Eight Indicted in Kansas Kidnapping Case
Walter H. McGee 37 confessed leader and seven others were indicted by a federal grand jury in Kansas City for the kidnapping last Saturday of Miss Mary McElroy 25 daughter of City Manager H F McElroy. Indictments allege interstate transport and two mail extortion letters.
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Kansas City
Walter H. McGee
Mary McElroy
H. F. McElroy
United States
McElroy
McGee
Thomas J. Higgins
Higgins
Clarence Stevens
Clarence Click
George
Click
George McGee
Stevens
Windhell Johnson
Hazel
L. R. Gilbert
Lenora
Gilberts
Johnsons
Amar Do
Tex
Miss McElroy
Kas
Windell Johnson
Amarillo
Speedy Prosecution Planned for Kidnap Ring Leader
Kansas City reports outline swift prosecution of Walter H. McGee 37, identified as the gang leader in the Mary McElroy kidnapping. Federal charges list removal from Missouri to Kansas and mail threats. accomplices detained in Amarillo, Texas, with others under investigation.
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McGee
Martin Denny
Depew
Nell Donnelly
Amarillo
Victory Junction
Kas
Kansas City
Miss
Pope Excommunicates Spanish Government in Church Dispute
Madrid June 3 excommunication declared by the Pope against President Abaal Zamora and the Spanish cabinet and deputies backing a new religious congregations law. The measure taxes religious orders and returns art to the state, sparking a church state clash tied to a 1851 concordat and ongoing religious reforms.
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Rome
Rex Smith
Associated Press
Madrid
Abaal Zamora
Holy See
Spain
Prince Wilhelm Defies Tradition by Marrying Commoner Dorothea Von Salviati
Bonn June 3 Former Prince Wilhelm of Prussia marries Dorothea Von Salviati a 25 year old of unequal birth breaking a 15th century house law The civil ceremony was at city hall followed by a simple castle church wedding The engagement shocks monarchist circles and could end Hohenzollern hopes for the throne
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Bonn
Germany
Wilhelm
Prussia
Dorothea von Salviati
Excommunication Bars Participation in Any Religious Activities
Excommunication is defined as a severe spiritual penalty depriving the guilty Christian of all participation in ecclesiastical blessings. The excommunicated may not attend public worship or receive sacraments, and clerics are barred from administering rites or exercising spiritual authority.
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Associated Press
Spain Excommunicated by Automatic Canon Law Provisions
The Vatican announces that the entire Spanish government is excommunicated automatically under Canon Law for signing anti Catholic decrees. Pope Pius issued an encyclical condemning the new Spanish religious laws as a grievous attack on the church.
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Vatican City
Spain
Vatican State Department
Pius
South observes Jefferson Davis anniversary with reverent memories
Beauvoir Mississippi June 3 The south marked the 125th birth anniversary of Jefferson Davis with quiet ceremonies. Georgia closed the capitol and banks observed a holiday as veterans of the south armies remembered the former Confederate president, regaining sorrow in defeat at Davis beach home.
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Beauvoir
Miss
South
Jefferson Davis
Georgia
Aim Ag
Davis’ Beach
To the throne and legitimacy in the royal line
The text discusses legitimacy as essential to the dynasty’s continuity and obedience to the senior heir. It notes young Wilhelm did not consult his grandfather or parents about the move, implying a unilateral royal succession issue.
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Wilhelm
Reed and Borah Clash Over Gold Contract Payments
Senators Reed and Borah led a fierce Senate debate on the administration plan to pay all gold contracts in legal tender. Borah argued Congress can regulate money despite contract effects and urged swift action to aid the ailing economy, while Reed called the proposal unconstitutional.
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Washington
Senate
Reed
Borah
R. Ida
Idaho
Glass
D. Va
Gore
Okla
Logan
D. Ky
Fess
Ohifo
Congress
Fletcher
Banking Committee
Escaped Convicts Believed Hiding in River Swamps
Five of eight Wilkes county convicts who overpowered a guard and a trusty last night are believed to be hiding in the Oconee River swamps four miles from Watkinsville Georgia. The other three were captured. Sheriff A Y Crowley led a 25 person posse. The group has robbed three houses in Oglethorpe and Greene counties and seized a camp truck before the escape. A shot was fired by a posse member and one convict was believed wounded.
