Negro May Be Probed About Welsh Murder in Texarkana
Texarkana Arkansas police questioned George Washington a 32 year old black man in connection with several crimes including the brutal murder of Mrs R J O Dwyer in a fashionable Texarkana home last July. Washington had been transferred from Ennis Texas jail and admitted to slaying a Kansas City heiress Leila Adele Welsh. He has served multiple terms for car theft assault and box car robbery and was found with items connected to the O Dwyer murder.
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Ark
George Washington
R. J. O'Dwyer
Washington
Ennis
Tex
Searcy
W. E. Davis
Davis
O’dwyer
Ates
Arkansas
Texas
Louisiana
O'Dwyer
Pretty Leila Adele Welsh
Kansas City
Rabbits Drive Australian War Economy Revenue
Rabbits become a major dollar source as the United States imports increasing numbers of Australian rabbit skins for military felt hats. Australia builds a growing dollar exchange credit while scrap materials used in American industrial production reach an estimated billions.
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Australia
Canberra
United States
Proposed Air Route Denied by GAA
The Civil Aeronautics Board denied Kansas City Southern Transport’s bid for a direct Kansas City to New Orleans route. It also rejected Mid-Continent Airlines and Braniff Airways requests to extend routes or add service, citing available connectivity on existing carriers. Continental Airlines was authorized to extend Wichita to Tulsa while action on stopping at Bartlesville was deferred.
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Civil Aeronautics Board
Kansas City Southhern Transport Company
Kansas City Southern Railway
Kansas City
New Orleans
Tulsa
Oklo
Mid-Continent Airlines, Inc
Braniff Airways, Inc
Wichita
Mas
Continental Airlines, Inc
Continental
Bartlesville
Okla
Wichita - Tulsa
Woman dies after self-inflicted wound in Missouri
Mrs Bessie Happel 39 died from a self inflicted bullet wound in Lebanon Missouri as her husband Wilford 42 lay hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the abdomen. Coroner J D Stanton and patrolman Hugh Wagzoner say she shot her husband Sunday then killed herself. No inquest planned.
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Lebanon
Bessie Happel
Wilford Happel
J. D. Stanton
Hugh Wag- Zoner
Happel
Stanton
Gitians Seek Lower Phone Rates in Kansas City
Kansas City Real Estate board urged the city council to aid telephone users in obtaining lower rates. H R Ennis said a study of rates in 11 similar cities found nine with lower costs than Kansas City.
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Kansas City
Illinois moves to bar Communist party from ballot
The Illinois General Assembly sent to Governor Green four bills aiming to exclude from the state ballot any group directly or indirectly associated with Communistic Fascist Nazi or other un American principles. Passed 45 to 0 in the senate and by a heavy margin in the house.
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Springfield
Ill
General Assembly
Green
Communist Party
Dennis J. Collins
de Walle
Senate
House
Archbishops Denounce Corruption at Eucharistic Congress
Archbishop Samuel A. Stritch of Chicago denounced modern leaders for sin and warned of worldwide trouble as he addressed about 50,000 at the Ninth National Eucharistic Congress opening at the state fairgrounds. Cardinal Dennis Dougherty presided as papal legate with bishops, abbots, and a nun-filled congregation in attendance.
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ST. Paul
Samuel A. Shiteh
Chicago
Stritch
State Fair Grounds
Congress
Dennis Cardinal Dougherty
Philadelphia
Fairgrounds
Inn Field
Knights of Holy Orders
Osirex Pep Tablets Offer at Crowe Guh Rate
Promotion for Osirex tablets claims to boost energy and reduce fatigue by supplying iron calcium phosphorus and vitamin b. Advertised as a stimulant tonic available at Crowe Guh Rate and other drug stores with a limited time price.
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Crowe Guh
City Survey and Audit report a costly city project
The city sponsored book City Survey and Audit, issued after over two years of research at a cost of 533000, has sold only 20 copies and 2040 remain in the city register’s files. It is priced at $1 and aims to improve municipal government. Wrens Name Ship HMS Wren
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ST. Louis
City Register
Wrens
Portsmouth
Eng
Navy
Admiralty
H.M.S
Wren
She Turned Him Down and Stomach Aches Relief Tabs
A brief ad notes discomfort from heartburn and fullness with sour stomach. It promotes ABDLA Tablets as quick relief, available at local druggists, from G. A. Fischer Drug Co.
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G. A. Fischer Drug Co
Veteran pilots reddened by sun at Golden Gate
Six San Francisco bar pilots aboard the 125-foot auxiliary schooner California argued their sunburn was from exposure, not shame. They were near Anita Rock by the Presidio depot as tugs failed to move the vessel during a five day hitch at the Gate under calm seas.
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San Francisco
UPJ
Golden Gate
California
Gracie S
Anita Rock
Presidio Quartermaster's
Lightning kills two Illinois farmers in buffalo area
Springfield AP reports J. G. Rice age 30 and Fred Botz age 42, both of Elkland, were instantly killed when lightning struck a tree they were sawing in a wooded tract twelve miles south of Buffalo. The bolt knocked them away from the tree and their bodies were found near midnight by coroner Herbert Scott.
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Springfield
J. G. Rice
Fred Botz
Elkand
Buffalo
Herbert Scott
Postwar planning urged by Batt as wartime economy shifts
Washington dispatch reports William L Batt urging a commission to study long-range effects of defense demobilization. He says a deliberate economic planning program is needed to shape postwar conditions, arguing the world will not resemble 1939 and the nation must build a robust economy and living standard.
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House Tabor
Ball
United States
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