Chicago Woman Identifies Suspected Kidnappers Linked to Factor Case
Mrs Cardie Kiefer of near Hinsdale told Elmhurst police chief she could identify a man seen with a taxi driver and a coupe carrying a briefcase tied to John Factor’s kidnapping. Investigators spread searches across Cook County as Factor, recovering from injuries, said $50,000 was paid though some reports claim a total ransom up to $200,000.
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Chicago
John Factor
Heise
Cardie Kiefer
Near Hisedale
Geo. Kummerow
Elmhurst
Atory
Factor
Kiefer
MM Kiefer
Drivdale
Wis
Cook County
Butler
St. Louis
Catt
William Luer
Veterans Enter Forests Enlist in Civilian Conservation Corps
Baltimore dispatch July 1 14 The third corps area CCC enrolled veterans to Fort Meade Camp No 94 near Igemont Pike Pa and Fort Humphrey Va with Virginia units expanding state quotas.
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Baltimore
Fsat
Third Corps Area Company of World
Cwar
Civilian Conservation Corps
Fort George G. Meads
Corps
Pennsylvania
Fort Meade
Igemont
Pike, County
Virginia
Fort Humphreyn
Douthat
Clifton Forge
Bath County
Government to Fight Underworld Across Nation
Washington July 14. Attorney General Cummings said the federal government will fight the underworld until law and order prevails. The Justice Department continued work on legislation to give the government greater power against gangsters and racketeers. Proposals will be presented to Congress in January.
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Washington
Cummings
Justice Department
Congress
Sideshow at Home Draws Chicago Detectives
Detectives Paul Museika and Thomas Barrowman visited the home of Charles Curtis seeking pens but found far more. A bear chained to a wall a box with 20 live snakes and a clay skeleton were discovered. Curtis claimed the items were for a sidewalk entertainment.
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Chicago
Paul Museika
Thomas Barrowman
Charles Curtis
Curtis Place
Curtis
Lindberghs Resume Trip Northward from St. John’s
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and Mrs Lindbergh resumed their air survey expedition from St. John’s northward today. They took off toward Cartwright, Labrador at 8:80 o'clock, intending a refueling stop at Botwood. Botwood lies north of Mt. John’s on the Exploits River near Notre Dame Bay.
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ST. John’s N. F
Charles A. Lindbergh
Mra. Lindbergh
Cartwright
Labrador
KE. B. T
Botwood
New Foundland
Mt. John’s
Exploits
Notre Dame Bey
Bt. John's Fa
Levy Names Borough Provident in New York Action
A fragment references Daly and Levy in a New York setting with terms like much faster and borough Provident. The readable text hints at a legal or financial action involving named individuals and a city borough but lacks full details or dates.
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York
Daly
Levy
Borough Provident
Italian seaplanes head for Montreal in Balbo flight
The Italian air armada led by General Italo Balbo began the leg from Shediak to Montreal en route to Chicago. Twenty four seaplanes from Orbetello, Italy, on the Century of Progress Exposition flight jumped off in the morning, with the previous group arriving from Cartwright, Labrador after an 8:51 AM EST takeoff.
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Shediag
N. B
Italo Balbo
Montreal
Chicago
Lere
Orbetello
Italy
Exposition
Cartwright
Labrador
Montreal J
Seven Killed In Explosion At Arkansas Refinery
Eldorado Arkansas July 14 Seven men were killed and three injured in an explosion at the H H Cross oil refinery plant in Smackover. The dead include refinery superintendent C L Murphy consulting engineer C A Sears of Kansas City and refinery employees Daley Dutton Monroe Winn Jack Wagoner and H T Morgan.
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Eldorado
Ark
Stiackover
C. L. Murphy
C.A. Sears
Kansas
R.C. Burns
Bimme
Smackover
Daley Dutton
Monroe Winn
Jack, Wagoner
H. T. Morgan
Cross
Film star wife of wrestler reveals marriage details
Judith Allen, 21, a film lead, disclosed she is the wife of heavyweight wrestler Gus Sonnenberg and is considering divorce. Once known as Marie Eliot, she used the names Allen and Mari Colman in films while Sonnenberg resented her association with Gary Cooper in gossip columns.
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Los Angeles
Judith Allen
Gus Sonnenberg
Beaton Society
Marie Eliot
Allen
Mari Colman
Sonnenberg
Gary Cooper
Mise Eliot
Dartmouth
Pilot Levanov Heads to Anadyr for Mattern Rescue
Moscow dispatch from Tass reports pilot Levanov departed from Kharbarovak in Eastern Siberia yesterday morning bound for Anadyr to retrieve James Mattern, the American aviator stranded there plus awaiting pickup.
