Political Big Shots Scorched at Gridiron Banquet
Washington observers report the Gridiron Club dinner honored over 400 guests including President Roosevelt and Alf Landon. A staged Roman pageant and a 1968 social security scene provided satire while sipping at a public mood on war and politics. The event featured Cabinet members Supreme Court figures and foreign diplomats in a theatrical spectacle.
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Organization of Washington
Roosevelt
Alf M. Landon
Landon
Norman Thomas
Earl Browder
Cabinet
Supreme Court
Edwin W. Gableman
The
Cincinnati Inquirer
Club
PF. D. R. Imp
Pa Pensioner
Tovarich Stalin
Hyde Parksky-on-the-Volga
Frieds
Ickesovich
Hopkinsky
Morgenthausky
Ickesovitch
Morgen
Bank Robbery at Farmers State Bank in Orange Grove
Gunmen beat the cashier and robbed the Farmers State Bank at Orange Grove in Jim Wells County of 2990 dollars. A woman drove the getaway car as officers from three counties blocked roads toward San Antonio and Jourdanton.
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Farmers’ State Bank
Orange Grove
Jim Wells
Max Osterloh
San Antonio
Jourdanton
Tula Lake
George Willoughby
Robstown
Jourdantown
Lost Transports Found Amid Search for Two Planes
A Northwest Airlines airliner missing since last Friday was spotted in Idaho near Cemetery Ridge by Lieut. Byron Cooper. Pilots Joe Livermore and Arthur A. Haid were aboard. officials fear the two men are dead. Amelia Earhart Putnam searched for a Western Air Express ship en route to Salt Lake City but found no trace. Rescue efforts faced rugged terrain and fading hopes as officials remained determined.
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Salt Lake City
America
Northwest Airlines
North Idaho Wilds
Byron Cooper
Joe Livermore
Arthur A. Haid
National Guard
Amelia Earhart Putnam
Western Air Express
Los Angeles
Amelia
Great Salt Lake
Putnam
Paul Mantz
Allan Barrie
Western Air
Cooper
Cemetery Ridge
Calder
Idaho
St. Joe National Forest
Wallace
Livermore
Hard
Washington
Spokane
St. Paul
Hce
Earthquake toll soars in San Vicente as 400 bodies identified
In San Salvador and Tegucigalpa reports place the death toll at about 1300 with more than 400 bodies identified in the ruined city of San Vicente. Relief forces mobilize for 25 000 homeless as Tepetitán Apa stepeque and other towns suffer widespread destruction.
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Tegucigalpa
Honduras
San Vicente
el Salvador
San Salvador
Alfonso Pyallos
San Vicenta
Fiallos
U.P
Maximilian Hernandez Martinez
Temblora
Republic
San Vietate
Tepetian
Apastepeque
Veérapax
San Feataban
San Cayetano
San Sebastian
Tecoluca
Pick-Pocket Hooks Cop’s Ticket Book
A Houston businessman touring Huntsville passes a hitchhiker who boasted of pickpocketing. A highway patrolman tickets the hunter for speeding. the hitchhiker tears up the ticket while admitting he stole the man’s carbon copy.
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Houston
Huntsville
Court Upholds Chaco Arms Embargo Policy
Washington reports the Supreme Court upheld the 1934 neutrality act enabling the President to block arms and raw materials exports to warring nations. Justices ruled 7 to 1 that presidents may exercise broad discretion in foreign affairs, easing potential new neutrality legislation ahead of Congress.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Chaco
State Department
High Tribunal
Winter Cold Snap Hits Eastern States Ahead of Solstice
New York cables report a deepening cold snap across the northeastern states on December 21. Gale winds churned Manhattan canyons, delaying ocean liners including the Manhattan, Europa, Aquitania, and Champlain, which were due in New York on Wednesday.
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New York
Manhattan
Europa
Widow Birdie Wilkins Denied New Trial in Plot to Kill Husband
In Fort Worth on December 21 a new trial was denied for Birdie Wilkins, a thrice married widow sentenced to 25 years for plotting to murder her husband on a railroad track.
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Fort Worth
O.R
Birdie Wilkins
Body Found At Port Arthur Pier
The body of a well dressed middle aged man was found hanging from a pleasure pier in Port Arthur. Identity is not established. An inquest verdict returned death by own action.
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Port Arthur
Pope Pius XI to Address World on Christmas Eve
Pope Pius XI will broadcast a Christmas Eve address despite medical orders for rest. Father Soccorsi, Vatican radio director, will prepare the 12:30 P M Rome time broadcast with a microphone in the Pope's study near his bedroom. The speech will be delivered from an armchair at his desk.
