Crack shot stops break in at Joliet prison
An alert prison guard wounded two convicts and helped stop a five man escape attempt at Joliet. Five tried to scale the wall after binding a keeper with cords and belts. four reached the wall but all were captured within minutes. Names include Donald Loftus and Harry Gerken among the escapees.
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Joliet
Ill
Joseph E. Ragan
Donald Loftus
Thomas Shaw
Shaw
Harry Gerken
Peter Distich
William Yoho
Edward Rabalais
Ragen
Edward Monahan
Monahan
Weather Outlook Across States
Kentucky and Tennessee see fair conditions and colder temperatures. North Carolina reports partly cloudy skies with colder conditions Tuesday. Virginia remains generally fair and colder with possible snow flurries in the extreme northwest tonight.
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Kentucky
Tennessee
North Carolina
Virginia
Peace Parley Opens Amid Boyne Battle Echoes
The peace conference in London may reopen the old Battle of the Boyne legacy between Northern and Southern Ireland. President De Valera seeks unity under a Dublin government while Ulster Orangemen resist any move toward Irish unification amid long standing sectarian tensions.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
New York
London
Lic
Eamon de Valera
Eire
Southern Ireland
Dublin
de Valera
Orangemen of
Ulster
Northern Ireland
Utilities Sale Not Supported Among Solons
Washington January 17. A proposal to have the government buy out the largest private utility group in the Tennessee Valley received scant support from the first congressmen to discuss it. Willkie suggested the sale as a last resort. Rankin favored the idea if prices were not inflated. May opposed it. King and Norris objected to government purchases of power plants. Willkie said generation lines would be reduced to junk if cities did not buy them. An adviser doubted abolition of all holding companies would occur this session. Johnson attacked Roosevelt’s holding company stance, calling critics pikers and amateurs aligning with fascist leaders. Roosevelt arranged to
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Washington
Senate Judiciary
Stanley F. Reed
Supreme Court
Full
Judiciary Committee
Logan
Kentucky
Sermators King
Utah
Dieterich
McGill
Kansas
van Nuys
Indiana
Borah
Idaho
Norris
Nebraska
Holt
Reed
George Sutherland
Sutherland
Ashurst
Tennessee Valley
Congress
Wendell L. Willkie
Commonwealth and Southern Corporation
Willkie
Rankin
D.-Miss
House
May
D.-Ky
House Military Committee
King
Ind
Neb
Tennessee Valley Authority
Roosevelt
Rooosevelt
Hugh S. Johnson
NRA
Hitler
Stalin
Mussolini
Washington Town Hall
Johnson
Virginia lawmakers weigh budget demands for old age aid and education
Richmond analysts study the 1938 40 budget showing a Governor Peery proposed 163 906 282 for next two years. Most of the rise funds highway construction alcoholic beverages board costs student fees and unemployment compensation. The general fund adds 8.9 million with about 5 million from the surplus slated for capital needs.
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Richmond
Virginia
Peery
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
Unemployment Compensation Commission
Harriman Man Leaps to Death From Hotel Window
In Memphis on January 17 a Harriman Tenn man Bennett H Law apparently leaped from an eleventh floor hotel window in full view of commuters The note on hotel paper asked to notify Jarrett Law of Harriman The body struck a sedan below and then lay on the street until an ambulance arrived Police Homicide Captain Frank Glisson stated there is no doubt Law leaped to his death and identified his home as 415 De Vonia Street Harriman East Tennessee
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Memphis
Frank Glisson
Bennett H. Law
Harriman
Tenn
Glisson
Jarrett Law
Devonia Street
East Tennessee
Law
Four Men Go On Trial For Dyn amite Slaying Of Three Children
State to present vast evidence in upcoming trial in Elizabethton Carter County. Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty with two confessions already obtained. Lester Returned Church Lester, the final suspect, is jailed and denies involvement. Defendants bound over on murder charges are White Miller Tollett Lee Walker and Ulysses Walling of Bledsoe County.
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the Times
Elizabethton
Grayson
Lester
Church Lester
Carter County
J. M. Moreland
White Miller Tollett
Arnold Tollett
Harmon Gouge
Lee Walker
Ulysses Walling
Bledsoe County
Lamont Links Recession to Distrust in Business
Philadelphia January 17 Thomas W Lamont senior partner of J P Morgan & Co said at a University of Pennsylvania luncheon that a large part of the current recession stems from a general distrust toward business cultivated in the last five years He cautioned against attributing the downturn to a single cause noting world business activity changes are not caused by one factor and emphasized the need for careful analysis
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Philadelphia
Thomas W. Lamont
J. P. Morgan & Company
University of Pennsylvania
Lamont
Roosevelt
White House
Chinese claim repelling Japanese in multiple fronts
Shanghai dispatch reports Chiang Kai-Shek ordering no retreat as Chinese forces claim counterattacks push back Japanese on northern central and Yangtze fronts. Reports allege heavy losses to the Japanese as a guerilla unit seizes Chwansha and Chinese forces block advances near Hangzhou and Wuhu with Soviet air raids noted from Nanchang.
