Insurgent Roundup Targets Spain Enemies in Barcelona
Barcelona reports rapid arrests by the insurgent military intelligence service aided by the fifth column. Former government leaders including Eduardo Barrishero and others are detained on charges of murder as Franco forces consolidate control. تای
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Barcelona
Spain
Eduardo Barrishero
Ular
Latis Pomeares
Republican Tribunal
Elola
Fernando Berenguer
Asturias
Fifth Column
Francisco Franco
Conscience Driven Dentist Admits Double Slaying
Pittsburgh district attorney reports Norman Stewart a former dentist, later grocery clerk and bartender, confessed to killing his first wife and his son after fleeing the law. He described a debt‑driven break with reality and a theft of $200 to fund his flight.
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Pittsburgh
Andrew T. Park
Norman Stewart
Jacksonville
Park
Stewart
C. Dick Cable
Cable
Floods and Cold Grip Nation Amid Weather Forecast
Shreveport reports heavy rain and thunderstorms followed by snow and freezing forecast as temperatures drop rapidly. Continuous rainfall totals reach 4.12 inches in 48 hours with a sharp 8 degree fall in a few hours and warnings of a hard freeze tonight across Monroe and surrounding areas. Residents urged to drain radiators and pipes and bring plants indoors.
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Monroe Area
Monrar
Groundhog
Shreveport
Weather Bureau
Andrews Says Son Will Return To Penn State Next Semester
Elmer F. Andrews the wage hour administrator declares his 18 year old son William who has been missing from the University of Pennsylvania since Monday will be back in school when the next semester begins. Friends report the youth planned to visit Albany New York after leaving Wharton School. A postcard mailed from Poughkeepsie received by the family stated the trip home was feasible and William has travelled alone before.
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Washington
Elmer F. Andrews
University of Pennsylvania
William
Wharton School
Albany
N. Y
Andrews
Poughkeepste
Philadelphia
Europe
Hunger Strike at San Quentin Worries Warden
San Quentin California February 3 Warden Court Smith warned of potential violence as 2750 inmates joined a hunger strike at the overcrowded prison. The strike began with 140 prisoners refusing meals and escalated to about 3800 fasting by nightfall, then reduced as inmates were confined to cells on bread and water.
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San Quentin
Calif
Court Smith
Smith
Judge Finnegan Rules Slap Is Righteous in Divorce Case
In Chicago circuit court Judge Philip J. Finnegan denied a divorce to Mrs. Mary Kuhar 21 on cruelty charges and said a man may slap his wife. In two similar cases other judges granted the wives freedom.
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Philip J. Finnegan
Chicago
Mary Kuhar
Roosevelt denies frontier comments as false rumors
President Roosevelt called as deliberate lies reports that he said the frontier lay in France or on the Rhine during a press conference. He reiterated U S foreign policy and accused some lawmakers and newspaper owners of manufacturing the impression.
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Associated Press
United States
Rome
Roosevelt
America
France
Rhine
Italy
Europe
Virginio Garcia
Fascism
Alps
Rio Grande
Panama Canal
Washington
Senate Military Committee
Flood control hearing on the Ouachita river in Monroe
A Friday morning hearing at Monroe city hall reviewed flood control and navigation on the Ouachita river. The Monroe West Monroe Chamber of Commerce filed a brief for federal funding, with US engineers from Vicksburg led by Colonel Moses evaluating House Report 1684.
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Monroe City Hall
Ouachita River
Chamber of Commerce
Monroe
West Monroe
War Department
United States Engineers
Vicksburg
Miss
Moses
House
Secretary of War
Quachita River
Chamber
H. M. Williams, Jr
H. S. Riedenharn
Gordon Wright
George D. Holland
Washington page killed in hit and run incident
Mil lard F. Caldwell Jr a 12 year old son of a Florida representative and a house page was killed when struck by a car near his home. He was on his way to school and the body was found at Woodley road and Connecticut avenue at 7 10 in the morning.
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Washington
Millard F. Caldwell, Jr
Florida
Young Caldwell
Caldwells
Cox
Democrat
Georgia
Woodley Road
Connecticut Avenue
Cooper Named State Revenue Collector in Place of Grosjean
Governor Leche appoints W A Cooper state collector of revenue replacing Alice Lee Grosjean who had been in charge of tax collections since 1932. Grosjean becomes supervisor of public funds overseeing auditing of state departments and local entities. Both take oaths. salaries listed as 7500 for collector and 5000 for supervisor.
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Baton Rouge
Richard Leche
W. A. Cooper
Alice Lee Grosjean
Huey P. Long
Cooper
Leche
Miss Grosjean
Long
Louisiana
Oscar K. Allen
E. A. Conway
Old-fashioned paddling may curb teen divorces says judge
In Indianapolis Judge Henry O Goetz suggestively tells a divorcing teenage couple their best remedy might be a wood shed paddling. In Dillon South Carolina a farmer discovers mustard replacing his hoped tobacco crop after mixing seed sacks days earlier.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Henry O. Goetz
Dillon, S. C
Dillon
Portland Man Charged With Selling Songless Birds
Portland’s Jack Sitser 40 faced a charge of selling mute canaries he claimed were singers. A warble from one bird interrupted the trial. The judge downgraded the charge to peddling without a license.
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Portland
Ore
Jack Sitser
William J Wood crowned national checkers problem composer champion
Waukegan reports William J Wood holds the national title as top checkers problem composer after 30 years of play. He now competes against imaginary opponents, crafting tough attack plans and then beating them in solitary practice sessions. Continued on Sixth Page.
