Parker father son receive six and three year terms
Ellis Parker Sr and Ellis Parker Jr of Burlington County were sentenced to six and three years respectively for conspiring to kidnap and coerce a false confession from Paul H. Wendel in the Lindbergh baby case. Judge William Clark noted the jurors recommended leniency.
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Newark
N. J
Ellis Parker, Sr
Burlington County Detectives
Ellis, Jr
Paul H. Wendel
Parkers
Wendel
Trenton
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
William Clark
Hollerin Contest At LSU Stirs Campus Lively Debate
Baton Rouge June 29 LSU graduate students prepare an open hollerin contest on campus to end a national Capitol lawn argument. Rep Mouton and Rep Wearin spar with local and Iowa calls while entrants remain secret in an event hoping for a standout Louisiana chant.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana State University
National Capitol
Robert Mouton
Louisiana
Otha D. Wearin
Iowa
Mouton
Wearin
Switzerland
Second victim of accident succumbs in Louisiana
Second victim of an automobile crash near Baton Rouge, Mrs. Carolyn Campbell, 48, of Flint Michigan, died at Our Lady of the Lake hospital after being kept on oxygen since Saturday. Her companion, Mrs. Katherine Le Roy, 42, of Sault Ste Marie Michigan, died soon after the collision when their car rear ended a heavy oil truck. Campbell’s husband James F Campbell, of Los Angeles, will take the body to Flint.
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Baton Rouge
Carolyn Campbell
Flint
Mich
Our Lady of the Lake Hospital
Katherine le Roy
Sault Ste. Marie
Here
Dyna mite used in effort to impede march back to work
Canton Ohio June 30 Republic Steel opened its four plants under guard of the Ohio national guard. Dynamite blew a water main and wires were torn as about 200 pickets and 450 workers moved in and out. Two low flying planes acted as eyes for troops deterring disorder. Forty pickets arrested.
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Canton
Republic Steel Corporation
Ohio National Guard
Republic
Great Lakes Steel
French Senate Grants Chautemps Powers to Save Money
The French senate approved sweeping fiscal powers for Premier Camille Chautemps and Finance Minister Georges Bonnet to address the money crisis. The vote was 167 to 82 after the deputies had already backed the measure, signaling a likely parliamentary approval and a move toward a financial dictatorship to stabilize the economy.
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Paris
Senate
Camille Chautemps
Chamber of Deputies
Chautemps
Senate Finance Committee
Georges Bonnet
Neutrality scheme abandonment asked in face of fascist opposition
London reports Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain pressed his cabinet to consider abandoning the neutrality scheme as Germany and Italy oppose the Franco British patrol plan. They refuse to renounce the patrol and veto any move to revive control fleets, while remaining on the 27 nation committee.
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London
Neville Chamberlain
Chamberlain
Italy
Germany
Spain
Eddie the sailor named suspect in Inglewood girls slayings
Inglewood CaliforniaJune 30 police identified a man known as Eddie the sailor as suspect No 1 in the killings of three Inglewood girls Madeline Everett 7 Melba Stephenson 9 and Jeanette Stephenson 8 A fourth child Lillian Popp 11 narrowly joined the suspect in a vehicle but resisted guidance to ride with him Authorities offered 3500 in rewards as the manhunt continues with autopsy results confirming sexual violencia in the crimes
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Sailor
Eddie
Inglewood
Calif
Eddie the Sailor
Madeline Everett
Melba
Jeanette Marjorie Stephens
Lillian Popp
Lillian
Jeanette
Madeline
Delay Likely in Irwin Case
New York, June 30. An extended delay in the trial of Robert Irwin for the Beekman hill artist model slayings emerged as likely. District Attorney William C. Dodge warned an early trial may not occur before September due to July and August court recess.
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New York
Robert Irwin
Beekman Hill
William C. Dodge
Dodge
Irwin
Samuel Leibowitz
Alabama
Scottsboro
Rockland State Hospital
Orangeburg
N. Y
Robert E. Blaisdell
Weather Outlook Louisiana and Arkansas Tonight and Thursday
Louisiana sees fair conditions tonight with Thursday partly cloudy skies and light winds along the coast. Arkansas reports fair weather tonight and Thursday with calm to gentle winds.
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Louisiana
Arkansas
Former Tech Student Sentenced Life in Prison
Earnest “Skinny” Machen, 27, former Louisiana Tech student and ex North East Center of Louisiana State University football player, received a life term in the Louisiana state penitentiary for armed robbery. He was sentenced by Judge J. H. Stephens in Caddo parish. Machen, shot by a Shreveport officer while fleeing after an attempted home robbery in that city, had robbed Mrs C. E. Slagle's home and stolen jewelry worth $7,000, including a safe. He allegedly sold pieces in Pine Bluff Arkansas and earned the label “walking jewelry store” before his capture and return to Monroe.
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Earnest
Skinny) Machen
Louisiana Tech
Louisiana State University
Louisiana State Penitentiary
Monroe
Machen
J. H. Stephens
Caddo Parish
Shreveport
C. E. Slagle
South Grand Street
Pine Bluff
Ark
Sloan Named Tax Dodger in Yacht Case
Treasury attorney told investigators Alfred P. Sloan Jr. saved a substantial tax by using the Reno corporation of Jersey City to hold the yacht Rene. From 1931 to 1936 yacht expenses topped charter revenue by 278,474 dollars while Sloan reported 2,140,563 dollars income paying 973,804 dollars tax.
