Donnelly Nemesis in Extortion Case and Kidnap Drama
Kansas City report details Mrs. Nell Q. Donnelly's battles with extortion threats after Henry J. Thomas received a five year term for blackmail. A kidnap plot tied to a $75,000 ransom left Donnelly and her chauffeur imprisoned over 30 hours before release. Sentences include Martin Deputy and Walter Werner for life terms and Charles Mele for 35 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Nell Q. Donnelly
Henry J. Thomas
State Penitentiary
Jess
Escapee Glenn Smeeman seeks clemency in Colorado
Glenn Smeeman the Colorado convict who escaped in 1918 appeared before Governor Johnson seeking a pardon after returning from Cleveland where he ran a music publishing business. He faces a two year Missouri auto theft sentence if pardoned and would be sent to Jefferson City if handed over.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Colorado
Glenn Smeeman
Cleveland
Ohio
E. C. Johnson
Smeeman
St.ouis
F. E. Dickerson
Oad
St. Louis
Margaret Smeeman
Canon City
Johnson
Roy Best
Board of Corrections
Missouri City
Missouri
Jefferson City Penitentiary
Olton Bank Robbery Trial Jury Selected
Plainview January 23 selection of a jury was completed to try Jack Sullivan for robbing the Olton State Bank on July 15 1932. Testimony was expected to begin the next day. Sullivan was wounded in a shooting with officers at Mountain Air New Mexico on September 13 and later recaptured after a hospital ward escape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plainview
Jack Sullivan
Olton
Sullivan
Mountain Air
N. M
Lubbock
Vernon
Japanese Diet hears warning on arms race and war risk
Ashida of the Seiyukai party told the Diet that worsening U S relations could spark renewed armament competition and possibly world war. Uchida denied unease while Araki defended army influence, saying policy follows public will and army guidance.
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Tokyo
Japan
Diet
United States
Hitoshi Ashida
Seiyukai Party
Ashida
Jury Obtained in Drowning Trial at Lake Trammel
A jury was completed late today to try L. M. Parks on a murder charge for the drowning of his wife at Lake Trammel near Sweetwater last July 8. Testimony will begin tomorrow morning. Mrs. Parks was drowned during an outing with their two children. he claimed he tried to save her.
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Sweetwater
L. M. Parks
Lake Trammel
Congress
George Norris
Nebraska
Senate
Mailman on Bond in Embezzlement Case
B F Day a 44 year old letter carrier at Port Arthur for 12 years is free on 500 bond set by U S commissioner J B Morris after pleading guilty to embezzlement. The case goes to the federal grand jury meeting in March in Beaumont.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Arthour
B. F. Day
Liberty
J. B. Morris
United States
Day
Morris
Beaumont
Federal Grand Jury
Chamber of Commerce Opens Membership Campaign
Amarillo officials announce the new chamber of commerce kickoff after a breakfast at the Red Room of the Amarillo Hotel. Five dollar memberships fund the body through 1933 as civic boosters push for broad city support and regional trade growth. Continued details in Page 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Amarillo
Red
Chamber
Board of City Development
New Chamber of Commerce
Goodnight Trail Named for Palo Duro Scenic Route
In Texas the House adopts a resolution to create a scenic highway from Canyon through Palo Duro Canyon to the Goodnight Ranch. It would be named the Goodnight Trail in honor of cattleman Charles Goodnight. Amarillo representative H K Stanfield introduced the measure.
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Austin
Canyon
Palo Duro Canyon
Goodnight Ranch
Charles Goodnight
Texas
Texas House of Representatives
Goodnight
H. K. Stanfield
Amarillo
Phebe K. Warner
Claude
Brown Wren
Panhandle
Palo Duro Park
J. O. Gulekie
Panhandle Plains Historical Society Museum
West Texas State Teachers College
Stanfield Proposes Gas Law Change on Hydrogen Sulphide
Rep Stanfield of Amarillo introduced a bill to exempt hydrogen sulphide gas from current law and allow its use for non lighting fuel purposes up to 25 percent of well open flow. Reps Rogers Ochiltree and Puryear Wellington joined in the filing in Austin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Stanfield
Amarillo
Rogers
Ochiltree and
Puryear
Wellington
Galsworthy In Critical Condition At Hampstead Home
John Galsworthy British novelist and Nobel Prize winner is gravely ill at his Hampstead home with anemia following a heavy cold. Doctors report his condition causing grave concern.
