Hauptmann Testifies He Was Home When Baby Was Kidnaped
In Bronx court Richard Hauptmann admitted lying about a $20 gold note when arrested and testified he was home with his wife Anna on March 1 1932 the night Lindbergh baby was abducted. He backed her account that he met her after work to escort her home.
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New York
Briano Richard Hauptmann
Bronx
Supreme’ Court
David T. Wilentz
New Jersey
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Hauptmann
Wilentz
Lindbergh
Richard Bruno Hauptmann
Anna
Abductor May Have Contacted Stoll On Day Five
Louisville dispatch reports that Alice Speed Stoll's family believes contact with the kidnapper was established on the fifth day of the case. Ransom of 50000 dollars is said to have been sent to Nashville as investigators note a possible sighting between Louisville and Nashville. Authorities emphasize safety over arrests, while exploring caves in nearby Kentucky as possible hiding places.
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Louisville
Alice Speed Stoll
Nashville
Mrs. Stoll
Warren County
Stoll
Kentucky
Franks No 1 oil well near Roswell shows promise
A good showing of oil has been encountered in Franks No 1 oil well southeast of Roswell. Operators, led by C. J. Franks, plan to shoot the well with acid and await results. The location is one half mile south of the Oasis Gin in the NE quarter of SE quarter, section 20 11 25.
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Roswell
C. J. Franks
Japan vows no naval race with America amid maneuvers
In Osaka Bay Admiral Nobumasa Sugetsugu led 180 warships in grand fleet maneuvers and said Japan need not fear U S naval buildup even if the 1935 conference fails. He urged ending Washington and London treaties for equal global tonnage.
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Osaka
Japan
Nobumasa Sugetsugo
Osaka Bay
America
Ameria
Sugetsugu
Washington
London
A European tour tainted by Balkan kings and Croats
In Santa Monica the writer recalls half a dozen Balkan nations and Yugoslavia, noting a Serbian king who dictated, while Croats resent Italy. He hints Mussolini's role in the king’s murder in France and questions Roosevelt's part in events, urging news that’s fit to print.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Balkan
Jugoslavia
Kite
Em. E
Liberty
Breuth
Amarillo Man Dies After Roswell Highway Crash
John Allen Nabors of Amarillo died at St Marys hospital from injuries after a car left the highway near the Fairbank station on the Roswell Dexer road. Three other Amarillo residents were injured in the Chevrolet sedan. Mrs Lula Young drove the car. S A Hardage suffered a possible amputated foot, Mrs Hardage severe bruises and cuts, and Mrs Young a broken arm and fractured ribs. Nabors body may be shipped to Fal dwy Mississippi for burial. The four were en route to the Carlsbad Caverns.
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John Allen Nabors
Amarillo
St. Mary’s Hospital
Fairbank
Roswell-Dexter Highway
S. A. Hardage
Lula Young
Ross Hotel
Young
Hardage
Schuler
Nabors
Faldwyn
Mississippi
J. E. Nabors
Roswell
Carlsbad
Carlsbad Caverns
Plan Air Line Across Pacific
The United States races for trans ocean air routes as Pan American Airways announces a Pacific passenger line from California to the Orient. Six flying boats with 32 seats each ordered for possible experimental service within six months. The plan, in correspondence with Postmaster General Farley, involves terminal study by Colonel Lindbergh on the west coast and a route likely via Hawaii.
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Washington
United States
Pan-American
2Lways
Pacific
California
Orient
Farley
Charles A. Lindbergh
West Coast
Hawaii
Reports of Pretty Boy Floyd sighting in Topeka
Gordon Clark, an attendant at Gage Park in Topeka Kansas, told police he saw a man he believed to be Charles Pretty Boy Floyd in a motorcar with an Illinois license plate at the park entrance about 10 am today October 15AP reports.
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Topeka
Kas
Gordon Clark
Gage Park
Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd
Illinois
GOP Meeting Set At Junior High Auditorium Here
A Republican campaign meeting will be held tomorrow night at 8 30 in the Junior High auditorium here. Speakers include Roswell candidate for governor Jaffa Miller former governor R C Dillon Maurice Miera running for the U S House and Jose Armijo for state attorney general. All voters are invited regardless of party.
