League rejects Japan conciliation in Sino Japanese dispute
The League of Nations committee rejected Japan's conciliation reply and will publish recommendations without Japan's assent. Japan urged excluding the United States and Russia from talks and contested Manchukuo defense claims. Reports from Shanghai claim premier Chang Hsia Hsu may be dead after a bombing, while Manchuria war mobilization intensifies with troops massing in northern China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
League of Nations Committee of 19
Japan
League
United States
Russia
Manchuria
Shanghai
Chang Hsia-Hsu
Manchukuo
Changchun
Muto
Sureme
China
Nationalist Party
Nanking
Yellow Sea
Yangsze
Hankow
New Mexico Ratifies Lame Duck Amendment
New Mexico and Idaho legislatures moved to ratify the federal Constitution amendment ending the lame duck session of Congress. New Mexico became the 35th state with Idaho voting unanimously to join as the 34th, needing one more state for final adoption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa FE
N. M
New Mexico
Boise
Idaho
Tornadoes Strike Oklahoma And Atlanta
A January Oklahoma tornado damaged Adair and Mayes County structures injuring at least one person. In Atlanta, high winds unroofed six homes and destroyed garages with no fatalities, damaging local residences and the public school building. Damage in Atlanta estimated at $10,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Okmulgee
Okla
Adair
Mayes County
Atlanta
O. C. McClung
G. W. McClung
Abe Mays
Joe Warren
Frank Whisnat
Wade Aday
Wilmer Hughes
Ab Brabham
Tornado Strikes Lamar and Red River Areas injuring 30
Reports from Lamar and Red River counties say 30 people were injured and two killed after a tornado swept nine small communities. The storm hit south of Howland around 5 PM Friday and moved northeast toward Manchester on the Red River before ending about 7 30 PM. Most victims were tenant farmers with relief workers tending the injured and bad roads hindering travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Texas
Lamar
Red River
Howland
Manchester
Oklahoma farmer given life for murder of loan broker
Sam Wilkerson, a 50 year old farmer, was found guilty of murdering Isaac Hemingway a 73 year old loan broker. Hemmingway’s body was buried on the Wilkerson farm after he disappeared from his office. The jury delivered the verdict after eight hours and forty minutes of deliberation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Sam Wilkerson
Oklahoma
Isaac Hemmingway
Wilkerson
Here
Hemmingway
W. G. Long
YEGGS BLOW SAFE IN DUMAS STATION BURGLARY
DUMAS Jan 21 Yeggs last night blew open the Santa Fe station safe and slashed two mail sacks. The safe was empty and authorities know no loot. The burglary was discovered this morning. Special agent Charles H West of Santa Fe Amarillo division left yesterday to investigate.
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Dumas
Yeggyg
Santa Fe
Charles H. West
The
Amarillo
Dust Storm Lashes Panhandle With Minor Amarillo Damage
A west wind sweeping the Panhandle produced a dust storm that barrelled through Amarillo causing minor plate glass breakage and damaged outbuildings. Planes at English Field were grounded and sustained winds reached about 30 mph with a temperature drop.
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Amarillo
English Field
U. S. Weather Bureau
H T. Collinn
Colorado
Albuquerque
N. M
New Mexico
Clovis
Acquit Possemen in Six Minutes at Alamogordo
A New Mexico jury acquitted three sheriff's possemen—Jack Danley J M Harper and Casey Jones—on murder charges in the slaying of Lupa Gonzales on the Mescalero Apache reservation. Trial lasted four days with Judge Numa Frenger instructing jurors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alamogordo
N. M
Lupa Gonzales
Mescalero Apache
Numa Frenger
Jack Danley
J. M. Harper
Casey Jones
Gonzales
Turbulent tirade drives job seekers from Texas governor’s office
Former Governor Jim Ferguson, husband of Miriam A. Ferguson, berated crowds outside the Capitol urging job seekers to quit pressuring officials. He said no vacancies remained as boards and departments had filled posts, and urged applicants to let lawmakers and the new administration work without interference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Jim Ferguson
Miriam A. Ferguson
Capitol
Ferguson
Board of Control
Highway Department
Game Commission
Board of Health
Secretary of State
Adjutant General
Uses Peg Leg 10 Escape From Jail
Herman Minneweather, a Harrison County jail inmate held as a burglary suspect, escaped by prying loose a window facing with his peg leg and crawling through a brick aperture he created after leveraging the barred opening. Local authorities seek the escaped suspect.
