Resignation Shocks Bexar County Sheriff’s Office
Cyrus L Heard chief investigator to sheriff Wood resigns citing political reasons. Heard, wealthy from Oklahoma holdings, says resignation effective immediately. Sheriff Wood protests, says he did not receive the notice and questions the abrupt move amid talks of reelecting Albert Wert.
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Will W. Wood
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Albert W. Wert
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Mills Wharf
Rockport
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Wage Hour Bill Rejected By House In Emergency Session
Washington D c 18 A in a tense overtime session the house sent the wage hour bill back to labor committee despite an appeal from Majority Leader Rayburn. The 18 to 198 vote marked the administration's first major legislative defeat since the Roosevelt court bill.
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Nec
House
Labor Committee
Rayburn
Democrat
Texas
Senate
Norton
New Jersey
McTabor
O'Mahoney
Wyoming
Borah
Idaho
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Mother and Child Killed by Explosion in Winters
A1-Mra. Troy Petova, 26, and her daughter Dariene, 4, died in a Peters home explosion. Petova was burned while cleaning clothing with gasoline in the kitchen when it ignited. The fire gutted the house. Peters, a barber, was at work. another daughter Dorothy was unharmed.
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Winters
Mra
Troy Petova
Dariene
Peters
Petova
Barber
Dorothy
Flood threat in Rome ends in calm weather
Rome faced a brief flood scare as weather eased after a week of near continuous rain. Tuesday's forecast promised relief for the capital and the Tiber valley with lower chances of rising waters.
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Rome
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Titer River
Expansion plan for airport land purchase approved
The plan calls for buying about 20 acres to extend two runways at stin s on field with no land to be taken near San Jose Cemetery. Major Haight of the Bureau of Air Commerce approved the scheme after a Saturday meeting with Mayor Quin and local aviation officials.
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Sateurday
U. S. Bureau of Air Commerce
Thomas Coghill
City-Wpa
San Jose Cemetery
Marj. F. M. Haight
New Orleans
Bureau’ of Air Commerce
Major Haight
G. K. Quin
Gaughil
Jack Lapham
Dan Read
Bureau of Alr Commerce
L. ©. Lampe
Chamber of Commerce Aviation
Goghill
Ice Chunk Kills Boy Gazing at Santa
Detroit reports a fatal accident as a stone coping laden with ice fell onto child gazing at a stove window under a Christmas display. The boy Vavirl Mayott, son of Mr and Mrs Albert Mayott of River Rouge, died.
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Santa Detroit
Composer's Daughter to Wed Director in Hollywood
Elizabeth Jane Kern, daughter of composer Jerome Kern, will wed Richard A. Green, assistant film director. Kern announced the engagement yesterday and said the wedding would occur in the near future.
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Call
Jane Kern
Jerome Kern
Richard A. Green
Fim
Kern
Survivor Only Sick Soldier in Sahara Crash
In Algiers a French military hospital plans to move a sick Algerian soldier held at a Sahara post to ward Algiers after a crash that killed three crew members and left one survivor severely injured. The snowstorm halted rescue operations and delayed medical transfer.
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Algeria
Sahara Desert
Woman Acquitted in Death of Son-in-Law at Trial
NEW CASTLE Pa Dec 18 Mrs Rose Donofrio was acquitted by a jury today of a charge of murder in the death of James Alolio her son in law. She testified that she shot Alolio in his car near her home because he impaired her daughter's health.
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Rose Donofrio
James Alolin
Donofrlo
Alolio An
36 Men Convicted in Coal Field Bombings
Springfield jury today convicted 36 defendants of conspiracy to bomb coal field areas. Most were affiliated with the Progressive Miners of America. They face up to years in prison and fines reaching twenty thousand dollars.
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Springfield
America
WPA Chief Hopkins to Undergo Knife at St Marys
Rochester Mayo clinic physicians announce national WPA administrator Hats L Hopkins will have an abdominal operation at St Marys hospital Monday. Hopkins condition described as excellent by doctors.
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Rochester
Minn
Panay Incident: Tokyo Espouses Dual Probes and Note
Tokyo disclosed that U S Ambassador Grew delivered a second note over the sinking of the Panay and reports of Panay being machine-gunned after bombings. Japan plans independent army inquiry led by Col Yoshiaki Nishi while naval review continues. Vice Admiral Hasegawa’s resignation request was refused and a formal reply to Washington is being drafted.
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United States
Joseph G. Grew
Yangtze River
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Keiforat
Nanking
Ydeut
Yoshiaki Nishi
Tokyo
China
Navy
War Office
Nishi
Hasegawa Kiyoshi
Remors
Savelgn Office
Panay
Naval inquiry probes Panay attack and Fanny disaster
A U S naval court of inquiry opened today into the Japanese air attack on American shipping along the Yangtze. The probe aims to complete before USS Augusta sails for Malaya, as officers report a Japanese officer boarded the Panay for information. An earlier disaster sank the gunboat Fanny and destroyed three Standard Oil vessels with four lives lost.
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Uxo
United States Naval Court of Inquiry
Yanntze
Gaurt
United States
Augusta
Ma Ally
Guste
Panay
Fanny
Bolt Boards
Beartooth Forest Deer Fight Ends in Death
In Montana's Beartooth forest two bucks fought in a death grip with antlers locked while five people and forest official Wayne Tin ningham struggled to separate them. A Greenough relative aided by tying a rope around the horns to pull apart the animals, but one deer died in the effort.
