Bridges Cleared of Communist Membership by Landis
A Harvard Law School panel led by Dean James M. Landis found Harry Bridges not a member or affiliate of the Communist Party after an 11 week inquiry for the Labor Department. The report says Bridges was energetically radical but United States democratic and constitutional methods remain his chosen framework.
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Washington
James M. Landis
Harvard Law School
Harry Bridges
West Coast
C.I. 9
Landis
Labor Department
Perkins
Maritime Union
Communist Party
Auioreys
Ridges
Australia
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Bridges
Dempsey
D-N.m
Dies Committee
Capper
R.-Kan
Senate Immigration Committee
Congress
C.I.O
Quiet New Year Plans Crown Washington Night
Washington residents plan restrained celebrations as government offices stay closed until Tuesday. President and Mrs. Roosevelt will be in the White House. Ickes and Morgenthau retreat to farms. Wallace joins a city hotel event. Farley and Perkins head to New York. Murphy remains bachelor. Hotels prepare cork popping at midnight, with liquor sales stopping at 2 AM per law.
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Washington
Ickes
Headwater Farm
Maryland
Morgenthau
Fishkill
N. Y
Wallace
Bob
Jean
Farley
New York
Perkins
York
Murphy
Thele
Woman Aims Snow Greeting Then Seeks Care After Frosty Fight
Miss Mary Hitcshew, 86, joined a snowball greeting in Wichita as the city welcomed the season's first snow. Her hands froze during the playful morning, and she was later taken to a hospital for treatment.
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Wichita
Mary Hitcshew
Destination Mystery Mail Mixup Across States
A Hagerstown family mailed Christmas cards addressed to streets named Franklin North Potomac and Oak Hill Avenue. In St Augustine Florida postal clerks redirected 62 cards to Bridgeport Connecticut, then Washington, before Washington recalled Hagerstown streets and delivered them one day late.
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Hagerstown
CRR
St. Augustine
Fla
Franklin
North Potomac
Oak Hill Avenue
Bridgeport
Conn
Mules Re-shod and Family Helped After Snow Halt
Warren Focks family from Lexington Nebraska stranded a week in a snow storm resumes trek toward Arkansas. Mules Charles and Mose were shod, dog given a new collar, and the family of six given Christmas aid by generous Hays residents.
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Hays
Warren Focks
Arkansas
Focks
Lexington
Neb
Charles
Mose
Hares feature long ears and legs in newborn coats
A brief note describes hares as having long ears and legs native to their furred young with eyes open. The entry mentions a new term starting January 2 at Lawrence Business College and an advertisement.
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Lawrence Business College
New lens coating boosts light transmission for cheap cameras
Dr. C Hawley Cartwright of MIT announces a metallic fluoride coating for both lens surfaces that raises light transmission about 10 percent per lens. The coating speeds lenses, reduces flare and ghosts, and is applied in a vacuum, not suitable for existing cameras.
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Columbus
American Association For the Advancement of Science
C. Hawley Cartwright
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Tech
General Electric Company
Cartwright
More Apples for City FSC Ships 3 Carloads to Arkansas
Authorities in northwest Arkansas are puzzled as the Federal Surplus Commodities corporation ships three carloads of Washington apples for relief. There are 30 carloads of home grown apples in cold storage awaiting higher market prices.
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Bentonville
Ark
Arkansas
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
Washington
Finnish relief director named for Kansas by Hoover
President Ernst Pihlblad of Bethel College in Lindsborg is designated by Herbert Hoover as Finnish relief director in Kansas.
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Lindsborg
Kan
Ernst Pihlblad
Bethany College
Herbert Hoover
Kansas
Girl Escapes From Car as Two Men Are Arrested
Virginia Bowman 17 escaped from an automobile after being pulled in by two unfamiliar men. She suffered cuts and bruises. Police questioned two men arrested at Medicine Lodge 39 miles away on drunkenness charges.
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Pratt
Kan
Pretty Virginia Bowman
Derailment injures 21 on Southern Pacific train near Orange
A Southern Pacific passenger train derailed on a trestle near Orange Texas injuring 21 people. The injured include two whites and 19 Negroes most from the first day coach of the New Orleans San Antonio Flier. They were taken to Orange hospitals for treatment. a section worker blamed a broken rail.
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Orange
Tex
UPI
Southern Pacific
New Orleans
Scot wheelbarrow trek ends mortgage itch on coast
Hugh Hood a 46 year old Scot trundled a wheelbarrow across the country from Los Angeles to San Francisco to lift a mortgage on two New York City lots. He endured a long summer and fall cost him three pairs of shoes. The mortgage holder promised April last year to cancel if he reached San Francisco within seven months. Hood arrived four days before the deadline.
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Los Angeles
Hugh Hood
New York City
Committed to Hospital After Kidnapping Case
Lawrence Spillman aged 28, a farmhand, charged with kidnapping Betty Lawrence, 7, on December 7, has been committed to the state hospital for insane atarned. A three-physician sanity commission found him an imbecile unable to comprehend his position. The girl was taken from her yard and held in a rooming house for several hours.
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Parsons
Kan
Lawrence Spillman
Betty Lawrence
State Hospital
L. E. Goodrich
Spillman
Ducks Alight After Rio Grande Duck Season Closes
In Las Cruces New Mexico on December 30 the duck season closed at 4 pm. A late flight of mallards from the north dropped into the Rio Grande catching hunters by surprise. Also reported Wichita native Charles Munson won his fourth state checker title defeating J B Marshall in seven games with Marshall taking one draw.
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N. M
Cpi— Ducks
Rio Grande
Wichita
Charles Munson
Ellsworth
J. B . Marshall
Marshall
Munson
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