Student admits poisoning two relatives and dumping bodies
Nineteen year old Leroy Drake Jr admitted to poisoning his aunt and uncle in Los Angeles. He said he dumped the submerged car with their bodies in San Pedro harbor and forged his uncle's name on a check. Police seek a Long Beach woman for questioning.
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Los Angeles
Frank Condaffer
Leroy Drake, Jr
Drake
Henry Steinheur
San Pedro Harbor
Condaffer
Beaunt
Condiffer
Conduffer
Pollice
Steinhuer
Washington, D.C
Frank Condafter
Condafter
Long Beach
Steinhner
Weather Outlook for Tennessee Kentucky and Nearby States
Rain and cooler conditions forecast across Tennessee Kentucky with rain tonight and Friday. west portions see cooler air moving in tonight through Friday. Virginia anticipates increasing cloudiness with rain starting late tonight or Friday and warmer tonight turning cooler Friday and Friday night. North Carolina expected to see increasing clouds tonight with showers Friday and cooler conditions in the west and interior Friday night.
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Tennessee - Kentucky
West
Virginia
North
Southeast
North Carolina
Youth Given 3 Year Term For Statutory Charge
Sam Welch, 19, of Monterey, convicted in Cookeville on a statutory charge linked to the death of Miss Gertrude Cates, 20. A circuit court jury recommended a three year sentence after finds her body near Monterey showed bruising and possible pregnancy. Herman Matheney testified Welch had called on Cates the night she died. Welch denied knowing of the death until the body was found.
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Cookeville
Tenn
Sam Welch
Monterey
Gertrude Cates
Miss Cates
Herman Matheney
Welch
AAA Program Aid to the Landlords in Atlanta
A new publication The Collapse of Cotton Tenancy argues the agricultural adjustment program aids landlords while tenants face risk. Authors include Dr. W. W. Alexander Edwin Embree and Charles S. Johnson after two years of study in the south. They label cotton tenancy a major social failure noting about 1.79 million tenant families, predominantly white and Black, with white and Black populations in the tenant class totaling several million. Alexander serves in Washington as assistant administrator to Under-Secretary.
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Atlanta
W. W. Alexander
Commission On Inter-Racial Relations
Edwin R. Embree
Rosenwald Fund
Charles 5. Johnson
Fisk University
Nashville
South
Cotton Belt
Alexander
Washington
Deputize Growers Promote Labor Peace in Arkansas
In Wynne Arkansas three alleged Southern Tenant Farmers Union members remain jailed as union officials claim a paralyzing strike threat raised cotton picker wages. H L Mitchell says about 4000 workers walked out while officers deny a major response. The union seeks 31 cents per pound with reports of raises from 60 to 75 cents at a plantation near Trumann. Outside labor James Robertson indicates 2000 external workers could be brought in if needed for Cross County fields.
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Mitchell
Trumann
James Robertson
Cross County
Talks on soft coal strike near end, Murray predicts
Washington report: Philip Murray of the United Mine Workers says a make or break is near as a two miner two producer committee resumes Appalachian wage talks. Disputes over a 1 1/2 cent raise and working conditions persist after a 17 hour session without meals and an eight hour restart.
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Washington
Philip Murray
United Mine Workers
Murray
Mnsners
Tennessee
Alabama
Virginia
Two Women Claim Babe in St Louis Habeas Case
In St Louis a habeas corpus case pits Mrs Nellie Tepton Muench against Miss Ann Ware over a five week old baby boy claimed by both women. Judge William Dee Becker ruled on the return and set a new hearing time as the dispute over parental identity continues.
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Louis
Nellie Tepton Muench
St. Louis Society
Philadelphia
William Dee Becker
St. Louis Court of Appeals
Muench
Paby
Lo ‘Anns Ware
Becker
Miss Ware
May
Missouri
Missouri Supreme Court
Mexico
Isaac D. Kelley
St. Louis
Auditor reports 50 persons in 32 months linked to 545 arrests
An auditor's report from Tennessee notes 50 Bradley County residents were arrested 545 times over 32 months in which 444 arrests were misconduct cases costing the county. Ten chronic offenders accounted for 34 percent of arrests, with many released to workhouses due to disabilities. The piece critiques lax punishments and repeated costs.
