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. The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, August 18, 1937
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Charging breach of contract, Marjorie Herbst Browning, first adopt
ed daughter of the late millionaire, Edward (Daddy) Browning, is
suing to recover $1,000,000 of the estimated 14.000,000 estate left
to another adopted daughter. Dorothy Hood, who is fighting the suit
In New York court. Miss Browning is shown at left, in court, with
Jra. Nellie Adele Browning, first wife of Browning, who is sup
porting her case.
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Defense of Robert Irwin, eccentric sculptor who has confessed the
slaying of Veronica "Ronnie" Gedeon, her mother and a boarder
on Easter Sunday, will be defended in court by Samuel M. Leibowitz,'
ace New York crime lawyer. Leibowitz has compiled the phenomenal
record of lift "victories' in 116 major murder cases. Not one of his
clients has paid the death penalty. In the Irwin defense, : as in
many of his past trials, he will plead that the defendant is the victim,
. of. faulty, environment.
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Charges of assault were filed against Eloise Willis, 17, of New pr
leans, inset, and her father, Alfred Willis, 56, by Oscar Kay, 47-year-old
WPA worker, who claimed he had been tied to a tree and severe
ly beaten, by the girl and her father. The Willises said the attack
had been provoked because of slanderous tales allegedly told by
Kay about Miss Willis. The elder Willis, left, is shown Te-enactig
the flogging with a friend as the "subject".
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j Passing out Uterature
"Khen a large group of United Automobile Workers union members
distributed union literature at the gates of the Ford Motor company
plant at Dearborn. Mich., above, there were no disorders of any kind.!
in contrast to a previous attempt to propagandize Ford workers oo5
May 26 when U. A. W. members were badly beaten.
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Amusement parks this year are having their best
season since the depression and the "funny busi
ness' is expected to take in nearly half a billion
dollars before winter." Coney Island, largest amuse
ment park In the world, has had several days when
snore than a million Jammed its midway and beach.
Traditional diversions such as the merry-go-round,
ferris wheel and roller coaster still retain their
popularity; but showmen are constantly introducing
new thrills to satisfy the public's demand for dif
ferent and more novel recreations on their outdoor
excursions during summer months..
One of the favored entrants for
the title of "Miss America, 1S3T.
to be chosen at the annual pa
gemnt at Atlantic City, is Miss
Phyllis Randal), 21. of Hollywood,
striking blonde chosen as "Kiss
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This 22-year-old Dallas, Tex., girl.
Clarise Moellenkamp, needn't
,back down for anyone because she
was selected as the young lady
having the most "perfect back"
at the Pan-American exposition.
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A sandbag barricade, one of several erected in j city for Japanese troops now control the ancient
Peiping, failed to stop the Japanese march on the city following several reversals at the city's gates
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An arresting scene of tragedy and pathos took place in jail at
Appleton, Wis., above, when 22-year-old Glen Barker, sentenced to
14 years in prison for fatally stabbing his sweetheart in a jealous
rage at a dance hall, bid farewell to his aged parents, Mr. and Mrs.
George Barker, before leaving for the penitentiary.
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Political observers say John D. M. Hamilton, chairman of the Re
publican national committee. Is on the way out and will be supplanted
by Jan. 1. Hamilton is shown above talking with Mrs. Pearl Wates
of Alabama in Washington as women members of the G. O. P.
national committee held a meeting to rally their, forces. '
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One of the hottest fights of this ,
session of congress is between the '
southern bloc of legislators seek
ing crop loans, particularly on
cotton, and the president who is
determined not to authorize such
loans until congress passes the
administration bill to control
crop surpluses. Senator Hattie
Caraway of Arkansas, shown at
the agricultural committee hear
ing, is one of those involved in the
fight, as Arkansas is a cotton
state.
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Dick Merrill, well-known aviator who recently made a two-way'
transatlantic flight, turns to some reel flying now. He is seen in
Hollywood going over the script of a movie in which he plaxft the
leading role.Cecil Davis is shown with hlsw
This Informal photo of Mrs. Grace
Coolidge, one of the best recent
studies of .. the late president's
widow, shows her as she knitted
on the porch W a friend with
whom she was vacationing at
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Secretary Wallace ;
Demands of southern senators for & 1937 cotton loan program ha
met with resistance from President Roosevelt who has insisted that
crop control measures be legislated if loans are authorized. Adopt
ing a resolution that a 10-cent cotton loan program be adopted, the
senate agricultural committee, headed by Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith
of South Carolina, recommended a government guarantee of higher
prices if the market failed to respond. - Senator Smith is .shown
here at the committee hearing conferring with- Secretary of Agri
culture Henry Wallace, champion of the administration crop con
trol program. T . ,.
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With Mrs. Anna Hahn. 31. of Cincinnati, O, denying aaTcnowledge
of the causes of the deaths, authorities investigated a fifth death
among Mrs. Halm's elderly acquaintances, an of whom died under
mysterious drcumstancea. Mrs. Hahn, a former German school
teacher, is held on fugitive warrants charging murder and grand
larceny. The fifth death came under scrutiny after Mrs. Hahn's
husband, shown Inset, had turned over to police: a haif-QUed bottle
. of violent dysecieric poison. Mrs. Hahn is shown being questioned
by a detective, 'above, ! '