Pack ing Company Vice President Charged in Murder
Topeka Kansas June 6 AP a fire undamaged found near Roy Kramer packing company vice president led to arrest of L H Kimmell president on murder charge Virgil Pointer a handyman allegedly confessed Kramer was killed at his home then body moved to a highway scene Pointer said he struck Kramer with a club and forgot to puncture the tire to mislead investigators Kramer pleads not guilty and is free on 25000 bond Pointer jailed without bail insurance paid 36000 to the packing company
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Eas
Roy Kramer
Packing Company
L. H. Kimmell
Kramer
Virgil Pointer
Kimmer
Pointer
Vernal
Utah
Lester Chapoose
Whiterocks
Tillman D. Johnson
Baseball scores and game results from National League and American games
Reading shows multiple box score lines with teams such as New York Pittsburgh Chicago Brooklyn Cincinnati Philadelphia St. Louis and Boston. Scores include 4 10 9 1 and 14 16 runs with various pitchers listed and postponements due to wet grounds.
Young Slayer Goes To Chair In Huntsville
William Puritt, 22, convicted of slaying a Dallas high school boy, was executed in Huntsville prison at 12:05 a.m. He said nothing, thanked Father Finnegan for his help, and the electric chair motors started as the sentence was carried out. A bystander outside the door fainted.
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Tex
Wiliam
Puritt
Dallas
Finnegan
Mann
Los Angeles Population Surges. Fifth Largest City in U S
Los Angeles officials report official 1930 city population of 1,231,780 and county total 2,199,557, marking major growth and moving the city into fifth in the nation behind New York and Chicago. A Ute Indian, Lester Chapoose, serves a 30 day jail term after promising to begin in June but returns after family losses.
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United States
Greater
E. K. Ellsworth
Field Division
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Philadelphia
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Boston
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Widow Hammerstein Found Guilty of Minor Conduct
New York reports Mrs. Oscar Hammerstein widow of the opera impresario was found guilty of minor conduct and remanded for sentence Monday.
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New York
Oscar Hammerstein
Opera
Impresenzia
End Life Plan Persists As Davis Hunger Stands
Danville Virginia June 6. A farmer, Prank W Davis, continues self imposed starvation despite public calls for intervention. Earlier predictions of imminent death proved incorrect as officials seek steps to save the man.
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Danville
W. Davis
Devis
Former President A. L. Mohler of Union Pacific Dies
A. L. Mohler of New York, former president of the Union Pacific railroad, died today at St. Anthony hospital. He was past 80, had a heart attack a week earlier and suffered a paralytic stroke yesterday.
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Chicago
A. L. Mohler
New York
Union Pacific Railroad
St. Anthony Hospital
Stimson Refuses to Forthwith Release Notes to Senate
Secretary Stimson refused to hand over to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee portions of the informal and confidential notes exchanged between Great Britain and the United States before the London conference. The notes concern diplomacy and preconference communications key to U.S. policy. The action heightens congressional tensions over access to executive-branch communications.
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Washington
Stimson
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Great Britain
Tong War Reopened Prompting DA Talks in New York
District Attorney Crain asked leaders of the On Leong and Hip Sing tongs to confer tomorrow to avert warfare after a Chinese waiter was killed in his Allen street room. Police investigate the hate crime slaying amid a dispute fueling tensions.
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New York
Crain
Chiah Yung
Allen Street
Tong
Newark
Playing Capone Girl Gangster Caught by Cops
Rose Halperin, 28, jailed in Harlem on $15,000 bail as a material witness in the killing of dress maker Jacob Rothenberg. Irving Ashkenas, a taxicab driver, awaits trial for manslaughter of Rothenberg amid a strike riot. detectives say Halperin and Ashkenas worked with Montreal detectives and a fake cashiered “James Capone” in a web of deception and alleged union payoffs.
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Harlem
Jacob Rothenberg
Irving Ashkenas
Rothenberg
Miss Halperin
Montreal
Chicago
James Capone
al Capone
Man
Eugene S. Canaveri
New York
Ashkenas
Mystery Case at Salt Lake City Disappearance of Lowell Fox
Police investigated the disappearance of Lowell A. Fox a Salt Lake City salesman of Indian jewelry and novelties. His car contained a blood stained torn coat and hat with bloodied fingers noted by officers while they sought leads and examined tauren tele.
