Missing Airplane Found With 12 Dead HOT HUNT MADE FOR
Missing air incident and kidnapping case unfold as authorities hunt a stocky man in tan coveralls who abducted a 10 year old boy near Portland Oregon. A ransom note reportedly promised $28 000 for the child yet no advertisement appeared in Seattle papers. Police widen the search across western Washington as federal state and city officers coordinate efforts.
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Harrison
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Nec
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Seattle
W. W. Mattson
Tue Hune
Washington
Wrecked airliner tragedy shocks Burbank crowds
Nationwide dispatches note Burbank searchers locating 12 dead in a wrecked airliner. Widened searches continue as authorities investigate the crash scene and casualties, with officials promising full reports.
Pope Pius XII Grave Illness Sparks Death Rumors
Gravely ill Pope Pius XII told a prelate that in his condition he cannot be pope and it is better that he die. Doctors noted paralysis spreading from his left leg to his arm as heart action remained uncertain. Vatican reports labeled his condition very serious with a possible passing at any time.
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Pietro Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi
Congregation For the Propagation of the Faith
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Vatican
Storm Sweeps Southern California As Snow Hits Utah Idaho
Severe thunderstorm and hail surged across Los Angeles and suburbs with hail penetrating car roofs. Snow and hail closed streets in North Long Beach and Santa Ana as Utah and southern Idaho faced a heavy snowstorm halting air traffic and trapping 130 travelers at a mountain resort near Salt Lake City. Air lines canceled flights and a missing trans port plane search was halted while routes to Salt Lake City were grounded.
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Fullerton
Newport Beach
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Santa Aula
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Utah
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Brisbane Lies At Rest Amid Home Scenes He Loved
Arthur Brisbane noted journalist is buried on the knoll of his 6000 acre Allaire estate. Family attends from a six story tower as theHearst, Lehman, Chrysler and LaGuardia among pallbearers. Thousands in New York attend St Bartholomew's and Park Avenue processions. No eulogy, simple service led by Rev G P T Sargent.
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William Randolph Hearst
Jerbert H. Lehman
Walter Chrysler
Alfred Hnudsen
A. Harry Moore
W. Warren Barbour
Meyer Florello
H. laGuardia
St. Bartholomew's Church
Park Avenus
G. P.T. Sargent
Seed loan bill eyed to aid drouth farmers
Washington AP reports Sen. Gerald T. Nye and Rep. Asher Burdick of North Dakota moving quick loan measures to aid drouth area farmers. Nye seeks 50 million dollars for seed loans and Burdick drafts 60 million dollars. They aim to have funds or seed to farmers by February, with mortgage waivers from federal agencies likely.
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Congress
Gerald T. Nye
North Dakota
Asher I. Burdick
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Nye
Burdick
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Scotch Mountaineer Dead After Fall on Scottish Peak
Gleneng Scotland December 28 Five skilled climbers attempted a life saving rescue of a man hanging head downward from an 8000 foot peak but found him dead. William Christia, 25, died after slipping in the snow while climbing Sunday.
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Doctora
Governor elect Ayers names stenographer
Lewistown dispatch reports Governor elect Roy E. Ayers names Esther Maclaughlin of Lewistown as his personal stenographer. Maclaughlin has worked in a local law office for five years and previously assisted Ayers when he practiced law in the area.
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Helena
Ayers
Roy E. Ayers
Esther Maclaughlin
MacLaughlin
Per Capita Public Debt Figures From 1930s U.S.
Chicago report cites total per capita public debt reaching 314 in June 1936. Economist Mabel Newcomer notes 200 of debt owed to the federal government, 100 to local municipalities, 14 to the states. Net public debt for 1938 pegged at 40.444 billion, up from 28.104 billion in 1929.
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United States
Mabel Newcomer
Vagsar College
American Economic Association Today
Misa Newcomer
Miss Newcomer
Wives Favor Cave Men as Husbands Says Study
Chicago reports that American wives still prefer cave men for husbands. W P Meroney of Baylor University, speaking at the American Sociological Association’s annual convention, said superordination of the husband and subordination of the wife remains the accepted status in most marriages.
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American Sociological Association
Saniety
Stsh
W. P Meroney
Baylor University
Bodies of Pilots Retrieved After Northwest Crash
Calder Idaho reports say pilots Livermore and Haid perished when a Northwest Airlines transport crashed into mile high snow near the Idaho mountainside on December 18. A rescue team recovered the two bodies and seven mail pouches, with remains to be sent to Spokane. Mrs Haid, Seattle, learned of her husband’s death via Northwest official A R Mensing.
