Business gains quicken as autos and steel lead uptick
Auto production rose 56 percent while steel climbed 32 percent and electricity 13 percent. Carloadings up 11.6 percent. department store sales up 15 percent. Building activity hit a February high with $2.6 billion in construction outlays. Rail earnings surged, factory employment rose to 16.1 million, with weekly pay near $75. Yet total employment fell 21,000 due to cold weather and farming slowdowns, and stock markets declined sharply.
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Walter Breede JR
New York
Commerce Department
F. W. Dodge Corp
U.S. Commerce and Labor Departments
United States
Ex-Convict Admits Abduction Of Four Girls In Chicago
Chicago police say 37 year old former convict John Merchut admitted abducting four girls Thursday night and kept two overnight in his Northwest Side home. Kathleen Neumann and Carol Tillotson, ages 9 and 7, identified Merchut in a showup. He had served eight years for attempted rape under the alias John F Nalley and was released in 1945. The girls were not harmed.
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Chicago
Martin Joyce
John Merchut
Northwest Side
Joyce
Merchut
Menard
Ill
John F. Nalley
Kathleen Neumann
Carol Tillotson
Kathleen
Carol
Abilene Principal Named Head Of Oil Belt District of TSTA
R M Hix principal of Central Junior High in Abilene elected president of District 7 Texas State Teachers Assn at Wichita Falls convention attended by about 2500 teachers. Oil Belt district officers named include vice president Mrs Johnnie Quizenberry and secretary Supt H S Hefner. Escoe Webb and G H Kirby named state executive committeemen.
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Wichita Falls
R. M. Hix
Central Junior High School
Abilene
Dist
Texas State Teachers Assn
Oil Belt
Johnnie Quizenberry
Seymour
H.S. Hefner
Graham
Mohnnie Mea Long
Escoe Webb
G. H. Kirby
Falls
House of Delegates
TSTA
A. 7
Hays
Bob Nail
Donald McDonald
Paul Steph
A. E. Wells
John McFarland
Vernon
Keith Swim
Iowa Park
Ethel Roberts
Snyder
Hefner
Kirby
Sweetwater
Building Destroyed at Houston's Historic Noble House
Fire of undetermined origin Friday night destroyed a wooden addition to Houston's 110-year-old Noble House, a landmark. The Harris County Heritage and Conservation Society seeks to restore the old brick house.
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Houston
Noble
Harris County Heritage and Conservation Society
Teachers and Students Attend Regional Educational Meetings
A large Lubbock delegation led by Roy Boyd left Saturday morning by chartered bus to Denver for the Western Regional Meeting of the American Association of School Administrators. The group joined by a Texas train excursion, with members from Vocational Industrial Club chapters 10 95 and 109 of Lubbock High School to contest a district meet in Amarillo. The Carroll Thomason Junior High Choir attended Snyder’s Music Festival with chaperones and student teachers from Texas Tech.
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Lubbock
West Texas
At & A.m
American Association of School Administrators
Denver
Colo
Shallowater
Anton
Littlefield
Dimmitt
Dalhart
Roy Boyd
Labbock County
Texas
Houston
Dallas
Fort Worth
Amarito
Vocational Industrial Club
Lubbock High School
Amarillo
Borger
Levelland
Tulsa
Carma Jean Williamson
Lewana Hilburn
Sandra Sherrill
James Burnett
Waymon Muikey
Edward Shive
Carroll Thomason
Elois
Elliatt
Xfiss
Carolyn Taylor
Texas Tech
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Snyder
FBI 1% List Sparks Steak Diet for Arizona Cop Killer
Arizona killer John Alfred Hopkins, after seeing his name among the 1% most wanted, adopted a diet of six steaks a night while fleeing. He fled from prison in 1952, moved from California to Utah and Reno before Elko, was tracked by citizens near Watsonville, and captured June 7, 1934, ten days after appearing on the list.
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FBI
Gwen Gibson Washington
John Alfred Hopkins
Arizona
Penkins
Tares
Henry Randolph Mitchell
Wullston
Fis
Mitchell
Joseph James Brietic
Clayton
Lan
Caster
Canf
Hopkins
Arizona State Penitentiary
Watsonville
Calif
Utah
Salt Lake City
Reno
New
Elco
Elen
Three Children Drown as Ice Thaws at Lake Sepasco
In Rhinebeck New York three children Patricia Garvey 13 Edwin 8 and Joan Apap 12 drowned when thawing ice on Lake Sepasco broke away. Elaine Smith 11 fell in but swam to shore. State police identified the victims and noted the helper managed to reach safety.
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New York Lake
Rhinebeck, S. WY
Sepasco
Patricia Garvey
Edwin
Joan Apap
Rhinebeck
Elaine Smith
Salesman Yencey McGowen Sentenced in Houston Murder
Houston IP Advertising salesman Yancey McGowen aged 61 was sentenced to death for murdering Herbert Schwartz on October 17. A jury returned the verdict Friday night.
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Houston
Yancey McGowen
Herbert Schwartz
Local notables recover from appendectomy. court fines tallied
Joe Guy Smith Jr., son of Mr and Mrs Guy Smith of 2304 31st St, recovering normally after Tuesday appendectomy at Methodist Hospital with several days more in hospital. In Friday corporation court, 222 cases heard with 41 moving traffic, 176 parking, 5 other misdemeanors. total fines 642.50. Also listed are military service updates for Pfc Frankie R. Kelles, Bil Talley, Spt 1C Clifford L. Olgetree, Pvt Floyd Richardson, and Pvt Cam J. Jordan with hometowns Littlefield Springlake Olton and Bremerhaven.
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Joe Guy Smith
Guy Smith
31St St
Methodist Hospital
Corporation Court
Frankie R. Kelles
Carter E. Kelley
Littlefield
Germany
Kelley
Alamorgordo
Spt
C. Clifford L. Olgetree
J. C. Deletree
Springlake
Fifth Corps
Bremerhaven
Olton
Medical device fixes leaking heart valve during five hour surgery
A 53-year-old Detroit bartender underwent a five hour operation to correct a leaking heart valve. Doctors inserted a transparent plastic valve with a plastic ball, while hundreds of doctors watched the surgery from Receiving Hospital via closed circuit television to a hotel. The patient was reported doing well the day after the procedure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coolex
Micgan Medical Sociycal Institute
Money Filled Briefcase Strikes Italian Farmer in Modena
An Italian farmer in Modena was struck by a money filled briefcase tossed from a passing train. The impact left the man unharmed. Officials say the case contained a Milan businessman's name and the intended recipient of the money.
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Modena
Antonio Vilan
Pelee
Milan
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Lackland Air Force Base
San Antonio
Bil Talley
C. L. Walker
Air Force Technical Training Program
Pvt
Floyd Richardson
W. A. Roberts
Ft. Bliss
Littlefield High School
Ft. Hood
Cam J. Jordan
M. F. Jordan
Ticker
Detroit
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