Four German Spies Given Prison Terms
Four German agents received prison terms ranging from two to six years for selling U S military information to Nazi Germany. Judge Knox condemned espionage as a crime of a totalitarian state, noting harsher fates would await them abroad. Rumrich, Glaser, Hofmann, and Voss faced sentences, with Rumrich receiving two years and Voss two years, the others four to six.
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New York
Germany
John c. Knox
U. S
Nazi Germany
Knox
Heademan
Porson
Tohence Soros
Ropa
Otto Herman Vass
Man Gisser
Army Wi
Jon
Mitchetfield
Long Island
Guenther
Gustav Rumrich
U. 8
Army
Mis Hofmann
Voss Nd Glaser
Rum
Bishop Swint Urges New Sacred Heart High School
Most Rev John J Swint calls for immediate construction of a Sacred Heart high school building. The kickoff dinner for a 123000 fund campaign at Kanawha hotel drew more than 124 volunteers who signed pledge cards and outlined plans for the fundraising drive with a table of church leaders and campaign chairs in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacred Heart High School
John J. Swint
Musellage Joke From Willie Willis Quillen
A playful line from Willie Willis Robert Quillen humor column imagines a mispronounced note about a toy musellage and a grandson hoping to grow hair on his chest. The quip captures a folksy voice and light domestic tease.
Strange twin girls die of pneumonia in Moscow
Two headed twin sisters named Iring and Galina died in Moscow at 1 year 22 days old from pneumonia. Born with two heads two arms and two backbones but a single body they had lived since six weeks old at the All Union Institute of Experimental Medicine as subjects of medical research drawing public interest across the Soviet Union.
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Moscow
Iring
Galina
All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine
Soviet Union
Broker Buckner Denies Using Charines With Loretta Young
New York December 29 William P Buckner a Wall Street financier and friend of Loretta Young denied using chorus girls to sway congressmen at lavish Washington parties He was arrested on 2000 mail fraud charges accusing him of siphoning investors out of 100000 in Philippine railway bonds He telephoned Young in Hollywood to reassure her and said it would be absurd to claim he employed girls to influence legislation A US attorney said Buckner ran a beauty lobby in Washington
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New York
Willam P. Buckner
Wall Street
Loretta Young
Hollywood
Washington, D.C
Miss Young
Scotland Yard
Buckner
Lorvita Young
Rileyles
Washington
U.S
William P. Maroney
Captain H. G. Byrd Dies in Auto Crash
Kanawha City Charleston mourns ninth traffic fatality when Captain H G Byrd driver of a Packard loses control at Kanawha and California streets. A jack handle pierced his head per early reports, the car crashes after pole breaks, and Byrd dies before police arrive. Byrd, executive with the state unemployment compensation board, was returning home from a Army Navy clubs meeting. Body at Barlow's mortuary. native of the Eastern Shore.
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Howard G. Byrd
Kanawha
Charleston
California
State Unemployment Compensation Board
Byrd
Dante Boone Hotel
Barlow's
Freed When She Told Men Father Not Rich
In Oxon Hill Maryland police struggle to corroborate 18 year old Mary Browns abduction tale after she returns home in a torn slip. Authorities say they will stay with the case briefly to exhaust leads before withdrawing if nothing new emerges. Her father says she was unharmed and her body shows no injuries. Sister Lucy reports seeing men in a truck take Mary as she escaped them.
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Oxon Hill
Dee
Mary Brown
Elmer F. Munshower
Maryland State Police
William B. Brown
Mary
Lucy
Page J
Economist Thorp Details Concentration of U S Industry
Washington December 2 1 The monopoly inquiry heard statistics from Dr Willard Thorp Dun and Bradstreet economist loaned to the committee He said two tenths of one percent of corporations hold 2 percent of assets and one hundredth of one percent employ 12.3 percent of workers He noted in aluminum and women's clothing large producers dominate varying shares of output and urged further study by the investigative group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willard Thorp
Dun
Brad Street
Vallee Says He Pushed Heckler During Cocoanut Grove Incident
Rudy Vallee, performing for Governor Lehman, says he used a push not a punch to subdue a heckler at the Cocoanut Grove. Witnesses note notable attendees, including Mary Brian and Loretta Young, while sources identify the target as Benjamin N. Starleicht. Vallee claims the incident was sparked by ongoing heckling and pledges an apology after the Notre Dame rooting remark.
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Rudy Vallee
Cocoanut Grove
Rich N. Y
Hollywood
Der
INS
Rudy
Herbert H. Lehman
New York
Mary Brian
Anthony Averill
Joan Woodbury
Henry Wilcoxon
Edward Arnold
Loretta Young
Binnie Barnes
Gordon Oliver
Benjamin N. Starlecht
Notre Dame
Btarleicht
Daryl Gould
Mary Duncan Miss Pony Express sponsor at Huntington grid clash
Mary Duncan Walker, sponsor for The Huntington Advertiser, attended the recent meeting between Charleston and Huntington high schools. Today at 2 p.m. at Laidley Field she will sit with Gov. Holt as sponsor.
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Mary Duncan
Walker
Miss Pony Express
Charleston
Huntington
Laidley Field
Gov. Holt
North South Football Festival Highlights Big High School Meet
The North-South Festival showcases 44 high school all stars and a 500 plus band. Events at Kanawha hotel and Daniel Boone include coach and official meetings, band contest elimination, a star spangled banner performance, and the sixth annual North South game kickoff. Banquet and victory dance cap the day with no radio broadcast.
