Divorced woman slain before son as killer writes note
Chicago report details a brutal murder at the Devonshire hotel on Ohio Street near Michigan Avenue. Mrs. Castle, an entertainer, was killed on the fifth floor after a confrontation with an intruder who looted her purse and fled down a fire escape. Her son James, a witness, described the attack and the killer’s taunting words. The case raises questions of a possible assault.
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Chicago
Black Legion
East
Ohio Street
Michigan Avenue
Loop
James Castle
Near North Side
Mrs. Castle
Bud” Castle
Los Angeles
Mama
Weather Pair And Warm Tennessee Summary
Tennessee will see generally warm weather with tonight and Tuesday fair conditions. A few light showers are possible in the mountains and central areas. Virginia and Kentucky expect mostly cloudy skies with possible mountain showers and little temperature change.
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Tennessee
Teesday
Virginia
Kentucky
Kingsport Hits 101 as Heat Waves Continue
Kingsport office workers dressed in shorts as the temperature rose to 101 at 12 45 pm amid a heat wave with no rain in sight. The new high for the year followed a 100 degree reading yesterday, per the Kingsport Times weather bureau.
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Kingsport
Kingsport Times
Parliament Debates Policy As Baldwin Heads Home
London June 29. Parliament opens a pivotal week with Prime Minister Baldwin resting at Chequers while Ramsay MacDonald stands in for a cabinet session. Three key items trigger questions on Duff Cooper Paris remarks Attlee inquiries into German rearmament and new unemployment aid rules.
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London
Baldwin
John Simon
Commons
Paris
Alfred Duff Cooper
Duff Cooper
France
Clement R. Attlee
Earl of Londonderry
Lord Londonderry
Labor Ministry
Plane crashes and Zioncheck leads police probe in Maryland
In Towson Maryland Representative Marion A Zioncheck escaped from Sheppard Pratt Hospital staff and police during a controlled manhunt. He vanished into a wooded area after leaping a 7.5 foot fence and was pursued through the hospital grounds by guards and officers. The incident followed reports of his potential involvement with his recently sought wife Rubye Taylor Nix. District police prepared warrants against both for assaulting their landlady.
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Towson, Md
Marion A. Zioncheck
Seattle
Wash
Comb Estate
Zioncheck
Rubye Taylor Nix
PWA
District of Columbia
Max Ammerman
Washington
Maryland
Benjamin Scott Young
Arthur E. Pattrell
Sheppard Pratt
Ten Die In Weekend Plane Crashes Across U S Coast to Lake Champlain
AP reports ten people killed in weekend aviation accidents from New York to Florida. Four willful flyers perished near Essex when their craft sank in 270 feet of water in Lake Champlain. A Selfridge Field cadet died after removal from a wreckage near Marysville Ohio. A band leader and nightclub waitress died when their rented plane plunged off Daytona Beach. A separate Long Island crash near Massapequa killed two men. Two women fliers survived a wilderness ordeal.
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Lake Champlain
Essex
New York
Montreal
Selfridge Field
Mich
Marysville
Ohio
Daytona Beach
Fla
Massapequa
N. Y
Long Island
Davidson County Grand Jury Faults School Leader Cheate
The Davidson County grand jury reported no first hand investigation of conditions at the state training and agricultural school. It said Superintendent G Newt Cheate was incompetent or indifferent and unfit to carry on the humane work. The jury will continue its probe after visiting the reform school following reports of inmate beatings and indicting guard Lester P B Tomlin for assault.
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Nashville
Davidson County Grand Jury
G. Newt Cheate
Chester K. Hart
Hart
Lester PB. Tomlin
Fugitives Sought After Escapes At State School For Boys
Nashville June 29 officials searched for ten fugitives from the state training and agricultural school for boys after six escaped Saturday night and six more Sunday morning. Police indicted guard Lester B Tomlin for assault after a lashing of 14 year old Ted Phillips. six inmates testified to brutal whippings. Governor McAlister to receive report after inquiry by Judge Hart and E L Pardue. Superintendent Choate defended the institution calling inmates incorrigible delinquents yet praising a “one big happy family.”
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Nashville
State Training and Agricultural School For Boys
G. Newt Choate
Davidson County Grand Jury
Chester K. Hart
Lester B. Tomlin
Ted Phillips
Tomlin
Hart
Phillips
E. L. Pardue
McAlister
Choate
May cut interest in government bonds proposed by Izvestia
Moscow June 29 The Soviet official Izvestia suggests calling holders of government internal loan bonds to accept a 50 percent slash in interest rates.
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Moscow
Izvestia
Nine Die as Mine Explodes in Italian Field
Nine people were killed in Gorizia when a heavy shell dug up from a field exploded. The incident occurred on June 29 and involved residents collecting the bombed ordnance.
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Gorizia
Italy
Lemke Hammers Wallace as He Seeks Farmer Support
In Des Moines on June 29 United States Representative William Lemke the Union party presidential candidate attacked Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace over the AAA and its processing taxes pledging a guaranteed cost of production. Lemke claimed Wallace extracted a dollar from farmers then returned a dime as propaganda to mislead them.
