SLAIN MALOY LOOMS A SUCCESSOR AT UNION
Chicago February report outlines the late Thomas E. Maloy’s wealth and power as business agent for the Motion Picture Operators union. Federal investigators cite a $250,000 income 1929 to 1932 and a $500 weekly salary, with perquisites including luxury expenditures and gifts. The piece notes corruption charges, semi annual awards, and misuses of union funds as investigators build a case.
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Chicago
Thomas E. Maloy
Motion Prc- Operators
Joy
Pmi
Maloy
UN- Ponn
Work Bill Holds Major Interest as Relief Phase
Washington February 8. Relief problems center on the 4 billion work bill. Hopkins relief administration has funds to February 20, then relies on 880 million for direct relief within the measure. Senate appropriations committee debates prevailing local wage requirements for public works funded by the bill. Senator McKellar returned from the Philippines to aid the administration against opposing amendments. The bonus issue recently quiet.
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Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
Senate
Lkely
McKellar
Tenssee
Philippines
Abducted Georgetown student held in wild Mississippi car ride
Edward Hewett Davis, 20, a Georgetown University student and AAA worker, was taken on a wild ride through Mississippi in a stolen car by two men. One was identified as Raymond Hamilton, Texas desperado. The vehicle was found abandoned near Memphis after Davis sought shelter at the Shelby County sheriff's office.
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Memphis
Tenn
Georgetown University
AAA
Mississippi
Raymond Hamilton
Texas
Bacon
Davis
Hamilton
Shelby County Sheriff's Office
South
Edward Hewett Davis
Washington, D. C
Family of four slain near Hot Springs Arkansas
Rural justice official reports a 45 year old farmer Harry Lucas surrendered with a pistol and admitted killing a family of four in the Royal community ten miles west of Hot Springs. Victims named Charles Evarts a county board member Mrs Evarts and two daughters with a third daughter away.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Justice of the Peace
Here
Mitchell Buttram
Harry Lucas
Buttram
Lucas
Charles Evarts
County Board of Equalization
Evarts
NRA report cites auto industry labor strain and espionage
A Roosevelt NRA briefing reveals a critical report on the auto industry condemning production demands as beyond human capacity, spies monitoring workers around the clock, and labor unrest driven by insecurity and low earnings. The document, from the blue eagle planning division, notes pressures may shape renewal of the auto code.
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NRA
NRA Research and Planning Division
National Recovery Board
Washington
Blue Eagle Research and Planning Division
Pan American announces air direction finders for long range flight
Pan American Airways announces airplane direction finders with a 1800 mile range and seeks federal approval to build seven radio stations across the Pacific coast to support an experimental U S to China air service. Stations would be in California Hawaii Wake Island Midway Island and the Philippines. Col. Charles Lindbergh and his wife tested the new system.
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New York
Pan- American Airways
Federal Radio Commission
Pacific Ocean
United States
China
Pacific Coast
California
Hawaii
Wake Island
Midway Island
Philippines
Charles A. Lindbergh
One Killed And Another Shot In Abduction Effort
Chicago police report two reputed 42 gang members attempted to kidnap and extort $500 from Louis Kaplan auto sales agent. Tony Pinna was killed and Vito Messina wounded when Constable Edward Dews intervened during the attempt. Kaplan previously claimed a 1933 Kenosha kidnapping in which $10 000 ransom was paid.
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Chicago
Louis Kaplan
Tony Pinna
Vito Messina
Edward Dews
Glenview
Kaplan
Messina
Pinna
Kenosha
Wis
Messina to Be Told of Charge After Operation
Deputies from the office of Criminal Sheriff George Williams planned to notify Joe Messina, principal body guard of Senator Huey P Long, that he must appear at the sheriff's office as soon as able to bond $1 900 in an assault with intent to kill case filed against him.
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New Orleans
George Williams
Joe Messina
Huey P. Long
Messina
Dynamite Blast Hits Wilkes-Barre Coal Yard During Walkout
A dynamite bomb exploded at the Glen Alden Coal South Wilkes-Barre colliery injuring no one and allowing twenty five men to escape. Officials said one of two sticks failed to detonate and caused minor damage to the fan house, as the dispute between rival unions continued at the site.
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Wilkes-Barre
South Wilkes-Barre
Glen Alden Coal Company
Wilkes-Barre, Pa
Suicide at Touro Infirmary Violent Patient
New Orleans officials report Mrs. Bessie Frith a 37 year old psychiatric patient at Touro Infirmary hanged herself with a cord in her ward. She was found by nurse student Louise Caughlin at about 7 am. Physicians say death resulted from self inflicted tendencies. Mrs Frith had been admitted Feb 4 and is mother to two small children.
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New Orleans
Touro Infirmary
Bessie Frith
Louise Caughlin
Defense Attacks Kidnap Ladder Link in Hauptmann Case
In Flemington New Jersey on February 8, the defense for Bruno Richard Hauptmann countered the state's claim that the kidnap ladder ties Hauptmann to the Lindbergh baby murder. They challenged the ladder evidence with wood expert testimony and argued doubts over tool marks and handwriting, offering alibis for key dates and Hauptmann’s denial of ransom note authorship.
