Strike Parley Fails in Michigan Auto Strike Crisis
Governor Frank Murphy's strike peace conference between General Motors negotiators and United Auto Workers failed to reach a settlement today in Lansing. The talks resume at 3 p.m. Union and GM reps discussed a concilia tory approach, while a separate union session debated strategy. Legal questions and stock ownership claims were raised by union counsel regarding local prosecutor Joseph R. Joseph. Two GM units near Flint face closure by Monday as National Guard troops move in to bolster civil order.
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Lansing
Mich
Jan
Frank Murphy
General Motors
United Automobile Workers of America
Murphy
Board of Strategy
Detroit
Larry Davidow
Joseph R. Joseph
Genesee County
Michigan
Flint
Davidow
Joseph
Fisher Body
Chevrolet
North Tarrytown
M Management
Huard
Railroad unions map wage demands in Chicago
A five-member sub-committee of railroad brotherhoods halted a 300,000-member wage increase demand. President J A Phillips of the Order of Railway Conductors said the group will present its recommendation at today’s meeting for the unions representing conductors, firemen and enginemen, railway trainmen, locomotive engineers, and the Switchmen’s Union of North America.
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Chicago
J. A. Phillips
The
Order of Railway Conductors
Brothers of
Switchmen's Union of North America
Missouri Lawyer List Drafted for Supreme Court Vacancy
Former federal judge Clark plans to send Governor Stark a list of 15 to 20 Missouri lawyers he considers qualified for the Missouri Supreme Court seat created by Judge Caskie Collet’s federal appointment. He will write as a St Louis bar member and keep names private. He notes underrepresented regions may gain representation on the court.
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Lloyd ™ Stark
Missouri
State Supreme Court
John Caskie Collet
Clark
St. Louis
Supreme Court
Jackson County
Missouri River
Indian jailed for non alimony payment
Tulsa Oklahoma January 14 UPI report says wealthy Osage Indian Joe Bighorse remains jailed for failure to pay alimony to his divorced wife. He expresses willingness and has funds, but the agency handling his affairs will not comply with the court order.
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Tulsa
Okla
UPI
Joe Bighorse
Rey Alties
Women’s Clubs Fight Maternal Fatalities in 1930s drive
Mrs. Robert Campbell Lawson, president of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, said the dangers of narcotics cigarettes and high maternal immorality rates are new fronts in their battles this year. She spoke as board members from every state gathered for the midwinter meeting. the federation boasts more than two million members.
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Washington
Robert Campbell Lawson
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Kansas Prison Convicts Escape In Truck Flight
Two Kansas state penitentiary inmates, Lloyd Fairce and George P. Bradley, both 25, escaped from Lansing by overpowering a truck driver at the brickyard and using a blue No. to drive a heavy dump truck through a gate. They fled the penitentiary complex toward Highway 40 with coal loading in the vehicle.
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Lansing
Kas
Kansas State Penitentiary
Lloyd Fairce
George P. Bradley
Wyandotte
Highway 40
Wither
Kansas City
Lawrence
Blood Stained Clues Drive Kidnapping Case Across States
In California police sought Fred Orvin Haynes, a former convict, as a person of interest in a kidnapping case. His fingerprints were checked in Sacramento while officials at Folsom prison were asked to aid locating him. Rumors swirled of links to the missing boy, with reports tracing clues from Texas to Washington and British Columbia. Federal agents compared blood in a car said to carry the victim’s body, as a Tacoma funeral marked the burial of Charles Mattson with a message from J Edgar Hoover.
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California
Fred Orvin Haynes
Sacramento
Folsom Prison
Haynes
Cleburne
Tex
Hoguian
Wash
San Bernardino
Calif
Vancouver
B. C
Kelso
Seattle
Tacoma
Santa Rosa
Williams
Mattson
William
Muriel
Charles
Man Seeks Cook and Do License in Arkansas
County Clerk B T Hoff in Little Rock recalls a 73 year old man who paid 3.10 for a supposed cook and do license. The clerk says no such license exists and hints at scams targeting Black residents. Also notes the taotgra of New Zealand as a living fossil.
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Little Rock, Ark
B.T. Hoff
Hoffani
Senate fights heavy demands from bureaus
The Missouri senate debated the executive budget with calls to curb administrative requests. Senators Casey and Brogan urged scrutiny of needs, stressing care for old age payments, unemployment insurance, and relief limits. Debate touched on St. Louis debt, sales tax, and federal aid while committees reorganized for the new session.
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State Senate
M. EB. Casey
Jackson County
Brogan
Len Joseph Brogan
Old Age Assistance Department
Administration
Missouri
St. Louis
J. S. Rollins
Boone County
Appropriations Committee
Rollins
McReynolds
Senate
Liquor salesman fatally wounded in store shooting
Harry H. White, 35, a liquor salesman from Joplin Missouri, died in Fort Scott Kansas after being shot in a store near the Kansas Missouri line. Sheriff Vernon county Missouri findings say he was accidentally shot by John Bunn when a revolver fired as it was being shown, bullets ricocheting from a wall.
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Fort Scott
Kas
Harry H. White
Joplin
Hel
John Bunn
Kansas-Missouri Line
Willards
Stonam
Vernon County
White
Bunn
Death Kiss Slayer Awaits Sentence in Ohio Case
John Rueger, 51, convicted of second degree murder in the death kiss slaying of 19 year old Alberta Judd, his former employee, at a roadside refreshment stand. A jury of eight men and four women returned the verdict, Rueger faces life imprisonment after the Oct 8 shooting following his farewell kiss remark.
