May Day Mystery B continues with Vernon confession
Max Vernon tells Jim Hanvey he did not murder Pat Thayer but describes a bank robbery and a dead man in his car. He reveals taking sixteen hundred dollars, disposing of the body, and hiding the rest in a box, while Ivy Welch and Thayer’s circle loom in the case. Hanvey offers a deal to repay the bank and free Vernon, while Reagan challenges the murder charge.
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Tony Peyton
Larry
Pat Thayer
Miss Peyton
Thayer
Vernon
Peyton
Ivy
Pat
Hanvey
Welch
Jim
Tony
Harvey
Reagan
John
Max Vernon
Ivy Welch
Brother
Farnum and Gleason
Marland National Bank
Max
Mr. Hanvey
Marland
Archer Street
Oak
Mr. Han
Steel City
William T. Aragon
Aragon
Marland Bank
John Reagan
Jim Hanvey
Night at the movies shoves a murder case aside
Jim drags John Reagan from the theater after a saccharine film and the pair visit a jail where Harvey speaks sternly to Max Vernon in a tense morning scene, signaling pressure over a murder case. Reagan remains blunt and unsentimental while Jim displays uneasy sentimentality.
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Jim
John Reagan
Reagan
Harvey
John
Max Vernon
Bank Robbery Probe Prompts Talks With Vernon
He claims to have uncovered the bank robbery and says there is no reason to detain an innocent man. He promises Vernon a payoff after returning cash and settling with the Marland bank. Reagan questions who killed Thayer as the scene ends with a tease for next week.
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Vernon
Marland Bank
Reagan
Thayer
Lansing Week In Review Keeps Legislature In Terror
In Lansing observers blame the legislature for the six year red ink trend and a collapsed fiscal program. Governors and leaders clash while taxes and jobs drive votes. A 1935 delinquent tax publication bill returns, auto owners may pay by use, and a $2 head tax funds old age pensions with $50 monthly for eligible aged residents.
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Raymond
Michigan
Signposts as Art In German Towns Guides For Tourists
Suburban German towns add artistic signposts to aid visitors. Warmbrunn hosts a wood carving school turning tree trunks into life size figures such as a school boy with a slate marked Fuehiner Park and Ruebezahl the Silesian mountain spirit dressed as a reaper guiding travelers. The idea spreads to communities in the Black Forest.
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Germany
Warmbrunn
Fuehiner Park
Ruebezahl
Black Forest
Worth While Penny Machine Tale At Fair
A man amused himself by trying penny slots at a fair. He notes a nonworking machine and jokes about its purpose being to test temper. A judge asks which of them was Anne during a previous smash. Culprit replies none, saying they were all on the back seat.
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Anne
Unknown Religion Puzzle to Sages in Paris
Paris reports Vestiges of an unknown religion in northern Syria tied to death and fertility. Prof. F A Claude Schaeffer describes Ras Shamra Minet el Belda excavations with royal tombs and a major religious center dating to before the Christian era. Tablets with unidentified languages may show early poetry and literature, while findings hint at a grand commercial and pilgrimage site. The nature of the cult remains uncertain, but it appears to merge burial rites with fertility beliefs, possibly linking libations to the dead and nude goddess Astarte icons.
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Paris
Syria
F. A. Claude Schaeffer
University of Strasbourg
Societe Ernest Renan
Schaeffer
Ras Shamra
Minet el Belda
Astarte
Soft Shades of Color Found to Cure Lunacy
London reports a row over Paw Poiret being appointed color designer to French lunacy authorities. Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones notes red rooms stimulate restless patients while blue rooms calm them, and a specialist adds humor about private means during long waits.
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London
Paw Poiret
Harley Street
Britain
Robert Armstrong-Jones
Great Britain
Turk Official Opens Campaign on Vendettas
Sukru Kaya Bey, Turkey interior minister, reports vendettas persist in Ourfa province near the Syrian frontier. About half of a quarter of a million people are bound by village and tribal custom to seek personal vengeance. Families hold a blood debt and arm themselves despite criminal penalties. The habit is widespread in frontier provinces. As steps to eradicate it, a 4,000 member nomad tribe has been moved from eastern provinces to European Thrace, traveling with flocks and possessions to a new home.
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Turk
Istanbul
Turkey
Sukru Kaya Bey
Sukru
Ourfa
Thrace
Black Sea
Fire Rages Six Years in Swedish Coal Mine
A Swedish mining engineer reports the Sveagravan coal mine in Spitzbergen still burns after six years. The fire began in 1925 following fifteen years of strong coal output, and the mine was closed once all efforts to extinguish it failed.
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Michigan
Green
Groesbeck
Sweden
Stockholm
Sveagravan
Spitzbergen
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