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February 16, 1938
80,000 GERMAN TROOPS LINE AUSTRIAN BORDER AT MIDNIGHT
As midnight struck, 80,000 German troops were reported to be standing-to near the Austrian frontier, while Mussolini was said to have 120,000 men ready on the Brenner Pass.
By midnight, Dr. Kurt von Schuschnnig, Austrian Chancellor, had to answer the "ultimatum" Herr Hitler handed him in his Alpine Chalet at Berchtesgaden on Monday evening.
He had to say yes or no to the demand to take into his cabinet as Minister of the Interior with control of the police, the Nazis' nominee Dr. Seyss-Inquart.
This would mean giving Austria to Hitler.
ARMY CHIEF TO GO
Dr. Schuschnnig's Cabinet sat late -- declaring to the last minute ways and means of resisting the Nazis or devising a compromise. If Austria refused the demands, it was believed in Vienna last night, Mussolini might not support her for fear of shattering the Rome-Berlin axis by a quarrel with Hitler.
During the meeting, Dr. Schuschnnig is said to have put through a call to Rome, made a desperate appeal to the Duce for aid.
As midnight drew near Dr. Miklas, Austria's bearded President, was said to have threatened to resign if his Chancellor gave way. In reply, Dr. Schuschnnig was said to have threatened to quit. Schuschnnig is said to have decided on the retirement of the Chief of the Austrian General Staff, Field Marshal Franz Jansa, at Hitler's request, because he is alleged to have been in touch with General von Fritsch, deposed Chief of the German general staff.
PROTEST MEETINGS
Late last night, nobody knew the outcome.
All day the Patriotic Front leaders and workers were holding anti-Nazi demonstrations. One meeting was addressed by Herr Rott, secretary to the Ministry of Labour, who was loudly cheered when he cried, "The workers are ready to accept any sacrifice to defend Austria's freedom and independence."
The crisis reached a climax when the Patriotic Front rejected the German demands to which Schuschnnig was forced to submit. Messages: Daily Mirror, Reuter Exchange, Central News, and British United Press.
HUSBAND FINDS BRIDE OF A MONTH DEAD IN HER KITCHEN
Bride of a month, twenty-two year old Mrs. Marjorie Pogson was found by her husband lying dead in her kitchen at Rainham, Gillingham, Kent.
She left her home at Barkisland, near Halifax, Yorks, on January 15 in high spirits for her wedding at the village church to Mr. Hubert Pogson, of Stainland, a neighbouring village.
Mrs. Pogson was the eldest daughter of Mr. Joe Thornber, a Barkisland farmer. Before her marriage she was on the staff at a Stainland mill. Her husband is a dentist on the staff of the Co-Operative Dental Association.
ENGLISH GIRL KILLED BY AVALANCHE
By A Special Correspondent
Lying at midnight in the tiny village chapel at Compatsch, high among the snowy peaks of the Engadine, in Austria, was the body of nineteen-year-old Cynthia Levine of Harrogate.
She was one of four girls killed in an avalanche which swept down into the Samnaun Valley yesterday. With a guide, four young Swiss girls, and a young man, she had gone for a ski-ing expedition.
STILL MISSING
The avalanche swept on them without warning. The man escaped, rescued the guide and one of the girls, and returned to the village for help.
The other girls were buried in deep snow. Late last night three had been dug out. The other is still missing.
Miss Levine was on holiday in Compatsch by herself.
LEFT HOME AFTER SCHOOL SNEER
From Our Own Correspondent
Southend, Tuesday
Mr. Frederick Charles Young, an aircraft engineer, of Buxton-gardens, Acton, and his wife, have motored hundreds of miles since Wednesday, when their fourteen-year-old son Edward disappeared from home.
Mr. Young arrived in Southend to-night and described the boy to the police.
Edward, a student at Acton Technical School, wanted to join the Navy. He said so to a teacher, and was told, so Mr. Young said to me, "You won't be fit to be a naval man if you live to be 100."
Mr. Young said his boy was threatened with expulsion from school because he was backward with his lessons. Since his disappearance an inquiry was being made by the authorities.
"Before he left home," Mr. Young said, "the boy drew £3 from his Post Office savings account. He took with him a suit of pyjamas and a torch."
"I NEED HOMAGE," SAYS WIFE, "I'M AN AWFUL FLIRT"
Beautiful brunette Dorothy Tunstall -- she called herself the "worst woman in the world" -- listened while a passage from her love letters was read: "I am very wicked in lots of ways. I am an awful flirt. I know it, and you know it."
"But men, and the homage they pay me, is the breath of life to me. And I cannot do without it."
And she gave a slow smile.
"You have had many lovers, and you loved them all?" she was asked.
"I did not love any of them," she replied.
The dialogue took place in the Old Bailey yesterday. In the dock was John Turnstall, thirty-year-old ship's purser. He was charged with £11, cutlery, and other articles from Harry Mayo, a stockbroker, with whom his wife was living.
On January 20, Turnstall served his wife with a divorce petition.
POSTMAN DUMPS MAIL
Football pool literature thrown away by a man employed as a casual postman during the Christmas rush led to the appearance in court yesterday of Samuel George Capon of Ipswich. He pleaded guilty to secreting postal packets.
Mr. H. S. Gotelee, prosecuting, said that Capon apparently got tired and instead of completing his task, pitched a number of the packets away and went home to tea. Capon said he had a bruised heel.
He was fined 20 shillings.
WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE!
Without Calomel -- and you'll jump out of bed in the morning full of vim and vigour!
The liver should pour out two pints of liquid bile daily. If this bile is not flowing freely, your food does not digest. Your whole system is poisoned and you feel sour, sunk, and the whole world looks punk. It takes those good old CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS to get those two pints of bile flowing freely and make you feel "up and up."
Ask for CARTER'S BRAND LITTLE LIVER PILLS by name. Stubbornly refuse anything else. 1s 3d and 3s.
80,000 GERMAN TROOPS LINE AUSTRIAN BORDER AT MIDNIGHT
As midnight struck, 80,000 German troops were reported to be standing-to near the Austrian frontier, while Mussolini was said to have 120,000 men ready on the Brenner Pass.
By midnight, Dr. Kurt von Schuschnnig, Austrian Chancellor, had to answer the "ultimatum" Herr Hitler handed him in his Alpine Chalet at Berchtesgaden on Monday evening.
He had to say yes or no to the demand to take into his cabinet as Minister of the Interior with control of the police, the Nazis' nominee Dr. Seyss-Inquart.
This would mean giving Austria to Hitler.
ARMY CHIEF TO GO
Dr. Schuschnnig's Cabinet sat late -- declaring to the last minute ways and means of resisting the Nazis or devising a compromise. If Austria refused the demands, it was believed in Vienna last night, Mussolini might not support her for fear of shattering the Rome-Berlin axis by a quarrel with Hitler.
During the meeting, Dr. Schuschnnig is said to have put through a call to Rome, made a desperate appeal to the Duce for aid.
As midnight drew near Dr. Miklas, Austria's bearded President, was said to have threatened to resign if his Chancellor gave way. In reply, Dr. Schuschnnig was said to have threatened to quit. Schuschnnig is said to have decided on the retirement of the Chief of the Austrian General Staff, Field Marshal Franz Jansa, at Hitler's request, because he is alleged to have been in touch with General von Fritsch, deposed Chief of the German general staff.
PROTEST MEETINGS
Late last night, nobody knew the outcome.
All day the Patriotic Front leaders and workers were holding anti-Nazi demonstrations. One meeting was addressed by Herr Rott, secretary to the Ministry of Labour, who was loudly cheered when he cried, "The workers are ready to accept any sacrifice to defend Austria's freedom and independence."
The crisis reached a climax when the Patriotic Front rejected the German demands to which Schuschnnig was forced to submit. Messages: Daily Mirror, Reuter Exchange, Central News, and British United Press.
HUSBAND FINDS BRIDE OF A MONTH DEAD IN HER KITCHEN
Bride of a month, twenty-two year old Mrs. Marjorie Pogson was found by her husband lying dead in her kitchen at Rainham, Gillingham, Kent.
She left her home at Barkisland, near Halifax, Yorks, on January 15 in high spirits for her wedding at the village church to Mr. Hubert Pogson, of Stainland, a neighbouring village.
Mrs. Pogson was the eldest daughter of Mr. Joe Thornber, a Barkisland farmer. Before her marriage she was on the staff at a Stainland mill. Her husband is a dentist on the staff of the Co-Operative Dental Association.
ENGLISH GIRL KILLED BY AVALANCHE
By A Special Correspondent
Lying at midnight in the tiny village chapel at Compatsch, high among the snowy peaks of the Engadine, in Austria, was the body of nineteen-year-old Cynthia Levine of Harrogate.
She was one of four girls killed in an avalanche which swept down into the Samnaun Valley yesterday. With a guide, four young Swiss girls, and a young man, she had gone for a ski-ing expedition.
STILL MISSING
The avalanche swept on them without warning. The man escaped, rescued the guide and one of the girls, and returned to the village for help.
The other girls were buried in deep snow. Late last night three had been dug out. The other is still missing.
Miss Levine was on holiday in Compatsch by herself.
LEFT HOME AFTER SCHOOL SNEER
From Our Own Correspondent
Southend, Tuesday
Mr. Frederick Charles Young, an aircraft engineer, of Buxton-gardens, Acton, and his wife, have motored hundreds of miles since Wednesday, when their fourteen-year-old son Edward disappeared from home.
Mr. Young arrived in Southend to-night and described the boy to the police.
Edward, a student at Acton Technical School, wanted to join the Navy. He said so to a teacher, and was told, so Mr. Young said to me, "You won't be fit to be a naval man if you live to be 100."
Mr. Young said his boy was threatened with expulsion from school because he was backward with his lessons. Since his disappearance an inquiry was being made by the authorities.
"Before he left home," Mr. Young said, "the boy drew £3 from his Post Office savings account. He took with him a suit of pyjamas and a torch."
"I NEED HOMAGE," SAYS WIFE, "I'M AN AWFUL FLIRT"
Beautiful brunette Dorothy Tunstall -- she called herself the "worst woman in the world" -- listened while a passage from her love letters was read: "I am very wicked in lots of ways. I am an awful flirt. I know it, and you know it."
"But men, and the homage they pay me, is the breath of life to me. And I cannot do without it."
And she gave a slow smile.
"You have had many lovers, and you loved them all?" she was asked.