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Vatican City
Pius XI
Holy Father
Father Soccorsi
Vatican Radio
Rome
Mexican Senate Studies Loan Bill
The Mexican Senate debated a Cardenas sponsored bill to secure a 5.5 million dollar loan from a New York banking syndicate. The loan, approved by the lower house, is guaranteed by taxes and bears 2 percent interest in year one rising to 4 percent by year five, described as a bankers' advance against taxes, not foreign financing.
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Mexico City
Mexican Senate
Cardenas
Secretary of Finance
New York
Flying Lady Flees France After Plane Shootings In England
Mme Schemeder, a 32 year old flying lady from Villacoublay, allegedly shot pilot Pierre L Allemant midair then fled to England. She crashed in a Sussex pasture, was treated for injuries, and police questioned her as French authorities seek extradition on assault charges. L Allemant reportedly recovering, motive described as unclear.
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Selley
Eng
Mme
Schemeder
Villacoublay
England
Sussex
Pierre L'Allemant
Mme. Schemeder
Ccuba
L’allemant
Versailles
Mme. Schmeder
Max Schemeder
L’'Allemant
Mmne. Schemeder
New Gold Control Program Outlined
Washington officials announced a far reaching plan to sterilize gold purchases by placing them in an inactive account to curb inflation. Treasury and Federal Reserve leaders Marianne Eccles Morgenthau outlined financing imports of gold and domestic gold via treasury bill sales.
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Washington
United States
The
Treasury
Marriner
Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Morgenthau
Fleet Commander of Nazis Retired
Vice-Admiral Richard Foerster, commander of the fleet, was ordered retired effective January 1. Rear Admiral Carls takes over, with the navy ministry offering no comment. Foerster led the fleet since 1933 amid the Spanish evacuation roles.
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Berlin
Richard Foerster
Foerster
Carls
Navy Ministry
Court attack loses bid on grain trading act
The Kansas City Board of Trade and its members failed to obtain Supreme Court review of challenges to amendments to the Grain Patures Act. They argued the Commodities Exchange Act exceeded Congress power to regulate grain transactions.
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Washington
U.P
Kansas City Board of Trade
Supreme Court
Congress
Attorney Spence Injured in Auto Collision Near Caddo Mills
Sel ers Spence a 31 year old Sulphur Springs attorney was injured when his car collided near Caddo Mills Greenville December 21. He suffered a broken back and was hospitalized for treatment.
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Greenville
U.P
Selers Spence
Sulphur Springs
Caddo Mills
British Legation to Be Changed to Consulate General
Great Britain will convert its legation at Addis Ababa into a consulate general, announced officially. Sir Eric Drummond reported the change, stressing it does not amount to de jure recognition of Italy’s conquest of Ethiopia and leaving the question of de facto recognition undecided.
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Ethiopia
Ames
Addis Ababa
Italy
Mussolini
Legation
Naval Personne
London
Great Britain
Eric Drummond
Rome
Britain
Bride of Month Dies in Grash Crash Near Liberal Kansas
Mrs Amy Perry Ford, described as a bride of a month, died when her car overturned on the highway 15 miles south of Liberal in the Oklahoma Panhandle. She and Miss Ella Moyer were returning from a weekend visit to Texas.
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Kas
Amy Perry Ford
Here
Oklahoma Panhandle
Ella Moyer
Texas
Allotment Approved for Galveston Harbor Deepening
The War Department approved a $120,000 allotment to Galveston Harbor Texas to deepen the outer entrance channel to 36 feet. The action announced today supports improvements to the port to accommodate larger ships and increased freight capacity.
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Washington
War Department
Galveston Harbor
Texas
Seventeen Hurt In West End Streetcar Collision
Seventeen persons were shaken up or slightly injured in a head on collision of two street cars on the West End route in New Orleans today.
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New Orleans
West End
Lubbock Girl Joins TWA As New Flight Hostess
Edith Long a 22 year old Weatherford native and Weatherford High School graduate becomes a Transcontinental & Western Air hostess. She completed four years training at Lubbock Sanitarium and three weeks of TWA training in Kansas City. She departed Amarillo for Kansas City and will be placed in the Western region.
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Edith Long
Lubbock
Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc
Miss Long
TWA
Amarillo
Kansas City
Vernon L. Gunn
Liubbock Sanitarium
New York City
Weatherford
Texas
Weatherford High School
Mutiny in Lanchow Deepens Chinese Crisis
Reports from Nanking say General Yu Hsueh Liang has rebelled in Lanchow, seizing the city and killing officials and their families as mutiny widens in the northwest. The upheaval complicates efforts to free General Chiang Kai-shek and cuts Nanking’s lines of communication with Kansu and Shensi.
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Nanking
Kai-Shek
Yu Hsueh- Liang
Chang Hsueh-Liang
Kansu
Lanchow
Chang
Sianfu
Chiang
Shensi
Lianfu
Fifty-First
Shanghai
Ninghsia
Shanghi
Marshall Chang
Jane's Fighting Ships paints looming world naval race
London reports Jane's Fighting Ships pictures a world plunged into a post treaty naval race as old Washington London accords expire. It notes Japan planning four new 45000 ton battleships America planning 16 inch guns and biggest guns overall. Britain leads with 99 ships planned or building, followed by the United States 83 Italy 66 France 43 Germany 39 Japan 38.
