Search for Thelma Todd's mysterious San Francisco gentleman
Authorities intensified a search for Thelma Todd's claimed financier from San Francisco linked to a "marvelous romance" before her death by carbon monoxide. The inquiry also focuses on Rol and West and Pasquale de Cicco as possible witnesses.
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Los Angeles
Thelma Todd
San Francisco
California
Miss Todd
Ida Lupino
Roland West
Pasquale de Cicco
Grand Jury
Assassination Echoes Across Sino Japanese Ties
Major Rensuke Lisogai warned that Tang Yu Jenns death would strain China Japan relations. Nanking and Shanghai imposed martial law and banned gatherings. Chinese authorities moved to halt student protests and even damaged a railway section to block protests toward Nanking. Japanese embassies and police condemned the assassination and warned of anti Japanese sentiment while patrols tightened in Shanghai and Hongkew.
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Morris J. Harris
Associated Press
Shanghai
Rensuke Lisogai
Tang Yu-Jen
China
Japan
Nanking
Hankow
North China
Changchow
Tang
Wang Ching-Wei
Wang
Hongkew
Chapei
Healy in Jail Over Christmas Fire Charge
Los Angeles December 26 dispatch reports Ted Healy the film comedian faced arrest for arson after a Christmas Eve incident in a hotel room, leading to a habeas corpus hearing and $1000 bail. Healy claimed memory gaps and blamed a row that sparked the event.
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Los Angeles
Ted Healy
Borah to Make Strong Fight in Presidential Nominations
Washington dispatch reports supporters of Senator William E Borah expect a vigorous campaign leading into the Cleveland convention. With 482 delegates at stake in 14 primaries the bloc could influence the nomination. Borah has not disclosed campaign tactics or candidacy, with a New Hampshire decision due by March 10. Col Frank Knox is among early front runners for the GOP nomination.
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William FE. Borah
Washington
U.P
William E. Borah
Cleveland
Borah
New Hampshire
Col
Frank Knox
Chicago
Knox
Former Arkansas Governor Charles H. Brought Dies at 59
Charles H. Brought, former governor of Arkansas and World War governor, died at his Washington home at age 59. His wife said death resulted from angina pectoris. A Mississippi native, he taught at the state university before moving to Arkansas, where his students elected him governor in 1917.
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Washington
Charles H. Brought
Arkansas
Brought
Mississippi
Wrong Driving and Traffic Safety Reminders
Public notice urges citizens to observe traffic rules and notes penalties for speeding in Amarillo. Includes brief references to arrests fines overtime parking and a mock savings offer from Winter Oils and a real estate loan and lumber firm presence.
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Amarillo
Leaders Agree Corner Turned
New York reports indicate strong Christmas shopping with 10 percent higher sales than last year and 20 percent more than two years ago aided by employment gains and government charity. Austin notes 1 percent December employment rise and 8.1 percent pay increase over 1934. National advertisers plan big prewar style campaigns with 25 percent boosting newspaper budgets.
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New York
U.P
United States
May Herald
Nationa Retail Dry Goods Association
Federal Reserve Banks
Austin
Santa Claus
Bureau of Business Research
University of Texas
Chicago
St. Louis
Printers Ink
Nation selects Americans deserving applause of country
The Nation named 28 Americans praised for intelligence courage and public service. Cordell Hull Hugo L Black Ernest Lundeen Maury Maverick Vito Marcantonio ACLU Howard Kester Tom Burke Frank Porter Graham Arthur C Lane Farle M Winslow John L Lewis John A Clark Jeremiah T Mahoney and others cited for leadership civil rights and labor in a year-end roundup.
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New York
U.P
the Nation
Cordell Hull
Hugo L. Black
Alabama
Ernest Lundeen
Minnesota
Maury Maverick
Texas
Vito Marcantonio
American Civil Liberties Union
Howard Kester
Southern Tenant Farmers Union
Tom Burke
Sharecropper’s
Frank Porter Graham
University of North Carolina
Arthur C. Lane
Tufts College
Farle M. Winslow
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization of the
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John A. Clark
de Kalb
Miss
Jeremiah T. Mahoney
War and Money Amid Global Tensions in 1935
Arthur Brisbane notes Britain expands army and defenses in Egypt while Japan announces a 60 000 horsepower air carrier called Soryu warning England and America to shed pride. He urges the U S to build true defense and attack superiority as aircraft gains threaten carriers.
