Floods Hit Houston Area. Death, $1 Million in Damage
Floodwaters swelled across Houston and outskirts, drowning at least one person and causing damage approaching or surpassing 1 million dollars. Buffalo Bayou rose sharply, leaving about 12 business blocks and 100 residential blocks flooded as the Red Cross sheltered hundreds of homeless.
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Houston
Dec
South
Texas
Buffalo Bayou
Shady Acres
Red Cross
Milam Street
East Bernard
Route Across Panhandle to Face Barrage
A large assembly of good roads boosters gathered in Amarillo for an interstate highway meeting and the National U S Highway 66 Association convention. The group aims to close gaps on routes 60 and 66, with debate focused on pressuring the Texas Highway Commission and a push to appeal to the U S Bureau of Public Roads in Washington. Many delegates arrive from distant cities as the meeting opens in the Crystal Ballroom at 10 AM with Col Julius Dozenfield Jr presiding.
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Washington
Good Roads
Amarillo
National
U. S. Highway 66 Association
Texas Highway Commission
Texas
Herring Hotel
Geneva
U. S. Bureau of Public Roads
Col
Julius Dozenfield, Jr
U. S. Highway 46
Hereford
C. W. Humble
Naval Delegates Face New Troubles
London officials report fresh obstacles at the London Naval Conference on the eve of opening as French Italian and American delegations clash with Britain. France hints at annual review of building programs while Japan seeks fleet parity with the United States and Britain, seen as a non negotiable goal.
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London
Bolton Eyres-Mansell
Admiralty
United States
Great Britain
Banquet Honor For Dr Thomsen At Crystal Ballroom
Reservations for the silver anniversary banquet in the Crystal Ballroom of the Herring Hotel must be made to Miss Lois Black at The News Globe by noon today. The informal community event honors Dr Thomsen, has 300 plates, begins at 6 30 and ends by 9 with music speeches and a KGNC broadcast at 7 45. Norris Ewing will serve as master of ceremonies.
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Herring Hotel
R. Thomson
Lois Black
News-Globe
Central Presbyterian Church
Norris Ewing
KGNC
Thomsen
Supreme Court resumes New Deal review as farmers seek aid
The Supreme Court, with veto power over President and Congress, resumes appraisal of the Roosevelt administration's New Deal. Justices sustain dollar devaluation and reject NRA code regulation while turning to the farm aid program and limits on Congress for general welfare. Roosevelt heads to Chicago as the AAA reports a 110 million dollar processing tax deficit.
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Associated Press
Supreme Court
Congress
Roosevelt
Chicago
AAA
American Liberty League
Norris
Power Trust
Labor Board
Wap
Birthday man Tobias Wildstein seeks marriage if right girl comes
Tobias Wildstein, aged 109, celebrated his birthday in New York and said he would marry again if the right woman appears. He claimed feeling as strong as 50 years ago and questioned why he should not wed anew.
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New York
Tobias Wildstein
Pastor Thomsen Celebrated at Central Presbyterian Texas Largest Church
The congregation marked Dr. R Thomsen s 25th anniversary with morning and afternoon services at Central Presbyterian Church described as the largest in Texas. Dr R L Irving of Fort Davis delivered the principal sermon praising Thomsen as minister and man. The church crowded with an overflow balcony audience. afternoon services included a reception in Fellowship Hall and speeches by G C Saunders C S Lambie Mrs R H Allman and Rev J Hoytt Boles praising longtime members and Thomsen s ministry.
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R. Thomsen
Central Presbyterian Church
Texas
R. L. Irving
Fort Davis
Dr. Thomsen
Thomsen
Texas Synod
Irving
Fellowship Hall
G. C. Saunders
C. S. Lambie
R. H. Allman
J. Hoytt Boles
Mr. Saunders
Frank Gale Held After Fatal Hit Run on South Main Street
Frank Gale is jailed in Hutchinson County after an automobile fatally struck William Z. Nichols on South Main Street. Nichols, 50, a lease foreman for J. F. Weatherly, died of a fractured skull minutes after the 10 PM crash. Gale admitted car ownership but claimed he was not driving. Sheriff Dan Hardee to file driving while intoxicated and failure to stop charges. Nichols survived by wife Elizabeth and two children. Funeral at First Baptist Church, burial in Callinsville, Okla.