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Flemington
N. J
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Arthur J. Koehler
Charles J. de Bisschop
Connecticut
Koehler
Hauptmann
Air Force names commanders for Atlantic Pacific wings
Washington February 8 authoritative sources report the organization of a general headquarters air force of 500 planes to defend coasts and frontiers. Lieut Col H C Pratt Wright Field Dayton Ohio to command the Atlantic division and Lieut Col H H Arnold Mather Field California to command the Pacific coast wing, both to receive brigadier general ranks. Major B O Jones Langley Field Virginia is noted as a likely candidate to command the central wing with a colonel as its ranking officer at Fort Crockett Texas.
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Washington
General Headquarters Air Force
Atlantic
Pacific
H. C. Pratt
Wright Field
Dayton
Ohio
H. H. Arnold
Maren Field
Cal
Pacific Coast
B. O. Jones
Langley Field
Virginia
Fort Crockets
Texas
Ferry Collision On Delaware River Injures Nine
The London Corporation of the Furness Withy line collided with the Reading ferry Cape May in the Delaware River near Philadelphia. Nine injured, more than 10 rescued as tugs and the City of Wilmington aided. The London ship struck amidships, forcing Cape May to shore amid fog and crowds along the river.
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Philadelphia
London Corporation
Furness-Withy
Reading Railroad
Cape May
Delaware River
Camden
Wilson
City of Wilmington
Odhaptain
Edwin Savin
City of
Wilmington
Chestnut Street
Rodgers to Seek State Aid for Tenant Farmers in Arkansas
Memphis Tenn Feb 8 Ward H Rodgers former federal relief worker and organizer for the Southern Tenant Farmers union said he would travel to Little Rock to ask Gov Futrell for relief tents and assistance for about 100 sharecropper families in Poinsett county Arkansas He planned to meet Gov Futrell either tomorrow or Monday and to recount his experiences among Arkansas tenant farmers to an interested group in Little Rock
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Memphis
Tenn
Ward H. Rodgers
Federal Emergency
Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union
J. M. Futrell
Arkansas
Little Rock
Poinsett County
Rodgers
Futrell
Bradley Waelder Chosen Head of Knights Templar
Bradley Waelder of Monroe was elected grand commander of the Knights Templar of Louisiana at the closing session of the annual convention in New Orleans. Other officers elected include Carey P. Duncan Shreveport deputy grand commander and D Peter Laguen Jr New Orleans grand generalissimo.
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New Orleans
Bradley Waelder
Monroe
Knights Templar of
Louisiana
Carey P. Duncan
Shreveport
D. Peter Laguens, Jr
C. Ellis Ott
Bogalusa
C. M. Hutton
Minden
Harry Sellers
J. Paul Haller
A. B. Davis
Edwin J. Bailey
Baton Rouge
C. P. Eilefson
T. W. Holloman
Alexandria
Rudolph Latzko
Grand Santa of the Auerd
Escaped Federal Prisoner Sought After Yorkville Bar Escape
An intensive northern Illinois search seeks a federal prisoner who escaped after assaulting a federal agent at a Yorkville hotel bar. Sheriff Maier denies it was Alvin Karpis. Authorities and investigators linked to Ma Barker and Fred Barker appeared at the Chicago Bureau of Identification.
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Aurora
Illinois
Yorkville
William Maier
Kendall County
Alvin Karpis
Atlantic City
U. S
Karpis
E. J. Connelly
Florida
Fred Barker
Chicago
Surprise Witness Tells Jury About Abduction Ladder
A surprise witness testifies that an appliance was in the possession of another person during the alleged abduction. The testimony aims to place the item as key evidence in the case.
Hauptmann defense rests in Lindbergh kidnap trial
The defense rested after 53 witnesses in a case that accuses Bruno Hauptmann of kidnapping and murdering Charles A Lindbergh Sr. The defense argued the ladder evidence places the ladder with another man and placed Hauptmann at a Bronx bakery, with alibi witnesses and a focus on ransom money and missing fingerprints.
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Associated Press
Flemington
N. J
Feb
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Hauptmann
Bronx
Edward J. Reilly
Joseph J. Farber
New York
Isador Fisch
Farber
Arthur Larsson
Oscar Christiansen
Benjamin Heier
Heier
Larson
Elvert Carlstrom
Dunellen
Isadore Fisch
Haupt
John F
Jassie) Condon
Lbergh
Brevoort Bolmer
Lis Am
Marche 1
Charles A. Linde
Rogers Has His Say About Russia Debt and War
Beverly Hills columnist notes U S debt talks with Russia failed and suggests Russia’s silence on repayment could have preserved status quo. He argues recognition debates divide opinions and cites Far East experts who say it might have prevented a Russia Japan war.
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Cal
Russia
Far East
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