Training of 20 000 Men a Year as Reserve for U S Aircorps Planned
President Roosevelt approved a plan to train 20 000 college students yearly as a reserve for the U S Air Corps to supply pilots in war. The Civil Aeronautics Authority backed the move saying it strengthens defense against rising aerial militarization abroad.
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U. S. Aircorps
Washington
Roosevelt
Bissuary
Civil Aeronautics Authority
United States
Army
Navy
Congress
Adams
Colo
Pisk
Clark
America
National Youth Administration
NYA
Roundup of blackmail suspects tied to McKesson and Robbins scandal
New York police and federal investigators arrested Walter Cragg and identified Mary and Joseph Brandi no as part of a widening paymaster plot connected to F. Donald Coster Musica. Cragg faced mail fraud charges, while the Brandi nos were also charged. Coster Musica had died by suicide amid an $18 million asset overstatement and a long letter attacking Wall Street plunder and blackmail.
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New York
F. Donald Coster-Musica
McKesson and Robbins, Inc
Walter H. Cragg
U. S
Gregory Noonan
Mary Grandino
Joseph
Brandinos
Noonan
Cragg
Coster-Musica
Brooklyn
Connecticut
Wall Street
Pair Found Dead in Norfolk Garage Apartment
James M. Davis a 34 year old electrical appliance salesman and Mary Pearl Rice-Davis a restaurant waitress were found dead today in a garage apartment in Norfolk Virginia. Police reported the double tragedy as an apparent murder suicide or related incident and are investigating.
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Norfolk
James M. Davis
Mary Pearl Rice-Davis
Warden Kinser Injured in Mountain Road Crash
H. B. Kinser 34 a Tazewell county game warden suffered a fractured left hip and other injuries in a head on collision with a truck driver 29 year old Joe E. DeBoard at East River mountain road near Gibson place Kinser hospitalized at St Luke s hospital DeBoard treated for facial and body injuries both vehicles wrecked truck driver Scott Harman 33 Rocky Gap escaped injury A Virginia state trooper assisted and both men were brought to Bluefield for treatment DeBoard discharged after treatment
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Tazewell County
Scott Harman
Rocky Gap
Dry Fork
Bland County
Joe DeBoard
Cedar Bluff
H. S. Kinser
East River
H. 8. Kinser
Joe E. DeBoard
East River Mountain
St. Luke's Hospital
DeBoard
Kineer
Gibson Place
Aesto
Mayo
Virginia State Police
Kinzer
Bluefield
Harman
Beckley Boy Hurt by Gun Blast in Florida
Hollywood Florida December report says John Durant sixteen of Beckley West Virginia was critically injured by a shotgun blast in a hunting accident near Hollywood. He placed the gun against a tree when it discharged as he grabbed it as it began to fall. His father J G Durant of Hollywood Beach rushed him to Beckley and the mother travels to join him.
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Hollywood
Fla
John Durant
Beckley
W. Va
J. G. Durant
Hollywood Beach
Durant
Insurgents Gain as Government Considers Relocating Capital
Spanish insurgents report new gains in Catalonia as Madrid weighs moving its capital from Barcelona to Valencia Cartagena or Albacete. Offensive claims 12 towns seized and 7 000 prisoners as frontlines extend toward Tarragona Lerida and Montseny amid heavy bombardments and 10 000 casualties since Dec 23.
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Catalonia
Barcelona
Opam
Madrid- Valencia
Mediterranean
Alos Balagher
Segre
Artesa
el Monsech
Lerida
Peralba
Giguerola
Sleze Alps
Valencia
Cartagena
Albacete
Spain
Cena
Madrid
Riant
Colon
Ent
Tarragona
Deb Frazier's No 1 debut bows at Ritz party in New York
Brenda Diana Duff Frazier America's No 1 debutante of 1938 made her formal bow at the Ritz Carlton in a gold neo Byzantine setting. About 1200 guests attended with two orchestras from 10:30 p.m. to dawn. Unofficial cost up to 50000 dollars. Frazier's fortune estimated at 4 to 5 million dollars.
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New York
Brenda Diana Duff Frazier
America
Ritz-Carleton
Brenda
Beaux and Belles
Barbara Hutton
Natalie Coe
Ritz-Carlton
Marjorie Gould
Miss Frazier
Pan American Parley Concludes After Solidarity Drive
The eighth Pan American conference ends in Lima as Dr. Carlos Concha declares it fulfilled expectations and highlights a western hemisphere solidarity tenor. United States Secretary Cordell Hull bids farewell after backing acts to unite the republics in defense, communications, and culture.
