Ransom Demand In Kidnapping of Caleb Milne Fourth
The Record reports relatives contacted Milne's kidnappers after a ransom note arrived at Caleb Milne Jr's Philadelphia home. The package included Milne's watch and a bloodstained Knickerbocker Press clipping. Postmarked Grand Central Station New York City, the note arrived Saturday afternoon as G men investigate.
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Philadelphia
Caleb Milne
Milne
Knickerbocker Press
Albany
New York
Grand Central Station
New York City
Legislature Wife Gets Bed Lifting Pulley From Husband
Mrs. B L Rogers of Ochiltree County bedridden since a October automobile crash receives a pulley system devised by her husband Representative Rogers. The device uses cloth bands and multiple pulleys to raise her body in bed, easing pain as nurses adjust her position.
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Austin
B. L. Rogers
Ochiltree County
Panhandle Plains
Rogers
Farnsworth
Texas House of Representatives
Flood toll rises to nine in Houston region
The body of a Black woman, believed the ninth flood victim, was found in Buffalo Bayou. She was possibly Mary Hays from a capsized boat. five Black children who were aboard were also recovered.
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Houston
Buffalo Bayou
Mary Hays
Finland Pays Debt in Full to U S for War Installment
Secretary Morgenthau announced Finland has paid $230 453 in full payment of its war debt installment. All other debtors remained in default.
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Finland
Washington
Morgenthau
Minneapolis Eyes Witness Names Isadore Blumenfeld Killer
Peter S. Neilson said Wesley Andersoh identified Isadore Blumenfeld as the Walter Liggett slayer. The Minneapolis Tribune reported Andersoh, an eye witness, named Blumenfeld in a statement to the attorney general’s office after returning from hiding. Mrs. Liggett had previously recognized Blumenfeld as the killer.
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Minneapolis
Peter S. Neilson
Wesley Andersoh
Isadore
Kid Cann
the Tribune
Andersoh
Liggett
Blumenfeld
Neilson
Jumper Injured In Chute Mishap At San Benito
Paul Henderson was hospitalized with serious spinal injuries after delaying his second parachute during an exhibition jump at San Benito Airport. Governor Allred traveled to Southwest Texas by deer hunt route in his second attempt of the season.
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San Benito
Paul Henderson
Austin
Allred
Texas
Mussolini Demands Widens Peace Plan Concessions
Mussolini signals through Rome and Laval a tougher reply to the Franco British peace proposals. He seeks full control of Aksum and Assab and a no strings attached colonization zone with Italian police, while insisting on continued Italian influence in southern Ethiopia.
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Associated Press
Italy
Benito Mussolini
Rome
Grand Council
Paris
Laval
Leaders Set 36 Convention at Cleveland
The Republican national committee announced the 1936 convention will be June 9 in Cleveland. It also approved a reduced delegate count and rejected a general bonus of at large seats, granting such bonuses only to the six states that backed Hoover in 1952. The move aims to attract anti Roosevelt Democrats.
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Washington
Republican National Committee
Cleveland
National Committee
Chicago
Herbert Hoover
Actress Thelma Todd Dies in Auto In Garage
Thelma Todd was found dead in her car in her Los Angeles residence garage. An examining physician attributed the death to monoxide poisoning amid reports of a recent divorce and an extortion plot involving the actress.
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Thelma Todd
Oil Seepage Ruins Water Well Near Logan Mexico Land
Residents of Logan New Mexico report oil seepage in Julian Martinez's water well. The water carries gasoline and kerosene odors with an oil film forming on top of the water. The 55 foot well has produced salt water since 1915, and a local newspaper visit notes persistent oil traces.
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Logan
Tucumcari
Julian Martinez
Martinez
Rioting in Peiping provokes Japanese warnings
Civil unrest in Peiping leaves 60 students wounded as anti-Japanese protests sweep the city. Gen Sung Cheh Yuan delays the Hopeh Chahar council meeting and orders exiled scholars Hu Shih and Chiang Meng-Lin. Police use swords and fire hoses while Japanese attache demands a halt to demonstrations. Separately, Nicolas Castano is rescued from kidnapping in Cuba after a week.
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Peiping
Bergo
Sung Cheh- Yuan
Hopeh
Chahar
Hu Shih
Chiang Mengl-Lin
National University of
Tan Takahashi
Chin Teh-Chun
Aide of Coolidge Dies Unexpectedly
Edward T. Clark White House secretary under President Coolidge died today at his Washington home aged 57. He leaves a widow and two sisters of Northampton Massachusetts. Clark was Amherst College class of 1900.
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Washington
Edward T. Clark
White House
President Coolidge
Clark
Northampton
Mass
Amherst College
Gray County Votes Wet in Liquor Referendum
Gray County voters approved legal liquor by a vote of 204 as only a single ballot box remained uncounted. The turnout was light.
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Gray County
Pampa
Authorities probe anonymous note targeting Mary Boland over Jubilee cast
Federal investigators examined a warning note sent to actress Mary Boland urging her to quit the Jubilee revue. Boland's secretary described the missive as the act of a crank, with authorities treating it as a nonserious threat.
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New York
U.P
Mary Boland
Army Aviator Dies in Crash Near Miami
Second Lieutenant Robert L. Carver of the 55th Pursuit Squadron was killed when his army plane crashed into a mangrove swamp near Chapman Field south of Miami Airport. He had been towing a target for aerial gun practice and was landing after the maneuver. Carver had arrived from Barksdale Field two weeks earlier for South Florida maneuvers. He was a West Point graduate.