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Jaffa Miller
Roswell
R. C. Dillon
U. S. Senate
Maurice Miera
U. S. House of Representatives
Jose Armijo
Supreme Court upholds anti cancellation of airmail contracts
The Supreme Court today denied review of a Transcontinental and Western Air India case, sustaining lower court rulings that the government cannot be sued without consent, thus backing the cancellation of airmail contracts last February. The court also refused to hear Al Capone’s bid for freedom, leaving his detention at Alcatraz intact.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc
Alphonse Capone
Chicago
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary
Revival of executed convict debated in Colorado
In Canon City Colorado an AP report notes Dr Robert F E Cornish of Berkeley proposes reviving a convict after execution but Warden Roy Best says the plan would be impossible under current Colorado law. The Oct 15 dispatch highlights legal and ethical hurdles to revival experiments.
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Canon City
Colo
Colorado
Robert FE. Cornish
Berkeley
Calif
Roy Best
Colorado Prison
Indian official honored by Laguna pueblo for Wheeler-Howard bill message
U S Indian Commissioner John Collier was applauded by Laguna Indian pueblo after he explained the Wheeler-Howard bill to be voted on October 27. He received pottery and other honors before being escorted to the pueblo secret quarters, then departed by plane for Kansas City and Oklahoma.
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Albuquerque
Get
John Collier
U. S
Miners in Hungary Threaten Mass Self-Death in Mine
In Pecs Hungary 1200 self entombed miners, after 106 hours, threaten mass death by own action. Parlymentarian Janos Estergalyos reports desperate conditions underground with hunger thirst and exhaustion. He warns of potential pumps wrecked or mine explosion as the group gains no hope. Government considers sending troops to the pit.
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Pecs
Hungary
Estergalyos
Chinalevies16percentTaxOnSilverExports
China imposes a 16 percent export tax on silver as a response to U S policy. The government acts to curb silver shipments, citing depleted purchasing power and financial concern, with an estimated 20 million dollars of silver slated to depart this week. Americans in China gain more silver currency per dollar under the measure.
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China
Shanghai
United States
Met
America
London
Young Girl Thrown Into Oil Furnace Traced to Laborer
Mount Vernon police say Lawrence Stone confessed to throwing 5 year old Nancy Jean Costigan into an apartment house oil furnace after the child fell in the basement during play. A gold ring a wrist watch and blackened bones were recovered from the furnace as investigators labeled the case a brutal assault. Stone 29 4 was detained after blood was found on his clothes and he initially denied the slaying.
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Mount Vernon
N. Y
Lawrence Stone
Nancy Jean Costigan
Stone
Michael I. Silverstein
Nancy Jean
Mrs Roosevelt To Take The Stump For Campaign Swing
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt announced she would make five speeches in New York urging the election of her friend Mrs Daniel O Day as a Congresswoman at large. The move breaks precedent as the president's wife campaigns while her husband stays out of congressional races.
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Washington
Franklin D
Dead Man Found in Canon West of Denver
A well dressed man was found dead on a mountainside in Golden Gate canyon west of Denver. Authorities suspect murder or self harm as the body shows extensive magpie damage to the head. Coroner O A Saunders estimates death about ten days earlier and will continue exams for possible poison. John Matthews and Ray Goodman located the body while hunting.
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Denver
Golden Gate Canon
John Matthews
Ray Goodman
Golden
Arthur Schoech
Schoech
O. A. Saunders
Saunders
Harry Pierpont To Die Tomorrow in Ohio Penitentiary
Silent and sullen Harry Pierpont waited in a death row cell at Ohio penitentiary for a summons to the electric chair. The time was set between midnight Tuesday and midnight Wednesday for the murder of Sheriff Jesse Larber at Lima on October 12, 1933. Warden Preston E. Thomas tightened guards and checked out of state car licenses near the prison as preparations continued.
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Columbus
Harry Pierpont
Ohio Penitentiary
Preston E. Thomas
Pierpont
Jesse Larber
Lima
John Dillinger
Rus
Girl fails to set air record, to try again
Kansas City report notes aviatrix Maxine Howard, 22, failed to establish a west east speed mark while en route from Los Angeles. A fuel line leak and bad weather forced a forced landing after she had posted a seven hours eight minute pace in Los Angeles.
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Maxine Howard
Roscoe Turner
Los Angeles
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