December holds seasonal rites and a hopeful civic event
The piece reflects on the year's end and December's astronomical and festive significance. It celebrates Armistice era patriotism, notes December’s solstice and solstice lore, and highlights a new December civic effort in Mercer County led by the Daughters of the Revolution and the American Legion to foster goodwill between natives and immigrants. It previews a Santa Claus parade in Bluefield on December 9 with reindeer and store preparations, inviting all to participate as news outlets promise coverage.
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Daughters of the Revolution
American Legion of
Princeton
Mercer County
Santa Claus
Bluefield
Oil Dominates International Crisis In Week Of News
The week centers on oil as a strategic factor in the Afro European crisis. France backs the oil embargo against Italy while Laval warns of military reprisals if Italy attacks British ships. Domestically, US industry shows growth with higher production and payrolls, and stock prices rise amid a recovering economy.
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New York
Italy
League of Nations
Fascisti
Duce
Grand
League
Soviet
Russia
France
Britain
Pierre Lavel
Lavel
Santa Barbara mother shoots son in drunkenness dispute
Jesse Livermore Jr., 15, is reported to have handed his mother the rifle before she shot him at their home in Santa Barbara. Mrs Dorothea Livermore, now under guard, contested that she would rather see him dead than a drunkard. The couple had divorced in 1932.
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Ittle Hope
Jesse Livermore, Jr
Wall Street
Dorothea Livermore
Santa Barbara
Calif
Jesse
Dorothea Livermore Held After Calf Stabbing Incident
Mrs Dorothea Wendt Livermore is jailed on suspicion of assault to commit murder after a 16 year old son Jesse Livermore Jr was shot at the Livermore home in Santa Barbara California. The boy remains between life and death while the mother recalls little of the event amid alcohol and opiate influence. The father Jesse Livermore visited the hospital as sheriff officials pursue a fuller statement.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Dorothea Wendt Livermoore
Jesse Livermore Jr
Jesse Livermore
Wall Street
Livermore
James Rogs
Ross
GOP DETERMINED TO PRESO SPENDING IN CAMPAIGN
Republican dissension over the presidential nomination grows as party leaders press a campaign on spending and policy. Key figures including Landon, Requa, Borah, Fish, Brookhart, Vandenberg, and others maneuver toward a June convention amid debate over Roosevelt and the New Deal.
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Gop
Washington
New Deal
Roosevelt
Atlanta
Democratic National Committee
Charles Michelson
Hoover
Andaifs
Bate
Topeka
Bride of two weeks shot by young husband in accident
Julia Ann Recher, a 19 or 20 year old bride two weeks, is in critical condition in Logan West Virginia after her husband Robert, a 20 year old track worker, said he was showing how to handle a pistol when it discharged into her chin and neck. He and the bride both maintained it was accidental.
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Robert
Bloodhounds Track Firebug Hunted to State Hospital
Weston West Virginia November 30 bloodhounds traced a teen arsonist from a hospital fire to Earl James Loyd a New Cumberland youth. Loyd confessed he was hired by an outsider to start six blazes for money and was found asleep in his ward when traced.
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Weston
W. Va
State Hospital For
H.O. von Trump
Earl James Loyd
New Cumberland
Deire
von Tromp
Loyd
Ward 6
Bradley
St. Marys
Parkersburg
Forrest Culver
Richwood
J. E. Offner
New NRA bill to two provinces to congress join secession
A new NRA measure aims to extend federal power over interstate commerce and allow voluntary codes for affected businesses. It bars price fixing except for natural resources and monopolies, with decisions pending after a December 9 business meeting. Separate dispatch notes Japan-China tensions include autonomous state talk for Hopeh and Chahar, and protests over post office control in the demilitarized zone.
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NRA
Congress
Washington
Roosevelt
Guffey
Supreme Court
George L. Berry
Berry
Shanghai
Tientsin
Hopeh
Chabar
Sung Cheh-Yan
Peiping-Tientsin
Rengo
Nanking
Peiping
Yin-Ju- Keng
Demilitarized Zone
Frauds Aimed At AAA Taxes Spark Debate In Supreme Court
Hoosac Mills Corp Massachusetts charges AAA amendments with fraud in a case that tests the constitutionality of processing taxes. A Farm Bureau brief defends the taxes as akin to protective tariffs, while mills argue Congress cannot expand power via taxation.
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Washington
Hoosac Milla Corporation
Massachusetts
AAA
Congress
Supreme Court
American Farm Bureau Federation
Secretary of Agriculture
Farm Bureau
New England Mills
Hoosac Mills
Dirksen to Speak at Fifth District Republican Rally in Bluefield
A Bluefield rally plan lists Everett M. Dirksen of Peoria as principal speaker at the December 14 event. Committees from across the district organize general, publicity, decoration, banquet, finance, reception, and attendance roles for the afternoon speech and evening banquet.
