Mystery of airliner solved as wreck found in Andes
In Mendoza Argentina on March 22 authorities reported the Pan American Grace Airways San Jose wreck located after 20 months. Nine aboard were found preserved under snow with seven in good condition and two headless. The flight from Santiago to Buenos Aires disappeared over the Andes.
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Mendoza
Argentina
Pan- American Grace Airways
San Jose
Andes
United States
Argentine
Puente del Inca
Santiago
Chile
Buenos Aires
F. E. Camus
J. C. Lebate
O. S. Pezet
E. E. Raffo
Pinkus Rotszyld
F. L. America
Charles J. Robinson
C. W. Myers
A. Woods
Pan-American Airways
Mount Aconcagua
Americas
Three Die as Pan American Plane Crashes at Takeoff
In Lima Peru March 22 a Pan American Airways plane named the San Pedro crashed shortly after takeoff killing three aboard and injuring several. Pilot Homer V Farris and radio operator Lawrence Wagner plus secretarial employee Frank Large died. Manuel Trucco Chilean ambassador to the United States was among the injured with multiple fractures. his daughter Grace Trucco also injured. The plane had departed five minutes late on a southbound run toward Chile.
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Lima
Peru
Pan-American Airways
Manuel Trucco
United States
Chile
Trucco
Airways
Homer V. Farris
Lawrence Wagner
Frank Large
Ambassador Trucco
Senorita Grace Trucco
Senorita Carmela Bustamante
John McGregor
Pan-American Grace Airline
San Pedro
McGregor
A Would-Be Motorist Refuses to Panic on River Side Drive
A humorous Riverside vignette shows a stranded motorist failing to diagnose a halt in a car after checking gauges and manuals. A taxi driver suggests fuel, revealing the car’s tank is empty despite a twelve gallon gauge. The piece ends with a wry note on gullibility and a closing pun about Brown Paper mill worker J. C. Pancake.
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Jes
Riverside Drive
Louisiana
Brown Paper Mill
J. C. Pancake
Marital Discord Blamed For Texas Double Tragedy
In San Marcos Texas Paul Johnson a 30 year old barber killed his wife Ortelia Reyes and then shot himself in a murder suicide verdict after an inquest Justice of the Peace A M Ramsay found a marital estrangement as the motive Mrs Johnson had left home a week earlier following alleged abuse.
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San Marcos
Texas
Paul Johnson
Justice of the Peace
A. M. Ramsay
Johnson
Ortelia Reyes
Fingerprint ID of Goetz in Chicago murder case
A bullet riddled body found in a Cicero gutter was identified as Fred Goetz, 37, college educated gangster linked to the St Valentine’s Day massacre, the Kansas City machine gun slayings, and the Burke gang. Police traced him by fingerprints after initially misidentifying him as J. George Zeigler.
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Chicago
Cicero
Fred Goetz
J. George Zeigler
Goetz
University of Illinois
St. Valentine's Day
George Moran
Frank Nash
Kansas City Union Station
Pat Roche
State’s Attorney's Office
Fred Burke
Burke
Marquette, Mich
Brooklyn
Frankie Uale
Frankie Marlowe
New York
Toledo
Violence flares in New York taxi strike injures fifteen
In New York City during the taxi strike violence flared in the theater district and Times Square injuring at least 15 people and prompting arrests. Police reserves intervened as 5000 demonstrators surged down Broadway breaking doors pulling radios and forcing passengers from cabs.
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New York
Theater
Times Square
Broadway
Grand Central Terminal
Runyan Leads Bob Jones In Big Golf Event
Augusta Georgia March 22 Bob Jones signals his return to competition after nearly four years by shooting a 76 in the Masters Invitation tournament at Augusta National. He trails Paul Bunyan who shot 74 in the opening round as Jones shows erratic play and inconsistent chipping on the closing holes.
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Augusta
Bob Jones
Paul Bunyan
White Plains
N. Y
Jones
Augusta National
Four Year Old Girl Killed by Two Dogs in Oakham
Eunice Dean four years old died after a ferocious attack by two Boston terriers. The dogs were captured and to be tested for rabies. Eunice, daughter of George Dean, was walking home when the attack occurred as George Grimes alerted authorities.
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Oakham
Mass
Eunice Dean
Eunice
George Dean
George Grimes
Leominister
Roosevelt Faces House Clash Over Veterans Pay Aid
Washington March 22. The House votes 146 to 98 to block full restoration of pay for government employees, delaying the independent offices appropriation bill. Senate had proposed 118 million for veterans, which President Roosevelt threatens to veto if kept. Administration presses auto industry labor settlement amid looming possible strike.
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Washington
House
Senate
Independent Offices
White House
Roosevelt
Senate For Veterans
Auto World
Reform Looms For Liquidation Board
A bill to recreate the state board of liquidation and bar it from contracting debts will be introduced in the upcoming session. Backers cite it as a key fiscal reform to restore stable government in Louisiana, while the administration opposes it. The board’s six year record includes a $10,230,551 borrowing and this year’s $136,125 interest bill, forecast to total $3,539,240 on a $4,950,000 bond issue.
