Jury To Try Fortescue Honor Case In Honolulu Trial
Mrs Grace Hubbard Fortescue American society matron and three compatriots face second degree murder charges in the Hawaii case the "honor slaying" of Joseph Kahaha wai US Navy men Lieut Thomas H Massie and sailors Albert S Jones FE J Lord await verdict amid a polyglot jury projected by defense chief Clarence Darrow crowds fill the historic hall of chiefs in Honolulu as police cordon the steps and courtroom preparations continue.
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Honolul
T. H
Grace Hubbard Fortescue
American Society
Joseph Kahahawai
Fortesque
Jaer
Thomas H. Massie
United States Navy
Albert S. Jones
FE. J. Lord
Clarence Darrow
Charles S. Davis
Hawaii
Court House
Senate Divided Over Billion Dollar Tax Measure
Senate debates a new billion dollar tax bill with fights over a sales tax a beer tax and a soldiers bonus. Reed pushes a sales tax Bingham backs a beer tax to fund the measure while opponents fear Treasury deficits doom all efforts.
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Senate
William K. Hutchinson
Washington
House
Reed
Pennsylvania
Bingham
Connecticut
Treasury
Secretary Stimson plans Geneva disarmament conference visit
Special notes report Secretary Stimson will attend the Geneva disarmament conference. The writer recalls the opening day as a picnic and recalls figures like Doc Wolley, Mr Coolidge, and John D. Rockefeller Sr. in a chatty, opinionated tone.
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Beverly Hills
Cal
Stimson
Geneva
Doc” Wolley
Signals From Vessel To Auto On Beach
Signals flashing between an automobile on South Beach and an offshore vessel fueled speculation of a third Lindbergh flight in the search for the kidnapped baby. Tire marks found at West Tisbury near Senator Butler’s home amid reports the Lindbergh plane is being ready for a seaward run. Local theory points to John Hughes Curtis as a Lindbergh negotiator who joined the party in Massachusetts and rode the Alva to New York coastguard craft.
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International News Service
Chilmark
Island
Martha’s Vineyard
Mass
South Beach
Atlantic
Vineyard Sound
Charles A. Lindbergh
West Tisbury
United States
William M. Butler
New Jersey
Alva
John Hughes Curtis
Norfolk
Massachusetts
Lindbere
New York Coastguard
Curtis
East Brook high school campus needs finishing work
A PA Newc Observes note urges sending men to East Brook high school to complete maintenance begun by the county. Spring inspires talk of worms at breakfast with post office men and Pa Nene. Motorists without stickers risk patrol fines. license plates rise to 1933 pricing next year. Weather report logs 29 degrees at 3 am.
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East Brook High School
Post Office
Pa Nene
Weather Summary for Today and Last Year
Daily weather report shows a high of 56 and a low of 29 with no precipitation. River stage is 6.7 feet and falling. Last year on the same date the high was 52 and the low 26 with a trace of precipitation.
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U.S
Moratorium Sought on School Salary Increases
Altoona board of education asks Governor Pinchot and the State Department to declare a moratorium on teacher salary increases. Budget strains from declining taxes and real estate values under Edmunds act cited as reasons to curb raises to help districts balance finances.
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International News Service
Altoona
Gifford Pinchot
Altoona Board of Education Today
State Department of Education
Poised Grace Fortescue Leads Honolulu Honor Slaying Trial
Grace Hubbard Fortescue, mother of Thalia Massie, arrives in court from distant shores to support her daughter and faces jurors amid a cosmopolitan crowd as the trial of four defendants proceeds. Her composed presence and family resolve anchor the dramatic courtroom scene in Honolulu.
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Honolulu
T. H
Chiefs
Barkley and Shouse Named For Democratic Convention Roles
Democratic leaders expect the national committee to approve Senator A W Barkley of Kentucky as keynote speaker and Jouett Shouse as permanent chairman at the Chicago convention opening June 26. The picks, seen as a compromise, were directed by the arrangements committee after days of wrangling, with Roosevelt factions endorsing Barkley and Shouse backed by Smith Ras kob Shouse adherents.
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International News Service
Chicago
A. W. Barkley
Kentucky
Jouett Shouse
Barkley
Shouse
Democratic Committee
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
National Committee
Convention
Mercy killing ends long family tragedy at New Canaan
Nelson Silliman, superintendent of the Congregational Sunday school, killed his 53 year old wife who had suffered years of illness and then died by his own hand with a shotgun in New Canaan. Silliman, 54, was a hardware firm partner. the family had been prominent in church work for two decades.
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International News Service
New Canaan
New England
Chinese Rebels Suffer Defeat in Manchuria
Tokyo dispatches say Chinese rebels were routed from Fangchen about 100 miles east of Harbin by Japanese troops. The city reportedly fell to Japan with Chinese insurgents blamed for over 3000 deaths during their earlier occupation of Nungan, while other Manchuria combat in the Chientao District also favored Japanese forces.
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International News Service
Tokyo
Fangchen
Harbin
Rengo
Nungan
Changchun
Manchuria
Chientao
Wednesday Registration Day for New Voting Districts
Wednesday April 6 is the only chance for voters who moved since the November 1931 election to register for the April 26 primary. Those who changed residence within their precinct can register at the precinct polling place. residents in their old precinct need not register. County Superintendent J. Syling visits New Bedford Pulaski schools today.
