Burch Freed After Murders Trials Insanity Verdicts
Arthur C. Burch of Evanston is freed after three murder trials and insanity hearings ended with juries deadlocked. A majority of the insanity panel found him harmless if insane, ending the case over the 17 months since J Belton Kennedy was shot on Beverley Glen steps. Mrs Obenchain was tried twice with juries also disagreeing.
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Arthur C. Burch
Evanston
Burch
J. Belton Kennedy
Beverley Glen
Madalynne Obenchain
Pamphlet Author Ed Roberts Surrenders in Federal Case
Ed Roberts, former publisher of It and former city council candidate, surrendered to federal marshals to answer a grand jury indictment accusing him of sending forbidden literature to other states. The pamphlet The Sins of Hollywood alleged songs of movie stars and raffled parties, causing Hollywood bitterness.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Holywood
Hollywood
Ed Roberts
Mendall Held in Murder Case Over Love Triangle
Harold H. Mendall is jailed on a murder charge in Bay City Michigan for the death of his friend Rollin H. Morgan in the Kawkawlin River four months ago. Mendall admitted both men had fallen for each other's wives and that they exchanged wives and spent time together. An anonymous tip prompted the investigation into Morgan's death.
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Chum
Bay City
Mich
Rollin H. Morgan
Harold H. Mendall
Morgan
Mendell
Kawkawlin River
Slain on Courthouse Steps in Grayson Kentucky
A 24 year old Grayson man Grayson Ky Harrison Blanton shot and killed Paul Herron on courthouse steps minutes after his son was acquitted of killing William Blanton. Deputies guarded the county jail as threats of lynching the younger Blanton circulated among a crowd that included many trial attendees.
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Grayson
Harrison Blanton
Paul Herron
William Blanton
Blanton
Drug seizure in Canada hits smuggling ring
Royal Canadian Mounted Police and customs agents seized ten thousand ounces of narcotics in Montreal. The drugs valued at wholesale prices around $70,000 but sold by peddlers in Montreal for nearly $1,000,000, were intercepted as part of efforts to prevent drug smuggling into Canada.
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Montreal
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Canada
Troops Sought to Recover Slain Agent Body in Kentucky
United States Commissioner W H Wood at Mt Sterling Ky asked the war department to send troops to Fort Thomas Ky if needed to aid in recovering the body of Prohibition Agent Duff. Moon shiners in Menifee county are holding the body and barricaded in cabins to resist capture.
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United States
W. H. Wood
Mt. Sterling
War Department
Fort Thomas
Prohibition
Duff
Menifee County
Relief Plan Aims for Ten Million Russians This Winter
Col William N Haskell arriving aboard the Berengaria said 7 000 000 Russians require relief this winter. He outlined that American relief workers will aid 4 000 000, while the remaining 3 000 000 will be supported by the Soviet government.
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New York
William N. Haskell
Russia
American Relief Administration
St. Louis Celebrates Its 100th Year
St. Louis marks a century since incorporation noting the city began with about 6 000 residents and has grown to roughly 800 000 today. The anniversary highlights a long urban evolution in Missouri's gateway.
Global political shifts spark bipartisan reform bloc action in Washington
A mixed group of 34 Republican and Democratic senators senators-elect representatives and representatives elect formed a progressive bloc in Washington to push a broad program of government reform and innovation. The White House urged restraint on direct presidential elections and a new Congress. Budget plans propose $3.08 billion in federal appropriations for next year with $12.25 million for reclamation projects if approved.
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Washington
la Follette
Congress
Harding
Paving Grants Proposed For 27 Counties In Indiana
State highways division at Springfield Indiana seeks 193 miles of paving across 27 counties. Geologists probe causes of a landslide that dropped four acres and 30 feet high into upper Big Eau Claire lake near Gordon Wisconsin. Missionaries in central China flee to Shanghai to escape bandits amid warnings from General Wu Pei Fu.
