Train Wreck Kills Three on Reading Express
Three dead and 31 injured after the Williamsport to New York Williambor express plunged 30 feet from a Susquehanna river bridge in Sunbury. Names include Dr. Guy Rothfuss and fireman Washington Danshaw. A fourth presumed victim, a Bucknell student, was later listed among the injured. The crash marks a rare deadly railroad accident since 1934.
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Leo W. Sheridan
Associated Press
Sunbury
Reading Company
Susquehanna River
Bucknell University
Williamsport
New York
Susquehanna
Guy Rothfuss
Washington
Danshaw
Tamaqua
William Ramp
Rothfuss
Mary H. Packer
United States
Winnipeg schools test electric tattle tale system
In Winnipeg a new electric tattle tale microphone system is being trialed in secondary classrooms. School Inspector Andrew Moore explains each room has a microphone feeding a loud speaker in the principal's office, allowing monitoring of selected classes for teaching methods and efficiency.
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Winnipeg
Andrew Moore
Moore
Portland Unions Push For Wage Increases Across Sectors
Labor unions in Portland representing about 29 000 workers demand higher pay with 20 percent for the building trades council and 10 percent for sawmill and timber workers. The trades council sets April 1 as the deadline for a 20 percent boost, while the sawmill group seeks talks on a 10 percent rise along with an eight hour day and a 40 hour week in five days. Union labor would also require a union shop and forest products to be cut by union labor. The current minimum wage for sawmill workers is 50 cents an hour.
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Portland
Ore
Building Trades Council
Sawmill and Timber Workers’ Union
Commander Plans Idaho Visit
Ray Murphy national commander of the American Legion will visit Idaho next August during the Idaho department convention in Idaho Falls. Boise lawyer Oscar Worthwine one of five national vice commanders said the dates are tentatively set for August 10 11 and 12 with possible slight changes for the commander’s convenience.
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Boise
Ray Murphy
Ida Grove
American Legion
Idaho
Oscar W. Worthwine
Legion
Idaho Falls
Worthwine
Fire Destroys Ventura Warehouses and Pier
Fire destroyed three Ventura Wharf and Ware company warehouses along with 100 feet of pier and large quantities of lima beans barley and machinery. Damage was estimated at more than 100000.
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Calif
Ventura Wharf and Ware Company
Utah Weather Sees Unsettled Nights With Snow Likely
Unsettled conditions persist tonight and Saturday with probable snowfall. Warmer temperatures are expected in the northwest portion tonight as moisture moves in across the state.
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Utah
Northwest
Former Greek official Kondylis dies at 55 in Athens
Gen George Kondylis former strong man of Greece dies suddenly from a heart attack at Athens age 55. The garrison is ordered on guard amid fears prompted by his threat to use force against Venizelists. Kondylis helped restore the monarchy and split with Jean Tokos and the Populist party after last Sunday's elections.
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Athens
George Kondylis
Greece
Kondylis
Sundey
George
Jean Theotokis
Xondylis
Montanan to Battle Court in House Challenge
Montana Representative Joseph P. Monaghan declared he will fight to stop the Supreme Court from ruling on the constitutionality of congressional acts. He proposes amendments to rail retirement, Guffey coal control, and Tennessee Valley Authority acts, plus a SEC act amendment, to force justices to vacate if they decide constitutional issues. He cited a constitutional clause granting the court power with Congress’ regulatory exceptions.