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Des Moines
Iowa
William Lemke
Union Party
Wallace
Lemke
AAA
Secretary of Agriculture
Haile Selassie to address League in person
Geneva reports Emperor Haile Selassie will personally speak at the League of Nations assembly tomorrow at 5 p.m. in Geneva. His message, prepared in his hotel suite, will be delivered in French as the Argentinian and British-French talks focus on sanctions and non recognition of territory seized by force.
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Wade Werner
Associated Press
Geneva
Haile Selassie
League of Nations Assembly
Selassie
Signor Tafari
Italy
Ethiopia
Manuel E. Malbran
Yvon Delbos
France
Anthony Eden
Great Britain
Provincial Armies Bombed in South China
The Associated Press reports Chiang Kai-Shek's planes bombed Kwangsi and Kwangtung forces in southern China. Southwest anti-Japanese forces claim to resist aggression while pursuing unity against traitors. Gunboats patrol Hainan as Nanking allegedly tries to seize the island. Ten professors arrested as fascists while mutinies and Japanese propaganda claims swirl abroad.
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Associated Press
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Hongkong
Nanking
Chiang
Canton
Wingchow
Kwangtung Army
Nkiwangsi
Lichung-Jen
Fourth Army of the Southwest
Hainan
Inner Mongolia
Japan
Mongolia
Liquor Import Rule Triggers Dispute Aboard Ships
A new tariff limits personal liquor to one gallon per passenger fueling protests among travelers from Nassau and Havana. Passengers on the Carinthia and Peten face immediate duties upon New York arrival, causing indignant meetings and many to abandon or dump excess purchases.
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Carinthia
Nassau
Havana
Tte
New York
Peten
Colon
Education group opens national conference amid debate on academic freedom
The National Education Association convened in Portland Oregon with tensions over academic freedom. Belmont Farley urged concern about outside meddling and government teaching restrictions while Rep Blanton of Texas faced questions over a revealing questionnaire. Dr Bruce R Baxter urged character training stressing values to shape educated youth.
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Portland
Orc
National Education Association
Fredom
Belmont Farley
East
Washington, D. C
Blanton
Texas
Bruce R. Baxter
Willamette University
Salem
Ore
River captain killed near Greenville in drowning accident
Greenville Mississippi June 2 Captain Karl Mutson master of the Choctaw Transportation towboat Robert Sanford was crushed to death yesterday eight miles north of Greenville when a log being loaded on a barge struck him. Atlanta June 20 Traffic court judge John L Cone says public schools will eventually offer automobile driving courses and the sooner the better. He notes people display dual personalities at home and behind the wheel.
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Greenville
Miss
Karl Mutson
Choctaw Transportation Company
Robert Sanford
Atlanta
John L. Cone
Chicago Names Miss Lake Week for Great Lakes Opening
Chicago selects Lucille Booster as Miss Lake Week to signal the start of the Great Lakes travel season. Lake ports set aside a celebratory week with events and pageantry planned for June.
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Chicago
Great Lakes
Lucille Booster
Eighth District Bond Issue Defeated on Recount
Unofficial tabulation error reversed earlier results showing the Sullivan county bond issue favored. Final count 901 against to 849 for with the eighth district voting 62 against and eight for, a 52 vote margin leading to defeat and official review anticipated in Blountville.
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Sullivan County
Schaffer
Bluff City
A. A. Weaver
Sullivan County Election Commission
Election Commission
Blountville
Ocidliy
R. J. Mottern
Bristol
H. S. Smythe
W. D. Lyon
Kingsport
Ninteenth
Fourteenth District
PWA
Lynn Garden
Litz Manor
Loyalty pledge boosts Archduke Otto amid monarchist rally
Maj Emil Fey, former Vienna Heimwehr leader, said Archduke Otto is the Kaiser of Austria at a large veteran gathering of the Vienna Deutschmeister. Otto accepted petitions to be honorary patron and urged a defense oriented army, signaling potential Heimwehr alignment amid regional tensions.
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Vienna
Emil Fey
Austria
Vienna Heimwehr
Hapsburg
Otto “Kaiser
Veterans’ Association
Fey
Home Guard
Ernst von Starhemberg
Heimwehr
Archduke Eugene
Otto
Rumania
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
Shin Kicking Woman Defends Purse in Tampa
A Tampa woman repelled two purse snatchers by tearing a shirt sleeve and kicking one man on the shins as police responded to her cries. The attacker fled, leaving the purse theft thwarted by her defensive actions.
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Tampa
Jilted veteran plans wedding by vow ring
In Old Forge New York Civil War veteran Charles Jeannette, 99, faced a postponed wedding after his fiancée Ella Manning, 55, left the night before the ceremony. Jeannette kept to plans including a wedding supper with twins as guests and an empty chair for the bride while reflecting that the ring would be used later. Manning, at home in Saranac Lake with relatives, declined to discuss the departure.
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Ald Forge
N.Y
Jane
Charles Jeannette
Saranac Lake
Bank of Netherlands cuts discount rate to 3 1 2 percent
Amsterdam reports the Bank of the Netherlands reduced its discount rate to 3 1 2 percent from 4 percent. In Milwaukee a two and one half year old boy Lee Crosby will be buried with full military funeral rites at Forest Home cemetery tomorrow. American Legion officials ordered the ceremonies for the post mascot whose parents are long active in veterans work. The child died of pneumonia.
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Milwaukee
Lee Crosby
Fest Home Cemetery
American Legion
Veterans’ Organization
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