Indians Tell Of Rescuing U S Engineer
Bolivar Valle April 7 Colombias Guagueras Indians found American mining engineer Newton Marshall after a crash March 10 in the jungle. He had endured 15 days of hunger and despair before they brought him to safety. Marshall recounted his escape and the Indians who first sighted him, led by Joel Jaramillo, with companions Alejandro Arango Jose Jesus Ocampo and Reinaldo Cheverri.
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Carlos Garcia
Bolivar Valle
Associated Press
Bolivar Valle Colombia
Newton
Marshall
Milwaukee
von Krohn
Joel Jaramillo
Mr. Marshall
Alejandro Arango
Jose Jesus Ocampo
Reinaldo Cheverri
Uribe
President Takes Swim During Bahamas Fishing Trip
President Roosevelt, off Ansaila Island in the Bahamas, swam in the morning after fishing from his presidential yacht anchored nearby. Vincent Astor relayed that abundant fish, including a large crawfish, were in the aquarium, and a morning swimming party was enjoyed on a fine beach.
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Miami
Fla
Roosevelt
Ansaila Island
Bahaman Group
Vincent Astor
Marvin HA. McIntyre
White House
Anenila Island
Man drops into old mine shaft collapse in Pottsville
In Pottsville Pennsylvania on April 7 Elmer Shallenberger found his cellar had collapsed into an abandoned mine work. the bottom fell away taking stored furniture with it and he had to prop the furnace to keep it from slipping further. Officials believe an abandoned mine working caused the cave in.
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Pottsville
Pi— Elmer
Shallenbberger
Shallenberger
Couzens Pushes Ten Percent Super Levy for One Year
Washington April 7 The Senate moves toward a large tax bill rising from 330 million to an estimated 480 million. Senator Couzens proposes a ten percent super levy for one year on taxes, boosting payments example from 100 to 110. Senator LaFollette would raise estate and inheritance levies beyond current rates. The measure also shifts surtaxes, lowers exemptions, and expands taxes on dividends and tax exempt interest to offset revenue losses. The change would aid small incomes by widening relief for low earners.
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House
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Couzens
LaFollette
Finance Committee
Thirteen Reds Held After Antiwar Demonstrations At Army Day
Thirteen Reds were jailed after attempts to disrupt army day ceremonies. A truck with antiwar signs was driven into a patriotic parade, attacked by war veterans, signs destroyed, and several passengers detained. Six demonstrators were injured. Additional protesters were handed to police for trying to post antiwar banners in a lodge hall alongside a patriotic program.
Tractor-Tow Accident Kills Helper and Injures Brother
In Potomac Maryland Edward Hahn 23 fractured both legs when a tractor towing a load was struck by a car driven by his brother Carl 21. Web Ster Hatchell 22 a negro helper was crushed to death in the same crash last night.
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Potomac
Edward Hahn
Carl
Web
Ster Hatchell
Train wreck in Matiqueria mountains injures many
Rio de Janeiro reports a fatal and injurious wreck as a passenger express derailed on the Matiqueria range 749 miles north of the city. Nine were killed eight seriously hurt and others lightly injured amid wreckage and stalled cars. Local authorities dispatched relief crews and救援 teams to the scene.
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Rio DE Jeneiro
Matiqueria Mountains
Here
Warner bill to outlaw employer dominated unions urged
Mrs Gifford Pinchot, wife of Pennsylvania’s governor, urged approval of the Warner bill to outlaw employer dominated company unions before the Senate labor committee in Washington.
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Washington
Warner
Senate Labor Committee
Gifford Pinehots
Pennsylvania
Cleveland firm seeks 250 acre Paw Paw farm for rayon plant
Industrial Rayon Company of Cleveland is negotiating for a 250 acre farm near Paw Paw as a potential rayon plant site. The owner, D. G. Bevens, said Cleveland representatives visited with a Baltimore & Ohio Railroad official. Reports also claimed B and O showed interest in land nearby for railroad yards.
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Paw Paw
The
Industrial Rayon Company, of
Cleveland
D. G. Bevens
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Driver Fined for Accident Near Weverton
Halsey T. Green of Winchester Val was fined 110 dollars and costs by Justice Shifter in Boonsboro for an accident that cut two Brunswick girls with flying glass. He was also convicted of failing to file Maryland automobile liability insurance and not keeping to the right of the highway center. The crash involved Green’s truck sideswiping T. J. Harper’s vehicle near Weverton, injuring Mrs. Harper and two Misses Helen Harper and Doris Danner lightly.
