Sensible jury verdict in Dr. Snook case shocks Columbus
The Snook murder trial ends in a 28 minute verdict with a death sentence for the former Ohio State veterinary professor, who denied the confession but faced jurors who believed his claim of a fatal attack amid an illicit affair. The piece also notes long-lived Kays family and a dramatic Hickman case investigation in Minneapolis.
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James H. Snook
Columbus
Theora
K. Hix
Snook
Ma’ Higher Court
Altho
Ohio State University
Return of Clarinda inmate to state hospital
Des Moines Aug 15 NSi w B Hines will be returned to the state hospital for the insane at Clarinda today. He was captured after a chase through the western suburbs of the city Wednesday following a complaint from his wife that he had threatened her life.
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Des Moines
Nsi
State Hospital
Clarinda
Hia
Suspects Held as Police Hunt Moron Slaying Case
Minneapolis dispatch reports witnesses saw a red haired man with a girl in a parked car hours before Dorothy Aune, 12, was found strangled and bound in gunny sacks near Milwaukee yards. A second man may have been present in the rear seat. Police, deputies, and St Paul officers press the manhunt and interview the Fink and Gill witnesses who described the scene between 9:30 and 10 p m Tuesday.
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Hickman
Minneapolis
Dorothy Anne
St. Paul
California
Seai
Minn
Dorothy
Hermat Fink
Hutchinson
Mina
David Gill
Bemidji
Fink
Pink
Harold Carlson
Carlson
Tam O'Shitnter
Aune
Dorothy Aune
Andrew O'Tess
Olness
Officials Arrested in East Chicago Raid Prompt Deportation
Deportation proceedings were considered today against un naturalized aliens arrested in wholesale raids by federal agents in East Chicago Indiana. Federal authorities reviewed records of 101 charged with specific offenses while nearly 200 others held after questioning were released if not linked to alleged vice and liquor rings blamed on town control for months.
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Hanmmond
Ind
East
Chicago
Raleigh P. Hale
James E. Regan
East Chicago
President Hoover to Broadcast Address Saturday
New York Aug 15 Herbert Hoover’s nationwide radio address will be carried at noon eastern daylight time from Madison, Virginia. The broadcast follows the law enforcement address and includes an official welcome by Governor Byrd of Virginia.
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New York
Herbert Hoover
National Broadcasting Company
Salr
Madison
Guv. Byrd
Virginia
Defense Frameup Hinted in Pantages Case Hearing
Los Angeles Aug 15 A defense lawyer charged the plan to frame theatre operator Alexander Pantages in the statutory assault case against Eunice Pringle. Pringle denied framing and admitted acquaintance with author Nick Dunave, while cross examining revealed proposed involvement and prior visits to Dunave's apartments. Two women fainted amid the courtroom bustle as the hearing opened and Pringle fainted on the stand after initial questioning.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Alexander Pantages
Miss Pringle
Tre
Gilbert
Dunave
Pantages
Fitts
Reid Bronte Quit Endurance Flight
Long Beach California August 15 INS reports a spark plug cracked in the motor forcing T. G. Reid and Emory Bronte to halt their attempt to set the world non refueling flight record. They said they would try again.
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Long Beach
Cal
T. G
Dack
Reid
Emory
Bronte
Tieup in English Cotton Mills Ended
Manchester England August 15 The deadlock in the Lancashire cotton industry which has shut 1800 mills and caused 500000 workers to suffer was broken as representatives of employers and workers agreed to arbitration.
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Manchester
Eng
Lancashire
Hos
Chicago Racketeers Toss Bomb No. 73
Chicago racketeers hurled their seventy third bomb of the year at a cleaning and dyeing establishment in Chicago. The Suprema Dyeing & Cleaners operation suffered unspecified damage in the blast as authorities investigated the incident.
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Chicago
O.R
Suprema Dyeing & Clean Lo Ee
New Orleans Street Car Strike Turns Violent After Boosted Police Force
In New Orleans on August 15 drastic steps were taken after a night of violence in a street car strike. Cars were damaged by dynamite, a three year old boy died, and police added 200 officers. Authorities barred firearms sales without authorization and kept officers in uniform with night sticks as strikes continued. Floyd East, the three year old hit by a strike breaker’s trolley, sparked further patrols.
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New Orelans
U.R
Laurel
Theodore ‘Eb. Ray
Floyd East
Tractors Sought to Free Stranded Land of the Soviets Plane
The Moscow New York plane Land of the Soviets, forced to land in Siberian wilderness, remains damaged but crews seek tractors to pull the craft from the jungle. Pilot Sheshtakov reports from Sasnovozersk near Chita that repairs uncertainty may delay resuming the New York flight. the leg to New York began nine days ago.
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Moscow
INSI
New York
Siberian
Sheshtakov
Sasnovozersk
Chita
New Radio Station May Stop Whistle
Washington August 15 formal announcement that a constant frequency radio station authorized by Congress will be erected at Grand Island Nebraska in December. The contract for the station, first of its kind, will be set soon and the department expects it to bring about the elimination of whistles in radio receiving sets.
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Washington, D
Congress
Grand Island
Neb
Department, of Commerce
Rhinelander Again Seeks Divorce From Mulatto Wife
Leonard Kip Rhinelander, heir to a New York family, files a second divorce suit against Alice Jones Rhinelander in Las Vegas alleging she used deceit to force him into marriage. He claims she manipulated him and estranged him from family and friends, causing humiliation.