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Miami
Fla
Robert L. Carver
Bardsdale Field
Chapman Field
Carver
Barksdale Field
South Florida
Army
General Headquarters Air Force
West
Parents Held in Death of Baby in Whitesburg
Mrs Helen Mahan 18 and her husband 22 were held without bond on murder charges after the mother testified the father tor tured their 9 month old son Thomas. County Judge Sandy Adams said he could not determine sole blame for the injuries that killed the baby last Thursday. The father was in jail on cruelty charges, the mother accused him of sticking the baby's feet on a stove as punishment for crying.
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Whitesburg
Helen Mahan
Thomas
Sandy Adams
Weather Forecast for Amarillo and West Texas Areas
Partly cloudy conditions expected across Amarillo and nearby West Texas regions on Tuesday. New Mexico is forecast to stay fair with little temperature change. Local hourly readings are unclear due to damaged text but indicate mild to warm daytime highs and cooler nights.
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Amarillo
Texas
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
Moscone
Fee
Hoover Decries New Deal and Proposes Decentralized Relief
Former President Hoover attacked Roosevelt's New Deal in St. Louis saying a fourfold plan would decentralize relief control and cut state allotments by over half. He asserted major debt miscalculations and warned the public debt could reach 32 to 33 billion by July, blaming 1933 bank panic on hysteria.
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ST. Louis
Herbert Hoover
Roosevelt
America
John Marshall
Republican Club
Hoover
Atlanta
Merrill Forced Down on Island During South American Flight
R B Merrill an American aviator was forced down on an island off Ecuador while en route to the southern tip of South America. His plane remained undamaged and he resumed flight to Guayaquil. Stephan Dunn Pan American Airways pilot found him safe on a beach 10 miles south of Salango Ecuador. Merrill is heading south to search for explorer Lincoln Ellsworth feared lost in the Antarctic.
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Cristobal
C. Z
R. B. Merrill
Ecuador
South America
Guayaquil
Stephan Dunn
Pan - American Airways
Merrill
Salango
Lincoln Ellsworth
Antarctic
Wishing Well Dividends From Hidden Looted Coins
Carlsbad New Mexico report says visitors’ pennies nickels and dimes at the wishing well of Carlsbad Caverns have been stolen. The well beneath a crystal dome was drained again with access thought to be from an opening off government property.
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Crystal Dome
Carlsbad Caverns
Merchant Dies in Auto Crash Near Tahoka and Ropesville
Dec 16. One dead and at least seven injured in two south plains crashes. A K McCarley storekeeper at T-bar southwest of Tahoka died at West Texas hospital after a 6 45 pm collision with a oil truck driven by Mrs Rugge. A G W Hardin's family vehicle collided with another near Mead ow. Perry Hardin found not yet. others treated. Police and highway patrol investigated.
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Lubbock
South Plains
A. K. McCarley
Taboka
West Texas Hospital
Rugge
Tahoka
M. C. Bowles
McCarley
Ropesville
G. W. Hardin
Meadow
Hardin
Perry Hardin
Highway Patrol
First Lady Invited to Texas Centennial Exhibition
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt was invited to attend the Texas Centennial exposition in Dallas next year. The invitation came from Florence Carter Bryan on behalf of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. President Roosevelt has already accepted another invitation via Vice President Garner.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dallas
Florence Carter Bryan
Stephen F. Austin
Texas
Daughters of the Republic of Texas
Roosevelt
Garner
East Texas oil allowable cut urged by railroad rail chief
The railroad commissions chief engineer urged reducing East Texas oil allowable by 10000 barrels daily for January citing dropping reservoir pressures. East Texans seek a rise to 606000 barrels while January market demand sits around 550475 and December withdrawals total 458000. Other districts totals include West Texas 191680 and Gulf Coast 250218.
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Austin
Railroad Commission
East Texas
Commission
West Texas
Southwest Texas
East Central
Gulf Coast
Conroe
North Texas
Panhandle
West Central
Hauptmann letter to Hoffman cites lie detector test offer
New York Post reports Bruno Hauptmann in his death cell claims innocence in the Lindbergh kidnapping and offers to take a lie detector test. He urges Gov Harold Hoffman to have Dr John Condon also tested and says Condon changed his attitude after visiting Hauptmann in jail. The governor delayed comment while denying groundless reports of a confessed plan.
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Trenton
N. J
Death
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Harold G. Hoffman
John F. Condon
Jassie
Hauptmann
Flemington
Bronx
New York Evening Post
Isador Fisch
Shoe firm gives Christmas bonus for 900 workers
Julian and Kokenge Shoe Co. to pay an extra full week's wages on December 24 totaling 27000 dollars to 900 employees as a holiday bonus. President Harold N. Lape cites good business and loyal staff.
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Columbus
Julian & Kokenge Shoe Co
Harold N. Lape
Lape
Relief Water Boy Kills Four WPA Workers
In Los Angeles a man, Charles N. Layman, 45, shot and killed four WPA workers at a project where he was demoted to water boy. He claimed the abuse drove him to violence. Three others were wounded, two seriously, as about 400 WPA workers surrounded police. Three victims died instantly. one died later at a hospital. Police labeled Layman a possible mental case.
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Los Angeles
WPA
Charles N. Layman
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