Police pursue Crowley linked missing girl in deadly car chase
One hundred Nassau County police join a manhunt for Helen Walsh 16 after Patrolman Hirsch was shot and killed. Crowley drives off with Walsh after a confrontation. McCahill and Davis corroborate the incident. An air search from Roosevelt Field targets Crowley as detectives seek other victims and suspects.
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New York
Helen Walsh
Brooklyn
Francis Crowley
Frederick Hirsch
Dist. Atty
Elvin N. Edwards
Crowley
Hirsch
Walsh
John MecCahill
Roosevelt
L. I
McCahill
Miss Walsh
Clinton Davis
North Merrick
MecCahill
Davis
Joseph Yadice
Yadice
Yodice
Virginia Brannan
St. Joseph’s Seminary
Yonkers
Ferdinand Schadl
Lexington Avenue
Roosevelt Field
Kearney
Nassau County
John Quirk
Seward Spoor
Town Rises in Arms Against the Kidnappers
Staunton residents armed and patrolling roads after anonymous ransom threats target F. J. Stolze and his two sons. A vigilante committee of 40 local leaders pledges protection and remains armed around the hotel housing the children as investigators search for the kidnap ring suspected in southern Illinois.
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Staunton, Mihl
U.P
Staunton
F. J. Stolze
Stolze
Ilinois
Grain Inquiry Report to Be Tabled in Commons
Ottawa reports that the grain inquiry headed by Sir Josiah Stamp will be tabled in about ten days. The Prime Minister plans a floor statement on the findings while Premier Bennett announced this in the House of Commons.
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Ottawa
Uni
Josiah Stamp
House of Commons
Bennett
Man Dies in Self‑Set Swamp Fire Near Berlin
Berlin Wisconsin Paul Cismoski aged 73 died in a swamp burning accident on his farm ten miles north of Berlin Neighbors found his body after his wife raised alarm when he failed to return home Authorities believe he was overcome by smoke and flames on the late yesterday incident was reported by UP.
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Berlin
Wis
U.P
Paul Cismoski
Here
Fire destroys De Pere Paper Manufacturing plant
Damage in excess of 150000 dollars was reported as a blaze gutted the De Pere Paper Manufacturing company along with a house eight barns a garage and a restaurant and damaged several other buildings. Firemen suspected the plant as the origin of the fire and many buildings were set alight by embers carried on a northeast wind. The plant employed about 40 people and dated from 1890 when it started as a boiler factory before becoming a paper mill.
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de Pere
Wis
de Pere Paper Manufacturing Company
Herman Miller
Green Bay
Morris
Governors Response Elevates Kentucky Guerrilla Crisis
Harlan officials press for state troops as Bar- Tan county endures guerrilla violence tied to coal strike. Sheriff Blair says Gov Sampson refused without a citizens petition, noting five new deaths in two weeks including three deputies. He urges a small detachment to Evarts to curb violence, but county cannot safely circulate petitions.
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Harlan
U.P
Kentucky
Bar- Tan County
Flem D. Sampson
John Henry Blair
United Press Today
H. H. Howard
Evarts
Reno divorce mill bodels and dissree
United Press reports divide on Nevada Reno divorce laws with voices from Dr. Christian Reisner and Michael Williams criticizing the system as godless and corrosive to the nation while others like Dr. Potter and Dr. White defend flexible or more lenient divorce rules. The piece cites clergy views and notes the trend toward rapid, five minute divorces and the potential national impact.
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H. Aven Smith
United Press
New York
Gistian F. Reisner
Broadway Tabernacle
Reno
Dr. Reisner
Michael Williams
the Commonweal
United States
Rome
Nevada
Charles Francis Potter
First Humanist Society
Eliot White
America
Mexico
Justice of the Peace
No. 1
White
Judge George
Mothers Sail to Visit Graves of Heroic Soldier Dead
About 150 gold star mothers sailed from Hoboken aboard the George Washington to France as the 1931 pilgrimage to World War I graves. Assistant Secretary of War Frederick H. Payne described the trip as idealistic and rooted in national pride, aiming to ease mothers’ burden. Attending were officials from the Army, Navy, state and municipal governments and Paul W. Chapman, president of United States Lines.
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New York
France
George Washington
Hoboken
Frederick H. Payrie
Army and Navy
Paul W. Chapman
United States Lines
Siam
United States
Orient
New York City
Jimmy Walker
City Hell
Hoover Roosevelt to Debate in Indiana Campaign Spark
United Press reports Hoover and Franklin D Roosevelt may stage a 1932 presidential campaign debate. Indiana Democrats push Roosevelt to Gary while Hoover addresses editors in Indianapolis, aiming to contrast Hoover and Roosevelt for early campaign momentum and issue lines.
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Paul R. Mallon
United Press
Washington
u.Pi
Hoover
White House
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
Lincoln
Douglas
Indiana
Roosevelt
Gary
Republican
Indianapolis
Ohio
Wiinois
Marion
Lincoln Memorial
Springfield
Haver
Kellogg Pact Invoked by Ministers Over Air Maneuvers
Evanston ministers invoke the Kellogg pact to oppose planned May 20 aerial maneuvers over Lake Michigan. About 600 army planes are slated to participate in a Chicago jubilee, prompting protests to President Hoover and War Secretary Hurley from the ministers’ association.
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Evanston
Anston
Pro
Vinesir
Lake Michigan
Chicago
Hoover
Hurley
Ministers’ Association of
Postmaster General Denies Blaine Charge on Chicago Building Site
Postmaster General Walter T. Brown called Senator John J. Blaine s claim that the post office slipped past Congress to obtain authority for the Chicago federal building site an unmli gated falsehood. Brown accused Blaine of misstatements while noting Treasury involvement and stressed careful oversight by committees.
