Triples Murder Theory Gains Support In Baffling Deaths
In Pittsburgh the triple murder theory grows after the strangling deaths of Martin J. Feely's wife and two young children. Feely, distraught, doubts the killings by a intruder, while brother Robert Buckley backs the theory and notes a left temple stab wound suggesting an ice pick. Autopsy shows mother and children died hours before discovery. coroner maintains triple murder as the likely cause.
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Martin J. Feely
University of Pitsburg
Buckley
Robert
Janice
John Artz
Mrs. Feely
Martin Feely
Pottersville
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Kansas Budget Balance Stand at May End
Kansas treasurer J J Rhodes said the general fund had an unencumbered cash balance of 1 572 481 on May 31 up from 889 591 a year earlier. He expects a balanced year end June 30 and more cash on hand to start the new fiscal year than in 1935.
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Peka
Kas
J. J. Rhodes
Rhodes
Labor Battle at Kent Plant Ends in Siege
Forty six guards entered the Black & Decker Electric Company plant in a surprise sortie on pickets early Thursday morning. The four hour siege left bullet shattered windows and threats of bloodshed. Guards were arrested on charges of shooting with intent to wound and held to the grand jury under bonds of 1500 dollars each.
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Black & Decker Electric Company
Cleveland
W. S. Harvey
Congressional Activity From Today and Yesterday
In the Senate today debates focus on a conference report for a revenue bill. The House meets on miscellaneous legislation as the Rules committee analyzes the ship subsidy bill. Yesterday actions included ending a filibuster on ship subsidies and the Guffey coal bill, judiciary approved a probe of the Black Legion, Walsh Healey government contracts bill passed, a proposal to place all postmasters under civil service was defeated, and the conference report on the tax bill was adopted. The ship subsidy bill was defeated.
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Walsh-Healey
Farmers Meet to Plan Save Crops in North Dakota
Drouth harassed farmers gathered in county mass meetings across North Dakota to seek relief for withered crops. Governor Walter Welford prepared a radio broadcast request for advice, aiming to build support for federal funds for sustenance and livestock feed. The Federal Crop Reporting Board called conditions critical, noting spring wheat at 66.9 percent of normal while forecasts offered little rain and heat persisted across the western plains.
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North Dakota
Walter Welford
Washington
Roosevelt
Federal Crop Reporting Board
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Montana
Plains
Kansas City
Concordia
Kans
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Bartlesville
Oklo
House votes down civil service bill in House race
A measure to place all postmasters under civil service failed in the House today after a 204 to 112 vote against. The bill, brought under suspension of the rules, faced a bitter party line split as it stalled in Congress.
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House
Chamber
Price Placed on Mayor Voisine by Cultists in Detroit
June 20 report reveals Dayton Dean of the Black Legion claims a 400 dollar price tag was placed on William W. Voisine, mayor of suburban Ecorse. Three men including a Black Legion officer await trial for conspiring to murder him, with at least five more held for questioning in the Hooded secret society case.
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Dayton Dean
Black Legion
William W. Voisine
Ecorse
Hooded
Secret Society
Voisine
Reading Is a Matter of Taste Judge Declares
Cincinnati June 20 A news dealer J Louis Motz aged 41 was freed of charges he possessed obscene literature after Municipal Judge Samuel W Bell commented reading is a matter of taste The case arose from a campaign led by anti vice crusader Rev Mary Hubbert Ellis of Philadelphia
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Cincinnati
J. Louis Motz
Samuel W. Bell
Democrats Rally Quietly in Philadelphia as Convention Opens
In Philadelphia, Democratic leaders led by national chairman James A. Farley projected a calm start to the preconvention week. Farley stated the party would yield 1,100 votes for Roosevelt’s renomination and replace the two thirds rule with majority support, with little opposition among leaders present. Police escorts and conventioneering noises punctuated the otherwise quiet scene after Cleveland’s GOP meeting.
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Quaker City
James A. Farley
Roosevelt
Columbus Physician Dr James E Holmes Dies at 72
Dr James E Holmes a Columbus physician for 30 years died yesterday from a heart ailment He was 72 a native of Fayette County in Ohio and longtime local medical practitioner at the Columbus area.
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Columbus
James E. Holmes
Fayette County
Congress Appropriations Near Ten Billion Dollars
Washington June 20. Congress has pushed total appropriations for the session toward 10 billion dollars. Regular supply bills were trimmed, but emergency demands such as the veterans bonus and the new agricultural program added about 4 billion. The Senate raised several totals, including 1.73 billion for veterans bonuses and 440 million for soil conservation under AAA.