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Halsey T. Green
Winchester
Val
Justice of the Peace Shifter
Boonsboro
Brunswick
Green
Automobile Commissioner of
Maryland
T. J. Harper
Harper
Helen Harper
Doris Danner
Weverton
Bank cashier shoots self in Denton Maryland
William S Norris longtime cashier at Denton National Bank was found shot in a bank back room. He was hospitalized in Easton in stable condition with a scalp wound. Authorities offered no verdict on whether the injury was accidental as relatives note long illness.
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Denton
William S. Norris
Denton National Bank
Easton
Norris
Frederick and
William, Jr
J. Roland Chasfinch
Hanker
Chasfineh
Sai Norris
Chamber Sees Business Recovery Pressed by Legislation
The Chamber of Commerce of the United States reports encouraging signs of further business recovery with more hiring at higher wages. Firms show progress toward profitability, and past recovery laws strengthen banking. Yet new restrictions and pending legislation threaten continued forward movement and opportunity.
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Washington
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Congress
Dynamite Found In Hunt For Dillinger In St Paul
Police seized two shotguns a rifle and a suitcase of dynamite from the Green Lantern Cafe as authorities pursue John Dillinger and his lieutenant John Hamilton. Federal agents track undisclosed clues while prosecutors consider a city ordinance to require new apartment tenants to register and furnish information to police.
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ST. Paul
John Dillinger
Green Lantern Cafe
Dillinger
Federal Department of Justice
John Hamilton
St. Paul Apartment Owners Association
Tree planting drive to set out saplings in Maryland
Baltimore April 7 Pi Near reports half a million young saplings of red white and blue pine species will be set out starting next week. State Forester F W Ressey says most trees will be planted in state forests across Garrett Allewny Southern Maryland and Faster Shroe counties.
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Baltimore
Maryland
F. W. Ressey
Stare
Garrett
Allewany
Cats hear far higher pitches than humans say professor
In Atlantic City on April 7 Professor SF Dworkin of the American Urological Society demonstrated a cat's hearing extends to about 50 000 cycles per second while humans hear up to a few thousand. He noted a cat may listen for a mouse a block away in dead silence.
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Atlantic City
American Urological Society
SF. Dworkin
Washington Cherry Blossom Festival Dates Set
Washington officials fixed the festival for April 19 to 21 to avoid blossom unpredictability. Claude W. Owen of the Board of Trade said the dates would not change. The display lasts about 10 days with 3,000 invitations sent for the festival center. Mrs Roosevelt will sponsor and Miss Eleanor Roosevelt will be queen.
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Washington
Claude W. Owen
Washington Board of Trade
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Roosevelt Jr in clash with photographer at wrestling match
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr pummeled photographer Donald Carvelli during a wrestling event in Philadelphia. The plate survived. Roosevelt, a Harvard student and weekend guest at the Morgan home in Bryn Mawr, was escorted away after the incident.
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Philadelphia
The
Public Ledger
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Donald Carvelli
Carvelli
the Ledger
H. Vaughan Morgan,, Jr
Morgan
Roosevelt
Bryn Mawr
Young Roosevelt
Harvard University
Divorce awarded over chair keeps by ex husband
In Oakland on April 7, Frances M. McCormick obtained a divorce and kept the family’s easy chair for Ray McCormick. She testified he cared more for the chair than seeking work, and the court allowed him to retain the chair as part of the settlement.
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Oakland
Calif
Frances M. McCormick
Ray
McCormick
Misunderstood Cat in Raleigh Sparks Police Action
In Raleigh North Carolina on April 7 a cat that occupied a chicken house led neighbors to fear a wildcat. Police arrived with shotguns to handle the situation, but the cat was described as very cute by Patrolman H R Williamson.
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Raleigh
N.C
H. R. Wil
Tribute Paid Memory Of GeorGe A Reed
The Democratic Organization Club mourns the late George A. Reed with a heartfelt memorial meeting and resolutions praising his leadership and public service. About 200 attendees heard remarks from Attorney General W. Preston Lane and others, saluting a life of devotion to party and community.
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George A. Reed
Democratic Organization Club
W. Preston Lane
William D. Byron
Richard Duffey
Richard H Sweeney
Joseph D. Mish
Allen Mumma
William Winsert
First Water
Reed
Stuart Rushong
Ohio Outlaw Named Slayer
Neal Bowman an Ohio outlaw was charged in a sworn statement with killing Homer Franklin seventeen to stop him from squawking and tossing the body into Herrington Lake near Burgin Kentucky. Bowman and companion Stanley Mercer are held at the state reformatory after a fight with officers at Somerset. Mercer signed the statement.
