Officer on trial for slaying wife in Kansas City
Major Charles A. Shepard, 58, an army tuberculosis specialist, goes on trial in federal court on a murder charge in the death of his wife from bichloride of mercury at Fort Riley. The government alleges motive to marry a younger southern woman. Shepard claims innocence and predicts acquittal after testimony from more than 75 witnesses. defense teams hint at her alcoholism.
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Kansas City
Kan
Charles A. Shepard
Major Shepard
Fort Riley
Senate in Congress Today Resumes Park er-Couzens Motorbus Debate
Senate resumes Parker Couzens motorbus bill and considers related measures. The body passes several non contested items, reviews the administration budget message, and begins scrutiny of drought relief and treasury post office supply legislation.
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Parker-Couzens
Senator Davis
Pennsylvania
Treasury Post Office
Agriculture Bill Committee
Immigration Committee
Treasury-post Office
Army officers and toxicologists to testify in Shepard case
The government plans to rely on three witness groups: officers who attended Mrs. Shepard during illness, toxicologists who conducted a secret post mortem in Omaha, and witnesses detailing Major Shepard's infatuation with Grace Brandon of San Antonio. Miss Brandon will testify for the prosecution. Shepard admitted liking Miss Brandon whom he met at Brooks Field to study flight surgery. A French air force finder device resembling a metal sunflower is used to locate planes in flight and record speed altitude and distance automatically.
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Army
Mexican Presidents Sons Hailed as Good Fellows
At St Benedicts college in Atchison Kansas Fernando and Guillermo Ortiz Rubio sons of the Mexican president are praised by students after five months of study. The brothers 19 and 17 live with cousin Salvadore Reyes Cortez and pursue algebra chemistry French and religion with plans for civil engineering and agriculture. Their father a civil engineer owns land in Mexico and has promised them cars if they stay good students.
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St. Benedict's College
Fernando
Guillermo Ortiz Rubio
Mexico
Guillermo
Chapultepec Castle
Bill
Freddie
Mexico City
Gettysburg
Rubio Brothers
St. Benedict's
Salvadore Reyes Corte
Partisan Battle Emerges Over Drought Relief
Washington dispatch reports Congress narrowing to a partisan clash on drought relief and unemployment aid. The dispute centers on relief measures, with statements from leaders highlighting divergent approaches and political stakes.
Unemployment Rise Prompts Bipartisan Budget Clash in Congress
The labor union estimates 7 million workers could be jobless by February if trends continue. Democrats in Senate and House attack Hoover's plan for a cabinet committee to spend 150 million and denounce the reduction of relief from 60 million to 25 million. Ambitious debates loom as Aswell and other Democrats push for a 60 million relief bill to aid distressed farmers via loans.
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Ican Federation of Labor
Senate
House
Hoover
Congress
House Agriculture Committee
Louisiana
Weill
New Welding Gas Made From Steam and Gas
A new welding gas cheaper than hydrogen is produced in a special electric machine from a mixture of steam and city illuminating gas.
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Bernhard
2Nd Sts
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Venroe
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