"I did not love any of them," she replied.
The dialogue took place in the Old Bailey yesterday. In the dock was John Turnstall, thirty-year-old ship's purser. He was charged with £11, cutlery, and other articles from Harry Mayo, a stockbroker, with whom his wife was living.
On January 20, Turnstall served his wife with a divorce petition.
POSTMAN DUMPS MAIL
Football pool literature thrown away by a man employed as a casual postman during the Christmas rush led to the appearance in court yesterday of Samuel George Capon of Ipswich. He pleaded guilty to secreting postal packets.
Mr. H. S. Gotelee, prosecuting, said that Capon apparently got tired and instead of completing his task, pitched a number of the packets away and went home to tea. Capon said he had a bruised heel.
He was fined 20 shillings.
WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE!
Without Calomel -- and you'll jump out of bed in the morning full of vim and vigour!
The liver should pour out two pints of liquid bile daily. If this bile is not flowing freely, your food does not digest. Your whole system is poisoned and you feel sour, sunk, and the whole world looks punk. It takes those good old CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS to get those two pints of bile flowing freely and make you feel "up and up."
Ask for CARTER'S BRAND LITTLE LIVER PILLS by name. Stubbornly refuse anything else. 1s 3d and 3s.
LizzieMaine
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March 5, 1933
ADDRESS IS PERHAPS THE MOST STARTLING EVER MADE AT INAUGURAL
By James Morgan
Washington, March 4 -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered today the most extraordinary, perhaps one may say the most startling inaugural address ever spoken from the steps of the Capitol. It was the declaration of the new deal which he promised as a candidate, but reiterated in the face of what he described as "the dark realities of the moment."
Announcing that "the rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods...have failed and abdicated," that "the money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple," he offered the country "a leadership of frankness and vigor," and expressed his readiness, if necessary, to ask Congress to invest him with the "broad executive power to wage war against the emergency that would be given to me if in fact we were invaded by a foreign foe."
AS STRONG AS T. R. EVER SPOKE
An inaugural never is the text, but only expresses the spirit of a new President's program. As usual, the address today reserved for a message to the forthcoming session of Congress all specific proposals of action, and it was remarkable rather for the stern tones in which Mr. Roosevelt underscored his unsparing denunciations of men and methods in the financial world. Even his fifth cousin never more bitterly arraigned those whom he used to call "malefactors of great wealth."
Foreign relations were dismissed as secondary to our more urgent domestic problems, but in an insistence upon the sanctity of international agreements, he plainly pointed a double barrel at European debtor nations on one hand, and on the other at the Japanese venture in Manchuria.
This fighting Jacksonian speech seems to leave the new President pivoted as the Jacksonian Democracy was on the rural South and the progressive West. In the sequel we may well come to a new political alignment.
ROOSEVELT'S SWIFT ACTION OVERSHADOWS DAY'S EVENTS
Inaugural Pomp Forgotten as President Moves to Meet Problems
Washington, March 4 (A. P.) -- The echo of the Presidential Oath for Franklin D. Roosevelt had hardly died this afternoon before he set out to conquer the great challenge that confronts the country in the banking emergency.
The swift success of events that followed overshadowed all else in the significance of the historical day. Outwardly all of the traditional pageantry of inaugurations held sway but there was more than that. Never was there such a day, for beneath the panapoly of parade ran a waiting and a wanting new to inaugurals. The sense of momentous and perhaps dramatic decisions impending appeared to permeate all ranks.
SENTIMENT IS GENERAL
Legislators and diplomats, jurists and business executives, unemployed and vendors on the street -- through them all and the columns of the parade, a sort of common sentiment of thoughtfulness seemed to be evident. It was in that atmosphere, while the tremendous crowds of parade watchers were breaking up at twilight, that the new cabinet held its first meeting with Mr. Roosevelt as president.
Tonight, unless signs fail, developments were in the making which will write today's spectacular and color-filled events into reminiscence much sooner than was true of past inaugurals.
Members of Congress were on hand in full force for the inaugural festivities. They heard their leader speak unmincingly, at times as though directly at them, again as though in the Nation and more than that, too, as though in the world. His words went everywhere.
SETS FORTH IDEAS BROADLY
While reserving details in the main for his message to the special session and thereafter, he plainly showed his mind. In snapshot form, he set his aims to include:
Stricter supervision of banking, credits, and investments, ending speculation with "other people's money."
Assurance of "an adequate but sound currency."
Balancing the Federal budget; drastic reduction in Governmental expenditures, national, state, and local.
International economic readjustment.
Unification of relief activities.
National planning for and supervision of transportation and communication and other public utilities.
Projects to make the most of natural resources.
ALL BOSTON STORES TO BE OPEN MONDAY
Following a meeting of the executive officers of the Boston Retail Trade Board this morning, Daniel Bloomfield, manager of the board, made the following statement:
"At a meeting of the governing council of the Retail Trade Board this morning, the bank holiday situation was considered and the following action was agreed upon. All member stores will be open as usual.
"The governing council is convinced of the soundness of banking conditions in the Commonwealth, and considers the bank holiday a temporary measure that will protect the interests of bank depositors and the public.
"Member stores for the present cannot cash checks of any kind, or accept them in payment for merchandise. When merchandise is returned, stores cannot make any cash refunds, but will exchange such merchandise for other merchandise. Regular charge account operations will be continuted.
"The policies adopted by the board will be changed as soon as conditions permit."
MEETING THE BANK SITUATION
The Declaration by Governor Ely of a two-day bank holiday in Massachusetts on the day of Roosevelt's Inauguration may be a coincidence, but it is more than that. If the financial situation needs a house cleaning, let's have it! And the sooner we have it, the better off we'll all be. And so we consider Governor Ely's act a step in the right direction. After all, New England is in a much better position than other sections of the country, and this is a real test to show if we can keep our "feet on the ground." We have met emergencies in the past, sanely, calmly, and successfully, and here is how we are meeting this situation:
We are doing our bit by enabling New England women of moderate means to buy their new spring dresses, suits, cloth coats, fur scarfs, fur jackets, and fur coats without making any deposit whatsoever, and the purchase may bet taken home immediately, Arrangements for payments may be made to meet the prevailing conditions. Our offer is as simple as it reads, so please take advantage of it. For your convenience, we are open every night until 9 o'clock. SCOTT FURRIERS -- NEW ENGLAND'S LARGEST FUR ESTABLISHMENT -- 411 WASHINGTON STREET
ADDRESS IS PERHAPS THE MOST STARTLING EVER MADE AT INAUGURAL
By James Morgan
Washington, March 4 -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered today the most extraordinary, perhaps one may say the most startling inaugural address ever spoken from the steps of the Capitol. It was the declaration of the new deal which he promised as a candidate, but reiterated in the face of what he described as "the dark realities of the moment."
Announcing that "the rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods...have failed and abdicated," that "the money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple," he offered the country "a leadership of frankness and vigor," and expressed his readiness, if necessary, to ask Congress to invest him with the "broad executive power to wage war against the emergency that would be given to me if in fact we were invaded by a foreign foe."
AS STRONG AS T. R. EVER SPOKE
An inaugural never is the text, but only expresses the spirit of a new President's program. As usual, the address today reserved for a message to the forthcoming session of Congress all specific proposals of action, and it was remarkable rather for the stern tones in which Mr. Roosevelt underscored his unsparing denunciations of men and methods in the financial world. Even his fifth cousin never more bitterly arraigned those whom he used to call "malefactors of great wealth."
Foreign relations were dismissed as secondary to our more urgent domestic problems, but in an insistence upon the sanctity of international agreements, he plainly pointed a double barrel at European debtor nations on one hand, and on the other at the Japanese venture in Manchuria.
This fighting Jacksonian speech seems to leave the new President pivoted as the Jacksonian Democracy was on the rural South and the progressive West. In the sequel we may well come to a new political alignment.
ROOSEVELT'S SWIFT ACTION OVERSHADOWS DAY'S EVENTS
Inaugural Pomp Forgotten as President Moves to Meet Problems
Washington, March 4 (A. P.) -- The echo of the Presidential Oath for Franklin D. Roosevelt had hardly died this afternoon before he set out to conquer the great challenge that confronts the country in the banking emergency.
The swift success of events that followed overshadowed all else in the significance of the historical day. Outwardly all of the traditional pageantry of inaugurations held sway but there was more than that. Never was there such a day, for beneath the panapoly of parade ran a waiting and a wanting new to inaugurals. The sense of momentous and perhaps dramatic decisions impending appeared to permeate all ranks.
SENTIMENT IS GENERAL
Legislators and diplomats, jurists and business executives, unemployed and vendors on the street -- through them all and the columns of the parade, a sort of common sentiment of thoughtfulness seemed to be evident. It was in that atmosphere, while the tremendous crowds of parade watchers were breaking up at twilight, that the new cabinet held its first meeting with Mr. Roosevelt as president.
Tonight, unless signs fail, developments were in the making which will write today's spectacular and color-filled events into reminiscence much sooner than was true of past inaugurals.
Members of Congress were on hand in full force for the inaugural festivities. They heard their leader speak unmincingly, at times as though directly at them, again as though in the Nation and more than that, too, as though in the world. His words went everywhere.
SETS FORTH IDEAS BROADLY
While reserving details in the main for his message to the special session and thereafter, he plainly showed his mind. In snapshot form, he set his aims to include:
Stricter supervision of banking, credits, and investments, ending speculation with "other people's money."
Assurance of "an adequate but sound currency."
Balancing the Federal budget; drastic reduction in Governmental expenditures, national, state, and local.
International economic readjustment.
Unification of relief activities.
National planning for and supervision of transportation and communication and other public utilities.
Projects to make the most of natural resources.
ALL BOSTON STORES TO BE OPEN MONDAY
Following a meeting of the executive officers of the Boston Retail Trade Board this morning, Daniel Bloomfield, manager of the board, made the following statement:
"At a meeting of the governing council of the Retail Trade Board this morning, the bank holiday situation was considered and the following action was agreed upon. All member stores will be open as usual.
"The governing council is convinced of the soundness of banking conditions in the Commonwealth, and considers the bank holiday a temporary measure that will protect the interests of bank depositors and the public.
"Member stores for the present cannot cash checks of any kind, or accept them in payment for merchandise. When merchandise is returned, stores cannot make any cash refunds, but will exchange such merchandise for other merchandise. Regular charge account operations will be continuted.
