Knots in Muscles Explained by Young Scientist
Dr Carl C Speidel of the University of Virginia reports discovery of invisible knots in muscle fibers under high power microscopes. He shows knots form after bruises starvation wrong diet or alcohol irritation. they repair muscles quickly or take days, with knots most common where fibers join tendons.
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Atlantic City
Ots
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Carl C. Speidel
University of Virginia
Speidel
Elbert King School Head Robbed In Car Hijacking
Amarillo school principal Elbert F. King, 65, was hijacked by a young thief who forced him from his car and injured him in a knife and pistol attack. King, hospitalized with head and shoulder wounds, escaped with a self defense cut as the assailant fled toward Llano Cemetery.
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Panhandle
Elbert F. King
Amarillo
Defy Snowstorm To Greet 1937 On Pike's Peak
Fifteen climbers led by the AdAmAn Club set out through a Colorado snowstorm to reach Pike's Peak summit at 14 110 feet by 9 PM on New Year’s Eve. The ascent marks the sixteenth annual climb with ten guest helpers accompanying the five club members. Each year the group sets off a ton of fireworks atop the peak.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Pike's Peak
AdAmAn Club
Colorado Plains
First Steps In Arrangement Taken In Kidnap Case
A reputed intermediary in the ransom talks for kidnaped Charles Mattson 10 dodged questions as family sources predicted arrangements would be completed and $28000 paid. An ad in the Seattle Times sparked the bank of activity with Gus Appleman and others rushing from the Mattson home. Authorities pursued the note and warned the ransom could double if the sum was not paid by the coming Sunday.
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Tacoma
Wash
Charles Matson
Seattle Times
Gus B. Appleman
Mattson
Justice Department
Tim
Man Shot By Kidnappers Found Near Arlington Downs
A severely wounded Foster Shaw of Calhoun Falls South Carolina claimed two men abducted him Christmas morning. Shaw said he and his attackers fought for a $600 ransom then released him near Arlington Downs where he was found at 1 30 P M. by O W Deal and J W Brewer. He wrote a note to his wife and reported threats to his life and family as he lay gravely injured.
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Fort Worth
South Carolina
Arlington Downs
Foster Shaw
Calhoun Falls
S. C
Downs
Shaw
Clara Shaw
O. W. Deal
J. W. Brewer
Watson
Arlington
Snowbound Navajo Indians Rescued Near Wide Ruins
In Gallup New Mexico 300 Navajo Indians were rescued after a blizzard opened a path 25 miles from Ganado trading post to Wide Ruins Arizona. Rescuers faced near zero temperatures as they worked through the night to reach the stranded group whose food and fuel were nearly exhausted.
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Gallup
N. M
Indian Service
Arizona
Painted Desert
Ganado Trading Post
Wide Ruins
Advertise Vacancies Now for Rental Want Ads
A cheerful notice promotes January first as a chance to place rental want ads in the Co News Want Ads. It urges landlords to advertise homes apartments and rooms to attract tenants and promises a courteous clerk to assist in preparing effective ads.
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Co -News
Snowbound in California strands 14 in San Bernardino Mountains
Three men seek aid for fourteen people snowbound in the San Bernardino Mountains as food runs low. An 18 month old child and Gene Ross amid others are stranded near Icy Springs and Valermo with a pneumonia threat to Miss Ross. Deputy Wahl organizes help while Horace Hill, grandson of a late senator, trekked through three foot drifts to summon assistance.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Gene Ross
San Bernardino
Horace Hill
U. S
Jones
Valvermo
Miss Ross
Icy Springs
Noah Beery
C. N. Burnham
C. W. Cobb
Big Horn Ranch
J. C. Brandenber
Cobb
Paul Rodgers
Roper Sees Broad 1936 Business Recovery
Secretary Roper reports the Commerce Department year end review shows recovery on all fronts in 1936 and warns that lingering low mood and unemployment remain the paramount issues. He urges continued business government cooperation and 1937 improvements to reduce unemployment.
