Barber Admits Slaying Friend in Self Defense
John P. Barber 22 testified he shot Maurice Osborne 24 with a shotgun in the Osborne kitchen last July 1 in self defense. The defense argued the act followed a dispute over Mrs Osborne, while the state called the killing premeditated and malice driven.
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United Preas
Batesville
Ark
John P. Barber
Maurice Osborne
Osborne
Norma
Barber
Young Barber
Detroit
Alabama Supreme Court Splits State Democratic Party
The Alabama Supreme Court upheld the state Democratic executive committee stance barring Hoover 1928 supporters from the 1930 primary. The ruling divides Alabama Democrats into regular and bolter factions led by Senator Heflin, with Hugh A. Locke also barred from running. Justice Anderson wrote the opinion with four justices concurring.
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United Press
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama State Supreme Court Today
Democratic Executive Committee
Herbert Hoover
Thomas J. Heflin
Alabama
U. S
J. Heflin
Hugh A. Locke
Birmingham
Executive Committee
Anderson
Gardner
Foster
Brown
Thomas
Sayre
Bouldin
Fergusons Likely Repeat Strategy For Governor Bid
James E. Ferguson and his wife Ma Ferguson announce their return to Texas politics as they seek the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. He plans to ask the Supreme Court to compel ballot placement. if denied, Ma Ferguson may run in his stead, following a history of joint political maneuvers.
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Austin
Texas
James E. Ferguson
Fergusons
Ferguson
Supreme Court
State Committee
Fire at Cadiz sawmill leaves dead and homeless
By Associated Press Manila April 17 twenty persons were known dead and 5,000 homeless as the Cadiz Occidental Negroes sawmill fire, burning for two days, was brought under control late tonight.
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Manila
Cadiz
Occidental
Secret Investigator’s Poisoned Death Stuns Los Angeles
Los Angeles reports say Robert Bursian, an undercover district attorney investigator linked to the Julian Petroleum probe, may have been poisoned or killed in a car wreck. A poison-containing glass was found among the wreckage and an autopsy detected stomach poison. DA Baron Fitts ordered a full probe amid ongoing bribery and over-issuance scandals touching seven prominent figures.
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Los Angeles
Robert Bursian
Julian Petroleum Corporation
Blayney Matthews
Bursian
Baron Fitts
Julian
Fitts
Julian Corporation
Jacob Friedlander
State Corporation
8. C. Lewis
Little Woman Takes Census in Bootleg Isles
Mrs. Clara Ross, census enumerator, visited Big Island Arkansas City on April 17 and returned with a list of residents. She found islanders in need of more Bibles and schools and fewer revenue agents and noted two newcomers who feared she was a revenuer. Prohibition agents recently scoped the premises.
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Associated Press
Arkansas City
Ark
Big Island
Clara Ross
Tennessee
Mississippi River
Viennessee
Negro to Serve Six to Nine Years in Pen for Arson
Isaac Johnston 35, labeled a negro, received six to nine years in the state penitentiary after pleading guilty to setting fire to a vacant Eleventh Street house early Saturday. He denied involvement in three other incendiary fires over three nights and authorities link him to a long harassment of Monroe fire crews. He had been jailed previously for six months in 1929 for stabbing another man.
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State Penitentiary
Isaac Johnston
Eleventh Street
Johnston
Monroe
Negro church auditor slain after audit shocks Indiana
Edward D. Pierson, an auditor for the National Baptist Convention and a Chicago Negro, was found dead in the Muscatatuck River near Scottsburg Indiana. He had six bullet wounds and his hands and feet bound with weighted neck bags. Investigators say enemies within the church caused the death after irregularities were found in convention books. local officials and Chicago police assist in the inquiry.
