Heirens Tells Parents of Crimes in Jail Conference
In Chicago July 27 1945 William Heirens 17 confessed to his parents at a Cook County jail chapel detailing the Dec 10 Brown murder and Jan 7 Degnan slayings and a June 5 1945 death. Attorneys deny the reports while plan near term arraignments and possible plea strategies to avoid the electric chair. The defense seeks a continuance to Aug 14 amid plans to obtain a written confession and possible guilty plea contingent on death-penalty avoidance.
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Chicago
William Heirens
Suzanne Degnan
Frances Brown
Heirens
Harold G. Ward
Cook County
the Tribune
The
Sun
Degnan
Josephine Ross
Roland Towle
Towle
the Sun
William J. Tuohy
Brown
University of Chicago
Axtell Opens Race For Missouri Post
Enrz Axtell wins Truman support in the Missouri fifth district race as he calls for a balanced stance between Slaughter and Walsh. He backs a modified OPA and the profit system while urging religious tolerance and racial harmony. Slaughter counters at a Kansas City rally, claiming the President has made a test case and would be challenged by voters.
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Kansas City
Enrz A. Axtell
Truman
Roger C. Slaughter
Fifth Congressional District
Axtell
Slaughter
Jerome Walsh
Nell Donnelly Reed
Missouri
James A. Reed
Harry Truman
Washington
Claim of New Glider Record Investigated
Paul Tuntland of Los Angeles reports a possible world altitude record for two passenger gliders at Pinecastle Army Airfield near Orlando. He says he reached 18 700 feet above release, 22 700 feet above sea level, awaiting official action to confirm. The existing record is 14 960 feet set August 12 1940 by Maj. Lewin Barringer.
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Orlando
Fla
Paul Tuntland
Los Angeles
Calif
Tuntland
U. S. Weather Bureau
Pinecastle Army Airfield
Maj
Lewin Barringer
Half Million Saved By War Purchases Vain July 27
State control board chairman Weaver Baker says more than $500,000 has been saved through purchases of surplus war materials. In total 648 orders have been placed, mainly for items in short supply due to wartime scarcities.
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Control Board
Weaver Baker
Weekend visit and voting by Judge Pitts in Lubbock
Judge and Mrs. E L Pitts spend the weekend in Lubbock to vote in the Saturday election. Pitts, former county and district judge, is chief justice of the Seventh Court of Civil Appeals in Amarillo, with Lubbock listed as his legal residence. Also, Texas Tech reports 1297 veterans among 1994 second term summer school students, a record for all second terms despite a smaller enrollment than the first term.
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E. L. Pitts
Lubbock
Pitts
Seventh Court of Civil Appeals
Amarillo
Texas Technological College
Wheeler May Run On Independent Ticket
Helena Montana July 27 close friends of Sen Burton K Wheeler D Mont who lost renomination July 16 say he could win a fifth term as an independent in November if he runs. Wheeler said he was urged to run but did not commit. A Wheeler supporter noted that a large portion of Montana voters did not participate in the primary where Leif Erickson defeated Wheeler by more than 6000 votes. Erickson dismissed Wheeler as an independent challenger.
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Helena
Mont
Burton K
Wheeler D
Wheeler
Washington
Montanna
Local family resumes from San Angelo fishing trip
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Draper and son Billy of 3103 Ave L Newell Baldwin son of Mr and Mrs A N Baldwin of 2210 Twenty third and Rallo Henry son of Mr and Mrs B J Henry of 2123 Twenty third returned from a fishing trip to San Angelo on the Concho River. Their catch was light.
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Roy Draper
Billy
Ave. L
Newell Baldwin
A. N. Baldwin
Twenty Third
Rallo Henry
B. J. Henry
San Angelo
Concho River
Child breaks leg after watermelon juice slip in Huntington
Eighteen month old William Terrence Murphy slipped on juice from a watermelon he was eating and broke his left leg in Huntington West Virginia. The accident occurred as the child learned to walk and was treated locally. The incident was reported July 27. He is expected to recover.
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Huntington
W. Va
William Terrence Murphy
Wheeler Entry Hinted Could Shift Votes to Zales N. Ecton
Republicans speculated that if Wheeler entered the race, a winning vote total might be diverted to Republican nominee Zales N. Ecton. The suggestion highlights intra party maneuvering ahead of the election.
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Licans
Wheeler
Zales N. Ecton
Li Li-San: China’s Trotsky in Modern Communist Move
Li Li-San, a fiftyish Chinese Communist figure who once opposed the party, has returned from Russia and is active again in Manchuria. He studied in France and helped found the Chinese Community Party with Mao Tse-Tung, raising questions about his ties to the Kremlin as he appears to gain influence with Lin Piao in Harbin.
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James D. White
Associated Press
San Francisco
Leon Trotsky
Li Li-San
Trotsky
Manchuria
John Roderrick
Harbin
Lin Piao
Russia
Roderick
France
Chinese Community Party
Mao Tse-Tung
Stalin
China
Kremlin
Humbert to Step Down as Genetics Head at A&M
Dr. E. P. Humbert longtime head of the Texas A and M college genetics department since 1921 will retire from the head position on September 1. He will continue as a professor while remaining on modified service. Dean C N Sheppardson announced.
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College Station
E. P. Humbert
Texas A. and M. College
C. N. Shepardson
School of Agriculture
Dempsey visits bombed King David hotel in Palestine
London commander Lt Gen Sir Miles Dempsey toured the bomb ruined King David hotel in Jerusalem amid security concerns after the terrorist raid. He met with Palestine high commissioner Sir Alan Cunningham and declined a press conference. Police held 376 people during the investigation.
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Carter L. Davidson
Associated Press
Jerusalem
Miles C. Dempsey
Middle East
King David
Palestine
Dempsey
Cairo
Alan Cunningham
Roundup Details in Jerusalem Haifa and Tel Aviv
A roundup largely targeting Jews in Jerusalem Haifa and Tel Aviv was completed yesterday. The recovery of two more British officials from the ruins raised the death toll to 78 and the missing count fell to 27, providing a clearer casualty picture.
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Jerusalem
Haifa
Tel Aviv
Kansas City Market Faces Price Losses
Kansas City market activity was nearly at a standstill as Thomas Sheahan predicts wholesalers will lose at least 50000 on orders of fresh fruit and vegetables bought after the June 30 expiration of OPA. He cites lack of official guidance on the new price control law and confusion at the regional OPA office.
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Kansas City
U.P
Thomas Sheahan
OPA
Sheahan
Truthful defendants in court say game stories reveal loopholes
Common Pleas Judge Charles R. Petree notes that defendants in gambling cases appear unusually frank off the record before sentencing. He says their honesty often rests on lawyers finding loopholes in arresting officers reports.
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Columbus
O. U.P
Common Pleas
Charles R. Petree
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