"The policies adopted by the board will be changed as soon as conditions permit."
MEETING THE BANK SITUATION
The Declaration by Governor Ely of a two-day bank holiday in Massachusetts on the day of Roosevelt's Inauguration may be a coincidence, but it is more than that. If the financial situation needs a house cleaning, let's have it! And the sooner we have it, the better off we'll all be. And so we consider Governor Ely's act a step in the right direction. After all, New England is in a much better position than other sections of the country, and this is a real test to show if we can keep our "feet on the ground." We have met emergencies in the past, sanely, calmly, and successfully, and here is how we are meeting this situation:
We are doing our bit by enabling New England women of moderate means to buy their new spring dresses, suits, cloth coats, fur scarfs, fur jackets, and fur coats without making any deposit whatsoever, and the purchase may bet taken home immediately, Arrangements for payments may be made to meet the prevailing conditions. Our offer is as simple as it reads, so please take advantage of it. For your convenience, we are open every night until 9 o'clock. SCOTT FURRIERS -- NEW ENGLAND'S LARGEST FUR ESTABLISHMENT -- 411 WASHINGTON STREET
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March 13, 1940
SOVIET REPORTS PEACE, FINNS CEDE TERRITORY
Word that a Russo-Finnish peace agreement has been signed was carried by the official Moscow radio, according to a shortwave broadcast picked up here by Reuters last night. Earlier, London reported the Moscow radio had warned listeners to tune in some time after midnight Moscow time (5 p. m. E. S. T.) for "special news."
MOSCOW, March 12 (UP) -- It was understood here that a peace agreement has been signed ending the Russo-Finnish war.
It was believed the peace treaty provides for ceding of the Carelian Isthmus, including Viipuri, to Russia, and the lease of Hanko as a base to Russia for 30 years.
The agreement ending the 14-week war must be ratified by the Finnish parliament and the Supreme Soviet, it was understood.
GERMANY ELATED BY PEACE REPORT
Berlin, March 12 (UP) -- Reports of Russo-Finnish peace, which spread rapidly in Berlin late today, were greeted jubilantly by responsible German quarters.
They expressed the opinion that conclusion of the Russo-Finnish war would be a shattering blow to alleged Allied plans to drag Scandanavia into a general war and create a new northern front against Germany and Russia.
ACTRESS IN FIGHT TO VOID DIVORCE
Her husband's advocacy of birth control despite her religious scruples against it caused their marriage to founder after one week, Marie Paxton Cosgrove, English actress, claimed in Supreme Court yesterday.
The blonde beauty seeks a separation and alimony and asks the court to void the Florida divorce obtained last January by Robert Cosgrove, chemical manufacturer.
They were married Feb. 10, 1936 after a three-months courtship. Her affadavit said:
"A week after our marriage we quarreled. I belong to the Church of England and my husband is Episcopalian, and neither of these favors birth control. We continually quarreled about the subject, and he ridiculed my viewpoint."
SINGER'S COOK DISHES UP SUIT
Frances Alda, former opera star, soon will have to do a solo in Supreme Court or lose $25,000 which her former cook is asking because of an alleged temperamental outburst by the prima donna a month ago.
A suit for that amount, filed yesterday by Louise Blazej, says she was burned on the arms and body when she was pushed against a gas range in Alda's apartment at 226 E. 62nd St. According to the complaint, the trouble arose because dinner wasn't ready. "Madame came in screaming 'where's the dinner! Where's the dinner!," relates Louise. "And then Madame hit the defendant."
EX-DANCE TEAM IN JAIL, OUT OF STEP WITH LAW
Love of food first made Ramiro Del Pino too fat to rhumba professionally, then prompted him to steal and defraud the city by accepting relief at the same time he worked as an assistant chef at City Hospital, he admitted in Felony Court yesterday before Magistrate Northrup.
With his pretty wife Georgina, he was accused of criminally receiving stolen property. He pointed to his expanded waistline and then to dozens of clippings proving he and Georgina had been great shakes at the rhumba in the smartest clubs before he succumbed to the frijoles.
WALTER WINCHELL -- ON BROADWAY
B'Way Melodrama -- Women like her should be outlawed. One of those gals who makes her living as a professional scold and brings her business with her when she hails a cab...The other day she got into one and raised a heluva row because the driver hadn't changed the meter. He was just pushing down the meter's flag, which registered 35 cents from the previous call. She assumed he was trying to gyp her...his explanation got him nothing. She made him pause while she motioned a traffic cop to come over. She demanded that a memo be made of the incident, as well as a complaint to the authorities, etc....And then, feeling better, she went on her miserable way. Perhaps the critic will be happier to learn that the cabbie, who has a wife and children dependent on him for support, has had his license revoked for all time. We hope she chokes.
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SOVIET REPORTS PEACE, FINNS CEDE TERRITORY
Word that a Russo-Finnish peace agreement has been signed was carried by the official Moscow radio, according to a shortwave broadcast picked up here by Reuters last night. Earlier, London reported the Moscow radio had warned listeners to tune in some time after midnight Moscow time (5 p. m. E. S. T.) for "special news."
MOSCOW, March 12 (UP) -- It was understood here that a peace agreement has been signed ending the Russo-Finnish war.
It was believed the peace treaty provides for ceding of the Carelian Isthmus, including Viipuri, to Russia, and the lease of Hanko as a base to Russia for 30 years.
The agreement ending the 14-week war must be ratified by the Finnish parliament and the Supreme Soviet, it was understood.
GERMANY ELATED BY PEACE REPORT
Berlin, March 12 (UP) -- Reports of Russo-Finnish peace, which spread rapidly in Berlin late today, were greeted jubilantly by responsible German quarters.
They expressed the opinion that conclusion of the Russo-Finnish war would be a shattering blow to alleged Allied plans to drag Scandanavia into a general war and create a new northern front against Germany and Russia.
ACTRESS IN FIGHT TO VOID DIVORCE
Her husband's advocacy of birth control despite her religious scruples against it caused their marriage to founder after one week, Marie Paxton Cosgrove, English actress, claimed in Supreme Court yesterday.
The blonde beauty seeks a separation and alimony and asks the court to void the Florida divorce obtained last January by Robert Cosgrove, chemical manufacturer.
They were married Feb. 10, 1936 after a three-months courtship. Her affadavit said:
"A week after our marriage we quarreled. I belong to the Church of England and my husband is Episcopalian, and neither of these favors birth control. We continually quarreled about the subject, and he ridiculed my viewpoint."
SINGER'S COOK DISHES UP SUIT
Frances Alda, former opera star, soon will have to do a solo in Supreme Court or lose $25,000 which her former cook is asking because of an alleged temperamental outburst by the prima donna a month ago.
A suit for that amount, filed yesterday by Louise Blazej, says she was burned on the arms and body when she was pushed against a gas range in Alda's apartment at 226 E. 62nd St. According to the complaint, the trouble arose because dinner wasn't ready. "Madame came in screaming 'where's the dinner! Where's the dinner!," relates Louise. "And then Madame hit the defendant."
EX-DANCE TEAM IN JAIL, OUT OF STEP WITH LAW
Love of food first made Ramiro Del Pino too fat to rhumba professionally, then prompted him to steal and defraud the city by accepting relief at the same time he worked as an assistant chef at City Hospital, he admitted in Felony Court yesterday before Magistrate Northrup.
With his pretty wife Georgina, he was accused of criminally receiving stolen property. He pointed to his expanded waistline and then to dozens of clippings proving he and Georgina had been great shakes at the rhumba in the smartest clubs before he succumbed to the frijoles.
WALTER WINCHELL -- ON BROADWAY
B'Way Melodrama -- Women like her should be outlawed. One of those gals who makes her living as a professional scold and brings her business with her when she hails a cab...The other day she got into one and raised a heluva row because the driver hadn't changed the meter. He was just pushing down the meter's flag, which registered 35 cents from the previous call. She assumed he was trying to gyp her...his explanation got him nothing. She made him pause while she motioned a traffic cop to come over. She demanded that a memo be made of the incident, as well as a complaint to the authorities, etc....And then, feeling better, she went on her miserable way. Perhaps the critic will be happier to learn that the cabbie, who has a wife and children dependent on him for support, has had his license revoked for all time. We hope she chokes.
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The 1848 revolution did break out in Vienna.
http://mek.niif.hu/01900/01903/html/index338.html
The 1848 revolution did break out in Vienna.
http://mek.niif.hu/01900/01903/html/index338.html
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March 19, 1937
670 TEXAS CHILDREN KILLED AS EXPLOSION RAZES SCHOOL
Trapped Pupils Crushed and Torn as Brick Building Topples
ROOF PUSHED UP AND WALLS FALL
Red Cross and Army Rush Aid to Oil District Town -- Martial Law Declared
GREAT DISASTER IS WORST OF KIND IN NATION'S HISTORY
New London, Texas, March 18 (AP) -- More than 300 and perhaps 670 children were killed today when a strange explosion tore to bits a $1,000,000 school, the worst disaster of its kind in the nation's history. The disaster demolished the London Consolidated School in the heart of the vast East Texas oil fields.
Estimates agreed that 300 bodies have been found. Principal Troy Duran said he believed the dead would reach 670.
Chaos developed at the scene.
MARTIAL LAW DECLARED
Gov. Allred declared martial law in the precinct, ordered in National Guard troops, and instructed that a military court of inquiry be set up to begin an investigaton. Red Cross nurses, doctors by the score rushed against time to allay the confusion here -- 1000 oil field workers tore at the debris, frenzied parents strove to find children and hundreds of curious blocked the highways.
ACCUMULATION OF GAS BLAMED
Superintendant W. C. Shaw, who lost a son in the explosion, theorized that it was caused by an accumulation of gas. Shaw said that accumulated gas in a space between the floor of the one-story building and the ground undoubtedly caused the explosion. The building was heated by gas-steam radiators, and there was no main boiler.
Seven hundred pupils and 40 teachers were in the building -- most of them in the auditorium.
ROOF MOVES UP -- WALLS CRASH OUTWARD
It was 3:20 P. M. -- just 10 minutes before dismissal hour.
Suddenly with a force of tremendous proportions the walls of the building began to shake. Pupils and teachers alike were trapped.
A low rumble sounded. Many thought it was a boiler explosion. None was sure hours later. Witnesses said there was an ear-hammering explosion after the grumbling roar that preceded the blast. The roof, they said, moved up, the walls crashed outward, and the roof fell into the wreckage, crushing those within. The high school building wrecked, flames shot forth for a time. Nearby stood the grade school -- empty -- its several hundred pupils having already been dismissed for the day.
