Fearful theories swirl in Parsons kidnapping case
Investigators disclose reciprocal wills naming Mrs. Alice McDowell Parsons and her Russian housekeeper as beneficiaries as fear grows Parsons may have been slain. Ransom note of 25 000 linked to motive. Federal and local agencies clash over leadership while New York tip leads to Alex Kuprianoff case.
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Stony Brook
Alice McDowell Parsons
Parsons
Anna Kupryanova
Asst
Harry C. Brenner
Suffolk County
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Kupryanova
New York City
Alex Kuprianoff
Insurgent Attacks on Bilbao Amid Basque Siege
In northern Spain insurgents clash with Basque defenders around Bilbao as bombardments and trench assaults raise fears of a final breakthrough. Franco proposes foreigners in ranks may leave if government troops do likewise while Prieto launches a southern offensive near Cordoba to divert attention from Bilbao.
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Associated Press
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Fidelio Davila
Amurria
Guidacano
Francisco Franco
Franco
Burgos
Guilera
Oviedo
Spain
Madrid
Genndalecio Prieto
Cordoba
Prieto
Sierre de la Grana
Fuentevejuna
Police seek second man in Dentice death case
Milwaukee police say a second man may be involved in the killing of Jack Dentice, alleging Frank La Galbo fired the three shots. Detectives theorize one man held Dentice by the hair while another fired at close range, with hair found in the victim’s car. A Munising woman exonerated after voluntary questioning showed no involvement.
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Milwaukee
Police Today
Jack Dentice
Petty Soedium
Dentice
Frank la Galbo
Detect Lives
Munising
Mich
Deniice
France declines next war debt installment payment
A note through Ambassador Georges Bonnet in Washington states France will not pay the next 80 million dollar installment due. Accumulated defaults as of June 15 total 323 million 333 thousand 333 dollars, sources said.
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Paris
Georges Bonnet
Washington
United States
France
Relief measure altered by senate appropriations panel
The senate appropriations committee adopted a modified Byrnes relief bill by a 13 to 10 vote. The changes delay the 40 percent cost contribution until Sept 30 and apply only to new projects. WPA head Hopkins urged rejection to keep spending control.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
Byrnes
James F. Byrnes
South Carolina
WPA
Harry L. Hopkins
Fear as 30 Hitler maidens feared drowned in flood
Berlin dispatch reports ten bodies recovered with twenty girls missing after a flood swelled a stream beside a swimming pool where the Hitler maidens group or Girls Guides were bathing. Rescue efforts continue as authorities brace for more fatalities.
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Berlin
Hitler Maidens Organization
Edesheim
Four Power Pact Reached on Naval Neutrality Patrol
London announced a four power agreement among Great Britain France Italy and Germany to preserve safety for warships on the Spanish neutrality patrol and to avoid retaliation without mutual consultation. The pact also covers German and Italian ships returning to the nonintervention fold amid Spanish conflict tensions.
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Spain
Great Britain
France
Italy
Germany
London
Almeria
Innsbruck
Austria
Pick Committee to Probe Tax Dodging Formed in Congress
Vice President Garner's office announces six senators named to a joint congressional committee to investigate tax dodging. Harrison of Mississippi chairs finance panel. other appointees include King Usah George Walsh La Foliette and Capper. House members to be named later.
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Garner
Harrison
Mississippi
Joint Congressional Committee
King
Usah
George
Georgia
Walsh
Massachusetts
la Foliette
Wisconsin
Capper
Kansas
House
Death Decree Vetted by Soviet Court Trial Details
Eight high army officers including Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky were executed after secret trial on espionage charges. The military collegium of the supreme court ordered stripping of titles and swift execution by secret police. Pravda blamed fascist agents as evidence points to foreign interference. Continued on Page 2.
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Norman B. Deuel
United Press
Moscow
Russia
Mikhail Tuckhachevsky
Soviet Union
Supreme Court
Pravda
The
Communist
Goebbels
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Treasury May Not Borrow Next Year
Washington officials said the government could operate in the next fiscal year without new borrowing. With $200 million from June debt, the treasury may refinance due obligations after July. Social security receipts and baby bonds are expected to fund future needs, potentially allowing about $700 million to be borrowed from future beneficiaries instead of investors.
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Washington
Treasury
Harrison
Mississippi
Senate Finance Committee
House
Probe of Deaths in Sand Slide Ordered
In St. Croix Falls Wisconsin a probe into the deaths of four workers in a sand and gravel slide was ordered by village officials and the civilian conservation corps. A federal inquiry board was appointed to conduct the investigation after the tragedy. Victims include CCC youths Joseph Dieter 17 Spencer Hartwig Fischer 20 Rhinelander and William Kotsch 18 Stratford and Polk county employee Thomas Simmons 50 St. Croix Falls. Crews had worked at the pit all winter and heavy rains were blamed.
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St. Croix Falle
Wis
Civilian Conservation Corps
L. H. Barnhill
Sparta CCC
Tomah
CCC
Joseph Dieter
Spencer
Hartwig Fischer
Rhinelander
William Kotsch
Stratford
Polk County
Thomas Simmons
St. Croix Falls
Blaze kills man in abandoned Monticello cheese factory
Coroner rules death accidental after Fred Tschabold, 57, perishes in fire that destroyed the Buckskin Hollow cheese plant in Monticello Wisconsin. Four men had been living in the abandoned building. three escaped by leaping from windows, Tschabold did not awaken.
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Monticello
Wis
Frank A. Shriner
Fred Tschabold
Buckskin Hollow
Ischabold
Turer
John T. Syvrud
Tschahold J
Mani
Louis
Fred Ruler
Carl
Erb
Tschabold
Workers Quit At Bethlehem And Johnstown Plants
Federal Judge West overruled a bid to dismiss a suit to bar picket interference with shipments to strike bound Bethlehem and Johnstown steel plants. The walkout expanded as Bethlehem’s Cambria plant near Johnstown Pa. joined the strike. Gov. Davey’s peace talks with steel firms and the S W O C failed to yield a contract, with talks continuing.
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Cleveland
Samuel H. West
Committee For Industrial Organization
West
Columbus
Bethleshem Steel Corporation
Martin L. Davey
Ohio
Republic Steel " Corporation
Youngstown Sheet & Tube’ Company
Inland Steel Corporation
Bethlehem
Cambria
Johnstown
Pennsylvania
E. D.T
Snead Opens Open Lead With 283 After Rounds
Slammin Sam Snead fires 70 and 71 to total 283 and lead the United States Open field. The 283 surpasses the 285 standard set by Bobby Cruickshank in a fierce morning and afternoon, as the strongest score in the chase for the title.
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Firmingham
Mich
Sam Snead
West Virginia
Bobby Cruick- Fhank
Weather outlook and regional forecasts for Great Lakes period
The forecast calls for frequent showers in the Great Lakes region with temperatures near normal from June 14 to June 19. Observations note a cool start with limited precipitation, and winds from the south with a high barometer near 29.90.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
South Pordon
Northwestern
Great Lakes
Ruckstaff Observatory
Earhart Heads Toward Khartoum After Sudan Stop
Amelia Earhart arrived in El Fasher Sudan after a 900 mile flight from Fort Lamy. She planned to depart for Khartoum at 5:30 a m local time Sunday. The leg marked a roughly 500 mile longer push toward the east-northeast destination.
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Sudan
Amelia Earhart
Fort Lamy
French Equatorial Africa
Khartoum
Miss Earhart
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