Hines Fights Long Prison Term Amid Political Turmoil
Legal moves aimed to prevent a lengthy sentence for James J. Hines Tammany District Leader. Mayor LaGuardia pressures Hines to resign. Magistrate Capshaw seeks appellate division review amidst accusations of policy coercion by Dutch Schultz henchmen. Sentencing looming for Schultz allies. defense counsel Stryker to confer as verdict sinks in.
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New York
James J. Hines
P. Zee
Ferdinand Petors
Lloyd Paul Stryker
Hines
Blue Ribbon
Dancers Love Life Studied In Los Angeles Death Case
Los Angeles February 2. Clues from Anya Sonoyeva bludgeoning on the Los Angeles City College campus fail to identify a killer. Accountant Kermit Anderson said he had a months long romance with Sonoyeva and that they quarried recently. Suspect Bernard Sutton, a park janitor, is being questioned. Police consider two theories a grudge killing or sex fiend at work. Sonoyeva, born Nina Susoff, died after a brutal assault.
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Anya Sonoyeva
Los Angeles City College
Kermit Anderson
D. R. Patton
Anderson
Game
Mies Sosoyeve
San Francisco
Stewart Johnson
John Hunt
Johnson
Anya
Bernard Sutton
Barnsdall Park
Sutton
Patton
Pretty Dancer
Nina Susoff
Bedford man indicted in neighbor killing feud case
Samuel Pierce, 59, charged with first degree murder in the slaying of Roach Roach 41 on February 12. Sheriff Lincon Dunbar ties the crime to a hill country feud and says Pierce confessed to shooting clubbing and knifing Roach before his death. Roach had worked for the Works Progress Administration. Pierce to be arraigned April 3 after grand jury indictment.
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Samuel Pierce
Neachere
Bar Ro Reach
Lincon Dunbar
Pierce
Roach
Bill
Spectator jailed for contempt after lighting cigarette
In Evansville Indiana, Lorro Stokes 29 entered court as a spectator and left imprisoned after a judge sentenced him to 10 days for contempt of court for lighting a cigarette during the trial. A separate dispatch from Wea VA notes a broken clothesline started a fire destroying one home and damaging another as Mrs Holly Har and five children escaped with two sheets and a shotgun. In Tucson Arizona Mickey McCrorey Deadwood South Dakota bulldogger arrived for the annual rodeo being mistaken for another rider.
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Evansville
Ind
Spencer
Holly Har
Three Women Deceived by Clairvoyant in Monroe
Monroe sheriff and police chief report three local women were defrauded by a palmist clairvoyant known as Mrs. J. W. Bennett of several thousand dollars in cash and jewelry. The victims, names kept confidential, say two will not sign warrants due to publicity. one will sign if the fortune teller is arrested and property recovered. The con artist fled the city after the losses were reported.
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Monroe
Milton Coverdale
Frank Y. Reitzel
J. W. Bennett
Coverdale
Chief Reitzell
Woman tires of awaiting stork in Jasper
In Jasper Indiana on February 27 1944 Mrs Robert Sherle an expectant mother in the middle of a twin birth episode navigates a rare moment of activity. After the first twin arrived February 15 doctors say the second may come at any time and the family waits with four children present in the home.
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Jasper
Ind
Robert Sherle
L. A. Salb
Lower Taxes for Business Men Planned
Treasury experts study drastic revisions of corporation taxes to simplify and reduce burdens. Officials aim to unify five levies into two taxes and raise allowances for capital asset losses, targeting cooperation with business after March 15 income tax payments. The move follows pressure over the undistributed profits tax imposed in 1936.
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Washington
Treasury
Quick approval predicted for army expansion bill in Senate
Washington reports administration leaders expect rapid Senate passage of the 558000000 army expansion bill as part of the national defense program. Debate over the number of army planes 6000 versus 5500 is likely to spark some discussion despite broad support. Senator Clark presses for the 5500 ceiling after orders from General Arnold and General Craig.
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Barkley
House
Clark
Missouri
Arnold
Craig
Military Committee
Storm damage hits New Orleans area in 12 minute hail onslaught
A freak storm paralyzed New Orleans and nearby parishes with hail, rain, and high winds of 40 mph. The Maginnis Industrial terminal suffered $43,000 in damage as roof sections and walls failed. Two injured: Mrs Ervin Pitre and her daughter Lottie Raw Pitre. power outages and uprooted trees reported citywide.
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Fei
Charity Hospital
Ervin Pitre
Lottie Raw Pitre
Clork
Weather Bureau
W. F McDonald
St. Bernard
Plaquemines
Blacksquare Maginnis
St. Bernard Parish
Chalmette
Jews Rush to Leave Germany Under Emigration Order
Berlin reports a mass Jewish exodus as 100 daily names must be submitted for departure within two weeks. Authorities said 160000 Berlin Jews must provide 100 names each day for the next two weeks, with doubts about sustaining the pace beyond that period.