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Moscow
Tass
Levanovsky
Kharbarovak
Siberia
Anadyr
James Mattern
Plenty of Room for These Tars
In New York on July 14 the Leviathan once queen of the seas is now inhabited by four sailors and four monkeys. The sailors are paid for staying aboard the decommissioned liner while the monkeys are unpaid and have escaped from a freighter to roam the mooring lines. The crew says the monkeys peek around corners and chatter at the sailors.
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New York
Beer price war lowers suds to three for a quarter
In Point Marion Pennsylvania on July 14 beer drinkers are paying 15 cents per bottle previously, now three for a quarter as a local price war hits the market.
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Point Marion
Died at 61. Ming Mabel Statteman Feldt obituary
Ming Mabel Statteman Feldt died at her mother's Hopewell road home Thursday at 3 30 pm from complications. She was 61 and survived by her mother, a brother Jesse N Feldt, and stepfather L Schindel. Funeral Saturday at 2 30 pm at the house, Rev J W Ott officiating, Manor Cemetery. Jones Simon, Well known retired merchant, died yesterday at 337 West Washington street after months with cancer, aged 69. Funeral arrangements by Krauss Mortuary.
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Ming Mabel Statteman Feldt
L. F. Schindel
Hopewell Road
Jesse N. Feldt
L . Schindel
J. W. Ott
Taterment
Manor Cemetery
Jones Simon
Washingham Street
Bimea
Reeve
Franklin Street
Kraivs
Chagas
Public Works Aid Waite Plans Regional Allocation System
Dayton Ohio Col H M Waite assistant public works administrator drafts plan for a regional system to allocate construction from a 3 3 billion public works fund with aid from the Associated Press.
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H. M. Waite
Dayton, C
Drowned on Picnic Boat Capsizes Near Yaroslavl
Seventy people are reported drowned after an overcrowded river launch capsized three miles from Yaroslavl on July 9. The boat had a 125 passenger capacity yet carried double that number. others aboard were saved. The public prosecutor will pursue those responsible for the overcrowding.
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Yaroslavl
Volga
Moscow
Dates Set For Bank Hearings In Central Trust Case
Frederick Massachusetts July 14 Dates have been set for hearings in circuit court within ten days on 21 suits for preferred claims in the disposition of assets of the Central Trust Company which closed Sept 3 1931 Chief Judge Hammond Urner scheduled the first hearing for next Monday on seven cases Four have been set for next Wednesday six for July 20 and four for July 21 Claims concern mainly first accounts and deposit accounts in the closed bank.
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Frederick
Central Trust Company
Hammond Urner
Depaadt
Mrs Sally Levy Wins Divorce From Herbert Levy Over Dummy Co respondent
Chicago dated July 14. In a divorce suit blues singer Mrs Sally Levy named a dummy as co respondent against ventriloquist Herbert Levy. She testified he ignored her and enjoyed evenings with the dummy on his knee, engaging in conversation. The court granted her decree.
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Chicago
Sally Levy
Herbert Levy
Herbert
Reckord Declines National Legion Commander Bid
Brig Gen Milton A Reckord Maryland adjutant general and American Legion national commander candidate informs Francis Scott Key Post Baltimore that he cannot accept the honor. The post earlier endorsed him and approved a resolution for Ocean City as the Maryland convention site, with biennial gatherings planned beginning 1594.
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Hageéretown
Ocean City
Big Bass Leaps Into His Boat
In Baltimore on July 14 a 14 year old boy and a friend rowed a boat at Gwynn Oak Park lake when a large black bass leaped from the water striking the boy in the face. The fish weighed about two and a half pounds and was taken home by the boy’s mother with confirmation from game warden Dawson H. MacWilliams.
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Baltimore
Dawson H. MacWilliams
Gwynn Oak Park Lake
Richard A. Freeman
Kidnap case widens as arrests loom in Alton, St Louis
Details emerge on a staged abduction involving the Luer family and a St Louis hotel proprietor. Police hold a father and son in Edwardsville jail while investigations center on ransom plans and a questioned hotel manager linked to the Alton meat-packing firm. Authorities pursue missing medicine for the captive and consider alternate negotiators amid denials of wrongdoing.
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Notian
Algo
St. Louis
Edwardsville
St. Loui
Thomas Butler
Alton
Luer
Luéer
Keller
Catt
Alton Meat Packing
Butler
St. Lews
Luers
How to foil robbery by falling down stairs
Chicago July 14. Pete Stamison explains a trick to foil a hold up by tumbling backward down a flight of stairs. Three robbers, frightened by the loud fall, fled the scene.