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Scottsburg
Ind
Edward D. Pierson
Chicago
National Baptist Convention
Pierson
Muscatatuck River
Nashville
Tenn
Actress Convicted in Extortion Case In New York
New York April 17 Olga Eide Edwards was found guilty by a jury on a charge of attempted extortion brought by Nathan L. Amster a wealthy traction man The case stems from demands after a yearlong association He admitted paying the woman 170000 including a trust fund she claimed her son might be his child and denied extortion The all married jurors deliberated about 11 hours before the verdict
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New York
Olga Eide Edwards
Nathan L. Amster
Amster
Hambgne's Meditations by J P Alley
Poem fragment critiques how people misjudge when to leave and intruders arrive in the first place with dialectal humor and a pointed social observation.
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Hambgne
Meditations
J. P. Alley
Cock-Eyed Bandit Used Papers to Boost Robbery Loot
In New Orleans on April 17 a captured bandit testified he increased profits by selling papers about their hold ups. His confederate James O'Connor, who helped with two drugstore holdups, said he got just eight dollars and spent part of it on morning papers to shout about the “cock eyed bandit.”
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New Orleans
James O'Connor
Roland Batman
O'Connor
Monster Blaze Ravages Iloilo Province Killing and Halting
A vast fire along the river between Sagay and Central leaves Iloilo, Philippines, with at least 200 dead. The Mahogany forest near Fabrica is burned, the town and mill razed, 13,000 homeless and 5,000 jobless. M. E. Gray of Insular Lumber reportedly took his own life but was stopped by friends.
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Iloilo
P. I
Sagay
Central Leaves
Philippines
Fabrica
M. E. Gray
Insular Lumber Company
Centrallopes
Prohi Agent Johnson Faces Drunkenness Charge
Police report federal prohibition agent George Johnson drank too much evidence and caused a zigzag driving pattern. He was hospitalized for acute alcoholism and warned of drunkenness and resisting arrest charges after a patrolman stopped his car. Johnson allegedly waved a gun during the incident.
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ST. Louis
George Johnson
Johnson
Orleanian Loses Sleep Fighting Bees
New Orleans April 17 Andrew Kenner lost a night's sleep as a swarm of bees invaded his home sweeping through the dwelling and settling on his bed. Hundreds were killed with brooms and poison while a bee expert was sought to tackle the remaining swarm clinging to the bed. Family members suffered stings in the melee.
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New Orleans
Andrew Kenner
Lightning Bolt Sets Planing Mill Ablaze
A lightning strike hit the Pontchartrain Lumber planing mill at Shrewsbury in New Orleans causing a fire that consumed about half the lumber yard. Damage estimated at 125000 dollars. Volunteer fireman Joseph Quinn was lightly injured when lumber toppled on him.
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New Orleans
Pontchartrain Lumber Company
Shrewsbury
Joseph Quinn
Lightning Kills Woman and Mule on Texas Plantation
In Alexandria April 17 a bolt struck the cotton house on the Frank C. Murphy plantation near Hot Wells, killing Mrs Sadie Miller 39 and a young daughter injured. Her husband and two other children were unhurt. A mule tied outside the hut was killed as storm violence struck yesterday.
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Associated Press
Alexandria
Sadie Miller
Frank C. Murphy
Hot Wells
Here
Colt Tornado Levels Church and Buildings in Arkansas Town
A small twister struck Colt Arkansas 10 miles north of Forest City destroying the Methodist church Odd Fellow hall a vacant store several barns and seed houses and uprooting trees. Heavy hail and rain followed with 70 mph winds flooding streets entering homes and ruining fruit and gardens. No injuries reported and Colt appears to be the only hit town.
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Forest City
Ark
Colt
Here
Methodist
Odd Fellow Hall
Woman Drowns While Fishing in Indian Bayou
Mrs William Foreman aged 45 of Indian Bayou Vermilion Parish drowned yesterday in the Indian Bayou branch of Hunters canal while fishing. A passerby found her body eight feet beneath the surface and medical aid arrived too late. She was formerly Alice Boulet and is survived by her husband, mother, three sisters and three brothers.
