Spectacular daylight post office robbery in Chicago
Five masked robbers ambushed a mail carrier and guard near the Adams and Clark main post office, forcing them into an Edison building lobby and fleeing with mail sacks said to contain securities worth between 500000 and 2000000 dollars. The loot’s contents remain unknown for days. Postal officials note likely non cash securities. suspects may be identifiable though pursuit is limited. Woelsch and Stastny are long serving postal workers.
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Chicago
Adams and Clark Streets
Fred Woelsch
Frank Stastny
Federal Building
Adams Street
Edison
First National Bank
First Union Trust and Savings Bank
E. E. Brown
The
Union Trust
Michigan
Indiana
Illinois
Woelsch
Statsny
Alabama reports surge in influenza cases across counties
Montgomery reports 3 047 influenza cases in 36 of 67 counties as the week ends. Dr Dill, head of the bureau of communicable diseases, expects more reports to arrive from remaining counties, swelling the state total from the prior week.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
D. G. Dill
Bureau of
Communicable Diseases
Colonel Smith Takes Up Duties at Soldier Home
Colonel Dallas Smith arrives in Biloxi to manage a new million dollar soldier home set to open for 850 inmates with plans to grow to 4000 beds and 300 employees earning 1200 to 6500 dollars yearly. Dr. I L Parsons and W S Shipman accompany him as top medical officer and regional VA official.
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Colonel Smith
Soldier Home
Biloxi
Miss
Dallas Smith
Smith
I. L. Parsons
Jackson
W. S. Shipman
Veterans Administration
Prairie dogs amid a hitchhiking journey to Birmingham
A wandering pair, Virgie Hubbard and her father with three prairie dogs in a bird cage, travel for four days from Cromwell County Texas toward Birmingham while Virgie’s mother lies recently deceased in an automobile accident. The scene shifts to Brownfield near Monroe with students and townsfolk noting the cold and a gridiron game unfolding.
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DeSiard Street
Virgie Evelyn Hubbard
Cromwell County
Texas
Birmingham
Little Virgie
Fifteen Held After Man Is Killed on Yacht
Eight women and seven men aboard the 110 foot Carma were jailed as material witnesses in the slaying of Captain Walter Wanderwell in Long Beach California. Wanderwell was shot in his cabin after a man at a screened porthole summoned him. Names of witnesses include Lord Edward Marion Smith Florence Wegel Nellie Parks Forrest Plummer E W Owen Jack Craig James Farris Ruth Loucks Cuthbert Wills Mrs Wills Edmund Zeranski Eugenia Noble and Antine Allen. Only four passengers were aboard when the murder occurred.
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Lond Beach
Cal
Long Beach City
Walter Wanderwell
Globe Trotter
Wanderwell
Lord Edward Eugene
Marion Smith
Atlanta
Florence Wegel
Los Angeles
Nellie Parks
Boston
Mass
Forrest Plummer
Hollywood
E. W. Owen
Jack Craig
James Farris
Portland
Ore
Ruth Loucks
Cuthbert Wills
Wills
Edmund Zeranski
Eugenia Noble
Antine Allen
Smith Sisters
Zeranski
Vanderwell
Widow of Tex Rickard Remarries Frank Dailey
The widow of sports promoter Tex Rickard married Frank Dailey a year ago and is now reported to be convalescing in a New York sanitarium after a major operation. The Associated Press photo accompaniment notes the revelation.
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Tex Rickard
Frank Dailey
New York
Associated Press
Illinois
Bruce Campbell
East St. Louis
Roosevelt
Allotment Plan of Farm Relief Praised by Expert
Dr Edward S Mead of the University of Pennsylvania told the Engineers club that the voluntary allotment plan mirrors President elect Roosevelt's farm relief idea. He said it aims to restore farm prices to 1929 levels and would reverse a four billion dollar drop in farm income. The plan would levy an excise tax on the con.
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Philadelphia
Edward S. Mead
University of Pennsylvania
Engineers Club Today
Roosevelt
Dr. Mean
United States
Heart disease proves fatal to J. A. Penton at 45
J. A. Penton, 45, rooming at 215 North Eighth street, died in an ambulance en route to St. Francis sanitarium after an autopsy concluded acute alcoholism caused his death. Neighbors said he had drank heavily for five weeks, with a three day period of intensified drinking. he told his wife his heart was failing shortly before the ambulance was summoned.
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J. A. Penton
North Eighth Street
St. Francis Sanitarium
M. B. Pearce
Penton
Doolittle flight forced down in marsh near New Orleans
Major James H. Doolittle, representative of the Chicago world’s fair, said a broken propeller blade forced his plane to land in a marsh in St Mary parish while en route from Houston to New Orleans. His two passengers were unharmed.
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New Orleans
James H. Doolittle
St. Mary Parish
Houston
New Oreans
League Called On To Denounce Acts Of Japan
China urged the League of Nations assembly to denounce Japan for occupying Manchuria, accusing Tokyo of breaking treaties and flouting international law. Japan countered that its actions were in self defense and criticized the Chinese boycott as a barrier to peace.