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London
John Galsworthy
Galsworthy
Hampstead
Trapped Driver Drowns After Truck Skids Into Ditch
Frank Hairrell, 20, of Gause, drowned when a truck overturned on Highway 43 and toppled into a roadside ditch. He was pinned beneath the vehicle in two feet of water and died before aid arrived. Hairrell was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Will Hairrell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hearne
Tex
Frank Hairrell
Hairrell
Will Hairyell
Gause
Compromise Advances Farm Credit Bill For 1933 Crops
Washington January 23 The farm credit bill moves toward early enactment with a $90 million allocation from Reconstruction Finance funds to aid farmers in producing and harvest ing the 1933 crop. The conference report preserves a House provision allowing the agriculture secretary to require borrowers to curtail production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
BR. F. C
Reconstruction Corporation
Secretary of Agriculture
Senate
House
Robber Loots Texas Christian University Cash Drawer
At Texas Christian University in Fort Worth a thief hidden in the office robbed the cash drawer of 327.05 while two companions watched entrances. Cashier L. A. Dunnegan and assistant Ruth Williams found silver scattered on the floor when they returned from lunch and believe the intruder slipped inside the administration building, then joined accomplices outside after unlocking the door.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Texas Christian University
L. A. Dunnegan
Ruth Williams
Missouri Treaty Ends Lame Duck Era with 20th Amendment
After a decade of effort the United States adopted the 20th Amendment, shifting presidential and congressional terms to start in January following elections. Missouri completed ratification as the 36th state, sealing the change though it takes effect October 15. The reform ends long sessions and reduces lame duck periods, signaling a new era in national governance.
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Washington
United States
Congress
Union
Missouri
Missouri Senate
Massachusetts
Secretary of State
Franklin D. Roosevelt
White House
Man jailed on charge of stealing car radiator caps
Ray Smith about 40 was jailed last night on a theft under 50 charge. Night Police Captain P G Burnham and Deputy Sheriff Albert Bivins arrested him near the Herring Hotel around 8 30 after a tip that a man was stealing radiator caps from cars parked there. Four caps were found in his possession. Complaint signed by Capt. Burnham.
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Ray Smith
Smith
P. G. Burnham
Albert Bivins
Herring Hotel
Capt
Burnham
Swisher Sheriff Killed in Battle With Bandit Trio
Panhandle peace officers pursue a bandit trio after the fatal shooting of Swisher County Sheriff John C. Moseley 49, who was gunned down at close range in Tulia while seated. The case follows an early morning slaying that sparked a major manhunt and intensified patrols.
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Swisher
Tulia
the Panhandle
John C. Moseley
Swisher County
Moseley
Bandit Slaying of Sheriff Moseley Sparks $500 Reward
Swisher County will post a $500 reward for the arrest of Sheriff John C. Moseley’s slayer after a running gun battle on Tulsa Main Street. Three bandits fled the scene, one possibly a woman, with car fuelled at a service station by Floyd Ward. Deputies and city officers, aided by residents, chased leads as descriptions remained meager and investigators pieced together the fatal shooting.
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Tulsa
Swisher County Commission
John C. Moseley
B. C. McCasland
Swisher County
Floyd
Jake” Ward
F. O. Goen
Happy
Moseley
Bob Gazzaway
Ward
Gazzaway
L. G. McDonald
Young Ward
McDonald
Dick Robb
W. W. Spiller
Zack Griasson
Clarence Stewart
Finis Goen
Swede jumps from moving Pullman to elude marshals
Stanley Anderson known as the Swede a Louis underworld figure hurled himself through a plate glass window of a speeding Pullman car and escaped two U S marshals en route to a murder charge. He vanished at about 40 mph. cap found beside the tracks and a witness saw a man answering his description leave. Authorities suspect a prearranged Confederate plot. The case is tied to the two year old disappearance of Louis Cheramie with bones later found in the Mississippi River but not identified.
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New Orleans
Stanley Anderson
Bt. Louis
United States
Anderson
Baton Rouge
Louis Cheramie
Thomas Kehoe
Cheramie
Donaldsonville
Mississippi River
Kehoe
Senators Forge Early Session for Glass Banking Bill
The Senate recessed to meet earlier and possibly stay until 10 PM to push final disposition of the Glass banking bill. Senator Glass urged a night session but progress led to postponement. Senator Long eased filibuster as the branch bank provision neared nullification and remarked on getting down to business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Glass
Long
Tulia Lawyer-Sleuth Pursues Sheriff Moseley Slayers
Dennis Zimmerman, Tulia’s lawyer-detective famed for solving the Robert Blake case, hunts the Moseley slayers after Fred Conner’s highway killing near Tulsa on July 17, 1925. He vows to catch those who murdered the sheriff, saying good citizens cannot let thugs shoot officers in cold blood.
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Tulia
Dennis Zimmerman
Robert Blake
John C. Moseley
Zimmerman
Blake
Huntsville
John Wexley
Fred Conner
Conner
Moseley
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U.S
Mili
Tary
Setykaian
U. S
Seiyukai
Sadao Araki
Manchuria
Uchida
Foreign Office
Araki
Sheriff Moseley
F. O. Geer
Columbia University Group
Scott
New York
Walter Rautenstrauch
Technocracy
Columbia University
Howard Scott
Coumbia
Basset Jones
Frederick L. Ackerman
Leon Henderson
Columbia
Rautenstrauch
West Texas
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
Yeseteigh
Senate Agriculture Committee
TC. U. Till
TRIO
Man
Hartman Wardoes Trunk
Pullman
Underworld
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