Bulkley Pushes National Council on Economic Problems
Senator Bulkley announced a plan to form a national council on economic problems with about 100 private citizens from business labor agriculture and sciences. The council would advise Congress and the President at all times and include experts from various professions. President Roosevelt continued business talks with auto manufacturers and finance leaders ahead of Friday meetings after a Commerce Department conference.
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Washington
Bulkley
Ohio
National Council On Economic Problems
Senate Manufactures Committee
Congress
Roosevelt
Commerce Department
Business Advi
Kidnap Slay Suspect Peter Anders Captured After Four Month Hunt
Federal agents traced and arrested Peter Anders, 30, the confessed killer in the Charles S. Ross case. Hoover announced Anders confessed to Ross’s murder two days after a $50,000 ransom on October 8, 1937, near Rockford Illinois, and to killing his accomplice James Atwood Gray. United States authorities recovered $14,402.28 of the ransom and prepared to transport Anders to Chicago for trial.
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Los Angeles
Department of Justice
Charles S. Ross
Chicago
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Peter Anders
Ross
Rockford
Ill
James Atwood Gray
Anders
Hoover
Santa Anita Park
Gray
Illinois
Santa Anita
Spokane
Seattle
Wash
Portland
Ore
New York City
Philadelphia
Washington
Maimi, Fla
New Orleans
Weather Outlook for Tennessee Kentucky and Virginia
Weather brief reports show cloudy skies with possible rain in Tennessee tonight and Wednesday. Kentucky may see snow or rain in the west and rain or snow in the east with a drop in temperatures. Virginia expects cloudiness tonight and Wednesday with coastal snow or rain and inland snow portions and continued cold.
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Kentucky
West Portion
Virginia
South
Memphis Dean Discourages Parish Fast for Immortality
The Very Rev. Israel Harding Noe urged St. Marys Episcopal Cathedral members not to imitate his fast aiming at immortality. He said individuals must choose their own path and that his course cannot be followed without faith and scientific knowledge. He warned no one should rely on oranges alone for survival.
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Memphis
Israel Harding Noe
St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral
Dean Noe
Fire kills 21 at College of the Sacred Heart in Quebec
A blaze trapped over 100 students at the College of the Sacred Heart in St Hyacinthe Quebec. Twenty one feared dead with many injured as flames swept the dormitory early today. The fire prompted emergency response and police inquiries into the incident.
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Catholic College
ST. Hyacinthe, Que
College of the Sacred Heart
Rayburn asks House to help settle budget
Majority Leader Rayburn urged the House to balance government finances during debate on an amendment to the 1939 post office appropriation bill. He pressed Democrats to back restraint as budget deficits persist, while other measures on cotton program and war referendum moved forward.
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House
Washington
Post Office
Smith
D.-S.c
Senate-House
Roosevelt
Nye
R-Nd
Cortain
Senate
Rep
Ludlow
D-Ind
United States
North
South America
Senators Capper
la Follette
Teruel Command Falls to Rebels in Mountain Advance
In Hendaye France on the Spanish frontier January 18, insurgent reports say a northward assault retook Teruel, capturing Mount Muleton and tightening a pincers move. Madrid admits lines were pushed back slightly. five insurgents and two government planes were shot down in the battle around Teruel, 160 miles east of Madrid. The city had been held by the government since December 21.
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Hendaye
France
Teruel
Mount Muleton
Madrid
Battte
Segunto
Second Bullet Held as Cause in Bullion Death
An order for autopsy examination of James Bullion’s body was granted to determine if a second shot from Robert Little’s gun caused death. Prosecutors aim to show the shot hit Bullion at the base of the skull near the left eye behind the ear. The defense plans self defense arguments at trial.
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Blountville
James Bullion
Cook's Valley
Robert Little
Little
Bullion
Shelburne Ferguson
Walter Gray
John Blevins
Kingsport
Confession Ends Hunt for Slayer in Elmont Case
John Reo 40 confessed to the slayings of Mrs Lenida Waite 59 and Jeanne Schuellain 19 at Elmont last Wednesday. Neary said the motive remains unclear with Reo saying Waite humored him by binding her wrists. Schuellain was visiting. Doctors noted Reo’s mental state appeared unsettled after lengthy questioning. Reo and Miss Schuellain were connected to the case by proximity and motive remains unproven.