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Everett M Dirksen
Peoria
Bluefield
Ramsey Street
Cpment
Everett M. Dirksen
J. C. Akers
Jos. M. Sanders Jr
Burley Houchins
E. B. Jarrett
M. M. Woodyard
James KE. Mann
Fausette Bowling
Corum Cunning
Harold F. Martin
Bernard
O. Stahlman
Clyde Elliott
Mae Francisco
Walter
Walter ©. Burton, Jerome Katz, B. J. Wagner
Fred M. Hawley
J. H. Lilly
A. F. Kingdon
Hartley Sanders
F. L. Black
Cody Fletcher
R. S. Ritz
W. A. Counts
H. G. Steele
R. C. Lilly
Max Motz
W. J. Cole
J. H. Gadd
W. Cc. Akers
J. M. Anderson
C. DD. Cline
Barney Phillips
N. H. Edwards
Abe Williams
Raymond B. Ferguson
Far FB. Lilly
C. C. Maeney
John R. Dillard
Kahle
A. Kingdon
J. M. Botts Lewis
L. G. Scott
Student Sought on Manslaughter Charge
Martinsburg West Virginia November 30 police sought J Frank Seibert Jr a high school student on a manslaughter charge after testimony indicated his car killed A H Gray 79 County Prosecutor Herbert E Hannis said he would ask that Seibert be held for grand jury action
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Martinsburg
W. Va
J. Frank Seibert, Jr
A. H. Gray
Herbert E. Hannis
Young Seibert
Wise Youth Slays Father in Parallel Cases in Wise County
Abram Falin, 16, is jailed in Wise County charged with killing his father after a family dispute over a car breakdown. The case mirrors a recent trial in which Edith Maxwell, 21, defended herself against her father Trigg Maxwell in a cabin fight that started over discipline and alcohol. Both stories describe escalating violence with firearms and knives.
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Wise
Abram Falin
Edith Maxwell
Young Falin
Wise County
Edith
Trigg Maxwell
BIDS SOUGHT FOR RALEIGH COUNTY COURTHOUSE
Charleston W Va Nov 30 PWA Director M L O Neale called for bids on a Raleigh county courthouse at Beck ley Beckley with $254 545 allotted by PWA for the project to be received December 10.
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Charleston
W. Va
PWA
M. L. O’neale
Raleigh County
Beckley
Tall Cabinet Rushes Plans to Aid War Machine
The article reports Italy increasing defense steps with a widened cabinet in the supreme council of defense, oil development funds, conscription to the National Shooting Society, and a Tuesday cession. London sources note eased European tension and Mussolini shifting tone amid Allied warnings. Ethiopian tribes east of Mount Mucea Ali ambush an Italian column, killing 183. 20 Ethiopians die. Emperor Haile Selassie arrives at Dessie to join the trench fighting.
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Supreme Council of Defense
Albania
National Shooting Society
London
Europe
Britain
Italy
Mussolini
Laval
France
Rome
Mediterranean
Paris
League
Africa
Mount Mucea
Desage
Trecesary
Mussolini-led cabinet approves 88 decrees to boost war effort
Italy's cabinet moved quickly under Premier Mussolini, approving eighty eight defense economic and financial decrees in about two and a half hours. An enlarged supreme defense council, a 70 million lire refinery funding, and a rule obliging men under thirty two to join the National Shooting Society were among the measures.
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Associated Press
Rome
Italy
Mussolini
Supreme Council of Defence
Aibe
Azinda Italiani Petrols
National Shooting Society
Selassie Reaches Front in Ethiopia War Effort
Emperor Haile Selassie set up Ethiopia's military headquarters at Dessye and vowed to join the warriors in the trenches if needed as he met with commanders including Gen Teele Hawariate. He praised morale after traveling by motor caravan from Debre Birhan and reported visiting the southern front.
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Haile Selassie
Teele Hawariate
Hawariate
Ethiopia
League of Nations
Debre Birhan
Judge halts collection of 1 cent theater tax
In Clarksburg West Virginia Circuit Judge Birk Stather issued a temporary restraining order blocking the city theater tax on tickets. The hearing will consider the ordinance's constitutionality as owners Jack Marks and Claude Robinson warned refunds would pose a problem if the levy took effect. City council hoped the tax would raise 12 000 to 15 000 dollars annually.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Birk
Jacks Marks
Claude Robinson
Tomorro
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