Suspected Verne Sankey Tied to Lindbergh Case and Kidnappings
Denver officials pursue a link between Verne Sankey and the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and the Bohm abduction in St. Paul. Authorities say handwriting matches and that Sankey may have engineered the Boettcher ransom case, with federal charges tied to the Boettcher kidnapping and related detentions remain.
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Verne Sankey
Lindbergh
Haskell Bohm
St. Paul
M. F. Pinhead
Sankey
Charles Boettcher
Kinkead
Boettcher
Bohm
Col
Charles A- Lindbergh
Minneapolis
Kinead
The
Sanky
Gordon Elkhorn
United States
Mexico
Canada
Carl Pearce
Arthur Youngberg
Ruth Kohler
Short Terms in Jail for Old Violators Continues
Prohibition era arraignments target Jefferson City residents and nearby counties. Sentences range from 30 to 120 days in Cole, Johnson, Moniteau, and Osage County jails. Several defendants received fines, probation, or had charges against spouses dismissed.
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Jefferson City
Cole
Welsh
Cole County
Mattie Pape
Hartford Gilmore
Ray Strauch
Johnson County
Rose Quinn
Pleze W. Robinette
Clarence Vieth
Cale County
Henry Sallin
Vida Saljin
Otto Cassmeyer
Freeburg
Westphalia
Osage
Montteauw
Matt
Chamois
Virgil Wolfe
Near Linn
Osage County
Jot Wilson
Raymond Foster
Fulton
Carl Russell
Neg
Aurora Springs
W. G. Holycross
Walter Giesing
Holycross
Moniteau County
Charles P. Jewell
Loose Creek
Lina Shaffer
Elmer Shaffer
Mokane
John Forster
Ase
Kate
Brown to speak at Young Republican Club meeting
Thomas J. Brown, former Missouri Public Service Commission member, will address the Young Republican Club at 7:30 tonight in the circuit court room of the Cole County courthouse. Club president Lyman L. Winter urged full attendance to review plans for the upcoming city election.
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Thomas J. Brown
Missouri Public Service Commission
Young Republican Club
Circuit Court
Cole County
Lyman L. Winter
Cement Company raises wages for workers in Bonner Springs
J A Lehaney president announces a general improvement in business conditions justifying a 0 percent wage increase for Cement Company employees. The plant is the largest in the Kansas City area. Simultaneously cement price to dealers raised by 10 cents per barrel.
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Bonner Springs
Eas
J. A. Lehaney
Hee
Eolar Cement Company
Enpoyees
Kansas City
Clarifies views on Logue campaign and municipal utilities
ASEL argues citizens oppose bad policies and municipal ownership should be free from political influence. He says in Sedalia that a public utility purchase must be run on a solid business basis, with employees insulated from politics, and that taxpayers should decide by ballot before spending on appraisals. He questions current Democrats and cites past water-rate actions and a Burns McDonald appraisal.
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Jefferson City
Jenkins
Nol
sin_cere
Ftrm
P Burns
McDonald
Kansas City
Alderman Flatt
Capital City Water Company
Sedalia
Missouri
Daladier Ready to Seek U.S. Payment on Debt
Paris March 2 AP Premier Edouard Daladier in the chamber of deputies lobbies indicated readiness to declare soon for payment of 19,006,000 dollars owed the United States. He discussed the issue with Foreign Minister Paul Boncour after Deputy Rene Richard's resolution, with former Premier Edouard Herriot expected to push it through the foreign affairs committee within a week.
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Paris
Edouard Daladier
Chamber of Deputies
United States
Paul Boncour
Rene Richard
Chamber
Edouard Thrrist
Foreign Affairs Committee
Arson squad probes Kansas City laundry plant fire
Kansas City fire officials say the arson squad studied evidence from the weekend fire at a laundry plant where 13 firefighters were overcome by chlorine gas. Helen Warner, daughter of the owner, found five barrels in the fire swept plant, one containing gasoline, and workers stated the barrels were present when they left Saturday night. The firefighters’ injuries were minor.
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Kansas City
Helen Warner
Erickson Takes Senate Oath in Montana Seat
Washington March AP reports former Montana Governor Jamn E. Erickson took the oath to replace the late Senator Thomist J. Walsh. A protest over the appointment’s political nature was noted but the ceremony proceeded.
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Washington
Senate
Jamn E. Erickson
Thomist J. Walsh
Montana
Britton Officer Boes On Trial For Espionage
London March 206. Lieutenant Norman Baillie Stewart of the Seaforth Highlanders faces a court martial charged with selling his country for £50. Prosecutor Major Shapcott alleges he communicated secrets to Berlin agent Otto Obst between August and November 1932, in part via letters from a "Marie Louise" and "Alphonse Poiret" signed correspondences. Stewart pleads not guilty to all ten counts as the trial opens with the accused in kit and bonnet, a cleric protesting from the audience.