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Watkinsville
Wilkes County
Oconee River
A. Y. Crawley
Oconee County
Oglethorpe County
Greene County
Crowley
Marty
Washington, Ga
Washington
Nine fugitives flee Wilkes county chain gang near Washington
Washington Georgia residents join sheriff's officers in a manhunt after eight convicts escaped from a Wilkes county chain gang. The group overpowered a guard stole two pistols and fled in a camp truck, with three fugitives reportedly recaptured near Watkinsville as a posse closed in.
Mattern launches globe girdling air race from New York
James Mattern of Texas takes off from Floyd Bennett Field at 4 20 a m EST seeking a world circumnavigation. He heads toward Paris before a nonstop Atlantic crossing with oranges as his only food. Wiley Post and Harold Gatty hold the current record of eight days seven hours 51 minutes.
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New York
James Mattern
Texas
New Foundland
Mattern
Lewisport
N. F
Open Sea
Paris
Wiley Post
Harold Gatty
Harbor Grace
Floyd Bennett Field
James Joseph Mattern
Sam Angelo
Tex
Mexico
Atlantic
Moscow
Berlin
Jack Clark II
Clark
Hawks
Los Angeles
Frank Hawks
Floyd Benet Field
Hawk
James Haislip
Butler, Pa
Atlanta Milk Price Situation Still Unsettled
Atlanta news reports the debate over stabilizing wholesale milk at 2.08 per 100 pounds under the industrial stabilization law. Fred T. Bridges says a tentative trade agreement with 75 percent of producers and all distributors is ready for federal approval, excluding the Georgia Milk Producers Confederation led by Columbus Roberts who opposes imports from other states and argues about producer supplies.
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Atlanta
Fred T. Bridges
Secretary of Agriculture
Bridges
Georgia Milk Producers Confederation
Columbus Roberts
Columbus
Roberts
Georgia
Explosion Kills Seven in Signal Hill California
Seven people die and about 50 are hospitalized after a compression chamber explosion at a Richfield Oil refinery sparked a fire that blackened four blocks in Signal Hill, California. The blast shattered old derricks and caused extensive property damage in the petroleum area near Long Beach.
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Signal Hill
Cal
Calif
Long Beach
Richfield Oil Company
Highway Board Moves in Budget Dispute in Georgia
Atlanta reports the highway board will return 540 prisoners to the state prison commission due to funding disputes. J W Whitely accuses Barnett of trying to control the highway department while Barnett refuses to discharge five engineers. The prison commission plans to meet to decide how to handle the convicts reassigned to highway work. Governor Talmadge offers no comment.
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Atlanta
State Prison Commission
Highway Board
J. W. Whitely
LaGrange
J. W. Barnett
Barnett
Whitely
Highway Department
Smith
W. L. Stanley
Talmadge
South Carolina Farmer Shot To Death In Chester
Chester, D. C., June 3 James 8 McKeown 56 farmer and war veteran was shot to death in the business section today Joe Wylie Chester county farmer and McKeown’s brother in law surrendered to Sheriff J G Howze and admitted the shooting McKeown a veteran of World War I and the Spanish American War died instantly with two pistol bullets Coroner W H Caldwell ordered an inquest.
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Chester
D. C
James
Woman Fulfills Life Long Wish as White House Guest
Mrs Pattie Willis South an 81 year old resident of Nicholasville Kentucky visited the White House for a luncheon after writing to Mrs Roosevelt expressing a wish for a meal there even if only bread and milk She arrived with evident delight and lingered over the experience
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White House
Washington
Pattie Willis South
Nicholasville
Roosevelt
Weather Outlook for South Atlantic Week Ahead
Mostly fair weather across the South Atlantic states with local showers and storms Tuesday or Wednesday and again interior late in the week. Seasonable temperatures, cooler for the north portion around Wednesday.
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South Atlantic States
Interior
North Portion
Weather Forecast for Georgia South Carolina and Florida
Georgia and South Carolina see fair conditions with slightly warmer temperatures in northern areas tonight and Sunday. Florida and Alabama regions report fair skies with similar warming trends in the northwest and central zones tonight and Sunday.
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Georgia
South Carolina
Florida
Alabama
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C. &. Cilck
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