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Billings
Mont
Beartooth
Weather Summary for San Antonio and East Texas
Far Saturday night and Sunday show little temperature change with highs around 64 and lows near 42 in San Antonio and vicinity. East Texas remains mild with similar temperature shifts. winds along the coast are light and variable as a cold front passes. In the Texas area, Friday peak near 62 degrees and Saturday low around 42 degrees.
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San Antonio
East Texas
West Texas
Hollywood to Do Virginia Honor
Beverly Hills party plans mark the wedding of Virginia Bruce and J Waller Rue in Beverly Hills. Attendees include Jack Warner Countess di Frasso and Rev J W Fifield Jr. Only witnesses will be Bruce’s parents siblings and grandmother.
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Calif
UPI
Hollywood
Jack J
Warners
Countess di Frasco
Virginia Bruce
J. Waller Rue
Miss Bruce
John Gilbert
Ruben
Iner
J. W. Fifield Jr
Bruce
Fael Griggs
Bran‘ey
Warner Home
Postal Telegraph Head Has Operation
New York December 18 Clarice Mackay, 63, chairman of the band of Postal Telegram Cable company, underwent an operation for acute appendicitis today. Dr. I. Russell said the condition was very good.
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New York
Clarice Mackay
Band of
Postal ‘Telegram
Gable J Company
Dans I. Russell
Fire destroys Desdemona High School leaving brick walls
Desdemona today suffered a devastating blaze of undetermined origin that destroyed the high school. The fire gutted the building and consumed the library, chemical laboratory, and typewriters, leaving only the brick walls standing.
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Desdemont High School
Fost da Ube
Stamp Window Open Sunday for Holiday Parcel Services
A parcel window will be open all day Sunday to handle holiday mail. Postmaster Dan Quill announced extended hours to accommodate shoppers and customers needing stamp and parcel services.
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Dan Quill
Two Conan exconvicts missing after Alcatraz escape attempt
San Francisco reports say Ralph Roe 20 of Duncan Oklahoma and Theodore Cole 25 of Straud Oklahoma vanished from Alcatraz as fog shrouded the bay. Officials believe they drowned after a failed escape, despite extensive land and water searches nearby.
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Ralph Roe
Duncan
Okl
Theodore Cole
Straud
Okla
James A. Johnston
Goldeon Gate Bridge
Alcatraz
Chilling Stare Deters Robbery in Bloomington Corydon Woman
A Bloomington Corydon woman with a chilling stare reportedly frightened a robber during a bank or store hold up. Police Chief Claude Myers quoted the suspect, a 16 year old, saying the woman stood silent and glared, causing the would be thief to abandon the crime.
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Hid
Mes
Corydon
Roger Kopp
Claude Myers
Weather Puts on Sunday Suit for San Antonio
San Antonio forecaster J H Jurbae said the city will enjoy cool mornings and pleasant afternoons for several days. Sunday's high is expected near 64 degrees, slightly above Friday's max, with morning lows around 46 degrees.
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U.S
J. H. Jurbae
Samond
Jarboo
Kidnaper-Slayers to Die in Huntington Case
Three men convicted in the kidnapping and slaying of Dr James Heder a retired minister and prohibition leader were sentenced to the gallows John Travis and Orville Adkins were found guilty yesterday and a jury later convicted Arnett A Booth Dr Seder disappeared from Huntington on November 1 and reappeared eleven days later exhausted and killed by exposure
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James
Heder
John Travis
Orville Adkins
Arnett A. Booth
Seder
Tts Huntington
Rebel Chief Slain by Mexican Troops
Federal troops in Guadalajara say they hold important documents potentially showing who aided the rebellion in Jalisco. Rebel leader Maths Grosz was killed in a gun battle near La Tuna after a clash with government forces.
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Guadalajara
Mexico
Maths Grosz
Jalisco
Graz
la Tuna
Vet Dies in Hike to Aid Starving Family near Wenatchee
World War II veteran Ernest Johnson, 49, collapsed from a heart attack during a 40 mile hike to seek help for his wife and four children. Sheriff Tom Cannon evacuated the family from a ranch near Lake Wenatchee after confirming they had subsisted on potato soup with a single potato remaining.
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Waoh
PIA
Ernest Johnson
Wjas
Lake
Tom Cannon
Jotingay Ranch
Wenatchee
Santa Digs Ditches To Support Family Of Nine
MARSHALL Missouri December 18 Santa Claus digs ditches to feed his wife and seven children. The 40 year old man works plumbing carpentry and small chores near Marshall to support his large family after years of financial hardship. He previously appeared in New York and spoke on a national broadcast.
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Marshall
Banta
Santa Clas Midé
New York City
Third Son Born to Daughter of Duce
Rome reports Countess Edda Mussolini Ciano, daughter of premier Mussolini, gave birth to her third son named Muaralo. Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano informed Mussolini, who expressed joy. The event is seen as confirming fascist ideals and Edda Mussolini Ciano’s role as the Duce’s close confidante.
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Edda Mussolini Ciano
Muaralo
I Count Galeazzo Clani
Mussolini
Edde
TL Duce
Railroad commission sets Texas oil limit at 1.56 million barrels
In Austin on December 18 the Railroad Commission announced an immediate allowable oil production of 1,557,572 barrels for Texas. No decision was made on a proposed Sunday shutdown for East Texas or extending shutdown elsewhere. January starting cap was 39,29 barrels lower than December and 34,36 higher than a month ago, amid revised production guidance.
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Railroad Commission
Texas
East Texas
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