Mother Confesses to Torch Murder of 8-Year-Old Girl
New York May 17 police said Mrs Helen Tiernan 28 confessed to killing her eight year old daughter Helen and injuring her five year old son James in woods near Brookhaven Long Island. She said motive was love for a man and that she acted alone. The body of Helen was found burned after being stabbed and doused with gasoline. James was found nearby with injuries.
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Weather Showers Tennessee with Kentucky Forecast
Weather bulletin notes increasing cloudiness for Tennessee and Kentucky with likely showers tonight and Tuesday. Virginia expected fair tonight through Tuesday with little temperature change.
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Virginia
Farm program may replace old measures
Farm leaders propose a new agricultural adjustment plan combining features of the AAA and Hoover board to stabilize prices and production. The measure, drafted by the American Farm Bureau Federation, would let the Commodity Credit Corporation loan farmers 80 to 90 percent of parity value, store surplus, and impose quotas with penalties for overproduction. It aims to balance farm income with labor and industry values and includes parity payments when loans fall short.
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Publisher foresees income for South from newsprint
Riik of the Nashville Banner told the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association that southern pine lands will fuel a billion dollar industrial growth in Dixie. He cited three years of committee work to build new mills, with the first to be established soon in East Texas and another under consideration for the Southeast. He urged conservation and reforestation to support the effort.
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Nashville Banner
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American New Paper Publishers’ Association
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Southeast
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Textile Indiamp
Court Bill Compromise Talks and Unions Push Ahead
Pittsburgh arouses union activity as the Jones and Laughlin steel plant faces a 36 hour strike while bargaining proceeds. In Washington Senator Logan proposes compromises on Roosevelt court plan, advocating retirement at 75 and one justice appointed per year amid a divided judiciary committee.
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Roosevelt
High Tribunal
Louisiana
Hotel at Loch Arbour Hotel Destroyed In Fire
LOCH ARBOUR, WN J May 17 A palatial Loch Arbour hotel at a fashionable summer resort was destroyed today by a fire of mysterious origin that threatened to wipe out the community a full colony of cottages on Deal Lake. Firemen from 20 towns in Monmouth county fought the blaze for three hours before it was controlled. Lenoy Duffield an operator of the hotel could not estimate the damage and said we will never be able to replace it. He could not explain how it happened.
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Consolidation of All Power Units Proposed by Brookings
Washington May 17 A Brookings Institution report urges unifying federal power activities under a single agency to cut costs and regulate rates and production for major projects such as the Tennessee Valley Authority. Senator Byrd and other leaders expect a national program proposal from the president soon, while Norris drafts a regional seven-authority plan. The Public Works Administration reports court victories in its power program cases and supports a joint board to resolve overlapping issues.
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Film Players Are Victors In Strike
Hollywood observers report unionized film workers secured higher pay and a closed shop with a pledge against strikes for ten years while a 17 day crafts walkout troubled studios. Two unions within the Federated Motion Picture Crafts resumed negotiations after about 300 members voted to return.
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American Federation of Labor
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United Mine Workers
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Ford Motor Company
Homer Martin
Dearborn
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Guid
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Leslie Howard
Fredric March
Jean Yiershol
James Cagney
Edmund Lowe
Ralph Morgan
Lionel Stande
Supreme Court Upheld New Deal Measures Face Scrutiny
In New York on May 17 experts from economists to industrialists weighed Gen Dawes prediction of a 1939 business recession. They proposed fixes: balance budgets, revive building, rehabilitate factory equipment, value the dollar by prices, and keep enterprise free. Jesse H. Jones rejected the Dawes view, urging continuation of growth. Senator Thomas of Oklahoma warned only one way to avert a new downturn.
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Charles G. Dawes
Dawes
Jesse H. Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Chicago
Kansas City
Jones
Scott Loftin
United States
American Bar Association
Jacksonville
Fla
Thomas
Oklahoma
Washington
Death Penalty Sought For Youthful Jersey Couple
In Jersey City, Prosecutor Daniel T. O Regan asked for the death penalty for 17 year old Gladys Macknight and her 18 year old former sweetheart Donald Wightman for the hatchet slaying of Gladys mother Mrs Helen MacKnight. The trial opened with a blue ribbon jury and strict courtroom decorum.
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Daniel T. O'Regan
Slim
Gladys Macknight
Donald Wightman
Hudson County
Thomas F. Meaney
O'Regan
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Wightman
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Helen MacKnight
R. Louis Kennedy
Entinger
Meaney
Gladys
Bayonne
Bayonne Club
Hudson Coury
Patrick Dolan
Memphis Detective Identifies Suspect In Ice Pick Slayings
Memphis police list Emanuele Anderson as wanted for questioning in a string of brutal crimes including the ice pick murder of Mrs. Clara Sorondilas, the beating deaths of a young girl and others, tied to multiple 1934 1935 cases across the city and state. Anderson, previously tracked after escaping a Springfield hospital, was arrested in Chicago. The slate of charges spans March and November 1934 and July and September 1935, with victims including Dorothy Townsend and Cleopatra Tillery among others.
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A. O. Clark
Chicago
Clara Sorondilas
Clark
Emanuele Anderson
Anderson
Springfield
Dorothy Townsend
Billie MaeChildress
Dorothy
Mrs. Sorandilas
Cleopatra Tillery
Negra
Lo Aeath
Earlean Westwood
Negre
Supreme Court Delivers On Tax Refund and Chain-Store Case
The Supreme Court today limited refunds from the 1963 interest taxes tied to the 1936 revenue act and upheld a Louisiana chain store license tax. Chief Justice Hughes announced an 8 to 1 ruling allowing full judicial review for refunds while preserving the tax on chain stores based on unit count nationwide.
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Supreme Court
Benet
Louisiana
Hughes
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Internal Revenue
Alabama
Anniston Manufacturing Company
Justice McReynods
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Commissioner of Internal Revenue
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American husbands are over cautious declares wife poet
May 17 Kansas copy Mrs Edgar bee Masters says American lovers are over cautious. She supports her poet husband by noting American men lack time and fear to fully commit to love. She contrasts European norms where husbands are dictators and wives serve, predicting Americans could learn from Europe.
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