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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1933
Page
6
Paul Lockwood, a Los Angeles film cameraman, sues director Victor Fleming for 150000 dollars alleging Fleming alienated the affections of Lockwood’s wife Marjorie Patricia Lockwood. Fleming denies the charges.
Central Press Association lists ten major events for 1933 including the Roosevelt assassination attempt that fatally wounded Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, Hitler's rise in Germany, the Akron dirigible disaster, J P Morgan inquiry, prohibition repeal, San Jose lynchings, the national bank holiday, Machado's Cuban upheaval, and Soviet Russia recognition after Litvinov's Washington visit.
Louis Kenneth Neu is found guilty of murdering Sheffield Clark Sr in New Orleans. He exchanges taunting remarks with his lawyers Charles A. Danna and Clarence Dowling before the jury returns the verdict. Neu is sentenced to death and leaves the courtroom singing and grinning.
Relatives say Patricia Maguire 28 of Oak Park Illinois who has suffered sleeping sickness since February 15 1932 may be regaining consciousness. Her mother Mrs Peter Miley notes increasing awareness of surroundings.
Citizens flock to Washington for the reconvened national legislature on Jan 2. The image shows the opening of the special session last March with Vice President John N. Garner and Speaker Henry T. Rainey pictured beside gavels.
District Attorney Eugene Stanley plans to prosecute more than 500 of Huey P. Long's election commissioners on fraud charges from the November 1932 election. Mayor T Semmes Walmsley of New Orleans calls the senator's retreat from supporting a city ticket a retreat and breaks with Long.
In Los Angeles Phillips Holmes announced engagement to Florence Rice, daughter of sports writer Grantland Rice, while New York mother Mrs Rice denied the claim. The conflicting reports create doubt about the romance as Holmes leaves for the cast.
Juan Francesco de Cardenas arrives in New York from Spain to present credentials to President Roosevelt and assume his post as Spain’s ambassador to the United States. The envoy is swapped in New York as the diplomatic exchange proceeds.
W. W. Howes stands with Jesse Donaldson and Clyde Kelly as officials honor a heroic air pilot who earned a medal after saving lives on three separate occasions involving planes and trains. Freeburg is noted in the caption.
Ernest T. Weir, chairman of Weirton Steel in Weirton West Virginia, prepares a defense as a possible court dispute over the labor board authority to supervise employee elections for union representation. General Hugh S. Johnson has accepted the challenge as NRA administrator.
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