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Washington
Roper
Commerce Department
Oscar Dotson Dies From Car Crash Injuries
Oscar Dotson, 47, wrestler, tavern owner and former blacksmith, died from injuries after his car crashed through a bridge railing into the Red River north fork east of Lefors. One person was instantly killed in the same accident.
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Oscar Dotson
Red River
Lefors
Child star Jane Withers receives death threat in Boston
In Boston, December 30, Jane Withers, a freckled child film star, is threatened with death unless her parents pay 50 000 dollars. An armed bodyguard accompanies her and sleeps in a nearby hotel suite while she makes a theater appearance.
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Boston
Jane Withers
Jane
Ruth Withers
Weather report for Amarillo and West Texas region
Weather forecast shows Thursday fair across Amarillo West Texas and New Mexico with generally fair conditions. Temperature details include hourly readings for Amarillo with highs near 49 and lows around 39 or 40 plus past year comparisons.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Pope Pius XI Weakens as Blood Clot Disappears
Vatican reports the ailing Pope Pius XI, 79, in slow decline with partial paralysis and circulatory trouble. Fears center on a blood clot that could travel to heart or brain, prompting strict quiet in papal apartments and intensified nursing care. Eugenio Pacelli visits briefly. Osservatore Romano notes acute suffering while Milani attends.
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Vatican City
Pius XI
Vatican
Papal Apartments
Nursing Brothers
Osservatore Romano
Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli
Amanti Milani
Pius
Fisher Body Strike Hits GM Flint Plant Operations
A sit down strike at Fisher Body Plant No. 2 curbed assembly and paint work at the nearby Chevrolet plant in Flint Michigan and threatened to spread to the 17 000 workers at General Motors Fisher Body Plant No. 1. The strike is the fourth in a series as UAW pushes for collective bargaining with GM.
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Flint
Mich
Fisher
Chevrolet
No. 1
General Motors Corporation
General Motors
United Automobile Workers
Peggy Joyce’s Fiangee Killed In Sledding Accident
Vivian Jackson fiancé of Peggy Hopkins Joyce died in a hospital in St Moritz Switzerland from injuries after a sledding accident. Joyce herself was slightly hurt in the incident.
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ST. Moritz
Switzerland
Vivian Jackson
Peggy Hopkins
Joyce
Army Air Corps Attache Sentenced Thirty Years for Slaying
Cyril W. White a 32 year old Army Air Corps attache from March Field California was sentenced to 30 years in Utah state prison for the December 7 beer parlor murder of Jack T. Ashburn 36 a Fort Douglas Utah army cook White pleaded guilty ten days earlier and said he nursed a 12 year grudge against Ashburn during the shooting that wounded two others in Salt Lake City.
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Salt Lake City
Cyril W. White
Army Air Corps
March Field
Calif
Jack T. Ashburn
White
Ashburn
Fort Douglas
Utah
Oil Field Worker Fatally Injured at Lueders Rig
Stamford December 30 Beckham an oil field worker died four hours after his leg was pulled off by a rope running through a pulley at a rig in the Lueders oil field. He is survived by his widow and children.
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Stamford
Early Beckham
Lueders
Beckham
Bank Nights Debate on Punishment and Statute Authority
Reports from Nanking say strong government factions push for harsh action against Marshal Chang Huieh-Liang with death sought to uphold state dignity as trial set before the national military commission. In Austin the Texas Supreme Court rules theater bank rights may violate the state constitution but avoids deciding if a statute forbids operation, leaving enforcement issues unresolved.
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Nanking
Chang Huieh-Liang
Northwest
National Military Commission
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chang
Sianfu
Shensi
Austin
Texas Supreme Court
William Mce- Craw
Cheif Justice
M. Cureton
McGraw
Wink
City of
The
Griffith Amusement Company
Cureton
Congressional aid sought in strike impasse
Maritime union leaders asked Congress for possible aid to end the ship strike impasse. They created a law and legislation committee to travel to Washington and review a dozen bills affecting the 62 day shipping tie up as negotiations with shipowners and the radio telegraphers union failed to materialize.