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London
Jane's
Washington
America
United States
Japan
France
Great Britain
Italy
Germany
Peace Conference Ends Labor of Inter American Talks
The Inter-American Peace Conference in Buenos Aires closes after approving 37 projects to strengthen bonds among 21 American republics. A Central American declaration pledges solidarity if war threatens the western world along with tariff reduction and equal trade opportunities. Delegates observe a moment of silence for San Vicente earthquake victims.
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Buenos Aires
San Vicente
el Salvador
Military Parade At Fete Upheld In Washington
Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson in charge of the Roosevelt inauguration refused to alter parade plans despite protests from church and peace groups. About 10,000 soldiers sailors and marines will march while civic floats are excluded to keep ceremonies simple.
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Washington
Cary T. Grayson
Roosevelt
Grayson
Two Savoie Family Members Die In Crash In Louisiana
Mrs C A Savoie of Church Point and her son Angelae Savoie Jr were killed in a head on collision on the Old Spanish Trail near Roanoke Jefferson Davis Parish. The Savoie husband and Ossie Savoie were seriously injured and taken to Jennings Hospital.
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Lake Charles
C. A. Savoie
Church Point
Angelae Savoie, Jr
Roanoke
Jefferson Davis Parish
Texas Fight Over Inheritance Tax Returns
The Supreme Court gave New York Massachusetts and Florida relatives of Col Edward H Green 40 days to show cause why Texas may proceed to collect an inheritance tax from his estate. Green who died last June left an estate over 50 million dollars. Texas seeks about 10 million in tax claiming Green claimed domicile there since 1892.
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Washington
New York
Massachusetts
Florida
Edward H. R. Green
Supreme Court
Texas
Sylvia Green Wilks
Green
Mabel Harlow Green
Hetty Green
William McCraw
Cuban President vetoes tax bill in sugar tax dispute
In Havana on December 21 President Miguel Mariano Gomez vetoed a $1,500,000 sugar tax bill. Senator Octavio Rivero announced the veto and said impeachment proceedings may follow. The measure was to be sent to the senate that afternoon.
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Havana
Miguel Mariano Gomez
Octavio Rivero
Senate
Rivero
Greyhound Bonus Figure Announced
Paul W. Tibbetts, president of Southwestern Greyhound Lines, Inc., announced a five percent bonus for employees in regular service as of November 30, 1936. Checks will be mailed to 860 employees across Texas Oklahoma New Mexico Arkansas Colorado Kansas and Missouri before Christmas Day.
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Dallas
Paul W. Tibbetts
Southwestern Greyhound Lines, Inc
Southwestern Greyhound
Texas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Arkansas
Colorado
Kansas
Missouri
Driver Reverses Robbery Tale In Christmas Lesson
In Tucumcari New Mexico Hal Kerr state policeman relayed a reversed robbery tale. A hitchhiker claimed he gave a ride then was robbed at gunpoint of 45 dollars by the driver who offered to help. The pedestrian’s name was not released.
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Amarillo
Winca
West Texas
New Mexico
Tucumcarit
N. M
Hal Kerr
Kerr
Nine Texans Take Army Appointments
The War Department announced nine Texans accepted appointments in the reserve corps. Included are Herbert Leon Halladay of El Paso in cavalry and Engelbert Anton Jelinek of Austin in field artillery. Jelinek is a first lieutenant and Halladay a second lieutenant.
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Washington
War Department
Herbert Leon Halladay
Montana &J
Fl Paso
Cavalry
Engelbert Anton Jelinek
Live Oak St
Austin
Jelinek
Halladay
Boiler Explodes at Franklin Tailor Shop
A tailor shop boiler exploded in Franklin Texas on December 21 causing shattered plate glass and $2,000 in property damage. No injuries were reported.
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Franklin
Texas
Willi & Shock
Automobile Parts Withheld as Industry Strike Persists
Strikes continue to affect auto industry with parts supplies blocked from assembly lines. UAW, with 12 060 members, seeks direct talks with GM officials while Flat Glass Workers Union aligns for joint action. Maritime unions see tentative peace votes that may break the coastwise and offshore labor stalemate. Flight of drivers paralyzes Flint Trolley line. Brooklyn bus drivers vote walkout amid wage demands.
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Detroit
United Automobile Workers of America
General Motors Corporation
Flat Glass Workers Union
United Action
John L. Lewis’ Committee For Industrial Organization
Lynch Glass Corporation
Anderson
Ind
Flint
Mich
Flint Trolley Coach, Inc
Brooklyn
Homer Martin
International One
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