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Waukegan
William J. Wood
Wood
Daring Gamble By Poland Halts Hitler's Program
Poland defies Germany by sidestepping commitments linked to the Ukraine plan after talks between Beck and Hitler and a Ribbentrop Warsaw visit. The move could alter Nazi continental policy, placing Poland in a high risk high stakes position with potential gains if Nazi aims falter.
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Poland
Hitler
DeWitt Mackenzie
Associated Press
New York
Germany
Russian
Ukraine
Europe
Beck
Herr Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Ribbentrop
Warsaw
Berlin
Reich
Marshal Pilsudski
WPA trial hears high political names in New Mexico
In Albuquerque the WPA mass conspiracy trial nears the end of the government case. William H. Kinler testified about interviews with former Governor Clyde Tingley and Joseph L. Dailey regarding New Mexico WPA relief administration amid a broad federal indictment of 73 people. Kinler quoted Fred G. Healy on Tingley and Dailey statements, while noting Healy declined to comment on Dailey and did not reveal Tingley’s remarks.
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Albuquerque
N. M
New Mexico
WPA
William H. Kinler
WPA Criminal Division
Clyde Tingley
Federal Grand Jury
A. T. Hannett
Kinler
Fred G. Healy
Healy
Tingley
Joseph L. Dailey
Dailey
United States
Dennis Chavez
Democratic Party
Everett Grantham
86 Year Old Woman Again Asks Divorce
In Rogersville Tennessee 86 year old Ellen Jones filed for divorce from her 85 year old husband William H. Jones for a second time in two years. The petition was filed October 14 in Hawkins county chancery court with alimony sought. The original petition in 1937 charged cruelty and was dismissed after a hearing. The couple, married 51 years with several children, had agreed to reconcile and return to their farm. The case was set for a chancery term opening in March.
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Rogersville
Tenn
Ellen Jones
William H. Jones
W. R. Ahoim
Hawkins County Chancery Court
Alcom
Ellen
Addion
George F. McCanless
Altom
Chancery
Marca
Roosevelt weighs withdrawal of two federal appointments
President Roosevelt faces possible withdrawal of Floyd H. Roberts as federal judge in Virginia amid senatorial opposition. Washington reports say the White House may also cancel the reappointment of Donald Wakefield Smith to the labor relations board due to AFL opposition.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Floyd H. Roberts
Virginia
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Roberts
White House
Byrd
Glass
Donald Wakefield Smith
Labor Relations Board
American Federation of Labor
Smith
Death of J E Lockwood in West Monroe
Joseph Edwin Lockwood, 63, died at his home in West Monroe on Friday morning. Funeral at First Methodist Church Saturday at 2:30 p.m. Rev. C Karlos Smith to officiate with interment in Hasley Cemetery. Body at Dixie Funeral Home until 2 p.m. Saturday for viewing. Active pallbearers listed. honorary pallbearers named.
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Joseph Edwin Lockwood
South Riverfront Street
West Monroe
First Methodist Church
C. Karlos Smith
Hasley Cemetery
Dixie Funeral Home
J. FR. Henry
W. P. McCoy
Berry Yendell
Howe Clampit
F. L. Strickland
Yn Drew
R. E. Rushing
W. A. Kirkpatrick
R. W. Bandy
Marshall Downs
C. C. Bell
W. R. Herron
R. M. McClendon
H. S. Snyder
John P. Mc
Healy Faces Trial Over WPA Political Conspiracy
Fred G. Healy former New Mexico WPA administrator ousted by Harry Hopkins stands trial in Albuquerque accused of conspiring to use WPA funds for political purposes Healy is shown downplaying the charges during the proceedings and the case highlights tensions within the WPA leadership.
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Fred G. Healy
WPA
New Mexico
Harry Hopkins
Albuquerque
Healy
Dwnpg
Intervol
Hope Fades For Eight Firemen Buried In Ruined Office Building
In Syracuse eight firefighters, trapped since the five story office building collapsed, were described as hopeless after the walls failed inward. District Fire Chief Frank Savage said rescue efforts continued as two hundred Public Works workers aided the effort, while relatives gathered in a nearby fire station.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Frank My Savage
Public Works Department
Poison Ring Probed In Deaths Of Four Careful Life Insurance
Philadelphia investigators say a three state scheme killed Philip Ingrao and three men to collect life policies. Insurance records show 18 policies totaling 14031 on the boy’s life over three years, with 9571 in force at his death. Autopsies found poison in all four exhumed bodies and detectives expect more graves to be opened as the probe widens.
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Philadelphia
Commonwealth
Philip Ingrao
Charles
Ferdinand Alfonso
Guiseppe di Martino
Ingrao
Carina Favato
Philip
Anthony Franchetti
Alfonso
Stella
Martin P. Crane
Vincent P McDevitt
Pennsylvania
New York
New Jersey
Mooney seeks divorce after pardon, wife vows to fight
Mrs. Rena Mooney said Tom Mooney, pardoned after more than 22 years, demanded a divorce citing drift during imprisonment. She declared she will oppose any divorce action and described their years of struggle toward freedom ending with Governor Olson’s pardon.
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San Francisco
Rena Mooney
Tom Mooney
Mooney
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Arkansas
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Ico
U. 5
Snyder
Bunkum
Army Engineers
Washington Page
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Papa W. E. Badgett
Galveston
Tex
W.a.cooper
Filtn
Labor Board
J. £. Lockwood
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