Woman confesses gift of God baby hoax in Missouri
Mrs. Nellie Tipton Muench admitted to the St Louis Post Dispatch she staged the gift of God baby hoax for love of Dr Marsh Pittman the bachelor physician. She and husband Dr Ludwig O Muench were convicted in federal court of mail fraud and awaiting sentence. She denied bearing a son, aligning with a court ruling that the infant belonged to Anna Ware unwed servant girl from Newton Pennsylvania. The confession was given in Springfield Missouri.
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Associated Press
St. Louis
Nellie Tipton Muench
St. Louis Post- Dispatch
Marsh Pittman
The
Post-Dispatch
Muench
Ludwig O. Muench
Pittman
Municipal Fines Total Ten Bucks
Midweek police court fined Tommy Guarles and A. L. Redden. Guarles, described as negro, was convicted of loitering after sleeping in the Union Bus terminal waiting room and agreed to work off the $5 fine plus costs. Redden was found guilty of drunkenness and fined $5 and costs.
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Tommy Guarles
Union
Guarles
J. Q. Stover
A. L. Redden
CC Enrollment Will Be Raised to 350000
Washington director Robert Fechner announced 50 742 men would be enrolled in the Civilian Conservation Corps between January 1 and January 20 to raise the strength to 350 000. New enrollees replace dropouts and discharges and will join 2 085 camps nationwide, including 44 017 youths, 3 470 veterans and 3 255 locally selected men near CCC camps. West Virginia quota set at 1 175.
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Associated Press
Washington
Robert Fechner
Civilian Conservation Corps
Corps
CCC
West Virginia
German air base charges stir Ifni rumors in Africa
A Spanish government spokesman accused Germany of building a major air base in Ifni, a Spanish African possession. He asserted reports described large airfields, hangars, mooring masts and repair shops across Ifni, a territory ceded by Morocco in 1860 with 965 square miles. Separately, Augusta’s Forest Hills club unveiled a monument at the fifth hole honoring Al Watrous for his double eagle.
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Associated Press
Valencia
Germany
Ifni
Africa
Ifnni
Spain
Morocco
Forest Hills Country Club
Augusta
al Watrous
Harper Office Hastmas Rush at Harper Post Office
The Harper post office serving about 200 patrons reports a Christmas rush. Assistant to the postmistress Mrs. French A Harper notes stamps costing 12.50 were cancelled on mail that day, versus an average year day of 1.50 in stamp value. Patronage at the Harper office reflects seasonal demand.
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Harper Post Office
D. R. Dunn
French A. Harper
Harper
Overpass Construction Brings Workers to Virginian Rail Line
The office gains additional staff as workers assigned to the Virginian Railroad overpass project arrive. The contractor and crew receive much of their mail at the Harper office, reflecting local logistics during the work surge.
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Virginian Railroad
Harper
Arrests Break Up White Slave Ring in West Virginia
The justice department said nine people were sentenced in federal court at Elkins West Virginia for alleged white slave activities centered in Morgan Town. Gussie Stone, 43, was listed as the apparent key figure in the ring. Edward Johnson, noted Metropolitan Opera manager, debuted in Padua in 1911 and was born in Guelph Ontario.
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Washington
Elkins
W. Va
Morgantown
Justice Department
Department
Gussie Stone
Edward Johnson
Metropolitan Opera Company
Padua
Guelph
Oritario
Educator Col Hitch Calls for More College Students
Col A M Hitch a Missouri educator argues universities should educate students not flunk them and cites a potential 50,000,000 college bound Americans in the United States urging broader access to higher education.
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United States
Young Churchmen To Sing Carols Tonight
Edwight and Stickney church youths, led by Rev. Harry Wood, will carol through Stickney and Edwight on state route three tonight. A prior performance of the play Christmas Voices was shown at Stickney Presbyterian Church last night and at Edwight church last Sunday, featuring James Jarrell Bootsie Shinn McCue Jarrell and other local cast members.
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Edwight
Stickney
Harry Wood
Stickney Presbyterian Church
James Jarrell
Bootsie
Robin Shinn
McCue Jarrell
Seek to Control Japanese Imports
San Francisco report says leading cotton manufacturers sail to confer with Japanese spinners to obtain a voluntary control agreement on Japanese cotton imports into the United States.
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San Francisco
Business adjusts to shifts of 1936
During 1936 a vigilant financial world had to adjust itself to sweeping shifts including higher stock margin requirements a 50 percent boost in Federal Reserve Bank requirements currency devaluations, peaks in US gold imports and the surtax on undistributed profits.
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Associated Press
New York
Federal Reserve Bank
United States
Prisoner Freed Briefly Then Re-Arrested
Wheeling Wil Costello walked from jail during the holidays after a 30 day sentence for shoplifting. Minutes later police say he was seen leaving a store with pajama suit and alarm clock tucked under his coat, and he was sent back to his cell.
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Associated Press
Costello
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Col
A. M. Hitch
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