Bricks hurtled through the air for a quarter of a mile.
One hundred bodies of children, few older than 15, were taken to Henderson where they were laid out in improvised morgues awaiting identification. Ten bodies of their teachers were brought there with them.
The scene was chaotic, with thousands of automobiles blocking all highways leading into the community. Sightseers and curious thronged elbow to elbow with parents of children trapped within the school.
GOVERNOR VOICES SORROW
The feelings of Texas were voiced by Gov. James V. Allred, who said "I can conceive of nothing more terrible than such a death for children."
670 TEXAS CHILDREN KILLED AS EXPLOSION RAZES SCHOOL
Trapped Pupils Crushed and Torn as Brick Building Topples
ROOF PUSHED UP AND WALLS FALL
Red Cross and Army Rush Aid to Oil District Town -- Martial Law Declared
GREAT DISASTER IS WORST OF KIND IN NATION'S HISTORY
New London, Texas, March 18 (AP) -- More than 300 and perhaps 670 children were killed today when a strange explosion tore to bits a $1,000,000 school, the worst disaster of its kind in the nation's history. The disaster demolished the London Consolidated School in the heart of the vast East Texas oil fields.
Estimates agreed that 300 bodies have been found. Principal Troy Duran said he believed the dead would reach 670.
Chaos developed at the scene.
MARTIAL LAW DECLARED
Gov. Allred declared martial law in the precinct, ordered in National Guard troops, and instructed that a military court of inquiry be set up to begin an investigaton. Red Cross nurses, doctors by the score rushed against time to allay the confusion here -- 1000 oil field workers tore at the debris, frenzied parents strove to find children and hundreds of curious blocked the highways.
ACCUMULATION OF GAS BLAMED
Superintendant W. C. Shaw, who lost a son in the explosion, theorized that it was caused by an accumulation of gas. Shaw said that accumulated gas in a space between the floor of the one-story building and the ground undoubtedly caused the explosion. The building was heated by gas-steam radiators, and there was no main boiler.
Seven hundred pupils and 40 teachers were in the building -- most of them in the auditorium.
ROOF MOVES UP -- WALLS CRASH OUTWARD
It was 3:20 P. M. -- just 10 minutes before dismissal hour.
Suddenly with a force of tremendous proportions the walls of the building began to shake. Pupils and teachers alike were trapped.
A low rumble sounded. Many thought it was a boiler explosion. None was sure hours later. Witnesses said there was an ear-hammering explosion after the grumbling roar that preceded the blast. The roof, they said, moved up, the walls crashed outward, and the roof fell into the wreckage, crushing those within. The high school building wrecked, flames shot forth for a time. Nearby stood the grade school -- empty -- its several hundred pupils having already been dismissed for the day.
Bricks hurtled through the air for a quarter of a mile.
One hundred bodies of children, few older than 15, were taken to Henderson where they were laid out in improvised morgues awaiting identification. Ten bodies of their teachers were brought there with them.
The scene was chaotic, with thousands of automobiles blocking all highways leading into the community. Sightseers and curious thronged elbow to elbow with parents of children trapped within the school.
GOVERNOR VOICES SORROW
The feelings of Texas were voiced by Gov. James V. Allred, who said "I can conceive of nothing more terrible than such a death for children."
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April 4, 1936
HAUPTMANN PAYS PENALTY
GOES TO HIS DEATH CALMLY
Doomed Man Pale and Weak Enters Death Chamber Without Uttering A Word
MAKES NO REQUEST AND NO CONFESSION SAYS WARDEN
A Day of Rapid Fire Developments That Closes Last Chapter In Lindbergh Kidnapping Crime
By Samuel G. Blackman, Associated Press Staff Writer
Trenton N. J., April 3 (AP) -- Bruno Richard Hauptmann was executed tonight for the Lindbergh baby murder -- a crime he refused to the end to admit.
He was pronounced dead at 8:47:30 p. m. after three shocks in the electric chair in the gloomy stone prison where he so long had been kept alive through a series of extraordinary and startling developments.
His death for the kidnap-murder of the twenty month old Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. ended the main plot of the strange story that began to unfold the blustery night of March 1, 1932 when the son of America's famous flying couple was stolen from the nursery of their Hopewell home.
WAS SILENT PRISONER
Hauptmann, the man who wouldn't talk during long hours of police grilling and during the 13 months he occupied a cell six paces from the electric chair, went to the execution chamber without a word passing his lips. Thus vanished forever the oft-expressed but little-entertained hope that he would confess that he climbed the rickety ladder, took the child, and exchanged its sleeping garment for $50,000 in ransom.
The 55 witnesses who crowded the little room at State Prison, where New Jersey puts its condemned to death, sat tense, wondering whether the Bronx carpenter would at last break. Attorney General David T. Wilentz, the man who prosecuted Hauptmann during the long trial at Flemington over a year ago, had predicted the cold prisoner would thaw out "once he heard that switch."
Col Mark O. Kimberling, dark and soldierly warden, told the witnesses a few minutes before they marched silently through the prison yard to the little red death house that "if Hauptmann talks, I will handle it."
Governor Harold G. Hoffman, who once saved Hauptmann by reprieve on his execution eve, refused to do so again, though a conference with Wilentz which extended almost up to the hour of death led to the strong belief that he might. He had directed a strong investigation of his own in the expressed opinion that the crime was not solved. But at the end he bowed to the Attorney General's advice that under the law he was powerless to further stay Hauptmann's death.
Mrs. Anna Hauptmann, the plain German woman who had fought long to save him, received the news in her hotel room -- two miles from the prison. "Oh God, why did you have to do this," she screamed. She locked herself in a bathroom for a time, and those in the room became concerned that she might harm herself. There had been reports, which she denied, that she might end her life. She was quieted somewhat later, however.
Every precaution was taken to prevent photographs of the execution.
There appeared to be a slight sneer on Hauptmann's face as he was led to the chair. He walked with light, quick step as he had walked into the court room at Flemington. The arms he had swung so freely at Flemington were held close to his sides by guards. His hair, so carefully combed in the days when he fought for his life in the old Hunterdon county courthouse, was shaven, his face, pale since his arrest, was even paler than usual.
Col. Kimberling was the first to arrive in the death chamber. Before coming in he was searched as all the witnesses had been. He took a place near the basin in the corner of the room.
Not once did he look at Hauptman, whom he had visited many times in the months since Hauptmann was placed in his custody. The warden did not move from his position. He stood, bowed head, hat in hand, his eyes averted. Even when the doctors stepped up to see if life remained in the man in the chair, the warden did not look up.
Once Hauptmann stared at the fifty-five witnesses who crowded into the little chamber with its dirty white walls.
A clock brought into the chamber by one of the guards was held high so that all might check the minute of the shocks and the actual time of death.
Hautpmann was quickly strapped into the chair and at 8:43 executioner Robert H. Elliott gave him the first shock.
Two more shocks followed at minute intervals.
At 8:44 Elliot threw off the current.
Hauptmann's white shirt was slit open by a prison guard and the first of the physicians stepped forward with his stethoscope. The two other doctors followed. They conferred for a minute and it was thought it might be necessary for Elliot to apply another shock. The doctors nodded to Dr. Howard Weisler, prison physician.
Dr. Weisler stepped back a pace. He turned to Warden Kimberling.
"This man is dead."
A few of the witnesses, sickened by the sight, had to be helped from the room. The straps were quickly loosened, and guards carried the limp body into the adjacent autopsy room.
Thus Bruno Richard Hautpmann expiated the crime for which a jury of eight men and four women had found him guilty on February 13, 1935.
"He seemed to have hope all the way through that something would save him," said the warden.
HAUPTMANN PAYS PENALTY
GOES TO HIS DEATH CALMLY
Doomed Man Pale and Weak Enters Death Chamber Without Uttering A Word
MAKES NO REQUEST AND NO CONFESSION SAYS WARDEN
A Day of Rapid Fire Developments That Closes Last Chapter In Lindbergh Kidnapping Crime
By Samuel G. Blackman, Associated Press Staff Writer
Trenton N. J., April 3 (AP) -- Bruno Richard Hauptmann was executed tonight for the Lindbergh baby murder -- a crime he refused to the end to admit.
He was pronounced dead at 8:47:30 p. m. after three shocks in the electric chair in the gloomy stone prison where he so long had been kept alive through a series of extraordinary and startling developments.
His death for the kidnap-murder of the twenty month old Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. ended the main plot of the strange story that began to unfold the blustery night of March 1, 1932 when the son of America's famous flying couple was stolen from the nursery of their Hopewell home.
WAS SILENT PRISONER
Hauptmann, the man who wouldn't talk during long hours of police grilling and during the 13 months he occupied a cell six paces from the electric chair, went to the execution chamber without a word passing his lips. Thus vanished forever the oft-expressed but little-entertained hope that he would confess that he climbed the rickety ladder, took the child, and exchanged its sleeping garment for $50,000 in ransom.
The 55 witnesses who crowded the little room at State Prison, where New Jersey puts its condemned to death, sat tense, wondering whether the Bronx carpenter would at last break. Attorney General David T. Wilentz, the man who prosecuted Hauptmann during the long trial at Flemington over a year ago, had predicted the cold prisoner would thaw out "once he heard that switch."
Col Mark O. Kimberling, dark and soldierly warden, told the witnesses a few minutes before they marched silently through the prison yard to the little red death house that "if Hauptmann talks, I will handle it."
Governor Harold G. Hoffman, who once saved Hauptmann by reprieve on his execution eve, refused to do so again, though a conference with Wilentz which extended almost up to the hour of death led to the strong belief that he might. He had directed a strong investigation of his own in the expressed opinion that the crime was not solved. But at the end he bowed to the Attorney General's advice that under the law he was powerless to further stay Hauptmann's death.
Mrs. Anna Hauptmann, the plain German woman who had fought long to save him, received the news in her hotel room -- two miles from the prison. "Oh God, why did you have to do this," she screamed. She locked herself in a bathroom for a time, and those in the room became concerned that she might harm herself. There had been reports, which she denied, that she might end her life. She was quieted somewhat later, however.
Every precaution was taken to prevent photographs of the execution.