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Congress
House Appropriations Committee
Senate
Supreme Court
AAA
Lemke to Run for President on Third Party
Washington reports Representative William Lemke of North Dakota announced a third party bid. The Union Party declared support printing a 15 point platform demanding currency issued by Congress, mortgage refinancing, living wages, social security, strong defense and anti monopolies. Rev. Coughlin endorsed Lemke and urged followers to join the National Union for Social Justice.
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William Lemke
North Dakota
Union Party of the
Charles E. Coughlin
Detroit
Lemke
Coughlin
National Union For Social Justice
Congress
Union Party Must File Signatures by Aug 3 in Ohio
Columbus June 20 The new Union Party led by Rep William Lemke of North Dakota and backed by the National Union for Social Justice would need about 330000 signatures by August 3 to appear on Ohio ballots in November. If fielding independent candidates they must file roughly 22000 signatures by September 3.
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New Union Party
William Lemke
North Dakota
National Union For Social Justice
Ohio
Lemke
Charles E. Coughlin
Louis to Return This August in Ring Wars
New York promoter Mike Jacobs plans to resume Joe Louis battles in August with no announced opponent. Louis, still in training, heads to Detroit as Schmeling wins and Braddock promotion discussions heat up. Schmeling plans to return to Germany while Germany’s leaders congratulate him. Fight revenue fell short of expectations, splitting $125,000 each for Schmeling and Louis from a $547,531 gross.
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Tragic Lake Gardner Drowning Kills 12 Lubec Children
Be wildered grieving parents prepared to bury 12 Lubec school children who perished when a 14 foot dinghy overloaded with 17 occupants capsized in Lake Gardner during a school picnic near Lubec Maine on June 20. Cal vin Lundin the boat operator survived with others escaping. Miss Stella Burhoe aided shore arrivals after swimming to assist.
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Aged man held in extortion plot against Will Rogers widow
Los Angeles June 20 A 76 year old ex cowboy Joseph E Snyder was questioned by Justice agents over an alleged plan to extort $1000 from Mrs Will Rogers widow by threatening to reveal Rogers as a cattle rustler The letter claimed Rogers stole cattle starting in 1892 with a long Oklahoma past detailed The dates and ages in the letter appear dubious.
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Joseph E. Snyder
Department of Justice
Will Rogers
Rogers
Fire truck collision kills woman in Newark
A Newark fire truck returning to the engine house after a run collided with an automobile yesterday, killing 60 year old Mrs. Frank Owens of near Granville. The accident occurred as the vehicle traveled through the city, prompting an investigation by local authorities.
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Frank Owens
Granville
Seven Die As Bronx Apartment House Collapses
Four bodies were recovered today from the wreckage of a collapsed Bronx seven story apartment building and two others were found in the ruins raising known dead to seven. Police and fire squads searched for five more buried. Eleven workers were hospitalized, one in serious condition. The unfinished center wing fell yesterday afternoon, piling debris from basement to third floor with more than twenty workers present.
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New York
Bronx
Ohioan Taft named to Landon campaign strategy board
Charles P Taft of Cincinnati youngest Taft son and brother to Robert Taft joins Governor Landon's presidential race strategy group in Topeka along with Ralph W Robey and Earl H Taylor. Taft, a reform advocate and Hamilton County charter leader, will serve amid debate over merit system and civil service proposals.
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Cincinnati
Alf M. Landon
Kansan
Charles P. Taft
William Howard Taft
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Landon
Taft
Topeka
Ralph W. Robey
Columbia University School of Business
Earl H. Taylor
Bryn Mawr
Hamilton County
You
Roosevelt
Mongrel Tax Bill Draws Heated Senate Debate
Senate battles over a revenue package as Senator Byrd calls the tax bill a mongrel hybrid compromise. House action on the ship subsidy bill helps push toward final passage before adjournment of the 74th Congress.
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Byrd
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Ohio House votes for tax bill conference report
Washington June 20 The Ohio House delegation votes 11 to 5 for adoption of the conference report on the 800 million dollar compromise tax bill. Democrats voting for include Ashbrook Crosser Fletcher Harlan Harter Kloeb Kniffin Polk Sweeney Thom and Young. Republicans for none with Lamneck voting against.
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Senate Fights Over Tax Bill and Guffey Aid Clash
Senate struggle over a billion dollar Treasury and Post Office appropriation threads through a tax bill battle. Byrd rails against the measure seen as altering corporate taxation, while factions warn of damage to party and nation. House approved the compromise tax plan. ship subsidies and a massive appropriation loom unresolved as session ends.
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