Murder of Young New York Matron Shocks City
The 25-year-old Mrs. Mary Robinson Case was found beaten and strangled in a flooded bathtub at her Jackson Heights apartment after her husband Frank returned home. Bloodstains in the kitchen and a torn hair strand are clues as investigators pursue possible suspects and an arrest looms.
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New York
Mary Robinson Case
Frank
Jackson Heights
Queens
Nancy E. Titterton
Herbert H. Lehman
Case
American Hotels Association
John J. Ryan
Brain-truster James M Landis Named Harvard Dean
Cambridge Mass Jan 12 James M Landis 37 year old Roosevelt administration brain truster today was named the youngest man ever appointed dean of Harvard University's law school He will leave the chairmanship of the Federal Securities Exchange Commission next September to fill Dean Roscoe Pound's seat
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Cambridge
Mass
James M. Landis
Harvard University
Federal Securities Exchange Commission
Roscoe Pound
Woman crushed to death when car is hit then overturned
Mrs. Charles I. Goodwin aged 44 of Toronto Ohio was killed when her auto collided with another vehicle and overturned, crushed beneath a truck. Her companion Mrs. Lucy Stewart of Jewett Ohio was severely injured as they traveled toward Pittsburgh on a shopping trip yesterday near Florence Pennsylvania.
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Florence
Charles I. Goodwin
Toronto
Lucy Stewart
Jewett, O
Pittsburgh
Weather Outlook for Maryland and Atlantic Coast
Maryland shows mostly cloudy skies tonight and Wednesday with limited temperature change. Occasional rain possible Wednesday afternoon or night. Sandy Hook to Cape Hatteras experiences gentle to moderate winds shifting to northeast or east with overcast conditions and likely rain on the south portion Wednesday afternoon. Chesapeake Bay remains mostly cloudy with possible rain midweek and winds turning northeast or east.
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Maryland
Sandy Hook
Cape Hatteras
Chesapeake Bay
SLAIN MATRON VISITED HERE
Mrs Mary Robinson Case a New York apartment murder victim was a well known visitor to Hagerstown. She stayed with Mr and Mrs J C Fylde at Fountain Head Heights and was a schoolmate of their daughter Edith Fylde now Mrs Alden Smith. Mrs Case attended the Fyldes wedding as bridesmaid to Mary Harriet Robinson.
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Mary Robinson Case
New York
Hagerstown
Riots Hit Fisher Body Plant In Flint Strike
In Flint Michigan police and strikers clashed leaving 14 wounded with one critically injured. National guardsmen were mobilized as Gov Murphy and local officials met after a night of disorder at the Fisher body plant No 2.
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Flint
Mich
Michigan National Guardsmen
Fisher Body Plant No. 2
Frank Murphy
Lansing
Genesse
Frank Millard
Flint Company
the National
Abductor Believed Insane by Alcatraz Kidnappers
San Francisco January 12. Albert Best alias Dr Albert Stanley Fortune says Alcatraz inmates in the Mattson kidnapping case believe the abductor is insane. Best was arrested after leaving Alcatraz, says federal agents questioned the Rock inmates about the Mattson case. Harmon Waley and others hold the kidnapper is a fanatic and would have asked a round sum, not 28 000 dollars.
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San Francisco
Alcatraz
Charles Mattson
Albert Best
Rock
Harmon W. Waley
George Wererhaeuser
Tacoma
Waley
Best
Weyerhaeuser
Hitler Denies Invasion of Morocco Amid Friction With France
Associated Press reports Germany and France seek a full and lasting settlement of Franco German quarrels over Morocco. Berlin and Paris hint at economic and political understandings after Schacht’s Paris visit. Germany may halt supporting Spanish fascists if France keeps its Moroccan border closed to volunteers. British pressure to seal the Franco-Spanish frontier also noted.
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France
Germany
Paris
Berlin
Hjalmar Schacht
Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler
Andre Francois-Poncet
Third Reich
Spain
Great Britain
Stream Pollution May Be Outlawed
Kentucky and Ohio congressional leaders moved to curb river and stream pollution today with plans for surveys and studies. Representative Fred M. Vinson of Ashland Ky said a bill for House introduction was ready and Senator Alvin W Barkley of Paducah Ky was expected to offer a companion measure in the Senate.
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Washington
Kentucky
Ohio
Fred M. Vinson
Ashland
House
Alvin W. Barkley
Paducah
Senate
Vinson
Barkley
Free wedding service offered in Bowling Green
In Bowling Green Kentucky on January 2 a new justice of the peace Kenneth D Harris age 70 announced that couples may marry free of charge. He said I might just as well give them a free start in life with no fee for the ceremony.
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Bowling Green
Kenneth D. Harris
Lane Urges Lane as Democrats' Governor Pick
Congressman David J. Lewis told an audience of Organization Democrats at the Masonic Temple that Washington County is a rich source for public office material and urged backing for former Attorney General William P. Lane Jr. as governor two years hence. He thanked county Democrats for aiding his re election and hoped to return to celebrate Lane's future gubernatorial win.
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David J. Lewis
Democrats
Maryland
Masonic Temple
Lane
Roosevelt
President Roosevelts plan to reorganize the federal government
President Roosevelt recommended a sweeping reorganization to create two new cabinet posts Social Welfare and Public Works and eventually launch 105 federal agencies in 12 departments. The plan would extend civil service to all non policy determining jobs include postmasters and most departmental posts raise salaries to 20000 appoint six executive aides replace the comptroller with an auditor general and empower a seven member citizens board with seven year terms to oversee reforms aimed at making democracy work today.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Social Welfare
Civil Service
Citizens’ Board
Civil Service Commission
Budget Bureau
Department of the Interior
Department of Conservation
District to vote Sixth District as unit in governor race
Democratic leaders announced that the Sixth District votes will be cast as a unit in the governor nominating contest next year. Five counties within the district will not split their votes, though district leaders avoided backing any candidate at this stage. Attending officials included William C. Walsh Stedman Prescott David Winebrenner William Preston Lane and William D. Byron.
