Critics adopt FDR’s plans say Farley in Albany
James Farley accuses Republicans of embracing the New Deal farm program as Illinois and Nebraska primaries show gains for Knox over Borah in presidential preference. He also blasts the American Liberty League and asserts Roosevelt is headed for re-election amid ongoing primary results.
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Washington
New Deal High Command
Illinois
Nebraska
James A. Farley
Democratic National Committee
Albany
N. Y
Hoover
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Parley
Landon
American Liberty League
Roosevelt
Ilinois
Pennsylvania
Mssachusetts
Col
Frank Knox
Borah
Entombed Trio Believed Lost Near Moose River
Engineers set a five inch diamond drill to reach 140 feet into the ground to feed food and supplies to three Toronto men trapped by a cave in a Nova Scotia gold mine. Mining men have worked since Easter Sunday to open blocked passages and hoped to communicate with the trio. Minister Michael Dwyer said there was little chance of survival but said officials would do all to rescue them.
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Moose River
Toronto
D. E. Robertson
H. B. Magill
Charles Alfred Scadding
Michael Dwyer
Nova Scotia
Halifax
Congress Debates Ritter Gutment Charges and Highway Bill
Senate debate covers gutment charges against Florida judge Halsted L Ritter while committees discuss a 440 million highway appropriation and tax legislation. A lobby panel heard of a Farmers Independence Council solicitor and a parade of Roosevelt images. The interstate commerce panel examined railway worker protections amid consolidation. Senate defeats a related bill 153 to 137.
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Sena
Halsted L. Ritter
Florida
Kurt Grunwald
Farmers Independence Council
Ritter
F. D. Roosevelt
Interstate Commerce Committee
Mother of five hanged in Nottingham crime case
Mrs Dorothy Waddingham 34 mother of five was executed at Winson Green prison for poisoning a 55 year old nursing home patient. Home secretary denied clemency after jury recommended mercy. King Edward could have granted reprieve. The case sparked protests across Britain as one of nine executions this century.
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Birmingham
Eng
Dorothy Waddingham
Winson Green
Nottingham
King Edward
John Simon
Britain
Louisa Baguley
Waddingham
Home Office
Great Britain
Deny rehearing in postal fraud case in ohio project
United States circuit court of appeals denied a rehearing for three men convicted in Lexington Kentucky of conspiring to defraud the government in a Portsmouth Ohio post office building contract. Pharoah W. Johnson P W Johnson Construction Co. of Ashland Kentucky William Dow Johnson of Garrision City Kentucky Orville E. Setters of Vanceburg Kentucky each received two years in prison and a $1000 fine.
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Cincinnati
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Lexington
Portsmouth
Ohio
Pharoah W. Johnson
P. W. Johnson Construction Co
Oashland
William Dow Johnson
Garrison, C
Orville E. Setters
Vanceburg
Washington
Seek New Trial Of Heart Balm Suit In Miami
Miami April 16 AP Attorneys for Mrs Dorothy Clark prepared petitions for a new trial after a jury awarded Mrs Gladys Orr 25000 in her 1000000 alienation of affections suit against Mrs Clark. Mrs Orr claimed Mrs Clark stole Morrison T Orr heir to a felt fortune. Hearings set Monday on another 1000000 suit by Mrs Orr jointly against Mrs Clark and Orrs mother Eliza Orr.
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Miami
Fla
Dorothy Clark
Gladys Orr
Clark
Orr
Eliza Orr
Oberly Divorce Granted Over Wife's Strip Poker Skill
Morris J. Oberly obtained a divorce from Ella Oberly in Detroit after he testified she played strip poker poorly, requiring him to buy her new clothes. Judge Henry G. Nicol oversaw the case.
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Detroit
Morris J. Oberly
Henry G. Nicol
Ella
Truck Kills 6-Year-Old Girl in Local Accident
Paty Ruth Gears, six, daughter of Mr and Mrs Am brose Gears of Longtreth, died after a coal truck struck her as she returned from school at about 11 30 am. Driver William Baughman, 22, of Columbus Ohio, is held for questioning after saying he could not stop in time. Witnesses say the child, with classmates, had reached the foot of the hill by the schoolhouse.
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Paty Ruth Gears
Ambrose Gears
Longtreth
William Baughman
Mound St
Columbus
Ohio
Joe Farbearn
Baughman
Baughmann
Miner Dies by Own Action Tied to Easter Gift Bombs
Federal and state authorities view the death by self blast of Anthony Denevige at Buttonwood Colliery as a possible break in the Easter gift bomb case. Investigators questioned six others, including a woman, after several bombs killed and injured in the Wyoming Valley.
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Wilkes-Barre
Anthony Denevige
Buttonwood
Glen Alden Coal Co
Wyoming Valley
Hanover Township
Maloney, Sr
United Anthracite Miners
United Mine Workers
Thomas, Jr
Michael Gallagher
Watson hints WPA extension
Dr. Carl Watson state WPA administrator ordered district directors to prepare to extend WPA operations for a year beyond July 1 if Congress approves Roosevelt's proposed 1.5 billion dollar aid and continuing legislation. Current law expires June 30 and Hopkins issued the preparedness directive as lawmakers decide final form.
