Youth Recounts Grim Adventure on Ice Rescue Journey
Clayton Brown, 22, crawled eight miles over ice to shore after 40 hours adrift in a skiff on Lake Michigan. His two companions froze to death. he lost both feet and one hand, with doctors hopeful to save his life. Indians found him near Goodhart and gave first aid, while Brown refused to quit on life. He had left behind the body of his father in law, Claude Beardsley, and could not save Coast Guardsman Earl Cunningham. Rescue efforts continued as Brown fought for recovery.
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United Press
Charlevoix
Mich
U.P
Michigan
Clayton Brown
Petosky
Goodhart
Claude Beardsley
Coast
New Farm Bill Proposals Clashing on Senate Floor
Republican Senator McNary introduces a new farm bill with higher tariffs and payments based on the domestic allotment plan. The Smith Bankhead subsidy bill faces sharp attacks as administration critics warn it aims to control farmers and employ Democrats under AAA. Tax options include processing excises, broader levies, and retroactive income taxes to fund subsidies and existing obligations.
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Washington
Feb
Roosevelt
American Farm Bureau Federation
Senate
McNary
George N. Peek
Administration
Hastings
Delaware
AAA
Robinson
Supreme Court
Capitol
Doughton
North Carolina
House
Ways and Means
White House
Outer Mongolian border tensions prompt Soviet warnings
Moscow reports Japanese and Manchukuoan forces concentrating along the Outer Mongolian border and warns of potential provocations. The State Department distances itself from anti Japanese criticism in Congress as Franco Soviet relations explore possible USSR help against Germany.
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Japan
Moscow
Outer
Mongolia
Washington
State Department
Key Pittman
Nevada
China
Russia
France
Germany
Chamber of Deputies
Urga
Ulan Bator Khoto
Outer Mongolia
Manchukuo
Gendun
Soviet Union
Plane found pilot hunted as dam work unaffected
In Riverside California the search for Lieut John T Helms continues after his crash site was found in San Bernardino National Forest The Army believes he died in a fall from a cliff with his parachute in the wreckage The dam news reports a separate funding dispute over three and a half million dollars for Conchas Dam New Mexico with authorities insisting work will go on despite the committee delay
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Riverside
Calif
U.P
Lieut
John T. Helms
San Bernardino National Forest
TWA
Helm
Conchas
New Mexico
House Appropriations Committee
Tucumcari
House Committee
Carl Hatch
Hatch
Arch Hurley
Roy H. Smith
Hamlet the Dog Absolved Of Charges
Washington report on a dog case finds Hamlet the Great Dane owned by Mrs. W Forbes Morgan not guilty due to insufficient evidence. Assistant corporation counsel James W Lauderdale notes no prosecution in police court as neighbors complained of rough play.
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Washington
Hamlet
James W. Lauderdale
W. Forbes Morgan
Lauderdale
Talmadge to Honor Lincoln at Springfield Luncheon
Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia travels to Abrahama Lincoln's shrine to speak at a Midday Luncheon Club program marking Lincoln's 127th birthday. He shares the platform with Harold L. Ickes and Henry Horner as Illinois Democrats object to his invitation.
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Springfield
Ill
Eugene Talmadge
Georgia
Sherman
Abrahami Lincoln
Lincoln
Harold L. Ickes
Henry Horner
Talmadge
Illinois
Club
Roosevelt
Creation of Stars Viewed as Recent
Harvard Astronomical Observatory reports a study suggesting star creation may be relatively recent. Observed stellar motions imply many groups formed together in a not long ago creative act, with ages of a few thousand million years, challenging the idea of vastly older stars.
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Howard W. Blakeslee
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard Astronomical Observatory
the Observatory
Harvard
James Jeans
Billy Mitchell Stricken With Illness In New York
Brig. Gen. William Mitchell once top Army Air Service aide is described as dangerously ill at a New York hospital. He was admitted in January for rest after influenza, with doctors noting a heart ailment has worsened his condition.
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New York
William
Billy) Mitchell
Army Air Service
Amarillo Area Weather Forecast Tonight Through Wednesday
Fair tonight and Wednesday with a slight warming trend and low around 30 degrees. West Texas shows partly cloudy skies tonight and Wednesday, warmer in the north and east, colder in the Panhandle on Wednesday. New Mexico remains unsettled tonight and Wednesday with little temperature change. Temperature extremes reported early today range from 21 to 40.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
New Mexico
American Missionaries Held in Ethiopia Shackled and Detained
In Soues western Gamo province two Northern American missionaries, Rev. Harold Street and Rev. John Trewin, were arrested after refusing to leave a danger zone. Street was shackled with a dog chain. Mrs Street and their four children were kept under guard. Crown Prince Wossen ordered their release, but communications delays hinder confirmation of compliance.
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Albert W. Wilson
Associated Press
Addis Ababa
Soueswestern
Gamo
Ssa Wosan
Harold Street
Paxton, Til
Slama
Chencha
Gamo Province
Sister Aimee Again Sister Aimee Again
Miss Vivian Denton, 26, reportedly attempted suicide after a quarrel with evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson at Angelus Temple. Police removed poison with a stomach pump. Denton is described as not seriously hurt.
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Los Angeles
Vivian Denton
Aimee Semple McPherson
Miss Denton
Rogers calls for probe into Hagood charge on WPA funds
Chairman William N. Rogers of the House military affairs sub committee proposed a congressional inquiry into Maj. Gen. Johnson Hagood's assertion that WPA expenditures were stage money. Hagood testified before the House appropriation committee on war department funds, drawing Rogers’s ire.
