Tack Returns Home With Family In Ill Health
The column notes Tack is back in town with both parents very ill. His father recently suffered a brain bleed with a clot. Mrs. Roosevelt will visit in March for lectures at the city auditorium and Lubbock with a $3000 contract for both talks. The Tri-State Fair plans additions including a circus and a large rodeo in North Texas.
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Tack
Mrs. Roosevelt
Rille
Dover
City Auditorium
Lubbock
Tri-State
Muder
Ted Tavier
Mason King
Danre
Texas
Styles Hytes From Page One
The report describes an exotic fashion show keynote with outfits and hats including Fool-Yash Virgin and Suppressed Despire. Hats shaped like high heeled shoes hang upside down, and embroidered pockets resemble Cupid bows. Bright riotous colors, straight day silhouettes, and a bold tube dress are noted along with a red wool trouser ensemble and lame jacket.
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Cupid
Hollywood Cat Sacrifices Life to Save Kittens from Snake
In Hollywood near the studios, a Persian cat named Pooka shielded her three kittens from a three-foot rattler. The cat attacked the snake, was struck on the head, and later died after police killed the snake. Actress Yvonne Pelletier witnessed the event and reported the battle.
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Hollywood
Motion Picture Studios
Yvonne Pelletier
Miss Pelletier
Pooka
Japanese Forces Advance Toward Chinese Positions Near Peiping
Japanese moves toward Chahar threaten Chinese positions around Peiping as 35 tanks and artillery march to Tungchow. American photographers Sheridan and Sacks report being assaulted while filming the parade. U.S. consul warns Americans to evacuate Southern Hopes province amid conflicting reports of fighting. Meanwhile Texas highway officials allocate 1.6 million dollars for state road maintenance for 1937-38.
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Chahar
Peiping
United States
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Sheridan
Fanhnestock
New York
New York Herald-Tribune
Pekin Hotels
Mra
Jay Sacks
Associated Press
Hopes
Koon
Seeking Work After Long Marriage in Need of Aid
A distressed letter asks for assistance in Los Angeles area. The writer, a 14 year old married woman with two children, seeks employment and help after years of domestic life. She claims experience in filling station work and requests support.
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Tack
Tam
One Man Killed and Score Hurt in Blast
A blast at a brake lining plant in Paterson New Jersey killed one worker named John Loughrey and injured about two dozen others. The explosion demolished a 11 2 story World Restos Corporation building shaking nearby houses. Some injuries were reported critical as the blast likely started in a gas oven in the moulding department.
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John Loughrey
World Restos Corporation
Emilie Dionne Shows Recovery From Mild Illness
Dr. Allan Roy DaFoe said Emilie Dionne, middle child of the quints, is on the way to recovery from a mild upper respiratory infection. She has been isolated at the DaFoe Nursery and is expected to rejoin her sisters by next Monday. No comment on visit restrictions was available.
Hoover urges re election of opponents of court plan
Former President Hoover calls for vigorous support in 1938 for Senators and Congressmen who opposed Roosevelt’s Supreme Court plan. He asks campaigns to seek candidates’ views on the plan, urging both parties to back opposition.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Herbert Hoover
Roosevelt
Senate
House
Mooney in Serious Condition at San Quentin Hospital
Thomas J. Mooney, labor leader serving a life term for the 1916 Preparedness Day bombing, was reported in a serious condition at San Quentin prison hospital with a gall bladder infection. Doctors said no immediate operation would be performed.
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Mooney
San Quentin
Cal
Thomas J. Mooney
San Francisco
Leo L. Stanley
Loyalists gain Rudilla and claim major advance north of Teruel
Spanish forces report capturing Rudilla near Teruel with prisoners and war materiel amid savage fighting as Loyalists and Moors clash hand to hand. Despite limited gains, Nationalist aims to cripple Madrid Valencia links persist. On the Catalonian front, Loyalists claim the greatest advance since the war began north of Teruel.
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Rudilla
Teruel
Madrid-Valencia
Wages Hours Bill Delayed for Week
Speaker Bankhead announced the wages-hours bill would be delayed until late next week as House leaders revise the program. The Wagner Steagall housing bill is now slated for floor action ahead of the wages hours measure with rules committee meeting Wednesday to set a rule for bringing it to the floor.
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Washington
William B. Bankhead
House
Bankhead
House Rules Committee
It Was a Full-Grown Mule and No Donkey, Says Scotty
Hollywood gossip reports Walter Scotty, in town on crutches, insisting a full grown mule caused his injuries rather than a donkey, despite rumors. He contrasted his statement with his sharp, defiant mood and claimed the incident was not the work of a donkey.
