Mooney denied review in San Quentin escape bid
Thomas J. Mooney, 51, remains imprisoned after the Supreme Court refused to review his habeas corpus request. He has spent 18 years pressing for freedom from involvement in the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing, claiming perjured evidence led to his conviction. State Attorney General A. S. Webb argued California cannot reopen the case under current law, with governors four times denying pardons.
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Washington
Thomas J. Mooney
San Quentin Penitentiary
San Francisco
Supreme Court
California
Mooney
A. S. Webb
Frank F. Merriam
Minor Midsouth Streams Flood After Heavy Rains
Torrential rains flood minor streams across the mid south causing three deaths near Senatobia as highways flood and rail and air traffic falters. Forecasters predict rising rivers including the St Francis at Fisk Missouri reaching 23 feet, with floods threatening areas around Camden and Memphis amid weather warnings.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mid-South
St. Francis River
Mississippi
Senatobia
St. Francis
Fisk
Ark
Red Cross
Toone
C. F. Snoody
St. Louis
Mobile
Ohio
Snoody
Jackson
Illinois Central
A. E. Ellington
I. C
Galloway
Louisville
Nashville
Miller
S. C
Yazoo
Mississippi Valley
Southern
Grand Junction
Nashville, Chattanooga
Mercer
McKenzie
Arkansas
Weather Bureau
Little Rock
Ouachita River
Camden
Jes' Ramblin about the Town a humorous column note
The column shares a string of light anecdotes about local characters. L B Morris eats large meals and resists quitting cigarettes for appetite. Bert Coverdale hunts with his wife and stirs up birds for women hunters. It jokes about Pennsylvania’s mosquito tax idea and a panhandler nickel request that oddly pleases the writer.
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L. B
Morris
Bert Coverdale
Bert
Eight Die and Six Hurt in Two Carolina Accidents
Eight people are dead and six injured in two separate crashes in the Carolinas. A Southern Railway freight train struck a light car near Carlisle station in South Carolina killing five people returning home from Saluda. In North Carolina near Lillington a car-truck collision killed Mrs. Wade, Clarence Wade, and Arvell Craughn. five Wade children were injured. Investigation and a coroner's jury are planned.
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Charlotte
N. C
Carolinas
Southern Railway
Carlisle
S. C
Saluda
Chester
Walter McCardy
Thelma
J. H. Sumpert
Sam Hazel
Hubert Wade
Clarence Wade
Arvell Craughn
Harnett County
Lillington
Wade
Sanford
W. E. Slamon
Wades
Draughns
Money dealings outlined before Hauptmann jury
The prosecution showed that Hauptmann and his wife gained 44,486 in assets after April 2 1932, including 14,600 in ransom bills and 120 in gold coins. The figure excludes cash loans, with Hauptmann claiming he had lent 7,500 to Isador Fisch and spent ransom money for gas, leading to his arrest.
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Associated Press
Flemington
N. J
Hauptmann
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Charles A. Lindbergh
William E. Frank
United States
Treasury Department
Thomas W. Trenchard
Frank
David T. Wilentz
Isador Fisch
Fisch
Labor confab weighs Perkins suggestions in Nashville
Southern regional labor conference with representatives from 14 states focused on Frances Perkins proposals for state laws to aid the national economic security program. Speakers from AFL and labor groups urged stricter anti union practices and enforcement of NRA provisions amid tensions from strikes in Rossville Georgia and Harlan Kentucky.
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Nashville
Tenn
Frances Perkins
Perkins
Tennessee
Perkinson
Roosevelt
Congress
NRA
Rossville
Harlan County
Kentucky
United Mine Workers of America
Holt Ross
Laurel
Miss
Steve Nance
John Edelman
Atlanta
George Googe
American Federation of Labor
Mansura Oil Mill Fire Sparks Investigation
Fire destroyed the Mansura Cotton Oil mill in Mansura Louisiana causing about 35000 dollars in damage. District Attorney Lester L Bordelon said an investigation would examine whether the plant was deliberately set.
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Mansura
Lester L. Bordelon
Supreme Court delays ruling on gold payment suspension
The Supreme Court recessed today until February 4 without ruling on the constitutionality of gold payment suspension legislation. A decision on that date was generally expected.
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U.S
Washington
Supreme Court
Supreme Court to Rule on Constitutionality of Recovery Act
The Supreme Court promised a ruling on the National Industrial Recovery Act’s constitutionality after agreeing to review a lower court decision which invalidated both the Recovery Act and the timber and lumber code. The case against William E. Belcher tests federal authority over labor hours and wages under the code structure amid about 600 negotiated codes.
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Washington
Supreme Court
W. J. Grubb
Alabama
William E. Belcher
High Court
Congress
Belcher
Nine Charged in Kidnap and Trapping War Cases
In Philadelphia a machine gun guarded caravan prepared to move Robert Mais and four others as police hunt the body of William Weiss who was kidnapped and slain. In New Orleans nine men were arraigned on charges of interfering with federal sequestration orders in a trapping war, with bonds set at 2500 each.
