Electrified duo executed for eggnog murder at Sing Sing
Frances Creighton and Everett C. Applegate were executed by electric chair in Sing Sing for the murder of Ada Applegate. Creighton wheeled in unconscious. Applegate walked unaided. The warden noted Creighton as a first sentenced woman wheeled to the chair. Applegate proclaimed innocence to witnesses before death.
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Martin W
Littleton
Nassau County
Lewis E. Lawes
Creighton
Sing Sing
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Edwards
Frances Creighton
Everett C. Applegate
Ossining
N. Y
Peison
America
Rembrandt
Raphael
Whistler
Titian
Sergent
Miller
Cleveland Museum of Art
Ex Navy Officer Reaches for War Job With Japan
A 43 year old former Navy captain sought aviation work abroad including a Japanese flying instructor post offering 50 000 cash plus commission and Navy rank but demanded war time terms. He had been court martialed and dismissed nine years earlier and claimed no payment occurred.
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United States
Navy
Argentina
Brazil
Peru
Chicago
Amtorg
Russian Trade Agency
Shrine convention delegation blocks Seattle cafe breakfast
A San Francisco delegation at the Shrine convention carted a table and chairs from a cafe in Seattle. They calmly settled at the intersection of two major streets and ordered breakfast, refusing to move until finished, halting buses streetcars and other traffic for two hours.
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Seattle
San Francisco
French Airmen To Visit Plant Here
Four representatives of the French Air Ministry are due in Hagerstown today for a tour of the Fairchild Co. plant before heading to Martinsburg. They previously toured Glenn L. Martin Co. in Baltimore and expect a non stop trans Atlantic air mail service within two years while opposing an intermediate stop at Bermuda. The group includes French commercial representatives and will then visit Martinsburg Detroit Chicago and the West Coast before returning around August 1.
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Air Ministry
Hagerstown
Fairchild Co
Martinsburg
Glenn L. Martin Co
Baltimore
Bermuda
Detroit
Chicago
Baron Sentenced for Espionage in Paris Case
Baron Serge De Stackelberg a onetime Paris military attaché received a ten year prison term for espionage. The former Russian officer, a military expert, was charged with supplying Germany with extensive information on the French army.
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Paris
Baron Serge de Stackelberg
Russsian
Germany
First Visit Home In Seventeen Years
Cecil Martin, a former local resident, makes his first visit in seventeen years, traveling from San Francisco where he works in the post office. He is visiting his mother Mrs. Joseph Vance and his brother L. V. Martin, accompanied by two young daughters. Martin is a World War veteran who enlisted here.
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Cecil Martin
San Francisco
Mr. Martin
Joseph Vance
L. V. Martin
Mystery Man Sought In Co Ed Murder Case
The victim was found in her dormitory room at 1:30 am, her uncle Prof W L Clevenger of NC State College nearby. Investigators say she was shot while kneeling pleading for life. face mutilated with a sharp instrument. coroner notes an attempted criminal assault. gun and instrument not recovered. bullet size slightly under .32.
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W. L. Clevenger
North Carolina State College
Baier
Man Camps on City Lot to Escape Heat
City Register Louis Eichelberger and his two sons pitched a tent on a vacant lot near Braddock Heights auditorium to escape Frederick heat. He commutes daily to City Hall, describing life as camp life with regular office work.
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Frederick
City Register
Louis E. Eichelberger
Braddock Heights
City Hall
Veterans at Reunion in Washington Honor Lejeune
Wartime commanders and veterans of the Second Division gathered in Washington for the 18th annual reunion. Major General John A. Lejeune received a two minute ovation after arriving at Union Station as leaders of the division and later Marine Corps commandant and VMI superintendent.
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Washington
Union
John A. LeJune
Marines
Virginia Military Institute
Lejune
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