Jury returns three counts of first degree murder
New York City grand jury hands up three indictments against sculptor Robert Irwin for the Beekman Hill triple killings. Witnesses include Mrs Kudner who described the mad impulse, as District Attorney William C. Dodge announced the charges. Irwin awaits insanity defense planning as attorney Samuel S. Leibowitz visits him at the Tombs.
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New York
Ethel Rudner
Robert Irwin
Beekman Hill
Congress rushes three major appropriations to final passage
In Washington on June 29 Congress pushed three large funding bills toward final passage to avoid a June 30 deadline. The relief program gets 1.5 billion dollars, the army 660 million, and the interior department 135 million, with risk of disrupted payments if not signed by President Roosevelt.
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Washington
Congress
Army
Interior Department
Roosevelt
House
Senate
Agriculture Department
White House
Children Will Be Paramount Guests at Matinee
Over 300 children from Monroe and West Monroe will attend a Wednesday afternoon showing of Captains Courageous at the Paramount theater. Guests include youths from the Louisiana Baptist children's home and Louisiana Training Institute as well as city WPA playground programs. Children 11 and under will be escorted to the theater at 1 15 p.m. and admitted for the 1 30 p.m. screening, with ice cream provided by Watson and Avon. The Kipling sea tale stars Freddie Bartholomew and Lionel Barrymore.
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Monroe
West Monroe
News-Star
Morning World
Paramount Theater
Captains Courageous
Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home
Louisiana Training Institute
City Recreation Department
WPA
Watson
Avon
Rudyard Kipling
Freddie Bartholomew
Lionel Barrymore
Weather Snapshot Blends Louisiana and Kansas Forecasts
Partly cloudy weather expected tonight and Wednesday across Louisiana with gentle to moderate northwest winds along the coast. Kansas forecast also calls for tonight and Wednesday conditions with similar wind patterns.
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Louisiana
Kansas
Steel mills hit by explosions in nationwide strike
Authorities charged Gus Hall with masterminding bomb plots to halt steel mill operations as dynamite damaged Bethlehem Steel pipelines in Johnstown and deaths rose to 13 amid a widening steelworker strike. In California, a blood stained car sales story led to a murder probe of three girls near Beverly Hills, with a suspect later cleared of ties to the killings.
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Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Republic Steel Corporation
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
Inland Steel Company
Bethlehem Steel
George Mike
Aliquippa
Beaver Falls
Moltrup Steel Products Company
Robert E. McCreary
Frank Moltrup
Moltrup
Hall
Vance hearing draws large crowd in Shaw Mississippi
Crowds packed a makeshift courtroom in Shaw Mississippi for the preliminary hearing in the Claude Vance case. Vance, a 42 year old druggist, is charged with the June killing of Night Marshal E C Harrington. Grace Vance testified that her father acted in self defense during a pistol duel at the drug store and was wounded by a stray bullet.
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Shaw
Miss
Claude Vance
E. C. Harrington
Vance
Grace
Justice of the Peace
Jewell Howard
Louisiana State University
Harrington
Disordery charge against LSU star Tinsley continued
Baton Rouge police indefinitely continued a disorderly conduct charge against Gaynel Tinsley an all American LSU football end for the past two seasons. The charge arose after Tinsley and filling station operator R W Edwards allegedly struck 16 year old Roger Melancon who entered the station to use a 10 phone last Friday.
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Baton Rouge
Gaynel Tinsley
Louisiana State University
King Strenzke
Tinsley
R. W. Edwards
Roger Melancon
Stabbing Incident Tells Of Jealous Inmates On Alcatraz
A 1937 NEA feature describes life on Alcatraz as worded by a parolee. It recites whispered plots and jealous inmates aiming to harm Al Capone, his guarded status, and attempts to leave the rock for freedom, detailing guards, plans, and the psychology of confinement.
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Jeditor
Alcatraz
Douglas Hicks
NEA
tIne
al Capone
Big Dave
Jimmy Lucas
Texas
Lucas
Grapevine
Jimmy
Kelly
Capone
France seeks U S help in money crisis
Paris reports the new leftist government under Camille Chautemps seeking aid from the United States and Great Britain to stem gold outflows. Rene Brunet said France wished to disengage the franc from its parity with the dollar and pound, with no details yet worked out.
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Paris
People's Front
France
United States
Great Britain
Camille Chautemps
Chamber of Deputies
Rene Brunet
Britain
Aged Niece Suspect In Axe Slayings Of Aunts
Amsterdam N Y June 28 a former Utica State Hospital inmate William G Serviss 45 held on first degree charges after two elderly aunts Mrs Mary B Enders 88 and Mrs Jennie V Enders 83 were found dead with heads split by an axe Neighbors discovered the bodies last night two bloodied axes found near the scene Assistant District Attorney Tracy said the suspect had argued with the women over money earlier and had been drinking Serviss was jailed awaiting grand jury action after a brief inquest by Coroner James B Conant
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Amsterdam
N. Y
State Hospital of Mental Hygiene
Utica
James B. Conant
William G. Serviss
Montgomery County
Mary B. Enders
Jennie V. Enders
Serviss
Tracy
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Dino Grandi
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Stranger
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Melba Marie Everett
Madeline Everett
Jeanette Marjorie Stephens
Baldwin Hills
Othel Leroy Strong
L. C. Huntamer
Olympia
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Strong
Huntamer
San Diego
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Jeanette Stephens
Floyd Stephens
Jeanette
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A. W. “Bigfoot Davis
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