Black Legion Slayer Takes Stand In Poole Case
Dayton Dean testified he fired the shots that killed Charles A Poole in a case exposing the Black Legion. He said Harvey Davis aka colonel ordered Poole’s execution during a meeting of the hooded group. Dean described Poole as accused of harming his wife and said a one day ride was planned.
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Detroit
Dayton Dean
Charles A. Poole
IWPA
Black Legion
Poole
Dean
Harvey Davis
Black Hooded
Duncan C. McCrea
Davis
McCrea
Exemptions In Louisiana Labor Bills At Public Hearing
Domestic servants and farm laborers would be exempt from new minimum wage and rest day provisions under Cranor sponsored bills. The proposals set a 10 dollar weekly minimum for 14 to 16 year olds and 12 dollars for workers over 16, eight hour days, with certain workers like janitors and dairymen exempt on Sundays. Railroads facing crew, safety device, and train length rules were reintroduced in the House.
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Baton Rouge
Senate Committee On Capital and Labor
Roscoe C. Cranor
Shreveport
Day Will Tell Slaying Story In Illinois Prison Trial
James Day 21 a Stateville inmate on trial for slaying Richard Loeb during a prison fight in Joliet Illinois Days lawyers said he would recount prison vice and events leading to Loebs death four months earlier Day confessed to slashing Loeb claiming self defense Loeb and Leopold were serving life terms for the 1924 Franks slaying and the trial was expected to continue with direct and cross examinations all day
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Joliet
Ill
James Day
Stateville
Richard Loeb
Emmet Byrne
Harold Levy
Day
Chicago
Loeb
Nathan Leopold
Bobby Franks
Levy
New Demonstration Planned in Strike
MEMPHIS Tenn June 3 Plans for new demonstrations in the east Arkansas cotton chopper strike zone were laid by the Southern Tenant Farmers Union as its secretary denied the strike was losing ground H L Mitchell union secretary said members in St Francis Crittenden and Cross counties were asked to stage new demonstrations in defiance of the arrest of an organizer at Forrest City Ark yesterday Capt C T Atkinson of the Arkansas state rangers said he believed the strike was breaking up Mitchell declared the planters are weakening Capt Atkinson said the arrest of a man named D M Benson 28 of Tampa Fla probably would end the strike in St Francis county
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Memphis
Tenn
East Arkansas
Southern Tenant Farmers Union
H. L. Mitchell
St. Francis
Crittenden
Cross Counties
Forrest City
Ark
C. T. Atkinson
Arkansas State Rangers
Mitchell
Atkinson
D. M. Benson
Tampa
Fla
St. Francis County
Tax Bill May Be Passed By Senate Today
Washington in a fast moving session as senators push a revised tax bill to final passage tonight. The Chamber of Commerce denounces the measure as open to serious objections with destructive effects on companies while talk of a possible White House compromise swirls around Capitol Hill.
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Washington
Chamber of Commerce of the United
Senate
Train Death In Unsolved Monroe Accident
Coroner continues inquiry into the death of 21 year old Carson Humphries of Millhaven road farm er killed when struck by an Illinois Central passenger train three miles east of Monroe. Engineers Hammons and Harrison said they did not see Humphries riding a mule along the tracks.
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Carson Humphries
Millhaven Road
Illinois Central Railroad
Monroe
Irving J Wolff
Hammons
Harrison
Humphries
Mrs Armour Bravely Visits Son Amid Disease Risk
Chicago June 3. Mrs Philip D Armour III defied bread disease exposure to stay beside her son Philip D Armour IV in hospital. The 19 year old, recently returned from St Mark's Preparatory School at Southboro Miss, is stricken with infantile paralysis. The Armour family has philanthropic and business ties through a packing house founder.
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Chicago
Philip D. Armour, III
Philip
Gwendolyn
Tech Breaks Ground for New Administration Building
Ruston La June 3 President G W Bond of Louisiana Tech planned to turn the first shovel of dirt for the campus administration building costing 421000. The event crowned Techs 41st commencement with 165 degrees awarded. Dr E L Stephens Southwestern Louisiana Institute at Lafayette gave the commencement address. J Pollard Sealy of Shreveport was elected president of the Louisiana Tech Alumni Association with other officers named Mrs Gussie Ayers J W Evans and W Poole Robison.
