Fess Daughter in Law Serves as Clerk for Senate Office
Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio lists Dorothy Fess as an assistant clerk for the senate library committee despite her Carlton hotel address. The United Press found no occupant named Dorothy Fess at that address, noting the practice of relatives serving in political offices is common in both parties and houses.
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Capitol Hill
Republican National Committee
Senator Fess
Toledo
Dorothy Fess
Senate Library Committee
Carlton Hotel
United Press
Lehr Fess
House of Representatives
Fess
Senate
Little Rock
Ark
Garner
Uvalde
Tex
Henry T. Rainey
House
May
Accessory State's Witness Testifies in Haynesville Bank Robbery Case
Charlie McWilliams testified as a key prosecution witness in the Haynesville bank robbery trial. He said H B Burley the former town marshal guided bandits through Haynesville and planned a late arrival before the robbery. McWilliams claimed Burley told him he would receive 2400 dollars.
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Homer
Charlie McWilliams
Planters Bank
Haynesville
H. B. Burley
McWilliams
Burley
Town Tales and Small Town Laughs Across Clearlake
Sunday party at Clearlake features doctors L R Hemler M W Hunter and B M McKain among guests. Local milk fund donations by A W Sandwich shop workers noted. Neville high school auditorium hosts Shreveport Symphony with praise for Blanche Oliver and Florence Zeigler. A West Monroe plant reputed to deter flies and a playful mother child exchange end with a light domestic note.
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Clearlake
L. R. Hemler
M. W. Hunter
B. M. McKain
Hunter
McKain
Neville High School
Shreveport Symphony Orchestra
Blanche Oliver
Florence Zeigler
Supt. E. L. Neville
Baltimore Ends Blue Laws in City Sunday Freedom Vote
Baltimore voters repealed the 20 year old Blue laws within the city by a landslide referendum. The measure allows Sunday cinema attendance bread purchases and baseball games, effective after statewide ratification and city ordinance. The vote amount was 142000 in favor to 83000 against, outpacing the presidential race turnout. The change follows a 25 year effort by Baltimore to decide sabbath observance independently of counties. The court of appeals had upheld the city action against conservative opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Hoover
Joseph J. France
Court of Appeals
Lord's Day Alliance
Council
Aviator Charged With Slaying Writer in Miami Case
Captain W. N. Lancaster a British flyer is charged with first degree murder in the shooting of Haden Clarke writer and fiancé of Mrs. Jess ie Keith-Miller. State Attorney Hawthorne said Lancaster confessed to forging two death notes and claimed self defense. Clarke was killed amid a love triangle involving Lancaster Keith-Miller and Clarke.
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Miami
Fla
W. N. Lancaster
Haden Clarke
Jessie Keith-Miller
N. Vernon Hawthorne
Dade County Grand Jury
Hawthorne
Keith-Miller
Lancaster
Clarke
Robbery at Pan Am Service Station in Oak Grove Louisiana
A lone bandit robbed the Pan Am Service station in Oak Grove as two men closed for the night. He forced them to the floor, took about 25 dollars from the till and from Pollard’s pocketbook, and vanished down an alley while wearing smoked glasses a slouch hat and a blue top coat. Pollard saved 158 dollars by tossing his wallet aside. No clues on the suspect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Grove
J. S. Pollard
Jim Miller
Pollard
Miller
Young Children Named Bondsmen of Arkansan
In Blytheville Arkansas on May 3 Jim Montgomery was freed on a penny bond of one cent. His three motherless children aged seven and younger acted as bondsmen. Authorities found an illicit still at Montgomery’s property and the magistrate ordered the children to ensure the father remains at home until his hearing.
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Grover Cleveland Kelly
Grover
Blytheville
Ark
Jim Montgomery
Liberty
Montgomery
Sixteenth Arrest Made In East Texas Oil Case
Longview Texas May 3 The arrest of George L Lovick freight agent for the Texas and Pacific railway increased to 16 the number of men held in Gregg county area of the east Texas oil field for alleged theft of oil He posted bond on six counts In all 18 men have been accused of 213 alleged felonies in connection with the case The other two men were expected to be arrested immediately
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Longview
Tex
George L. Lovick
Texas and Pacific Railway
Gregg County
East Texas
Patman accuses propaganda against soldiers bonus plan
Washington May 3. Representative Patman charged before the house ways and means committee that a flood of inspired propaganda has been used against the cash bonus payments. He said 98 percent of American Legion members favor cash redemption and cited newspaper ads funding.
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Washington
House Ways and Means Committee
Patman
Texas
House
Ways and Means Committee
American Legion
Legion Posts
Upstate Sterling Bridge Progress Reaches Completion Target
Construction on the Sterlington state highway bridge over the river advances at a satisfactory pace. Most piers are finished with steel work completed on the center turn span and two east spans. The remaining west pier foundation cave in high water, requiring extra piles. high water allowed steel placement without hoisting. Expect completion in early August.
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Sterlington
Coroner's jury links axe murders to unknown assailant
Memphis report says Mrs. Puryear and eight year old Aurelia were slain at daybreak by an unknown killer. A Negro suspect, Will Jamison, died after being shot by Stanley Puryear who claimed the assailant opened fire. Jamison reportedly spoke of money to move whiskey as he died.
