Confession for Notoriety Sparks New Admissions
Charles Garner who confessed drowning his bride of 20 days now says he killed three men in separate incidents. He told officials he killed over an all night date quarrel, poisoning a neighbor, and drowned his wife after their marriage. He also described strangling a stranger near Kansas City.
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Jefferson City
Charles Garner
Garner
Tom Scott
Missouri Penitentiary
York
Neb
Alvin Collingham
Collingham
Jean Collingham
Clem Hall
Lamar
Kansas City
Union Station
Robert Parsons
Hospital Plans New Wings at St Anthony
Final plans for two extending wings at St Anthony hospital are nearly complete. Architect Frank Hummel of Boise outlines ground floor nurses quarters on the north wing and a chapel plus surgical rooms in the south wing, expanding capacity from 65 to at least 100 beds.
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St. Anthony Hospital
Cecilia
Frank Hummel
Boise
Allies Nazis Claim Major British Vessels Sunk
Berlin reports 23 British vanguard ships destroyed by the Luftwaffe in three days with some prisoners taken in western front sallies. Paris cites French estimates that over 50 German submarines have been sunk since the war began, noting a recent Siroco sub sink.
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Berlin
High Command
Paris
Germany
France
Siroco
Boxer Kehler Returns to Face Homicide Charge
Canadian-born boxer Ern est Kehler, 24, who allegedly signed a 15 page confession admitting the murder of Dr Walter Engelberg, first secretary of the German consulate, is brought from Toronto to New York to face homicide charges. Assistant District Attorney Michael Kern says the case is "all settled" as the boxer, described as a third rate fighter, is married with a 5 year old daughter.
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New York
Ernest Kehler
Walter Engelberg
Ifirst
Toronto
Canada
Michael Kern
Kings County
Kehler
Dr. Engelberg
Brooklyn
Meeting Postponed Due to Council Absences
City council meeting scheduled for this evening postponed as Councilman C A Carmack is out of the city and Councilman Joe Burton is confined to his home by illness.
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C. A. Carmack
Joe Burton
Legion Post 4 to Meet in Regular Session
The American Legion Post No 4 will hold a regular meeting Thursday at 8 PM in the Memorial building. Commander Harvey Rice says refreshments will be served after the session.
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Pocatello
American Legion
Memorial Building
Harvey Rice
Youth Threatening Death by Own Action At Midnight Christmas
A jobless young husband in Pittsburgh warned he would end his life at midnight Christmas Eve to spark action on unemployment. He signed as a disappointed American, urging help while his letter to the Sun Telegraph drew responses from two local clergymen who urged him to seek aid. He said his family cannot face another Christmas with no work and left his name and address in his coat pocket.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph
Liner Columbus Scuttled Inside Neutrality Zone Study Underway
Washington officials report the German liner Columbus was scuttled about 250 miles inside the neutrality zone. A study is begun to determine if an act of war occurred within the zone after initial notes that a British warship encountered the vessel outside the area.
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Washington
State Department
America
Stephen Early
White House
United States
Tuscaloosa
Columbus
Panama
Graf Spee
Uruguay
Utah Construction worker Dies in Burley Crash
Hugh M Bemenderfer 42 of Ogden was killed when his light panel truck crashed into a coal laden truck on highway 30 twelve miles west of Burley Idaho. Sheriff P D Pace said Bemenderfer suffered chest injuries and spinal trauma from the impact with the machinery load. Harold Billings of Filer drove the coal truck, which was only lightly damaged.
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Burley
Idaho
Cassia County
Hugh M Bemenderfer
Ogden
Bemenderfer
Utah Construction Company
P. D. Pace
Harold Billings
Filer
Highway 30
Here
Union Pacific booklet shared with Union Pacific employees
A small book retelling the Union Pacific story by Eleanor Packer, based on the Paramount film, is being distributed to Union Pacific workers. Foreword by William Jeffers, Union Pacific president, notes the railroad’s building as a pivotal western epic and invites reading enjoyment.
