Boy Clings to Life as Mother Remains in Jail
In Santa Barbara California on December 1 1930 16 year old Jesse Livermore lies in critical condition after a shooting in a drunken quarrel. His mother Dorothea Wendt Livermore is in jail and distraught she reportedly said she would rather see him dead than a drunkard.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Jesse Livermore
Cottage Hospital
Dorothea Wendt Livermore
Wall Street
Jesse Livermore, Jr
Los Angeles
Dorothea Livermore
Jesse, Jr
Livermore
Paul Livermore
Associated Press
Montana Man Crowned At Livestock Expo And Shotgun Duel News
John C Hauf of Corvalis Mont earned two crowns at the 36th International Livestock Exposition becoming King of Barley and King of Oats. Earlier, a fatal shotgun duel near Castiac Junction left Ozre Christianson dead and Henry Baere wounded.
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Los Angeles
Castiac Junction
William Bright
Sheriff's Office
Ozre Christianson
Burbank
Calif
Henry Baere
Christianson
Baere
Ruben Smith
Chicago
John C Hauf
Corvalis
Mont
United States
Canada
Australia
America
Justices Ofgriculture
High Court
Missouri
University of Missouri
Purdue
University of Nebraska
Oklahoma A. & M
Jack Alsopp
Wembley
Alta
Kansas State College
Oklahoma A
C. J. Brodie
Stouffville
Ont
Canadian
New South Wales
Brazil Dismisses Rebel Officials in Purge
Authorities continued purge measures against officials tied to the Communist led rebellion crushed after five days. Two officials were dismissed Aristio Spinola Teixeira secretary of education for the federal district and Captain Herculino Cascardo delegate for ports in Santa Catharina. Major Carlos Coste Leite was arrested in Bage Rio Grande Do Sul.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Aristio Spinola Teixeira
Federal District
Herculino Cascardo
Santa Catharina
Carlos Coste Leite
Bage
Rio Grande Do Sul
Girl Recovers After Safety Pin Removal
Surgeons removed an open safety pin from the small intestine of 15 year old Lillian Lennehan Ramsey New Jersey. The girl swallowed the pin aboard a coastwise ship with her father and was flown to New York in a plane piloted by a newsman after rough seas near Long Island Sound.
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New York
Lillian Lennehan
Ramsey
N. J
Long Island Sound
Eagle 10 Opposes Senator Sheppard in 1936 Senate Race
Houston congressman Joe H. Eagle declares he will oppose Norris Sheppard of Texarkana for the Democratic nomination. Eagle will launch his campaign after the new year and says his mind will not change under any circumstances. He stresses his statewide organizational base and the clear issues in the contest.
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Houston
Joe H. Eagle
Norris Sheppard
Texarkana
United States Senate
Eagle
Pampa Named Site Of Next Legion Meet
The 18th district American Legion will hold its spring meeting in Pampa with district Legion and auxiliary officers to be elected there. Attorney General William McCraw spoke at a joint session praising patriotism and the Legion as a liberty loving program. The Borger event, led by host O B Hunt, drew a full Borger high school auditorium as Rev J N Hunt offered the invocation and Judge Ainsworth welcomed attendees from 28 counties.
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Fred Post
Borger
American Legionnaires
18Th District
Pampa
Legion
Auxiliary
William McCraw
American Legion
O. B. Hunt
Hutchinson County
Highways Claim 12 More Victims
The AP reports over a weekend more than 72 people died in 25 states due to auto crashes on icy and snowy roads. Incidents include two army privates drowned near Watertown New York after slipping on a hill, another youth killed near Winslow Maine, a watchman struck by a bus in Phillipsburg New Jersey, and a head on collision on the Lincoln Highway near Bedford Pennsylvania.
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Associated Press
Watertown
N. Y
Winslow
Phillipsburg
N. J
Lincoln Highway
Bedford
Relieft whisky tale lands couple in jail
In Poplar Bluff Missouri on December 1 Uncle Joe Cameron aged 71 and his newlywed wife were jailed on allegations of producing relief whisky. U S Commissioner Arno Ponder quoted Cameron saying he sought a wife to gain higher relief and described converting relief allotment into a small batch of sugar and corn into liquor sold for 40 cents a quart with premeal sips. Officers found a small still on his cook stove yesterday.
