Man Held in Mattson Kidnapping Case in Tacoma
Police seized a suspect in the Charles Mattson kidnapping in Tacoma Washington, brought him to FBI agents for finger printing and photography, and placed him in a temporary cell. An inked delivery note and a statement tying the man to the crime were cited by officials. The man, age 33, was identified as a former state reformatory convict. authorities withheld his name. Detectives arrested him while he sought to pan a man’s casting, with further details continued on Page 2.
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Tacoma
Wash
Charles Mattson
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Headters
Identification Bureau
Fersong
W. W- Mattson
Mattson
Chum
Mattsans
Specia
Warni
Washington State
Charles
George Burgeson
al Farrar
World news brief from early war era parcels
Berlin seizes Spanish weasel in retaliation for German cargo. Tendon-British warships on alert as Spanish insurgents shoot to halt British ships. Madrid politicians claim new drive on Madrid balked in battle of international troops. Pope’s condition unchanged. Moscow reports movement to train 1 000 Soviet Hers against German aviation plans. Tacoma boy’s safety feared as kidnapping talks fail. Willington president studies plan to raise labor standards. Daytona Beach guard mobilized to enforce governor’s ouster of woman mayor. Detroit auto industry to reopen Monday amid strikes impact.
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Berlin
Germany
Madrid
Vatician
Pope
Moscow
Tacoma
Wash
Willington
Daytone Beach
Pope Pius X Faces Uncertain Recovery After New Year
Vatican reports pain returned to Pope Pius X amid left leg circulatory concerns. Doctors fear advanced arterial disease may limit full recovery though the pope slept well and received early mass and New Year wishes from allies and family. Eugenio Pacelli joined talks as couriers worldwide sent prayers for his health.
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Vatican City
Pope Pius X
Aminta Milani
Spontiff
Vatican
Holy See
Holy Father
Eugenio
Cardinal Pacelli
Donna Camilla Ratti
Panetiff
Plot to murder General Calles foiled in San Diego
On January 2 in San Diego California a private guard stopped an assassination attempt on General Pictarra Eling Calles exiled from Mexico. A household member Braulio Estrada seized a lighted fuse from a crude bomb placed before Calles mansion and fled toward Balboa Park. Calles and relatives were playing cards inside while police maintained a continuous watch aided by private guards. The bomb described as a beer bottle filled with dark crystalline powder will be analyzed by chemists tomorrow.
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San Diego
Calif
Pictarra Eling Caltes
Mai
Mexico
George Stars
Braulio Estrada
Calles
Balboa Park
Sears
Estrada
Cailes
Sioux Falls Blast Blamed on Trio of Thugs in Weird Murder Tale
Helen Sigler, a 25 year old survivor, recounted a brutal assault with Harry Treeves, William Nesbeth, and Tee Bradley after a $37,000 Sioux City jewelry heist. The trio allegedly blasted a man and a woman then blew a warehouse with 2,300 pounds of dynamite and 7,500 pounds of blasting powder. The blast crater stretched 20 by 35 feet, and Baker’s remains were only a small piece of flesh recovered. Glass damage across Sioux Falls ran to $20,000 as police searched for the suspects.
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Tawa
Sioux Falls
Strowx City Garage
Lyons
Harry Treeves
Stowe Guy
William Nesbeth
Sioux City
Tee Bradley
South Dakota
Helen Sieler
Tiarok Taker
Baker
Siouxity
Lawa
Misa Sieler
Toy balloons burst injures seven at New Year celebration
Seven persons were injured when gas-filled toy balloons exploded at a Roma hotel during a New Year’s Eve celebration. A celebrator ignited the gas with a cigarette lighter, triggering the blast.
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Roma
Sona
Vurna
Crisis in Auto Industry Strikes Set for Monday
Detriot January 1 AP The auto industry heads warn of widescale strikes and factory shutdowns as more than 135000 jobs hang in the balance. United Auto Workers units plan talks with General Motors plants in Flint Michigan and elsewhere to shape bargaining proposals for the corporation.
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Detreit
Panehi
Tv- Light
United Autosmobis Workers of America
General Motors
Flint
Mich
Sun
Willan S. Knudsen
Tevousy
Knudeon
Homer Martin
Martin
Dafoe Aims To Shield Dionne Quints From Childhood Ills
Callander Ontario January 1 Dr Alten Roy Dafoe famed for the Dionne quintuplets set a New Year resolution to spare his five girls from measles mumps and whooping cough. He says the children can be kept safe with careful care and close guarding and insists they were not raised as incest children.
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Callander
Alten Roy Dafoe
Britain opens world naval race with keel laid battleships
Tendon Jan 1 Great Britain inaugurated without ceremony the world naval race by laying the keels of two 235 000 ton battleships.
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Tendon
Great Britain
Big Hole Trapper Perished of Cold
Anaconda January 1 A 12 year old trapper named Yapper Saderbacka was found dead in a snow white area in the Big Hole basin southwest of Anaconda A heart ailment is listed as the probable cause Coroner Matthew Sladich noted the man had suffered multiple paralytic strokes in recent years The body lay face down within a hundred yards of his ranch and friends rode to a ranger station eight miles away to fetch another horse for the trip back to the ranch
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Anaconda
Tohn Saderbacka
Yapper
Big Hole Basin
Southhwest
Matthew Sladich
Saderbacka
Saintly plea for industry reform from Father Coughlin
Father Charles Coughlin, in a New Nears broadcast from the Shine of the Little Flower studio, urged workers to be sensible Christians and asked captains of industry to carry religion into the counting room. He warned against false labor leaders and cautioned that industrial greed endangers prosperity. The talk, his first since announcing retirement from the air, was sparked by Bishop Michael J. Gallagher.