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League
Japan
Geneva
China
Assembly of the
League of Nations
Manchuria
W. E. Yen
Yosuke Matsuoka
Lytton Commission
M. Matsuoka
Economic roads urged at meet in New Orleans
Pennsylvania was cited as a model for economic road work at the tenth annual asphalt paving conference in New Orleans. Samuel S. Lewis said shifting road responsibility to the state saves about two and a half million dollars in local taxes and expands employment through highway labor. He noted up to 48 419 laborers worked on state highways last month under the rural road program.
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New Orleans
Pennsylvania
Samuel S. Lewis
Pennsylvania Department of Highways
W. R. Boyd
American Petroleum Institute
Salvation Army Launches City Campaign For Funds
Fifty volunteers began the Salvation Army annual drive with a breakfast at Hotel Virginia. Campaign chair S. M. Collins led the meeting and praised Capt. W. L. Workman for his flood emergency relief work. Mayor Arnold Bernstein noted city needs and the role of commissioners in supporting aid.
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Salvation Army
Cameo
Hotel
Virginia
S. M. Collins
W. L. Workman
Arnold Bernstein
Sawaraki Destroyer Sinks in Monsoon Off Formosa
Tokyo reports the Japanese destroyer Sawaraki capsized in the East China Sea during a monsoon with 104 crew feared dead. Four ships were caught in the storm 100 miles off Formosa, 16 survivors later pulled from the sea as the navy investigates the原因 and orders an imperial inquiry.
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Tokyo
East China Sea
Asia
Formosa Island
Kengo Kadota
Naval Ministry
Roosevelt hints at special session after Warm Springs stay
President elect Franklin D Roosevelt left Warm Springs Ga signaling a possible early special session of Congress. He ended his stay as he prepared to take office and address national recovery plans.
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Warm Springs
Congress
Franklin BD
Roosevelt
Three Prisoners Escape Caddo Parish Jail By Taxi Retrieval
Three inmates Charlie Chapman Gerald Cramer and Dan Davis escaped from Caddo parish jail by sawing through steel bars and lowering themselves four stories. They hijacked a taxi to Ida 40 miles away tying the driver J T Porath to a telephone pole before fleeing northward toward Oklahoma. Porath later freed himself and notified authorities as the search widened.
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Shreveport
Charlie Chapman
Oklahoma
Gerald Cramer
New Orleans
Dan Davis
Alexandria
Caddo Parish
J. T. Porath
Ida
Porath
Texarkana
Joe Leslie
T. R. Hughes
Unemployed Petitioners Deliver Plea to Congress Leaders
A marching group of about 3,000 demonstrators escorted by police delivered petitions for cash relief and unemployment insurance to Vice President Curtis and Speaker Garner. Led by William Reynolds, the delegation claimed 15,000,000 jobless and dependent people plus struggling farmers. Reynolds intended to report that the message was delivered. The exchange included Curtis warning against signaling any delays and Reynolds protesting grounds access and delegation size limits.
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Washington
Capitol
Curtis
Garner
Department of Justice
William Reynolds
Reynolds
Three Men Held in Pharmacy Burglary Arrests
Police arrested W. H. Garretson H. O. Young and Milton Sims at 2 15 am on charges of breaking and entering the North Side Pharmacy 402 Stubbs avenue. Garretson and Sims were caught inside the drug store while Young was detained after fleeing in a car. Cash from the register was found on Sims and a sack with whiskey was found with Garretson. Sims admitted involvement.
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North Side
Stubbs Avenue
W. H. Garretson
Lee Avenue
H. O. Young
South Riverfront Street
West Monroe
Hall Street
Monroe
Milton Sims
A. P. Clower
C. H. Sisson
G. W. McDuffie
Garretson
Sims
Young
Fascists Decide Italy Will Pay U S Debt Due
Rome reports Premier Mussolini backed paying the December 15 debt to the United States amounting to 1,245,000 while calling for debt revisions. The supreme council of fascism urged action, keeping a door open for a radical settlement ahead of the June principal payment.
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Rome
Mussolini
Italy
United States
Supreme Council of Fascism
Hoover Calls for 11 Per Cent Pay Cut and Banking Reforms
President Hoover urged Congress to implement a blanket manufacturers tax, a flat 11 percent cut in federal salaries with a $1000 exemption, and a sweeping reorganization of more than 50 federal departments. He warned banking reform is essential and stressed budget balance and public works cuts to restore confidence.
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Washington
Congress
Hoover
Renlt
Pathetic Appeal From Child Drives Charity Drive
A brief letter to the Good Fellows editor from a Mississippi Street child describes a family hard hit by poverty and asks for food and toys for Christmas. The appeal highlights a two day a week relief, a mother who washes for pay, and a father who struggles to find work, ending with a request for aid.
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Good Fellows
Mississippi Street
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