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London
Norman Baillie Stewart
H. Shapeat
Leutenant
Tower of London
Uailde Stewart
Seaforth Highlanders
Shapcott
Baillie-Stewards
Marie Louise
Ber~ Jin
Boille-Stewart
Otto Waldemar Obst
Berlin
Obst
Alphonse Poiret
Aldershot
Alphonse Peakret
Shapscott
Baiilie Stewart
Woman to be 100 years old Friday in Sedalia
Mrs. Walter Gillespie, aged 99, will celebrate her 100th birthday in Sedalia on Friday with about eighty relatives invited. She remains in good health and still does considerable needlework, marking a long life and active craft work. In Springfield, two gunmen robbed the Fox-Gilliot Theater this morning, netting about $300 and bound manager Jack Moore who was left on the floor.
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Sedalia
Walter Gillespie
Springfield
Fox-Gilliot
Jack Moore
Weakley gets 25 years for Kansas City bank robbery
Enos Weakley, 45, of St. Louis, is sentenced to 25 years in the state penitentiary after pleading guilty to robbing the National Bank and Trust Company of North Kansas City of more than 1000 dollars on April 8, 1932. He was on parole for assault with a deadly weapon, and his accomplice William T. Baze was killed during a January gun battle with state highway patrolman L. G. Ellis.
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Liberty
Enos Weakley
St. Louis
National Bank and Trust Company
North Kansas City
Weakley
L. G. Ellis
Wiliam T. Baze
Zangara Executed for Attempted Assassination of Roosevelt
The Chicago Mayor, Cermak, died after receiving a fatal shot during a February 15 public reception for President-elect Roosevelt. Giuseppe Zangara, who shot at Roosevelt from a crowd, pleaded guilty to murder and was electrocuted after a speedy trial. The event left several others wounded and sparked a rapid grand jury response.
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Cermak
Bayfront Park
Roosevelt
Zangara
Chary
K. F. Gross
Miami
Hangara
Sanity Commission
Gil
Zangarra
Aly Thompson
Ratford
Hackensack
N. J
Ferrazzano
Galabria
Italy
Cannon Denies Liquor Charge In Newspaper Report
AP dispatch from Washington states Representative Gannon of Missouri denied a St Louis newspaper report that he drank liquor last week. He said he is not a teetotaler, never drunk in 20 years in Washington, and was on the House floor daily, siding with Romine in the hours after a corridor tussle. Lundeen of Minnesota recalled separating the men. Romine remained confined to his hotel room.
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Gannon
Missouri
Romine
Vinner
St. Louis
Cannon
Romjue
Saint Louis
Lundeen
farmer_ labor
Minnesota
Romiue
Wreck at Crocker Fatal to Driver
Bennie Palmer aged 23, operator of a Crocker cleaning shop, died after a car crash late yesterday. The collision involved a truck with Thoms Johnson 25 and Marold Miles 23, plus Ralph Elliott 17 who was injured with a fractured left shoulder and taken to a Springfield hospital. Virginia Jones 18 of East St. Louis was lightly injured.
Young inventor Ferris Haller reported missing
Kansas City Kansas March 20 UP Ferris Haller aged 24 inventor of oil refinery appliances is missing. His wife says no contact since Friday. Employers describe him as a valued trusted staff member and there were no domestic difficulties.
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Kansas City
Kan
Ferris Haller
Ohio youth abductors whisk away 15 year old Peter Myers
Masury Ohio March 20 UP Parents of Peter Myers 15 waited for word from abductors 38 hours after three armed men stormed the Myers home and bundled the eighth grader into a car The note left with the chauffeur warned to keep quiet The father said he cannot pay even 160 dollars ransom and feared a demand may follow The boy is described as about five feet eleven inches tall and 130 pounds.
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Masury
Peter Myers
Mike Stevens
Myers
Boy in Checker Sweater Trudges Up Hills Without Coat
The description notes a boy with slick black hair and a scar across his nose wearing a checkered sweater and white pants without a coat or hat. It quotes an old saying about how climbing hills before they reach them tires some people.
New Nujol Cream Aids Headache Relief At Low Cost
An old newspaper ad urges readers to quit masking headaches with drugs and to remove internal poisons. It promotes Cream of Nujol as a drug free, safe treatment that can fix the root cause, offering nightly use and affordable daily cost, with purchase at drug counters.
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