Girl Pleads With Governor To Save Life Of Her Abductor
Mary McElroy, 27, daughter of Judge H F P McElroy, travels to Jefferson City to urge Governor Park to spare Walter McGee, leader of four kidnapped her in Kansas City. McGee’s death sentence was upheld by the Missouri Supreme Court, despite her plea and earlier appeals.
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Girl
Jefferson City
United States
Guy B Park
Mary McElroy
Earely
H. F P. McElroy
Ansas City
Walter McGee
Kansas City
Mias McElroy
McElroy
Governor Park
McGee
Tom Pendergast
Pendergast
Miss McElroy
Mixsoul Supreme Court
Miss McElrey
Jong Camp Aten
Paris undersea craft launch and a troubled Kansas City mind
France launches an undersea craft, while in Kansas City Miss McElroy fears she is responsible for a kidnapping case. After her disappearance and return, she explains she fled to escape worry over McGee, feeling remorse and mixed resolve about testifying and potentially condemning the accused men. The piece blends wartime intrigue with local notices and family scenes.
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Goodmirt
Miss McElroy
Judge McElroy
Springfield
McGee
Kansas City
Kipton Social Notes Reflect Easter Weekend Visits
Kipton residents and relatives carried on holiday visits from Saturday through Tuesday with kin in Pitts burgh Elyria and Clarksfield. Local families hosted callers including the Calkins, Short, Buckley Perkins and Ober households while relatives traveled from Chicago Detroit Navion and Berlin Heights to share Easter and Sunday meals and attend funerals.
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Sarah Calkins
Sandusky
G. A. Pate
Oberlin
Ott Geist
George Miller
Everett Holden
Glen Barber
E. L Hanes
Clarksfield
Minnie Davidson
Elizabeth Geist
Flossie Losey
Fred
Duane Burrows
Florence
Robert Radcliffe
Wellington
Horace Green
Don Perkins
Berlin Heights
Alma Perkins
Robert Shedd
Detroit
C . Bickel
Ernest Leninger
E. G. Tuttle
Stanley
Kiptoxn
Tony Alferio
Jennie
Josephine Nancy
Charles
George
Pittsburgh
V. J. Taylor
Elyria
Wax Calkins
W. W. Calkins
Marilyn Callans
Taber Charges Roosevelt Regime Over Election Spending
Rep John Taber accuses the Roosevelt administration of trying to buy the 1936 elections and calls for an end to heavy federal spending. He blames the NRA and AAA for harming small business and farmers, claims unemployment rose by 1.5 million, and cites Democrats’ work relief spending as a pretext to influence the election. The speech follows a party line on finance and relief usage.
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Washington
John Taber
R.ny
House
Roosevelt
Taber
NRA
AAA
James A. Farley
Democratic National Committee
Congress
Centenarian Mary Sizemore Hails Pipe Garden Leisure
Woodlake California residents report that 105 year old Mary Sizemore credits her long life to smoking a pipe and tending a garden. She answers inquiries about her health and says she may retire from gardening in a few years but will persevere, clinging to life and her pipe for years more.
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Woodlake
Cal
Mary Sizemore
Grave of Jesse James Draws Tourists at KEARNEY MO
KEARNEY MO investors and visitors still flock to Jesse James’s grave 53 years after his death on April 3, 1882. Tourists chip at the monument’s base after the stone was removed due to defacement. James was killed by Bob Ford who fired to claim a $10,000 reward, as James stood to hang a portrait in his St. Joseph home.
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Kearney
Jesay James
James
Bob Ford
Ford
St. Joseph
Alaska Travel Surges as 1934 Visitors Jump
Alaska travel from the United States rose about 50 percent in 1934 from the prior year. Visitors arriving by steamer and air plane totaled 24,009, up from 16,117 in 1933, reflecting growing access to the territory.
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Alaska
Juneau
United States
Territory
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