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Washington
Treasury
Congressional
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr
General Motors Corporation
Reno Corporation
Jersey City
N. J
Rene
Arthur H. Kent
The
Sloan
Kent
Most Famous Steamboat Race 67 Years Ago
New Orleans marks sixty seven years since the Robert E. Lee and the Natchez raced upriver in a famed contest that drew thousands. The start at Canal Street drew excursion boats and river crowds while the finish in St. Louis remained disputed, with sensational reports and public spectacle surrounding the event.
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New Orleans
Robert E. Lee
Natchez
Mississippi River
John W. Cannon
Lee
Canal Street
Thomas P. Leathers
St. Louis
Captain Leathers
Vicksburg
Memphis
Cairo
Monroe Day sale planned in Monroe and West Monroe
Monroe day will be observed tomorrow July 1 as merchants offer bargains across northeast Louisiana. Jewelry ready to wear hardware vacation items furniture electrical supplies drugs automobiles and auto accessories will be sold at substantial savings attracting shoppers from the trade area.
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Monroe
West Monroe
Louisiana
West
Roosevelt signs tax bill for railroad retirement plan
President Roosevelt signed today a tax bill to finance the new railroad retirement plan.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Killer of Two Ends Own Life Near Capture in Mississippi
Dekalb Mississippi sheriff reports Jack Barefield 34 shot and killed his wife and her mother 62 then killed himself as a posse closed in near Dekalb. Barefield separated from his wife two weeks ago while she faced divorce. The children were staying with their grandmother.
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Dekalb
Miss
Jack Barefield
Lucinda Taylor
Barefield
R. E. Key
Scooba
Sheriff Key
Secretary of Louisiana Board for the Blind Retires
O L Jones longtime Louisiana blind work leader retires as executive secretary and leaves for Greenville Delaware or Greenville South Dakota no precise place given to farm. He will be succeeded by Dr George O Delesdernier from Toronto attending an international convention of workers for the blind. Jones had offered resignation earlier but the board refused to accept it. The board honored him with a gold watch.
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Baton Rouge
O. L. Jones
Louisiana
State Board For the Blind
Greenville
D. C
George O. Delesdernier
Toronto
Canada
International Convention of Workers For the Blind
Jones
Roosevelt Wedding in Wilmington Ties Roosevelt Jr to Ethel du Pont
President Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt traveled by special train to Wilmington to witness the marriage of their son Franklin Jr to Miss Ethel du Pont. The ceremony unfolded at a country church as the couple joined in a storybook romance that had captivated observers. The wedding tied the Roosevelts to the prominent Du Pont family and drew a party of relatives friends and White House staff to the event. Franklin’s brothers and sister were en route or present, with John Roosevelt remaining at Harvard as the youngest son awaits his own future marriage.
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Deal
Ethel du Pont
Hton
Roosevelt
Eugene America
New
Christchurch
Greencastle
Del
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr
Frederick As du Pont
Wilmigton
President Roosevelt
Montchanin Railway Station
Franklin, Jr
Washington
Wilmington
White House
Franklin
John
Harvard
Franklin Roosevelt, Jr
Threatened Milk Strike Cancelled in Louisiana and Mississippi
A planned milk strike by producers in parishes north of New Orleans and parts of south Mississippi was called off after Cloverland Dairy Products and producers agreed not to reduce prices. Vice president Charles M. Rhodes said the issue was settled and the strike ended. The fixed price remained at $2.32 per hundredweight rather than dropping to $1.85 in the earlier proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Louisiana
Mississippi
Charles M. Rhodes
Cloverland Dairy Products, Inc
Police Mounted Search for Snatch Victim Parsons
A circular from J Edgar Hoover alerts Monroe police to hunt for Mrs Alice McDowell Parsons a 38 year old socialite missing since June 9 from her Stony Brook Long Island home Federal authorities have shifted to active pursuit of the missing woman or her alleged abductors.
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J. Edgar Hoover
G-men
Monroe
Alice McDowell Parsons
Stony Brook
Long Island
DAMAGE TASKED BY POLICE JURY
The parish police jury met in a special session and voted to appoint a committee to determine the cause of damage to homes in ward three. The panel, led by President Lloyd Warren, will confer with city officials and health authorities and may hire a chemical engineer to reach a competent conclusion. Members include Harry Williams, Boomer Myatt, Benny Oakland, John M. Breard, and Aylmer Montgomery from wards three, five and ten.
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Parish
Lloyd Warren
Harry Williams
Boomer Myatt
Benny Oakland
John M. Breard
Aylmer Montgomery
Three Arrests Named in Alabama Death Case
In Geneva county near Scranton three people were arrested on murder warrants in the death of Preston Dunn. Mrs Mattie Chancellor Buck Holmes and Doc Tate are in custody with possible further arrests expected. A physician reported Dunn had head injuries from blows, though Holmes said Dunn fell under wagon wheels after losing balance. Tate and Dunns wife were in another wagon nearby.
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Geneva
Ala
Preston Dunn
Geneva County
Scranton
W. C Reister
Mattie Chancellor
Buck” Holmes
Doc” Tate
Dunn
Holmes
Tate
Florida
Register
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Holler
TECH
Siagle
Board For Blind
President's Party
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