All Night Date Led To Murder In Nebraska and Missouri
A 19 year old life term convict Charles Gaines told reporters at Missouri state prison how an all night date with his fiancee led to three deaths starting last summer in York Nebraska. He described killing Alvin Collingham after a quarrel, poisoning Claude Hall, and drowning his wife Jean Collingham during a Missouri honeymoon. He also claimed pushing a youth from a freight train near Kansas City in 1936. Nebraska officials doubted the confessions, noting Garner had given conflicting stories.
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Charles Gaines
Tom Scott
Missouri
York
Neb
Garner
Nebraska
Maynard Grosshans
Kansas City
Union Station
Garnners
Scott
Claude Hall
Jean Collingham
Sense
Jean
Alvin
Collingham
Clem Hell
Gomer
Wer
Barton County
Hall
St Louis City Reports Balanced Budget For Year
St Louis reported a balanced budget with a $3 322 581 deficit wiped away as receipts near 15 546 963 and expenditures 13 050 901 for eight months of the fiscal year. Police in Swansea Mass investigate theft of two Civil War cannons weighing about a ton moved to Cranston Rhode Island.
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ST. Louis
Louis Nolte
Swansea
Mass
State Line
Cranston
R. I
Could Not Defeat Nazi Pocket Battleship Survives Battle
Thomas M. Johnson reviews the Uruguay clash and argues that a pocket battleship, with speed and heavy guns, challenged Allied cruisers. He notes Britain's cruiser superiority, France's fleet, and ongoing shipbuilding to counter the Nazi threat, concluding the menace persists despite defeats.
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Thomas M. Johnson
Uruguays Sinking SpeeAide Led by US and Allies
Diplomatic sources say the United States Argentina and Brazil offered armed aid to Uruguay to eject the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee. The Graf Spee sailed from Montevideo after internment talks, its commander Hans Langsdorff reportedly scuttled the ship rather than face British warships.
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Montevideo
United States
Argentina
Brazil
Uruguay
Graf Spee
Washington
Buenos Aires
Rio de Janeiro
Hans Langsdorff
Panama
Belligements
Maine
Cape Horn
Alaska
Otto Langmann
London
Chamberlain
Admiralty
Chamber of I Deputies
Alberto Guani
Guani
Admiral Graf Snee
Europe
Robert M. Ortiz
Germany
Ministry of Justice and Interior
Jose Cantilo
Hans Lerngstdorff
Graf Speeen
Expert with slingshot aids elk at Syracuse zoo
Carl J. Helmerich, 22, used a slingshot to break a jagged bottle trapped on an elk’s hoof at the Syracuse city zoo. Officials feared approaching would frighten the animal, risking further injury. Helmerich quipped that his form ten years ago was better.
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Syracuse
Carl J. Helmerich
City
Helmerich
Magistrate Fines Self and Pays $2 in Brooklyn Court
New York UP reports Magistrate Nicholas H. Pinto, presiding in Brooklyn traffic court, fined himself $2 for parking in a restricted area. The self-imposed penalty followed his patrolman tagging his car last summer and a four month delay before the case appeared in court.
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New York
Nicholas H. Pinto
Brooklyn
Ramsey wife says husband believed followed and went insane
Mrs George Ramsey testified in Evansville that her husband Russell T. Boyle, deputy sheriff Joe Phillips, and police chief D C Cato questioned her after his death in Kansas City. She said he believed he was being followed and may have been going insane. John Locke cited on diet and vitamins for children.
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Kansas City
George ©. Ramsey
Jackson County
Boyle
D. C. Cato
Independence
Joe Phillips
British cruisers bagged in December clash at Montevideo
Three British cruisers were captured on December 13 with thirty six killed and sixty wounded reported in Montevideo. Four able bodied stragglers were also reported held in Uruguay.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
Columbus Sunk Inside Neutral Zone Off U S Coast
The German liner Columbus was scuttled about 250 miles inside the U S neutrality zone with 579 crew members rescued by the Tuscaloosa. Officials weighed whether the act signaled war and where the ship sank on a route between Buenos Aires and New York.
End of Desperate Trans Atlantic Clash Ends In Loss
Survivors, including nine women, were due in New York harbor about 4 p m Eastern time. If they are genuine merchant seamen they may stay 60 days. if German navy men or an armed liner is found, detention or internment could follow. White House and state department weighed neutrality zone issues and reports later suggested no naval action occurred. Officials said German crew likely sank the Columus after passing the safety belt rather than risk seizure. Reports from Montevideo claimed US Argentina and Brazil offered armed aid to Uruguay to eject the Graf Spee, though Uruguay’s decision was the sole action. The US did not seek or receive help.
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State Department
Buenos Aires
Rio de Janeiro
New York
Frederick Stengler
Port Everglades Harbor
Fila
Tuscaloosa
Columbus
Ellis Island
Atlantic
New York Harbor
Gennan Navy
White House
Early
Montevideo
United States
Argentina
Brazil
Uruguay
Graf Spee
Guani
Columbus Sinks After Early Ocean Report
The Columbus was first reported sinking 400 miles east of Cape Henry Virginia. The Commerce Department began issuing aircraft engine certificates in 1927 and expanded to propellers parachutes and components by 1933.
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Cape Henry
U.S. Department of Commeree
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John Locke
Moerschel
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