Real Issue In Liggett Murder Trial Is Alleged Politics And Crime Link
Kid Cann, ex bootlegger known as Isadore Blumenfeld, stands charged with Liggett murder while the case centers on an alleged crime politics alliance. Witnesses place Cann near the scene. Cann’s alibi and defense claim he was in a barber chair. Liggett’s paper exposed vice and graft, drawing enemies, with Olson as a frequent target and ongoing debates about crime and government ties in Minneapolis.
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Liggett
NEA
Minneapolis
Kid Cann
Plugugly
Walter W. Liggett
Cann
Twin Cities
Maine
Tigher
Wesley Andersoh
George P. Wolfe
Hennepin County
Touhy
Bremer
Isadore Blumenfeld
Storm Center
Walter W. Wiggers
Magazie
Plain Talk
Washington
Connection
Minnesota
League
Farmer-Labor Party
Floyd Olson
Midwest American
Olson
Ed. J. Goff
Harry H. Peterson
Law Enforcement League
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Edgar Hoover
Circle of New York Dignitaries and Stars on Gala Nights
In New York on a Saturday night a columnist notes celebrities slipping through kitchens into the Rainbow Room, Whiteman zipping to Port Washington for ski breaks, and Beery's genial on-screen menace. Keenan Wynn, Adele Astaire, and Don Baker mingle with press crews as Broadway buzz and Toscanini’s temper flare aboard a ship returning to port.
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New York
Jack Rockefeller
Paul Whiteman
Port Washington
Wallace Beery
Jtown
Keenan Wynn
Firechief
Don Baker
Paramount
Manhattan
Snowy gift from orphans to hospital patients
Children at St Anthony's Orphanage built three foot high snow fetters against a wall and created a gesture reading to the sick, turning newly fallen snow into a hopeful message for the hospital across the street.
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Toledo
St. Anthony’s
Electric fly trap perfected in South Africa
Johannesburg reports a new Department of Agriculture invention using electrified bars as a window screen to kill insects on contact. The flat panel traps flies entering through the window, promising a practical pest control method.
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Johannesburgs
South Africa
Department of Agriculture
Aged Russian Honored Moscow Visit
One of the oldest men in the Soviet Union Gul Achamed a Caucasian mountaineer of 130 years has been brought to Moscow to inspect the Kremlin as a reward for his staunch Bolshevism.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Gul- Achamed
Kremlin
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