Trio Held in Blackmail of Coster Musica Scam Leader
In New York police arrested a woman and two men on suspicion of blackmailing F. Donald Coster, the McKesson Robbins head who killed himself after his true identity as Philip Musica was exposed. The trio, later joined by five unnamed suspects, is charged with using mail fraud and conspiring to extort funds from Musica.
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Coster-Musica
New York
U.P
F. Donald Coster
McKesson & Robbins, Inc
Phillip Musica
Mary Brandino
Joseph
Walter H. Cragg
Philip Musica
Wall Street
Gregory Noonan
United States
Brandinos
Adelphia Drug Company
Brooklyn
Musica
John P. McAuliffe
Benjamin Simon
French Reinforcements Hold Djibouti Stand
Paris dispatch reports 1 000 Senegalese sharpshooters sail from Marseilles to Djibouti to bolster the French Somaliland garrison amid Italian demands. The D Iberville arrives via Suez as Da la dier signals willingness to fight if Rome presses. Mussolini hints Tunisia independence as a possible bargain to France.
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Paris
Marseilles
Djibouti
Chantilly
Goy
Hubert Deschamps
French Somaliland
France
Ethiopia
Eritrea
Suez Canal
Beirut
Syria
D'Iberville
Italy
Daladier
London
Chamberlain
Rome
Brenda Duff Frazier Debut a Ritz Carlton $75,000 Affair
Brenda Duff Frazier, famed debutante of 1938, made her coming out at the Ritz Carlton in a $75,000 party starting after midnight. The gala drew 1,000 guests amid orchids and diamonds while detectives guarded the event.
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New York
Brenda Diana Duff Frazier
Ritz Carlton Hotel
M. Adolphe Jeantet
Ritz
Frederic Watriss
Miss Frazier
Clara Duff Frazier
Scientists Tie In Announcing Same Formula Discovery
Washington December 28 simultaneous reports reach the public on a new anti reflection invention. Dr Katherine B Blodgett in Schenectady describes a preparation that nearly eliminates reflection from glass while MIT scientists Hawley Cartwright and A Francis Turner report a similar method using evaporated fluoride films. The MIT paper notes a four thousandth inch film and 99.6 percent light transmission ready for precision instruments, with wider use possible later.
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Washington
Katherine B. Blogdett
Schenectady
N. Y
Massachussetts Institute of Technology
American Physical Society
Hawley Cartwright
A. Francis Turner
Cartwright
Turner
Blodgett
Cartwright-Turner
Dallas Fed appoints Merritt to chair board of directors
B A McKinney, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, announces J H Merritt of McKinney is reappointed class director and chairman of the board and federal reserve agent. Jay Taylor of Amarillo designated deputy chairman for 1939. Private detective services listed at 604 Jackson.
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Dallas
B. A. McKinney
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
J. H. Merritt
McKinney
Board of
Federal Reserve
Board of Governors
Federal Reserve System
Jay Taylor
Amarillo
700 Undernourished Children To Get Hot Lunch Aid
About 700 Amarillo school children lack meals and skip breakfast, prompting a council of Parent-Teacher Associations to sponsor hot lunches. The Works Progress Administration will help prepare and serve, with donations of cash and food needed, especially milk. George M. Waddill will handle funds, and Mrs. W. D. Westbay heads the organizing committee.
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Amarillo
Council of Parent-Teacher Associations
Works Progress Administration
George M. Waddill
Board of Education
Potter County
Waddill
W. D. Westbay
Parent-Teacher Association Council
Chancellor Weymouth
Rual Jones
R. C. Andrews
C. M. Rogers
Amarillo Public Schools
Second Cold Wave Approaches As Severe As First
Weather forecast warns of a repeat of the intense cold with a new Arctic chill. Mr. Collman predicts tonight partly cloudy with little temperature change and tomorrow fair but much colder conditions possibly matching the current spell. Sub zero readings prevail in Minnesota and the Dakotas with at least 15 deaths from exposure and crashes. Hundreds seek shelter in police stations and thousands sleep in subways and missions as the nation endures record cold.
