Governess Confesses to Killing Her 20 Month Old Son
In Philadelphia a 35 year old governess Tilly Irelan admitted fatally injuring her son over work stress and party demands. She dismembered the body and dumped a torso on a North Philadelphia street, with the head and limbs found in her boarding house room. Detectives traced clues to newspapers found near the torso. Authorities questioned missing child leads and traced possible matches to a six year old boy not identified as the victim.
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Philadelphia
James Ryan
Ryan
Tilly Irelan
Anthony Donato
Women’s Homeopathic Hospital
Bernard O'Donnell
Gerald Brusco
Gerald
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Uruguay Protests Harbor Battle at Sea
Uruguay proposed representatives from the Pan American conference to Britain and Germany over ships’ battle in the neutral zone. The note to Panama’s foreign minister Narciso Garay follows Pan American conference neutrality machinery set Oct. 3 with Panama as liaison point for action by American nations.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
Britain
Germany
Amerin
Panama
Narciso Garay
Living Gift Puppies Featured in Globe-News Want Ads
A Christmas teaser promotes puppies as a living gift with breeds such as Cocker Spaniels Dachshunds Pek ingese wirehairs and collies under classified 51. Readers are urged to browse the Want Ads for a pup to delight a child and the ad provides the dial number for Want Ad Headquarters.
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Globe-News
Russian Armies Cornered Near Suomensalmi Tolvajarvi
Swedish reports quote General Vallenius stating two Russian formations of about 10 000 men were surrounded near Suomussalmi and Tolvajarvi as fierce fighting rages. He also says Finnish command believes tanks that attacked Salmijarvi crossed into Norway. Norway denies knowledge of any border crossing. Also note a retail plug from Russell Stationery Co.
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Stockholm
Vallenius
Salla
Petsamo
Suomussalmi
Tolvajarvi
Lake Ladoga
Finns Destroy Three Soviet Tanks In Ladoga Action
Finnish army communique reports heavy fighting near Lake Ladoga with three 30 ton Soviet tanks destroyed along the shore and many more sent to the scrap heap in the past two days. Attacks north of the lake were repulsed as Finnish forces hold the Mannerheim line and continue to press on the Karelian Isthmus.
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Helsinki
Lake
Ladoga
Lake Ladoga
Red
Finland
Mannerheim
Karelian
Taipale
Suvanto Lake
Limola
Tolvajarvi
Aeglaejarvi
Petsamo
Lapland
Talley Hereford Breeder Dies After Illness
Harley A Talley prominent Panhandle Plains Hereford breeder died in a local hospital after a short illness. Funeral services will be at 2 30 PM at the First Methodist Church of Miami with Rev. John E Eldridge officiating. Pallbearers include D I Barnett Jett McMurtry Dr S W Corbin and others. Talley was born 1882 in Bell County Texas and lived in the Panhandle for decades, active in railroading banking and livestock before retiring to focus on his ranch.
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Harley A .Talley
Panhardle Plains
Southwest
First Methodist Church of
Miami
John E. Eldridge
D. I. Barnett
Jett McMurtry
S. W. Corbin
C. W. Bowers
Roy Mathers
Pampa
Tohoka
Garner's Band Wagon Rolling as Third Term Debate Heats
Washington dispatch reports Vice President Garner joining the 1936 Democratic field after an announced acceptance of the presidential nomination at Uvalde Texas. His campaign aims to unite anti third term forces while remaining non anti Roosevelt. Wisconsin weighs as a chief battle ground with Garner eyed as a fallback in states lacking a favorite son.
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Washington
Garner
Democratic Party
Uvalde
Tex
Roosevelt
Paul V. McNutt
Federal Security
Wheeler
Montana
Wisconsin
McNutt
William D. Carroll
Ross Brumfield
History Repeats As British Win Sea Supremacy
The piece links wartime sea power to 1914 parallels, noting Admiral Graf Spee's defeat near Montevideo and the destruction of Karlsruhe and Dresden. It argues Britain and France regain dominance, despite costly naval losses, while German raiders threaten Atlantic lanes and the U-boat menace escalates.
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Imperial
Germany
North Sea
Atlantic
West Indies
Dresden
Karlsruhe
British Turn Nazi Air Raiders Back
The air ministry announced that German aircraft appeared over several points of the east British coast in the late afternoon and anti aircraft guns opened fire. British fighters chased the planes back to sea. no air raid warnings were sounded and there was brief anti aircraft fire in the district.
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London
Air Ministry
Weather Outlook for West Texas New Mexico and Arizona
Fair conditions across West Texas New Mexico and Arizona on Monday and Tuesday with little temperature change. Oklahoma forecast shows generally fair skies with cooler readings in the northwest and north central areas Monday afternoon and Tuesday with partly cloudy conditions and colder nights.
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West Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
Oklahoma
Morgenthau Plan to Corner War Materials Revealed
Washington reports unveil an inside story of Secretary Morgenthau’s draft to buy up strategic war materials such as copper manganese cotton oil rubber and nickel to starve aggressors. The plan failed due to cost and feasibility estimates of 100 million dollars a month and required allied embargo cooperation.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Harry D. White
The
Treasury
White
United States
Great Britain
Russia
Congress
Treasury, War and Navy Departments
England
France
Jesse H. Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Federal Loan
RFC
Carl Gray
Union Pacific Railroad
British Steamer Amble Sunk by Mine in North Sea
The 1 162 ton steamer Amble was sunk by a mine in the North Sea. Her 17 crew members were landed Saturday on the northeast coast after seven hours in lifeboats.
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London
Amble
North Sea
Dalhart Bound Man Slain in Independence Case
The body of George Creighton Ramsey of Olney Illinois was found behind a grain elevator in Independence Missouri. He had been dead about ten hours with a crushed skull. $49.95 and two railroad tickets were found on him. detectives questioned Mrs Ramsey in Evansville while an inquest and autopsy were planned.
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Independence
George Creighton Ramsey
Olney
St. Louis
Dalhart
Tex
C. B
Ramsey
Sam Hamilton
Kansas City
Evansville
Ind
Ill
Edna Hopper
Graf Spee sunk by own crew in Montevideo harbor
The German pocket battleship Graf Spee was driven to Montevideo by British ships and blown up by its Nazi crew just offshore. The ship sank within minutes after three explosions as crews abandoned ship, with reports that Captain Langsdorff followed Hitler's command to destroy the vessel. The Tacoma sheltered crew, Uruguay prepared to intern survivors, and Argentine authorities planned further action.
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Graf Spee
Montevideo
Spee
Bahia
Brazil
Africa Shell
Tairoa
Streonshalk
S.S. Formosa
Admiral von Spee
Admiral Cr
Seeadier
Wolf
Moewe
Admiral Graf Spee
C.S. T
Hans Langdorff
Adolf Hitler
Hans Langsdorff
Montivedeo Harbor
Buenos Aires
Langsdorff
Tacoma
Uruguayan
Exeter
Achilles
Ajax
National Broadcasting Company
James Bowen
NBC
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Babe
Slayer
Imzuisa
Ascension
Dad
Russell Stationery Co
Salmijarvi
Arctic
H. A. Talley
Edward E. Bomar
Associated Press
Trafalgar
Carmania
South Atlantic
Emden
Indian Ocean
von Spee
Sturdee
Falklands
Newport News
U. S
William O. Douglas
Securities Commission
Supreme Court
Marriner
Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Reserve
Henry A. Wallace
New York Stock Exchange
Hitler
Bohemia and
Moravia
Czechoslovakia
Henry Morgenthau, JR
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