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Ruston
G. W. Bond
Louisiana Tech
Tech
E. L. Stephens
Southwestern Louisiana Institute
Lafayette
J. Pollard Sealy
Shreveport
Louisiana Tech Alumni Association
Gussie Ayers
J. W. Evans
W. Poole Robison
BE. L. Walker
G O P group to hear rows over seating
Fifty seven contested convention seats spark a GOP hearing as color and discrimination claims emerge. Delegations from Florida Louisiana Mississippi South Carolina Alaska and others challenge seating. Prominent figures like J W Tothert and Bob Church appear amid long running disputes from Chicago to present.
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South
Alaska
Florida
Louisiana
Mississippi
South Carolina
District of Columbia
Georgia
Illinois
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Chicago
J. W. Tothert
Dallas A. Gardner
J. C. Hambright
Hambright-Gardner
Gardner
Tolbert
Memphis
Robert R
Bob) Church
Yale
John EB. Mc
New Attack on Hoffman Intensifies NJ Police Superintendent Fight
Flank attacks on Gov Harold G Hoffman add to doubts over Senate confirmation of Col Mark O Kimberling as state police superintendent. Spaulding Frazer writes to State Senator Lester H Clee demanding Hoffman be rebuked for alleged affronts. Senate needs eleven votes for Kimberling with only twelve Republicans in the body.
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Trenton
N. J
Harold G. Hoffman
Senate
Hoffman
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
New Jersey
Spaulding Frazer
University of Newarks Law School
Lester H. Clee
Schwarzkopf
Clee
Essex County
Col
Mark O. Kimberling
Lindbergh to Get Ransom Money Back
Attorney General David T. Wilentz announced that fourteen thousand eight hundred sixty dollars of the Lindbergh ransom bills recovered with Bruno Hauptmann would be returned to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. The decision, made at a New York conference with J Edgar Hoover and state and city officials, places the funds in a Trenton bank safe deposit box awaiting Lindbergh's directions.
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Trenton
N. J
David T. Wilentz
Lindbergh
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Charles A. Lindbergh
Wilentz
New York
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Zioncheck wife visits hospitalized representative amid tax delay dispute
Washington dispatch reports Rep Marion Zioncheck resting better under mental observation as his wife visits him at Galfinger Municipal hospital. A chain letter urged his resignation, while Louisiana lawmakers shift postponement of 1935 property tax collections to police juries, excluding New Orleans, with a resolution to suspend until October 15 1936.
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Washington State
Galfinger Municipal Hospital
Baton Rouge
House of Representatives
New Orleans
Senate
J. T. Curry
Tensas
Roosevelt May Talk To Louisiana Solons
Louisiana leaders plan to invite President Roosevelt to address the state legislature during a June 13 visit to Dallas for the Texas Centennial. A special train will carry the governor, 139 lawmakers and officials to Texas, with the Louisiana State University band joining in Shreveport. The governor predicted a successful reception.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Huey P. Long
Roosevelt
Long
Richard Lewhe
Texas
Dallas
Louisiana State University
Shreveport
Tragic Marion Fire Kills Woman and Two Young Children
Mrs Darl Stratten, 21, and her children Robert 3 and Elsie 2 died in a Marion blaze after a coal oil stove exploded. Authorities described the incident as the fatal fire that followed the blast.
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Marion
Ind
Dar! Stratten
Robert
Elsie
Co ed jailed after threats against registrar at UW
Ruth E. Naughton, a 36 year old UW junior, was jailed in Seattle after deputies say she threatened to dynamite and kill Registrar E. R. Stevens with whom she had discussed low grades. Deputies filed a complaint charging threat to kill.
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Seattle
Wash
University of Washington
E. R. Stevens
Ruth E. Naughton
John M. Schermer
Grange to Demand Party Recognition in 1936 Platforms
National Grange master Louis J. Taber announced the group will insist on farm plank recognition from both major parties. The executive committee will attend Democratic and Republican conventions this month to seek definite commitments. A meeting in Cleveland was set to finalize a farm plank for the Republican platform.
