Slayer found explains Appel girl strangling in barn
South Bend Indiana Sept 23 George Sherman Myers 40 ex convict held at Michigan City prison for the kidnapping and slaying of Marveline Appel eight year old. He confessed to luring her to a barn with a wire strangulation and returning to dump the body for quick discovery.
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George Myers
South Bend
Ind
George Sherman Myers
Michigan City
Marveline Appel
Myers
Appel
Donble Basil Syrup
Hariie
George
Otis
Soviet Factory Resolutions Call for Death Penalty for 25 Plotters
Across Russia hundreds of factory meetings publish resolutions demanding the death sentence for 25 members of a counter revolutionary group. They accuse them of starving the Soviet Union and call for a purge of non Soviet elements from food distribution. The papers praise the secret police as the sword of the revolution and seek honors and funds for a massive Zeppelin named Ogpu.
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Moscow
Counter-Revolutionary Society
Soviet Union
Ogpu
Secret Police
Gun that killed Zuta identified in ballistics test
Ballistics tests trace the gun used to kill gangster Jack Zuta to Danny Stanton, a Chicago public enemy. Zuta, a Moran-Aiello rival, was shot Aug 1 at a resort near Dela field Wisconsin while feeding nickels into a slot machine.
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Chicago
Jack Zuta
Danny Stanton
Zuta
Gangland
Delafield
Wis
Alcock
Moran-Aiello
Dapper
al Capone
Revolt in Chile Grows as Hundreds Are Arrested
Report from Mendoza says hundreds in Southern Chile have been arrested as the uprising centered in Concepcion expands. Officials deny unrest but sources indicate serious trouble with an Argentine landing and a failed coup involving Chilean officers and alleged conspirators.
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Mendoza
Argentina
Chile
Concepcion
Man Who Put Wall Street On Stilts Eyes Mediterranean Tunnel
Paul J. Moranti, famed for lifting Wall Street with a subway dig, seeks a railroad tunnel under the Mediterranean linking Spain and Morocco as consulting engineer for the project. He will leave soon to bore off Gibraltar, while his Brooklyn-Manhattan line project winds up ahead of schedule with 700 workers and a cost of 5.7 million dollars.
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New York
Paul J. Moranti
Wall Street
Mediteranean Sea
Spain
Morocco
Gibraltar
Moranti
Brooklyn-Manhattan
Weather Summary for Tennessee and Virginia
Cloudy pattern in Tennessee with continued warmth and possible light showers in the extreme west. Virginia remains generally fair and warm with light variable winds after a gentle northerly breeze. Yesterday's high 85 and low 60 with no rainfall recorded. Readings taken at 6 30 p m by C L Bunn US Weather Bureau.
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Virginia
C. L. Bunn
American fliers face Chile court martial
Two American aviators Edward Orville de Larin and Reed Smith Doyle were arrested at Concepcion after landing a plane carrying five men who attempted a rebellion against Chilean President Colonel Carlos Ibanez. A special tribunal will probe their actions for possible violations of aeronautical regulations. Major Federico Barahona will assist in the trial as authorities deny censorship and reports of wider revolt.
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Carlos Ibanez
Concepcion
Chacabuco
Jose Maria Barcelo Lira
Marmaduke Grove
Grove
Barcelo
Pedro Leon Ugalde
Santiago DE Chile
Carlos Froedden
Associated Press
Edward Orville de Larin
Froedden
Chagabuco
Federico Barahona
Military Air Service
Antofagasta
Russia Uses Wheat Sales To Pressure World Markets
Washington reports that Russia holds leverage in global grain pricing with offers of wheat ten cents below U S prices while U S stocks reach record highs. Congress advances probes into Russian government short selling of wheat. New York brokers and the All Russian Textile Syndicate to be heard by the House Communist Investigating Committee.
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Washington
Legge
Farm Board
Russia
Chicago
United States
New York
House
Communist Investigating Committee
Fish
Balance of chromosomes determines offspring sex in fruit flies
Dr. Calvin B. Bridges of Caltech reports to the National Academy of Sciences that sex is set by a balance among many chromosomes, not just X and Y. His fruit fly studies show other chromosome parts influence sex and other traits, suggesting human applications remain distant.
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Pasadena
Cal
National Academy of Sciences
Calvin B. Bridges
California Institute of Technology
Bridges
Body of Missing Judge Crater Found
A body matching Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater in size and appearance was recovered from New York upper bay and taken to Staten Island morgue. Crater has been missing since August 6. District Attorney Crain was notified as his grand jury probe continues.
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New York
Supreme Court
Joseph Force Crater
Staten Island
Justice Crater
Thomas C. T. Crain
Former bank cashier Lipscomb shoots self at home
Gaffney South Carolina September 23 AP R S Lipscomb 70 former cashier of the Merchants and Flonters Bank shot himself at his home early today Physicians said the wound probably would prove fatal Lipscomb resigned as cashier a month ago M Smith president said no irregularities were found in his accounts
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Gaffney
S. C
R. S. Lipscomb
Merchants and Flonters Bank
Lipscomb
M. Smith
No Cessation of Bank Robberies Across Plains States
Bank robberies continue across the American plains with about 12 200 stolen in three heists. In Genoa Nebraska 7 000 was taken from the First National Bank while Montgomery Minnesota and Grafton Illinois faced smaller raids totaling about 5 200. The run includes the Dakotas Minnesota Nebraska Iowa Missouri and Illinois with vigilantes forming to curb the depredations.
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Chicago
American Plains States
First National Bank of
Genoa
Neb
Montgomery
Minn
State Bank
Grafton
Ill
Dakotas
Minnesota
Nebraska
Iowa
Missouri
Illinois
Coosa-Alabama River System Faces Navigation Push
Conference in Rome Georgia gathered leaders from Alabama Georgia and Tennessee to back a plan for a nine foot navigation channel from the Coosa to the Alabama and on to the Mobile River. A fund of 11500 was raised to support the educational program in the ninth inland waterway district as government assistance awaits army engineer survey results.
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Coosa-Alabama River
Rome
Mississippi Valley Association
Atlanta
Montgomery
Wetumpka
Selma
Anniston
Birmingham
Gadsden
Tuscaloosa
Pensa
Cola
Coosa
Alabama
Mobile
Gulf
Bibb Graves
Hugo Black
W. J. Harris
L. G. Hardman
Georgia
William E. Brock
Tennessee
Husband slaying tied to elopement plan with Mrs Jones
Grant Mabes 17 confessed to Hawkins county sheriff that he shot Will Jones 38 a farmer to clear path for an elopement with Mrs Jones the wife of Hawkins county farmer Will Jones Mabes says the couple planned the murder with Mrs Jones guiding him to the scene authorities plan murder charges against Mrs Jones and Mabes with Mabes held for preliminary hearing tomorrow morning
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Mabel
Barton
Hawkins County
Jones
Mabes
Loiston Mabes
Grant
C.S.T
Mrs. Jones
Rail executives shot in Baltimore office deadly duel
Maxwell C. Byers president of the Western Maryland railroad was killed and Dudley D. Gray vice president wounded in a pistol battle in the Standard Oil Building offices. Police said the men likely shot it out over a dispute, doors were locked, and a pistol was found at the scene.
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Baltimore
Maxwell C. Byers
Western Maryland Railroad
Dudley D. Gray
Road
Standard Oil
Mr. Byers
Mr. Gray
Gray
Byers
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University of Milan
Bronx
U. S
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Chicago Board of Trade
Department of Agriculture
By Howard W. Blakeslee
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W. Md
D. G. Gray
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