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Washington
Joseph P. Monaghan
Supreme Court
Montana
Monaghan
Tennessee Valley Authority
Securities Exchange Commission
Congress
Landon Speech Attacked by Borah Backer
Washington January 31 Norbeck a Republican senator from South Dakota said Landons Kansas address sounded like the American Liberty League Borah a potential GOP contender stayed silent Georgia Democrat Governor Talmadge pressed ahead with a campaign against Roosevelts renomination Hopkins Ickes attacked him and a Atlanta grand jury heard witnesses in a WPA misuse probe
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Nathan Robertson
Associated Press
Washington
Borah
Alf M. Landon
Talmadge
Norbeck
Landon
Kansas
American Liberty League
Idaho
Atlanta
A. S Howell
Hugh Howell
State Democratic Executive Committee
WPA
Hopkins
Ickes
Norbeck-London
Ohio
Lan
Negroes to Form Club For Borah
Colored residents of Pocatello will meet February 11 to organize a Borah for president club. O L Boyd and W M Burrell lead the Colored Citizens Civic and Political Organization of Pocatello and Southern Idaho. Lincoln day banquet includes Bottolfien address and speeches by eastern Idaho leaders followed by a dance.
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Pocatello
O. L. Boyd
W. M. Burrell
Colored Citizens Civic
Southern Idaho
Association
Boyd
C. A Bottolfier
Arco
Blackfoot Bulletin
Eastern Idaho
Bottolfsen
Idaho
Three Die After Car Hit by freight Train Near Fort Worth
At Fort Worth Texas on January 31 three people were killed when their car was struck by a Missouri Kansas Texas freight train. The victims were Charles White Jr 52 and two women Mrs Anna Mae Begs and Mrs Edith Arnold.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Charles White, Jr
Anna Mae Begs
Edith Arnold
Debaters Chosen After Elimination at Blackfoot High
Debate members of the Blackfoot High School teams were chosen after elimination rounds held January 31. Fifteen contestants competed and Billy Tomlinson and Stew eer were named winners.
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Blackfoot
Billy Tomlinson
Stew Eer
Cann Is Accused At Murder Trial
In Minneapolis on January 3, Isadore Kid Cann Blunfeld stands accused of killing Walter Liggett. Wesley Anderson, star witness, described a killer’s face over a 4 machine gun during cross examination. Anderson testified about seeing two men, one resembling Cann, in the assassin’s car near Liggett’s residence.
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Minneapolis
Wesley Andersoh
Star Sta
Isadore
Kid Cann
Blunfeld
Wal'er Liggett
Anders
Thomas McMeekin
Andersoh
Liggett
Mercury Hits New Low Across Regions
A bitter cold wave set in with readings as low as seven below zero here at 5 a.m. and zero by midnight. Record lows were logged in Blackfoot and Montpelier as Caldwell and Lake City also reported subzero or near-zero temps with forecasts for some warming tonight.
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Montpelier
Wilentz says no new evidence in Lindbergh case
New Jersey Attorney General David T. Wilentz stated the governor’s order to reopen the Lindbergh kidnapping inquiry yields no new evidence. He said the case stands as is and responses to the governor’s 12 questions are in state police files.
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Trenton
N. J
David T. Wilentz
Harold G. Hoffman
Wilentz
Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Col. Sch
Hoffman
Anthony M. Hauck
Hunterdon County
Schwarzkopf
Early life of Idaho Slayer recounted in trial
Douglas Van Vlack took the witness stand in Twin Falls on January 31 to testify about head injuries from boyhood accidents and a gym fall. He described memory gaps, head pains, and a gymnasium fall before regaining consciousness at home.
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Twin Falls
Douglas van Vlack
Mildred Hook
Han van Vinck
Carl van Vlack
Loeb Killed in Prison Case Prompting Prosecution Probe
Will R. McCabe says he has obtained information from Stateville prison inmates supporting a theory that Richard Loeb’s death was a deliberate murder. He would not disclose details but said the source is Edward Stepowski, Loeb’s cellmate, as part of his Wheeling county probe.
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Will County
Edward Steplowski Steplowski
McCabe
Loeb
Cellanse
Richard Loeb
Loeb-Leopold
Chicago
Illinois
Joliet
James Day
Nathan Leopold
Little Bobby Franks
Associated Press
Veteran Negro Aide Patterson Dies at 60 in Washington
C C Patterson longtime messenger for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee died at age 60. He served since Henry Cabot Lodge era and earned praise from Senators Borah and Pittman for his mastery of committee lore and access to documents. Patterson helped Borah as librarian clerk and often arranged meals for the chairman.