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San Francisco
Congress
Washington
T. G. Plant
Great Britain to Start World Naval Armament Race with Two New Battleships
London announces Britain will lay keels for two 35,000-ton battleships the Prince of Wales and the King George V on New Year’s Day as naval limitation treaties expire. Britain plans seven cruisers, two aircraft carriers, 25 destroyers, eight submarines, and possibly 10 more cruisers, with over-age ships kept as anti aircraft units.
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Great Britain
London
France
Japan
United States
Italy
Germany
Russia
Washington
Admiralty
Prince of Wales
Birkenhead
Tyne
Jane's Fighting Ships
Gazeteer
Pacific
Britain
Dame Fan ny Lucy Houston England’s Lady Bountiful Dies
Dame Fanny Lucy Houston the wealthiest woman in England died today in London. She inherited £5,000,000 in 1926 after the death of her shipping magnate husband Sir Robert Houston. Known for hospital and charity gifts she once gave the government $12,000,000 in duties on her husband’s estate.
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London
Fanny Lucy Houston
England
Lady Houston
Robert Houston
Isle of Jersey
Rehearings Denied for Gas Companies
The Texas State Supreme Court overruled motions for rehearing in the appeals of Lone Star Gas and United Gas Public Service from lower court rulings upholding Railroad Commission gas rate orders. A rehearing was also submitted in Lone Star Gas versus Fort Worth over condemnation of gas distribution property.
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Austin
U.P
State Supreme Court
Lone Star Gas Company
United Gas Public Service Company
State Railroad Commission
Fort Worth
Mussolini Drops Spanish Fascists as Franco War Stales Shift
Premier Mussolini ends ties with the Spanish Fascists over delays in war victory and urges Hitler to do the same. Nazi leaders meet with Hitler after Mussolini’s move to discuss strategy amid Franco Britain demands and volunteer enlistment crisis. Unresolved: cargo and passenger issue aboard the Nazi freighter Palos and its return.
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Mussolini
Hitler
Francisco Franco
Berlin
Spain
Rome
Franco
Madrid-Valencia
Hans von Seeckt
Army of the Republic
Palos
Kidnapper slain in gun fight near Port Lavaca
A kidnapper identified as Wade W. Smith of Ohio was killed in a pistol duel with Sheriff J. D. O'Neil and City Marshal George Livingston after abducting Mr and Mrs Ben Wasserman and their daughter Bennie Mae. O'Neil was seriously wounded. Livingston escaped unharmed. The rescue occurred along Hugthee Coast Highway toward Corpus Christi. An inquest was held with Justice James Frazier.
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Port Lavaca
J. D. O'Neil
Calhoun County
Wade W
Chinboat) Smith
Ohio
J. Roemer
Ben Wasserman
Bennie Mae
O'Neil
Livingeston
Dr. Roemer
James Frazier
Insurgent Cruiser Shells Coast Port Gijon
Velasco shelled the northern port of Gijon firing 14 shells into Musel Hills as government war planes launched in reply. The Fascist warship then withdrew after machine guns targeted defending ships. Meantime militiamen reportedly recaptured Villanueva de la Canada near Brunete, west of Madrid.
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Madrid
Velasco
Gijon
Musel
Villanueva de la Canada
Brunete
Texan Sentenced in Burglary Attempt
Joseph Miller, 23, of Mineola Texas, was sentenced to 140 days in the house of correction for attempting to burglarize a Loop department store Monday night. Miller, six feet five inches, used his height to reach the fire escape and was caught by watchmen as he tried to enter the 10th floor.
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Chicago
Joseph Miller
Mineola
Tex
House of Correction
Miller
Texas
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Strickland
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