New Nazi Navy Display Opens in Kiel Bay
Washington dispatch reports Congress unlikely to adjourn by June 6 as tax bills face Senate-White House bargaining. Relief def iciency debate lingers, Townsend indictments loom, and a Kiel Bay naval display showcases Germany’s growing fleet with Hitler aboard the Deutschland.
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Reich
Associated Press Foreign Staff
Kiel
Germany
Kiel Bay
Adolf Hitler
Deutschland
Kiel Harbor
der Fuehrer
Hitler
Laboe
Senator Borah Warns GOP On Monopoly Power
Senator Borah in a pre-convention address condemns monopoly influence on the Republican Party. He warns against returning to old policies, says corporate interests drain energy, and hints at how delegates may be influenced. He notes no other candidates are named and cites a Cleveland convention looming in 19 days.
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Washington
Borsah
Cleveland
Republican Party
Sats
Companion Borth
Borah
Virginia and North Carolina Weekend Weather Forecast
Forecast for Virginia and North Carolina calls for light frost in exposed western areas tonight and Sunday, then rising temperatures. Central and eastern regions see fair to overcast skies with mild weekend warmth and continued cooling at night.
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East Donight
Kentoory
Vait
Peel
Willy
Brooklyn Killers Are Electrocuted at Sing Sing
Four Brooklyn killers were executed in Sing Sing prison in New York, the third quadruple electrocution there in 16 years. The men, ages 22 to 27, were convicted of a June 1934 diner robbery murder. One inmate bade farewell, others offered prayers or words of repentance as the electric chair claimed them in sequence.
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N.Y
Brooklyn
Sing Sing
Thomas Gughan
Brooklye
Charles Kropowitz
George Rosenberg
John Sheehy
Frank Russo
Vincent de Martino
Japan expands North China troop deployment in May
In Tientsin and Tangku, Japanese forces pushed 3000 more troops into North China. China and Canton protest, warning of permanent Japanese presence and urging resistance to aggression under Boxer protocol scrutiny.
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Tientsin
China
Upi- Japan
North China
Tangku
International Racecourse
Peiping
Gentai
Japan
Teitsin
Manchuria
Manchukuo
Southwest
Canton
Nanking
Attorneys urged to defend rights in Peoria address
William N. Ransom, president of the American Bar Association, urged lawyers to defend rights against bills in Congress that could restrict courts and the right to counsel. He warned of government attempts to seize legal powers beyond constitutional limits, speaking at the Illinois State Bar Association meeting.
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Peoria
William N. Ransom
American Bar Association
Karl Marx
United States
Ilinoik State Bar Association
Norwegian Sailor Guides Nudists as Pants Stay On
Tampa May 29 104 Jaluin Johansen a Norwegian navigator aboard the ill fated Fleetwand voyage to establish a utopian nudist colony in the Virgin Islands returned to port still in trousers. The expedition organized by Maurice Allard ran into hardships with crew surviving on crayfish and scarce provisions while docked at Havnow. The American consul at Havana arranged for the navigator and four women aboard to be sent home as the voyage unraveled.
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Jaluin Johansen
Virgen Islands
Johansen
Maurice Allard
Wadist
Fle
Alhard
Fleetwand
Havnow
Bey Wrst
Johansen i
Ant
Havana
Posse Seeks Escaped Convict Wilfred Lindsay
Posse efforts widen across a large area near the Angola penitentiary farm as they pursue Wilfred Lindsay, 23, a life-term escapee who killed Captain and Mrs. Himel and wounded two posse members. The search follows killings and the farm boy's death, with authorities detailing the manhunt around the 20,000 acre farm near the Louisiana Mississippi line.
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Baton Forge
Wilfred Lindsay
State Penitentiary
Nelson J. Himel
Angola
Here
Mississippi River
Louisiana- Mississippi Line
Wofford Murder Trial Nears End in Missouri
Janes Wofford, jailed suspect in Ozark Hills area, faces closure as Robert Camden testifies for the state admitting a plan to kill Rev. James A. Radford. Camden says Wofford promised $200 but paid $100. officers corroborate insults against the preacher and discuss motives tied to his wife’s death.
