Honolulu Jury Deadlocked After 30 Hours in Massie Case
After 30 hours, the 12 jurors in the Massie case remain unable to reach a verdict. The panel, drawn from diverse backgrounds, showed little movement in discussions and faced ongoing deliberations over four defendants charged in the Kahahawai attack and the related homicide.
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Massie
Joseph Kahana
Kelley
Thomas H. Massie
Fortescue
Helen Ripley
Robert Bell
Cotton Industry Attacks Legislation At Convention
D W Brooks says unwise government moves strangle cotton industry. He attacks marketing act farm board and Hawley Smoot tariff creating trade barriers. He cites Russia as potential cotton market once trade channels open and laments loss of farmer control over cooperatives due to transportation costs tariffs and surpluses. Political move.
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Memphis
Tenn
D. W. Brooks
American Cotton Shippers Association
Brooks
Federal Farm Board
Russia
Fish Can't Even Take Sunday Off
Knoxville April 29 AP Attorney General J Fred Bibb notes Tennessee streams allow fishing on Sunday after a 1932 code change. The old law fined anyone who hunted fished or played on Sunday. the new wording ties Sunday hunting penalties to work on the Sabbath.
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Knoxville
J. Fred Bibb
Tennessee
Insurgent House Leaders Press Economy Bill Fight
Chairman McDaffe of the house economy committee told newspapermen the hard hit omnibus retrenchment bill is not done yet. He warned members realizing wages buy little, and pledged a final vote on extending an eleven percent cut while exempting $1,000, predicting a record vote and flips. Government employees face bigger cuts if the eleven per cent plan is not defeated.
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House Economy Committee
House
Chilean Army Mobilized Amid May Day Tensions
Chile's 18 000 Carabineers were placed under siege authority by President Montero and put on standby for possible May Day disturbances. The interior ministry criticized press coverage of extremist notices and communists held protests calling for a six hour day higher wages amnesty for sailors and church property expropriation.
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Santiago
Chile
Carabineers
Juan Esteban Montero
Interior
Interior Ministry
Carlos Ibanez
Lawn mower noise sparks double shooting in Los Angeles
Miss Ella May Thompson 29 shoots policeman Paul Donath when police investigate her attempt to shoot the neighbor over mower noise. In a gun battle she is killed after barricading herself, wounding multiple officers as tear gas and gunfire end the stand-off.
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Los Angeles
Ella May Thompson
Paul Donath
Pauline Phol
J. W. Baldwin
Luther Alger
Miss Thompson
F. A. Pilcher
Lincoln Heights
Weather summary for Tennessee and Virginia
Cloudy and warm trend with showers in Tennessee tonight and Saturday. In Virginia expect partly cloudy skies to deepen with showers in the extreme west. readings show yesterday's 62 high and 31 low, with no rain on both dates.
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Tennessee
Centr
Virginia
Parade Against Bonus Continues In Washington
Richard W. ONeill of New York City a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient attacked the 2 trillion dollar soldiers bonus before the house Ways and Means Committee. He resigned as New York state chairman of the Disabled American Veterans when the group backed cash payment. He urged that cash payment would not ruin the country financially, stating he represents veterans.
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Washington
Richard W. O’neill
New York City
House
Ways and Means Committee
O'Neill
New York State
California vote looms in Roosevelt Smith Garner clash
California faces a three way presidential primary next Tuesday as Roosevelt, Smith, and Garner compete for delegates. The outcome may influence Roosevelt’s bid, with Smith riding gains from Massachusetts and Pennsylvania to spark a fresh push, while Garner seeks first convention votes outside Texas.
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California
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
Roosevelt
al Smith
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Smith
Garner
John N. Garner
Texas
Two States Vote Dry as Nation Favors Prohibition Repeal
The Literary Digest poll reports 73.51 percent favor repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment from 4,668,537 ballots. Only Kansas and North Carolina show dry majorities. nationwide, the wet regions stretch from the Mississippi to the Atlantic, with the Pacific coast leaning toward repeal.
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Literary Digest
Kansas
North Carolina
United States
Mississippi River
Atlantic Ocean
Seaboard
New York
New Jersey
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Oklahoma
Texas
Atlantic
Missouri
Louisiana
Florida
Middle Western
Rocky Mountain States
Pacific Coast States
General Uriburu Dies in Paris After Illness
General Jose Francisco Uriburu, Argentine leader of the 1930 revolution and provisional president, died in Paris at 64 after an emergency operation for stomach ulcers. Born 1868 in Salta, he built a long military career and later opposed Yrigoyen, marching the 1930 coup that toppled the government.
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Paris
Jose Francisco Uriburu
Argentina
Uriburu
France
Salta
Germany
Phlan Guard
Imperial Army
Hipolito Yrigoyen
Yrigoyen
Enrico Martinez
Three Negroes Executed After Desperate Prison Fight
In Eddville Kentucky, April 29, three Negro inmates were executed in the western state penitentiary electric chair after a violent resistance. Walter Holmes, 31, Chicago, fought guards for hours, tossing water and facing three tear gas bombs before surrendering with a cigarette. A. B. Cooksey, 23, Madisonville, and Charles Rodgers, 23, Chicago, died peacefully following Holmes’s defiance and subsequent restraints.
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Eddville
Western State Penitentiary
Walter Holmes
Chicago
A. B. Cooksey
Madisonville
Charles Rodgers
Holmes
Tom Logan
Death Row
Claude Ramey
Ramey
J. W. Baldree
W. P. Gillahan
Osteopath jailed in seven Oklahoma deaths
In Oklahoma City an osteopath is jailed on murder charges while a surgeon is sought in the deaths of seven young women linked to illegal operations. Among the dead are two University of Oklahoma coeds. Dr. Ejisiminger pleads not guilty with a May 6 preliminary hearing set.
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Montgomery Winn
John C. Kelley
Kelley
Winn
Oklahoma City
University of Oklahoma
Lewis R. Morris
J. W. Eissminger
Virginia Lee Wyckoff
Richard E. Thacker
Frank Lee
Oklahoma
Cleveland
Norman
Thacker
Robbie Lou Thompson
Telegraph Company
Employe
Ejisiminger
F. S. Roach
Isobel F. Ferguson
Ruth Hall
Marie Epperson
Morris
Bomb blast wounds top Japanese officials in Shanghai parade
Five high ranking Japanese army navy and diplomatic officials were critically wounded when a bomb exploded among them during a parade honoring Emperor Hirohito. The attack triggered street clashes and prompted a heavy police dragnet in the Hongkew district. A Korean suspect confessed and one American, W. S. Hibbard, was briefly detained before release.
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Shanghai
China
Navy
Hirohito
Hongkew
Mamoru Shighemitsu
Kuramatsu Murai
Yoshinori Shirakawa
Kenkichi Ugeda
Kichisaburo Nomura
Hongkew Park
W. S. Hibbard
Government of
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Senate Banking Committee
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