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Germany
Shreveport Man Held for Highway Death in Arkansas
Prosecuting Attorney Oren Harris reports filing of information against Henry Gilbert of Shreveport Louisiana for negligent homicide in the death of Lee Seales. State police say Scales' body was found in a ditch along a road eight and a half miles north of Lonana and a blood spattered sedan was recovered at Smackover.
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Ark
Oren. Harris
Henry Gilbert
Shreveport
Lee Seales
Lonana
Charles Crabaugh
Camden
Louisiana
Gilbert
Scales
Crabaugh
Smackover
Teachers must draw better from profession say Baker
Cleveland February meeting addresses the need for better teachers to fulfill democracy. Frank E. Baker of Milwaukee State Teachers College calls for selection based on personality social intelligence professional interest and cultural background plus higher social and financial recognition. George Strayer urges administrators to study government to view education as a governmental enterprise and to advocate appropriate legislation.
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Frank FE. Baker
State Teachers College
Milwaukee
Wis
American Association of
Baker
George D. Strayer
Columbia University
Martin Proposes Navigation Report for Arkansas Rivers
Wade Martin of the Louisiana flood control commission urged Arkansas and Louisiana to draft a joint report on navigation potential for the Arkansas Ouachita White and Red rivers. He proposed presenting the study to the National Rivers and Harbors Congress in Washington March 21 24.
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Quachita
Wade
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Louisiana Flood Control and Water Conservation Commission
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
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Ouachita
Arkadelphia
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Fulton
Tulsa
Oklo
Eight Dogs Guarded Recluse as Shack Burned in Alabama
Fort Payne Alabama February 27 details allege Fletcher Murphy a 63 year old recluse was protected by eight dogs during a night fire that devastated his pine pole shack and forced his escape as intruders or flames breached defenses.
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Fort Payne
Ala
Fletcher Murphy
Sit-Downers Condemned By Highest Court
The Supreme Court ruled against sit downers who seized their employer's plant in a 1937 strike at Fanstee Metallurgical. Chief Justice Hughes stated the company had the right to discharge workers involved in two key buildings, in a trio of decisions limiting National Labor Relations Board orders.
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Supreme Court
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Fanstee Metallurgical Corporation
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National Labor Relations Board
Coin Power of F D R Studied
A House Republican committee on Roosevelt emergency powers examined the president's authority to revalue the dollar. Leader Rep Wolcott said the inquiry will review monetary powers amid discussion of continuing a managed economy. A decision on extending devaluation is due this week before the coinage committee.
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Wolcott
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Memphis Editor Thomas Fauntleroy Dies at 50
Captain Thomas Fauntleroy chief editorial writer of the Commercial Appeal died after a brief illness from pernicious anemia. He entered hospital January 16 and funeral services were held today. Fauntleroy had a 28 year career at the Memphis paper serving as reporter city editor and managing editor.
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Memphis
Teno
New Orleans Eyes Weather Watch as Flood Risk Shifts North
Report describes a vast funnel of waters from Texas to New York feeding the Mississippi. Forecasters caution heavy rains in upper tributaries could raise flood risk for Louisiana and Mississippi while the lower Mississippi remains typically able to carry water to the Gulf.
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Legless peddler held for murder in New Orleans
A legless pencil peddler identified as Charles Wilson, 38, was jailed on murder charges after a barroom stabbing that killed Clara Berry, 42, near the old French Market. Wilson, who uses a roller scooter, allegedly stabbed Berry eight times after she left him.
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Legress
Clara Berry
French Market
Joseph Mock
Edward Sbisa
Charles Wilson
Philip Montelepre
Orleans Parish
Mack
Sbisa
Ernest Kavanaugh
Miss Berry
Kavanaugh
Rudolph Becker, Jr
Britain and France Recognize Franco Regime in Spain
In a formal move, Britain and France recognize Generalissimo Francisco Franco as Spain’s legal sovereign government. Prime Minister Chamberlain vows a world conference only when conditions permit, and Labor leader Attlee accuses him of breaking a pledge to inform Parliament. The Spanish Civil War, underway since 1936, nears a decisive phase.
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London
Great Britain
France
Francisco Franco
Spain
Europe
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Chamberlain
Franco
Clement Attlee
Attlee
Miusist
House
TWO CARDINALS ARE RULED OUT FOR ELECTION
Vatican dispatch notes two Italian cardinals are ruled out for non ecclesiastical reasons ahead of the conclave to elect a successor to the late Pope Pius XI. Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte is aged 87 and Tommaso Cardinal Pio Boggiani is ill. the rest of the 35 cardinals remain possible electors and only a deadlock would force either aside.
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Pius XI
College of Cardinals
Gennaro
Granito Pignatelli di Belmonte
Tommaso
Pio Boggiani
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