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Washington
C. C. Patterson
Senate Foreign Relations
Henry Cabot Lodge
Patterson
Snator Pittman
D-Nevy
Borah
Ridaho
Sarah
Irman
Foreign Relations Committee
Democrats
Senate
Idaho
Pittman
Paterson
Patterson P
Ronally
Chen
Backwoods Wedding Gift Whisky Surprise
In N C on January 31 the church rite ends with the groom presenting Rev W H Carter a homemade gift. He produces a quart of corn whisky from a charred keg saying the present is for the minister. The ceremony leaves the couple pleased yet a bit confused.
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Dunn
N. C
W. H. Carter
New Taxes Proposed To Cover Farm And Bonus Costs
President Roosevelt outlined plans for new taxes to raise at least 500 million dollars to fund the farm program and offset the 2.249 billion dollar veteran bonus, with possible yields rising toward 750 million if a key bonus tax is adopted. The proposal awaits further study and a possible congressional message.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Capitol Hill
Residents Benefit As Leaky Roof Abandoned Line Closes
Aldrich Missouri January 31 residents describe what happened after the Leaky Roof branch line of the Kansas City Clinton and Southern railroad was abandoned. Villages used the ties for fire wood the coal house became an outbuilding on Coon Millers farm Ossie Young repurposed the water tower into a hog trough and a hen house while Fred Jarnegan harvested a ten load hay crop from the abandoned roadbed.
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Aldrich
Kansas City, Clinton
New Federal Reserve Board Takes Broad Powers
Washington January 31 The new board of governors of the Federal Reserve System set to assume control under the 1935 banking act. Six of seven members nominated by President Roosevelt were approved by the Senate with one seat still vacant. Members include Mariner Eccles M B Szwezack Joseph A Broderick Ronald Ransom John McKee and Ralph W Morrison. Eccles shifts from the sole former governor to one of seven. The board will influence the reserve banks role in government bond markets and monitor credit supply.
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Washington
New “Board of Governors
Federal Reserve System
Roosevelt
Senate
Marriner S. Eccles
Utah
M. 8. Szwcczak
Chicago
Joseph A. Broderick
New York
Ronald Ransom
Georgia
John McKee
Ohio
Ralph W. Morrison
Texas
Eccles
Reserve Bank
Youth Ipsen Rescued After Barefoot Run To Ranch
Ray Ipsen aged 18 was brought to Salt Lake City hospital after running barefoot through cold and snow from Mackay Idaho to a highway ten miles away. Physicians fear possible foot damage but expect preservation of his feet. Ipsen abandoned his shoes and socks to warm his feet, then traveled by bus and hitchhiking to Mackay.
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Salt Lake City
Ray Ipsen
Mackay
Idaho
Ipsen
Flam ing Death from Gasoline Fire Traps 20 Prisoners
In Scottsboro Alabama on January 3 a state convict transfer truck carrying 22 prisoners caught fire from a burning paper held to warm hands igniting a drum of gasoline. Twenty prisoners died. two survived with burns. Guards H M Middlebrook and C R Wasson were burned rescuing others.
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Scottsboro
Ala
H. M Middlebrook
Montgomery
C R. Wasson - Danville
Paul Dawson
Demopolis
John Stokes
Birmingham
Dawson
Middlebrook
Wasson
Miss Leaver Denies Nude Shots in Film Contract
Henrietta Leaver, 19, from Pittsburgh, crowned Miss America of 1935 and Miss Model America of 1936, refused to wear less clothing for a camera in a Los Angeles style pageant finale. Two thousand department store buyers voted her most talented of six mannequins, signaling a possible movie offer.
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Los Angeles
Pittsburgh
Henrietta Leaver
Miss Leaver
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