Abductors Demand More After ransom payment
New York police traced the Brooklyn home of accountant George Katz after his four year old son Michael was abducted. Katz paid $250 of a $7,000 ransom and was told the abductors wanted the rest in $20 and $50 bills. Michael was returned unharmed after Katz followed directions to leave money in a Manhattan hallway. District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey opened an investigation.
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Katz
Manhattan
Thomas BE. Dewey
Miners Strike For Back Pay
Sixty three hard coal miners in Hazleton pause as Wolfe Colliery officials prepare to distribute wages five days overdue. The miners stay inside the Ongida mine for a second day amid tense protest over pay.
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Hazleton
Wolfe Colliecivs Company
Ongida
Miners Bury Underground Over Back Pay Demands
Miners 250 to 500 feet below surface vow to stay underground until back pay claims dating over a year are resolved. Superintendent Peter Boyle says workings will not resume. Workers sleep on planks and shanties while outsiders supply food and clothing amid the standoff.
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Mince
Peter Boyle
William J. Bottomley
Bund Meeting Turns Violent Beset by Anti Nazi Pickets
In Los Angeles a German American Bund meeting drew 400 people who pelted by eggs and overripe vegetables. Police answered a riot call as Nazi demonstrators were jeered outside and faced a cheering picket line carrying Socialist Workers Party placards. One man in Nazi insignia was beaten and risks of inside confrontation prompted band members to arm themselves.
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Los Angeles
Adolf Hitler
George Washington
Deutsches Haus
Socialist Workers Party
Hitler
Flashes Of Life Wee Oseese Not At Liberty
Wall City Bulletin editor notes confinement prevents attendance at Idaho Editorial Association meeting. Publication by Idaho penitentiary inmates. Washington speeches may change if Representative Wil declines.
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Liberty
Boise
Idaho
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Wall City Bulletin
Idaho Editorial Association
Idaho Penitential
Olympia
Wash
Washington State
Wil
Pennock bill seeks oath pledges from state officers
A legislative measure proposed by J. Pennock would require major state officials to add a campaign pledge to their oaths. In Allentown Pennsylvania a factory worker’s wife gave birth to twins 60 hours apart, with the boy born Monday and the girl last night. Doctors said both babies are premature but healthy and doing well.
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Jasper
Allentown
Allentown Hospital
Harold Farnsworth
Balkan Entente Senses Substantial Hitler Gain in Balkans
The Balkan entente members Yugoslavia Romania Turkey and Greece met in Bucharest to assess Hitler's economic and political reach in the region. They issued a united view supporting sovereign ties and peace while Bulgaria remains a holdout seeking territorial revisions. Bulgaria had previously signed a non aggression pact with entente members in July last year to frame disputes as peaceful discussions.
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Sinc
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Rumania
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Greece
Bombay
Ferdinand
Germany
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Man And Wife Draw Sentences On Shoplifting Charges
D. D. Hofer and Barbara Hofer of 556 Dakota Avenue North pleaded guilty to shoplifting before Municipal Judge C. N. Hall. Each was fined 20 dollars or 10 days in jail. Barbara Hofer’s sentence was suspended on good behavior. Police said the Hofers admitted stealing articles at Montgomery Wars, F. W. Woolworth, and Unc Waibel Hardware stores.
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D. D. Hofer
Barbara
Dakota Avenue North
C. N. Hall
1938 Academy Awards Dinner Hails Symbolic Achievements
The 12th annual awards dinner of the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences honors achievements as stars earn up to seven thousand five hundred dollars weekly. In London, many elementary classes have over forty children, with about 12,000 votes cast already counting toward statuette winners.
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Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences
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