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Frankfort
Neal Bowman
Ohio
Homer Franklin
Herrington Lake
Burgin
Elmer Deathrage
State Reformatory
Bowman
Stanley Mercer
Wayne County
Mercer
Somerset
Ohio Asylum For Criminal Insane
Limba
George Kaufman
Camp Nelson
Tennessee
Disease death toll rises in Regina from Lancor Evthonmia
Medical circles reveal that in nine years Regina saw 42 deaths from Lancor Evthonmia, a deadly disease with appearances in several United States cities.
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Risginaa
Sack
Regina
United States
Insull to Return to U.S. for Trial Next Week
Samuel Insull, the Chicago fugitive, will start back to the United States from Istanbul next week to face trial over charges linked to his collapsed utilities empire. President Roosevelt authorized Burton Berry to take custody, with a warrant signed and cabled to Turkish authorities. Insull’s lawyers said they would file an ironclad appeal in Istanbul's criminal court.
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Washington
Samuel Insull
Chicago
United States
Turkey
State Department
Burton Y. Berry
Istanbul
Roosevelt
Insull
Berry
Samuel Lusull
Criminal Court of
Chamber of Commerce pushes federal railroad crossing plan
In a bulletin the T. & Chamber of Commerce announces the 22nd annual meeting in Washington on May 24. A resolution from the Hagerstown Chamber urges a federal program to eliminate railroad highway crossings as unemployment relief. The local chamber contacted 1000 chambers nationwide. many responded positively, and the national chamber now considers the question, crediting the local chamber with starting the resolution.
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T. &. Chamber of Commerce
Washington
Hagersmawn Chamber of Commerce
United States
Congress
Armstrong Cork to raise hourly wages by ten percent
Lancaster based Armstrong Cork Company president H W Prentis Jr announced a ten percent increase in hourly wage rates for employees in seven plants. The raise affects more than 4900 workers in Lancaster Pittsburgh Beaver Falls Camden Gloucester NJ and Fulton NY with the change effective April 15.
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H. W. Prentis, Jr
Armstrong Cork Company
Lancaster
Pittsburgh
Beaver Falls
Camden
Gloucester
Fulton, N.Y
Weekly Weather Outlook for North and Middle Atlantic States
A weather outlook notes showers at the start of the week and again Friday for the North and Middle Atlantic States. Expect mild temperatures early, turning cooler by midweek and again by the end of the week.
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North and
Middle Atlantic
Ealder
Bonnie Parker Denies Cigar Smoking Claim
Bonnie Parker, 22, Clyde Barrow’s companion, told Fort Scott police chief Percy Boyd she does not smoke cigars. She explained the cigar claim arose from a photo where Barrow held a cigar to her lips during the portrait.
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Fort Scott
Kas
Bonnie Parker
Clyde Barrow
Percy Boyd
Barrow
Barrow Flees After Releasing Kidnapped Police Chief
Clyde Barrow and two companions released Percy Boyd chief of police of Commerce Oklahoma after abducting him near Commerce. Barrow had shot and killed Cal Campbell Oklahoma constable during the capture. Boyd, wounded, identified Barrow and Bonnie Parker and possibly Raymond Hamilton. The trio fled toward Kansas as officers swarmed the Kansas Missouri border.
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Fort Scott
Kas
Clyde Barrow
Miami
Okla
Boyd
Campbell
Barrow
Bonnie Parker
Raymond Hamilton
Convict Shot Down by Police in Indianapolis
Ivan Cor, a paroled convict who shot a detective during a failed arrest attempt, was killed by police in Indianapolis as he tried to flee from a house window. A companion, Fred Turner, was arrested after the incident. Cor was armed with two revolvers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ivan Cor
Fred Turner
Coy
Swan Revolts Wins Argument at Central Park Return
Ely the 20 year old swan sparked a neighborhood protest after being moved with his mate Essy from Central Park to a duck pond at Gage park. Protests followed as residents watched Ely attack passersby before he was welcomed back to his old home and resumed guarding the nest site.
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Tokepa
Kas
Ely
Swan
Essy
Central Park
Gage Park
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Paw Paw Farm
Hunt For Dillinger
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Ray Steele
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