In the Spotlight of TODAY'S News relics and roars of 1935
In this column a mix of playful royal satire about King Borin of Bulgaria narrowly escaping a shot to the royal whiskers and a relic unearthed story of Abraham Lincoln's coach discovered in Baltimore. It also covers a lively opening day of the major league season with the Indians beating the Browns 21 to 14, straw hats trend, portraits by John Singer Sargent, tornado cyclone cellar talk, prehistoric life expedition, and a Montana rodeo setup with Senator Wheeler facing an oil operator charge.
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Baltimore
Lincoln Highway Association
Abraham Incoln
Gettysburg
Lincoln
Washington
Babe
Ruth
St. Louis
Cleveland Indians
Browns
Indians
Sisler
Rail merger draws little public attention in hearings
Washington April 13 The Nickel Plate merger involving Erie Pere Marquette and Chesapeake and Ohio meets with scant public interest as hearings begin. Only one out of town reporter attends, while stockholders opposing mergers and Virginia interests seek protections for ports at Newport News and Hampton Roads.
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Mark Sulaavan
Washington, D.C
Erie
Pere Marquette
Chesapeake & Ohio
Washington
Cleveland
van Sweringen
Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
Hoerald
Tribune News Service
Hanover butcher executed for murder of 26 men and boys
Fritz Maar Mann, Hanover butcher, convicted of killing 26 men and boys, faced the guillotine early this morning. He uttered a final defiant remark before the beheading, as reported by Associated Press.
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Associated Press
Hanover
Germany
Lam Sunly
Fritz Maarmann
Gasoline Tax Enacted Soon to Take Effect at Midnight
Des Moines reports that Iowa will begin collecting the new gasoline tax at midnight with state Treasurer R E Johnson directing the process. Tax will be collected by jobbers starting Friday and retailers are expected to remit about 14600 tomorrow. Revenue funds state highways across Iowa.
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Des Moines
Winterset
Madisonian
Iowa
R. E. Johnson
Johnson
Twins’ fingerprints hard to tell apart in Iowa theft case
Keith and Kenneth Courter, 17, Belle Plaine, are identical twins whose fingerprints are indistinguishable. Sheriff completed prints of all high school students to identify the school superintendent’s office thief who stole $85, with charts sent to Des Moines for comparison against the thief’s prints.
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Belle Plaine
Keith
Kenneth Courter
Des Moines
Painleve Accepts to Form Cabinet in France
Paris April 15 ex Premier Paul Painleve agreed to form a cabinet with socialist participation. Three socialists will join, two named Boncour and Varennes, Painleve to head foreign affairs. Briand reportedly declined, socialists warned against dictation as opposition frets about a fragile Herriot-style government. Caillaux ex-premier to Paris, unclear if for consultation or cabinet post selection.
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Associated Press
Paris
Paul Painleve
Doumer- Bue
Herriot
Painleve
Doumerue c
Paul Boncour
Alexandra Varennes
Aristide Briand
Chamber
Leon Blum
Socialist Council
Socialist Party
Painleves
Cireles Cless
Senate
Caillany
Joseph Caillanx
Caillanx
Summmons
Paul Pathleve
Caillaux
King Boris II narrowly escapes assassination in Bulgarian capital
Report says King Boris II was ambushed while traveling toward the capital. A bullet grazed his face and damaged his whiskered appearance as his car was fired upon. the chauffeur was wounded. A movement leader Geno George was shot dead in a city street amid the political upheaval.
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Geno Neorge1hie
Stamboulisky
Salvation Army band winged hymn ends in hangings
In Dirham England on April day a Salvation Army band performed nearier My God to Thee as Henry Raham was hanged for the murder of his wife. Simultaneously Thomas Shelton Wis hanged for murdering his sweetheart on a separate scaffold. The report notes the execution and contrasts with a broader market reference to wheat price movements in Chicago.
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Dirham
England
Salvation Army
Henry Raham
Thomas Shelton Wis
Chicago
Courier Delivery Timing and Reissue Policy
The Courier should be delivered before 4 30 oclock. If you do not receive the paper by that time due to carrier error or other cause, call 5100 and a copy will be sent. Phone calls must reach this office before 630 p.m.
U S Battle Fleet Steams to Sea to Capture Western Outpost
So fia April 1 Royal troops search for six assassins who ambushed King Boris near the capital. A bullet clipped part of the Bulgar monarchs mustache as he was driven to the capital. San Francisco April 15 The grand fleet a mighty consolidation of sea power under the U S flag steamed out to threaten the Island of Cuha Hawaiian outpost. 120 vessels stretched 25 miles in length making a dramatic departure toward war games against the western coast.
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Borin
Bulgaria
Boris
U.S
Western Sea
Sofia
Associated Press
San Francisco
Cal
Grand Fleet
United States
Pacific
Golden Gate
Cuha
Chaplins Ex Wife Weds Twice In Mexico And Connecticut
Mildred Harris, ex wife of Charlie Chaplin, announced she has married E Terrence McGovern, a Florida real estate man. The couple secretly wed in Mexico on November 29, later marrying again in Greenwich, Connecticut after returning to New York. Friends say they were engaged for about two years.