There appeared to be a slight sneer on Hauptmann's face as he was led to the chair. He walked with light, quick step as he had walked into the court room at Flemington. The arms he had swung so freely at Flemington were held close to his sides by guards. His hair, so carefully combed in the days when he fought for his life in the old Hunterdon county courthouse, was shaven, his face, pale since his arrest, was even paler than usual.
Col. Kimberling was the first to arrive in the death chamber. Before coming in he was searched as all the witnesses had been. He took a place near the basin in the corner of the room.
Not once did he look at Hauptman, whom he had visited many times in the months since Hauptmann was placed in his custody. The warden did not move from his position. He stood, bowed head, hat in hand, his eyes averted. Even when the doctors stepped up to see if life remained in the man in the chair, the warden did not look up.
Once Hauptmann stared at the fifty-five witnesses who crowded into the little chamber with its dirty white walls.
A clock brought into the chamber by one of the guards was held high so that all might check the minute of the shocks and the actual time of death.
Hautpmann was quickly strapped into the chair and at 8:43 executioner Robert H. Elliott gave him the first shock.
Two more shocks followed at minute intervals.
At 8:44 Elliot threw off the current.
Hauptmann's white shirt was slit open by a prison guard and the first of the physicians stepped forward with his stethoscope. The two other doctors followed. They conferred for a minute and it was thought it might be necessary for Elliot to apply another shock. The doctors nodded to Dr. Howard Weisler, prison physician.
Dr. Weisler stepped back a pace. He turned to Warden Kimberling.
"This man is dead."
A few of the witnesses, sickened by the sight, had to be helped from the room. The straps were quickly loosened, and guards carried the limp body into the adjacent autopsy room.
Thus Bruno Richard Hautpmann expiated the crime for which a jury of eight men and four women had found him guilty on February 13, 1935.
"He seemed to have hope all the way through that something would save him," said the warden.
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LizzieMaine said:
HAUPTMANN PAYS PENALTY
GOES TO HIS DEATH CALMLY
Thank you, Lizzie: there's much else on that page that speaks a good deal more closely to the current world situation, as well: Britain's "sterner stand" towards Hitler and Mussolini, and the request for an immediate League of Nations meeting. It wasn't much of a stiffening....and the League was completely useless. With 20/20 hindsight, we all know what happens next. :eusa_doh:
Wish we had some 20/20 foresight with similarly guaranteed accuracy![huh]
"Skeet"
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April 13, 1945
F. D. R. DIES SUDDENLY; TRUMAN IS PRESIDENT
Washington, April 12 (INS) -- President Roosevelt died suddenly this afternoon, Secretary Stephen T. Early announced from the White House. The President died at Warm Springs, Ga. as the result of a cerebral hemmorage.
Death came at his Little White House, Pine Cottage, atop Pine Mountain, Warm Springs, at 4:35 p. m., Eastern War Time.
Vice President Harry S. Truman was sworn in at the White House at 7:09 p. m. E. W. T. by Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone as 32nd President of the United States. He took the oath after a Cabinet meeting had been held.
Mrs. Roosevelt immediately notified their four sons. Her message to them stated that the President "slept away" this afternoon and that he did his job to the end as "he would want you to do."
"Bless you all," Mrs. Roosevelt said to her sons, "and all our love." She signed the message "Mother."
Then the First Lady made immediate preparations to leave Washington by train this afternoon with Admiral Ross T. McIntire, the President's physician, and Early, for Warm Springs. She announced that funeral services will take place Saturday afternoon in the East room of the White House, and that interment will be at Hyde Park Sunday afternoon. Beyond that, she said, no detailed arrangements or exact times had been declared.
Vice President Truman prepared to take the oath of President of the United States at the White House today. The Vice President was personally informed of the President's death by Mrs. Roosevelt and he immediately rushed from the Capitol to the White House to take the oath.
The Capitol was stunned by the tragic news and messages of condolences began pouring in from around the world. Truman's office said the Vice President received a phone call at 5:25 p. m. notifying him of the President's death. He immediately saw Speaker Rayburn for a few minutes and then went to the White House.
Rayburn (D.-Tex), deeply shocked by the news, said he was "too flustered" to make any immediate statement. Chairman Bloom (D.-NY) of the House Foreign Affairs Committee sad he did not know what effect the President's death would have on the forthcoming United Nations Conference at San Francisco. "I just don't know what to say," he told a reporter. "We must carry on to win a peace that will be a monument to the President, who fought so long and so hard for it, and died in that fight."
ROOSEVELT DEATH PUTS HUSH ON N. Y. NIGHT LIFE
New York City was deeply shocked by the death of President Roosevelt. Most big night clubs dismissed their bands and entertainers for the night, hurried patrons through their dinners, and were darkened by 9 P. M.
Theatres, regretfully noting the word of the President's passing had come too late for anything to be done, ran off scheduled performances, but many theatregoers apparently tore up their tickets and stayed home. Movie houses remained open but few patrons attended. Thousands drifted in quiet, sober groups toward the heart of Times Square, civilians and service men alike, and gathered outside the Times Building, mutely awaiting the possibility ofof further word from the electric news tape, out of service since the brownout.
The four major networks, National Broadcasting Co., Mutual, Columbia Broadcasting System, and the Blue Network, announced cancellation of all regularly scheduled commercial programs for the night. The vacated time was devoted solely to news, the reading of memorial tributes, and memorial music.
A hush fell over late afternoon crowds in Grand Central Terminal and Pennsylvania Station. Never before, said one railroad official, had Grand Central been so still. Stilled also was the music supplied by Muzak Corp. to 1,200 hotel and restaurant outlets.
F. D. R. DIES SUDDENLY; TRUMAN IS PRESIDENT
Washington, April 12 (INS) -- President Roosevelt died suddenly this afternoon, Secretary Stephen T. Early announced from the White House. The President died at Warm Springs, Ga. as the result of a cerebral hemmorage.
Death came at his Little White House, Pine Cottage, atop Pine Mountain, Warm Springs, at 4:35 p. m., Eastern War Time.
Vice President Harry S. Truman was sworn in at the White House at 7:09 p. m. E. W. T. by Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone as 32nd President of the United States. He took the oath after a Cabinet meeting had been held.
Mrs. Roosevelt immediately notified their four sons. Her message to them stated that the President "slept away" this afternoon and that he did his job to the end as "he would want you to do."
"Bless you all," Mrs. Roosevelt said to her sons, "and all our love." She signed the message "Mother."
Then the First Lady made immediate preparations to leave Washington by train this afternoon with Admiral Ross T. McIntire, the President's physician, and Early, for Warm Springs. She announced that funeral services will take place Saturday afternoon in the East room of the White House, and that interment will be at Hyde Park Sunday afternoon. Beyond that, she said, no detailed arrangements or exact times had been declared.
Vice President Truman prepared to take the oath of President of the United States at the White House today. The Vice President was personally informed of the President's death by Mrs. Roosevelt and he immediately rushed from the Capitol to the White House to take the oath.
The Capitol was stunned by the tragic news and messages of condolences began pouring in from around the world. Truman's office said the Vice President received a phone call at 5:25 p. m. notifying him of the President's death. He immediately saw Speaker Rayburn for a few minutes and then went to the White House.
Rayburn (D.-Tex), deeply shocked by the news, said he was "too flustered" to make any immediate statement. Chairman Bloom (D.-NY) of the House Foreign Affairs Committee sad he did not know what effect the President's death would have on the forthcoming United Nations Conference at San Francisco. "I just don't know what to say," he told a reporter. "We must carry on to win a peace that will be a monument to the President, who fought so long and so hard for it, and died in that fight."
ROOSEVELT DEATH PUTS HUSH ON N. Y. NIGHT LIFE
New York City was deeply shocked by the death of President Roosevelt. Most big night clubs dismissed their bands and entertainers for the night, hurried patrons through their dinners, and were darkened by 9 P. M.
Theatres, regretfully noting the word of the President's passing had come too late for anything to be done, ran off scheduled performances, but many theatregoers apparently tore up their tickets and stayed home. Movie houses remained open but few patrons attended. Thousands drifted in quiet, sober groups toward the heart of Times Square, civilians and service men alike, and gathered outside the Times Building, mutely awaiting the possibility ofof further word from the electric news tape, out of service since the brownout.
The four major networks, National Broadcasting Co., Mutual, Columbia Broadcasting System, and the Blue Network, announced cancellation of all regularly scheduled commercial programs for the night. The vacated time was devoted solely to news, the reading of memorial tributes, and memorial music.
A hush fell over late afternoon crowds in Grand Central Terminal and Pennsylvania Station. Never before, said one railroad official, had Grand Central been so still. Stilled also was the music supplied by Muzak Corp. to 1,200 hotel and restaurant outlets.
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April 19, 1934
NORMA IN NEW FIGHT TO WIN HER RELEASE
By Bert Ford
Staff Writer, Daily Record
Dedham Courthouse, April 18 -- In a dramatic move to secure release of Norma Brighton Millen, her counsel Atty. George A. Douglas filed motions to quash and abate three indictments against her, as the jury which is to try her husband Murton Millen, his brother Irving, and Abe Faber for the murder of Needham policeman Forbes McLeod during an attempted robbery of the Needham Trust Company. Norma was ill and weeping at the jail, Atty. Douglas reported.
"She has a bad cold," he said. "I insisted the jail physician see her at once."
He said the bride of the man who sits each day and watches through half closed eyes as Norfolk citizens are parade before him in the jury-choosing process thinks only of him. She looks forward to the glimpses of him she gets when the trio are taken to and from the jail. "She saw Murton this noon when he was returned to the jail from the courthouse. She complained that he didn't smile or blow his usual kiss to her. It upset her terribly. She has been weeping."
Atty. Douglas's surprise move came at a time when the violet-eyed minister's daughter had been almost lost sight of in the scene being unfolded in the courtroom -- as juror after juror was summoned, examined, challenged, or excused.
"BOOP GIRL" FILMS IN COURT
New York, April 18 -- The six ring circus that is the hearing of the troubles of the original "boop-boop-a-doop" gal, Helen Kane, turned into a motion picture show today.
Supreme Court Justice Edward J. McGoldrick, with all the first booper and all her alleged imitators, lawyers, defendants, and spectators, moved into an anteroom off McGoldrick's courtroom to see the films.
A few of the Fleischer animated cartoons, with sound effects removed, were run off, then part of the picture "Dangerous Nan McGrew," in which little Helen starred some time ago.
