New Year Jubilation Across America Marks 1934 Welcome
crowds filled streets from New York to Chicago at year end as 1934 began with celebrations after 14 years of restrictions. U S leaders and world officials voiced hope for economic recovery and better international ties while President Roosevelt enjoyed a quiet home gathering. Ramsay MacDonald echoed global optimism as cheers rolled through holiday nights.
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Associated Press
America
World
New York
Chicago
Cofper
United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Washington
Ramsay MacDonald
Great Britain
Old man seeks aid from young successor on eve of eternity
A midnight scene unfolds as a downtrodden elder meets a weary reporter. He explains he is soon leaving this world and introduces the boy who will inherit his work, signaling a transfer to eternity as the newsroom awaits continuation.
Dillinger Gang Strikes Holiday Firefight at Beverly Gardens
Dillinger and six gunmen opened fire at the Beverly Gardens in Evergreen Park. Officers Edward Weber and James Allegretti were wounded as the bandits looted patrons and escaped with about 500 dollars and jewelry.
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Evergreen Park
Edward Weber
James Allegretti
Jogue
Dillinger
Weber
Allegretti
Walter Ahearn
Ahearn
Margaret Dunn
Greek Indians Die in Blazing Home
A Creek Indian mother Martha Thompson 55 and her two sons Robert 36 and William 18 were burned to death when their farm home 12 miles southeast of Henryetta Oklahoma burned early today. A fourth body was feared and Joe Neal missing since Saturday night. Mrs Thompson was the widow of Tom Thompson former Arbeka Creek chief who died two years ago. The fire was believed caused by an overheated stove.
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Henryetta
Okla
Here
Martha Thompson
Robert Thompson
William Thompson
Joe Neal
Thompsons
Sterilization Takes Effect in Germany Under New Law
Berlin reports that about 400000 mental and physical defectives in asylums prisons or at large will come under the new sterilization law beginning January 1. One thousand seven hundred eugenic courts will decide cases with a projected cost near 14.9 million marks.
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Berlin
Federal Minister of
Koelnische Zeitung
Prussia
Biggest City Toots Its Horn For New Year
New York observes 1933’s end with a pre dawn celebration stretching from harbor to Harlem. Hotels and clubs report packed crowds, liquor laws loosened, and police and ambulance crews on high alert as revelers shell out roughly seven dollars on average for seating, food, and souvenirs.
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New York
Harlem
West 47Th Street
Union Square
Broadway
Joy
Props Opened Up to Banker
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation offers banks holding its preferred stock a chance to invest in 2 percent debentures as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation prepares to insure deposits up to 2500 dollars. The move follows a presidential proclamation returning state control to state banking officials from federal seizure during the banking crisis last March.
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Washington
Reconstruction Corporation
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Roosevelt
Rain Threatens Old California Records in Los Angeles
A December rain storm halted air traffic and forced residents from homes as 3.48 inches fell in Los Angeles, potentially breaking the 1879 yearly record. One sailor, James C Doty of the U S Navy, died in San Pedro on slippery streets amid the downpour. Pasadena rosetournament deemed the Rose Bowl game feasible despite a flooded field with rain still falling.
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Weather Bureau
San Pedro
James C. Doty
U. S
New York
Pasadena
Cal
Columbia
Sheriff Killed In Gunfight After Taos Hold Up
In San Luis a sheriff was shot dead in a pool hall while pursuing two bandits linked to a Taos hold up. Deputy Maestas and a deputy were wounded. suspect Rankin and Putnam were captured with Rankin held under guard in Alamosa after a highway confrontation.
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Colo
San Luis
Adolfo Rodriguez
Herbert Rankin
Gilman
Rankin
George Putnam
Putnam
Taos
N. M
J. P Maestas
Maesias
Smith
Rodriguez
Maestas
Here
Rodriquez
Putnum
City Welcomes 1934 With Quiet New Year Observance
Amarillo residents plan a calm holiday with most businesses closed service offices shut and courts closed. The post office opens 9 to 10 and one mail delivery occurs. theaters expect heavy crowds and private celebrations fill the night as the new year begins.
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Maid Detained After Broker Found Slain
New York December 31 The hammer slaying of 65 year old stock broker Douglas Sheridan was discovered in his Riverside Drive apartment. His maid Catherine Phelan aged 62 was held as a material witness after a ten hour interrogation. Police linked a bloodstained hammer and scorched feet to the scene. A couple identified as Theodore Young and Isabel Cullen were named as visitors who appeared the day of the killing.
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New York
Douglas Sheridan
Catherine Phelan
Sheridan
Riverside Drive
Phelan
Pallee
Theodore Young
Isabel Cullen
Saul Price
Cullen
Young
Will Price
Four Suspects Held After Marlin Bank Holdup Probe
A posse of Texas and Oklahoma officers arrested two women and two men southeast of Boswell Oklahoma and returned them to Texas for questioning in the December 27 bank robbery of the Marlin First State Bank worth 41000. The four are Avery Mann Burl Addington Inez Hinen and Pauline Myers. No money or firearms were found at the Myers home. Curtis Hill Gilmer County Attorney accompanied the posse and said Mann had participated and hidden loot in Wine County. Officers said no charges had been filed yet in Marlin.
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Hugo
Okla
Boswell
Posse
Texas
Oklahoma
Marlin First State Bank
Avery Mann
Burl Addington
Inez Hinen
Pauline Myers
Myers
Curtis Hill
Gilmer
Tex
Mann
Wine County
Marlin
Oklo
First State Bank of
Outlaw Wilbur Underhill Captured After Shawnee Shootout
In Shawnee Oklahoma Wilbur Underhill the desperado was cornered in a bungalow after a dawn gunfight that left Eva Mae Nichols dead and Faymond Roe wounded. Underhill sustained multiple gunshot wounds and later surrendered after fleeing to a furniture store. He had prior convictions for two murders and bank robberies and had escaped from prisons in Oklahoma and Kansas.
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Dee
Eva Mae Nichols
Wilbur Underhill
Underhill
Condit
McAlester
Oxkla
Kansas State Penitentiary
Fierce Fire Drives 22 Families From Breyport Apartments
A blaze at the nine story Breyport apartments in old Brooklyn sent 22 families into the snow covered streets. Fireman Edward C. Brandt carried a paralyzed woman downstairs through smoke and flames. Four water towers, the largest used in New York fire history, fought the blaze with an estimated million dollar damage.
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Prooklyn
Breyport Apartments
Brooklyn
Edward C. Brandt
New York
Tragedy Ends in Dublin Double Tragedy and Suicide
Oliver Timmons 50, sought release from poverty and illness by killing his mother 74 and his wife 19 and then himself in Dublin Texas. Neighbors heard shots. bodies found with a note saying to give belongings to the girls. Wife had former Oklahoma children. investigation noted quarrels at breakfast and Timmons heart and pellagra ailments.
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Tex
Oliver Timmons
Joe Timmons
Wichita Falls
Doorsi
Timmons
Oklahoma
High Tn Wiens Wor
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