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Lima
Carlos Concha
Concha
Gencha
Nes
Oscar Benavides
Peru
Seccer
Cordell Hull
United States
Callao
Santa Maria
Benavides
Ban
Hull
Juan J. Remos
Haiti
Agrominican Republic
Guatemala
Honduras
el Salvador
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Panes Mexico
Colombia
Venezue
Remos
Virginia Hot Springs Company IO In Receivership
The Virginia Hot Springs Company owner of the Homestead Resort hotel was placed in emergency receivership in Bath county circuit court. The petition lists indebtedness about 2.82 million dollars. Fay Ingalls, president and largest stockholder, was named among the complainants and was appointed receiver until January 26. Ingalls said the action aimed to avoid closing the hotel.
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Hot Springs
Virginia Hot Springs Company
Fashionable Homestead
Bath County
Fay Ingalls
Benjamin Haden
Ingalls
Four Boys Die in West Virginia Cabin Fire
Ona West Virginia December 27 four young boys aged up to six perished when a log cabin home exploded in flames. Father John Garthee survived severe burns after attempting rescue as high winds fed the blaze. The victims were buried that night in Arthur cemetery after fire crews and state police aided by volunteers battled the fire.
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Tots
Ona
W. Va
John W. Garthee
Garthee
Jasper Rider
Cabell Creek
Cabell County
Asa
John
Richard
Barbourspat
Arthur
French Reinforce Somaliland Defenses Against Italian Pressure
Paris reports France rushing the 1969 ton D'Iberville to Djibouti as part of a broader effort to bolster Somaliland defenses amid Italian ambitions. Observers note Italian caravans occupy disputed frontier areas while official channels deny imminent invasion. Premier Daladier plans a North Africa trip January 2 to 10, signaling a French defensive posture.
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Somaliland
Paris
France
D'Iberville
Beirut
Syria
Red Sea
Addis Ababa
Italy
Ethiopia
Ani
Edouard Daladier
North Africa
Corsica
Nisia
Algeria
Neville Chamberlain
Rome
Mussolini
Chamberlai
Georges Bonnet
Eric Phipps
East Africa
Hopkins Plans Drive for Jobs
Washington officials reported that Secretary Hopkins studied a national campaign to create reemployment in private industry for the unemployed. A detailed program could begin within weeks to ride the expected spring business upturn, with the Costas advisory council and business leaders engaged to implement. Legislation on relief methods was indicated as a key issue for the new Congress.
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Washington
Congress
Hopkins
Eres
Grea Commerce Department
Costass Advisory Council
Daniel C. Roper
W. Averell Harriman
Union Pacific Railroad
Nazi Newsmen Protest Conference Slights
Lima reports correspondents from the German news agencies Deutsches Nachrichten buro and Transocean German News protested to the Pan American conference secretariat and the German government over alleged discrimination during the conference. They cited exclusion from a noon cocktail party hosted by Peruvian President Oscar Benavides as the slight.
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Lima
Deutsches Nachrichtenburo
Transocean
Oscar Benavides
Peru
Americas
Missing Maryland girl found alive in mountain shack
Hagerstown Maryland detective captain said Jane Akowsky, 17, who vanished Christmas Eve, was found in a lonely mountain shack hysterical but unharmed. She is the daughter of a junk-yard checker and will be questioned later. no arrests yet, but authorities know the suspect.
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Hagerstown
William H. Peters
Jane Akowsky
Peters
Couple deducts for child on income tax before birth
San Francisco December 27. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd E. Wilson claimed a full year's deduction for their daughter on 1936 returns though she was not born until August. Mrs. Wilson argued that medical bills and costs of supporting a child begin before birth, so they were entitled to the exemption.
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San Francisco
Ae Francisco
Lloyd E. Wilson
Bill Caries
Cops HUNT CULPRIT WHO BLEW UP METER
Police investigate after a parking meter on Federal Street in front of the Thornton company was destroyed on Christmas night by an explosive. The $50 meter was so damaged it cannot be used, with the charge found in the nickel slot as investigators seek the culprit.
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Federal Street
Thornton Company
Hoover's New Brother Named Franklin Roosevelt Rogers
In Shenandoah Iowa on December 27 Herbert Hoover Depression Rogers welcomes a ninth child to Mr and Mrs Johnnes at the I D Kern attending a veterinary crew.
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Shenandoah
Iowa
Herbert Hoover
Rogers
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Johnnes
I D. D. Kern
Aria
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