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Pennsylvania
Delaware County
Associated Press
Louisiana
Philadelphia
Robert Mais
William Weiss
Mais
Walter Legenza
Weiss
Joseph A. le Strange
New York
Philadelphia Police
Philadelphia Record
Legenza
R. George Harvey
United States Bureau of Investigation
Harvey
Delaware
New Orleans
United States
Reginald H. Carter, Jr
Roy O. Young
Leroy Phillips
Basile Morales
August Nunez
Abie Perera
Marco Asevedo
Joseph Guerra
Octave Hebert
John
Charles Robin
Ben C. Dawkins
Western District
Trappers and Fisherman's Union
Carter
Rescue Vessels Rush To Aid Of Burning Valverde
The 4,463 gross ton British tanker Valverde, burning 1,000 miles east of Florida, sent S O S pleas as flames spread from the engine room. Six ships and two warships, including the British cruiser Frobisher, chased the blaze with rescue efforts hampered by wireless outages. Italian-flagged per Lloyds registers, the Valverde’s nationality was uncertain in early reports.
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Halifax
Valverde
Canada
Florida
Frobisher
Saarland
New York
Inverarder
Largarto
Glasgow
Atlantic
Bermuda
Puerto Rico
Shipping Registers
Lloyd Mediterranean Line
Public enemy No 1 hunted as duo held in Atlantic City
Police tracked Alvin Karpis and Harry Campbell across several states and cornered them in Atlantic City where two women companions Dolores Delaney and Winona Burdette were captured. Delaney, wounded in the leg, is to be kept under hospital care as a baby is due. A detective suffered a facial wound from gunfire during the raid.
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Associated Press
Atlantic City
N. J
Midwest
Massachusetts
Maryland
Alvin Karpis
Bremer
Harry Campbell
Karpis
Tonneau
Dolores Delaney
Winona Burdette
Louise Campbell
Vaughan murder case suspect held for probe
A preliminary hearing in district court ordered Henry Hayes held for investigation in the Vaughan murder case. Hayes, a about 40 year old negro, is in parish jail with bond set at 1000 dollars. A woman with Vaughan identified Hayes as the attacker. One other man, Lawrence Jones of Monroe, pleaded guilty to untaxed liquor and got 60 days in jail.
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Henry Hayes
Edward D. Vaughan
Mississippi Street
Vaughan
Hayes
United States
Lawrence Jones
Monroe
PWA Cuts Louisiana Bridge Loan To 4 Million
Public Works Administrator Ickes announced a reduction of the loan and grant for the Baton Rouge Mississippi River bridge project from 7 million dollars to 4 million. The Louisiana highway commission provides 1.5 million and the Bureau of Public Roads adds 1.5 million.
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Washington
Public Works
Ickes
Louisiana
Mississippi River
Baton Rouge
Louisiana Highway Commission
Bureau of Public Roads
The
Agriculture Department
Mississippi Court Rules Arkansas Divorce Invalid
The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled an Arkansas nine day divorce involving a Vicksburg couple invalid. It upheld the decision reducing alimony from 50 000 to 30 000 and denying 5 000 in counsel fees while asserting Mississippi public policy overrides out of state decrees affecting marital status.
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Jackson
Miss
Arkansas
Vicksburg
Mississippi Supreme Court
George W. Miller
Warren Chancery Court
Mary H. Miller
Hot Springs
Ark
Miller
State of
High Court
Preachers Home Burns in Wake of Mob Violence
In Shelbyville Tennessee a Methodist pastor Rev. W. O. Largen saw his home burn early yesterday amid threats and waring letters to two other ministers. City Judge C. C. Smith seeks state fire department inquiry suspecting incendiary arson after violence last month when a mob tried to seize a Black man charged with assaulting a white girl.
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Shelbyville
Tenn
Upi
W. O. Largen
South Circuit
C. C. Smith
Largen
E. K. Harris
Harris
Husband Held in Slaying Case of Celia Holmes
Los Angeles police hold Edward E. Holmes, a 45 year old probation officer, for questioning in the murder of his wife Celia Holmes 37 a cosmetics saleswoman found dead after being killed and dumped into a ravine. investigators probe mud on the car and soil analysis while tracing her disappearance after a January 11 note.
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Los Angeles
Celia Holmes
Edward E. Holmes
Los Angeles County
Miles H. Ledbetter
Holmes
Ledbetter
Edward
Winter Storm Ravages Southwest Across Gulf Coast
A northwest blizzard and gale swept eastward from Texas, flooding highways in Arkansas Mississippi and Tennessee. Two people drowned near Senatobia Mississippi as floodwaters rose, while trains were rerouted and rescue boats operated in flooded districts. Temperatures plummeted to zero in parts of Arkansas and sleet chilled Shreveport and nearby regions.
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Senatobia
Miss
Mississippi River
Texas
United States Weather Bureau
Brownsville
Tex
Carrachelle
Fla
Gulf Coast
Gulfport
Mississippi
Arkansas
A. J. Simmons
Clarksdale
Corinth
Jackson
Marks
Quitman County
Tenn
Memphis
Houston
New Orleans
Arkansas-west
Tennessee-north Mississippi
Shreveport
Louisiana
Snowfall Descends on Monroe Amid Sudden Winter Spell
A sudden cold snap hits Monroe with north winds and sleet turning from heavy rain that began Sunday afternoon. The storm begins Monday morning, bringing wintry conditions to the city.
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Monroe
Rogers Has His Say
In New York on January 21 a columnist praises Texans Jack Garner and Jesse Jones. Garner, vice president, is praised for knowledge of government operations while Jones, head of the Reconstruction Finance Corp, is lauded for his lending reach and asset control.
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Washington
Jack Garner
Roosevelt
Garner
Jesse Jones
Reconstruction Finance
Jones
RFC
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