The viewing of the films was considered indispensible as Justice McGoldrick's present task is to determine whether artist Max Fleischer's pictures of "Betty Boop" look anything like Helen. If the justice determines they do, then he may award he thinks justifies the use of her features without Helen's permission.
Helen had a front row seat, where she pouted with a chubby finger in her mouth. Her rival boopers were farther back.
The justice watched first the unreeling of "Bum Bandit," in which Helen claims one of her songs is sung.
SEMPLE PICKED IN B. A. A. GRIND
238 RUNNERS IN MARATHON RACE TODAY
More than half a million men, women, and children will bank the 26 mile stretch between Hopkinton and Boston, the world's most popular outdoor sports event, as 238 runners bid for victory in the 38th Annual B. A. A. Marathon.
Fair skies and summery weather, a boon to the crowd and a bane to most runners, have been promised by the weatherman when the race starts at noon. Over hill and dell, distance runners from every part of the United States and Canada will vie for the laurel wreath, emblem of victory, that goes with victory in the Marathon.
Johnny Semple, of the United Shoe Machinery Company in Beverly is the Daily Record's selection to win today. Semple showed excellent condition in the North Medford 20-Mile Run on March 27. That was almost five weeks ago and since then he has devoted every spare minute to practice.
LETTERS FROM OUR READERS
To Cambridge Man:
How can you call yourself a man?
So you shove and push old women along on crowded Boston sidewalks?
Just how fast can your mother trot? Don't forget, these "old women" are somebody's mother.
I'd like to see you try to hurry my mother along. I'd slow down your speed.
-- IRIS R.
NORMA IN NEW FIGHT TO WIN HER RELEASE
By Bert Ford
Staff Writer, Daily Record
Dedham Courthouse, April 18 -- In a dramatic move to secure release of Norma Brighton Millen, her counsel Atty. George A. Douglas filed motions to quash and abate three indictments against her, as the jury which is to try her husband Murton Millen, his brother Irving, and Abe Faber for the murder of Needham policeman Forbes McLeod during an attempted robbery of the Needham Trust Company. Norma was ill and weeping at the jail, Atty. Douglas reported.
"She has a bad cold," he said. "I insisted the jail physician see her at once."
He said the bride of the man who sits each day and watches through half closed eyes as Norfolk citizens are parade before him in the jury-choosing process thinks only of him. She looks forward to the glimpses of him she gets when the trio are taken to and from the jail. "She saw Murton this noon when he was returned to the jail from the courthouse. She complained that he didn't smile or blow his usual kiss to her. It upset her terribly. She has been weeping."
Atty. Douglas's surprise move came at a time when the violet-eyed minister's daughter had been almost lost sight of in the scene being unfolded in the courtroom -- as juror after juror was summoned, examined, challenged, or excused.
"BOOP GIRL" FILMS IN COURT
New York, April 18 -- The six ring circus that is the hearing of the troubles of the original "boop-boop-a-doop" gal, Helen Kane, turned into a motion picture show today.
Supreme Court Justice Edward J. McGoldrick, with all the first booper and all her alleged imitators, lawyers, defendants, and spectators, moved into an anteroom off McGoldrick's courtroom to see the films.
A few of the Fleischer animated cartoons, with sound effects removed, were run off, then part of the picture "Dangerous Nan McGrew," in which little Helen starred some time ago.
The viewing of the films was considered indispensible as Justice McGoldrick's present task is to determine whether artist Max Fleischer's pictures of "Betty Boop" look anything like Helen. If the justice determines they do, then he may award he thinks justifies the use of her features without Helen's permission.
Helen had a front row seat, where she pouted with a chubby finger in her mouth. Her rival boopers were farther back.
The justice watched first the unreeling of "Bum Bandit," in which Helen claims one of her songs is sung.
SEMPLE PICKED IN B. A. A. GRIND
238 RUNNERS IN MARATHON RACE TODAY
More than half a million men, women, and children will bank the 26 mile stretch between Hopkinton and Boston, the world's most popular outdoor sports event, as 238 runners bid for victory in the 38th Annual B. A. A. Marathon.
Fair skies and summery weather, a boon to the crowd and a bane to most runners, have been promised by the weatherman when the race starts at noon. Over hill and dell, distance runners from every part of the United States and Canada will vie for the laurel wreath, emblem of victory, that goes with victory in the Marathon.
Johnny Semple, of the United Shoe Machinery Company in Beverly is the Daily Record's selection to win today. Semple showed excellent condition in the North Medford 20-Mile Run on March 27. That was almost five weeks ago and since then he has devoted every spare minute to practice.
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To Cambridge Man:
How can you call yourself a man?
So you shove and push old women along on crowded Boston sidewalks?
Just how fast can your mother trot? Don't forget, these "old women" are somebody's mother.
I'd like to see you try to hurry my mother along. I'd slow down your speed.
-- IRIS R.
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April 20, 1938
FRANCE, ITALY RUSH PACT TO HEM IN NAZIS
By United Press
Rome, April 19 -- Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano and the French charge d'affairs today agreed on a formula for negotiating an Italo-French treaty of friendship which may be rushed to conclusion before Fuehrer Adolf Hitler arrives here May 3 on a state visit.
The quickness with which Premier Benito Mussolini accepted France's offer to negotiate led diplomats to believe that Il Duce would like to greet Der Fuehrer with the basis of a new Stresa Front to bulwark European peace.
The Stresa Front was organized in 1935 by Great Britain, France, and Italy, committing those powers to tolerate no further unilateral violation of treaties. Aimed directly at Adolf Hitler's determination to rearm the Reich, ut fell into almost immediate discard, with Italy abandoning the pact to invade Ethiopia.
F. D. R. BACKS BRITISH PACT
By John O'Donnell
Washington, D. C., April 19 -- President Roosevelt formally placed the approval of the United States on the new Anglo-Italian pact today and held it before the world as an example of how nations can avoid war by peaceful negotiations.
The words came from the lips of the President in the White House as the "small-Navy" group of Senators on Capitol Hill were launching their attack on the Administration measure to expand the Navy with a $1,156,000,000 building program. Foes were calling for a clarification of the New Deal's foreign policy.
GIRL 'OUIJA' KILLER OF DAD FREE, MA SUES LIBERATOR
Special to The News
Phoenix, Ariz., April 19 -- Mrs. Dorothea Irene Turley, war-time "American Venus" who served two years in prison as the instigator of the "ouija board" slaying of her husband by their 14-year-old daughter today filed a $75,000 damage suit against a man and his wife whom she accused of alienating the girl's affection.
Mrs. Turley's complaint asserted that Mrs. Thelma Bradford Bailey, in charge of the school for delinquent girls to which Mattie Turley was committed when her mother went to prison, won the girl's affections by obtaining a parole for her. The parole was granted in 1936 and the mother has not heard from her daughter since.
The bizarre shooting of Lieut. Ernest J. Turley, retired United States Navy officer, occurred Nov. 18, 1933. It was Mattie's testimony at her mother's trial that helped convict Mrs. Turley of assault with intent to commit murder and bring her a fifteen-to-twenty-year sentence. She testifed that a ouija board operated by her mother commanded her to shoot.
DANCER'S LEAP TO DEATH IS HELD SUICIDE
The death of Thais Giroux, beautiful blonde specialty dancer who plunged to her death early yesterday from a fifth-floor room of the Hotel Lincoln was officially recorded as a suicide later in the day after police had released her erstwhile sweetheart.
The sweetheart was John Stoppelli, 29, known to police as "John The Bug," who had been arrested for possessing narcotics and has served time for possessing a gun. He was found in the dancer's room after she plunged, unclad, into the street. He told police they had been sweethearts for two years. They had split up last January and he didn't see her again until Monday night when he encountered her in a Greenwich Village restaurant.
He accompanied her to her room. After a few minutes conversation, he said she told him suddenly: "I'm sick and tired of it all. So long, it's all over."
He left the room for a minute, he said, and when he returned he found the window open and the room empty.
2 AGED WOMEN SHOT AS THEY CHAT OVER TEA
Two aged women of Keansburg, N. J., chatting over their afternoon tea in the parlor of one of them, were the victims of a mysterious and inexplicable shooting yesterday.
While they were seated across from each other a man strode into the house and opened fire on them. Then he dashed out and headed down the street.
The victims, Mrs. William Lawrinson, 71, in whose home at 71 Lincoln Court, Keansburg, the attack took place, and Mrs. Robert Webb, 67, of Francis Place, Keansburg, were critically injured. They were taken to Riverview Hospital at Red Bank.
The shots attracted neighbors, who told police of seeing a man run from the house. A short time later police picked up George R. Watkins, 53, employed as a handyman in McDonald's Hotel on Main St., Keansburg, where detectives and Assistant Prosecutor Edward Jeska interrogated him.
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Down on Dictators!
Manhattan: I'm getting good and sick of listening to a bunch of dirty, ignorant, non-American aliens squabbling about what they are going to do with America when they get control of it. Well, they needn't worry because as long as there are any good Americans left who know what America stands for, neither Nazism, Fascism, or Communism stands one chance in a million of getting control of this country. -- A GOOD AMERICAN
FRANCE, ITALY RUSH PACT TO HEM IN NAZIS
By United Press
Rome, April 19 -- Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano and the French charge d'affairs today agreed on a formula for negotiating an Italo-French treaty of friendship which may be rushed to conclusion before Fuehrer Adolf Hitler arrives here May 3 on a state visit.
The quickness with which Premier Benito Mussolini accepted France's offer to negotiate led diplomats to believe that Il Duce would like to greet Der Fuehrer with the basis of a new Stresa Front to bulwark European peace.
The Stresa Front was organized in 1935 by Great Britain, France, and Italy, committing those powers to tolerate no further unilateral violation of treaties. Aimed directly at Adolf Hitler's determination to rearm the Reich, ut fell into almost immediate discard, with Italy abandoning the pact to invade Ethiopia.
F. D. R. BACKS BRITISH PACT
By John O'Donnell
Washington, D. C., April 19 -- President Roosevelt formally placed the approval of the United States on the new Anglo-Italian pact today and held it before the world as an example of how nations can avoid war by peaceful negotiations.
The words came from the lips of the President in the White House as the "small-Navy" group of Senators on Capitol Hill were launching their attack on the Administration measure to expand the Navy with a $1,156,000,000 building program. Foes were calling for a clarification of the New Deal's foreign policy.