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Washington
William N. Rogers
New Hampshire
House
Johnson Hagood
Hagood
Third Corps
Third Field Artillery
War Department
Rogers
California faces split within Democratic ranks over EPIC split
In California the Democratic Party stands divided between Upton Sinclair's EPIC and the McAdoo faction. Olson leads the state committee while Farley seeks compromise. EPIC, allied with Sinclair, has pressed for control of delegates, challenging Roosevelt's New Deal alignment.
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Washington
U.P
California
White House
James A. Farley
Culbert Olson
Democratic State Committee
Upton Sinclair
Olson
William G. McAdoo
McAdoo
Alfred E. Smith
Sinclair
Smith
Roosevelt
Sinclar
Democratic
EPIC
Farley
New Deal
Democratic Committee
Anti-Love Code Declared Invalid
Washington report on Oklahoma Democrat Rep. Josh Lee criticizing an American University anti-love code. He cites rules banning couples from sitting together and dating off campus, calls the code unconstitutional, urges Dean Woods to discard it, referencing past Bolshevik laws and campus romances.
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Eddie Gilmore
Washington
Josh Lee
Oklahoma
American University
George B. Woods
Lee
Oklahoma University
Dean Woods
Continued Cold for Seaboard Predicted
Weather column notes a string of storms and cold across the seaboard with more snow forecast for the Eastern coast. Reports from Chicago describe a heavy snow and ice burden with coal and food shortages persisting in some areas. European seas churn under a roaring gale as ships seek shelter and naval exercises are postponed.
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New York
Chicago
Midwestern
Atlantic Seaboard
London
U.P
Europe
Plymouth Harbor
Plymouth
Portland
Portsmouth
Chatham
Two American Engineers Seized by Bandits in Mexico
American mining engineers Samuel C. Faneuf and Paul W. Avery were taken by bandits at the La Mazata silver mine near Etzatlan in Jalisco state. The raid looted the camp and yielded about 1000 pesos before the pair were abducted. efforts to contact the bandits and the Guadalajara consulate were underway.
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Mexico City
Samuel C. Faneuf
Paul W. Avery
California
Jalisco
Robert W. Cockburn
James Howard
Guadalajara
Faneuf
Avery
la Mazata
Etzatlan
Postponed Radio Station Arguments in Texas Stations
The communications commission postponed oral arguments on four Texas broadcasting applications from February 27 to March 12. The applicants are Big Spring Herald Broadcasting Company and ABC Broadcasting Company for Big Spring, Plainview Broadcasting Company for Plainview, and North Texas Broadcasting Company for Paris. FHA Loans. Long-Bell Ltr, Co.
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Washington
The
Communications Commission
Texas
Big Spring
Missing Air France Seaplane Over South Atlantic
Paris reports Air France seaplane Ville De Buenos Aires missing over the South Atlantic while en route from Natal Brazil to Dakar Africa. Five crew members and one passenger aboard. communication lost yesterday afternoon after signaling all well near Saint Paul Island about 500 miles from Brazil.
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Paris
Ville de
Saint Paul Island
Brazil
January 1936 Lets New Want Ad Record
January 1936 Globe-News reports more Want Ads than in any 1955 month. The ad drive credits better results, word of mouth, and broad townwide use by rich and poor alike. Dial 6262 to place Want Ads and join the success.
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Globe-News
DIAL
Chair To Die For New Jersey Woman In Electrocution Bid
Mrs Marguerite Fox Dolbow 29, a former teacher, and her partner Norman Driscoll 36 face execution in Trenton for the murder of Harry Y. Dolbow. They join Bruno Hauptmann, awaiting death, as New Jersey’s death-row trio ahead of the March 15–week scheduled sentence.
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Salem
N. J
Marguerite Fox Dolbow
New Jersey
Norman Driscoll
Husky
Trenton
Harry Y. Dolbow
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
General Coxey to Enter Republican Presidential Primary
Jackson Michigan February 11 General Jacob Coxey who led a 1894 Washington march announced he will enter the Ohio Republican presidential primary. Coxey had been named a presidential candidate by a Farmer Labor group at a convention in Omaha several months ago. He has resided in Jackson since last October.
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Jackson, Mich
Amarillo Gain Feature in Popular Magazine Ad
A quarter page ad in the Saturday Evening Post promotes Texas as a travel destination. It highlights Amarillo Palo Duro State Park West Texas attractions including mountains canyons missions Alamo and oil fields with travel routes from Dallas Fort Worth to El Paso and mentions Centennial Exposition in Dallas and other Texas sights.
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Texas
Saturday Evening Post
Amarillo
Palo Duro State Park
West Texas
Lone Star State
St. Helena
Rio Grande
Dallas
San Antonio
Alamo
Houston
Pine Woods
East Texas
Plains Country
Fort Worth
Fl Paso
Trousered Dresses Spark Paris Spring Fashion
Paris couturiers chase American trade with bold new looks. Sleeves shaped like tennis racquets and trousered evening dresses join hats and vegetable trim in a mix of Chinese Spanish Russian Turkish and Ethiopian influences alongside Grecian lines. Yellows from mustard to pale elftron dominate, with voluminous white voile gowns, Turkish pantaloons, gilt sandals, beaded coats, and pajama foundations under gowns. One dressmaker features a buttoned garment as a key showcase.
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Mary Fentress
Paris
Ecouturiers
Andy Mousseline
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Solon
M’adoo
By Lyle C. Wilson
Seaboard
Arthur Brisbane
Haile Selassie
America
Globe
Brisbane
Corn
John Maynard Ltr, Co
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