G-Men Admit Seeking More Than One in Kidnap Plot
Federal authorities indicate more than one person may be involved in the kidnap and murder of 10 year old Charles Mattson. An impounded Everett car with possible woman occupant yielded bloodstains and clues. A John Doe warrant charges kidnaping mail extortion and conspiracy arising from two or more participants.
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Associated Press
Tacoma
Wash
Charles Mattson
Everett
United States
J. Charles Dennis
John Doe
Kidnapping Suspects Searched Across West and West Coast
Police question suspects from San Diego to Seattle while San Rafael and Portland see crowd reactions. A Tacoma boy Charles Mattson, 10, remains missing with investigators finding bloodstained clothing and a sack in a shack near the scene. State patrols move to examine a heavy knife found near the search HQ as hopes fade.
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Far West
San Diego
Sacramento
Portland
San Rafael
Seattle
Chico
Calif
Santa Rosa
DeForrest Powers
Everett
Wash
Charles Mattson
Tacoma
Mother and child die after kerosene explosion
Mrs Henry Hillman 37 of Hooker and her three year old daughter Pauline died in a Liberal Kansas hospital from severe burns endured when she tried to speed a smoldering stove fire with kerosene. The blast sprayed flame over them as the room burned. The husband was away in Sunray Texas. Survived by son Eugene 12 and daughter Mrs Ralph Cutter.
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Guymon
Henry Hillman
Hooker
Pauline
Liberal
Kansas
Hillman
Sunray
Texas
Eugene
Ralph Cutter
Shreveport Hosts Baptist Sunday School Officers Conference
About 500 active participants from Louisiana churches attended the Associational Baptist Sunday School Officers Conference at First Baptist Church in Shreveport. Southern Baptist leaders were present. similar state meetings will occur across the South in 1917 as part of the Sunday School promotional plan.
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Shreveport
First Baptist Church
Associational Baptist Sunday School Officers
Louisiana
South
Waco
Texas
Insurgents Bomb Refugee Train Near Madrid
Valencia dispatch reports fascist insurgents bombed a Madrid refugee train injuring 40 of the six hundred aboard en route to safety. The engine and four coaches were blown off the tracks. A second freight train bombing near Vilcaes killed the engineer. Warplanes claimed a victory driving back insurgent transports at Estepona as ships retreated toward Ceuta.
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Valencia
Spain
Madrid
Ministry of Interior
Jaen
Vilcaes
Estepona
Malaga
Ceuta
Morocco
Madrid Faces Shortage With Ration Cuts In 1940s Era
Madrid reduced rations to olive oil beans and a small supply of basics as coal shortages persisted. Housewives queued for hours for soap while a food distribution commission expected relief from incoming supplies. Evacuations continued at a rapid pace.
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Madrid
Food Commission
Suspect Questioned in Slugging of Mrs Williams
Fort Worth January 14 a young negro suspect was being questioned by police today in the slugging attack on Mrs Wyema Williams 26 early Wednesday.
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Fort Worth
Wyema Williams
Texas lawmakers recess as four-month session looms
Austin Jan. 14 The Texas Legislature adjourned tonight until Monday while committees draft rules for the four-month session and plan the inaugurations of Governor Allred and Lieutenant Governor Woodul. House and Senate leaders prepare committee assignments and review requests for investigations into public relations spending by the Texas Sulphur Company and pension measures for the aged.
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Austin
Allred
Walter F. Woodul
Robert W. Calvert
Texas
Texas Sulphur Company
Harry N. Graves
Georgetown
Ben F. Cathey
Quitman
Greaves
Railroad Commission
G. C. Morris
Greenville
Gold theft suspect moved to Silver City from Sonora
Albert Marin, 28, was transferred by New Mexico authorities from Sonora to Silver City. He is charged with stealing $10,000 in gold bullion from the Fanny mine of the Black Hawk Consolidated Mines in Mogollon, NM, after allegedly robbing the company in August 1935 of four and a half bars. Deputy Cal Gilmer arrested Marin in Sonora where he worked as a miner. He has not disclosed disposal plans, and officials aim to recover more gold in the region.
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Ray
Ariz
New Mexico
Silver City
Albert Marin
Black Hawk Consolidated Mines, Inc
Mogollon
N. M
Marin
Cal Gilmer
Sonora
Gilmer
Allocation for Howland Island air base project
The Works Progress Administration announced a $3,061 allocation to begin an airport on Howland Island in the Pacific to establish a U S air base on the route between the United States, Australia and New Zealand. An official said $36,000 more had been earmarked for completion of the work.
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Washington
Works Progress Administration
Howland Island
Pacific
United States
Australia
New Zealand
American fliers who fought in Spanish war return home
Bert Acosta and Maj. Gordon Beery who served with Loyalists in Spain arrived in New York aboard the Paris and faced federal interviews. Subpenas were issued. they described training and bombing runs along the coast from Bilbao, with orders to avoid populated areas, and recounted hardship and one casualty among a Dutch crewman.
