Brooklyn College Prof Testifies to Communist Cell In Schools
Brooklyn professor Bernard Grebainer told a state investigating committee that he and eight other Brooklyn teachers were members of a Communist cell that discussed methods to influence college policy. He said aliases were used to protect identities, and he listed members and their coded names. Selsam and Young denied the testimony, calling it unreliable and defamatory.
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New. York
Dee
Brooklyn
Shes
Ramos
Brcreve
Bernard D. N. Grebenlér
Rye
Communist Party
Paul ‘Windels
Rapp- Coudert Committee
New York
Grehanner
Grebanier
Descides
Grebarini
Harold Selsani
Millicent Bilis
Matrics
Ogui
Actence
Henry &. Kiein
David MM. White
Henry Slachower
Murray Young
Frederick Ewet
Grebainer
David Arden
Selsam
Miss Ella
Drew
Ogi
Galton
Keb
Tawrenice
White
Wood
Slackhowor
Flint
Young
West
Ewen
Cawell
Car Theft Convict in Second Escape
E J McClain Jr 24 of Jasper escaped from a construction gang outside Huntsville prison walls for his second escape this year. He led about 40 prisoners as guards fired no shots and witnesses said he was shot in the shoulder before commandeering a parked car and fleeing toward Navasota.
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Huntsville
E. J. McClain, Jr
Jasper Courty
McClain
Navasota
Record Filing in City Court Shown
Lea Hou, clerk of Corporation Court, stamped a web record showing 204 cases filed between Friday night and Monday morning. Felice noted heavy weekend activity with traffic summonses written by one police shift and 221 arrests processed at the city jail Monday.
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Lea Hou
Corporation Court
Felice
Accidental death verdict in neighborhood case
Justice of the Peace Olds West returns an accidental death verdict in the case of Henry Lindberg Kruegler, a newspaper deliveryman aged about, found dead early Sunday with his neck wedged between a gate or fence in the pane block of Paso Honelo street, 726 Cottonwood.
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Justice of the Peace
Olds West
Henry Lindberg Kruegler
Cottonwood Street
Paso Honelo Street
Rives Resigns to Accept FCC Post
Chief of Police Ray Ashworth on Tuesday confirmed the resignation of J. B. Rhves a police dispatcher to take a federal communications commission post at Fork Mentosh Laredo. Rives who lives at 172 Kentucky favende will leave the city police department December 15.
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Ray Ashworth
J. B. Rhves
Federal Communications Commission
Fork Mentosh
Laredo
Rives
Kentucky
Draftees to Receive Training at Dodd Field
More than 00 draftees will go to the Eighth Corps reception center at Dodd Field Mort Sam Houston and stay about a month for training similar to regular army. They will be issued equipment and taught arms handling while housed in temporary barracks rather than tents, with a housing advantage over three year enlistees.
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Eighth Corps
Dodd Field
Mort Sam Houston
More Get Pensions In December Numbers Rise
Old age pension checks averaging 19.77 dollars will be mailed to 934 more aged persons in December, with total checks reaching 121,128 and value 1,663,197 dollars. November averages were 12.61 and 22.75 for December 1939. Increase due to 1,676 added to pension rolls and 742 removals due to ineligibility or deaths.
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Austin
Dée
State Department of Public Welfare
All-Bran Promise for Constipation Relief
A vintage ad touts All-Bran cereal as a remedy for chronic constipation caused by low bulk. It promotes regular consumption over temporary remedies, urges high water intake, and claims Kellogg's All-Bran Liquade as the genuine product, warning against imitators.
IO Guardsmen To Normoyle Armored Officers Sent To Camp
Ten officers of the Thirty-sixth division Texas national guard are ordered to attend a three week motor management course at Camp Normoyle. Maj. Gen. Claude Y. Birkhead said the officers include Capt Beverly G. Galdiwell and lieutenants Raum sbo, Ahrenperk, Acuff, Depasqual, Rowe, Green, McDonald, Leach, Ayers, Pritsah Je and Curtis B. Pritsah Je. Training begins tomorrow morning.
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Texas National Guard
Camip Normoyle
Claude Y. Birkhead
Tursday
Beverly GC. Galdiwell
Thirty-second ’ Artillery
Dallas
Ernst
Raumsbo
San Antonio
Rheo Ahrenperk
Houston
Cay L. Acuff
Fort Worth
Francis R. Depasqual
Field Artilery
New Braunfels
John £. Rowe
Port Arthur James
KH. Green
Masters
Austin
Charles D. McDonald
Willsin G. Leach
Ross Ayers
Lubbock
Curtis BE. Pritsah Je
Dies Seeks Year-Long Probe Of Un American Activities
Chairman Martin Dies urged extending the House committee's investigation into un American activities for another year. He claimed five acts of sabotage targeted a major American aircraft plant and pressed to expose saboteurs at all stages of their preparation. Roosevelt hinted the committee must avoid premature disclosures of facts.
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Washington
Martin Dies
House Committee On
America
Fexan
Ther
Ints Intcident
Dies
Congress
Diésalengy
Ft Calwan
Wweason
IAS Legal Tower
Roosevelt
Nue
Enal Staue Elpel
Altier
People’s Front
Starks
Nik Movement
Red Cross Seeks Stragglers Amid Slow Campaign Totals
Despite the end of the Red Cross campaign, Beckmann reports 5601 enrolled as chapter members and $41,205 contributed, with totals incomplete as some divisions have not reported. Donations and memberships remain accepted at the courthouse, while other political remarks and sabotage theories are noted in the background of the report.
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Oexar County Red Cross
Peraans
Beckmann
Pigeon Droppers Back Again
City detective Tom Moore warns of a recurring pigeon drop scam. A woman feigns concern and asks a passerby if they saw a purse with large bills. The suspects create a change trap, then split fake large notes, leaving the victim with nothing. Police say several complaints have been filed in the past week.
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Tom Moore
Logan-Walter Bill Passes House Amid Presidential Fate
Washington Feb. 3 The Logan-Walter bill cleared its final congressional hurdle as the House voted 176 to 61 to accept Senate amendments and send the measure to President Hoover for signature. Proponents say it standardizes procedures for federal quasi judicial agencies to ease appeals, while critics warn of concentrated judicial power.
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Washington
Logan-Waiter Bith
Hoosevelt
House
Senate
White House
Debate on appointive vs elective oil and gas boards in Abilene
In Abilene the West Central Texas Oil and Gas Association held its ninth annual convention with about 780 attendees. D H Bolin of Wichita Falls urged an appointive board to keep regulation out of politics and resist federal control, while Mark McGee Fort Worth attorney defended an elective system noting governors cannot hold all power. Senator Clint Small warned against outside interests pushing for control of the railroad commission.
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Abilene
West Central Texas ON and Gas Association
D. H. Bolin
Wichits Falls
Mark McGee
Fort Worth
Railroad Commission
Clint Small
Gee
Texas
Gwen
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Erlep
Anvaril
Willeugar
Conyzlubt
Ky Mellog Company
Normoyle
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Red Cross
Robert Jackson
Clay
Langue For Peace
People's Front
Stalin
Logan
Walter Bill Tof
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Telunnigh
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