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Poplar Bluff
Joe” Cameron
United States
Arno Ponder
Ponder
Joe
Uncle Joe
Thanksgiving hunting accident claims life of teen Ray Armstrong
Ray Armstrong aged 16 from La Porte died in Houston after a gunshot wound to the leg suffered while hunting near White Oak. He was taken to a Houston hospital Thursday and succumbed today.
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Houston
Ray Armstrong
la Porte
Armstrong
White Oak
Local Option Vote Today Decides Potter County Wet-Dry Issues
Gunmen lose battle in Chicago as two masked robbers fail to loot Mandel department store figures. Leon Mandel and wife aboard yacht Buccaneer at Goodrich Docks. defense by Jack Breezley ends the attempted heist with no injuries.
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Potter County
Chicago
Chicago River
Michigan Boulevard
Leon
Frederick Mandel
Goodrich Docks
Jack Breezley
Mrs
Frances Mandel
Posses Hunt For Comer’s Dead Near Purcell
Eighteen searching parties of about 30 men scoured dense brush and riverbanks near Coiner Oklahoma as part of a statewide hunt for the slain fugitive Chester Comer and missing Roy Evans Shawnee attorney and Legionnaire. The hunt marks the twelfth day of searching begun after a farmer reported hearing seven shots late November. Members of the American Legion from several counties joined the effort at the call of State Adjutant Milt Phillips.
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Purcell
Okla
Fighteen
Chester Comer
Legion
American Legion
Milt Phillips
Roy Evans
Treasury seeks $900 million loan to fund relief and cash reserves
The U.S. government asked for a $900,000,000 loan to finance winter work relief and bolster the Treasury’s ready cash. If raised, the public debt would near $30.5 billion. Secretary Morgenthau proposed cash subscriptions of $450,000,000 in 2 percent 10 year bonds and $450,000,000 of 1 1/4 percent five year notes, with exchange options for maturing notes.
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Washington
Treasury
Ballot boxes open at 8 A M for liquor vote in Potter County
Official results not expected for five days but unofficial count should settle by tonight. About 8,000 voters are registered at 27 precincts to decide if Amarillo and Potter County will legalize sale of all liquors. If the majority votes for legalization the measure passes.
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Potter County
Amarillo
How to Cast Ballot on Liquor Issue
The ballot outlines Official Ballot options for Legalizing the Sale of All Liquors with For and Against choices. Voters scratch the favored option leaving the other unbroken. Package stores may obtain permits from the State Board of Liquor Control in Austin after December 7. County commissioners conduct the canvass five days after the election. Polls open 8 A.M. and close 7 P.M.
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State Board of Liquor Control
Austin
Officers Battle Negro Bandit Trio in Newark Shootout
In Newark New Jersey a radio patrolman and three black suspects tied to a robber gang exchanged gunfire at 10 Scott Street. Patrolman Fred Schalk was only slightly wounded and released from City Hospital. His partner Patrolman Frank Carr helped shoot the trio who were hospitalized under guard. Police tie the incident to a spree that began when a man was beaten and shot on Liberty Street.
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Newark
N. J
Scott Street
Fred Schalk
City Hospital
Schalk
Frank Carr
Liberty Street
Mother's Fear Realized as Child Drowns in Dallas Pond
In Dallas on December 1, Mrs. O. H. Johnson found her 14 month old daughter Dollye Jane drowned in the family's fish pond. A long held fear of a child drowning prompted a wire screen around the pool, which was removed two days earlier during pool draining and refilling.
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Dallas
O. H. Johnson
Dollye Jane
Wildorado Man Hospitalized After Highway Crash
J A Meadows of Wildorado was treated at Northwest Texas Hospital after a yesterday afternoon crash on the Amarillo Wildorado highway. He suffered a severed tendon in his right hand but was not seriously injured. His car, traveling west, was hit by a truck driven by Clifford Hyatt of Amarillo and crashed into a ditch near Lindsey Nunn's home.
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J. A. Meadows
Wildorado
Northwest Texas
Amarillo
Meadows
Clifford Hyatt
Lindsey Nunn
China Clipper Returns From Manila Flight
The China Clipper left Manila Bay at 2 52 A M for a 60 hour flight to Alameda Calif eight crew aboard with Captain E C Musick. It will pick up Pan American employees at Wake and Midway for transport to Honolulu. The sister Philippine Clipper to depart next for the Philippines.