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Columbus
Carl Watson
WPA
Congress
Roosevelt
Watson
Davey Vetoes Flood Relief Legislation in Ohio
Gov. Martin L. Davey vetoed three more appropriation bills totaling 744000, adding to prior disapprovals of flood relief. The actions blocked 125000 for a new Xenia Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans home school, 100000 for a state fairground horse barn, 5000 for Wooster station work, and 14000 for a Lake Erie soil erosion study rotary fund, citing lack of specific allocations and false hopes for flood victims.
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Ohio Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans Home
Xenia
Wooster Agriculture Experiment Station
Lake Erie
Davey
New Quints Not Like Children Says Physicians
In Romania a gypsy mother gave birth to quintuplets described as not like children and likely unsustainable due to malformations and organ deficiencies. Gov Piku and Dr Jankuliska reported one birth separated, others joined in pairs, as gendarmes moved mother Maria Ljnguraru and husband Alex to Oradea for care.
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Bucharest
Romania
Maria Ljnguraru
Hados
Mihor
Transylvania
Oradea
Georg Jankuliska
Johan Piku
Bankisla
Jankuliska
Alex
Pair Await Sentences In Murder Case At Marion Ohio
Othal Watkins and Grover Braden were convicted of first degree murder and awaited life sentences at Ohio Penitentiary for the Dec 12 1981 fatal shooting of James Bennett a grade crossing watchman. Common Pleas Judge Hector Young overruled motions for new trials.
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Marion, O
Othal Watkins
Grover Braden
Ohio Penitentiary
James Bennett
Common Pleas
Hector & Young
Watkins
Braden
Hiram student ends life after store intrusion
Batavia Ohio April 16 AP Robert Moore 19 a Hiram College sophomore shot himself after police entered a Ravenna hardware store through a rear window He died five hours later in Ravenna hospital The incident began when Fateman Charles Jones found an open window and alerted officers who discovered a shadowy head in a storage area before the fatal shot.
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Batavia, O
Robert Moore
Hiram College
Fred Hendricks
Ravenna
Yoder
Jones
Fingerprint Search in Bathtub Death Case
Fingerprint experts examined police files for prints found on a bedstead in the apartment of Mrs. Nancy Evans Titterton who was strangled last Friday. Prints covered all fingers of one hand but it is unclear if they belong to the victim or her killer. Two prints were smudged and three were faint, with enlargements awaited for identification.
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New York
Nancy Evans Titterton
Roosevelt lays cornerstone as new Interior building rises
President Roosevelt lays the $12,000,000 Interior Department building cornerstone in Washington and vows renewed federal action to conserve the nation’s natural resources. Secretary Ickes hails conservation chief and urges a lasting national policy, crediting WPA funding and rapid progress in resource preservation under the current administration.
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Washington
Interior Department
Roosevelt
Ickes
Congress
United States
Buffalo extinction rumors debunked as bison found
Bart Saxbe questioned reports of buffalo extinction and discovered two bison heifers among a Kansas City carload of cattle he bought in Urbana Ohio.
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Urbana
Bart Saxbe
Kansas City
Mussolini Pushes Direct Talks With Ethiopia at Geneva
Geneva heard that Italy seeks direct negotiations with Ethiopia for an armistice and peace, possibly at Lausanne, with Haile Selassie’s Senate excluded. Italian troops advance toward Addis Ababa as Fascists claim rapid conquest and resist League sanctions led by Britain.
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Associated Press
Geneva
Italy
Ethiopia
League of Nations
League
Lausanne
Mussolini
Haile
Addis Ababa
Haile Selassie
Dessye
Rome
Great Britain
Grand jurors clear Wendel in Lindbergh case
Mercer county grand jury returned a no bill exonerating Paul H. Wendel in the Lindbergh kidnapping, though a murder warrant from Mrs. Anna Hauptmann still pending. Despite the ruling, Wendel remained jailed as legal actions continued and the case awaited presentation to Justice T.
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Tarenton
N. J
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Paul H. Wendel
Mercer County
Grand Jury
Wendel
Anna Hauptmann
Hunterdon County
Bruno Hauptmann
Supreme Court
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Ways and Means
Leopold
Brussels
Liege
Belgium
Nicholas Elsen
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Lisen
Astrid
Essen
Columbus, O
Martin L. Davey
State Emergency Board
Victors
Gov
Henry Horner
C. Wayland Brooks
Otis F. Glenn
J. Hamilton Lewis
Herman N. Bundesen
C. Wayland, Brooks
Cook . County
Len Small
W. E.' Hull
Central Press
Hiram
Self
Kenneth I. Brown
Moore
W. G. Moore
Lisbon, O
Leo Damicone
Karl Balser
Jack Yoder
PWA
America
France
Eden
Joseph E. Sharkey
Weer
Anthony Bache
League of Nations Conciliation Committee
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