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Lafayette
William Foreman
Indian Bayou
Vermillion Parish
Hunters Canal
Belizaire Boulet
Nevel Hoffpauir
Bascomb Hoffpauir
Freddie Spell
Crowley
Louis and
Nolan Boulet
Ulysses Boulet
Bank hold up attempt ends with suspect wounded in Gaffney
In Gaffney South Carolina on April 17 Earl Sarratt 30 entered the Merchants and Planters National Bank with a pistol and ordered clerks to raise their hands. Clerks fired and Sarratt was wounded in the right hand and disarmed.
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Gaffney
D. C
Merchants and Planters National Bank
Earl Sarratt
Sarrat
Long too busy to answer Cyr charges in New Orleans
Governor Huey P. Long ignored charges by Lieutenant Governor Paul Cyr calling him a maniac and liar. The Morning Tribune quotes Long replying with "No" when asked to respond, after Cyr called him a debaucher of the electorate and accused him of dastardly deeds against the state.
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New Orleans
Huey P. Long
Paul N. Cyr
Morning Tribune
the Tribune
Dr. Cyr
Long
Cyr
Huey Long
Allen injunction denied in Shreveport clash over police chief
In Shreveport on April 17 Judge F E Mills denied Police Chief S J Allen’s petition for a preliminary injunction to block the city council from removing him. The temporary restraining order was dismissed, leaving the council free to act. CC R Kent serves as acting chief while Mayor Thomas suspended Allen. Public Safety Commissioner Dawkins maintains Allen remains chief. The council indicated no arbitrary removal and planned a hearing before the civil service commission on April 23.
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Associated Press
Shreveport
S. J. Allen
F E. P. Mills
Caddo District Court
Allen
CC. R. Kent
Public Safety
T. C. Dawkins
Thomas
Civil Service Commission
Motorist Acquitted of Manslaughter in N C
Hugh Cowan was found not guilty by a New Orleans jury of manslaughter in the death of Mrs Marian Thanchina from an automobile crash. Cowan testified he was otherwise engaged when the fatal collision occurred, which also injured another woman.
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New Orleans
Hugh Cowan
Marian Thanchina
Cowan
Capone and Moran factions unite under one Chicago gang
Chicago reports a unified gang leadership formed by Al Capone and George Bugs Moran to end gang warfare and coordinate major criminal enterprises. Secret conferences at Capone HQ on Twenty second Street and Michigan Avenue cemented the peace, with celebrations among prominent members.
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Chicago
Herald and Examiner
Capone
Twenty-second Street
Michigan Avenue
Moran
Baseball results postponed games across leagues
Lake Charles at Baton Rouge and Philadelphia at Brooklyn were postponed due to rain and wet grounds. National League games Boston at New York and Philadelphia at Brooklyn were postponed by rain, while Washington at Boston in the American League postponed because of cold weather.
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Lake Charles
Baton Rouge
National League
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
American League
Washington
Woman Held for Murder in Blair Poison Case
Paris Ark April 17 Mrs Lena Spence 58 held in jail on murder charge after authorities said poison was found in the viscera of J H Blair aged bachelor who willed his property to her months before his death on March 8.
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Paris
Ark
Lena Spence
J. H. Blair
Blair
Would Give Police Jurors Good Time Excuse
D. D. Hogan pleaded guilty to possessing intoxicating liquor after a raid on his hotel room in Charleston. He received 60 days in jail and a 3500 fine with six months more for nonpayment. Hogan said he came to Charles to show liquor to police jurors for a convention. Judge Porter condemned the act as inexusable and warned officers not to wink at liquor during gatherings. Eighty gallons of whisky were seized from a car nearby.
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Charleston Hotel
D. D. Hogan
Bastrop
Hogan
Thomas F. Porter
Police Jury Association
Charles
Porter
Lake Charles
Rapides Claims Title in Liquor Seizure Lead
Alexandria reports a 164 gallons seizure in 24 hours, with Lake Charles at HS gallons in a week. Motorcycle Officers McKinley and Norton note 280 gallons seized in 1 day and 2,000 gallons in six months, mostly from South Louisiana stills.
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Alexandria
Lake Charles
McKinley
Norton
South Louisiana
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