Federal agents hunt Nelson's widow in Dillinger gang case
A report from Bremerton Wash says federal agents seek Helen Gillis 21 widow of John Nelson leader of a Dillinger era gang. She may have been the 94 pound synthetic blonde seen with Nelson during the Tuesday gun battle that left officers slain. Investigators believe she is at her home with her children and may be a key link in ongoing efforts to indict accomplices in the crime.
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George Ne
Ae Nelson
Gan of Thee
John Dillinger
John Peeved
Nelson
Samuel P
Herman
Helen
Guner
Giver
Mary Gillis
Ronald
Bremerton
Morgue
Vonen
Gimpee
Hoss
Watip
FE. P. Guin- Bethe
California
Fomne
Barrel Murder Case Update in Columbus Investigation
Police search the scene in Columbus as Avin A Brunner faces formal charges after authorities confirm his body was found in a barrel. The investigation by the Department of Investigation in Washington awaits official word on Brunner s fate and next legal steps.
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Avin A. Brunner
Columbus
Washington
Brunner
Mexico names Abelardo Cardenas president
On November 30 39 the revolution reaches its fifteenth year and Abelardo Cardenas is named president of Mexico as the country marks transition to a new era.
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Leary Cardenas
Bet of Mexico
Ice
Abelardo
Cardenas
Employes Quit At Big Store's Shopping Peak
Milwaukee November 30. With Christmas shopping at its height, employees of the Boston Store Milwaukees major department store went on strike. The action was ordered by locals of the International Retail Clerks Protective Association the Auto Truck Drivers Union and the Building Service Employes International Union after weeks of negotiations. Union officials estimated about 900 workers were involved. The unions demanded 25 dollars weekly for men 20 dollars for women a 1 sales bonus a 40 hour five day week a closed shop and union dues deducted from pay checks.
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Milwaukee
Boston
International Retail Clerks’ Protective Association
Auto Truck Drivers Union
Building Service Employes’ International Union
Justice Dept Sues Houde Engineering Over Bargaining
The Justice Department filed an injunction in Buffalo Federal District Court against Houde Engineering Company, Buffalo, alleging violation of collective bargaining by refusing a majority rule union choice and failing to enter a written wage and hour agreement. The action follows Labor Board citations in September and prior discussions with the NLRB.
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Washington
Justice Department
Houde Engineering Company
Buffalo
Federal District Court
National Labor Relations Board
Department of Justice
House
Labor Board
Cummings
Tidal Wave Fails To Appear as Scheduled
A submarine earthquake near 2,000 miles at sea triggered radio warnings of a tidal wave for Hawaii but only minor alarm in Honolulu. Seismograph records at Hawaii National Park observed the quake last night. the wave did not arrive as forecast.
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Honolulu
Hawaiian Islands
Hawaii National Park Observatory
President Roosevelt Aids Boy Recovered From Paralysis
Chicago November reports credit President Franklin D. Roosevelt with lifting Richard Broadwell from near death after nine days on an artificial respirator. The president sent a cheering letter advising strict adherence to doctors orders. The boy regained use of one lung and muscles on one side after Thanksgiving.
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Chicago
Lee
Franklin DD
Roosevelt
Richard Broadwell
Dea
Richard
Pay Of Big Sum To Hardings Revealed In Suit
A suit filed with the Board of Tax Appeals by Louis H. Brush and Roy D. Moore claims they were coerced under threat of legal action into paying $134,000 to the Harding estate. It also details a $13,300 annual employment guarantee for Warren G. Harding as associate editor, starting after his White House term, and disputes over a $3,350 tax deficiency for 1930 and 1931.
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Washington
Warren G. Harding
Board of Tax Appeals
Louis H. Brush
Roy D. Moore
Ohio
The
Marion Star
Harding
White House
Brush
Moore
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Harding Publishing Company
Brush and Moore
Bomb Found Under Priest’s Rectory Porch
Police in Wilkes Barré Pennsylvania said two sticks of dynamite with a burning fuse were found under the rectory porch of Monsignor J J Curran pastor of St Marys Church. Curran is noted for his work in East coast miners peace talks. A two inch fuse burn remained as two officers guarded the scene overnight.
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Wilkes-Barre
J. J. Curran
St. Mary's Church
Monsignor Curran
New Cabinet Rules In War-Torn Bolivia
New cabinet begins directing Bolivian affairs after a coup ousted President Dente Salamanca. Vice President Jose Luis Tejada Sorzano receives authority as censorship limits reports from La Paz while Salamanca is rumored prisoner in Buenos Aires circles.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
Jose Luis Tejada Sorzano
Dente Salamanca
la Faz
Buenos Aires
Salamanca
Boy Scouts To Bear Jurist to Lis Grave
Judge Thomas H. Darby of Hamilton County common pleas will be carried to his grave by six Boy Scouts four white youths and two Negroes in a sealed tribute reflecting his interest in youth. Cincinnati Par Association members will serve as honorary pallbearers.