GIRL 'OUIJA' KILLER OF DAD FREE, MA SUES LIBERATOR
Special to The News
Phoenix, Ariz., April 19 -- Mrs. Dorothea Irene Turley, war-time "American Venus" who served two years in prison as the instigator of the "ouija board" slaying of her husband by their 14-year-old daughter today filed a $75,000 damage suit against a man and his wife whom she accused of alienating the girl's affection.
Mrs. Turley's complaint asserted that Mrs. Thelma Bradford Bailey, in charge of the school for delinquent girls to which Mattie Turley was committed when her mother went to prison, won the girl's affections by obtaining a parole for her. The parole was granted in 1936 and the mother has not heard from her daughter since.
The bizarre shooting of Lieut. Ernest J. Turley, retired United States Navy officer, occurred Nov. 18, 1933. It was Mattie's testimony at her mother's trial that helped convict Mrs. Turley of assault with intent to commit murder and bring her a fifteen-to-twenty-year sentence. She testifed that a ouija board operated by her mother commanded her to shoot.
DANCER'S LEAP TO DEATH IS HELD SUICIDE
The death of Thais Giroux, beautiful blonde specialty dancer who plunged to her death early yesterday from a fifth-floor room of the Hotel Lincoln was officially recorded as a suicide later in the day after police had released her erstwhile sweetheart.
The sweetheart was John Stoppelli, 29, known to police as "John The Bug," who had been arrested for possessing narcotics and has served time for possessing a gun. He was found in the dancer's room after she plunged, unclad, into the street. He told police they had been sweethearts for two years. They had split up last January and he didn't see her again until Monday night when he encountered her in a Greenwich Village restaurant.
He accompanied her to her room. After a few minutes conversation, he said she told him suddenly: "I'm sick and tired of it all. So long, it's all over."
He left the room for a minute, he said, and when he returned he found the window open and the room empty.
2 AGED WOMEN SHOT AS THEY CHAT OVER TEA
Two aged women of Keansburg, N. J., chatting over their afternoon tea in the parlor of one of them, were the victims of a mysterious and inexplicable shooting yesterday.
While they were seated across from each other a man strode into the house and opened fire on them. Then he dashed out and headed down the street.
The victims, Mrs. William Lawrinson, 71, in whose home at 71 Lincoln Court, Keansburg, the attack took place, and Mrs. Robert Webb, 67, of Francis Place, Keansburg, were critically injured. They were taken to Riverview Hospital at Red Bank.
The shots attracted neighbors, who told police of seeing a man run from the house. A short time later police picked up George R. Watkins, 53, employed as a handyman in McDonald's Hotel on Main St., Keansburg, where detectives and Assistant Prosecutor Edward Jeska interrogated him.
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HALF PRICE! $49 -- THREE PIECES -- $2.50 DOWN FOR EITHER OF THESE SENSATIONALLY LOW PRICED SUITES. Pay the balance over 18 months. The only charge for CREDIT is 1/2 % a month! NO CHARGE FOR CREDIT IF PAID IN 3 MONTHS!
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Down on Dictators!
Manhattan: I'm getting good and sick of listening to a bunch of dirty, ignorant, non-American aliens squabbling about what they are going to do with America when they get control of it. Well, they needn't worry because as long as there are any good Americans left who know what America stands for, neither Nazism, Fascism, or Communism stands one chance in a million of getting control of this country. -- A GOOD AMERICAN
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Lizzie, I just saw this. My father was haunted for lack of better word all his life from this day. He said gawkers would not get out of the way for the authorities to do their business.
I believe he was one of these guys.
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April 23, 1937
BAYONETS BAR MAINE RIOTING
Troops Patrol Mill District In Lewiston
Union Leaders and Plant Owners Fail To Strike Truce
LABOR RELATIONS DIRECTOR ARRIVES
Three CIO Officials Get Bail But Must Face Court Saturday
(By a Herald Staff Reporter)
LEWISTON, Me., April 22 -- National Guardsmen with fixed bayonets patrolled the snow and sleet-swept streets of the Lewiston-Auburn strike area tonight as shoe manufacturers and union leaders failed in their first efforts to effect a truce after a series of conferences.
With icy water running down their weapons and sleet crusting on their shoes, the troops prevented any repetition of yesterday's serious rioting.
STORM PREVENTS BATTLE
The breaking of one of the worst spring storms in years prevented all possibility of such pitched street battles as were waged yesterday between police and strikers before Gov. Louis O. Barrows sent eight companies of the National Guard here to restore order.
Dr. Howard A. Meyers, regional director of the National Labor Relations Board, arrived from Boston and held a series of independent conferences with both sides. He stressed that he was here merely to "investigate," and publicly held no hope for a settlement.
Early today Powers Hapgood, New England secretary of the Committee for Industrial Organization, William J. Macksey of Lynn, Mass., strike director, and Ernest Henry of Saugus, Mass., another CIO organizer, were arrested in their hotel rooms on charges of unlawful rioting in protest against a state supreme court injunction declaring the strike illegal and ordering its leaders to cease their activities.
Arraigned before Judge James A. Pulsifer in municipal court, the three pleaded not guilty. Judge Pulsifer ordered them held on $200 bail each for a hearing Tuesday, but they were freed when unionists and sympathizers were produced who owned property assessable at amounts sufficient to cover the bail.
SALES TAX 'WHISPER' SPURS ECONOMY DRIVE
LOWER INCOME LEVY INCREASE ALSO PROSPECT
Revenue Experts Warn Roosevelt's Figures Must Be Slashed
GLASS SAYS RELIEF NEEDS OVERSTATED
Republicans, Democrats Seek 15 P.C. Cut Now In All Outlays
By Turner Catledge (Special Dispatch to the Herald)
WASHINGTON, April 22 -- A word-of-mouth campaign deliberately designed to make Congress economy-conscious by raising the threat of a sales tax or increased income levies in the lower brackets, has been started at the Capitol by certain leaders who would cut federal expenditures to the extent necessary to balance the budget and avoid tax increases both now and in 1938.
Revenue experts said that the suggestions spread about in a "whispering campaign" as it was called were not so farfetched as some might think. They concluded that unless federal expenditures are slashed even below the estimates presented by President Roosevelt in his revised budget figures last Tuesday, a tax increase next year must be inevitable. Furthermore, they saw only two major sources -- a sales tax, or broadening of the income tax baseby lowering special exemptions, together with a rate increase in the lower brackets.
WOMAN NAMES GABLE IN COURT
Scrutinizes Him Closely Then Insists He Was Once 'Frank Billings'
Los Angeles, April 22 (AP) -- Mrs. Violet Wells Norton testified today she is convinced Clark Gable, screen star, is the 'Frank Billings' she named as the unwed father of her daughter.
The 47-year-old English woman made the accusation in a crowded federal courtroom, after she scrutinized the actor at close range. She is on trial charged with having named Gable the father of Gwendoline Norton, 13, and of trying to extract money from him.
"I am still convinced that he (Gable) is one and the same man," she said on cross-examination by Federal prosecutor John Powell.
Powell asked if she might be mistaken in thus identifying the big-eared screen hero.
"Not unless there is a living double for Frank Billings," said Mrs. Norton.
Gable has testified that he never was in England, and that during 1922 and 1923, when Mrs. Norton says 'Frank Billings' was her lover in Essex, England, he was doing odd jobs in Oregon.
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And from hat to shoes -- from the skin out -- from breakfast to bedtime! What a birthday, a new picture on the fire and a new wardrobe for it -- our Third Floor has a whole crop of Shirley Temple Fashions that you'll want your own young star to have. And remember, the best designers are back of them.
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BAYONETS BAR MAINE RIOTING
Troops Patrol Mill District In Lewiston
Union Leaders and Plant Owners Fail To Strike Truce
LABOR RELATIONS DIRECTOR ARRIVES
Three CIO Officials Get Bail But Must Face Court Saturday
(By a Herald Staff Reporter)
LEWISTON, Me., April 22 -- National Guardsmen with fixed bayonets patrolled the snow and sleet-swept streets of the Lewiston-Auburn strike area tonight as shoe manufacturers and union leaders failed in their first efforts to effect a truce after a series of conferences.
With icy water running down their weapons and sleet crusting on their shoes, the troops prevented any repetition of yesterday's serious rioting.
STORM PREVENTS BATTLE
The breaking of one of the worst spring storms in years prevented all possibility of such pitched street battles as were waged yesterday between police and strikers before Gov. Louis O. Barrows sent eight companies of the National Guard here to restore order.
Dr. Howard A. Meyers, regional director of the National Labor Relations Board, arrived from Boston and held a series of independent conferences with both sides. He stressed that he was here merely to "investigate," and publicly held no hope for a settlement.
Early today Powers Hapgood, New England secretary of the Committee for Industrial Organization, William J. Macksey of Lynn, Mass., strike director, and Ernest Henry of Saugus, Mass., another CIO organizer, were arrested in their hotel rooms on charges of unlawful rioting in protest against a state supreme court injunction declaring the strike illegal and ordering its leaders to cease their activities.
Arraigned before Judge James A. Pulsifer in municipal court, the three pleaded not guilty. Judge Pulsifer ordered them held on $200 bail each for a hearing Tuesday, but they were freed when unionists and sympathizers were produced who owned property assessable at amounts sufficient to cover the bail.
SALES TAX 'WHISPER' SPURS ECONOMY DRIVE
LOWER INCOME LEVY INCREASE ALSO PROSPECT
Revenue Experts Warn Roosevelt's Figures Must Be Slashed
GLASS SAYS RELIEF NEEDS OVERSTATED
Republicans, Democrats Seek 15 P.C. Cut Now In All Outlays
By Turner Catledge (Special Dispatch to the Herald)
WASHINGTON, April 22 -- A word-of-mouth campaign deliberately designed to make Congress economy-conscious by raising the threat of a sales tax or increased income levies in the lower brackets, has been started at the Capitol by certain leaders who would cut federal expenditures to the extent necessary to balance the budget and avoid tax increases both now and in 1938.
Revenue experts said that the suggestions spread about in a "whispering campaign" as it was called were not so farfetched as some might think. They concluded that unless federal expenditures are slashed even below the estimates presented by President Roosevelt in his revised budget figures last Tuesday, a tax increase next year must be inevitable. Furthermore, they saw only two major sources -- a sales tax, or broadening of the income tax baseby lowering special exemptions, together with a rate increase in the lower brackets.
WOMAN NAMES GABLE IN COURT
Scrutinizes Him Closely Then Insists He Was Once 'Frank Billings'
Los Angeles, April 22 (AP) -- Mrs. Violet Wells Norton testified today she is convinced Clark Gable, screen star, is the 'Frank Billings' she named as the unwed father of her daughter.