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County Superintendent of
J. ©. Syling
New Bedford Pulaski
Major Schoeffel Hide and Seek with London Reporters
London April 5 Major Charles H Schoeffel of the New Jersey state police dodged reporters in a lively chase through the city as he refused to discuss his mission here. He implied the inquiry related to the Lindbergh kidnapping and urged the press to leave him alone.
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International News Service
London
Charles H. Schoeffel
New Jersey State Police
Schoeffel
Wampum Plans Two Room School And Expanded High Grade
Wampum trustees approved a two room school to house a new four year high school course. The building will be ready by next fall after state department approval. Two elementary rooms will move to the new structure and vacated rooms used for high school. Teacher salaries are being adjusted with a projected ten percent decrease.
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Wampum
W. A. Brown
State Department
Buster Keaton Takes Children Up In Plane
Buster Keaton flies with his children in an aircraft, drawing objection from his wife who does not want the stunt repeated. The incident highlights the couple's dispute over aviator pranks.
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Buster Keaton
Mrs Buster Keaton heads for Ensenada air trip with sons
Los Angeles reports Mrs Buster Keaton enters an aviation misadventure with her two sons Joseph nine and Robert eight aboard an airplane bound for Ensenada Mexico to raise cows chickens and ducks. The sequence unfolds amid the couple’s ongoing public life as exiled from Natalie Talmadge’s family.
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Los Angeles
Buster Keaton
Buster
Joseph
Robert
Ensenada
Mex
Flood toll rises across Romania as floods wash out railways
In Romania on April 5, at least 40 people were reported killed by floods. Transylvania suffered eight railway lines and a dozen bridges washed out while Klausenburg's factory district was flooded.
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Bucharest
Rumania
Transylvania
Klausenburg
Death notices from Toledo and nearby towns report several passings
Death records list Mrs Olive Moorhead of Toledo O Kocmer Grynzuk aged 51 at Lawrence County Home Wayne Clarence Johns age 7 months of South New Castle Boro Garfield A Rowe age 54 at Liberty hotel and Mrs Ida J Davis aged 69 of 802 Etna Street with details unreadable for others.
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Olive Moorhead
Toledo
O. Kocmer Grynzuk
Lawrence County
Wayne Clarence Johns
South New Castle
Chicago Teachers Stage Beneficial Style Show to Aid Debt
Chicago teachers plan an April benefit fashion show to raise money as Mayor Anton Cermak says the city must escape red ink by midsummer. The article notes teachers are tired of waiting for overdue pay and includes photos of Mrs Marguerite Fitzgerald Helen Flynn and Elizabeth Lyons modeling gowns.
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Chicago
Anton Cermak
Windy City
Verdue
Marguerite Fitzgerald
Helen Flynn
Elizabeth Lyons
Democratic Leaders Attack Hoover Proposals on Economy
Democratic leaders in Washington denounce President Hoover's plans to reorganize bureaus and end duplication, rejecting his first two proposals but open to specific savings. They pledge to offer their own reorganization plan if Hoover does not present further ideas while both houses cut spending on appropriations.
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Washington
Congress
Hoover
Senate
House
Senate Appropriations Committee
Interior Department
Appropriations Committee
Special Committee
Art Goebel Aims to Break Altitude Record at Show
Art Goebel announces plans to attempt a new altitude record in a diesel powered airplane at the National Aircraft show. Ray Cooper will judge with official instruments arriving from Washington and high altitude oxygen equipment being installed. The article also notes weekend visitors Misses Mary and Hilda Whalen from Ray Street in Pittsburgh.
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Arthur G. Goebel
Detroit
Ray Cooper
Washington
Mary
Hilda Whalen
Ray Street
Pittsburgh
One Pound Baby Born in Kansas City Frontier Crib
In Kansas City on April 5 a 1 pound baby St. John, child of Mr. and Mrs. William St. John, ranks as perhaps the smallest live birth. The newborn, pronounced sound by the physician, lies in a hastily improvised packing box crib lined with hot water bags as the debate over underweight records centers on this infant against a 1.19 pound Berlin girl.
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International News Service
Kansas City
St. John
William St. John
Berlin
Baby St. John
Independence Drive Moves to Senate After House Action
The drive for Philippine independence shifts to the senate after the house votes for complete freedom for the islands following eight years of autonomy. Senate proponents seek swift action before the new tax bill, or risk postponement to the next session.
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International News Service
Washington
Senate
House
Congress
Two Die in Erie Auto Accidents Involving Streetcar
ERIE Pa April 5 Two persons were dead and another seriously injured in two automobile accidents here. The dead include Mrs Josephine Trembly 56 of Holyoke Mass mother of Rev Lawrence Trembly chaplain of St Joseph s Home for children and Matt Zill 49 of Erie. Mrs Trembly was fatally injured when she alighted from a street car after being struck and dragged 100 feet by an auto driven by Mrs Helen R Scholz of Erie. Michael Buchholzer 56 of Erie is in serious condition with possible fractured skull and other injuries at Amot hospital.
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International News Service
Erie
Josephine Trembly
Holyoke
Mass
Lawrence Trembly
St. Joseph’s Home For Children
Matt Zill
Trembly
Helen R. Scholz
Michael Buchholzer
Amot
Candidates Clash in Nationwide Storm of Promises
Citizens brace for a fierce campaign as candidates unleash a torrent of promises. The weathered drumbeat of speeches, rallies, and endorsements swells across regions, shaking hedges and bending trees while the public weighs new and old pledges.
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Major Schoeffel
Wallace X. Rawles
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