Lindbergh Kidnapping Case: Hauptmann Arrested in Bronx Ransom
Police announce the arrest of Bruno Richard Hauptmann on charges tied to the Lindbergh kidnapping and ransom. Authorities say he handled ransom money and was identified by witnesses and handwriting. Officials expect the arrest to resolve the case.
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New York
Bruno Richard Faustmann
Bronx
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Hauptmann
United States
William J. Moran
John Perrone
Jassie
Justice Department
John I. O’ryan
J. Edgar Hoover
Criminal Investigation Division
Department of Justice
Washington
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
New Jersey
Lindbergh
Hopewell
Marrying Parson Wins Indiana Court Decision
Crown Point Indiana judge declares the marriages performed by Rev Oscar Stevens legal. The court orders County Clerk George Sweigert to record thirty marriages by Stevens after he had refused to enter them claiming Stevens lacked authorization.
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Crown Point
C. V. Ridgely
Oscar Stevens
George W. Sweigert
Mr. Stephens
Sweigert
Stevens
German Gas Tainted Eight Days Poison Report
Le Jour reports German chemists perfected a method to deploy poison gases for eight days. An absorbent clay is impregnated with gas, dried, and sprayed from airplane exhaust as a fine powder. Ground touched by the powder forms a barrier preventing troop occupation and city evacuations.
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Paris
le Jour
Famed Gold City in Alaska Ruined by Fire
Alaska’s city of gold burned from a spark at the Golden Gate hotel collapsing wooden blocks. Flames felled federal buildings the Miners and Merchants bank and most stores and hotels. Two Eskimos died trapped, with losses up to 3 million dollars.
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Name
Alaska
Golden Gate
Bloodhounds Hunt Slayer of Canton Athlete
Canton Georgia authorities pursue a slayer after Virgil Turner twenty one former Canton high school athlete was shot to death near town in what coroner C H Peacock says appears to be a robbery attempt by a passenger in Turner's car. Thirty special deputies and a pack of bloodhounds tracked the suspect said to be a resident of Atlanta.
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Canton
Virgil Turner
C. H. Peacock
Turner
Atlanta
Fatty nickname linked to Crivello’s suicide in Oakland
In Oakland California eighteen year old William Crivello a business college student killed himself with a shotgun after the nickname Fatty was applied to him his mother Mrs Jennie Crivello told police.
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Oakland
Calif
Fatty
William Crivello
Jennie Crivello
Son Confesses to Killing Mother in Lakehurst
After hours of questioning by county detectives, Arthur Gant twenty seven admitted he shot and killed his mother Sarah sixty eight with a twelve gauge shotgun in Lakehurst New Jersey.
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Lakehurst
N. J
Arthur Gant
Sarah
Plan Offered for Strike Settlement
The Roosevelt mediation board urged a nationwide textile walkout pause until a series of boards study industry conditions. It proposes a textile labor relations board to settle union recognition and disputes, labor department and FTC review of higher wage demands, a moratorium on the stretch out, and a labor department inquiry into job classifications and wages.
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Roosevelt
White House
Mediation Board
John Winant
New Hampshire
Textile Labor Relations Board
Department of Labor
Federal Trade Commission
Rescue on Lake Michigan: Sailor Clings to Mast Amid Storm
Tracine Wis. Herman Jensen is saved after fourteen hours on the Spray mast as a Lake Michigan squall sinks the sloop. Two comrades Irving Uhrler and Thomas Graham drown. Jensen and Uhrler reach Milwaukee aboard the damaged craft, while Graham is lost. Uhrler succumbs from exhaustion after climbing the mast.
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Tracine
Wis
Herman Jensen
Spray
Lake Michigan
Jensen
Milwaukee
Irving Uhrler
Thomas Graham
Uhrier
Graham
Ex-Convict Kills Two and Self With Gun
Washburn Wise County authorities said a former convict killed two companions in a drunken quarrel and then shot himself as officers approached. Merton Gasman, a sailor recently released after desertion, was held responsible for the farmhouse slayings two miles north of here. Victims were Dr W Z McCoshen a former dentist and William Poplinski a farmer and mechanic.
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Washburn
Wise County
Merton Gasman
Here
W. Z. McCoshen
William Poplinski
Big Game Refuge Ordered Created in Minnesota
The Minnesota conservation commission authorized an 8 000 acre game and fish refuge and public shooting grounds in the Talcott area in Cottowood county the first refuge of its land in the southwestern part of the state. It will require acquiring 1 700 acres by purchase.
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St. Paul
Minnesota Conservation Commission
Talcott
Cotto’wood County
Murderous Break From Springfield Jail Stuns Court
Alexander Kaminski of New Britain Conn the man convicted of slaying a jail guard escaped Hampden county jail where a police officer watched him, turning up outside his cell door.
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Springfield
Alexander Kaminski
New Britain
Soldier Henge Drengsrud Found Dead Near Camp Riley
Private Henge Drengsrud of Crosby North Dakota in the Eighteenth field artillery was found dead near Camp Riley with a bullet hole in his head.
