20000 Nippons Rushed To Aid New Drive
Shanghai dispatch reports 20000 Japanese cavalry and artillerymen moving from Peiping-Hankow and Shansi fronts to bolster a 60,000 strong drive toward Lunghai rail line amid sleet snow and Chinese resistance. Japanese aim to join at Suchow while Chinese counter moves slow. Doihara heads Shanghai civil control plans as arms found in Nanking refugee zone.
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Shanghai
Shantung Province
Peiping-Hankow
Shansi Province
Lunghai
China
Suchow
Kiangsu
Sunghai
Tientsin-Pukow
Wuhu
Yangtze River
Nanking
Hangchow
Kenji Doihara
Tce
International Relief Committee
Autonomous Commission
Mokanshan
Barbara Parker Gains Return to Reform School
In Tulsa on January 21, 1930s era court action, 14 year old Barbara Parker won a county court ruling to return to the state girls industrial school at Tecumseh after hitching back to the school. Judge Jerome Fischer ordered her sent back while noting potential future adjustment. Barbara described preferring the school for easier studies and friendly peers. Her father Ray E. Parker and stepmother supported custody and a Texas mother of the stepmother also sought custody.
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Tulsa
Okla
State Girls Industrial School
Tecumseh
Barbara Parker
Ray E. Parker
Barbara
J. R. Bankston
Buchanan Street
Amarillo
Texas
Jerome Fischer
Alexander Dumas
Benjamin Ward
A Girl From Another World In The Bay Of Balingong
An English girl named Christine Forrester sits under an awning on the Linkang as Dyak war drums resound and the jungles loom, blending two stark worlds in a tropic outpost between Borneo and Australia. The narrator recalls the moment she becomes vividly real amid battle cries and fragrant nipa.
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World
Bay of
Balingong
Siderong River
Asiatic
Borneo
Australia
Christine Forrester
Pacific
South Seas
Jury Deliberates Hugo Oil Conspiracy Case In Wisconsin
A jury of 12 farmers and small town businessmen retires to decide on 16 oil companies and 30 officials charged with price fixing under Sherman Act. Maximum penalties include fines up to 5000 dollars and one year in prison. The case centers on distress gasoline purchases in 1935 1936 and Chief Judge Stone instructs the jury that government action cannot authorize price raising. Clouds lift after rain snow and sleet fell over the Panhandle region as weather eased.
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Madison
Wis
Standard Oil Trust
Patrick T. Stone
Fred L. Koopman
Bartlesville
Okla
Phillips Petroleum Co
L. T. Cramer
Ponca City
Continental Oil Co
News Features Rearranged for Easier Reading
The newspaper announces changes to improve reader access. Dorothy Dix will appear daily on the society page. Two new backstage impressions features will run on the editorial page. Albert Payson Terhune's Calling All Dogs will appear irregularly. Markets appear daily except Sunday opposite editorials. Oil news starts Tuesday on pages two or three near the front. Readers are asked to bear with the reorganized layout.
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Dorothy Dix
Albert Peyson Terhune
Oil News
Two Found Dead in Huntington Park Cashing Shop
Police found J. W. Burke aged 52 and an unidentified man dead on the floor of Burke’s check cashing business in Huntington Park California. Chief A. P. Wilson said the theory is an attempted robbery ended with both men killed in a struggle.
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Huntington Park
Canf
J. W. Burke
A. P. Wilson
Burke
Navy Appropriation Passes With Navy Shipbuilding Boost
The House approved a 553 million naval appropriation strengthening shipbuilding. It funds two battleships and authorizes 20 new warships while continuing 174 ships underway. An amendment to suspend officers’ promotions was rejected 110 to 83.
