Women spies Falckenhayn and von Natzmer executed in Berlin
Berlin reports reveal Benita von Falkenhayn and Renate von Natzmer faced death with calm after being condemned for passing military secrets. An eyewitness described the beheading at Ploetzenses prison before dawn, noting the quick six minute execution and solemn ritual at the block.
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Lyss
Uy Associated Press
Berlin
Benita von Falkenhayn
Renate von Natzmer
Ploetzenses
Germany
Frau von Falkenhayn
Developments from Gold Cases Decision Rise
Washington February 19 experts view future litigation by holders of government gold bonds seeking damages for loss of purchasing power after the court ruling that Congress acted unconstitutionally to wipe out the gold clause. Inflationists push for deeper dollar cuts while others see a brake on inflation and potential damages.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Congress
Ohn M. Perry
New York
Roosevelt
Morgenthau
United States
Senate
Thomas
Oklahoma
Omas
Legislas
Wall Street
London
Nicotine Poisoning Suspected After River Fish Die
Reports say fish in the Ouachita river died from nicotine pollution after a pipe spill into the bayou system. An investigator tracked the flare up to nicotine use by accident. mill drainage was ruled out. Nearby, a stray kitten wandered into a clerk’s office and slept on a desk.
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Ouachita
Mr. Goforth
Goforth
W. A. Hargrove
West Monroe
Parish Court
Mattie Faust
Writer and director duel over film criticism in Paris
Paris reports Bertrand De Jouvenel challenges film director Julien Duvivier to a duel after a journalist described a scene. Duvivier names Harry Baur and Charles Vidrac as seconds. Jouvenel defends a newspaperman’s right to critique unfinished work.
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Paris
Bertrand de Jouvenel
Julien Duvivier
Harry Baur
Charles Vidrac
de Jouvenel
Jouvenel
Henry de Jouvenel
Rome
United States
Negro Convicted Of Attack Seeks New Trial In Death Case
E. K. Harris, a 22 year old black man, was convicted of criminal assault and sentenced to die in the electric chair. Jurors deliberated eight minutes before a death verdict was returned. A new trial motion is filed, with 30 days allowed, as guards and troops protected the courthouse amid prior rioting fears. The victim identified Harris as her assailant last November.
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Nashville
Tenn
E. K. Harris
Harris
Jack Norman
Charles Gilbert
Davidson County Criminal Court
Gilbert
George Bagusky
Nashville Farmer
John F. Gibson
National
Shelbyville
J. Carlton Loser
Ickes Denies Farley Inquiry and Seeks Stewart Report
Secretary Ickes said there has been no investigation of Postmaster General Farley by the division of investigation and a report on the James Stewart company will be sent to the Senate. He joked about a bomb “hooey” aimed at Huey Long and would not confirm records related to General Supply.
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Washington
Ickes
Farley
James Stewart Company
Senate
Senator Long
Louisiana
Huey Long
Louis R. Glavis
Division of Investigation
General Supply Company
Long
Six Escaped Prisoners At Large In Texas
Six escaped inmates from Harlem state farm, wearing white denim uniforms, remain at large after a break at a field. A touring car stolen by the group is missing, with possible sightings reported near Hempstead, about 50 miles north. Led by Walker Hopkins, they disarmed a guard, dragged him from his horse, and hijacked a Mexican’s car on a river bottom chase.
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Houston
Texas
Harlem State Farm
Hempstead
Here
Walker Hopkins
R. A. Jones
Brazos River
New Deal Faces Supreme Court Test On NRA Appeal
The United States seeks an immediate Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of the National Industrial Recovery Act and its timber and lumber code. Government lawyers filed a direct appeal from Judge W S Grubb's Alabama district court ruling that the NRA and its code are illegal. The move aims for a quick decision before new NRA legislation is debated in Congress.
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Washington
Supreme Court
New Deal
NRA
Congress
High Tribunal
Federal Court of Appeals
W. S. Grubb
United States District Court
Alabama
National Industrial Recovery Act
Bomb letter to Huey Long with multilingual threat
A bomb mailed to Senator Huey P. Long carried a paper with Greek Yiddish and Turkish words translating to a demand to move ar here and strike now. The package postmarked Medford Oregon included a Medford Mail Tribune fragment dated February 3.
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Washington
Huey P. Long
War Department
Long
Portland
Medford, Ore
Medford Mail Tribune
Storm Over Tennessee Monkey Law Repeal Debate
In Nashville the state house debated a bill to repeal Tennessee's ten year old monkey law. Cecil Anderson, 22, a Vanderbilt law student and the youngest member, opened the fight for passage and won a narrow call-up margin.
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Nashville
Tenn
House of Representatives
Tennessee
Cecil Anderson
Vanderbilt University Law
Koch to Battle Felony Measure in Legislature
Lucien Koch director of Commonwealth college announced the school would seek defeat of a proposed emergency measure classing possession of seditious literature as a felony. He said an open hearing would be requested on the sedition bill in the senate after house passage as a legislative committee questioned witnesses. The American Civil Liberties Union urged the Arkansas legislature to probe lawlessness against sharecroppers rather than focus on Commonwealth college teachings.
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Little Rock
Ark
Legislative
Commonwealth College
Lucien Koch
Labor Institution
Arkansas’ General Assembly
Koch
Senate
Federal Emergency Relief Administration and Labor Organization
Mena
New York
American Civil Liberties Union
Arkansas
Mellon Shown As Art Patron In Tax Case
Pittsburgh February report notes Andrew Mellon owns six major paintings for a proposed Washington gallery as he fights government claims Mellon owes over 3 million dollars in 1931 income tax. Frank J Hogan argues the case while Gehrig signs Yankees contract around 30 thousand dollars for 1935.