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Borger
Frank Gale
Hutchinson County
Stinnett
William Z. Nichols
South Main Street
Nichols
J. F. Weatherly
Gale
Dan Hardee
Hardee
Elizabeth
Ernest
Wilma Lee
First Baptist Church
Callinsville
Okla
Carver-Powell Mortuary
Rabies blamed as 10 year old dies in Vinita
Max Still Jr. died in Vinita Oklahoma from an attack of rabies according to Dr W R Marks. The boy showed symptoms after drinking water and attacking his mother and threatening his father. County and city doctors confirmed rabies and a county wide vaccination drive followed eight infected dogs found by the health department.
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Vinita
Oka
Max Still, Jr
W. R. Marks
Marks
Eastern Oklahoma
D. B. Stough
Health Department
Trainmen Call Off Threatened Strike
Chicago December 8 A M The threatened streamline train strike on the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad was called off to day Edward Flynn vice president of the road announced The strike call issued by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen for 6 P M to morrow was rescinded as part of a compromise agreement Flynn said Under the compromise the railroad agrees to increase engine crews on its diesel electric streamline trains and the Brotherhood agrees to drop its demand for a similar increase on diesel electric switching engines
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Chicago
Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy
Edward Flynn
The
Road
Brotherhood of Locomotive
Flynn
Brotherhood
Car Collision Near Vernon Kills One Passenger
Dee C. Kline, 48, of Vernon, was fatally injured when his car collided with a bus about 12 miles east of Vernon. His wife Mrs Kline was seriously injured and hospitalized. Bus driver J T Mc Phail and other passengers sustained only minor bruises.
France and Britain Offer Franco British Peace to Mussolini
The Franco British plan seeks to halt Italy by offering a territorial exchange in Ethiopia and a port for Haile Selassie while Italy would keep part of its conquests. Mussolini faces a Thursday oil sanctions deadline and a Senate address as Paris and London pledge unity.
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Associated Press
Mussolini
France
Great Britain
Italy
Ethiopia
Il Duce
League
Laval
Samuel Hoare
Haile Selassie
Eritrea
Rome
League of Nations
Chamber of Deputies
Indian Kills Wife and Baby Over Babysitting Request
Apache man Karl Gardner 30 killed his wife Alice Dia Bardner 20 and their month old baby with an axe in San Carlos Arizona after she asked him to watch the child while she attended church. He surrendered to Sheriff Charles R. Byrne and was jailed in Globe at Gila County. The suspect reportedly said I am tired of cleaning diapers for babies.
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San Carlos
Ariz
Charles R. Byrne
Karl Gardner
Alice Dia Bardner
Gardner
Gila County
Globe
Byrne
Fog Halts Planes Across Eastern U S
A dense fog stalled air traffic and slowed ground travel across the eastern United States. In Chicago only one plane left by 5 P M headed southwest while airliners were grounded at Indianapolis Washington Detroit and other hubs as movements stopped at Detroit by 2 P M Saturday.
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Chicago
United States
Indianapolis
Washington
Detroit
Lindbergh Baby Case: Suspect Linked to New Jersey Portfolios
Burlington County detective Ellis Parker says a wealthy, middle aged man in New Jersey planned the Lindbergh baby abduction and may be the killer. Parker claims Governor Hoffman backed his reopened probe with a private aide, while panel evidence points to an earlier Englewood plan.
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Philadelphia
Ellis Parker
Burlington County
N. J
Parker
Hoffman
New Jersey
Englewood
Hopewell
Prisoner wounds woman witness in jail shooting
Franklin B. Steventon shot at the woman who testified against him in Anne Arundel County jail and wounded himself in the head. He, 38, from Roundup Montana, is in critical condition at Emergency Hospital. The wounded woman, Sally Picard alias Sally Sly, 26, of Pax, West Virginia, is reported with a non serious shoulder wound.
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Annapolis
Franklin B. Steventon
Anne Arundel County
Steventon
Mont
Sally Picard
Sally Sly
Pax
W. Va
Gandhi Improves Blood Pressure After Quiet Night
In Wardha India on December 8 Mahatma Gandhi, troubled by high blood pressure, passed a quiet night and attendants reported his condition returning to normal.
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Wardha
India
Mahatma Gandhi
Reading and CNJ President Charles Ewing Dies at 69
Charles H. Ewing, president of the Reading Company and the Central Railroad of New Jersey, died today of pneumonia. He was 69.