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Arctic
Rockies
Atlantic
Wyoming
Colorado
Montana
Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Dakotas
Purse
New York
Bowery Missions and Welfare Department
Rebels Smash Slowly Ahead on Front Near Barcelona
In the north the Spanish insurgent armies pressed forward toward Barcelona but took heavy losses while assaulting Loyalist lines in the south. Franco’s forces advanced in the Alps de Balaguer area and claimed control of Clua Vall De Riet Carsola Boada and Argentera as they near Artesa communications center.
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Hendaye
Barcelona
Alps de Balaguer
Francisco Franco
Artesa
Clua
Vall de Riet
Carsola
Boada
Argentera
Balaguer
Segre
Post Office Deficit Shrinks From 1937 High
Postmaster General Farley reported a 1938 fiscal year deficit of 43.8 million dollars for the post office department, down from 46.6 million in 1937. He cited non postal items such as air mail subsidies and free services to officials as the main cause, leaving a postal profit of about 4.41 million from postal transactions. Revenue reached a record 728.63 million dollars amid ongoing costs from the 40 hour week and new buildings. Build Now See John Maynard Lumber Co. for estimates.
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Washington
U.P
Farley
Post Office Department
Government Department
News Tip Contest Yields First Prize to Local Tipster
Joe Nutzwiller wins first in the News-Tip contest for reporting a man hit by a car on Highway 66 and taken to a local hospital. Kelton Key takes third for Panhandle Highway incident. Bill Ann s receives $3 award for tips. list of entrants includes many named residents and local addresses.
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Joe Nutzwiller
Main Street
Highway 66
Bill Anns
Pierce Street
Kelton Key
Panhandle Highway
Rain Making Machine To Be Demonstrated In Argentina
Argentine engineer and geophysicist Juan Baigorbavelar claims to have invented a rain making device and promises a special demonstration on January 3. The project, tested in arid Santiago del Estero, reportedly produces rain with a portable unit and attracts electromagnetic waves, while shifting wind direction nearly 90 degrees.
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Buenos Aires
U.P
Juan Baigorbavelar
Alfredo Galmarini
Baigorri
Santiago de Lestero
Rescuers Seek 4 Trapped by Blast
Kirkland Lake Ontario December 28. Rescuers fought to reach four miners trapped by a blast at the Lake Shore Gold Mine. Debris from three collapsed stopes between 2400 and 2700 foot levels blocked access. The cause and names were not learned. Many workers nearby suffered shock and needed treatment.
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Kirkland Lake
Ontario
Lake Shore
Elephant Weather Visitor From Tom Mix Circus in Amarillo
An adult elephant from the Tom Mix Circus spent the night in a six wheel trailer at a storage garage in Amarillo while en route from El Paso to a Kansas circus. The animal, costing about 2800 dollars, drank a quart of whisky and ate two bales of hay with 50 pounds of bran after breakfast as caretakers explained it had a cold.
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Amarillo
el Paso
Kansas
A. M. Carter
Central
Tom Mix Circus
Winners Announced In Garden Club Lighting Contest
The Garden Club announced winners of its Christmas Lighting Contest with high participation and Zone eight judged hardest by the many entries. Prizes emphasized artistic effect originality ingenuity Christmas spirit and size with churches and outside trees among notable entries.
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Garden Club
Garden Club Today
W. Latney Barnes
Polk Street
George Babb
Pierce
W. C. Arnold
East 11Th
Wallace Hurd
Polk
B. M. Harrison
Buchanan
Benzedrine Used to Cure Drunkenness
Harvard psychiatrist Dr Wilfred Bloomberg reported to the research association that dry benzedrine can help treat habitual drunkenness. In 18 months he used pills on 35 alcoholic cases, finding the drug lifted mood and sociability, helping patients become more talkative and lively.