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Cleveland. Tenn
Fuaday
Bradley County
Chattanooga
Justices of the Peace
Republicans Open Early 1936 Campaign Tactics
The Republican National Committee begins planning an early aggressive bid against President Roosevelt in 1936. Candidacy remains unsettled though Herbert Hoover and William Borah are top names discussed unofficially. Hoover friends deny immediate nomination plans while committee leaders seek a standard bearer opposed to New Deal policies.
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Nathan Robertson
Freas
Washington
Roosevelt
National Executive Committee
Herbert Hoover
William E. Borah
Hoover
Fletcher
New York
New York Times
Republican National Committee
Legionnaires Close Annual Convention Amid Open Prizes
The American Legion delegates wrap up the seventeenth annual convention with debates over the soldiers' bonus and a national commander race. National Commander Belgrano adjourned amid votes on recognizing Soviet Russia, expanding armed forces, and a decade-long immigrant ban. Finalist candidates include Colmery, Murphy, Cliff, Whaley, and Melton as Whaley leads the legislation committee and Melton heads the southern division.
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Howard W. Flieger
Associated Press
American Legionnaire
Major League Baseball
Legion
Frank N- Belgrano, Jr
Committee On Legislation
Soviet Russia
United States
Belgrano
Eegies
Harry W. Colmery
Kansas
J. Ray Murphy
Town
Earl ¥. Cliff
Minnesota
Vilas H. Whaley
Wisconsin
Quimby Melton
Georgia
Whaley
Committee On
Melton
Medical aid barred as little girl fights acute appendicitis
In Perth Amboy New Jersey 15 year old Margaret Kerston suffers acute appendicitis and medical aid is blocked by her mother Anna Kerston behind a barricaded cottage door. Doctor McCormick reports the appendix has burst and an emergency operation is needed but the mother refuses entry and hospitals cannot compel treatment. Police and ambulance leave as the sick girl remains inside with two men and two dogs guarding the home.
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Perth Amboy
N. J
Margaret Kerston
Anna Kerston
Mars
Sheraton
Margaret
Wiliam H. McCormick
Dr. McCormick
Kersten
Charles Gutowski
Mrs. Verston
Sherman asserts treatment good in murder trial
In Worcester Massachusetts on September 26 Newell Paige Sherman the accused killer of his wife faced testimony about police treatment and the confession. State Trooper Albert Sheehan quoted Sherman saying the officers had treated him very nicely during a meeting at Grafton barracks.
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Worcester
Mass
Newell Paige Sherman
Albert Sheehan
Grafton Barracks
William W. Buckley
Sheehan
Sherman
Esther Magill
Magill
Jin
Miss Magill
Robert J. Mitchell
Mitchell
League warns Italy Ethiopia act of war before December 4
The League of Nations Council warned Italy and Ethiopia that starting hostilities before December 4 would be an act of war against all members. The notice, adopted unanimously with Italy absent, sets a three month window from September 4 for any aggression without violating the covenant.
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Joseph E. Sharkey
Associated Press
Geneva
League of Nations Council Today
Italy
Ethiopia
League
France
Jeague
Split Looms in Louisiana Politics Amid Old Regulars
In New Orleans a new split within Huey Long’s former political machine emerged as conservation commissioner Robert S. Maestri pressed to put New Orleans under long established control. The old regulars offered reforms in exchange for backing admin candidates in the 1936 primary, with focus on policing control and city patronage. The political scene grew crowded as Noe Bucks Allen, James A. Noe, Cleveland Dear, and Mason Spencer vie for influence.
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New Orleans
Huey FP
Long
Robert S. Maestri
Macestri
Richard W. Leche
O. K. Allen
Allen
James A. Noe
Cleveland Dear
Mason Spencer
Leche
Maestri
Federal court to rule on utility holding act validity
In Baltimore the first hearings begin on the constitutionality of the Wheeler Rayburn federal utility holding company act. Tru dee for American States Publ ic Service Company seeks to overturn registration requirements arguing it burdens reorganizing entities and interstate commerce. The case targets subsidiaries in Idaho Michigan California Oregon Montana Delaware and Indiana with stakes over one billion dollars.
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Baltimore
Federal Public Utility Holding Company Act
Wheeler-Rayburn Law
Federal District Court
Trudee
American States Publ Service Company
Inlindis
Idaho
Michigan
California
Oregon
Montana
Delaware
Indiana
Securities and Exchange Commission
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