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Marshall
Herman
Peg) Minneweather
Harrison County
Minneweather
Southwest barter exchanges grow as money scarcity spreads
In Oklahoma City a group of unemployed forms a shirtsleeve exchange using own scrip to swap services for farm goods. A 21 member board, merchandiser experts, and 40 supporters note early success as the Southwest sees barter expand amid money shortages. Ernest R. Chamberlain heads the group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Southwest
Oklahoma City
Ernest R. Chamberlain
Retail Merchants’ Association
State Board proposes major cost cuts and college mergers
The Texas state board of education calls for drastic curtailment of work at state teachers colleges and proposes converting most into junior colleges or abolishing some. It favors consolidating Denton institutions into a single senior college while keeping UT and A&M as seniors, and questions the San Marcos and El Paso facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas State Teachers’ Colleges
State Board of Education
Denton
College of Industrial Arts
North Texas State Teachers College
Sam Houston
Huntsville
Texas Tech
Lubbock
University of Texas
Texas A. & M
Southwest Teachers College
San Marcos
College of Mines At
el Paso
Tame Lions Shot Near Camp Barrier In Missouri
Two tame circus lions were shot to death on Wolf Island near Dorena Missouri by Denver M Wright of St Louis to satisfy his ambition to hunt lions. One lion attacked prompting a shot while the other was prodded and then killed. The incident occurred less than 200 feet from the release cage. Wright and his party attempted to drive the animals away from the camp before the fatal shots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorena
U.P
Wolf Island
Denver M. Wright
St. Louis
Wright
Charles
Joe
Cabinet post for cutting
President elect Roosevelt may offer the Interior post to Sen Bronson B Cutting of New Mexico as Republican Independents back his bid. Insurgent Republicans oppose Owen D Young for Secretary of State and suggest Ren Thomas Walsh of Montana, a Democrat, for the post.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Bronson B. Cutting
New Mexico
Owen D. Young
Ren
Thomas Walsh
Montana
Senate
Walsh
Senator Glass
Virginia
Cutting
Police break up riot at U S consulate Yokohama
Police dispersed threatened demonstrations at the American consulate and the Singer Sewing Machine Company hotel in Yokohama. About 150 alleged leaders were detained, and police persuaded about 300 more to disperse. Consul Charles L. De Vault praised the authorities for protecting Americans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yokohama
Japan
Singer Sewing Machine Company
Charles L. de Vault
Singer
Treasury receipts and expenditures for January report
Treasury figures show January 19 receipts of 3,858,451.65 dollars and expenditures of 9,261,419.90 dollars, leaving a balance of 389,864,438.15 dollars. Customs duties for 19 days in January total 11,716,454.24 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury
Washington
Admission by Winnie Judd in Hedvig Samuelson case
Counsel for John J. Halloran questioned Winnie Judd who admitted repacking parts of Hedvig Samuelson’s body in a trunk and hatbox at her Brill Street apartment two days after the slayings. The testimony, given as Halloran seeks to discredit competing accounts, was part of a larger accessory to murder hearing held as Judd remains imprisoned for the Lerot murder with a February 17 execution date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix, Ariz
Jan
John J. Halloran
Winnie Ruth Judd
Hedvig Samuelson
Mrs. Judd
Miss Samuelson
Agnes Anne Leroi
Frank O. Smith
Halloran
Mra. Judd
Los Angeles
Brill Street
Smith
Sammy
Florence
Lerot
Benz L. Jennings
Three of gang held in fatal Ellington fire
Cleveland police disclosed a large arson conspiracy behind the Ellington apartment fire of June 7. Ray I. Turk charged with hiring a professional arson gang to burn his barber shop for insurance, was arrested in Akron. Two other alleged gang members surrendered in Pittsburgh.
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Cleveland
Ellington
Ray I. Turk
Frank J. Merrick
Akron
Merrick
New York
St. Louis
Pittsburgh
Classified Ad Highlights Include Cows Cars and Cafe Offer
Hot tips from want ads list five Jersey cows for sale at 15 dollars each and a swap for a diamond ring in exchange for bathroom fixtures. A 10 to 12 foot wind mill and tower is sought with cash. A 1931 De Soto Coupe is offered for 275 dollars under classification 55. Also an established cafe business is offered by the owner.
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ARMY
Nippon
Tunglio
North China “War Area
Henan
Chihli
Shantung
Tungliao
Kailu
Jehol
100Th Medician
Mexico
Southern Plains
West Gulf States
Illinois
Taylorville
Associated Fress
J. R. Calvert
Texas Storm
Lola Lane
Lew Ayres
Dumas Station
Big
Pashandle
Panhandle
Peg Leg
Cabinet Post
Interior
U. S
Phoenix
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