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William C. Walsh
Allegany County
Stedman Prescott
Montgomery County
David C. Winebrenner
Frederick
William Preston Lane
William D. Byron
Washington County
Four Injured In Fog Crash Near Mt Union Pa
James Speaks Charles Cuff and Norman Hicks three colored men from Mt Union Pa were badly hurt when their car was struck by a large moving van on the McConnelsburg Mountain at 9 o’clock. The van did not stop. A colored girl escaped with minor injuries. All four were brought to Washington County Hospital by a Blue Ridge bus. The driver likely did not realize he hit the auto.
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James Speaks
Charles Cuff
Norman Hicks
Mt. Union
Hagerstown
McConnelsburg
Speaks
Cuff
Hicks
Washington County
Blue Ridge Transportation Company
Graphically told finding of dead boy near Everett
Gordon Morrow, 19, recounts discovering 10 year old Charles Mattson frozen in snow in a bushy area near Everett. He describes touching a soft body, seeing a naked child with a crushed head and signs of beating, and his frightened reaction.
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Tacoma
Wash
Charles Mattson
Everett
Gordon Morrow
Everett, Wash
Mother Bears Up Father Collapses
TACOMA W ash Jan 12 The snow covered home of Dr W W Mattson becomes a scene of sorrow as the death of Charles Mattson 10, a kidnapping victim, is confirmed. Parents seek comfort from William 16 and Muriel 14 while Dr Mattson collapses. Lt Col Gus B Appelman informs the mother, and the family grips through grief.
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Tacoma
Wash
W. W. Mattson
Charles Mattson
William
Muriel
Democratic Women's Club To Elect Officers Tomorrow Night
The annual election of officers of the Women's Democratic Organization Club of Hagerstown will be held tomorrow night at 8 o'clock at the club's Grice Building headquarters. A full attendance is urged.
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Women’s Democratic Organization Club of
Lane renamed to head club by Democratic group
William P. Lane Jr was reelected president of the Democratic Organization Club at the Board of Governors annual meeting held last night The slate also returns E Stuart Bushong as vice president Thomas Gilleece as secretary J Christopher Monath as assistant secretary Jesse O Snyder as treasurer and Allen H Mumma as assistant treasurer The governors meeting preceded the Christmas party at the Masonic Temple Earlier Lane and other officials including former Senator William D Byron William C Walsh State Senator Stedman Prescott and David C Winebrenner conferred to form a bloc for the forthcoming gubernatorial race but the group said it is not for anybody or against anybody for now
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Wiliam P. Lane, Jr
Democratic Organization Club
Board of Governors
E. Stuart Bushong
Thomas Gilleece
J. Christopher Monath
Jesse O. Snyder
Allen H. Mumma
Organization Club
Masonic Temple
Lane
William D. Byron
William C. Walsh
Cumberland
Stedman Prescott
Montgomery County
David C. Winebrenner
Frederick County
Burial probe in cornfield death near Luray
Page county authorities awaited autopsy results to finish their inquiry into the death of Mrs. Mamie Cubbage Yager. The 76 year old farmer’s wife was exhumed yesterday under county direction for transport to a medical facility as part of the investigation.
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Luray
Page County
Mamie Cubbage Yager
FBI Hunt for Kidnapper Continues Under Roosevelt Order
Federal agents in Tacoma under President Roosevelt directive pursue Charles Mattson's kidnapper. The Justice Department offers a $10,000 reward as two Washington authorities yield control to the G men. The pursuit vows to use every available means to capture the depraved killer.
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Tacoma
Wash
Roosevelt
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Charles Mattson
United States Department of Justice
Washington
Kidnaping and slaying of 10 year old Charles Mattson
An intensive manhunt roars in Tacoma as authorities chase the savage kidnapper of 10 year old Charles Mattson. The boy’s naked, broken body was found in snow covered woods after a ransom demand of 28000 dollars. Investigators from local police and the FBI under Harold Nathan study autopsy findings to identify the suspect. The Mattson family faces grief, with Dr Mattson’s repeated ransom attempts and the suspect still at large.
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Tacoma
Wash
Charles Mattson
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Harold Nathan
J. Edgar Hoover
Everitt
Otto H. Mittelstadt
Seattle
Washington
Paul Sceva
Charles
Sceva
Mattson
Nation Shocked by Washington Child Murder
President Roosevelt said the murder of 10 year old Charles Mattson in Washington state has shocked the nation and vowed every government means to capture the perpetrator. Attorney General Cummings offered a $10,000 reward for arrest of the kidnappers and FBI agents are in pursuit with local police cooperation.
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Son
Yellow
Washington
Roosevelt
Charles Mattson
Washington State
Cummings
Bar
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Ocal Police
Three Judges To Try Bandleader Charged With Murder
Norwich dispatch reports bandleader Robert A. Simpson faces three judges without a jury in a murder trial. Ellen Sullivan a seventeen year old telephone operator died after falling from a Danceland Casino window in July. Simpson rose to fame at Ocean Beach and is accused of attacking Sullivan in the darkened dance hall.
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Norwich
Conn
Robert A. Simpson
Ocean Beach
Ellen Sullivan
Danceland
Simpson
New London
Long Island Sound
Ellen
Joseph Sullivan
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