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West Virginia
West Virginia Football Officials’ Association
Daniel Boone Hotel
West Virginia Sports Writers’ Association
Kanawha Hotel
J. Henry Francis
Wchs Auditorium
Kent Warner
Kings of Swing
Stores Open Later For Holiday Trade
principal Charleston stores will stay open until 9 p m on Saturdays through Christmas to allow last minute shopping. Charles E Hodges chamber of commerce managing director said stores also open nightly until 9 p m in the final week before Christmas, a first for several years with a uniform closing hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
Charles E. Hodges
Chamber of Commerce
Hodges
Relief Called Major Problem
A government research expert warned at the National Municipal League conference that relief will persist despite business improvements. Carl P. Herbert, director of the St. Paul bureau of municipal research, predicted a professional pauper class in the United States.
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Baltimore
U. S
Carl P. Herbert
St. Paul
Pay Cuts Restored At Carbide and Carbon Chemicals
Upper bracket Carbide and Carbon workers regain full salaries while lower bracket staff return to 40 hour weeks. About 250 salaried and 400 hourly employees benefit. 2,350 others see five extra hours weekly. Wages start at 24 cent an hour for common labor. executives and specialists earn higher. The February setback ended a historic pay curtailment begun after a small Elk River plant pilot.
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Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation
Robert N. Graham
Carbide
Graham
Elk River
South Charleston
Blaine Island
Plan to Barter Jews For More Exports Talked
A Nazi editor in Berlin says Germany studies a plan to allow Jewish emigration in exchange for increased exports. Goering may announce the idea soon, arguing foreign buyers can be rewarded with goods from Jewish possessions. The plan requires large export orders to fund exodus.
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Louis P. Lochner
Berlin
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Goering
Germany
Rew Fencca
Juedisches Nachrichtenblatt
Force Charged In Bake Deaths
Philadelphia report details attempts to influence convict witnesses in the Philadelphia county prison death case as prosecutors seek to delay trials of 10 former officials on murder and manslaughter charges. Assistant District Attorney John A. Boyle said he learned a prison official suggested pardons to convicts to testify about the events in August when four men died in super heated punishment cells. Chief Justice Kephart rebuked the defense for delaying access to 21 survivors and granted two extra weeks to prepare. Trials now to begin Dec. 20 for Craven and others.
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Philadelphia
State Supreme Court
Asst
John A. Boyle
Frank A. Craven
Boyle
John W. Kephart
Craven
Premier Asks Restoration Of Strikers
Paris reports that Premier Daladier seeks internal peace to defend colonial empire amid Italian and German ambitions. French labor unrest grows as 20,000+ still strike while Daladier hints at consequences for unions and employers. Rhetoric over Tunisia and Corsica heightens Franco Italian tensions.
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Paris
Italy
Germany
Indier
France
Georges
Bonneteresiggs
Pers
Jabor
Daladier
Charles Pomaret
General Confederation of French
Leon Jouhaux
General Confederation of Labor
Tur Nisia
Corsica
Tunisia
Joachim’Von Ribbentrop
Mediterranean
von Ribbentrop
New York Papers Publish Hitler Number in Who's Who
Several New York newspapers published Adolf Hitler's private Berlin telephone number from the new Who's Who in Great Britain edition. The listing Berlin 116192 triggered high trans Atlantic rates, with day rates at 24 dollars for three minutes and 8 dollars for each extra minute, night rates 18 dollars for three minutes and 6 dollars for each extra minute. A caller to Der Fuehrer faced a ten minute wait before the operator said Hitler refused to take the call.
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New York
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Great Britain
Manhattan
der ‘Uchter
Hitler
Pupils' Rites, To Be Private
SALT LAKE CITY December 2 Parents of Utah school disaster victims decide to hold private funerals rather than mass rites at the Mormon tabernacle. The crash killed 22 students and bus driver Farrold H. Silcox, 29, as a freight train plowed into the bus in a snow storm. Interstate Commerce Commission investigators travel to Utah. 33 dead and 16 seriously injured total. No inquest planned. investigators agree on details.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Mormon Tabernacle
Sanita
Farrold H. Silcox
Interstate Commerce’ Commission
Washington
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad
Salt Lake County General Hospital
Harald E. Wallace
Silcox
Judge Dismisses Sheriff's Jury In Clarksburg
Clarkburg Dec 2 A jury considering a charge against Sheriff Moore M Reynolds for appearing intoxicated in a public place was dismissed after eight and a half hours of deliberation. Prosecutor J Philip Clifford said there would be no trial on a second charge of destroying public utility property this term. The misdemeanor charges were filed Oct 25 after an encounter with state police officers and jail trustees were ordered to retain furniture from the state police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarksburg
Moore M. Reynolds
J. Philip Clifford
Reynolds
Mack Streagle
Fairmont
C. P. Wilson
Zaid Reynolds
Navy approves high pressure boilers for six battleships
Washington December 2 The navy general board endorsed high pressure super heat boilers for six 35000 ton battleships amid a long standing debate over warship design and construction delays. The report to Secretary Swanson praised efficiency and economy while critics warned the equipment was experimental.
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Washington
Navy
General Board
Swanson
Roosevelt
Congress
Rep
Maas
R.minn
House Naval
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Dianer
Willie Willis
Robert Quillen
H. G. Byrd
State House
Maryland
Economist
Heckler
Carbon,Carbide
Rome
Andre Francois-Poncet
Galeazzo Ciano
Ciano
LE Havre
Normandie
Herr
General Staff
Navy Department
Charles
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