Vincent M. Miles
Fort Smith
Ark
Miles
Anderson
Houes
Labor Department
Clark
D. Mo
American Federation of Labor
Wagner
D. N
Monkeys Captured After Drinking Spree at Park
In Montreal eight monkeys returned to their cages after four days of roaming the Cartierville woods. Three remained at large as park officials planted 15 cups of Scotch to curb the rampage. The monkeys slept off the effects, with questions over one particularly tipsy simian.
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Montreal
Que
Belmont Park
Gam i
Cartierville Woods
Alphonse
Premonition of Death Marked Tragic Joplin Storm
In Joplin Missouri relatives report Mrs Mert Hunter predicted the house would be struck by lightning shortly before a bolt killed her at her Dunewed home. In the same storm power lines broke as nurses lit candles at St Johns hospital while a doctor delivered Mrs James Weese’s baby boy.
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Joplin
Mert Hunter
Hightning
Duneweg
St. John’s Hospital
James Weese
Six Pound Baby Born to Mrs Woodring in Washington
A six-pound baby girl was born to Mrs Harry H Woodring wife of the assistant secretary of war in Washington today while Woodring spoke at the command and general staff school in Fort Leavenworth Kansas.
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Washington
Harry, H. Woodring
Woodring
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Command and General Staff School
Illinois convicts escape over wall from Joliet prison
Three inmates escaped from the Joliet state prison by scaling a cell stall wall. Identified as Jack Ellis Vernon Guthrie and George White all from Cook county on larceny charges. They were last seen heading toward Lockport a few miles from Joliet.
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Joliet
Illinois State Prison
Jack Ellis
Vernon Guthrie
George White
Cook County
Lockport
Former North Carolina Governor Angus McLean Dies at 65
Washington AP report notes Angus W. McLean former North Carolina governor died today at Emergency hospital aged 65. The longtime politician served as NC governor and was a notable state figure.
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N. Carolina
Washington
Angus W. McLean
North Carolina
Texan 13 new head of Lutheran Synod
Delegates at the Missouri synod convention elected Dr J W Behnken of Houston Texas as president. Opposition from alumni to closing Concordia Seminary at Springfield Illinois as an economy measure surfaced with arguments about minister surplus not warranting shutdown.
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Cleveland
Missouri Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
J. W. Behnken
Houston
Tex
Concordia Seminary
Springfield
Ill
Christian Winter
Saginaw
Mich
Hunter favors sending boys 17 to Algoa reformatory
Stephen B. Hunter, Missouri penal commissioners head, backed transferring 17 year olds from the Boonville training school to Algoa intermediate reformatory. He joined a Cooper county grand jury in endorsing a new plan, arguing it isolates older, tougher boys from younger ones and supports Governor Park and penal commissioners in the proposal.
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Stephen B. Hunter
State Board of Penal Commissioners
Cooper County
Missouri
Boonville
Boonsville
Governor Park
Penal Commissioners
Algoa Intermediate
Hunter
Newspaper Editor Attacked at Lorain Plant Amid Dispute
Frank Malloy managing editor of the Lorain Journal says he was attacked by unidentified men as they crossed a picket line at the paper. Witnesses included former editorial employees and guild members claim layoffs tied to economy drive, not guild activity, police restored order.
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Lorain
Frank Malloy
Lorain Journal
Malloy
Lorain Nit
Thhe American Newspaper Guild
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