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United States
Little Falls
Minn
Henge Drengsrud
Crosby, N. D
Eighteenth Field Artillery
Camp Riley
Russia Accepted into the League of Nations Council Seat
The Soviet Union was voted into the League of Nations with 40 to 0 for a permanent council seat, while Russia joined the world body by a 3 to 3 vote amid abstentions. Maxim Litvinov warned of war dangers and objected to Articles 12 15 22 and 23 while defending Soviet sovereignty and unity.
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Geneva
Family of Nations
Assembly
Russia
League of Nations
Council
Maxim Litvinai
Ife
Soviet Union
Litvinoff
Germany
Japan
Europe
Asia
Michigan Professor Rolled by Farmers at Milk Meeting
Farm management professor E B Hill of Michigan State College was chased from a Farmers' union meeting on the college campus and rolled in mud by about 3,000 farmers who believed he was a milk producers spy. Hill attended to learn farmers' views on milk price protests against marketing sanitations.
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Farmers Roll Michigan
Mich
E. B. Hill
Farm Management Department
Michigan State College
Itate
Farmers’ Union
Hill
Two Miners Killed in Dixie Coal Strike Clash
Birmingham Alabama reports the first deadly incident since the spring settlement as two black miners HH Collins and Ed Woolens were killed during a march of about 3,000 union miners toward Porter to demand labor organization. Sheriff Hawkins said deputies shot at marchers. deputies claimed shots occurred after occupants were dragged from homes and beaten.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
HH. C. Collins
Ed Woolens
Porter
Organization of Labor
J. Kk. Hawkins
Porter Village
Mussolini Rejects Viva Il Duce Letter Endings
Rome reports that Fascist secretary Achille Starace ordered all official and private letters between party members end with Viva il Duce. The directive displeased Mussolini, who had the order withdrawn and endings return to Yours respectfully or Yours devotedly.
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Rome
Achille Starace
Fascist Party
Mussolini
Duluth Man Elected Grand Sire of Odd Fellows
Toronto Ontario William A. Dittenger of Duluth Minnesota was elected grand sire of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at its annual meeting. He succeeds James A. Davis of Tacoma Washington.
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Duluth
Odd Fellows
Toronto
Ontario
William A. Dittenger
Minn
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
James A. Davis
Tacoma
Wash
Manly tragedy ends in murder and marriage
In Middlesex England George Manners loved Mary Lascelles but her brother Edmund opposed the match. After a quarrel Manners was accused of murder as Edmund was found slain with a missing hand and sapphire ring. Detective James Shropshire uncovered James Parker as the real killer. Parker confessed, Manners was later married to Mary Lascelles.
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Borge Manners
Mary Lascelles
Middlesex
England
Edmund
George Manners
Manners
Edmund Lascelles
Lascelles
James Shropshire
Shropshire
James Parker
Parker
Wichita Beacon Fined In Advertising Case
The Wichita Beacon was fined 500 dollars on five counts for false advertising. Indictments were returned earlier by a special grand jury. The paper has 30 days to appeal to the state Supreme Court.
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Wichita
Kan
Wichita Beacon
Beacon
Supreme Court
Laura Daly Dies of Detroit Woman in Port Alma Crash
Mrs Laura Daly of Detroit died at General Hospital from injuries in an automobile accident near Port Alma. The crash occurred earlier on a regional road drawing city and hospital notices.
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Chatham
Cai
Laura Daly
Detroit
General Hospital
Port Alma
Christina Queen of Sweden’s Reign and Life Details
Christina of Sweden born December 8 1626 ascended the throne after Gustavus Adolphus died in 1632. She reigned under Oxenstierna’s regency until 1644 and was crowned in October 1650. Known for amours yet remembered as a benevolent ruler.
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Christina
Sweden
Gustavus Adolphus
Oxenstierna
Heart Education Defines True Gentlefolk Values
A reader asks if modern life erases decency as education rises. A noted thinker replies that true courtesy stems from the education of the heart, not schooling alone, and that consideration for others marks a genuine gentleman or lady even among the educated or rural. Bell Syndicate. WNU Service.
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Bell Syndicate
WNU
Appian Way Among World’s Most Famous Roads
The article notes ancient Rome’s Appian Way as a lasting 20 century road model. It contrasts Roman construction, bearing burdens with solid stone and concrete masonry, to modern methods that merely dress soil. It describes width, curbs, and side roads, highlighting enduring design.
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Rome
Appian Way construction details reveal multi layer roadbed
The article explains the Appian Way built with a sand and gravel bed, then four masonry layers. First a fossil masonry layer 10 inches to 2 feet thick, second a 9 inch layer of smaller stones with lime mortar, third a concrete layer 1.25 feet thick at center tapering to 1 foot, and a final wearing layer of polygonal stones eight feet in diameter and six inches thick laid tightly.
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Washington Star
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Albert C. Ritchie
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Mitchie
Lake
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Vance Wy
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WNU Bervice
Acto Accident
S.S.S
Saar
Cuticura
Malden
Mass
Jones
Brown
Postum
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Foops
Battle Creek
Mich. W.nla
Pontum
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