Simpson Jaked Over Reports He Was Bribed
Friends of Ernnest Aldrich Simpson plan to sue Mrs. Joan Sutherland for slander over remarks at a London luncheon after Wallis Simpson's divorce. Simpson aims to force a trial to perhaps testify about the divorce circumstances. Sutherland, wife of Lieut. Col. A H C Sutherland, is related to the Earl of Warwick and Lord Grenville.
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London
Ernnest
Aldrich Simpson
Joan Sutherland
British Society
Wallis Simpson
Ipswich
Simpson
Sutherland
A. H. C. Sutherland
Edward VII
Earl of Warwick
Lord Grenville
India
Black Watch
Cape Girardeau
St. Louis
Mississippi
Missouri Pacific
Lutesville
Black River
Piedmont
Williamsville
St. Francis River
Patterson
Mrs Simpson’s Uncontested Divorce and Royal Turmoil
Mrs Simpson’s divorce suit was uncontested and the decree nisi was granted after a brief Ipswich appearance before Justice Sir John Anthony Hawke. Edward abdicated his throne after Britain refused to accept Mrs Simpson as queen or morganatic wife. She awaited final decree in Cannes in April while Edward, the Duke of Windsor, stayed in Austria at Baron Rothschild’s château.
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Ipswich
John Anthony Hawke
Edward
England
Stanley Baldwin
Mrs. Simpson
Cannes
France
Duke of Windsor
Austria
Baron Rothschild
Flood warning as rivers near Poplar Bluff rise high
Forecaster Roscoe Nunn warns of imminent flooding along the Black and St. Francis rivers in southeast Missouri with Black River expected to exceed six feet within 36 hours. Williamsville logs 3.52 inches rainfall in 24 hours, while roads and telephones are disrupted as Green ville area floodwaters spread and levees face strain. Local relief agencies mobilize as the National Guard prepares for possible duty.
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Poplar Bluff
Missouri
St. Francis
Roscoe Nunn
St. Louis
Nunn
Williamsville
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Greenville
Fisk
Glennonville
Dunklin County
QO. C. Culsinger
National Guard
Martyrdom for Steer That Snarled Traffic
A stray steer roamed past hotels and clubs through streets then basement garages. Officers tried lassos and nets as the animal dashed a patrol car, rammed a radio antenna, and finally collapsed in a snowbank after leaping atop a patrol vehicle.
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Clarence Majors
Missing airliners found wrecked in mountains
Mexico City reports confirm two missing airliners found wrecked in mountainous terrain. San Cristobal Las Casas authorities say one plane carrying pilot Roberto Navarro and two physicians was discovered with all three occupants dead.
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Mexico City
San Cristobal Las Casas
Roberto Navarro
First tile drains in American soil still in service
Geneva New York January 14 1904 or 1905 The first tile drains ever placed in American soil remain in service here they were imported from Scotland by John Johnston a naturalized Scotsman who brought them to the village over a century ago The system marks an early engineering landmark in this locality.
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Geneva
Scotland
John Johnston
The Other Woman Lives Around the Corner Advertisement
An old advertisement promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for women’s discomforts during life stages from girlhood to motherhood. The copy claims the product helps tone the system and ease “fashionable disorders” while addressing periods of change.
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Houserork
Lydia E. Pinkhar
Lydia
Pinkharn
Misidle Am Von't
Tori
Thaw Swells Rivers Near Lake Taneycomo
Melted sleet and rain swelled rivers in the Lake Taneycomo district. Empire District Electric officials warn of a possible flood as 0.5 inches of precipitation was measured by 10 a.m. in Springfield Missouri on January 14.
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Springfield
Lake Taneycomo
Empire District Electric Company
Lake District
Woman rides five days with brother dead in Pullman
In Pratt Kansas on January 14 a 76 year old woman, Nellie A Nusz, rode a Rock Island train compartment for five days with the body of her ill brother Stephen Nelson after the pair began from Los Angeles bound for Cedar Rapids. She barred a porter, hired an undertaker in Columbus Junction Iowa, and only allowed investigation after a telegram prompted a railroad inquiry. The body was removed at the current stop.
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Los Angeles
Cedar Rapids
Nelson
Iowa
Nusz
Chinese Subject Wins American Citizenship at St Helens
C J Pape, living in St Helens for 15 years, may be the only Chinese subject to gain U S citizenship. Born in Germany, he moved to China as a youth, became naturalized there, held a government job, then returned to the United States. Officials initially rejected his bid, citing Chinese ineligibility, before confirming his citizenship after months of persuasion.
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ST. Helens
Ore
Jan. L
C. J. Pape
United States
Pape
Germany
China
Sheriff Jails Man Wanted for Robbery
Kennett Missouri January 14 AP Sheriff Ed Miles arrested a man who gave his name as Ross McCullough 32 wanted at Owego New York for armed brand jurisdiction. In custody his car held hacksaw blades and dynamite.
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Kennett, Mo
Ed Miles
Ross McCullough
Owega
Brand Jarceny
McCullough
Pussy-willows signal early spring in Amesbury
In Amesbury Massachusetts on January 14 a pussy-willow preview delighted residents. Buddy Gleason gathered a large bunch as harbingers of spring appeared despite the season still winter. Weather forecasters note the mild spell may trigger early flowering.
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Amesbury
Mass
Buddy” Gleason
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