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Metrolt
Pather
Charles EB
Cougtaln
Hthedlr
Ney
Ufe
Jesus Christ
Ulrecesors
Bethlehem
Father Coughlin
Michael J. Gallagher
Metropolitan Life Ins building blast cripples power
An explosion in the 31 story Metropolitan Life Insurance building on Madison Square ripped a brick partition in the basement and crippled the electrical system. Firemen labored three hours to control a subsequent blaze caused by gas buildup from a smoking insulation material with a modern piece of equipment.
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New York
Metropolitan Life Instatce Company
Madison Square
Mire
Joseph C. Hanlon
Just a Minute with Irvis S Cobb
Beverly Hills Gat Jan 1 An 11th hour bulletin wishes all a happy 1937 except a fiend who drove into the place last night with a lawn detour and propped under the bedroom window shouting for a New Year celebration in a drunken greeting.
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Beverly Hills
Gat
Roosevelt weighs plan to abolish child labor nationwide
A White House source says President Roosevelt discussed a tentative broad plan to end child labor, shorten hours, and raise wages. It envisions federal wage and bar standards for interstate firms, redefining interstate commerce, and possibly FTC oversight, while local businesses would be exempt.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Congress
Tol
Federal Trade Commission
NRA
Hrouse
Schater O'Mahoney
D Va
Lehman Takes Oath as New York's 63rd Governor
In Albany New York January 7 Bert H Lehman was sworn in as the state's 63rd governor pledging continued cooperation with the New Deal to advance the march of progress.
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Lerman
New York
Albany
N. Y
Jen. J —Ap
Ierbert H. Lehman
Florida mayor resists governor and blocks takeover
Daytona Beach mayor Irena Armstrong defies Governor Sholtz order to remove her, holds City Hall with armed guards, secures court injunction preventing successor Harry Wilcox from taking office, and asserts she remains mayor despite state militia mobilization. Card notes Ambush of authority as papers and files are moved from City Hall.
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Daytona Beach
Fla
Dave Sholtz
Harry Wilcox
Ity Hall
Tter
Vivien B. Calling
City Commission
Gameral Collings
Wilcox
Pat
Irena Armstrong
Shorts
Kennedy Held in Billings for Car Death
Billings Jan 1 Deputy Val G Schwan arrested William M Kennedy 36 manager of Kennedy Building Supplies after an unidenti fied tip. Kennedy allegedly confessed to being the hit and run driver that killed Car A Nordlund 60 a carpenter on Montana avenue last week Wednesday night. He said he has been half crazy since the accident and he told his wife Friday morning he hasn’t driven since.
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Billings
Jan
Val G. Schwan
William M. Kennedy
Kennedy Building Supplies
Car A. Nordlund
Montana Avenue
Schwan
Kennedy
Navajos Cut Off by Blizzard in New Mexico Trapped In Snow
In New Mexico the Navajo villages south of Gallup endure a blizzard with eight foot drifts. Authorities report about 50 Navajos are snowbound and starving. two truckloads of food were ordered from Zant, plans for extra relief include a snow plow and more trucks, but access may take two days. An Albuquerque pilot assisted in locating the stranded groups.
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New Mexico
Gallup
Zun Mountains
Hanh
E.R. Pryor
Navajos Reservation
Zant
Fryer
Zunt Mountains
Bill Cutter
Albuquerque
Family New Year Tradition Carried On in Tacoma Birth
In Tacoma Washington a baby girl Downie arrived at a local hospital keeping an old family custom. The infant’s father Stobert Downie born on New Year’s Day about 25 years ago. Grandfather Downie also arrived on the same date about 50 years ago.
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Tacoma
Wash
Jan. L
Downie
Stobert’Downie
Retaliation for Seizure of Teut Vessel
Berlin reports a German warship seized a Spanish steamer in Spanish waters in retaliation for Basque refusal to surrender cargo and a German passenger from the Palos. The vessel was taken to a far port harbor while German officials justify action as defense of sovereignty. The Basque authorities asserted contraband was involved and later released the Tales after Koenigsberg demanded release, though cargo and a Spanish passenger were kept.
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Berlin
Farget
Germsin
Bilbao
Koenigsberg
Juan Aguirre
Madrid Front in Spain See-saws as Insurgent Drive Halts
Madrid dispatches report a southwest insurgent push toward Madrid halted by government counterattack aided by warplanes. In the Montoro sector insurgents were driven back and seven machine guns captured. International brigades from Russia France Britain and others battled near Oukalance and Villa del Rio with fighting limited to University City sector.
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Madrid
Cordoba
Montoro
Oukalance
Villa del Rio
Russia
France
Britain
Fly
Om Madrid Front
Todas
Innocent Bystanders Meet Common Fate in Philadelphia
In Philadelphia on January 1 a third victim, Fortunato Starzi, died from shotgun blast in a cigar store robbery. Starzi and Samuel Roberts, who died hours earlier, were described by police as innocent bystanders in the store.
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Philadelphia
Fortunato Starzi
Iis Lanzett
Bec
Starzi
Samuel Roberts
Polles
Chinese Drug Addicts Seek Care to Escape Execution
Peiping reports 5000 thrill seekers gathered for the government campaign against narcotic addiction hoping to witness executions. Officials said no killings today as New Year preparations continue. Crowds left without witnessing the anticipated pleas for cure or death.
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Peiping
China
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Ghlala
Irvis S. Cobb
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Cobb
By Joan F. Fischer
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Atdue
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Ren Hhohev
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