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State Board of Liquidation
Louisiana
Board of Liquidation
Huey P. Long
Carpet Bay
Baton Rouge Capitol Cost and Broken Promises
The Baton Rouge state capitol will cost Louisiana about 7.5 million dollars with 2.5 million in interest and final payment in 1952. Oscar K Allen pledged to relocate several agencies to Baton Rouge, a promise not kept. The Supreme Court chamber is praised while health and conservation moves were canceled.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Oscar K. Alien
State Board of Health, Conservation Commission
Supreme Court
New Orleans
Oscar K. Allen
State House
Allen
Conservation Commission
State Board of Health
Shreveport
Attorney General
Porterie
Huey
Beautiful port town of Japan razed by blaze
Tokyo reports a vast fire disaster in Hadedate, now called a living hell. 650 killed, 460 injured, 23 000 houses destroyed as crowds leaped into the water to escape the flames. Destroyers and troops rushed aid and guarded looting amid a shelterless night.
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Japan
Tokyo
Hokkaido
Hadedate
Tokyo-Yokohama
Ominato
Mudlump Causes Boat Wreck on Mississippi River
The tug Atlas owned by Jahncke Service Inc. sank after striking a mudlump north of New Orleans while towing four gravel barges. Six crew members escaped in a small boat as a relief inspection crew from the Mississippi River Commission aided at the scene.
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New Orleans
Atlas
Jahncke Service Inc
Mississippi River
Harley B. Ferguson
Mississippi River Commission
Mississippi
Point Manchac
Plaquemine
Otto Messer
Youth Is Held Justified In Slaying Of His Father
Vernon Texas March 22 The Wilbarger county grand jury no billed John Fluhmann Jr 15 year old after investigation of the fatal shooting of John Fluhmann Sr at their home. The jury ruled the slaying was justifiable homicide citing the elder man had been drinking heavily and had threatened the family.
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Vernon
Texas
John Fluhmann
Wilbarger County
John
Fluhmann
Vernone
Alfred E. Smith resigns from editorial post at New Outlook
Former Governor Alfred E. Smith announces his resignation as editor in chief of the New Outlook. He cites other business obligations and says his last articles appeared in March with April issue produced without him. He releases correspondence with publisher Frank A. Tichenor regarding air mail controversy. He remains active as president of Empire State Inc and as chairman of multiple boards.
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New York
Alfred E. Smith
New Outlook
Frank A. Tichenor
Air Mail
Tichenor
Smith
Empire State, Inc
Lawyers County Trust Company
Federal Broadcasting
Absentee voting opens in West Monroe city election
Absentee balloting begins Saturday at the West Monroe clerk of court office in the parish courthouse and runs through the following Saturday. Ballots for the April 3 city election are printed locally under state guidance. Mayor candidates include C. C. Bell the incumbent and W. S. Heard among four contenders, with nine candidates for aldermen and four to be eliminated.
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West Monroe
L. L. Wood
Baton Rouge
Wood
C. C. Bell
W. S. Heard
Glutting and Verry Reach Finals in North and South Golf
Charlotte Glutting of New Jersey and Deborah Verry of Worcester Mass advance to the finals of the 37th annual women's north and south golf tournament at Pinehurst North Carolina as of March 22.
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Pinehurst
N. C
Charlotte Glutting
New Jersey Star
Deborah Verry
Worcester
Mass
Car Union Heads to Hold Confab With Roosevelt
Automotive labor leaders met in Washington with General Johnson and President Roosevelt as several unions pressed for action. Wage disputes resurfaced with the Delaware and Hudson settlement at Albany, while others extended wage talks. Strikes persisted at Freins Holding in New Jersey and a Detroit power roller bearing plant, with scattered CWA walkouts across Pennsylvania and New York. An AFL union would decide Thursday night on a strike at E G Budd in Philadelphia. In Pittsburg California an employee voted for a United States Steel subsidiary company union. A taxicab strike continued in New York City.
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Associated Press
Washington
Johnson
Roosevelt
Joseph B. Eastman
Delaware and Hudson Railroad
Brotherhoods
Albany
N. Y
Rugmakers
Frees Hold
N. J
Detroit
CWA
Pennsylvania
New York State
A. F. of L
E. G. Budd Manufacturing Company
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Calif
Columbia Steel Company
United States Steel Corporation
New York City
Roosevelt renews efforts for peace in auto industry
President Roosevelt seeks industrial peace in the auto sector as both employers and workers hold firm. He will meet labor representatives this afternoon while AFL head William Green warns of licensing the industry if no solution emerges. Senate panel hears Carmody backing Wagner bill to outlaw company unions.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Senate Labor Committee
John Carmody
Rockefeller Coal Company
Carmody
Hugh S. Johnson
Richard Hogue
Washington, D. C
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