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Las Vegas
Leonard Kip Rhinelander
New York
Alice Jones Rhinelander
Rhinelander
New Rochelle
Newgro Coachman
Four Civil War brothers still alive in later years
Four Kays brothers who served together in the Civil War remain among the dwindling survivors. F. 8. Kays, 85, of Harlan, enlisted in the Fourth Iowa cavalry in 1862. W. J. Kays, 84, of Washington Kansas, joined Sept 14, 1861. J. L. Kays, 82, of Des Moines, served in the Fourth Iowa cavalry, and George W. Kays, 86, of Independence, Ta., was in the Seventh Wisconsin infantry. A fifth brother, aged 65, did not serve.
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Kays
Tlan, da
Stillre
F. 8. Kays
Harlan
Fourth
Iown Cavalry
W. J. Kays
Washington
Kan
Wisconsin
J. L. Kays
Des Moines
Iowa Cavalry
George W. Kays
Independence
Wisconsin Infantry
Gigar business investors asked for tax returns
Cedar Rapids and Milwaukee, Aug 1 15, federal and state authorities pursued Elmer S Huckins of Milwaukee linked to a “cigar business” investment scheme. Investors were ordered to explain unreported earnings while a warrant for use of the mails to defraud was issued. Huckins reportedly left Cedar Rapids and was seen driving south.
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Cedar Rapids
Elmer
Huckins
Milwaukee
Walter J. Barngrover
Cesar Rapids
Hancock
Wis
Elmer S. Huckins
Mancock
Wisconsin
John H. Leenhouts
Milwaukee County
United States Court
H. L. Kellogg
Hucklins
Leenhouts
Lenhouts
R. M. Bates
Reinbeck Labor Day Program Planned for Aug 15
Reinbeck will host the seventeenth annual Labor day celebration with a 2 p.m. baseball game between Hudson and Dike, small sports, and two feature vaudeville acts. A three hour evening program will be staged from an elevated Main Street platform beginning at 8 o’clock, closing with a street parade.
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Courier
Reinbeck
Hudson
Dike
Main Street
Final Breakdown of Hague Parley Seen
London reports that a final breakdown of the Hague reparations conference appeared likely after a meeting of France Italy Belgium and Japan financial delegates. Louis Loucheur said France could not accept British demands for a larger share of German reparations under the Young plan.
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London
Reuter
Hague
France
Italy
Belgium
Japan
Louis Loucheur
Dunkerton Hosts Busy Community Celebration Parade
Dunkerton Iowa hosts a big community celebration with throngs arriving from nearby towns. Cavalier Buckmaster leads the parade, followed by American Legion groups, a fife and drum corps, and colorful floats. Events include a balloon ascent, parachute drop, horse racing, a baseball game, concerts, free movies, and various acrobatic acts.
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Sta
Dunkerton
Peter Kress
American Legion- Threshers
Gally
Cavalier
R. A. Buckmaster
American’ Legion
A. M. Holdiman
Alfred Wheeler
Fife
Melvin Stewart
Conrad Fife
Billy Weir
Beaman
Wesley Hutchins
Delvein
Raymond Belmont
First National Bank
The
Legion Auxiliary
Jong Ines
Find Youth's Body After Long Search
Maquoketa Iowa August 15 1941 The body of Kenneth Hardin 24 with a bullet hole through the head was found early today after his family and friends sought him through the night. It was found in the woods about a mile from his home. Relatives said there was no murder suspected and the death was by his own action. The youth had been affected by intense heat but seemed to recover before.
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George A. Bowman
Huckins
EB. J. Koelzer
United States
Federal Building
George Huckins
Cedar Rapids
The
Milwaukee Journal
Edgar
Maquoketa
Kenneth Hardin
Zenk
Pool Owner Sued for $30,000 in Drowning
Bedford Ta Aug 15 George Codd of Bedford was ordered to defend against suits totaling 30,900 arising from the death of Anabel Pearce who drowned July 2 while swimming in a pool owned by Codd. The suits include 10,000 by the girl's father O M Peace and 20,000 by her mother as administratrix.
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Bedford
George Codd
Anabel Pearce
Codd
O. M. Peace
Graf Zeppelin Chases Round World Route to Tokio
Graf Zeppelin sails from Friedrichshafen heading toward Berlin and Stettin on the second leg to Tokio. The airship reports four motors in use to save fuel while observers note Danzig and Koenigsberg passes, with weather and Soviet airfield readiness cited.
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Graf
Berlin
Danzig
Stettin
Koenigsberg
Friedrichshafen
Baltic
Friedrichshafen- Toklo
Hugo Eckener
Soyleg Union
Hamburg
Russia
Moscow
Willam B. Leeds
New York
Boston
Lieut
J. C. Richardson
United States Navy Air Service
Germany
Free City of
Dr. Eckener
Graf Zeppelin
Tokio
Japan
S. T
Ciraé
European
Ural Mountains
Siberia
Astia
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Kenilworth
N. J
Mariaville
N.Y
Zep
Toklo
Tokxla
Loa Angeples
Concordia
Kansas
Gordon Frost
Wayne C. Aldrich
Denver
Cals
James Mimpringham
Church Temperance Society
Episcopal
Shirley Wynne
National Health Education Society
Empringham
Grill
President Hoover
Gage
Chico
New Jar
New Orleans
Philadelphia
Oley
Delaware River
Pier 75
Flaynna Ribbon
San Peller
Martin
Ydoulta
Best Se Cigars
GIGAR
Bodo
Yokosuka
Maizuru
Tisit
East Prussia
Lithuania
Poland
Prus Dia
Rus Sia
Baltic Sea
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