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Cincinnati
Fhoman H. Darby
Hamilton County Common Pleas Bench
Juriet
Cincinnati Par Association
Veterans' ranks thinning at Ohio soldiers home
Sandusky Ohio November 20 With the death of William Ogtine age 86 the number of Civil War veterans at the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors home here was reduced to 1.
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Sandusky
William Ogtine
Ohio Soldiers’ and Sailors
Winter Storm Buries Arizona Missouri Narrowing Roads
A heavy snowstorm swept the Rocky Mountain and Plains states, dumping a foot in the Ozark Hills of Missouri and three to fourteen inches in eastern Arizona. Cars were stranded, highway workers rescued motorists, and freezing temperatures followed as the storm covered drought parched lands.
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Kansas City
Rocky Mountain
Plains
Ozark Hills
Missouri
Arizona
Montana
Bishop Hopes Davey Will Aid Parish Schools
Bishop Joseph Schrembs of the Cleveland diocese, returning from Rome, urged Governor-Elect Martin L. Davey to keep his pledge to support state aid for Catholic parochial schools. He argued parochial schools educate 70,000 Ohio children and criticized per pupil costs and tax funding of public schools.
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New York
Joseph Schrembs
Cleveland
Martin L. Davey
Ohio
Schrembs
Pope Pius
Rome
Publc
Alabama to meet Stanford in Rose Bowl on New Year's Day
Alabama was chosen to face Stanford in the Rose Bowl game in Pasadena on January 1. Alfred Masters announced Stanford's selection. Alabama seeks its fourth Rose Bowl trip. The Tide, undefeated after a 34 to 0 win over Vanderbilt, has outscored foes 114 to 0 in its last three games. Stanford, Pacific Coast Conference champion, is unbeaten and previously tied Stanford 7 to 7 in 1937.
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Alabama
Leland Stanford
Alfred Masters
Stanford
Crimson Tide
Southern
Frank Thomas
Vanderbilt
Indians
Santa Clara
Mystery of the Babes in the Woods Solved in Pennsylvania
Authorities identify the man found dead in the mountains as Elmo J Noakes of Roseville California. He, his niece Winifred Pierce and his three daughters Cordelia Dewilla and Norma were linked to a fatal shooting near Altoona and a suffocation death in a Carlisle area shack.
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Pennsylvania
Elmo Jd. Noakes
Roseville
Calif
Marry L. McElroy
Altoona
Marine Corps
Washington
Noakes
Mare Island
California
Here
Elmo J. Noakes
Hia
Winifred Pierce
Cordelia
Dewilla
Norma
Mrs Eva Hopewell Dies in Chicago After Dinner Help
Mrs Eva Hopewell of Midland Ohio died in Chicago from a heart attack while aiding her daughter Mrs George Weasley Truax in preparing their Thanksgiving feast.
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Chicago
Eva Hopewell
Midland
Ohio
George Weasley Truax
Thanksgiving toll in Ohio roads and towns on holiday
Ohio marked Thanksgiving with celebrations and tragedies alike. Three people died in traffic crashes including six year old Betty Jean Watson of Defiance and Cleveland couple George L. Ferguson. Other fatal incidents involved Rey Lewis Schaft of Sharon Pennsylvania and urban hunter Urban Tarnhorst of Newport.
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Betty Jean Watson
Defiance
Ohio
Columbiana
Rey Lewis
Schaft
Sharon
Cleveland
Louise Saunders
Akron
Tarnhorst
Newport
Sidney
Ovi Penitentiary
New Setup for Loans Drafted To Speed Up Better Homes Drive
President Roosevelt meets at Warm Springs with relief officials as AFL president William Green warns winter relief must confront the worst unemployment surge. He cites October jobless totals near 10.7 million and rising relief costs, urging rapid loan and relief measures to ease strain on industry and workers.
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Washington
Warm Springs
William Green
American Federation of Labor
A. F. of L
Roosevelt
Harry Hopkins
Morgenthau
R.G. Tugwell
Green
College Girl Dies in Tub Amid Flames
Miss Helen Gardner a 21 year old student at North Texas State Teachers College died after flames engulfed her in a rooming house bath. Neighbors broke in to smother the fire as a coroner opened an inquest and investigated a note suggesting a planned death by her own hand.
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Denton. Tex
Helen Gardner
North Texas State Teachers College
M. C. Henry
Belgrano To Visit Ohio Legionnaires
American Legion national Commander Frank N. Belgrano Jr. of California arrives in Columbus to confer with Ohio post leaders and address the annual commanders banquet. He is expected to discuss the bonus payment and his position for full payment now.
