Topeka mob murder case shocks packing firm
Discovery of an undamaged fire fatal to Roy Kramer, packing company vice president, leads to the arrest of L H Kimmel as a suspect. Virgil Pointer, Kimmel’s handyman, confessed to killing Kramer at the executive’s home and helping conceal the body on a highway. Kramer's widow and five children were left, Pointer is jailed. Kimmel released on $25,000 bond while the firm collected $30,000 insurance.
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Topeka
Kas
Roy Kramer
Packing Company
L. H. Kimmel
Kremer
Virgil Pointer
Kimmel
Kramer
King Company
Pointer
Education Tests and Purposes Shown at Claxton Speech
In Johnson City Tennessee Dr P P Claxton former US commissioner of education described the aims and tests of education in a commencement address at the state teachers college He noted that graduates must know health science and productive work habits and possess judgment and civic purpose He praised initiative self guidance and self restraint as essential to American democracy and public schools.
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Johnson City
Tenn
P. P. Claxton
United States Commissioner of Education
State Teachers College
Claxton
Protest Jailing Reds in Atlanta
MEMPHIS June 6 The police grant Mrs. Marion R. Davis a permit for an open air protest in the business district tonight against the imprisonment of six communists in Atlanta. Handbills urge attendees to object to the prosecution of Joseph Carr Amy Burlak Mary Dalton M H Powers and two Black men Gilmer Brady and Henry Storey charged with sedition under a Georgia law that could carry the death penalty. Davis’s husband, a southwestern college professor, has resigned his post effective year end.
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Memphis
Marion R. Davis
Southwestern College
Atlanta
Joseph Carr
Amy Burlak
Mary Dalton
M. H. Powers
Gilmer Brady
Henry Storey
Georgia
Davis
Girl Arrested as Bandit Queen in Detroit Robberies
A 22 year old former hat-checker Peggy Mahon was arrested as a self styled bandit queen after police linked her and accomplices to about 100 small holdups in Detroit. Detective arrests followed a raid on a saloon used as a gang rendezvous. co accused Joseph O Connors and four others face armed robbery charges.
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Deroit
Detroit
Peggy Mahon
Joseph O’connors
Q’connors
Garner Grabill
Thethers
Peggy
Letter ridicules Cannon Huston in senate hearing
The Senate laughed as a letter ridiculing Bishop Cannon and Mr Huston, chair of the Republican National Committee, was read. It asked why a Texas bank cashier jailed for defalcations was free. Senator Norris noted it from Sally Gamble to her jailed husband Joe. Senator Heflin asked which senator helped write the letter.
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Washington
Senate
Bishop Cannon
Huston
Republican National Committee
Liberty
Norris
Nebraska
Sally Gamble
Joe
Cross Roads
Texas
Heflin
Alabama
Burned to death at Ohio river wharf in Augusta Ky
A fire at a wharf on the Ohio river in Augusta Kentucky today killed two people. Wharf master James Wayson, 76, and his adopted son Hobart, 14, were trapped with no escape. The Greene Line, operating Cincinnati to Huntington, West Virginia, owned the wharf. Damages were about $8,000.
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Augusta
Ohio River
James Wayson
Hobart
Greene Line
Cincinnati
Huntington
W. Va
Wayson
Bridge Crash Kills Eight in Cuneo Italy
In Cuneo Italy on June 6 a construction bridge over the Stura River collapsed during work on an eleventh arch. Eight workers died and three were seriously injured. Investigators probe the cause of the failure.
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Cuneo
Italy
Stura
Germany Moves To Tax Bachelors In New Plan
Berlin June 6 Germany proposes a cabinet backed plan to raise a ten percent tax on the incomes of unmarried men and women, aiming to fund heavy national obligations. The measure doubles the current rate and ties to an emergency tax on government workers and private salaries, promising a heated Reichstag debate.
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Berlin
Germany
Reichstag
Rescuers Tunnel 40 Feet to Man
SEATTLE June 6 rescuers reached A G Brooks alive after tunneling 40 feet to a man entombed at the bottom of a West Seattle sewer trench. Joe Ferro was killed in the cave in. Brooks said he was pinned behind timbers with one leg caught. rescuers provided coffee and brandy through a rubber tube before two in the morning.
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Seattle
A. G. Brooks
Joe Ferro
Brooks
Tired of Life and Starvation Tries in Danville
DANVILLE Va June 6 AP A farmer N W Davis 26 days without food seeks death by starvation He weakens yet remains able to move in his attic cot Authorities see him as sane and say no action taken yet Davis has said he is tired of living Public reaction pushes for intervention Meanwhile musician market gloom from Mr Weber cites 400 studio musicians and a 20 million dollar annual income loss across US and Canada with prospects of no orchestras if conditions worsen
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Danville
N. W. Davis
Davis
Weber
Hollywood
New York
United States
Canada
Musicians Fear Early Demise Convene in Boston
Representatives of 140000 professional musicians in the United States and Canada, many out of work due to talking pictures, plan to meet in Boston Monday for an American Federation of Musicians convention. President Joseph N. Weber of New York leads the group.
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New York
United States
Canada
Sound Pictures
Boston
American Federation of Musicians
Joseph N. Weber
Police Raid Indian Congress at Bombay Headquarters
Three hundred fifty policemen under thirty European officers raided the All India National Congress in Bombay. It was the third raid since the civil disobedience campaign began. Six Bombay congress war council members were arrested, including President Joshi, as police searched the headquarters and the adjoining Jinnah public hall.
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Bombay
all-India National Congress
Bombay Congress Committees
War Council
Joshi
Jinnah
Congress
Fat Girls Best San Francisco Flapper Says Adventist Expert
Dr A N Tonge told a world conference of Seventh Day Adventists in San Francisco that slenderness is not an asset for the flapper of Portuguese West Africa. The remark comes as debates on modern youth culture and health attract wide notice.
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San Francisco
West Africa
A. N. Tonge
World Conference of
Seventh Day Adventists
African Belles Fattened in Pens for Value Says Dr Tonge
A fragment quotes Dr Tonge claiming African belles are penned and fattened to increase value. He notes that fatter stock commands higher payments, with figures mentioning twenty heads and five to ten head. The text presents a controversial, outdated notion of commodifying people.
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Dr. Tonge
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Citizens Supply Corporation
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WJZ
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