Kidnap Case in Degnan Home Stuns Baltimore Area
Police search for a kidnapper after Suzanne Degnan, a first grader from Sacred Heart Academy, is abducted from her bed in Chicago. A ransom note and grisly find include a wig, a white muslin garment with initials, severed limbs, and body parts recovered from nearby sewers. Suzanne’s father, Degnan, appeals on radio offering $20,000 for safe return and immunity from prosecution if the child is returned unharmed.
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Youth charged in Union Station extortion bid linked to kidnapping case
Grover Casey, 23, of Troy, Alaska, was arrested at the Union Station Western Union office after demanding $500 in three phone calls to James Degnan, father of slain Suzanne, in Chicago. F. & L. agent Gerald Norris said the probe considers possible angles and notes the claim may be an attempt to extort money.
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Dallas Merchant To Get Award
NEW YORK Jan 8 Stanley Marcus executive vice president of Neiman Marcus Dallas will receive the annual Tobe award tomorrow night in recognition of his creative and imaginative retailing and merchandising. The award is given to the American considered to be the most outstanding in the retailing field.
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Labor Roundup Signals Possible Break in Disputes
Turbulent industrial strife eases as government moves to prevent nationwide strikes in steel and textile sectors. In Detroit the CIO U nion reached an unprecedented wage agreement with Kaiser Frazer, proposing a starting rate of 1.19 per hour and a pool to share 5 percent of output value among production workers. Steel workers face a Monday vote while Lehigh Foundries foresees no walkout amid interim raises. Telephone workers in Texas consider sympathy strikes with Western Electric, with Dallas traffic employees voting in favor and other groups weighing action. Fort Worth Dallas San Antonio Hoviston and other cities prepare ballots.
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Oil Workers Union Chief Proposes 1 Percent Wage Pattern
C A Knight president of the CIO Oil Workers union said it agreed to cut its demand from 30 percent to 1 percent as a pattern for settling the industry wage dispute. Knight submitted the proposal to the oil industry wage-finding board.
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Phones in six day Western Electric strike risks wider work stoppage
The 17 000 workers in Western Electric plants in New York and New Jersey enter their sixth day of strike amid two threats that could trigger a broader stoppage of telephone workers. Officials warned a possible coordinated action by the unions.
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Harvester Strike Halt Sought by Federal Conciliation Service
The federal conciliation service in Washington aimed to stop the January 21 strike of 30,000 workers at 11 International Harvester plants. A fact-finding panel would be named by Labor Secretary Schwellenbach.
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Pressmen strike talks lead to Cleveland paper talks
Pressman Thomas W. Robertson federal conciliation commissioner held phone conferences with union and publishers' representatives aiming to end the four day strike affecting Cleveland's three daily papers.
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Guatemala City Engineer Studies Health Conditions in San An
Alfonse Cruz, Guatemala City’s city engineer, is in San An tenicn studying health and sanitary conditions as part of training by the Office of Inter American Affairs in Washington.
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Jenkins New Commandant Jenkins New Commandant
Col Wilbur a veteran of more than 28 years of army service has been appointed commandant of the Medical Department Enlisted Technicians school at Brooke Hospital center Jenkins He succeeds Col Warren C Fargo who served at the Sam Houston station hospital now Brooke General from 1930 to 1935 first as assistant and later as chief of the orthopedic service Recently he has been commandant of Camp Albert Ala
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Rites Stated for Mrs Mina Boggs
Funeral services for 62 year old Mina Alma Ropes, lifelong San Antonio resident, will be held at 4 PM Wednesday at Porter Laving chapel. The Rev. W A Posey will officiate. She died at her home, 407 East Myrtle Street, Sunday.
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Girl's Slaying Third in Month in Chicago
Chicago reports a brutal kidnap slaying of Suzanne Degnan, six, marking the third mutilation murder in the city within a month. Earlier, Frances Brown, thirty three, a former WAVE, was found stabbed and shot in her Northside apartment with lipsticked notes. both cases unsolved, followed by Lawrence Lange, thirty seven, found slain in his perfumed bachelor flat. investigations unresolved.
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Child Called Angelice in Chicago Kidnap Case
Blonde six year old Suzanne Degnan, a first grade pupil at Sacred Heart Academy, was abducted in Chicago triggering a nun from the same school to recall her school pageant role as a Christmas angel. Mother Superior Sheahan called the crime diabolical and shocking for the beloved child.
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Piles Relieved At Home
Dr O A Sainson offers a mild painless inexpensive home treatment for piles based on Dr Johnson's rectal clinic experience. The method claims relief and invites sufferers to write for free information to Dr Q O Johnson Rectal Clinic Dept 874 212 Main St Kansas City Mo for details.
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Lindbergh Baby Case Recalled
Crime experts note similarities between the Lindbergh kidnapping and a 1932 Degnan case in Chicago reporting a sleeping child abducted with a ladder, ransom demands of 50 000 and 20 000, and ladder clues guiding investigators toward Hauptmann and a similar outcome.
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Bus Driver Injured in Altercation at Alamar and Third Streets
Tolivar Jr. Bowen, a bus driver from Eastland, suffered severe bruises to head and eyes after an altercation with two individuals and a bystander in front of the terminal at Alamar and Third streets at 2 30 p m Tuesday.
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