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Columbus
American Legion
Frank N. Belgrano, Jr
California
Ohio
Miami
Belgrano
Typhoon Leaves Philippine Provinces Cut Off From Manila
Manila reports say seven central, southern and southeastern provinces were completely cut off from communication with Manila as one of the fiercest typhoons in three months leaves death and destruction. Death toll climbs amid sparse details of 300 lives lost in the region.
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Manila
P. I
Philippines
Transfer of Patrolman Adams and Cannon
Patrolman George Adams moves from Athens headquarters to the sud station at Newark. Patrolman G Cannon arrives from the Newark sub station to replace Adams in Ath ens.
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George Adams
Athens
State Highway Patrol
Sud
Newark
G. Cannon
Adams
Prewar European Has Beens Noted at London Wedding
Reading the guest list at a London wedding, Grand Duke Dimitri of Russia and family, plus many German ex-nobility, highlight a gracious prewar gathering. Will Rogers notes no Stalin Hitler or Mussolini to mar the proceedings in a lighthearted dispatch from Santa Monica.
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Calif
London
Dimitri
Russia
Duces Xenia
Vladimir
Moscow
George
England
Stalin
Hitler
Mussolini
Prisoners Escape With Deputies Car Near Richview
Three inmates en route from Paris to Chester Penitentiary held up deputies Everett Snider and Robert Mitchell near Richview, stole their weapons and the car, and escaped in a seven passenger sedan. The fugitives were Alvin Taylor 22 Nicholas Olfer alias John Daviduk 21 and Roy Colter all sentenced for larceny.
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Paris
Chester
Richview
Alvin Taylor
Nicholas Olfer
John D Aviduk
Pennsylvania
Roy Colter
Allan Culbert
Nashville
Tennell
Everett Snider
Robert Mitchell
Centralia
Athena Better Housing expands canvass into Mechanicsburg Albany
The Athena Better Housing Program widens its canvass on day four to include Mechanicsburg and Albany. Two new canvassers join Rafael R. Johnson in Albany and Carl Stickney in Mechanicsburg while the original ten operate in the city. A Saturday school trains canvassers and a campaign advisory board chaired by T. W. Craig will review issues and forward the first report to Columbus, prepared by Joseph C. Johnson.
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Athena Better Housing Program
Mechanicsburg
Albany
Rafael R. Johnson
Carl Stickney
T. W. Craig
C. M. Gill
Columbus
Joseph C. Johnson
Edwards Loses Plea Can’t Escape Chair
In Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania on November Robert Allan Edwards known for the American Tragedy slaying was denied a new trial in his bid to avoid the electric chair for the murder of Freda McKechnnie Edwards a pregnant woman. He was convicted six weeks earlier and the jury recommended death after authorities said he killed Miss McKechnie to marry Miss Margaret Crane a East Aurora school teacher.
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Wilkes-Barre
Robert Allan Edwards
Freda McKechnnie Edwards
Commonwealth
McKechnie
Margaret Crane
East Aurora
Three Injured in Crash Near Redtown
Three people were injured today in a Route 13 collision near Redtown Lawrence Rough Athens Road 1. An Athens Ice and Storage Company employee suffered nose and knee lacerations. Mrs Emma Cremeans of South Charleston West Virginia and her son Ralph aged 19 were cut and bruised. A tendon in Ralphs left hand was severed. Both cars were badly damaged. The Wes Virginians are in Sheltering Arms Hospital and Roush went home.
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Route 13
Redtown
Lawrence Rough
Athens RD
Athens Ice and Storage Company
Emma Cremeans
South Charleston
W. Va
Ralph
Government Help Aimed At Low Income Housing Push
President Roosevelt advances plans to build low income homes with government insured loans. James A. Moffett meets with Roosevelt as talks on agency control and scope of public construction proceed. The program seeks quick congressional action on NRA future, public works funds, unemployment protection, and tax considerations.
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Warm Springs
Roosevelt
James A. Moffett
Morgenthau
Harry L. Hopkins
Home Made Burglar Trap Injures Akron Officer
Patrolman Charles Schwinn, 43, investigated a report of a burglar in a confectionery store. He entered the store, stepped on a split linoleum floor, fell 15 feet into a small chamber with a spike studded plan, a home made trap. He received hospital treatment for minor injuries.
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Akron
Charles Schwinn
Schiwinn
More Police Ordered Out in Trolley Strike
In Los Angeles 600 police on strike duty were ordered out by Police Chief James E. Davis amid continuing violence in the Los Angeles Railway walkout. A street car crew reported a gang bombed and set fire to a carport outside the business district, with shots fired as the bombers fled. Other cars were overturned.
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Los Angeles
James E. Davis
Los Angeles Railway Company
Sales Tax Stamps In Varied Hues
Ohio may adopt a sales tax with colorful stamps in many denominations. Stamps would vary in color and value from small units to large ones, up to $1.80 on $50 purchases and $83 on $100 purchases. Merchants would deliver stamps and keep a stamp stub while giving customers the color ful embossed state seal portion.
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Columbus
Ohio
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