Pine Bluff Kidnaping Pair Identified in Arkansas
Kenneth Conn, an escaped Kansas convict, was identified by Austin Adams and Beatrice Garner of Pine Bluff as one of the two men who abducted them and released them at a railroad station. The other kidnapper, described as 24, 5 feet 6 or 7, 130 140 pounds, remains unidentified. The bandits claimed to be fugitives from Lansing penitentiary and praised the escape, while spending money taken from Adams during the voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Payne
Bastrop
Dermott
Monticello
Pine Bluff
Paynes
Whey
Monroe
Payne
Bopita
Lansing
Kan
Penitentiary
Texarkana
Little Rock
Ark
Greenville
Miss
St. Louis
Ponds
Milton Coverdale
Fine Bluff
the World
Ed Davis
Wilbur Underhill
Frank Sawyer
Jim Clark
Alvis Payton
Harvey Bailey
Kenneth Conn
Bob Brady
Clark
Brady
Conn
Underhill
Davis
Iife
Associated Press
Malvern
Kansas
Austin Adams
Beatrice Garner
Adams
Miss Garner
G. H. Adams
Star City
Warren
Camden
Gurdon
Billie Wood
Kansas State Penitentiary
M. J. Woods
Louise
Clovis Wears
Kansas City
Louisiana fills forestry quota in state
Louisiana announces it has met its 4250 person forestry corps quota four days before deadline. About 400 men occupy Kisatchie and Pollock camps with 16 more sites approved. Remaining trainees are at conditioning centers in Florida Georgia and training will add 127500 dollars monthly payroll for the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
C. A. Stair
State Emergency Relief Administration
Louisiana
Civilian Conservation Forestry Corps
Stair
Natchitoches
State Relief Administration
Margaret Woodson
Relief
Forestry Corps
W. B. Scanlon
Mississippi
Kisatchie
Pollock
Kisatchie National Forest
Ft. Barrancas
Fla
Camp Beauregard
Camp Benning
Sloan raises GM wages while Curtis fights illness
General Motors chief Alfred P. Sloan Jr authorizes a five percent wage rise affecting about 100,000 GM employees as a partial restoration of prior cuts. Cyrus H. Curtis, 83, suffers serious illness after a past heart attack, described as having led a long, honorable life. In Sing Sing, a prisoner requests a triple steak as his final meal. Adolf Hitler pushes homebound roles for women and opposes machinery when hand work suffices, praising German manpower and exports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cadillac Company
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr
General Motors
Sloan
Cyrus H. K. Curtis
Curtis
Obituary: Charles W. Brosius Dies in New Orleans
Charles W. Brosius longtime traffic and freight agent for the Texas and Pacific railway at New Orleans was found dead in his rooming house there. Death followed retirement in his usual health with heart disease listed as the cause after a coroner's investigation. He leaves a mother Mrs J R Brosius of 311 South Second Street and two brothers Greer H Brosius of Monroe Clyde Brosius of Little Rock Ark and a sister Mrs W F White of Dallas. Interment will be in Dallas this afternoon.
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Charles W. Brosius
Texas and Pacific Railway
New Orleans
J. R. Brosius
South Second Street
Little Rock, Ark
W. F. White
Dallas
Texas
Escapes From Raiford Prison Flight Involving Jewels
In Raiford Florida on June 3 Harry Sitamore a society jewel thief who stole 250000 in gems from Miami winter colony residents escaped from the state prison farm with two trustee companions. They rode a motor powered dragger past Sitamore who joined the vehicle and fled. Sitamore sentenced April 1 claimed valuables worth 500000 but insurers valued 250000. Grace Moore the singer was among his victims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raiford
Fla
Harry Sitamore
Miami
Sitamore
Grace Moore
Monroe Man Arrested As Suspect In Robbery
Lexington Mississippi June 3. Andrew Morehead 24 of Monroe Louisiana was arrested after a flat tire halted a getaway car believed stolen and containing nearly all the 3845 taken from Merchants and Planters Bank of Tchula. Morehead, twice jailed, was captured 14 miles west of Tchula after a posse fired at the pursued vehicle. Joe Lester already in custody. a third participant remained at large.
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Lexington
Miss
Andrew Morehead
Monroe
Merchants and Planters Bank of
Morehead
Tchula
Ouachita Parish
West Monroe
Illinois Central
Brownlee Trailer Company
Natchitoches
Campu
Joe Lester
Mattern Heads Out Over Ocean
The Tempelhof airdrome in Berlin witnesses Mattern depart amid fog and rain along the Irish coast. The red white and blue bullet-shaped plane, with no wireless, aims east from Newfoundland, weather permitting, toward Ireland with Clare as a likely coast entry point. Mattern vows to return in a week as crowds at Floyd Bennett Field watch the 1933 transoceanic leg begin.
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Mattern
Newfoundland
Ireland
Clare
East Atlantic Coast
Seaboard
San Angelo
Floyd Bennett Field
Bennett Griffin
Harbor Grace
Griffin
Berlin
Century of Progress
Carl Cromwell
Senators study Morgan influence in power control plans
Senate investigators review Morgan holdings in United Corporation as Pecora introduces new evidence. A table from Morgan files shows four big utility companies controlled by Morgan receive 16.5 percent of total annual gross earnings from all power and gas firms nationwide. The record highlights Morgan's vast reach in a market serving over 50 million people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Corporation
Com’w'lth
Southern
Public Service of N. J
United Gas Imp’m'nt Co
Niagara Hudson Pw. Co
Morgan Power
Pecora
Morgan
Morgan Files
Instructions Awaited For Work In Forests
Local service officer H B McClenden reports that definite directives are expected from the president early this week regarding the state's reforestation program. The letter from the agency outlines forthcoming steps and priorities for forest restoration efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. B. McClenden
American Legion Post
Secretary of State service commissioner call for ex servicemen
In New Orleans the secretary of state service commissioner urges ex service men interested in enlisting for this work to submit their applications at once so that upon receipt of instructions from Washington they may be given first consideration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of State
New Orleans
Washington
Woman Dies Suddenly at 43 in North Twelfth Street
Mamie Calvin, a 43 year old Black woman of 509 North Twelfth Street, died suddenly at 5 am Saturday. Dr M B Pearce, assistant coroner, reported heart failure as the cause after investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mamie Calvin
North Twelfth Street
M. B. Pearce
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Duncan Phyfe
Dixie Bedding & Furniture Co
Ninth and
Washington Streets
Orphans Home
Gold Diggers Home
Anti T. B
Delerium T
Emergency Relief Administration
Arthur Brisbane
King Features Synd
Sing Sing
William H. Jackson
Niagara Falls
MR. Hitler
Cc. B. Smith Clarks
C. B. Smith
Elmer Smith
Ocean
Tempelhof Airdrome
Jergen
Cardai
Ge Grove
KOTEX
Hind
Collens Pharmacy, Inc
DeSiard Street
North Third Street
Collens-Thompers Co., Inc
Virginia Hotel
Collens-Thompson Co., Inc
Frances Hotel
Lucus
Wears Supply Co., Ltd
North Fourth St
Monroe, la
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Buicks
Agate
Peery State
Polk's
National New Car Sales Service
G.M. A.C
Twin City Motor Co., Inc
South
Grand St
Chicago
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