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Union Pacific
Eleanor Packer
Paramount Motion Picture
William Jeffers
Great West
Decorations Return to R W Dickman Following Theft
A few hours after Monday's Tribune, decorations stolen from R W Dickman of 540 South Seventh were returned in a package left on his front porch. The earlier report said residents in the area were indignant and police began an intensive search for the thief.
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R. W. Dickman
South Seventh
Tribune
Storm Drops Snow in Eastern Idaho
A winter storm in the inter mountain region brought two inches of snow to Idaho Falls and Blackfoot with light precipitation totals. Pocatello saw a half inch, while Idaho city areas reported modest snowfall and rain. Forecasters said the storm has moved east of the continental divide with fair, unsettled conditions for Utah and Idaho tomorrow.
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Intermountain
Rockies
Idaho Falls
Blackfoot
Montana
Pocatello Airport
Idaho
Boise
Continental Divide
Utah
Juvenile Court Officers Seek Burglar Suspects in Salt Lake City
To Return Boys Officers of the juvenile court are leaving today for Salt Lake City to return to Pocatello Cecil Ellenbeck 11 and Gayle Ellenbeck 13 who are wanted here on charges of being involved in a number of house burglaries. The boys and their parents were cited to appear in juvenile court here on December 4 but the family moved to Salt Lake City where it is reported the boys have been since picked up on burglary charges. Gayle is on parole from the state industrial school.
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Salt Lake City
Pocatello
Cecil Ellenbeck
Gayle Ellenbeck
Gayles
State Industrial School
Plan on Marriage Granted in San Francisco Couple
The county clerk issued a marriage license to Francisco Legarreta 29 and Althea Franden 23, both residents of San Francisco, planning their nuptials.
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Francisco Legarreta
Althea Frandsen
San Francisco
U S cruiser Tuscaloosa brings 79 Columbus survivors to Staten Island
The Tuscaloosa arrived at Tompkinsville at 4 05 p m to disembark 79 survivors from the scuttled Nazi liner Columbus. The survivors are listed as distressed seamen and will have 60 days to depart the country.
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New York
Tompkinsville
Staten Island
Columbus
United States
Germany May Seek Release of Graf Spee Officers
Berlin reports authoritative sources say Germany will seek the release of Admiral Graf Spee officers and crew interned in Argentina, using World War II precedents as the basis for negotiations. Washington notes President Roosevelt accepted F F Hill’s resignation as governor of the Farm Credit Administration and named A G Black as successor. London quotes a British source on Captain Hans Langsdorff’s death by his own hand and remarks the decision reflected pressure to act against naval tradition.
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Berlin
Germany
Graf Spee
Argentina
Washington
Roosevelt
F. F. Hill
New York
Farm Credit Administration
A. G. Black
Agriculture Department
London
Hans Langsdorff
Langsdorf
Budget Chief Says WPA Request To Drop Below Four Million
John M. Carmody said after a talk with President Roosevelt that the budget recommendation for the Public Works Administration would be less than 4 million dollars for the fiscal year starting July 1 1940. He did not specify the proposed appropriation for the works projects administration which had 1 425 million for the current year.
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Washington
John M. Carmody
Federal Works Administrator
Roosevelt
Public Works Administration
Carmody
Works Projects Administration
British raids target German organizations in Windhuk
British police raided offices of German organizations and private homes of officers in Windhuk Southwest Africa. Numerous documents were seized and no immediate official explanation given. Similar actions occurred in other parts of Southwest Africa.
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Windhuk
Southwest Africa
Africa
Man Who Obeyed Hitler Commits death by own action Aftermath of Naval Battle
Pocatello business houses extend evening hours from Thursday to week end opening until 9 p m each night. Meat dealers union says union shops close at 6 p m daily this week except Saturday open until 7 p m for shopping.