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Washington
Louis J. Taber
National Grange
The
Grange
Taber
Cleveland
Last-Minute Briefs Highlight Policy and Legislation
Secretary Wallace urged the senate agriculture committee to limit big farm subsidies under the soil conservation act. The house rules committee moved a $2.43 billion relief-deficiency bill toward final approval to hasten adjournment. Congressional leaders predicted a Saturday night exit from the trenches. W. H. Jassoon called for higher tariffs on imported oils and fats at the National Cottonseed Products Association meeting. Duncan Renaldo, once stateless, reentered the U.S. from Mexico and will file for citizenship next week after a 13 month jail term.
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Washington
Wallace
Senate Agriculture Committee
House Rules Committee
Hollywood
Calif
Duncan Renaldo
United States
Mexico
Texas official foresees oil prosperity amid demand and cooperation
Ernest O Thompson, chairman of the Texas railroad commission, said demand growth and state cooperation in production control point to a continuing oil industry prosperity era. Reports from Arkansas, New York, Washington and Mexico note social, military and labor developments. an outbreak of infantile paralysis affects St Mark's School in Southboro with one death.
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Austin
Texas
Ernest O. Thompson
The
Texas Railroad Commission
Japanese Say North China Cities Taken
Japanese advices from Canton claimed south China armies advancing northward had captured north China cities along the Hunan frontier. No figures on captured cities or resistance were provided. Earlier, Japanese sources cited 250000 Canton troops moving toward Fukien and Kiangsi provinces. Authorities in Nanking denied the reports.
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Morris J. Harris
Associated Press
Shanghai
Canton
South China
North China
Hunan
Fukien
Kiangsi
Nanking
Foreign Office
Hong Kong
Tokyo watches tense Sino Japanese hostilities on June 3
Japanese officials say they are anxious over the serious situation caused by tensions between Nanking and Canton. Tokyo declines to take Canton's anti Japanese passages seriously seen in Canton's manifesto. Reports claim Canton's manifesto asks a Chinese union to wage war on Japan.
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Tokyo
Japan
Nanking
Canton
Funeral services for Cyrus Hall McCormick
Chicago June 3 funeral services will be held tomorrow for Cyrus Hall McCormick billionaire industrialist, whose life spanned an agricultural renaissance sparked by the reaper invented by his father.
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Chicago
Cyrus Hall McCormick
Banker named treasurer for Junaluska lake fund drive
Dr. W A Lambeth director of the Southern Methodists campaign to save Lake Junaluska from fore closure appoints S C Kirkman cashier of the Wachovia Bank and Trust company branch in High Point as treasurer for the 105000 dollar fund.
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High Point
N. C
W. A. Lambeth
Southern Methodists
Lake Junaluska
S. C. Kirkman
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
Arrest of Ernest de Hagen Sought by New Orleans
New York detectives advised New Orleans authorities to hold Ernest Desmond de Hagen, a suspect in an extortion case, if he arrived there today.
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DE Hagen
New York
New Orleans
Ernest Desmond de Hagen
Tri State Gang Concludes Executions in New Jersey
Charles Zied was executed in the New Jersey state prison after a reprieve for Hauptmann. The Tri State Gang’s members faced death sentences with Zied dying in the electric chair and Hauptmann previously condemned for the Lindbergh baby case. Pennsylvania also carried out electro executions for other gang-linked killings, ending a chapter in regional crime history.
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Trenton
N. J
Charles Zied
New Jersey
Death
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Zied
William T. Feits
Camden
Hauptmann
Doc
Abraham Holtzberge
Tristate
Pennsylvania
Martin Ferrell
Frank Wiley
William Weiss
Philadelphia
Virginia
Robert Mais
Walter Legenza
Banks
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John Doe
James Walker
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the Cay
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House Committee
Marion Zioncheck
Louisiana Solons
W. H. Jassoon
National Cottonseed Prodicts Association, Inc
Renaldo
Waldron
Eben Bethel
Ouathita National Forest Guard
Pilot Mountain
Syracuse
N. Y
148Th Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the U
War Department
City
Miners’ Syndicate
Confederation of Workers of Mexico
Southboro
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St. Mark's School
Frederick W. Hubbei, Jr
Des Moines
Iowa
Fix McOrmick Rites
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