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Memphis
Tenn
Stanley A. Puryear
Aurelia
Will Jamison
C. W. Miller
Puryear
Capone Ordered to Penitentiary by U S Tribunal
Chicago May 3 The U S circuit court of appeals vacated a writ of superseders keeping Capone in county jail while he appealed his income tax conviction The court invalidated the writ after receiving the Supreme Court refusal to review He is to be sent to Leavenworth within 24 hours with Marshal Laubenheimer transporting him alongside other federal prisoners.
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Chicago
Scarface al” Capone
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
United States Supreme Court
Capone
Muttimus
Leavenworth
Kansas
H. C. W. Laubenheimer
James H. Wilkerson
Laubenheimer
Preferential Primary in California Sets Democratic Choice
In California a preferential primary may settle the Democratic nomination between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Alfred E. Smith as voters choose from Roosevelt, Smith, and John N. Garner. Roosevelt leads in several states, with delegates at stake in Alabama and South Dakota, while Hoover dominates Republicans in California.
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California
Associated Press
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Alfred E. Smith
John N. Garner
Maryland
Hoover
Joseph I
France
Rhode Island
Smith
J. Hamilton Lewis
Ilinois
Alabama
South Dakota
Mississippi
One Murder Trial Left For This Term Of Court
Two pleas of guilty and a plea of insanity in a third case cut murder trials from four to one. The sole murder trial now on the docket involves William Elmore, a deaf Black man. The Robbins case, charged with shooting to kill in a dispute over property, is set for Tuesday next.
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William Elmore
Francis Eugene Robbins
John Hendlink
Earl Goldsmith
Louis Aaron
Assault trials loom in Honolulu court hearings
In Honolulu on May 3 attention centers on assault cases pending on the criminal calendar. Joseph Young, a 22 year old Korean, faces a trial for attacking a young Chinese girl while a retrial looms for four mixed race men accused of assaulting Mrs Thalia Massie. Legislation to prevent acquittal on a second mistrial moves through Congress and the Hawaii Governor Judd. Clarence Darrow is expected to seek a retrial for Lieut Thomas H Massie and three others after manslaughter verdicts.
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Honolulu
Joseph Young
Thalia Massie
Congress
Lawrence M Judd
Hawaii
Senate
Washington
Thomas H. Massie
Granville Fortescue
Clarence Darrow
Mint-Vending Machines Debated After Court Ruling
West Monroe officials discuss mint vending devices at a city council meeting. A recent District Judge Shell decision found the machines not illegal, prompting police and district attorney to review legality and consider their status as possible gambling devices. Continued on Page Two.
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West Monroe
H. A. Brownlee
J. T. Shell
J. M. Hammonds
David Garrett
Garrett
Hammonds
Shell
New Orleans Voters Decide On $750000 Unemployment Bonds
New Orleans voters went to the polls in a May 3 special election to approve a proposal to issue 750000 dollars in bonds to aid the unemployed. Bonds would be retired from existing revenues with no new taxes, and polling hours were 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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New Orleans
Democrats Senate Steering Group Approves Distribution Plan
The group confirms how vacant Senate seats will be allocated among party members. Robinson outlines the distribution across committees and regions, detailing which offices remain to be filled and the timeline for appointments.
Long resigns from Senate committees in party revolt
Huey Long resigns from all Senate committees in a solo challenge to Senate leadership under Senator Robinson. The Democratic steering committee accepts his resignations and fills the vacancies, leaving Long a man without a committee amid questions of party loyalty.
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Washington
Huey Long
Senate
Robinson
Arkansas
Democratic Steering Committee
Long
Commerce
Caraway
Navy
Morrison
North Carolina
Cohen
Georgia
Interoceania Cannals
Hawes
Missouri
Bailey
Harris
George
Young Woman Slain During Oklahoma Store HoldUp
A young woman dressed in black was shot dead as she fled a drug store holdup in downtown Oklahoma City. The druggist J H Jackson says he fired, claiming she produced a revolver and demanded money. Lena Hurt, 25, identified by police, had prior vagrancy and drunkenness charges. The incident occurred about 9 a m on Main Street near the business district.
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Oklahoma City
J. H. Jackson
Lena Hurt
Main Street
Jackson
Of Thee I Sing Wins Pulitzer Drama Prize
The musical comedy Of Thee I Sing wins the Pulitzer for drama, marking the first musical to receive the award. Other 1932 prizes go to Pearl S Buck for The Good Earth, the Indianapolis News for public service, and Walter Duranty and Charles G. Ross for reporting.
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New York
U.P
Pearl S. Buck
China
Indianapolis News
Walter Duranty
Moscow
New York Times
Charles G. Ross
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
John T. McCutchen
The
Chicago Tribune
John J. Pershing
Henry F. Pringle
Theodore Roosevelt
George Dillon
Frank R. Kelley
Brooklyn
Selma Hautzik
Jonathan D. Springer
Port Cheseter
N. Y
Cosumbia School of Journalism
Ernst Eaton
San Francisco
Francesco Roggeri
George Kaufman
Morrie Feshind
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G. O. P. Leader
U.S
United States
Simeon D. Fess
Ohio
Jes Ramblin
Morning World Milk Fund
Twin City
Ernest
Mummy
Mother
Flier
Bondsmen
Arkansan
Alice
Reginald Hargreaves
Lewis Carroll
Alice In Wonderland
Columbia University
Upstate Bridge
U. S
Federal Supreme Court
Gangster of Chicago Review
St. Louis
Euemnene
Helena
Wm. Elmore
Democrats
Oklahoma
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