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Pittsburgh
Andrew W. Mellon
National Gallery
Washington
Mellon
Frank J. Hogan
Treasury
Defense of Self Insanity Claimed By Judge's Son
Phil Kennamer 19 son of Federal Judge Franklin Kennamer faced a murder trial in Pawnee Oklahoma. Prosecutors prepared to counter insanity and self defense pleas with Dr Sidney Born as rebuttal witness. Kennamer testified detailing his ties to John Gorrell and Miss Virginia Wilcox amid an extortion plot claim.
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Pawnee
Okla
Phil Kennamer
Franklin E. Kennamer
Sidney Born
John Gorrell
Kennamer
C. B. Stuart
Stuart
Gorrell
Tulsa
Congress Examines Largest Military Spending Plan in 15 Years
The House appropriations committee approved an army budget of 318,131,482 for the year ending June 30, 1936 and suggested 7,686,753 more for aircraft. The total exceeds 1935 appropriations by 48,815,548 with potential for additional funds to raise army strength to 165,000. Navy budget implications push defense spending near 100 million above prior regular totals.
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Washington
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
Army
War Department
Roosevelt
Courtmartial Set To Try British Naval Officers
London February 19 The British admiralty orders a public court martial for Rear Admiral S R Bailey commander of battle cruisers and Capt F T B Tower of Hood and Capt H R Sawbridge of Renown over the collision of HMS Hood and HMS Renown off the Spanish coast last month. It is the first time since World War I that a rear admiral faces such a summons.
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London
Spanish
S. R. Bailey
F. T. B. Tower
H M. S. Hood
H. R. Sawbridge
Admiralty
Heart Throbs Watched After Delicate Operation
Doctors at Lakeside hospital monitor a patient whose heart continued to throb after a six day old operation to relieve angina pectoris. Dr Claude Beck performed the procedure by attaching severed chest muscle to the heart to improve blood supply. The hospital declined to forecast future results.
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Cleveland
Lakeside Hospital
Claude S. Beck
Beck
R. H. Bishop
University Hospitals
Lakeside
Petition Drive Seeks Removal of Monroe Transient Bureau
Nearly 400 signatures on petitions urge moving the Monroe transient bureau away from a residential section. A civic and welfare committee resolution calls for moving the bureau and for permit cards to track occupants until relocation. Circulation is limited to residents near the bureau and contract lodgings, citing police records of increased petty crimes and fear in the area.
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Transient Bureau
Civic and Welfare Committee
Monroe Labor Council
Southside
Monroe
Woman Warden Faces Dismissal at Oklahoma Reform School
Granite Oklahoma February 19 Mrs George A Waters head of the male institution faces removal after three cruelty probes and a major escape Sunday lurch. Gov Marland says a woman cannot manage. Escapees numbered 32 with 18 still at large and nine of 14 recaptured wounded. Tommy Southern aged 21 rearrested near the prison.
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Granite
Okla
George A. Waters
Oklahoma State Reformatory
State Board of Affairs
Waters
E. W. Marland
Tommy Southern
State to Bear Cost of Printing Record of Trial
Defendant's Plea For Prompt Action Pre sages Open Break. Indicated in court records the state will bear printing costs for the trial transcript as timely actions proceed.
Hauptmann appeal to New Jersey high court denied
The Lindbergh baby murder conviction of Bruno Hauptmann faced an automatic appeal to New Jersey's Court of Errors and Appeals after Chancellor Luther A. Campbell rejected defense counsel's bid for Supreme Court review. The case now heads to the next term starting May 21 with a possible pardon review in the fall.
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Trenton
N. J
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Court of Errors and Appeals
Luther A. Campbell
Supreme Court
New Jersey
Hauptmann
Flemington
C. Lloyd Fisher
Frederick A. Pope
Somerville
Edward J. Reilly
Brooklyn
Campbell
Thomas W. Trenchard
Hunterdon County
Court of Pardons
Hauptmann wins bid to have state pay trial record costs
Justice Thomas W. Trenchard in Trenton granted Hauptmann's request to require New Jersey to pay printing costs for the trial record for appeal. Attorneys C L Fisher and Frederick A Pope secured the ruling in a private 20 minute chambers hearing, with Pope saying the state will furnish the record.
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Trenton
N. J
Thomas W. Trenchard
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
New Jersey
Hauptmann
C. Lloyd Fisher
Frederick A. Pope
Trenchard
Flemington
Pope
Squabble Among Hauptmann Attorneys Roils New Jersey Court Room
Bruno Hauptmann pressed for immediate appeal action from death row prompting a rift with chief defense counsel Edward J. Reilly. He named C Liogd Fisher as chief New Jersey counsel and sought funding from Hunterdon County to print the 1,600,000 word trial record. Reilly said appellate action would be delayed, signaling deep divisions within his legal team.
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Trenton
N. J
Bruno Hauptmann
Edward J. Reilly
Reilly
Hauptmann
Death House
State Prison
C. Liogd Fisher
Flemington
Fisher
New Jersey
Open Letter to Henry Ford Calls for High Centered Cars
Seligman Arizona February 19 opens letter to Henry Ford urging action on a high centered automobile for country folks. Writer complains roads lack boulevards and cars are too low making travel dangerous for pedestrians and requires mule teams to leave towns. The appeal extends to General Motors or any major car maker if Ford ignores it.
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Seligman
Ariz
Henry Ford
General Motors
U. S
Mr. Ford
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