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Britain
Egypt
Japan
England
America
Amarillo Weather Forecast With Light Rain Likely
Partly cloudy to cloudy with possible light rain tonight and Friday. Warmer tonight with a low near 25. West Texas cloudy with occasional rain tonight and Friday, not as cold tonight, warmer Friday in the southeast. Unsettled tonight, warmer northeast Friday with generally fair conditions and temperature extremes from 19 to 30.
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Panhandle
Santa Claus
H. T. Collman
U. S. Weather Bureau
Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Death takes Er. Johnson a Panhandle cattle baron dies
Panhandle ranchmen and many friends in West Texas and New Mexico mourn the death of E F B Johnson at his Norman Oklahoma home. He was 73 and died of a heart attack yesterday morning. Funeral services are set for 2 pm tomorrow with burial in Norman. Surviving sons M T Hap Johnson and E B Johnson Jr live in local ranches. two more sons Neil R Johnson and Graham B Johnson reside in Norman along with four daughters Mrs Phil Kidd Mrs Carl Giles and others.
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Indianapolis
Theodore Hagerman
Ray Moutscha
Evansville
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Grace
Ovenden
F. FE
Newcastle
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Iowa
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Omaha
Neb
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J. Cc. Crowthers
Frankling
Tenn
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Georgia
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New Mexico
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Norman, Okla
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Norman
Amarillo
M. T
Hap” Johnson
Hutchinson County
E. B. Johnson, Jr
Gray County
Neil R. Johnson
Graham B. Johnson
Phil Kidd
Carl Giles
Roy
Two WPA Street Projects Start Friday in City Plan
City announces two of five units in a $65,000 WPA street improvement program will begin Friday morning. Project employs 32 workers initially, rising to about 50 in two weeks, with work on pavement of leave outs caliche streets and blocks of new paving funded by federal aid and labor provided through the National Re employment Service.
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H. R. Smith
National
Earthquake Reports Rise in Szechuan China Death Toll Likely Thousands
Reports from Chengtu describe villages swept from mountain sides in southern Szechuan after the December 18 quake. Communications are shattered and exact damage unclear but authorities fear thousands dead as Lolo villages and forts near mountain peaks are hurled into valleys. Communities of 100 families and more were destroyed.
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Chengtu
Szechuan
China
Roosevelt Focuses On Annual Message In Quiet White House
President Roosevelt uses after holiday calm to work on his annual message to Congress. He stays in the White House, concentrating on the address and his mail rather than leaving for the executive office.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Congress
White House
Reprieve for Bruno Not Contemplated by Hoffman at Present
Governor Hoffman’s press representative stated he currently has no plan to grant a reprieve for Bruno Hauptmann if the pardon court does not grant clemency. The denial follows reports of a possible 30 day stay of execution and reflects prior statements that such reports were unauthorized.
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Hoffman
Trenton
N. J
Harold G. Hoffman
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Court of Pardons
Hauptmann
William Conklin
State House
Birth of Quintuplets Reported in Nicaragua
Managua reports the birth of quintuplets to Timoteo and Senora Laines of Sabana Grande Matagalpa. Three boys and two girls are in perfect health, though medical officials note Nicaragua's high infant death rate, especially in remote Matagalpa where communications are limited.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Senor
Senora Timoteo Laines
Sabana Grande
Matagalpa
Matgalpa
Italian Plane Shot Down Near Daggah Bur
Addis Ababa reports indicate an Italian reconnaissance plane was shot down at Daggah Bur during a two aircraft mission. The pilot, not identified, was reportedly beheaded on the ground. Separately five Ethiopians were killed and six wounded in a Christmas Day clash with Danakil forces allied to Italy.
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Albert W. Wilson
Addis Ababa
Daggah Bur
Earth
Harar
Rome
Danakil
Takkaze
Somaliland
Dawa Parma
Ganale Doria
Dolo
Italian Somaliland
Ethiopia
Dmitri Kirkiakoulaktis
Joseff Hinterzatz
Ladislas Pharago
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