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Shanghai
Yangtze Valley
Chiang Kai-Shek
Eighth Army
Shansi
Yangtze River
Nanking
Wuhu
Chwansha
Pootung Peninsula
Pootuning
Paotow
Suiyuan
H. H. Kung
China
Tokyo
Berlin
Nanchang
Kiangsi
Chientang
Hangchow
Chekiang
Navy budget set at 553 million for next year
The House Appropriations Committee approved a 553,266,494 Navy budget for the coming fiscal year, up 26,723,186 from this year. The plan funds 22 new ships including two battleships, two cruisers, eight destroyers, six submarines and four auxiliaries, with continued construction on over 70 ships underway.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Roosevelt
Congress
House
Alexandria
Newport
R. I
Ammunitio
Pyro
Roosevelt vetoes bill raising post office part time pay
President Roosevelt vetoed a bill to raise hourly pay for part time post office workers from 50 and 55 cents to 55 and 60 cents. Representative May of Kentucky opposed government purchase of private utilities in the Tennessee Valley calling it the start of state socialism.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Charmen
Post Office Department
Hewitt files for divorce in San Francisco
Ann Cooper Hewitt Gay seeks to end her three month marriage to Ronald Gay, a 34 year old garage foreman, after filing for divorce in San Francisco. Police report two Decatur girls and an Owensboro youth held in a store robbery probe near San Marcos Texas, with two more Owensboro youths sought.
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Ann Hewitt
San Francisco
Ann Cooper Hewitt Gay
Ronald Gay
San Marcos
Texas
Decatur
Ala
Owensboro
Six year old struck by car as minister delays
Kenneth Riner of Long Island lies in critical condition at Community Hospital after being hit by a car driven by Rev. Harry Hudson near a bridge. He suffered a possible skull fracture and multiple injuries. Hudson reported the accident and said Riner darted into the road.
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Kenneth Riner
Paul Riner
Long Island
Community Hospital
D. C. Pierce
M. H. Witt
Riner
Hudson
Onnie Conkin
Portland Papers Gripped by Strike
Portland on January seventeenth faced its first day with no regularly printed news as three daily papers closed after a Typographical union walkout. publishers and union reps held meetings while switchboards filled with inquiries about publication resumes.
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Portland
Orc
Oregon Journal
Portland Oregonian
News-Telegram
Coffey Held Without Charges After Brother-in-law Stabbing
Otha Coffey, 25, was detained by Sheriff D P Pate at Monticello Kentucky after the death of Estey Smith, 28, from stab wounds at the Coffey home in Eadsville six miles away. The detention followed the incident on January 17.
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Monticello
Otha Coffey
D. P. Pate
Coffey
Estey Smith
Eadsville
Success Lynch Bill Disputed Rift Continues
Washington January 17. Forecasts of a looming anti lynching filibuster show down drew comments from both supporters and opponents. Senators Connally Bailey Barkley warned of extended talks or possible night sessions while administration leaders hoped for a quick decision to move the government reorganization bill and other measures forward. Farm conferees entered their third week as Senator Wagner’s illness delayed housing talks with a cabinet committee aiming for a framework within days.
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Washington
Connally
Texas
Bailey
North Carolina
Barkley
Senate
Smith
South Carolina
Wagner
New York
Senate Appropriations Committee
Judiciary Committee
Roosevelt
Generg Stanley Reed
Supreme Court
House
Treasury Post Office
Ways and Means ‘Ommittee
Wife of Financier Dies In New York
Mrs. Bernard M. Baruch died at her Fifth Avenue home in New York City at age 65 after pneumonia. She had been ill since Tuesday. The retiring, motherly wife of the banker and War Industries Board adviser supported private charities and funded a hospital wing in Camden, South Carolina. The former Annie Griffen, daughter of Benjamin Griffen, married Baruch in 1898.
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New York
Bernard M. Baruch
Fifth Avenue
Baruch
War Industries Board
United States
Camden
S. C
Belle Wolfe Baruch
Annie Griffen
Benjamin Griffen
A 110YearOld Man John Harrison Declares Life Began
In San Francisco on January 17 an ambulance crew found 110 year old John Harrison alive on a couch after a passerby reported him dead. Harrison, who claims to have been born in 1828, remarked Me dead Life begins at 110.
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San Francisco
John Harrison
Harrison
No Turning Back Says Noe In Hunger Fast Crusade
MEMPHIS January 17 The Very Rev Israel Harding Noe declares there will be no turning back in his search for spiritual perfection and immortality He fasts for 16 days with no food or water besides communion water and a wine sip three times weekly He says medical critic Dr Morris Fishbein is right that oranges cannot sustain life and credits spiritual strength for energy
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Memphis
Israel
Harding Noe
St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral
Dr. (Morris) Fishbein
American Medical Association Journal
Dean Noe
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Illinois
Senate Judiciary Group of
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TVA
Representative May
Lawrence D. Sanders
Sunbury
Preacher
Boy
Lebrun
Paris
Albert Lebrun
Camille Chautemps
France
Leon Blum
National Union
Chautemps
Blum
Georges Bonnet
People’s Front
Communist Party
M. Blum
Paul Reynaud
Bill
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