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Scotty
Hollywood
Walter
Death Valley
Roosevelt Signs Cancer Institute Bill in Senate Presence
In Washington President Roosevelt signed a bill authorizing a government funded cancer research institute with a $750 000 allocation. The ceremony took place with Sen Homer T Bone of Washington attending.
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Washington
U.P
Homer T. Bone
Roosevelt
Marion Talley to Return Home After Appendectomy
Los Angeles reports Marion Talley recovering from an appendectomy and planning to travel to Kansas within a few days. She will come back next month to resume her radio work.
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Los Angeles
Marion Talley
Kansas
Air conditioning cows in Nebraska barns
Fremont, Neb. farmers combat summer heat with mechanical cooling. Dan V. Stephens has installed a four-town air conditioning unit in his dairy barn at The Cottonwoods, showing one farmer’s adaption to 100 degree summers.
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Fremont
Neb
Nebraska
Dan V. Stephens
Cottonwoods
Brief Romance Sparks Divorce Suit in Pittsburgh Court
A short romance lasting 11 days led Dorothy Moore Davidson to sue for divorce from Philip James Davidson heir to a million dollars. Married in 1935 she obtained a £300 monthly maintenance order last fall and now seeks final divorce in Pittsburgh courts.
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Dorothy Moore Davidson
Pittsburgh
Philip James Davidson
Mrs Will Winch Critically Ill In El Paso Hospital
Friends report Mrs Will Winch of El Paso collapsed after a stroke last week and remains in critical condition. Her husband, former theater manager, wrote Mayor Rogers that she showed slight improvement since admission to a local hospital.
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Will Winch
el Paso
Stoop Shouldered Albert Dyer On Trial For Slayings
Albert Dyer a stoop shouldered school crossing guard goes on trial for the murder of three Inglewood girls. William Simpson chief deputy district attorney will seek the death penalty and is prepared to offer Dyer's confession to the attacks and killings.
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Los Angeles
Albert Dyer
Inglewood
William Simpson
Dyer
Able-Bodied Cotton Pickers Removed From Relief Roles
Administrator Adam R. Johnson ordered all able-bodied workers capable of picking cotton off the Texas relief rolls to fill a shortage of pickers in South Texas. About 50,000 cases on relief rolls receive surplus commodities and are eligible for WPA work. removal denies them WPA jobs.
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Austin
Adam R. Johnson
Texas
Duchess of Windsor Helps Warfield Village School Fund
The Duchess of Windsor sent a £5 ($25) check to Warfield England toward a village school fund. Rev J T Parfitt announced the gift after a prior appeal for £500 ($2,500) and disclosed the duchess’s claimed descent from Richard Warfield who left the village for America in 1662.
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Warfield
England
U.P
Duchess of Windsor
J. T. Parfitt
Wallis Warfield Simpson
Richard Warfield
America
Plymouth Plant Closure Prompts Labor Riot in Detroit
The Chrysler Corporation's Plymouth plant stayed closed awaiting settlement of union differences. Yesterday violence erupted as rival unions clashed injuring ten workers and prompting a police riot call.
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Plymouth
Detroit
Chrysler Corporation
Janitor Accused of Extorting From Putnam Publisher
A Bronx janitor, Wilber Rothar, 42, was held on $20,000 bail for allegedly trying to extort $2,000 from George Palmer Putnam, publisher and Amelia Earhart’s husband. Rothar claimed to have found the missing aviatrix in the mid Pacific and to be holding her aboard an arms smuggling ship.
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New York
Bronx
Wilber Rothar
George Palmer Putnam
Amelia Earhart
Avitarix
mid-Pacific
Sugar Bloc Will Defy Roosevelt Defy Sugar Block Veto Stand
Sugar bloc leaders in Congress agreed to push ahead with sugar control legislation despite President Roosevelt indicating a veto. About 50 representatives and senators from sugar producing states supported the measure, which was set for House debate. The administration objects to refined sugar import limits on Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
Coffee
Nebraska
Jones
Amarillo
House Agriculture Committee
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
Couldn't Hit a Deer in Four Shots but Got Lion With One
Sacramento reports Joseph Correy, a deer hunter, missed four shots at a buck but killed a mountain lion with a single shot as the animal crouched to attack. He brought the lion to game officials and claimed a $30 bounty.
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Sacramento
Calif
U.P
Joseph Correy
Correy
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