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New York
Mildred Harris
Charlie Chaplin
E. Terrence McGovern
Florida
McGovern
Mexico
Greenwich
X Ray Photograph of Hand Sent by Wire
A radio telegraph experiment sent an X ray image of a hand from New York to Chicago in seven minutes. The image was transmitted by the American Photo Supply company and received by the Victor X ray corporation, a General Electric subsidiary, signaling potential benefits for surgical work requiring prompt expert consultation.
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New York
Chicago
American Photo Supply Company
Victor X-ray Corporation
General Electric Company
Towa Iron Man to Cleveland for Trial
Des Moines Iowa April 15 removal of W Hughes Fairfield to Cleveland to stand trial under the Sherman antitrust laws ordered by Federal Judge Wade Hughes is president of the Towa Malleable Iron company and has been at liberty on bail. The manufacturers are charged with conspiracy to control prices of iron products.
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Des Moines
W. ¥. Hughes
Fairfield
Cleveland
Wade
Hughes
Towa Malleable Tron Company
Hunt Three Toee Nor ge Tracks In John Day Valley
An expedition led by Prof Ithhester Stock from the University of California sails to eastern Oregon’s John Day valley to study fossils. Scientists aim to confirm whether three toed losses and other ancient creatures inhabited the area before humans, seeking sequence of life forms from the tertiary period.
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Chester Stock
University of California Department of Paleontology
John Day Valley
Oregon
Steck
Tennessee
Berkeley
Calif
Ithhester Stock
Department of Paleonatology
University of California
Tohn Day Valley
Stack
Report Goldwyn to Wed Frances Howard
Samuel Goldwyn film producer and Frances Howard, who played the flapper in The Best People, are set to marry after a four week acquaintance. They met at a Conde Nast dinner before Goldwyn returned from Europe. Engagement kept secret briefly. they plan to marry in Los Angeles soon with Miss Howard to follow. She has six years on stage and will be 22 in June.
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New York
Samuel Goldwyn
Frances Howard
Flapper
Conde Nast
Europe
Goldwyn
Los Angeles
Miss Howard
Whird Trial Sends Convicted Negro to Life Term in Prison
Jesse Adams, a negro convicted of murder in the first degree for the killing of Adolph Lunis, a grocer, during a holdup three years earlier, is en route to Fort Madison to begin a life sentence after a sequence of trials. The first trial yielded life, but key officials died, causing delays and a new trial. the second ended in a hung jury. the third resulted in a conviction renewed.
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Siouxity
Jesse Adams
Adolph Lunis
Fort Madison
Adams
Supreme Court
Denison City Clerk Johnson Elected Bank Trustee
Denison Ja April 15 Jacob Johnson city clerk of Denison was elected trustee of the Bank of Denison by creditors. Bond fixed at 200000. A creditors meeting in Couz Bluffs next Monday will consider a sale proposal to a syndicate led by former Gov. Leslie M Shaw and a Denison resident, Shaw owed creditors 35000.
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Denison
Jacob Johnson
Last Hight
Bank of
Mine outbreak injures many in Mor Santown area
Arleston West Virginia April 15 Many patrons have been wounded in a new mine outbreak near Mor Santown Advices received today by Gov Gare say guards are lacking Most of the coalfield violators have been jailed as the report notes uncertainty about the situation
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Arleston
W. Va
Mor Santown
Gare
de Walls
Opening of Senator Wheeler trial over oil gate charges
Government counsel plans to use 37 witnesses as Senator Burton K Wheeler faces trial in Great Falls Montana. The defense led by Thomas J Walsh claims the case is a political frame by former Attorney General Harry Daugherty. Wheeler accuses Daugherty allies of orchestrating the prosecution amid a political vendetta.
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Senate
Dougherty
Associated Press
Great Falls
Mont
Burton K. Wheeler
Thomas J. Walsh
Blair Coan
Republican Natio Committee
John L. Slattery
R. P.stewart
Frank
S.dietrich
Idaho
Interior Department
Wheeler
Washington
Senator Wheeler
Aes
Gordon
Campbell
Montiana
Department of the Interior
Butte
United Press
County Court House
Senntor
Senate Investigating Committee
Park Hotel
Harry Daugherty
Daugherty
Pratt
Ciuzens
Department of Justice
Robert M. la Fellette
Juru
James R. Couzens
Michigan
Treasury Department
Couzens
Tax Bureau
Treasury Deatimenc
la Follette
Kenry
Coolidge
Br Steel
Mieszger
Irda
Coluran
Flames in Factory Cause $8,000 Loss
A fire at the Chamberlain Machine Works toolshop at 2500 Fourth Street East caused about 8000 in damage to the frame two story building and its contents including machinery and materials. A watchman saw the blaze at 4 10 am and firemen contained it with two hose lines. operations will continue in the main factory as an addition nears completion to replace the lost space.
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Chamberlain Machine Works
Fourth Street
Chamberlain
Famous Portrait Painter John Singer Sargent Dies in Chelsea
London April 15 United Press reports John Singer Sargent the famous portrait painter died after a stroke at his Chelsea home. He suffered the stroke at 3 a.m. and died a few hours later. a housekeeper found him at his bed. Born in Florence in 1856, he trained in Italy and France under masters and exhibited in the salon since 1870 becoming an associate of the Royal Academy in 1878.
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Tiky United Press
London
John Singer
S Sargent
Chelsea
Sargent
RN S
Florence
Italy
Boston
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France
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Oahu
International News Wire
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HUNT
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