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Mineola
N. Y
Edward J. Neary
John Reo
Lenida Waite
Jeanne Schuellain
Elmont
Reo
Waite
Neary
Florence Termond
Lyndhurst
N. J
Termond
Samuel Greason
Hempstead
Long Island
Six Die in Kentucky Auto and Pedestrian Crashes
Six people died in Kentucky accidents on the day reported. In Louisville a car struck a freight truck near Shelbyville, killing Mrs. Alma Gutermuth and injuring Alex Davis with driver William Popp injured while freeing bodies as a fire consumed both vehicles. A seven year old, James Gan, was killed crossing near Russellville after dismounting from a school bus. Other deaths included Mrs. Warden Tompkins in New Castle Indiana near Eubank and E F Culbertson near Walton Kentucky.
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Louisville
Kentucky
Alma Leila Gutermuth
Alex Davis
Shelbyville
Roanoke
William Popp
E. F. Culbertson
Walton
Woman Under Arrest In Moscow In Espionage Probe
Washington reports state Mrs Marie Rubens is under arrest in Moscow and being questioned over suspected espionage. Navy bill debate shows Japan with more fully manned ships than the US or Britain. Tennessee toll rises to 706 traffic fatalities, up 16 from last year. Railroads seek exemption from undistributed profits tax in tax revision plan.
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Soviet Foreign Office
U. S
Marie Rubens
Moscow
House
Japan
United States
British Empire
Nashville
Nashville Automobile Club
Tennessee
Association of American Railroads
Ways and Means Committee
Five held in dynamiting slayings near Elizabethton
Elizabethton January 18 five defendants Crave Tollett his brother White Tollett Lee Walker Church Lester and Ulysses Walling are jailed on first degree murder charges in the dynamite killing of three children. Preliminary hearing is set for tomorrow as bond issues force re-arrests and transfers to Carter county jail ahead of February circuit court term.
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Hampton
Church Lester
Bledsoe
Carter County
Elizabethton
Here
Bledsoe County Friends
J. M. Moreland
Tollett
White Tollett
Lee Walker
Ulysses Walling
Moreland
New Government Starts in France
Paris January 18 Radical Socialist Camille Chautemps began forming a government with tentative Socialist backing to end a five day cabinet crisis. Socialist interior minister Marx Dormoy announced the Socialist council would not join a cabinet without Communists but would vote in the Chamber of Deputies under a people's front accord.
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Camille Chautemps
Marx Dormoy
Chautemps
Socialist Council
Chamber of Deputies
People's Front
Cesar Campinchi
Matignon
Japanese Defenses Harden as Sino Counter Thrusts Grow
Chinese counter thrusts push Japanese forces onto the defensive in two key sectors. Along the Tientsin Pukow railway north of Nanking and in the Hangchow area near 125 miles southwest of Shanghai, Tokyo reevaluates its front lines as envoy recalled.
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Tientsin- Pukow
Nanking
Hangchowg
Shang
Tientsin-Pukow
Suchow
Lunghai Railway
China
Tsinan
Shantung
Tsining
TVA Plans To Buy Utilities In Valley
Washington January statement from David E. Lilienthal, TVA director, says TVA will cooperate to purchase useful assets of Commonwealth and Southern on a fair basis, via conference method, avoiding water rights or inflated municipal prices. Willkie proposed full government purchase. Lilienthal argues for gradual negotiations and no radical scheme, noting few details yet.
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David E. Lilienthal
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Commonwealth and Southern Corporation
Tennessee Valley
Lilienthal
Willkie’ses
Tennessee Valey
Willkie
Commonwealth
Di Stasio Father and Son Die in Massachusetts Electric Chair
In Massachusetts last rites accompany the executions of Frank and Anthony Di Stasio, father and son, for the torch murder of Daniel Crowley. Anthony, 24, faced the chair after a late plea was denied, with the prison chaplain leading a prayer for the condemned. The event marks the first father and son executed in the state.
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Frank
Anthony di Stasio
State Prison
Daniel Crowley
Massachusetts
Anthony
Charles F. Hurley
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