Strangler On the Run Attracts Police Search Citywide
Police rallied Friday night to search the city and suburbs for a well dressed assailant known as The Strangler who choked two women and attacked another in separate incidents. The suspect, described as a man with a similar appearance to a November attacker, fled in a waiting auto after subduing his victims. Authorities compared the descriptions with past assaults as they pressed the investigation. In other news, Motor Magazine plans feature articles on Southwest travel as officials promote Monterrey tourism and regional attractions.
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Terry Sevart
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Polaris
Montana Treets
Motor Magazine
Southwest
Texas
Mexico
American Motorist
American Automobile Asociation
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Etha
Monho ‘S
San Antonio
Robinson
Wiliam H. Furlong
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Monterrey
Safety Assembly Teaches Schoolwide Safety Messages
Warrington junior high students heard a Thursday assembly on future safety plans. Principal Armnold stressed the program as a rally for careful behavior, featuring safety songs, yells, definitions, and two short plays with a cast including Robbie May, Prusie Morales, Dorothy Lee, Dorothy Hale, Dorothy Maltaberger, Ellodin Cortex, Sarah Flores, Annie Sua, Martin Wolff, Lee Moreno, Wauline Pierce, Heatrica Zepeda, Jessewin Nualy, Arnie Beckett, and Albert Pedlows.
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Warrington
HL Clark
CL A. S
Armmold
Principe
Robbie May
Prusie Morales
Dorothy Lee
Heatrica Zepeda
Jeswin Nualy
Arnie
Patrolman Shot in Political Row In Walla Walla
In Walla Walla on December 6 Patrolman Jack Meehan and foundryman Charles Reed argued over a political shakeup. Meehan was wounded in the right hip by two bullets and Reed was jailed. The shooting happened near police headquarters as tensions rose over police department changes.
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Charles Reed
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Meehan
Reed
Walla Walla
Seo
Farm Youth Tells of Slaying Seven
El Dorado Kan Dec 6.4 The farm youth confessed to killing seven family members and robbing three younger brothers in a disturbing account linked to an alleged confession. The statements were presented as evidence in the 18 year old farm boy's murder trial.
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EL Dorado
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Queen Qherat
Oberst
Monkey blood shield claimed by Chinese troops in Manchuria
A Peking dispatch reports Chinese generals claimed a monkey blood antidote shields soldiers from poison gas in early Manchuria fighting. An American military attache confirms hearing similar accounts from a former Chinese officer.
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Manchuria
Goa
Ford's New Yacht Grounds After Hole Split
A steel yacht named Siska ran aground near Hensard Chief light after leaving for New York. A hole was punched in the hull and the crew and officers were evacuated by a guard unit. The vessel carried £300 value and was towed toward safety with no injuries reported.
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New York
Man Is Jailed for Attack on Wife
Buck Sherbert received a six month term after being charged with aggravated assault against his wife Ayers in Dallas. Sherbert allegedly bit Ayers, dragged her under a car, and stomped on her, with the incident described in court as severe domestic violence.
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Aviator To Take Honeymoon By Air
Aviation story notes an aviator planning a honeymoon flight. Details are limited in the fragment, with references to travel by air and a destination implied but unclear. The item appears as a brief, period style note in a local paper.
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Man Robbed After Doped Liquor Incident in Denver
Wy B Jeanes told police Friday he was doped and robbed while his brother Frank Watkins was relieved of his shoes a knife and cap at a South Corro street location. Mrs Esculana Rawlings of Johnson City visited the Haodiant chapter Thursday and will visit the Texas chapter Friday.
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Metie Temple
Rehearsal for Christmas Pageant at Municipal Auditorium
The first rehearsal for the Christmas pageant to be staged at the municipal auditorium on Thursday. Playgrounds children, led by John Hansard, unite to present the Three Wise Men tribute with more than 600 children participating Monday night.
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Municipal Auditorium
John Hansard
Class Elects Guadalupe Flores Class President
Guadalupe Flores was elected president of the special Spanish class conducted by Miss Jessie Shane at Sidney Lanier Junior-Senior High School Thursday.
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Guadalupe Flores
Jessie Shane
Sidney Lanier Junior
Butter theft and burglary report from South Flores street
A 60 pound butter theft at 1515 South Flores Street was reported by Keller Friday morning. Entry via rear window. clothing and cash in a safe also taken. A Gulf Refining Co employee reported $100 loss at Corpus Christi. A pistol was stolen from 340 Halliday Avenue. An attempted break in at Beacon Drug Store on Woorlaa Avenue and Zarti more Street failed Thursday night. A monoplane piloted by J C Pendleton of Fort Worth crashed at Jennions, burst into flames, no injuries reported.
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South Flores Street
Keller
A.W. Fricke
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Gulf Refining Company
B.D. White
Halliday Avenue
Beacon Drug
Woorlaa Avenue
Zartimore Street
Lake Charles
Tee
J.C. Pendleton
Fort Worth
Jennions
Hidalgo vote probe looms in Texas inquiry
In Brownsville the United States attorney general’s visit to the grand jury prompts talks of an immediate probe into the November 1928 county election. Judge Hutcheson rules on the motion to quash a $7,000,000 libel suit by J. B. Creager, Republican national committeeman, against Collier’s Weekly over coverage of the same election.
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Fred Horowile
Svecin
United States Attorney General
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Grand
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J. B. Creager
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