Irwin Case May Be Long Delayed
New York reports a summer delay in the Robert Irwin Beekman Hill artist model slayings case. After his surrender and grand jury indictment on three counts, District Attorney William C. Dodge warns the trial may not start before September due to limited July and August court activity and Samuel Leibowitz needing to attend the Scottsboro defense in Alabama next week.
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New York
Robert Irwin
Beekman Hill
William C. Dodge
Dodge
Irwin
Samuel Leibowitz
Alabama
Scottsboro
Beach Resort Damaged By Fire at Betterton Maryland
A fire at Betterton Maryland damaged two of three amusement piers and spread to the Chesapeake Hotel and Beach Museum. The Silver Slipper dance hall started the blaze, which destroyed wooden bowling alley and skating rink facilities. Fire crews from Chestertown Millington and Rock Hall battled the flames. season not yet open.
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Betterton
Chesapeake Hotel
Beach Museu
Chestertown
Millington
Rock Hall
Vanderlip Dies, Noted Financier and Bank Leader
Frank A. Vanderlip, 72, former head of the National City Bank who built it into a leading private bank, died in a New York hospital after an intestinal ailment. He retired in 1919 and later served as a world finance adviser, participating in international talks on war debts and reparations.
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New York
World of Finance
Frank A. Vanderlip
National City Bank
Statesman
John D. Rockefeller, Sr
George F. Baker
Vanderlip
Frank A. Vanderlip, Jr
California
Geneva
Pennsylvania Governor Earle targets coal bootlegging fix
Governor Earle of Pennsylvania says he will seek negotiated settlement of the anthracite bootlegging problem before pushing legislation. He sets January 1 as the deadline and plans talks with independent miners United Mine Workers and producers. If talks fail he will push state or federal action.
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Washington
Earle
Pennsylvania
United Mine Workers of America
Amelia Earhart Plans Hazardous Pacific Flight
Amelia Earhart announced a solo world flight leg aboard the U S Coast Guard cutter Itasca. She will fly 2570 miles from Lae New Guinea to Howland Island over open ocean, crossing the international date line and completing the 18 to 20 hour hop before it begins.
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U.S. Coast Guard
Itasca
Howland Island
Amelia Earhart
Lae New Guinea
Well Represented At Youth Meeting
MASSANETTA SPRINGS June 30 Winchester and vicinity show a record enrollment of 650 at the eighteenth annual Young People's Conference at Mecsanetta. Participants include Sarah Dutterer Virginia Leatherman Jean Moling Louise Dorsey Robert Taylor Dorothy Greenwood Mildred Snyder Hilda Orndorff Luther Patton Anne Carpenter Hilda Rebecca Boyd am William Shannon. Athletics led by Rev Harold Dudley began with a baseball game. evening activities featured songs stunts and lawn games directed by Margaret Engle.
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Massanetta Springs
Winchester
Mecsanetta
Sarah Dutterer
Virginia Leatherman
Jean Moling
Louise Dorsey
Robert Taylor
Dorothy Greenwood
Mildred Snyder
Hilda Orndorff
Luther Patton
Hilda Rebecca Boydam
Anne Carpenter
Opequon
William Shannon
Front Royal
Harold Dudley
Kinston
N. C
Margaret Engle
Lees-Meea College
Banner Elk
Dudley
Fight Closed Editorial Shop
Representatives of 11 newspaper associations waged today against a closed shop for editorial employees. More than 500 publishers and executives adopted a resolution declaring unalterable opposition to the guilds proposal, with copies dispatched to publishers nationwide.
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Chicago
American Newspaper Guild
Woman Held In Fatal Shooting In Cumberland
In Cumberland Maryland Mrs Bessie Braithwaite 24 wife of James Braithwaite 24 of Stony Run near Westernport is jailed on the October grand jury action charged by a coroner s jury with the slaying of Alonzo Baker 14 her brother in law late yesterday afternoon The Bakers were separated after Baker allegedly sought the five months old infant Jean at the Braithwaite home
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Cumberland
Bessie Braithwaite
James Braithwaite
Stony Run
Westernport
Alonzo Baker
Baker
Jean
Braithwaite
Drowning Search Suspends for Earl Caps Youth
Seekers continued today for the body of Earl Caps a 15 year old boy of Washington who reportedly drowned yesterday at Eda Point on the Severn River near Annapolis Maryland.
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Annapolis
Earl Caps
Washington
Eda Point
Severn River
Man Held After Slashing At Party Leaves Woman Dead
Police at Prince Frederick Maryland held 28 year old J Wilson Jones Jr for questioning after a party drinking incident ended in the stabbing of Mrs James W Morris and her husband. Mrs Morris died from wounds. Sheriff Duckley said the fight began when Mrs Morris tried to mediate as Jones allegedly struck his wife.
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Prince Frederick
J. Wilson Jones, Jr
James W. Morris
Miners Join Pickets Near Bethlehem Plant
About 2,000 miners marched into Johnstown Pennsylvania to back a Bethlehem Steel Cambria plant picket after word of a possible reopening. When executives kept the plant closed the crowd dispersed as two state police watched from the curb.
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Bethlehem
Johnstown
Cambria
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Pennsylvania
Russians establish yearlong North Pole meteorology base
A radiophoto shows Russians at a North Pole base with Eugene Fyodorov reading meteorological data from a delicate instrument. Four Russians encamped at the site will remain for a year to collect data.
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North Pole
Eugene Fyodorov
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