Rattlesnakes into court in strange case
In Los Angeles on June 28 two rattlesnakes called the guaranteed killers featured in the Robert S James wife murder case as Lois Wright James' niece and former lover entered the prosecutors office. The snakes sparked nerves among reporters and staff while witnesses prepared. The case centers on whether James used the snakes to kill Mary Busch James and whether he insured her for $21,400.
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Los Angeles
Robert S. James
Lois Wright
Miss Wright
James
Mary Busch James
District Attorney’s Bureau of Investigation
Charles W. Fricke
Lois
Hall of Justice
Joe
Rathers
Mary James
J. James
Eugene Williams
M. Schmidt
la Crescenta
Williams
Schmidt
Mary
Corinne Griffith Weds Noted Minister in June Ceremony
The Rev Daniel Piper performed a marriage for George Preston Marshall and Corinne Griffith in a Washington D C area ceremony. Marshall, a Washington chain laundry owner and former Washington Times editor, rushed from Philadelphia where he was a non voting delegate to the Democratic national convention. Griffith, 36, had divorced her first husband two years earlier in Hollywood.
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Armone
Daniel Piper
George Preston Marshall
Washington
D. C
Washington Times
Corinne Griffith
Marshall
Philadelphia
Miss Griffith
Walter M. Moresco
Hollywood
Becker Delvers Talk in Berlin Soon
Dr. A. D. Becker of Jefferson City Osteopathy was chosen as one of twelve osteopaths to address the world medical congress in Berlin this August. He plans a three month trip, leaving July 10 to join a circus surgeon in New Jersey, tour seven European countries, and attend London meetings before return. Dr. H. D. Webb will oversee his office in his absence.
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A. D. Becker
Jefferson City
Berlin
Becker
College of Osteopathy
Kirksville
New Jersey
New York
American Osteopathic Association
Europe
United States
London
H. D. Webb
Purvis Goes Into Fiasgo Police Probe
San Francisco reports former Department of Justice agent Melvin Purvis conferred with city officials to assist an anti graft probe into police corruption. He suggested using former federal agents to audit officers' bank accounts but plans to remain largely on the periphery of the investigation.
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San Francisco
Melvin Purvis
Department of Justice
Purvis
Goering Charts Economic Plan With Schacht
Berlin reports Colonel General Herrmann Goering, Hitler’s dictatorial authority on raw materials and foreign exchange, forms a practical, diagram based plan. He compares it with Hjalmar Schacht’s program, accepts expert criticism, and seeks unity with Schacht to align economics with national needs. Goering’s opportunism and resistance to bureaucratic rigidity shape his approach.
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Louis P. Lochner
Associated Press
Berlin
Herrmann Goering
Goering
Hjalmar Schacht
Reichsbank
Schacht
Soviet Union
Germany
Missouri Congressmen face primaries as opposition grows
Missouri's 13 representatives head into primary season with only four incumbents unopposed. Dewey Short in the 7th has no opponent, while Cochran Shannon Bell and Romjue face crowded fields. Other districts see battles among Nelson Duncan Wood Cannon Williams and Cannons allies, reflecting postmaster and intra party tensions across the state.
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Missouri
Congress
Washington
Dewey Short
Galena
John J. Cochran
St. Louis
Joseph B. Shannon
C. Jasper Bell
Kansas City
M. A. Romjue
Macon
Charles F. Carter
Unionville
Carter
Romjue
Nelson
Central
William JL
Robert D. Johnson
Marshall
Longstreet
Cleveland
Providence Haven
Johnson
Richard M. Duncan
St Joseph
Duncan
DuVal Smith
Buchanan County
Crys
Grover Norris
Melvin J. Duvall
Duvall
Townsend
Reuben T. Wood
Springfield
Harry C. Salveter
Sedalia
Wood
Missour Federation of Labor
Greene County
Cannon
Clyde Williams
Farmington
Clarence Cannon
Elsberry
Williams
Joseph Owen Swink
Hazel N. Gibson
Orville Zimmerman
Kennett
T. M. McCoy
Dexter
Cochran
Thos. C. Hennings, Jr
James R. Claiborne
Hennings
Claiborne
C. Arthur Anderson
St. Louis County
A. J. Pickett
Zioncheck escapes sanitarium manhunt fascinates Washington
Marion A. Zioncheck, Washington state congressman, escaped from a Maryland sanitarium and reportedly hid in his Capitol office, while police and hospital guards conducted a wide search across towns and wooded hospital grounds.
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Washington
Marion A. Zioncheck
Washington State
Capitol
Towson
Seattle
Zion Check
Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital
Baltimore City
Ioncheck
Senate
Drought Ravages Hundreds of Millions of Crops
Continued from page one reports widespread crop losses from drought across multiple states. Pasture conditions are described as extremely serious with surface moisture urgently needed. Kansas reports forty counties organized to combat grasshoppers while Tennessee and North Mississippi note impacts on gardens and leguminous crops.
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Arkansas
Indiana
Minnesota
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Colorado
Wyoming
Pnd
Idaho
Utah
WPA
CDC
Kentucky
Kansas
Tennessee
North Mississsippi
Bombers Rain Death on Chinese Army in Civil War Chaos
Reports from Hong Kong and Nanking say Chiang Kai-shek’s air force bombed Kwangsi and Kwangtung battalions in southern China as rival Canton government leaders push anti-Japanese actions. General Lichung Jen leads a southwest force to resist Japan and purge traitors, while gunboats head to Hainan amid arrests of ten professors as fasci sts.
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Associated Press
Chiang
Wingchow
Kwangtung Army
Kwangsi
Lichung-Jen
Fourth Army of the Southwest
Hainan
Canton
China defends Mongolia as integral. mutiny reports disputed
Central government troops mutinied but observers viewed with reserve. Nanking denied mutiny and blamed Japanese propaganda. Officials denied inner Mongolia defected to Japan and reiterated Mongolia as part of the Republic. A smuggling clash spurred Japanese naval warnings as Chinese cruisers fired on Japanese freighters and warned cessation under naval action.
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Nanking
Inner Mongolia
China
Japan
Mongolia
Pope Makes Reference to Death as Vatican Modernization Moves Forward
Pope Pius, aging and often alluding to his death, thanked Benito Mussolini after reviewing a model for modernizing Vatican approaches by clearing nearby slums. He expressed hope to live to see the project completed, noting at eighty years old he cannot project far distances.
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Vatican City
Pius
Vatican
Benito Mussolini
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Clarence Chamberlin
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Maine
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Rubye Taylor Nix
PWA
District of Columbia
Max Ammerman
Benjamin Scott Young
Weather Bureau
Andrew Hamrick
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