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Chicago
Pete Stamison
Stamison
Yale Curator Now Missing
New Haven Conn July 14 After an all night search for Prof Raymond P Dougherty 56 curator of the Sterling Library Yale a noted authority on Assyrology and Babylonian literature police found no clues to his whereabouts. Authorities believe he may have had an accident after leaving home yesterday and police concentrated the search at Pine Rock quarries.
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New Haven
Conn
Raymond P. Dougherty
Sterling Library
Yate
Pine Rock
Big Crowd at Republican Outing At Brow ex’s Brow ex near Kemp’s
More than 200 Republicans attended the Young Men’s Republican League outing at Browex’s near Kemp’s yesterday afternoon. A quiet baseball game added to the picnic features with Mayors Walter E. Quenatedt of Annapolis and M. Wertt taking part. Guests included Harry W. Nice, J. Harry Schad, and Delly K. Nice of Baltimore.
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Browex's
Kemp's
Walter BE. Quenatedt
Annapoli
Lewis Speaker at Institute in Virginia
University Va July 14 Bh haber and employment problems spotlight the Virginia Institute of Public Affairs with talks on domestic and international issues. Frances Perkina and Rep David J Lewin Cumberland Md address. Lewis argues moral instincts alone cannot safeguard workers rights and calls for legal protection akin to property rights.
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Virginia Institute of Public “Affairs
Frances Perkina
David J. Lewin
Cumberland
Lewis
Fall Meeting Reveals Private Deliberations On Debt Question
A private subcommittee session discussed commercial indebtedness with senators and officials. James M. Cox of Ohio spoke with a colleague in confidence, then Couzens retracted his remark. Henry L. Stimson visited the delegation and conferred with Cordell Hull, marking Stimson's first visit to the office.
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James. M. Cox
Ohio
Couzens
Henry L. Stimson
Washington
Cordell Hall
Stinson
Novel Program For tke Walton Outing
The Walton League chapter plans a July 20 outing at Earl Hoover's clubhouse near Sharpeburg along the Potomac. Features include a 100 yard trap shooting championship with a cup reward, cash prizes, and events using an old Model T Ford as a novelty substitute. Activities run 3 to 7 pm followed by a river luncheon led by Waltovian KE B Carl, with committee members R Q Cook, E B Carl, G E Hibercom, D N Henson, and Bart Hoover.
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Ideak Walton League
Earl Hoover
Potomac‘ River
Sharpeburg
Washington County
Ford
Tilghmanton
Waltovian KE
B. Carl
R. Q
Cook
E. B .Carl
Hibercom
Bart Hoover
Bids Sought for 18-Foot Concrete Bridge at Catoctin Creek
The State Roads Commission invites bids by July 26 to construct an 18 foot concrete bridge over a branch of the Catoctin Creek at Bolivar in Frederick County. The bridge was carried away in the recent naval air event that also struck Washington County. The commission announced the bridge’s planned reconstruction.
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Catoctin Creek
Bolivar
Frederick County
Newaré
Washington County
State Roads Commission
Risker in Crash Near Hanover Street Bridge
Fred Sullivan was killed and three others injured in a collision last night between a car and a street car near the Hanover Street bridge in Baltimore. The auto swung out of its lane while passing another vehicle and struck the street car.
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Baltimore
Fred Sullivan
Hanover Street Bridge
Georgia Supreme Court Upholds Clergyman Life Term
Atlanta July 14 The Georgia supreme court today upheld the life sentence given the Rev J M Williams for the slaying of his son Raford Grady Williams who was stationed at Kittery Maine in the United States Navy The ruling affirms the verdict in the case involving the clergyman and the naval family tragedy.
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Atlanta
Georgia Supreme Court
J. M. Williams
Raford Grady Willams
United States
Kittery
Maine
Chicago grain market quotations from The Sticker
The Sticker provides grain quotes for wheat corn and rye with monthly futures data. Wheat figures show July September December and May contracts with highs lows and closes ranging around 105 to 120. Corn prices list July September December and May contracts with values near 62 to 78. Rye and other grains display Sept Dec and May figures in the mid 90s to over 100.
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Herbert Bayard Swope
Arthur F. Mullen,Jr
Associated Press
B. M. Rickard
Franklin
Reckord
Big Bass
Stein Joe, & Boyce
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Anaconda
Atchison
Beth Steel
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Consol
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N.Y. Central
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Westhouse Elec
Western Union
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Texas Corp
Warner Bros
New School
George F. Zook
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National Education Association
University of Akron
Akron
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Kay Jewelry Co
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Chicago Grain Market
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Belchér
America
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