Soviet Envoy Troyanovsky Arrives In New York On Washington Trip
Alexander A. Troyanovsky first Soviet ambassador to America lands in New York with William C. Bullitt. They meet with officials, discuss peace and trade lightly, then head for Washington. He vows to work for world peace and avoids specifics on Far East policy. Jazzed remark hints at possible rapprochement under necessity.
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New York
Alexander A. Troyanovsky
America
Soviet Union
Tokyo
United States
Russia
Far East
Troyanovsky
Boris Skvirsky
NBC
CBS
Texas Representative Injured in Auto Crash
Representative Mansfield, Democrat of Texas and chairman of the House rivers and harbors committee, was injured late today in an automobile accident in Alexandria. Hospital officials said his condition was not serious and he suffered a lacerated neck and ear when the car skidded into a parked vehicle on Washington Street.
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Alexandria
Mansfield
Texas
House Rivers and Harbors Committee
Washington Street
Uncle Sam profits from misaddressed mail and dead letters
The government earned 143130.32 dollars last year from carelessly addressed mail and missing names. Revenue mainly from dead letter offices covered unclaimed items, found money, stamps, and the 3 cent fee for returning dead letters. Undelivered letters dropped 37.78 percent, with 63432 dollars found money, 44402 restored, and over 99 percent of drafts and money orders totaling 2082960 delivered after processing.
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Washington
Vice President Garner Returns to Capitol After Texas Hunt
The piece spots John Nance Garner on the Senate rostrum claiming his role as Vice-President. It notes his healthy appearance since last year’s adjournment and his hunting trip near Uvalde, Texas. The article is filed from Washington by Rodney Dutcher.
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Rodney Dutcher
Washington
Jan
United States
Senate
John Nance Garner
Roosevelt
Congressional
Jack Garner
Congress
Uvalde
Tex
Texas
Capitol
Oil Fire Hits Atlantic Refining Stillhouse
Two 25 000 gallon oil containers exploded in the Atlantic Refining Company stillhouse in Philadelphia causing a large blaze. Fire crews battled for nearly two hours as flames and smoke hindered rescue attempts with initial reports of workers trapped. The incident prompted four alarm responses and continued coverage on page 7.
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Philadelphia
Atlantic Refining Company
Love Murder Leads To Death By Own Action Threat
James Pappas a 40 year old Galveston confectioner who shot Mrs Bess Burt 33 yesterday as she taunted him faces murder charges in Houston. Guards were ordered to watch him after he said if she dies he wants to die following her death. Mrs Burt’s body was sent to Crandall Texas for funeral services tomorrow.
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Houston
James Pappas
Bess Burt
Galveston
Criminals Courts
Pappas
Peyton
Congress Expecting Roosevelt Proposals On Tax and Loans
Congress expects President Roosevelt to send first of several legislative recommendations this week. Proposals include government guarantees for home loan and farm mortgage refinancing bonds or reciprocal tariff measures. Senate to act on liquor tax bill and possibly ratify the St Lawrence waterway treaty with Canada. Morgenthau confirmation as secretary of the Treasury anticipated after objections eased. House calendar includes miscellaneous legislation and speeches. liquor sales legislation ahead for Tuesday.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Reconstruction Corporation
Senate
St. Lawrence Waterway
Canada
Morgenthau
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Secretary of the Treasury
House
First Week of 1934 Brings Headlines of Many Firsts
Year starts with rapid events from Chicago dated January 7 1934. Notable items include a Los Angeles flood disaster with about 40 deaths a mine disaster trapping 142 workers in Czechoslovakia a Rose Bowl upset Columbia over that opponent 7 to 0 a bankruptcy filing by William Ford Henry Ford’s brother and other political and civic shifts such as Morgen thrup becoming treasury secretary LaGuardia taking New York mayoralty and a Saint Paul kidnapping case adding to a week of notable firsts.
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Chicago
Los Angeles
Czechoslovakia
Columbia
William Ford
Henry Ford
Detroit
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
William Woodin
Treasury
Benator McNary
R.-Ore
Roosevelt
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
New York
St. Paul
Minn
Accidental Death Theory in Detroit Case
Inspector Navarre of the homicide squad said Charles Bertle a 17 year old high school student died accidentally after being found nude and bound on a piano bench at home. Police ruled out homicide and self harm after two days of investigation and coroner Knoblock noted possible fainting after binding.
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Detroit
John I. Navarre
Charles Bertle
Edmund Knoblock
Robbery Charge Filed Against Crutchfield
The report identifies Frank Crutchfield and George Robertson as suspects in a Wednesday hijacking near Amarillo. Crutchfield and Robertson face robbery with firearms charges after a Missouri County deputy and Mrs. Maggie Stewart linked them to the $100 hold up and the shooting of Police Captain Preston Barnam.
