Family Clings to Hope as Mattson Boy Safely Missing
In Tacoma authorities and the Mattson family show renewed confidence after reports of contact with the 10 year old Charles Mattson's kidnapper. Dr W W Mattson denies statements about ransom talks while family members, including Charles' sister Muriel and brother William, are said to be recovering from the shock. A rumor of a ransom payment circulates as a gray-haired man in a small coupe was seen near the house.
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Tacoma
Wash
Charles Mattson
W. W. Mattson
Dr. Mattson
Charles
Associated Press
John Flint
Behind the Scenes in Washington Turn for Peace or War
Washington correspondent reports on President's options as Barrage War or Peace faces debate. Tugwell weighs pathways in capital, signaling possible shifts in policy and risk.
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Tugwell
Roosevelt’s next four years shaped by balance of power
Washington observers forecast how Roosevelt will steer policy in the coming term. Stanley High Ernest Lindley and Ward Tugwell foresee possible shifts on business regulation taxes and court liberalization. They expect strain between reform aims and conservative pushback amid international tension and labor measures.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Stanley High
Liberty
Ernest Bindley
The
Nation
Ward G. Tugwell
New Rethree
High
Lindley
Gwell
FD. R
Heindi- F. D. R
U. S&s. Bet of Commerce
Velt
Ian
U. S. Supreme Court
Actress Vivian Jackson Dies In Sleigh Accident Foreshortened
The report states actress Vivian Jackson was killed and her fiance Joyce Padants injured in a sleighing accident near St Moritz. Joyce survived but was gravely ill in a private hospital as staff described her condition as unfavorable yet she remained awake and receiving visitors.
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Aden
Switzerland
Pegsy Hopkins
Joyce
Vivian Jackson
Oyce
Miss
St. Moritz
Jackson
Migs
Civil chiefs in Spain may move soon to Madrid
Madrid reports say several members of the Spanish Socialist cabinet plan to return to the besieged capital to keep contact with defenders. Optimism grows that government offices may reopen in the center as the 54 day siege faces a turning tide despite General Jose Miaja's control of defense and winter fighting halting in the trenches.
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Madrid
Jose Miaja
Francisco Largo Caballero
Valencia
Manuel Zana
Barcelona
Monroe to Ring in 1937 with Local Celebrations
Monroe plans a New Year’s Eve ball at Lakeside Country Club for members and guests and various clubs host dances. Midnight shows loom at Paramount and Capitol. Veterans of Foreign Wars will mark 1937 at a De Siard Street event. watch night meetings are canceled by Methodist churches. First Baptist and Salvation Army schedule services with a 8:30 p.m. program and midnight finish.
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Monroe
Lakeside Country Club
Cherokee Terrace
Three Mile Inn
Paramount
Capitol
Rodney J. Hobbs Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
DeSiard Street
Siegle Theater
West Monroe
First Baptist Church
Salvation Army
Brownlow Hastings
Ferocious dogs loosed on rebels near Villa Verde
Avila Spain Dec 31 Fierce dogs trained and loosed by Socialist militiamen during hand to hand fighting with insurgents surprised General Jose Varela's troops in a government counter attack near Villa Verde. The animals leaped at throats biting several fascists as they followed a signal with no warning.
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Avila
Spain
Jose Varela
Villa Verde
Elephant headed sea monster washes ashore in Soulac
Fishermen at Soulac report a strange 18 foot long carcass with a trunkless elephant like head and three foot fins along the back. They describe huge teeth and say the creature seems to be a wounded marine mammal wash up near the Gironde mouth.
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Gironde
France
Voters rush to sign poll books in Ouachita parish
Voters crowded the sheriff’s office in Ouachita parish to sign state poll books before midnight, risking loss of voting rights for the next two years. The lack of Monroe city, gubernatorial, or presidential elections lowers urgency, with potential future elections in 1938 and possible 1937 clerk of the parish court race.
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Ouachita Parish
Sheriff's Department
Monroe
West Monroe
Pat S. Hamilton
Libbey Owens Ford Glass Plant Closes Shreveport
A complete shutdown at the Libbey Owens Ford Glass Shreveport plant and closing of extra furnaces at other plants due to the extended workers strike, reported today by plant manager C. H. Wright.
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Shreveport
Libbey- Owens-Ford Glass Company
C. H. Wright
Four Burned Women in Selma Masquerade Tragedy
Four society matrons burned at a Selma Christmas masquerade rest in hospital with fear for their lives. A 25 year old, Mrs Cora Lee Gayle, died after a match ignited costumes turning the dance into a tragedy.