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State Highways Division
Springfield
Big Eau Claire Lake
Gordon
Wis
Centre China
Shanghai
Wu Pei Fu
Notable Obituaries and Personal News From 1900s Era
Personal Mary Miles Minter to wed Louis Sherwin according to a Los Angeles statement by Miss Minter’s close friends. Mrs Josephine Preston Peabody Marks dies in Cambridge widely known poet and playwright. Woodrow Wilson improves walking with cane in Washington. Oklahoma Supreme Court Judge C H Elting dies at Durant. Capt George Augur reputed largest man, eight feet four inches, dies in New York after circus tours. William Goodsell Rockefeller dies in New York of pneumonia. William H Vanderbilt returns to work as a clerk at United States Trust, New York, after inheriting 21 million on his 21st birthday.
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Mary Miles Minter
Louis Sherwin
New York
Los Angeles
Cal
Miss Minter
Josephine Preston Peabody Marks
Cambridge
Mass
George Augur
William H. Vanderbilt
United States Trust Company
Trials and political tensions across Europe and the Americas
The trial of Count Michael Karoly begins in Budapest with a demand for confiscation as he allegedly delivered Hungary to Bolshevism. In Mexico City a 16 American commission is welcomed after the Southern Commercial congress. In Rome Mussolini arranges to accept Italian migrants barred from the US. Bavaria’s Knelling refuses to sign an ally demanded apology. Chile’s senate majority blocks new loans or paper money.
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Budapest
National Council
Hungary
Southern Commercial Congress
Mexico City
Knelling
Bavaria
Munich
Senate
Santiago
Iowa News Roundup From Independence to Storm Lake
I J Freidman has been a mail carrier at Independence for thirty years. Earl Weiner of Sioux City, 19, killed himself after pining for friends in Russia. Mississippi navigation north of Keokuk closed for season. Six Des Moines coal firms accused of short weighing customers. A 1.3 acre farm near Strawberry Point sold for 170 an acre. John Anderson of Audubon grows over 100 bushels per acre on twelve acres. State board of education outlines winter program. Elmer Lichty and Clara Miller wed at Waterloo. William Price of Sioux City, 75, fatally burned while sleeping on a bed drinking. Muscatine officials refuse bill for special master in gas case. N M Davis near death after drinking lye. his wife died earlier. State institutional executives attend quarterly conference at State House. Lamoni farmers profit from turkey raising. Mrs McChesney sells fourteen turkeys for 115.65. Betty Boiler, Iowa City, after skull fracture from operation may survive. LeClaire canal opening to aid Mississippi navigation. R N Holsaple predicts 1935 end of rum. Buena Vista Calf Club ships thirteen baby beeves to Chicago. Iowans live five years longer than other states, says A C Savage. Sigma Nu house at Iowa State College burns. value 20,000. losses total 250,000. Northwestern Iowa hog diseases devastate herds. George Witter of Storm Lake dies at 71. Calf club calf shortage reported in Des Moines county. Calf club and dairy cow shortages noted. State board of health engineering surveys in 212 Iowa towns. 166 water supply, 32 sewage, 14 other issues. Most surveys respond to city petitions. except railway water supplies.
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C. F. Rummell
Fred Scuchman
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Audubon
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Black Hawk County
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Waterloo
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Muscatine
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Winterset
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Ferguson
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Lamoni
N. C. McChesney
Betty Boiler
W. F. Boiler
Iowa City
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Chicago
A. C. Savage
Iowa
Fort Des Moines
Sigma Nu
Iowa State College
Ames
Frank Nacks
Remsen
Theodore Dunkers
George Witter
Commercial Trust and Savings Bank of
Storm Lake
State Board of Health
Jesus in the Home of Fiends and Foes
Lesson summary contrasts Jesus at home with Mary and Martha and His rebuke of distracted service. It then portrays Jesus among foes, accusing the Devil’s work, demanding signs, and pronouncing six woes on Pharisees and lawyers for hypocrisy, legalism, and corrupt teaching.
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Christ
Martha
God
Beelzebub
Satan
Nineveh
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