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Chester Logue
Moore County
Frank Crutchfield
White Deer
Potter County
Preston Barnam
George Robertson
Panhandle
Crutchfield
Robertson
Western Hotel
Maggie Stewart
Bun Ray
Oklahoma City Sees First Snow of Season
Oklahoma's first snowstorm of the season swept across the state. Oklahoma City recorded 1.21 inches of precipitation about half an inch of snow, while Tulsa saw more than an inch of snow and sleet, melting on impact.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Tulsa
Plane In Heavy Fog Forces Aviator Bailout
Lieut. E. W. Anderson, 30, bailed out of an observation plane in dense fog near Imperial after losing control. The plane crashed in flames on a hillside farm while Col. F. A. Prince opened an investigation to judge the pilot’s decision to abandon the ship. Anderson fell about 3,000 feet to escape the fog and began tumbling before bailing out.
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Pittsburgh
E. W. Anderson
Army
Imperial
F. A. Prince
94D Division
Death Ends Trail Of Southwest Bandit Wilbur Underhill
Wilbur Underhill, feared Southwest outlaw, died at McAlester State Penitentiary from gunshot wounds after a December 30 shootout in Shawnee. He had been transported by ambulance from Shawnee to the prison hospital where he succumbed twelve hours later. His body was to be sent to Joplin, Missouri for burial. his mother and sister traveled from Kansas City to his bedside, grieving over the loss and blaming the transfer for his death. Federal authorities said they ordered the transfer amid rumors of a plot to free him in the Kansas City Union Station massacre of four officers.
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Wilbur Underhill
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Tri-State
Missouri
Oklahoma
Shawnee
Oklo
Mcalester
Okla
Southwest
Desperado
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Desperados
Joplin
Almira Underhill
Kansas City
Wilbur
Shawnee Hospital
United States Bureau of Investigation
Washington
Underhill
Kansas City Union Station Plaza
Frank Nash
Nash
Sam Brown
State's
Slater
Law
Norther Sends Mercury Down Across Texas
A brisk norther chilled Texas Sunday with lows near freezing in several cities. El Paso reached 25 degrees as clear skies persisted, Wichita Falls logged 32, and Dallas Fort Worth saw readings down to 37. Electra endured a sandstorm followed by a norther driving temperatures to 36 all day. Frost and cold air were forecast for Houston as Georgetown reported a strong north wind.
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Associated Prensa
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Fl Paso
Wichita Falls
Fort Worth
Dallas
Houston
Electra
Georgetown
May Resume Relief Distribution Today
AUSTIN Jan 7 Lawrence Westbrook director of the Texas Relief Commission said relief distribution in Texas would be resumed tomorrow or Tuesday after $1,148,000 is deposited in the state treasury. Checks prepared will be mailed to county administrators as soon as official notice is received. The first of State relief bonds and bids for remaining bonds are noted with $1,602,000 to be bid January 22. Federal decisions may allow Texas beef canning plants to continue, with $1,000,000 requested to support the activity.
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Austin
Lawrence Westbrook
Texas Relief Commission
Texas
Westbrook
Texas Bond Commission
Texas Commission
Outlaw Elmer Inman Captured After Bowlega Raid
Seminole Oklahoma January 7 Elmer Inman tied to the Terrill gang escaped a Bem inole posse during a midnight raid on a rooming house but was wounded and captured after Wilbur Underhill called tri state terror died in McAlester prison hospital last night.
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Seminole
Okla
Wilbur Underhill
Tri State
Oklahoma
McAlester Penitentiary
Elmer Inman
Bow~ Lega
Inman
Ray Terrill
Terrill
Desperate fugitive Elmer Inman’s tangled past revealed
Seminole Oklahoma reports Elmer Inman wounded and captured near Bowlegs. He rose to prominence in 1921 by marrying Lavona Codding daughter of Kansas penitentiary warden J K Codding while on parole for a $7000 jewelry store robbery. The couple eloped to Holdenville and she later divorced him. He was rumored to be a jeweler in Arkansas City and to have faked his own store robbery.
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Seminole
Okla
Elmer Inman
Holdenville
Tulsa
Inman
Arkansas City
Kan
Capture sequences and injuries reported in Seminole pursuit
Doctors warned he might lose sight in one eye after a chase that ended with a capture of Grace Cunningham a Seminole figure. a second assailant broke from the posse at Seminole and remains unidentified. Lena Nichols, sister of Eva Mae Nichols fatally wounded when Underhill was captured at Shawnee eight days earlier.
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Chase
Grace Cunningham
Seminole
Lena Nichols
Eva Mae Nichols
Underhill
Shawnee
Osmoscope: Harvard Invents Mechanical Nose for Smelling Water
Cambridge Massachusetts January 7 A new device named the osmoscope attaches to the nose as a smell meter to detect impurities in drinking water. Developed at Harvard by Gordon M Fair and tested with Hackensack Water Co. it uses a mercury piston to push odoriferous air through a purified air system. The device promises to reveal odors far earlier than chemical analysis and reduces fatigue in olfactory sensing.
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Cambridge
Masa
Harvard University
Nicholas S. Hill, Jr
Hackensack (N. J.) Water Company
Gordon M. Fair
Sanitary Engineering
Harvard
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