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U. S
New York
U.P
Bert Acosta
Maj
Gordon Beery
Spain
Price
Paris
John F. Dalley, Jr
Gregory R. Noonan
L. G. Turreu
Department of Justice
Col
Lewis Landes
Ener ‘Eters
Landes
U.S
Acosta
Berry
Roosevelt
Snow Delays Rescue of Party in Gold Range Region
Heavy tractor and truck plow through six feet of snow to reach a party of marooned miners about 125 miles north of Las Vegas. Rescuers move at three miles an hour amid heavy snowfall while a plane lights the route for medical aid to three ill persons in a snowbound cabin. Dr Roy Martin of Las Vegas and Lee Prettyman are part of the ground crew.
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Las Vegas
Gold Range
Here
Roy Martin
Lee Prettyman
Mussolini and Goering Discuss Common Front Against Communism
Rome reports Premier Mussolini and Col. Gen. Hermann Goering explored a tri power anti communism front with Britain and possibly France. Groundwork by Galeazzo Ciano cited. Italy and Germany pledged support to Spain’s Fascists if the civil war tips their way.
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Rome
Britain
France
Mussolini
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Germany
Galeazzo Ciano
Eric Drummond
Goering
Italy
Spain
Great Britain
Mediterranean
Il Duce
Laurel Housewife Missing After Cafe Abduction Report
A Laurel Mississippi woman, 36, is sought by police after her husband reported she and his partner vanished from an East Side cafe with his baggage and a trailer. He left them briefly to attend to business, then returned to find them missing. Authorities opened a search today.
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San Antonio
Laurel
Bonham Brakeman Killed by Tank Car Wheels
George Smith of Bonham Texas a Pacific brakeman was crushed to death when he fell under the wheels of a tank car while setting a brake. Witnesses said he became overbalanced as the heavy car moved.
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Paris
George Smith
Bonham, Texas
Pacific
Connery proposes seven member panel to probe radio monopoly
Washington January 14 the House Labor Committee chairman William P Connery Jr Democrat of Massachusetts introduced a resolution to appoint a seven man House committee to investigate charges of monopoly in the radio broadcasting field.
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Washington
William P. Connery, Jr
Massachusetts
House Labor Committee
House
Weather forecast for Amarillo and vicinity and surrounding region
Partly cloudy Friday with moderate to strong northerly winds. West Texas west of the 100th meridian reports Friday cloudiness and colder conditions in the southeast and central areas with livestock warnings in the northern portion. New Mexico shows generally fair Friday with colder conditions in the eastern portion. Temperature data for Amarillo yesterday shows morning readings and extreme values, with maximums and minimums noted.
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Amarillo
West Texas
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
Coenee
Wepsnee
Negro Slayer Faces Trial February 1
New York January 14 Major Greene a 33 year old Negro confessed to slaying Mary Robinson Case a Queens housewife He was indicted for first degree murder and pleaded innocent A 12 page confession described entering the apartment striking with a hammer throttling and placing the body in the bathtub The crowd outside urged Lynch him as police led him away after arraignment with trial set for February 1 The death penalty awaits conviction
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New York
Major Greene
Long Island City
Queens
Queens County Grand Jury
Charles P. Sullivan
Sullivan
Greene
Second Victim of Collision Dies Near Whitesboro
Gainesville reports Jesse Aaron 41 of the Viars community near Whitsboro died today as the second fatality in a fog bound auto-truck crash yesterday. James Aaron 55 was killed when the truck trailer overturned on their small coupe. Earl Hestand was injured with a fractured leg and bruises. Claude Aaron escaped with slight injuries. J D Ashley driver and a young black boy jumped to safety.
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Gainesville
Jesse Aaron
Viars
Whitsboro
Whitesboro
James Aaron
Earl Hestand
Claude Aaron
J.D. Ashley
Woman Burned in Home Blast in Houston
A 28 year old woman, Mrs Opal Foster, was critically burned when a blast ripped through her Houston home early today. Firefighters say the roof caved in and debris pinned her bed while flames spread to bed clothing. Neighbors J T Weaver Walter G Jones and P Miller rescued her as hospital patients were awakened half a block away.
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Houston
U.P
Opal Foster
Gas Masks for Babies Perfected as Newest Defense for London
London reports a baby size gas mask developed as part of Britain’s home defense program. Geoffrey Lloyd announced 30,000,000 masks to be distributed free in 1937 as food reserves and civil defense efforts aim to shield the nation from air raids and supply shocks by 1939. Russia may invite foreign engineers to accelerate automobile output, seeking to avert industrial lag and potential war risks.