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Manila
Manila Bay
United Staes
Orient
Alameda
Calif
Philippines
Pacific
E. C. Musick
Pan American Airways
Wake
Midway Islands
Honolulu
Tripping on rug claims life of Lubbock woman
Mrs. C. B. Moore, 79, died in a Lubbock hospital from shock after a fall at home Friday. The incident was caused by tripping on a rug near the hip. Funeral services were held Sunday. she is survived by her husband, two daughters and two sons.
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Lubbock
C. B. Moore
Panic at Dog Fight in Pet Shop Window
A dog fight in a pet shop window in Washington ended with eleven fire trucks two police squad cars detectives and the Animal Rescue League responding to a Sunday-closed shop crowd. Neighbors and news witnesses noted the scene drew children to the display as Boston bull pups battled a fox terrier leading to traffic congestion and police action.
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Washington
Animal Rescue League
Boston
Boston Bulls
Wang Ching-wei resigns as foreign minister and premier
Premier Wang Ching Wei submitted his resignation as foreign minister and as chairman of China's Executive Yuan. He cited weakness from wounds sustained in a prior assassination attempt.
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Nanking
Wang Ching-Wei
China
Executive Yuan
Autonomy Plan Hitches In North China Policy
Reports from Hopei Province say the imminent arrival of Ho-Ying Chin, China's minister of war, complicates an immediate declaration of North China autonomy. Anti autonomists gain hope as Ho plans broad administrative reforms for northern provinces to satisfy Japan while preserving central government sovereignty.
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Peiping
Hopei
China
Ho-Ying Chin
North China
Rengo
Japan
Il Duce Warns Oil Sanctions as War Risk Looms
Mussolini warns that oil sanctions could trigger warlike actions, signaling Italy may react to international measures. He urges friendly gestures to ease tensions and protect Italian interests amid escalating global pressure.
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IL Duce
Italy and Britain Push Oil Embargo Leaders Face Dividing Wall
Paris seeks a peace gesture from Mussolini before December 12 to delay oil sanctions while Britain lines up a cabinet move to take the lead at Geneva. Mussolini urges war widows to defend against sanctions as hope for peace fades in war weary Europe.
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Paris
Tr Duce
Rome
Mussolini
London
Asmara
Amba Alnji
Associated Press
Europe
Pierre Laval
Benito Mussolini
League of Nations
Italy
Libya
Egypt
Great Britain
France
Geneva
United States
Washington
King George Grants Pardons to Rebels
Athens December 1 rebels in the March uprising were released after a royal amnesty decree. King George II allowed confinement of dangerous persons to certain localities and ordered fortunes taken from revolt leaders restored except for those gained immorally. War Finance and Interior ministers will decide which fortunes are restored.
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Athens
George II
Finance
Interior
Paola Man Held on Double Murder Charge
Albert Zakoura, 40, restaurant operator, was held by Sheriff Harve Lininger after allegedly shooting and killing his wife and a man who talked to her too much. County Attorney Oliver Rinehart said he would file first degree murder charges and seek the death penalty under Kansas’ new capital punishment law.
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Paola
Kas
Harve Lininger
Atorney
Oliver Rinehart
Kansas
Albert Zakoura
Buffalo slaughter planned at Elk Island Park
EDMONTON Alta December 1 Range riders prepare to roundup and slaughter Buffalo at Elk Island Park. Five hundred of the park’s 2000 buffalo will be killed by sharpshooters, driven into a large corral for disposal marking the first wholesale slaughter there since 1928.
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Edmonton
Alta
Elk Island Park
Elk Island
Stanford Eyes Eastern Opponent For Rose Bowl
Stanford's Rose Bowl plans centered on an eastern opponent with Princeton as the most debated candidate. Stanford's graduate manager would not confirm the destination yet, suggesting a wait of a day or two for a final announcement. S. M. U. showed Rose Bowl potential by beating Texas Christian 20 to 14, strengthening the case for a southern bid as the search continued.
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Palo Alto
Calif
Stanford
Princeton
Alfred R. Masters
Pasadena
Southern
Texas Christian
Theft of Typhoid Laboratory Animals in Albuquerque
A laboratory armload of potential typhoid germs was stolen from the University of New Mexico biology department. Three inoculated rabbits were taken and could spread typhoid if eaten or improperly cooked. Dr Pred Allan reported to police on December 1.
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Albuquerque
N. M
University of New Mexico Biology Department
Pred W. Allan
Allan
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