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Washington
House
Senate
Scott
Vinson
House Naval Committee
Representative Fish
Roosevelt
Perryton Dinner Draws Hundreds at Chamber Banquet
Perryton held its 18th annual Chamber of Commerce and Lions Club banquet drawing 225 attendees from Perryton and nearby towns. Speaker John Sturgeon praised past work and urged progress ahead while Judge H. E. Hoover from Canadian offered reflections. Local leaders included Dr. Manse Wood as president and Sam Allison of Canadian as responder with delegations from Amarillo Canadian Booker Pampa Spearman Borger Gray Okla and Beaver Okla.
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Perryton
John Sturgeon
Pampa
Hoover
H. E. Hoover
Chamber of Commerce
Addison Cutter
Manse Wood
Sam Allison
Jack Allen
R. P. Hurn
Herb Schindler
Gene Lawrence
Lions Club
O. A. Bush
Amarillo
Booker
Spearman
Borger
Gray
Okla
Beaver
Smoke and Rain Halt Oil Fire at Wink
Fire near Wink threatened oil tanks holding over 500000 barrels of petroleum. An 80000 barrel tank exploded after a lightning strike but workers expected minimal risk of further spread as crews contained the blaze.
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Wink
Globe-News Want Ads Sell Remington Portable Typewriter
A maroon Remington portable typewriter, nearly new, is offered for 22 dollars and 50 cents. Contact Wells at 8283 8796 or dial 6262 to place or view Want Ad listings in the Globe-News.
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Globe-News
Remington
Dial
G Men Cite New Evidence Aiming at Anders Death Penalty
Federal agents tighten case against Peter Anders for the Ross murder and kidnaping. Anders allegedly attacked a Hoover aide during a woods chase near Spooner Wisconsin where the bodies of Charles Ross and James Atwood Gray were found. Coroner Dahl notes Ross died from a skull fracture while a hammer lay near the body.
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ST. Paul
Peter Anders
Charles 5. Ross
J. Edgar Hoover
al Nystrom
H. W. Dahl
Washburn County
Anders
Spooner
Wis
Ross
James Atwood Gray
Hoover
Nystrom
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Chicago
Gray
Dahl
Compromise Farm Measure Ready for Congressional Action
A compromise ever normal granary farm program will be ready for final action next week after House and Senate conferees bridged major differences. The plan creates enforcement and benefit schemes for five crops with quotas and storage loans to stabilize prices and aid compliant farmers. The budget appropriates 442 million dollars for the program starting July 1, with loan amounts undetermined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Senate
Congress
Smith
South Carolina
Senate Agriculture Committee
Britain probes Japan on secret ship building plans
London reports Britain instructed its Tokyo ambassador to verify claims that Japan is secretly building battleships over 35,000 tons. If confirmed, Britain could modify 1938 tonnage limits and potential 16 inch guns, affecting London Naval Treaty constraints shared with the United States and France.
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London
Great Britain
Tokyo
Japan
Admiralty
Britain
Robert Leslie Craigie
United States
France
Automobile leaders pledge cooperation with Roosevelt on credit limits
Top men of the auto industry met President Roosevelt to discuss restricting installment sales credit and stabilizing employment. Edsel Ford, Knudsen, Macauley attended. Chrysler’s delegates joined, with credit executives present. They urged against high pressure sales and expected a spring sales uptick while endorsing the president’s industry meeting concept.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
A. F E. Duncan
Commercial Credit Company
John J. Schumann, Jr
General Motors Acceptance Corporation
Henry Ittleson
Commercial Investment, Trust
Ernest Kanzler
Universal Credit Company
Macauley
Automobile Manufacturers Association
Ford
Hague Fights CIO in Jersey City Boss Showdown
Frank Hague, seven time mayor, faces the CIO in a defining struggle that could reshape the American labor movement. The veteran boss claims Stay Out and asserts control as he battles to keep influence from expanding in New Jersey politics.
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Jersey City
N. J
Frank Hague
Hague
CIO
New Jersey
Tom Pendergast
Kansas City
2Nd Ward
Hich
Grey
Jersey
East
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Hart
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Silverton
Sterley
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