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New York
U.P
Association For Research In
Wilfred Bloomberg
Harvard University
Bloomberg
Rescuers Plan To Reach Three Wrecked in Alaskan Waters
Rescuers planned air and sea efforts to reach three unidentified crewmen of the fishing boat Yasure, grounded on ice-packed middleground bar off Grass Island near the Copper River. Cordova crews expected to guide the forestry boat Chugach and a coast guard launch through perilous channels shown by aerial view.
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Cordova
Alaska
Yasure
Grass Island
Copper River
Chugach
Coast Guard
Spencer
Russia says German Ukraine talk a smokescreen for Tunisia plan
The Soviet Journal De Moscou asserts German ambitions are focused on Tunisia rather than Ukraine. It claims Berlin uses the Ukrainian question to distract Europe while plotting an Italian attack on Tunisia, a view aligned with Moscow’s foreign policy.
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Russia
Moscow
Ukraine
French
Tunisia
Journal de Moscou
Moscow Foreign Office
Spanish Rebel Planes-Machine Gun Fishing Fleet Attack
Spanish rebel planes machine gunned a fishing fleet off Altea north of Alicante. One fisherman was seriously wounded, others reached port safely according to Loyalist authorities.
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Valencia
U.P
Altea
Alicante
Fear German Freighter Goes Down in Baltic with 18 Aboard
War saw reports the German freight steamship Funkenbrandt, en route from Germany to Sweden, sank in the Baltic with 18 aboard after SOS calls. A final message from Gdynia, Poland stated We are going down.
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Baltic
Warsaw
U.P
Funkenbrandt
Germany
Sweden
Gdynia
Poland
Weather forecast for Amarillo and surrounding areas
The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies tonight with a rise in temperatures. Thursday will be fair and colder with generally warmer conditions noted in west Texas and southeast portions, while the Panhandle and northeast New Mexico see colder temperatures. Maximum 49 and minimum 24.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
New Mexico
You Can Bet on It Sheriff’s Family Black-Eyed Peas Tale
The Adams family keeps a New Year custom of black-eyed peas. Sheriff Bill Adams once rushed to secure canned peas just before midnight after a near-miss when dinner failed to appear. The family enjoyed the dish at 11:57, and plans for 1939 are already set to avoid a repeat slip.
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Sheriff's Family
Bill Adams
Adams
Sheriff Adams
Chinese recapture several villages near Fenglingtu
Chinese advices from the Shanai front in Nort China said forces recaptured several villages around Fenglingtu blocking Japanese efforts to organize a drive into Shensi province to the west.
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Shanghat
Shanai Front
Nort China
Fenglingtu
Shensi Province
Five Convicted Of Mail Fraud In Indiana Case
A federal jury convicted five officers of Continental Credit Corp of Winchester and related firms for using the mails to defraud about 1.2 million dollars from Midwest businesses and individuals. John W. Moore Sr. and John W. Moore Jr. were found guilty on all 12 counts. Sentences up to 57 years possible for the Moores. Kenneth P. Kimball and R. B. Phillips and Russell E. B. Wise received convictions on multiple counts with varying maximums. Judge Baltzell will pronounce sentences January 5.
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Indianapolis
Continental Credit Corporation of
Winchester
Ind
John W. Moore
Continental
Kenneth P. Kimball
Kim-Murphy Company
Lansing
Mich
R. 8. Phillips
The
Mineral Felt Company of
Toledo
Russell EB. Wise
Union City
Ki Aldrich Eye Injury Risks Sugar Bowl Absence
In Fort Worth Physicians say TCU center Ki Aldrich may miss the Sugar Bowl against Carnegie Tech in New Orleans due to a dangerous eye ailment. The All-America standout, who has endured eye trouble from a dorm prank, was rushed to a physician after his condition worsened and an eye ulcer developed Tuesday.
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Fort Worth
Aldrich
Texas Christian Center
New Orleans
Carnegie Tech
TCU
Official Lima Conference stationery bears German watermark
The official air mail stationery of the Pan American conference at Lima carries a watermark reading made in Germany, a detail noted today.
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Lima
Panama
O.P
Germany
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