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Livermore
Arthur Haid
Northwest Airlnnes
Spokane
Fred Cunningham
Haid
Wihow
A. R. Mensing
Northwest Airlines
Arthur A. Haid
Seattle
North Idaho
Mensing
President Roosevelt at Tomb of Wilson Commemorates Birth
Washington, Duc. 28 iv Commemorating the 0th anniversary of Woodrow Wilson's birth at Staunton Virginia, President Roosevelt today sent a wreath of bay leaves to his tomb at Washington cathedral.
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Duc
Wooodrow Wilson
Staunton
Roosevelt
Washington Cathedral
Former Read of Elks Passed in New York
Requiem mass for Joseph T. Painting pastor and exalted ruler of the Elks was celebrated at St. Maichy's church in New York. Fanning died at his home here Friday.
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Joseph T. Painting
Ruler of the Elks
St. Maichy’s
Fanning
Senator Hiram Johnson and the debt break
In Santa Monica California December 28 Senator Hiram Johnson is praised for pushing a congressional act prohibiting further lending by the United States to foreign governments still in default on prior debts. The speaker argues this stance would have prevented future world conflicts by removing backing for European debt. Copyright 1936 by Nana Trying Cobb.
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Hiram Johnson
California
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Congress
America
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S & Hiram Johnson
Crash near Saugus Calif. kills 12 in airliner wreck
A large Boeing twin motor airliner bound from San Francisco to Burbank crashed on Oak Mountain near Saugus. Nine passengers and three crew members died inside the canyon wreckage after the craft struck a ridge during a storm. Ground searchers found the fuselage and bodies amid wreckage and debris. United Air Lines officials identified Pilot Edwin Blom and passenger Robert McLean among the dead. A Christmas wreath hung near the door of the passengers' compartment. The Newhall substation posse led the initial search as heavy rains continued.
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Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office
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Union Air Terminal
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Fresh Strike in Detroit Closes Plant Making Auto Parts
Detroit December 28 A new work stoppage shut a Bohn Aluminum and Brass plant supplying auto parts as other feeder plants resumed limited activity after a two week sit down. About 600 day shift workers were sent home while some sat down to protest a discharge. All workers later returned to work at Kelsey Hayes Wheel plants as Windsor Ontario picketing continued.
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Trim
Randolph J. Roshirt
Kelsey Hayes Wheel Company
Windsor
Ont
Kelsey Hayes Company
Lovely Lupe Velez Fages Civil Action
New York city court records show silent film actress Lupe Velez facing a civil action brought by an account ant claiming unpaid services. She was bailed after posting 1900 pounds and released to return to her husband Weismuller who was ill in bed.
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Fages Civil Action
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Johnalo Weistuuller
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Weismuller
Fisher Body Plant Sit-Down Halted Cleveland Operations
In Cleveland on December 28 a sit-down strike by United Automobile Workers halted all Fisher Body plant operations, affecting about 7,000 workers. Union leader Louis F. Spisak said the strike began in the quarter-panel department and anticipated a GM-wide shutdown within 45 hours. Homer Martin, UAW international president, expressed sympathy by phone from Detroit.
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United Automobile Workers’ Union
Fisher Body Company
General Motors
Louis F. Spisak
Spisak
Homer Martin
International
Detroit
Attitude of Germany to be peaceful and moderate
Berlin reports outline Berlin's likely course to avoid war while aiding Francoists in Spain. Germany plans torpedo boat convoys for Bay of Biscay shipping and will escort ships to San Sebastian but will not deploy regular army divisions. Officials dismiss Franco British Christmas note as late and trivial.
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Europe
Spain
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Blacayne
San Sebastian
Adolf Hitler
Barchtesgaden Villa
Bombing Victim Reports Rise in Santander
Madrid reports an insurgent air raid on Santander killing about 80 people. Simultaneous defense advances were claimed on western southwestern and northeastern fronts around Madrid. Red Army militiamen seized trenches near the western Usera district edge, per an official statement.
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Santander
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Usera
Fresno death mystery and Barrymore funeral observed
Police revisit a possible suicide theory in Emory H. Parr death after a decapitated body was found on railroad tracks in Fresno. In Hollywood, Irene Fenwick Barrymore funeral services were conducted for the former stage actress and Lionel Barrymore’s wife.
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Alt
Emory BH. Parr
Parr
Fenwick
Hollywood
Cal
Irene Fenwick Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore
Peiping Drug Crackdown Threatens 100000 Addicts
In Peiping nearly 100,000 drug addicts face possible death as Korean dealers refuse to halt narcotics sales. Mayor Chin Teh Chum says the government edict to be cured by New Year may begin with a few hundred executions. The Korean dealers, described as Japanese citizens, are blamed for spreading the drug habit in the northern Chinese city with about 1.6 million residents.
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Chin Teh-Chum
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