Missing New Rochelle boy prompts ransom bid
In New Rochelle New York an anxious father seeks clues to the disappearance of his 12 year old son Peter. Attorney Murray Levine refuses to confirm a $60 000 ransom note from abductors or contact with them. Police say a mysterious phone call led to a hidden note demanding the amount. The case is treated as authentic by public safety officials.
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Phillip Tilden
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Treasury and Post Office Bills Passed
Washington March 1 The Senate approved the combined Treasury and Post Office Department appropriation bills totaling 1 402 billion dollars The Treasury allocation is 610 937 million with the remainder for the Post Office Department Senator William H King of Utah led a futile bid to cut the sums charging budget balance efforts were abandoned Senator Arthur H Vandenberg of Michigan called the appropriation outlandish The bill goes to the House for minor changes
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Washington senator pushes withdrawal of Japanese fishermen
Washington senator Homer T. Bone criticized the State Department for lacking zeal in obtaining withdrawal of Japanese fishermen from Alaskan waters. He urged stronger action to remove the crews from the fisheries near Alaska, stressing national policy concerns.
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Washington
Homer T. Bone
State of Washington
State Department
Alaskan
Trial date set for J Seadlund in Chicago
Joan Henry Seadlund, who confessed kidnapping and slaying Senator Bone, has had her federal trial ordered for March 14 after pleading guilty. The report notes rising tensions as the State Department sends stern notes to Japan over invasions and resource exploitation in Alaskan waters.
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Chicago
Joan Henry Seadlund
Bone
Charles Ross
State Department
Japan
China
Writer Chases Down Patent To Find Out What Happened To It
Washington report traces an air reduction motor claim to a 1928 patent filing. Inventor proposed a closed cycle using electricity, water, hydrogen and oxygen to heat a boiler and drive a dynamo. The Patent Office noted it as a perpetual motion idea, amused by the inquiry.
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Washington
Lindbergh
Patent Office
Utopia
Frisco Area Denies Spy Plot Rumor
Officials of the Ninth Corps Army headquarters denied a spy plot in the San Francisco Bay region. The rumor began after guards impounded cameras of picnickers, a routine practice, with films to be developed as usual. The Army spokesman suggested the story was a slick rumor and offered no further details.
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Seadlund Pleads Guilty to Kidnaping and Slaying Ross
Seadlund pleads guilty to kidnapping and killing Ross, the sole charge listed. Authorities say he also killed an accomplice, though no additional charges appear in the record.
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Seadlund
Ross
More Money Sought for U S Navy in War Preparations
Senator Key Pittman proposes a 600 million dollar rise in the naval building program to meet foreign war preparations. He says the plan should be developed by the Navy Department, emphasizing preparedness as the cheapest insurance. The House Naval Committee also backs a 30 million dollar experimental fund, including 3 million for a dirigible to replace the Los Angeles, while Rep Frank Kniffen suggests a defense line from the Aleutians to Maine.
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Pittman
Foreign Relations Committee
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House Naval Committee
Los Angeles
Frank C. Kniffen
Ohio
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Alaska
Midway Island
Panama
Virgin Islands
Maine
Navy
Ickes Backs Seattle Fair Banks Highway to Alaska
Secretary Harold Ickes advocated the Seattle Fair banks Highway and expressed desire to drive to Alaska before his term ends. He also voiced hope for early accord between the United States and Canada on the International Highway plans.
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Washington
Secretary of Interior
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Banks
Alaska
Ickes
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Canada
Snowbound Train Freed in Northern California
Snowbound train freed in Northern California as 100000 troops routed and Chinese forces flee Shansi province. Japanese airstrikes bombard Chinese troops along the Yellow River corridor, leaving Chinese defenses largely dismantled. Straggling groups trapped in snow amid the retreat.
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Shanghai
Shansi
Yellow River
China
War game on Pacific to include 150 ships and 500 planes
Navy sources say the United States Fleet will deploy more than 150 ships and 500 aircraft this month in the North Pacific for the largest defense war games off Hawaii. The plan includes a westward attack from San Pedro toward Alaska and a later sweep from Dutch Harbor to join the Hawaiian action in early April.
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German Air Force ready to battle
Berlin March 1 Germanys Air and Field Marshal Hermann Goering intimated the nations gigantic air force may find its first use to protect German minorities outside the Reich borders He said it was created as a safeguard for peace but if forced to fight it will be awful in action.
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Germany
Hermann Goering
Reich
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Ishbel MacDonald Weds Norman Ridgley in London
Ishbel MacDonald and Norman Ridgley, a house decorator, were married in London today. The bride, once close to royalty as hostess to her late father Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, has dined with the King and Queen.
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London
Ishbel MacDonald
Norman Ridgley
Ramsay
Great Britain
Alaska's Game Threatened by Alien Arrival
At a Alaska Game Commission conference, officials report tensions over newcomers seen as causing most trouble. Executive Officer Frank Dufresne cites aliens as root of park problems while long-time residents push for stricter enforcement and wardens.
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Alaska
Relief Fund Bill 18 Sent to Washington for Approval
March 1 Pinal House approves emergency relief measure totaling 0.25 billion dollars for four months and sends to the White House. The WPA also announces 0.5 million more jobs, bringing total available positions to 2.5 million to be filled at State Administrators of WPA discretion.
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Pinal House
White House
WPA
Nazis Here Face Investigation of Activities
Representative Samuel Dickstein of New York demanded a new probe into Nazi activities in the United States after questioning the Berlin editorial’s good faith against German membership in the Amerika Deutsche Volksbund. Berlin announced a ban on Nationals in the U S from future Volksbund or similar groups, while a New York Bund spokesman argued membership remains unaffected as all members are Americans.
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Samuel Dickstein
Detecrat
New York
Berlin
Amerika Deutsche Volksbund
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Dickstein
Germany
Volksbund
Bund
Fishermen Adrift on Caspian Ice Rescued Near Moscow
March 1 report from Moscow states three planes an ice breaker and two ships are aiding 175 fishermen adrift on Caspian Sea drifting ice after a storm tore them from shore ten days ago. Of the 470 originally set adrift all but 175 have reached land.
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Caspian Sea
Pershing Improving, Doctor Says Recovery Likely
Tucson Arizona March 1 Gen John J Pershing slept six and one half hours last night and Dr Ronald Davison said recovery seems quite probable if his patient continues the present pace and there is no relapse
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Tucson
Arizona
John J. Pershings
Ronald Davison
Mayor Judson to Run Again in Junraii Election
Mayor Thomas Judson announces his candidacy for re election as Mayor of Junraii at the April 5 city election. He has served seven terms, first elected in 1926, served until 1932, then again from 1937. He recently returned from a trip to the States where he received medical attention and says he feels better.
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Thomas Judson
Junraii
Judson
States
New Officials Appointed on White Pass
March 1 President Wheeler of the White Pass and Yukon Route announces CG Rogers of Seattle as Vice-President and Paul Mason of Seattle as Assistant Purchasing Agent. B F Barteau becomes Purchasing Agent in addition to General Agent here. In Cleburne Texas A W Smithy cotton planter fled a bolt of lightning that knocked three Negro cotton pickers to the ground. all recovered but one woman who lost a tooth.
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Seattle
Paul &. Mason
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Cleburne
Tex
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