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Janes Wofford
Ozark Hills
Tarmer
Robert ‘Bobby Camden
Robin Hood
The
Ozarks
James A. Radford
Camden
Hill-Billy
Wofford
Worl
Nancy
Boy Brown
Secule
Wafford
Radford
John H. Keith
Wat Ford
Cando
Weil
John Reith
Southern Republicans seek expanded power in fight for two party rule
In a move to broaden influence in the Democratic South, Southern Republicans plan a June 8 caucus in Cleveland with delegates from 12 states to form a united nucleus. Georgia’s Bertha Field urges unity without sectarian blocs while denying domination of the convention.
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Glenn Ramsey
Atlanta
South
Southern Association of Republicans
Chicago Nations
R. B. Crager
Texas
C. A. Jones
North Carolina
Wilt
Cleveland
Bertha M. Field
Georgia
Youths Convicted in Criminal Court Knoxville
In Knoxville on May 27 a criminal court jury convicted Bruce Kitts and Jake Covington, both 18, of an attempt to commit murder in the second degree in the assault and robbery of Dr. Clint H. Morgan. Each received four year sentences. Evidence included testimony from Howard Dunn, a death-row inmate, and Dunn and William Farmer, also from Knoxville, who testified as witnesses. Confessions by Kitts and Covington were excluded for lack of promised leniency.
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Bruce Kitts
Jake Covington
Clint H. Morgan
Docstor
Dunn
Farmer
Kanoxville
Nashville
J. K.milliken
State Penitentiary
Kitty
Covington
Dr. Morgan
Tris
Morgen
Iran
Duan
Banner
Chathinooga
J. Brewer
Chattanooga
Jin Smith
Lt. Morgan
Kidts
Dean
Step Mnther
Bone
Tr. Morgan
Kitts
King's Coronation Solon Continues Colorful Affair
London crowds witness royal proclamations at St James's Palace as Sir Gerald Wollaston reads the proclamation amid pageantry and delays caused by a fire engines relay. In Pittsburgh, Representative Marion Zioncheck arrives, dines, parties, and flirts with the mayor during a whirlwind honeymoon, ending with a city tour and a boisterous nightclub outing.
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London
Britain
St. James’ Palace
Garter
Gerald Wollaston
Wing
Dareing
Temple Bar
Gerald
Norfolk
Ousted jurist challenges removal as unconstitutional
Rit ter, former judge, filed a 61 page petition arguing his Senate impeachment verdict was invalid. He seeks salary, claims the House articles of impeachment were unfounded and that the Bead article did not apply. Ritter did not appear. attorney Carl T. Rolfman filed the action.
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Halsted
Ode Findge
Qld
Senate
House
Setiow
Ritter
Ite
von Daeto
Carl T. Rolfman
Mini
Vitter
Fydet Coolidge
Wease
Black Legion could face charges under Michigan anti terror law
Detroit and Atlanta dispatches report prosecutors weighing 13 Black Legion members as a "board of directors" for night riding terror. Entailed are plots of killings and sabotage to push political reform, with potential 10 year terms and fines up to 5000 dollars. Federal inquiries and state grand juries loom amid claims the order operates in at least 35 states.
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Detroit
Michigan
Black Legion
Gwen Dudley
Jackson County
Congress
National Capitol
Internal Revenue Bureau
Wayne County
Duncan C. McCrea
United States
Homer S. Cummings
Inga
MecCresa
Burcau
Washington
Internal Revenue Department
McCrea
Cirgi F. Effinger
Linn, O
Order
Effinger
Black Legionnaires
Lima
Columbus
John Davis
Cleveland
Richard McMurray
Associated Press
Atlanta
Hiram WW. Evans
Ku Klux Klan
America
Wight
Bryans
Ku Klux Nw
Ooreaghers
Toresen
Mira
Tsu Wlux Rian
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