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Moscow
Russia
Gorky
Pravda
London
Great Britain
Britain
Geoffrey Lloyd
Home Office
England
Man Convicted In Old Cattle Theft
E. A. Grady was convicted by a district court jury in Garden City Kansas on a nine year old cattle stealing charge. He was arrested in Oklahoma last April after two prior hung juries. His attorneys have given notice of appeal to the Supreme Court.
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Garden City
Kas
E. A. Grady
Grady
Oklahoma
Supreme Court
Freshmen at Ohio State Defend Love as Aid to Grades
Ohio State University freshmen dismissed Dean Reeder’s claim that love affairs hurt academic success. In a poll of 20 freshmen, only two agreed with the dean. They cited studying with girlfriends and even romantic presence as beneficial, while one student blamed candying and cutting class for failures.
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Columbus
Ohio State University
Charles W. Reeder
Roland
David Hilton
Hillsboro
Ohio
Dean Reeder
Hilton
Civil rights breaches recounted by Gelders in Senate hearing
Joseph Gelders, ex University of Alabama faculty member, testified to the LaFollette Senate Civil Liberties Committee from Washington about violent civil rights violations in the Deep South. He described setting up headquarters in Birmingham in 1936 for the National Committee for Defense of Political Prisoners after suffering a beating.
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Washington
U.P
Joseph Gelders
University of Alabama
LaFollette Senate Civil Liberties Committee
Old South
Gelders
Birmingham
Ala
National Committee For Defense of
Alabama University
Scotty Depicted as Broke by Partner
Los Angeles January 14 The Death Valley Scotty is broke and lacks title to the car he drives, says his partner Albert M Johnson I dont know of any property he owns and he owes a lot of money Johnson declares He is in Kingman Arizona leading a parade or jubilee and allegedly claimed a 1.5 million dollar loan from me over 30 years
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Los Angeles
Death Valley
Alabama Upholds Social Security Act ruling
Federal Judge David J. Davis of the Northern Alabama District Court denied Alabama firms’ bid to enjoin the collection of the compensation insurance tax on employers under the Social Security Act. The ruling defended the act’s constitutionality in detail.
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Birmingham. Ala
David J. Davis
Northern
Alabama District Court
Alabama
Collector of
Internal Revenue
Panhandle group seeks 25 thousand funding for a regional authority
Panhandle conservationists completed groundwork for a large water impounding program in West Texas and moved to seek legislative support. They want the Texas Legislature to create a Panhandle Authority similar to the Central Colorado River Authority. A draft bill will be prepared by a committee led by County Judge Wilson Cowen to gain federal recognition and advance objectives through Washington. The group also seeks a $25,000 appropriation to carry on work, with similar asks planned by New Mexico counties.
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Vance Johnson
Panhandle
New Mexico
Wilson Cowen
Dalhart
Dan Ethridge
Friona
W. A. Warren
Canyon
J. R. Porter
Clarandon
Noel McDade
Dumas
Pete Smith
Plainview
Small
Cowen
Clint ©. Small
John McCarty
Roosevelt, Curry
Quay
Panhandle Group
McCarty
Progress Seen In Strike Talks Across Auto Glass Disputes
Reports from union talks indicate progress in two major national strikes. Secretary of Labor Perkins cites real progress toward ending the automotive stalemate and Flat Glass deadlock. Talks continue in Lansing, Michigan with Gov Murphy and GM executives including William Knudsen and Homer Martin.
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Perkins
Lansing
Mich
Frank Murphy
Michigan
General Motors
William S. Knudsen
Homer Martin
Big Bend National Park Proposed to Protect Endangered Wildlife
Dr W B McDougall of the national park service told the Oklahoma A and M short course that creating Big Bend National Park in Texas would safeguard wildlife species at risk of extinction. He cited the Texas peccary Mexican black bear Mearns quail and the Colima Warbler found only in the Chisos Mountains, whose entire range would lie within the park.
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Stillwater
Okla
W. B. McDougall
National Park Service Wildlife Authority
Big Bend National Park
Texas
Oklahoma A. & ML College
McDougal
Texas Park
Colima
United States
Chisos Mountains
Chisos Range
Arabs Reject Balfour Plan for Jewish State
Jeru salem January 14 Arabs reject the Balfour proposal to convert Palestine into a national home for Jews. Arab central committee spokesmen say Palestine is their own country and refuse to surrender any land. Uni Bey Abdul Hadi asserts the committee’s view before the royal commission, and the Arabs decline round table talks with Jewish representatives.
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Jerusalem
W.pj
Holly Land
Arab Central Committee
Palestine
Uni Bey Abdul Hadi
Royal Commission
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Arizona
Ashurst
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Frank W. Case
Auto
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Edward F. McGrady
Ohio State
Scotty
The
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