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Philadelphia
Charles H. Ewing
The
Reading Company
Central Railroad of
New Jersey
Merchant Kidnapped in Jewel Robbery on Wabash Avenue
Milton Jackson and Joseph Raymond, NY based Simon Brothers Diamond Co. executive and carrier, were abducted by three robbers on Wabash Avenue near Monroe Street. Jackson said the jewels and $134 in cash totaled over $35,000, insured, before he was dumped near Twenty first place. Two years earlier a similar gem robbery occurred nearby.
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Chicago
New York
Milton Jackson
Simon Brothers Diamond Company
Joseph Raymond
Wabash Avenue
Monroe Street
Raymond
Jackson
Illinois Central Railroad
Congress Street
Foray
Cardinal Hayes Attacks Birth Control Advocates at St Patrick’s
In a blistering sermon at St Patrick’s Cathedral Cardinal Patrick Hayes called birth control advocates “prophets of decadence” and said the case is closed for Catholics. He responded to the American Birth Control League’s demand for contraceptive information for relief mothers. Rabbi Sidney E Golstein challenged the church to withdraw its opposition.
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New York
Patrick Cardinal Hayes
Cardinal Hayes
St. Patrick's Cathedral
American Birth Control League
Sidney E. Golstein
Catholic Church
French Seaplane Begins Guiana Hop
Bordeaux France December 8 French giant seaplane Lieu tenant de Vaisseau Paris took off for Dakar on a voyage across the South Atlantic to mark 300 years of French rule in Guiana and the West Indies. Pilot Captain German Bonnet leads a five-plane squadron bound for celebrations late this month with crack units of sea and submarine forces aboard.
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Bordeaux
France
Lieutenant-de-Vaisseau-Paris
Dakar
Senegal
South Atlantic
Guiana
West Indies
Guadeloupe
Martinique
German Bonnet
Southern Cross Transatlantic
Fatal crash near Ardmore involves fish truck
C. W. Ross aged 30 from Sulphur Oklahoma was killed and two companions were seriously hurt when their car rear ended a stalled Wichita Kansas bound fish truck four miles south of Ardmore on Highway 77.
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Dieardmore
Okla
C. W. Ross
Sulphur
Here
Wichita, Kan
Death Nearer for A. B. Fall in El Paso Hospital
Former interior secretary and New Mexico senator A. B. Fall remained in serious condition at William Beaumont General Hospital El Paso after a Friday sinking spell. Doctors said he has a slight chance to recover while officials monitor developments and call in family.
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EL Paso
A. B. Fall
William Beaumont General Hospital
New
C. C. Chase
Three Rivers
N. M
Fall
East Texas
Col
H. F. Pipes
F. E. Weatherbee
Horse Tosses Man Under Oil Truck in Pampa
In Pampa on December 8 a horse rider named Joe Wilson aged about 55 from LePors was killed when the horse threw him beneath a passing oil field truck. Also on December 8 President Roosevelt announced Edward Dana Durand of Minnesota as the new Republican tariff commission vacancy appointee. Durand serves as chief economist of the commission and is a member of the United States Central Statistical Board.
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Pampa
Joe Wilson
LePors
Roosevelt
Chicago
Edward Dana Durand
Minnesota
Tariff Commission
Durand
Commission
United States Central Statistical Board
Byrns Outlines Congress Plans From Hawaii
Speaker Joseph W. Byrns, aboard the President Jefferson with Vice President Garner, says the next Congress will focus on neutrality issues, New Deal remedies, and supply bills after attending President Quezon's inauguration in Manila. He favors a short session of three to four months.
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Honolulu
Joseph W. Byrns
Congress
Supreme Court
Byrns
President Jefferson
John N. Garner
Manila
Manuel Quezon
Burns
Orphans Must Fight Road Men In Panhandle Debate
In Raton and the Texas Panhandle a road meeting centers on regional autonomy and highway policy. J A Wikoff and J H Faxon urge self-reliance in Northeastern New Mexico and the Panhandle, noting ongoing efforts to preserve standings and influence in transportation. Page 7 continues.
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Raton Road
The
Raton
J. A. Wikolf
R. H. Faxon
New Mexico
Texas Panhandle
Wikoff
Panhandle
Mr. Faxon
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