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Selma
Ala
Cora Lee Gayle
Black Belt
Alston Keith
Tyler Wilby Cleveland
Bernard Reiholds
Clarence Agee
Ed Harris
Leaske Harris
Richard Williams
William Carig
Leon Rowan
Arnold Stewart
James Rowell
Phantom Club
Arnold
Alabama Dealers Hit at Sales Tax
Alabama merchants protest the new gross receipts tax set to take effect tomorrow on retail sales and amusements. In Mobile a senate committee sub group readies to revise the liquor bill while 150 Birmingham grocers vow not to pay. Governor Graves vacationing as the tax aims to raise 4.5 million for schools and homestead exemptions.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Mobile
Alabama Senate Temperance Committee
Consumers’ Anti
Birmingham
Bibb Graves
Foley
Newlyweds on dog track get nowhere fast
Avon Mass December 31 two newly married couples misled by a wayside parker finally left Taunton dog track road for an oyster supper. They argued the dirt road loop led to Brockton until the parker clarified it was the Taunton track. They recalled passing the same car repeatedly.
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Avon
Mass
Parker
Taunton Race Track
Brockton
Taunton
Two Teens Held For Robberies In Ouachita Parish
Sheriff Milton Coverdale said J G Wood 22 of West Monroe and a Monroe juvenile were arrested after a Monday night break in at Joe Townes night club in Winnsboro Road area. They admitted also robbing an establishment in Rayville Tuesday night where a night marshal fired as they fled.
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Sheriff's Department
Milton Coverdale
J. G. Wood
West Monroe
Monroe
Rayville
Wood
Ouachita Parish
Joe Townes
South Second Street
Winnsboro Road
Governor appoints Calhoun to Louisiana tax commission
Baton Rouge December 31 Governor Richard Leche named former State Representative W F Calhoun of Iena to the Louisiana tax commission to replace H Lester Hughes who resigned to become district attorney of Natchitoches Parish on January 3 .
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Baton Rouge
Richard Leche
W. F. Calhoun
Iena
Louisiana Tax Commission
H. Lester Hughes
Natchitoches
Pope Pius Recovers as Cardinals and Faithful Pray
Pope Pius the seventeenth, 79, rests more peacefully after circulatory illness as 16 cardinals and 10,000 lay mourns gather at St. John Lateran to pray for his recovery and draft New Year’s greetings. Attendants note improved rest and a mass outside his bedroom.
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Vatican City
Pope Pius
Church of St. John Lateran
Pope Saint Sylvester
Donna Camilla Ratti
Signora Fermo Ratti
Marchesa Persichetti-Ugolini
Francesco Cardinal Marchetti Selvaggiani
Wilson New Chief Of Secret Service
Frank J. Wilson was appointed chief of the Secret Service by Secretary Morgenthau, succeeding William H. Moran who retired after 54 years. Joseph E. Murphy was named assistant chief and will assume duties tomorrow. Morgenthau praised both men and noted Murphy’s reinstatement reflects his strong past work.
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Washington
Frank J. Wilson
Internal Revenue Bureau
Secret Service
Morgenthau
William H. Moran
Joseph E. Murphy
Wilson
Murphy
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Justice Department
Roosevelt
Prosperity 1937 Keynote in New Year Celebrations
New York prepares for a record New Year’s Eve with peak crowds across the nation. Times Square merchants board up for protection while police brace for over a million people. The New York Times cites costs may exceed 10 million dollars as hotels theaters and clubs see a rush in reservations.
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Times Square
Coffin Warning as Drug Crackdown Begins in Nanking
In Nanking hundreds of coffins adorn Chinese cities as a stark warning to drug addicts while hospitals overflow seeking last minute cures. The new anti narcotic code takes effect at midnight with police conducting house to house searches for traffickers and users.
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Nanking
China
Bears Bite 50 Men in National Parks
Victor H. Cahalane of the national park service said 50 bear bite cases were recorded last summer in the parks. Forty of the injuries were man provoked by feeding, petting, or teasing bears at close range.
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Washington
National
Victor H. Cahalane
National Park Service
Strikes Halt Work in Many GM Plants Across Industry
Detroit, Dec 31 The spread of strikes against General Motors units threatens a broader auto industry tie up, except Ford. The No. 1 Fisher plant at Flint closed with 6,500 workers laid off as strikes spread to five GM Fisher body plants and nearby Chevrolet plants relying on those bodies. Buick, with 16,000 workers, faces uncertain supply prospects.
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Detroit
General Motors Corporation
Ford Motor Company
General Motors
Alfred H. Ward
Ward
Automotive Reports
Ford
Committee For Industrial Organization
Automotive Industry
John L. Lewis
United Automobile Workers of America
Fisher Body
Chevrolet
Fisher
Flint
Mich
Buick Motor Company
Buick
Minister Defends College at Mena in Arkansas
Rev Haven Perkins chair of Commonwealth Labor College in Ouachita mountains defends the school against charges of teaching communism socialism and atheism. He says the college upholds the US constitution and flag and receives no support from foreign or communist groups. Summers, a Baptist pastor and local citizen committee leader, had urged closure of the institution.
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Mena
Ark
Haven Perkins
Commonwealth Labor College
Ouachita Mountain
United States
L. D. Summers
Commonwealth
Summers
Citizens’ Committee
Perkins
Rhodes Scholas
Harvard
National Seminary For the Church
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