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Washington, D. C
John J. Blaine
Post Office Department
Congress
Chiiecayo Federal
Walter T. Brown
Wisconsin Republican
Senate
Brown
Chicago
Postoffice Department
Post Office
Committees On Appropriations
Blaine
Treasury Department
Fost Offics Department
Winter Returns Hit Scattered Areas Across Mississippi Valley
Weather bulletin reports a drop in temperatures across the Mississippi Valley with snow and hail storms in the Midwest. Forecasts from C A Donnel note cooler air, with forecasts of 70 to 80 degrees in some regions giving way to snow in parts of Minnesota and North Dakota and a Kansas wheat loss due to hail.
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Mississippi Valley
C. A. Donnel
Weather Bureau
Midwest
Lakegan
Chicago
Thomas O'Malley Co
Cascado
Minnesota
North Dakota
Iowa
Uinois
Swope Calls Industry to Solve Unemployment Problem
General Electric president Gerard Swope urged industry to stabilize employment and share the burden of unemployment. He argued taxation and charity are insufficient and that workers must contribute to benefit plans. The International Chamber of Commerce session also noted American image concerns, while heat in Chicago caused a death as a gardener collapsed after extreme conditions.
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Gerard Swope
The
General Electric Company
International Chamber of Commerce
Thomas L. Stokes
United Press
Washington
Swope
Aloyse Meyer
Luxemburg
Vartel
International Chamber
Jack
Michelson Failing Health Battle at 78
Pasadena reports Dr. Abert A. Michelson a veteran scientist is slowly losing his fight for life after a nervous breakdown since March. Physicians warned his age 78 complicates recovery as his condition worsened over the past week.
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Pasadena
Catif.in
Abert A. Michelson
Michelson
Peavey asks sec Doak to aid strike willil Superior and Duluth
Congressman Hubert H Peavey forwards a telegram to Secretary Doak urging intervention for longshoremen on strike in Superior Wisconsin and Duluth Minnesota The appeal cites 125 workers in Superior 275 in Duluth with wage cuts from 70 to 60 cents per hour and notes adverse living conditions and seasonal unemployment The message argues for government action to preserve American living standards and wage scales in line with administration policy.
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Washburn
Wis
Hubert H. Peavey
Superior
Duluth
Mhin
William H. Doak
Labor Department
Minn
Ithe Great Lakes Transit Company
Mos
Washington
Hubert HW. Peavey
Wisconsin
Bundesen Accepts Health Commissioner Post in Chicago
Dr Herman N Bundesen now health commissioner designate for Chicago after Mayor Cermak offered the post He had previously served under Mayor Dever and was Cook county coroner elected in 1928 with a record majority He briefly floated an independent run but withdrew to avoid affecting Cermaks election plans.
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Chicago
Herman N. Bundesen
Cook County
Anton J. Cermak
William E. Dever
Hoover
Cermak
William Hale Thompson
Cooperation By the Public and Doctors Advised By Mayo
The Minnesota Medical Association delegates outline an educational program to involve the public in medical advances and disease prevention. Dr Ludwig Sogge stresses public cooperation as essential to effective care. Charles Mayo urges ongoing public education about medical progress. Dr Melvin Henderson of Rochester elected president to succeed Dr Sogge.
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Mayo
Minneapolis
Minnesota State Medical Association
Cording
Ludwig Sogge
Windoi
Association
Charles H. Mayo
Rochester
Melvin
Henderson
Sogee
Welfare of North Area Overlooked in Fires Debate
John B. Chapple Ashland editor charged the Wisconsin legislature with politics interfering with northern welfare as a committee heard northern reps on forest fire conditions. The Inter-County Association for Conservation spoke for nearly 300 members while editors reported survey results on losses from fires this year.
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Ashland
Madison
U.P
John B. Chapple
Wisconsin
Chapple
Inter- County Association For Conservation
Moves for early adjournment of the legislature
Wisconsin assembly moves to wrap up the 1931 session with a plan to send chain bank legislation to a special session or the 1933 legislature. A second bill, approved, would withdraw all pending bills from committees by May 26 for calendar referral. Gov La Follette seeks adjournment before July 1.
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Madison
Wis
U.2
Wisconsin
Assembly
Philip’p. la Follette
E. Mervyn Rowlands
Cambria
Chapple accuses Wisconsin officials of hampering industry after fires
Chapple estimated timber losses exceed 1 million dollars amid a four day fire spread. He claimed schemes by a small clique of commissars stopped legislative work and harmed northern Wisconsin. He cited Governor La Follette's Chicago address and questioned conservation claims as smoke lingered. Continued on Pam Specane.
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Chapple
Wisconsin
Chicago
la Follette
Freezing Day Weather Report From Associated Press
Wisconsin partly cloudy with frost or freezing temperatures tonight. Thursday will be slightly warmer in the afternoon. Upper lakes northwest winds shifting to northwest on Huron with showers. Warnings for small craft issued for eastern Lake Superior and the east shore of Lake Michigan. Upper Michigan mostly cloudy and colder in east and central portions with possible rain in extreme east tonight. Monday 5 p.m. to Tuesday 8 p.m. shows temperature 80 as maximum and 44 as minimum with 0.5 inch precipitation and northwest wind. Barometer 29.23. Maximum 80 and minimum 44. One year ago maximum 85 minimum 61.
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Ises
Associated Press
Wisconsin
Upper Lakes
Superior
Michigan
Huron
Lake Superior
Lake Michigan
Upper Michigan
Buckstaff Observatory
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