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Hitler
Pocatello
Pocatello Meat Dealers’ Union
All Union
Finland Reports Heavy Soviet Assault and Losses on Karelia Is-thmus
Finnish officials said the Red Army launched a gigantic attack on the Karelia isthmus with hundreds of tanks and more than 200 airplanes involved. They claimed dozens of Soviet tanks and over 20 planes were destroyed, with 30 armored cars captured near Salla, and a cannon seized. air raids alarmed cities including Helsinki, Turku and Koska.
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Helsinki
Red Army
Kareliar Isthmus
Salla
Arctic Circle
Finland
Hesinki
Wedding at Grave Fulfills Dying Pledge in Pittsburgh
Irene Garber, 21, dressed in white, attended the funeral of Albert Howarth who died of pneumonia. In a symbolic ritual, she tossed a wedding corsage onto his coffin at the grave after the gypsy band played the dirge. The couple had promised to marry if he died before the wedding.
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Albert
Braddock
Irene
Out Again In Again Notorious Suspect Reoffends After Release
Lloyd Morris was released from the county jail after one month of a four month sentence for intoxication and shoplifting suspended, but three hours later he was back in custody. Office Deputy George Pugmire reports a shoplifting charge has been filed and Morris will serve the remaining portion of the sentence.
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Lloyd Morris
George Pugmire
Sheriff's Department
Rotary Club Christmas Party Planned at Bannock
Rotary members will hold an informal Christmas party at the Bannock hotel Thursday noon, announced by president Hugh MacCosham.
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Rotary Club
Bannock Hotel
Hugh MacCosham
Freshman Thomas Doyle Mouritsen Visits During Holidays
Visiting at Logan Utah after spending holidays with his parents Mr and Mrs Olean Mouritsen of 749 North Tenth. The student attends Utah Agricultural College in Logan. Mouritsen is listed as a freshman and spends the break with his family.
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Thomas Doyle Mouritsen
Utah Agricultural College
Logan
Mrs
Olean Mouritsen
North Tenth
Langsdorff, Graf Spee Captain, Shoots Self in Buenos Aires
Captain Hans Langsdorff, commander of the German pocket battleship Graf Spee, killed himself in the Buenos Aires naval arsenal where he and 1,000 crew members were interned after the ship was scuttled in the River Plate. He spoke with his staff for three hours, then requested solitude before ending his life.
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Harold K. Milks
Buenos Aires
Hans Langsdorff
Admiral Graf Spee
River Plate
Buenos Aires Naval Arsenal
Langsdorff
Adolf Hitler
Uruguayan
Murderer Fails in Attempt To Commit Perfect Crime
Chicago reports Carl Erickson a 25 year old National Guard member confessed to killing Herbert Wolff 28 by pistol Sept 28 in a garage. He described defeating a lie detector and a ballistics test, devising an alibi with roommate George McKenna and attempting to steal $100 from Wolff's widow after the crime. The justice official called it another attempt at the perfect crime.
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Chicago
Thomas Harrison
Carl Erickson
Herbert Wolff
Erickson
Illinois National Guard
122Nd Field Artillery
Harrison
Wolff
Wle Dove
Mckenna
Julius Sherwin
Wiring repairs planned after Center and Fifth light fails
City electrician Elmer Smith reports the traffic light at Center and Fifth is not operating. He says wiring changes are needed and new poles must be installed to carry the light.
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City
Elmer Smith
Fifth
Three Days Jail For Coal Theft Case
Lee Lockhart charged with petit larceny accused of stealing coal from Union Pacific was sentenced today by Justice William Hinckley to three days in the county jail.
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Lee Lockhart
Union Pacific
William Hinckley
Woman shoots husband at county detective bureau
Mrs. Harrison drew a revolver from her purse and fired at her husband in the county detective bureau last night. A bullet lodged in a door and narrowly missed Harrison’s ear. Detectives disarmed her after a five minute struggle. She was jailed in default of 10000 bond on felonious assault and firearms charges.
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Thomas J Whalen
Jerry Deasy
Texas
Harrison
Detective Bureau
Canton
Deasy
Tex
Ager
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