13Aug37: Admits Killing Son With Poisoned Meat

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Dateline: Friday, August 13, 1937

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Admits Killing Son With Poisoned Meat

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 13–(INS)–Pretty, blonde Mrs. Lenora King, 27, of St. Clair, Mo., today admitted, police said, that she fatally poisoned her 6-year-old son, Jack Jr., by feeding him a hamburger sandwich treated with rat poison.

She planned also to kill her 5-year-old daughter, Jeannine, and herself in the same manner, but changed her mind, she confessed. The attractive woman blamed two blasted romances for her act.

13Aug37: Black Approved By Senators

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Dateline: Friday, August 13, 1937

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Black Approved By Senators

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International News Service Wire
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.–(INS)–The nomination of Senator Hugo Black (D) of Alabama to be a member of the Supreme Court, was approved by a Senate Judiciary subcommittee today and reported favorably to the full committee.

The vote was five to one.

Senator Austin ( R) of Vermont was the only member of the committee that voted against President Roosevelt’s selection announced yesterday.

13Aug37: Jake Wade To Oppose Browns

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Dateline: Friday, August 13, 1937

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Jake Wade To Oppose Browns

By Leo Macdonell

Jake Wade, left-hander, will pitch today for the Tigers in the opening game of the series with the St. Louis Browns. Either Oral Hilderbrand of Jim Walkup will be on the mound for the visitors. To date Wade has won six games and lost six.

Jim Bottomley, who succeeded Rogers Hornsby, is making his first visit to Detroit as manager of the Browns.

The probable lineups:

DETROIT
Walker, lf
Fox, rf
Gehringer, 2b
Greenberg, 1b
York, c
Laabs, cf
Owen, 3b
Rogell, ss
Wade, p

ST. LOUIS
Knick’bcker (sic), ss
West, cf
Vosmik, lf
Clift, 3b
Bell, rf
Hemsley, c
Davis, 1b
Carey, 2b
Hildebrand or Walkup, p

13Aug37: 2d Dairy Reports Bottle Breaking

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2d Dairy Reports Bottle Breaking

The breaking of milk bottles,, (sic) which started with those of the Ira Wilson Dairy last week, following a strike, has spread to the Clover Farms Dairy, 11616 Cloverdale avenue, Inspector George Hertel said today.

Inspector Hertel said he understands there is labor trouble at the Clover Farms Dairy. But the United Dairy Workers’ Union, a CIO affiliate which is directing the strike against the Wilson Dairy, declined to say whether a strike had been called at the Clover Farms Dairy. An employe (sic) of the dairy said there was no trouble.

From 500 to 1,000 Wilson bottlers are being punctured daily, Hertel said. About 250 Clover Farms bottles were broken today. Hertel said holes are made in the bottles by placing a 50-cent piece in them, when empty, and shaking vigorously.

The coin either cracks the bottle or makes a small hole.

The bottles of all dairies are picked up by drivers and then sent to the milk bottle exchange where they are sorted and returned to their proper owners. The bottles are handled with great speed and damage is seldom noticed until the bottles are being filled at the dairies, Hertel said.

Ira Wilson, president of the Wilson Dairy, said his dairy is being picketed every morning, when the milk trucks are sent out, although only six of his 300 employes (sic) are on strike. He said there were about 500 pickets this morning.

13Aug37: Hunt 3 Aboard Boat Lost on Fishing Trip

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Dateline: Friday, August 13, 1937

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Hunt 3 Aboard Boat Lost on Fishing Trip

MUSKEGON, Aug. 13.–Coast guardsmen on the Chicago, 75-foot patrol cutter, searched Lake Michigan today for a missing fishing boat and its crew of three, John and Edward Sloan and Jack Ghezzi, all of Muskegon. They were missed in a storm Wednesday night.

13Aug37: Man Who Threw Gun AT Edward Released

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Man Who Threw Gun AT Edward Released

LONDON, Aug. 13.–(INS)–George Andrew McMahon, who scared the wits out of England last year when he tossed a loaded revolver toward King Edward VIII, had Friday the 13th–and good behavior–to thank today for his early release from Wadsworth jail.

Time off for good behavior made today the date for the ex-clerk’s release. But on his plea of superstition, he was freed last night.

13Aug37: 1-Gal. Buyers Mob Oil Stations

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Dateline: Friday, August 13, 1937

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1-Gal. Buyers Mob Oil Stations

Use $20 Bills, Demand Air And Water

A swarm of customers–each demanding a gallon of gasoline and paying for it with at $20 bill–today descended on stations accused of cutting prices in violation of state fair trade law.

It was Detroit’s first taste of what has come to be know in other cities as a “worry war.”

Sponsored by the Michigan Gas Dealers Union, Local No. 1, the caravan of about 40 cars moved from station to station. Police were called, but could find no law being violated.

STICK TO ROUTINE

Each driver, under the established routine of the “worry war”:
1–Purchased a gallon of gasoline
2–Demanded that his tires, oil and water be checked, his battery refilled and his windshield and windows be polished.
3–Demanded a 3-cent discount on the one gallon purchase and offered a $20 bill in payment.

The two attendants on duty ran themselves into a state bordering on hysteria and then called police. A scout car crew stood by as the customers kept on coming.

With the aid of a nearby grocer who supplied change for the beleaguered station, the 40 cars were serviced and moved on to a station at 4200 Third Street.

Here three attendants ran out of change in a few minutes and announced the station was closed. When the doors were closed and the electrical pumps shut off, the caravan was ordered to move on by police. It circled the block several times, then moved on to another station.

13Aug37: Soviet Jails 200 Germans

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Soviet Jails 200 Germans

BERLIN, Aug. 13.–(INS)–In a new outburst of mass arrests of German citizens throughout Russia, 200 have been taken into custody, the official German News Bureau stated today.

13Aug37: U. S. Sailors Honored

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U. S. Sailors Honored

PARIS, Aug. 13.–(INS)–A memorial lighthouse to the services of 600,000 American sailors of the United States Navy during the world war stood at the entrance of Brest Harbor today, dedicated yesterday by Josephus Daniels, war-time secretary of the navy.

13Aug37: Quint Visitors Near Riot

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Quint Visitors Near Riot

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CALLANDER, Ont, Aug. 13.–A near-riot scene was staged today by thousands of tourists when four of the five Dionne quintuplets made their first public appearance in several days.