The 47-year-old English woman made the accusation in a crowded federal courtroom, after she scrutinized the actor at close range. She is on trial charged with having named Gable the father of Gwendoline Norton, 13, and of trying to extract money from him.
"I am still convinced that he (Gable) is one and the same man," she said on cross-examination by Federal prosecutor John Powell.
Powell asked if she might be mistaken in thus identifying the big-eared screen hero.
"Not unless there is a living double for Frank Billings," said Mrs. Norton.
Gable has testified that he never was in England, and that during 1922 and 1923, when Mrs. Norton says 'Frank Billings' was her lover in Essex, England, he was doing odd jobs in Oregon.
RAMON RAMOS AND HIS ORCHESTRA
Direct from his New York Triumphs!
Play nightly in the BALINESE ROOM
Formal Dress Obligatory
For Reservations -- KENmore 2700
THE SOMERSET HOTEL
SHIRLEY is 8 TOMORROW --- But Her Fashions Star Anyone From 3 to 12!
And from hat to shoes -- from the skin out -- from breakfast to bedtime! What a birthday, a new picture on the fire and a new wardrobe for it -- our Third Floor has a whole crop of Shirley Temple Fashions that you'll want your own young star to have. And remember, the best designers are back of them.
Shirley Temple Dresses -- $1.95 -- Cottons, both plain and printed, sheer or heavier, all adapted from her new film "Wee Willie Winkle." The sailor frock with pert bolero is from the 3 to 6 group, the one with tiny rosebud embroidery is among those for 7 to 12 year olds!
THIRD FLOOR IN THE MAIN STORE -- JORDAN MARSH COMPANY
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April 24, 1937
CHILD KILLER GETS CHAIR
BULLETIN
Salvatore Ossido was doomed to the electric chair at 9:20 last night by a jury in Kings County Court that deliberated for five hours. He was convicted of first degree murder for the slaying of 9 year old Einer Sporrer. The jurors rejected his plea of insanity.
(For complete details see later editions of The News.)
50 HURT IN CALIFORNIA STRIKE RIOT
When deputies fired shotgun blasts and tear gas bombs into angry, milling crowds, fifty persons were hurt as they picketed reopening of a strikebound cannery at Stockton, Cal. It was the first violent outbreak in the strike, which closed four canneries earlier in week. Photo shows rioters being driven back by cloud of tear gas.
U. S. SUES TO BREAK BIG MELLON TRUST
by Hal Burton
The Government struck at the very foundation-stone of Andrew Mellon's vast fortune yesterday. His $174,000,000 Aluminum Company of America, which exercises a virtually air-tight monopoly in the United States, was cited by the Department of Justice for violation of the anti-trust laws.
Dissolution of the huge firm and its twenty-seven subsidiaries as a combination in restraint of trade was demanded in a suit filed by the Department of Justice with the Federal Court in Manhattan. It was the biggest anti-trust suit since the Government "broke" the Standard Oil Company in 1907.
EDWARD, ANGRY AT CRITICS, THREATENS EARLY WEDDING
(Special Cable To The News)
London, April 23 -- The Duke of Windsor, reportedly "mad through and through," struck back at his critics tonight with a threat to marry Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson as soon as she secures her final decree of divorce, even if it means casting a blight on his brother's coronation.
The former King Edward VIII's temper, never any too easy, was said to have been aroused beyond the boiling point by charges of "muddling, duffling and meddling" during his brief "cocktail reign," as described in England's latest best seller, "Coronation Commentary."
Unless the book is immediately suppressed, it was revealed in court circles tonight, Edward not only will sue the publishers for libel, but will purposely advance his marriage to the American-born divorcee instead of waiting, as he had agreed, until George had been safely crowned.
WOMAN ACCUSER OF GABLE FOUND GUILTY OF FRAUD
BULLETIN
Los Angeles, Cal., April 23 -- Mrs. Violet Wells Norton, who accused Clark Gable of being the father of her 13-year-old illegitimate daughter, was found guilty by a Federal jury late today of using the mails to defraud. She faces a possible term of five years in prison or a $10,000 fine or both.
ELAINE DIVORCES JOHN AS 'JEALOUS OF HER ACTING'
By United Press
Los Angeles, April 23 -- Elaine Barrie, red-lipped New York schoolgirl who chased 54-year-old John Barrymore across the country to marry him, tonight became the fourth wife to toss him aside by way of divorce.
In a brief courtroom session, the dark-eyed former Hunter College co-ed who played "Ariel" to the Great Lover's "Caliban" on the heels of a mash letter told Judge Walter S. Gates the green-eyed monster of jealousy was the thing that wrecked their marriage. "He was jealous of my talent as an actress," she murmured.
Miss Barrie did not ask for alimony. "I will be satisfied if he pays the bills he has incurred since our marriage last fall," she said.
The high point in their two months of married life, she said, was reached at the Trocadero Cabaret last New Year's Eve, when she told him she was going to take part in a play, "The Return of Hannibal," which opened last February in San Francisco. "He became so enraged he finally threatened to leave me," she said.
"I think you are entitled to a divorce," Judge Gates said. "Better luck next time."
CHING CHOW says --
"It Is Truly Written -- A Wise Man May Look Ridiculous In the Company of Fools."
CHILD KILLER GETS CHAIR
BULLETIN
Salvatore Ossido was doomed to the electric chair at 9:20 last night by a jury in Kings County Court that deliberated for five hours. He was convicted of first degree murder for the slaying of 9 year old Einer Sporrer. The jurors rejected his plea of insanity.
(For complete details see later editions of The News.)
50 HURT IN CALIFORNIA STRIKE RIOT
When deputies fired shotgun blasts and tear gas bombs into angry, milling crowds, fifty persons were hurt as they picketed reopening of a strikebound cannery at Stockton, Cal. It was the first violent outbreak in the strike, which closed four canneries earlier in week. Photo shows rioters being driven back by cloud of tear gas.
U. S. SUES TO BREAK BIG MELLON TRUST
by Hal Burton
The Government struck at the very foundation-stone of Andrew Mellon's vast fortune yesterday. His $174,000,000 Aluminum Company of America, which exercises a virtually air-tight monopoly in the United States, was cited by the Department of Justice for violation of the anti-trust laws.
Dissolution of the huge firm and its twenty-seven subsidiaries as a combination in restraint of trade was demanded in a suit filed by the Department of Justice with the Federal Court in Manhattan. It was the biggest anti-trust suit since the Government "broke" the Standard Oil Company in 1907.
EDWARD, ANGRY AT CRITICS, THREATENS EARLY WEDDING
(Special Cable To The News)
London, April 23 -- The Duke of Windsor, reportedly "mad through and through," struck back at his critics tonight with a threat to marry Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson as soon as she secures her final decree of divorce, even if it means casting a blight on his brother's coronation.
The former King Edward VIII's temper, never any too easy, was said to have been aroused beyond the boiling point by charges of "muddling, duffling and meddling" during his brief "cocktail reign," as described in England's latest best seller, "Coronation Commentary."
Unless the book is immediately suppressed, it was revealed in court circles tonight, Edward not only will sue the publishers for libel, but will purposely advance his marriage to the American-born divorcee instead of waiting, as he had agreed, until George had been safely crowned.
WOMAN ACCUSER OF GABLE FOUND GUILTY OF FRAUD
BULLETIN
Los Angeles, Cal., April 23 -- Mrs. Violet Wells Norton, who accused Clark Gable of being the father of her 13-year-old illegitimate daughter, was found guilty by a Federal jury late today of using the mails to defraud. She faces a possible term of five years in prison or a $10,000 fine or both.
ELAINE DIVORCES JOHN AS 'JEALOUS OF HER ACTING'
By United Press
Los Angeles, April 23 -- Elaine Barrie, red-lipped New York schoolgirl who chased 54-year-old John Barrymore across the country to marry him, tonight became the fourth wife to toss him aside by way of divorce.
In a brief courtroom session, the dark-eyed former Hunter College co-ed who played "Ariel" to the Great Lover's "Caliban" on the heels of a mash letter told Judge Walter S. Gates the green-eyed monster of jealousy was the thing that wrecked their marriage. "He was jealous of my talent as an actress," she murmured.
Miss Barrie did not ask for alimony. "I will be satisfied if he pays the bills he has incurred since our marriage last fall," she said.
The high point in their two months of married life, she said, was reached at the Trocadero Cabaret last New Year's Eve, when she told him she was going to take part in a play, "The Return of Hannibal," which opened last February in San Francisco. "He became so enraged he finally threatened to leave me," she said.
"I think you are entitled to a divorce," Judge Gates said. "Better luck next time."
CHING CHOW says --
"It Is Truly Written -- A Wise Man May Look Ridiculous In the Company of Fools."
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I'm enjoying these posts--great stuff, Lizzie!
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lazydaisyltd said:
Thanks! A whole lot more coming up -- I have bound volumes of the New York Herald Tribune for May and June 1930 under my bed!
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LizzieMaine thanks for the time effort in your very interesting posting.
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On this day in 1915 began the genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Turks, which eventually cost over 1,000,000 lives.
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Fletch said:Spare a thought for the noble nation of Armenia, as April 24 is the saddest day on their calendar.
On this day in 1915 began the genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Turks, which eventually cost over 1,000,000 lives.
Yes, indeed. Hardly a non-controversial issue, and I don't really care to get into that side of it: wouldn't be productive. But I spent several years as organist in an Armenian church where I went to school--don't even ask me how, as I'm not, and never will be an organist!--so just a personal note:
Although anything BUT Armenian by blood or religion (in point of fact, this was an Apostolic parish, and I'm Catholic: in the "golden era" they were machine gunning archbishops in NYC for that sort of thing...) I have never been so warmly embraced by a community...lots of very black coffee; lots of Tavloo (du besh; du shesh: ZARK!). Wonderful people.
My barber at that time (in the 70s) was getting on to 70 himself, lost both his parents, and he and many others had personal tales of unbelievable conditions and sights on the death marches. He was never bitter over it...and he also would never accept payment for my haircuts. I have a great love for the Armenian people. They are certainly not the only people who have undergone terrible hardships....but their trials should, and must, never be forgotten.
Adolf Hitler, contemplating the destruction of European Jewry: "Who remembers the Armenians today?"
I do. Thank you, Fletch.