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Salt Lake City
Lowell A. Fox
Pickets posted by war council before shops in Bombay
Pickets in the European quarter of Bombay began today in line with All-India National Congress war council decisions. Volunteers urged Indians not to enter European shops while Europeans were not molested.
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Bombay “War Council
All-India National Congress
Coutsiders
Graf Zeppelin Returns to Friedrichshafen After 18000-Mile South America Cruise
The Graf Zeppelin landed at Friedrichshafen at 7 22 p m completing a 19 day cruise that included landings in Spain Brazil and the United States and a flight over North Africa. The voyage began May 14 from Friedrichshafen with stops in Seville Pernambuco and Rio Janeiro before returning via Seville. A floral wreath was presented by Friedrichshafen's burgomaster to Dr Hugo Eckener marking the achievement.
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South America
United States
Graf
Spain
Brazil
North African
Hugo Eckener
Seville
Pernambuco
Rio Janeiro
Lyons
Pantages Granted Bail Pending Appeal in Assault Case
The California supreme court ordered the release on bail of Alexander Pantages, millionaire showman, from county jail while his appeal proceeds. Bail set at 100000, awaiting approval by the superior court judge. Pantages contends jail confinement endangers his life and has been imprisoned in the county jail hospital after recurrent heart trouble.
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Los Angeles
California Supreme Court Today
Alexander Pantages
Eunice Pringle
Pantages
Bince
Cox Advocates Repeal of Eighteenth Amendment
Former Ohio Governor James M. Cox declares unhesitating support for repealing the eighteenth amendment at a Democratic victory dinner in Columbus. He calls for government control of liquor manufacture and distribution and proposes a new provision to prohibit private or corporate liquor traffic. He rejects seeking office and notes Atlee Pomerene joins in opposing prohibition. Jouett Shouse predicts Democratic victory amid criticism of the current administration.
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Columbus
Ohio
James M. Cox
Cox
S Hall
America
Ford says US business on uptrend with global plant plans
The Philadelphia Inquirer quotes Henry Ford stating American business is recovering with a faster pace than the slump. He and Mrs. Ford stayed in Philadelphia after Washington visits with President and Mrs. Hoover, attended a dinner at White Marsh Hall, and visited Cyrus H. K. Curtis. Ford outlined plans for Ford Motor to open a factory in China and to study a plant in Germany, with further aims to establish facilities in South America, arguing for a world economy benefiting all. He cited the south of Ireland plant as crucial to the region.
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The
Philadelphia Inquirer Today
Henry Ford
Mrs. Ford
Washington
Hoover
E. Stotesbury
Whitemarsh Hall
Cyrus H. K Curtis
the Inquirer
Ford
Ford Motor Company
China
Germany
South America
Ireland
Free State
Drivers License Act Sought After National Safety Talk
Boise June 6 An appeal for a drivers license act to reduce accidents was made by Fred Lukens Idaho secretary of state after returning from a Washington conference on street and highway safety. He noted licenses cut fatalities by about twenty five percent where adopted and said Idaho is among few states showing fewer motor vehicle deaths so far this year.
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Boise
Fred
Lukens
National Conference On
Washington
Idaho
Pear growers accuse US farm board of scare tactics
In Medford Oregon on June 6 pear growers assert the US farm board is trying to force a quarantine by spreading a mysterious fruit fly scare. H B Merriam of Goshen warns of a threatened state quarantine while Llewellyn A Banks and the Pear Growers Protective association deny the threat and dismiss the fly as a figment.
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Ore
Hoover
United States Farm Board
Llewellyn A Banks
Medford Daily News
Pear Growers’ Protective Association
Rogue River Valley
Merriam
Goshen
Oregon Board of Horticulture
Inspector Narrowly Escapes Entombment in 49-Foot Sewer Trench
Seattle reports A. G. Brooks senior city street inspector survived entombment after becoming pinned by timbers in a 49 foot sewer trench in west Seattle. Rescuers tunneled toward him and provided coffee and brandy through rubber tubing as they freed him.
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A. G. Brooks
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Brooks
Ile
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