Democrats Gall Committee Meet in Washington
Democratic and Republican national committees plan meetings in Washington to set next summer’s convention cities. Farley says Democrats will renominate Roosevelt with no internal squabbles while GOP aims for a large war chest and public discussions of party issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Farley
James A. Farley
Democratic National Committee
Roosevelt
Republican National Committee
Democratic
Henry P. Fletcher
GOP
J. Kenneth Bradley
Young Republican
National Committee
Chicago
Philadelphia
Kansas City
St. Louis
San Francisco
Ques
Moose Keeps Park Rangers Up a Tree in Yellowstone
Park rangers Walter Gammill and Robert Beal spent 30 hours climbing trees to avoid a charging bull moose in 17 below zero conditions. They escaped at nightfall and reached a ranch after neither ate nor slept during the ordeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yellowstone Park
Wyo
Walter Gammill
Robert Beal
Park Rangers
Hull Hurls New Blow At Exports
Washington reports a new push by Secretary Hull to curb abnormal exports to Italy and Ethiopia, prompting talk of broader neutrality laws. Lawmakers draft tougher measures possibly banning or limiting war materials, with calls for export quotas and expanded presidential authority.
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Washington
Hell
Italy
Ethiopia
Congress
Hull
Ickes
Runaway Journey Ends For 14 Year Old In Maryland Hospital
Glenn Boldan, 14, of Metropolis Minnesota, was rescued after 11 days locked inside a refrigerator car during a Labor Day trip from California. He survived without food or water and was treated upon arrival at a Baltimore hospital.
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California
Glenn Boldan
Met
Baltimore, Ley, Minn
Labor Day
Bank Robbery Shootout Ends With Suspect Death
State troopers killed one bank robber and wounded another during a Wadestown bank heist attempt after a three day wait on a tip. Howard Hayes, 23, of Mannington died. Roy Taylor, 35, was wounded. a third man, Howard Wise, also from Mannington, was arrested outside. Officer fire erupted when the bandits fired on assistant cashier Oren Henderson. The robbers fled but collapsed on the sidewalk. victims and officers secured the scene and transported the injured to Morgantown.
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Wadestown
W. Va
Howard Hayes
Mannington
Roy Taylor
Howard Wise
Oren C. Henderson
Henderson
Kirk Smith
Morgantown
Chauffeur Heir Takes Control Of Big Mansion From Nelson Sisters
Samuel Boyd, a longtime chauffeur, becomes master of the Nelson sisters fortune and estate. The $221000 base bequest plus $290000 overall goes to Boyd after Margaret and Julia Nelson’s deaths. Two cousins receive $18000 each. Boyd’s family resided in the mansion and tended the grounds, while the sisters kept to old fashion tastes and avoided visitors.
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Pittsburgh
Samuel Boyd
Margaret
Julia Nelson
Boyd
Nelson
Margaret Nelson
Julia
Nelsons
Inspectors to arrest cosmetics peddlers in state drive
Charleston officials launch a state wide operation against unlicensed cosmetics demonstrators. E L Peters director of the bureau states four inspectors have made 115 arrests in the last 14 months as reports of door to door peddlers without permits prompted the crackdown.
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Charleston
W. Va
E. L. Peters
State Bureau of Barbers and Beauticians
Peters
Clipper Lands After Eastward Transpacific Hop
The China clipper completed the fourth leg of her first eastward trans pacific flight arriving in Honolulu at 5 27 p m after a 9 hour 43 minute hop from Midway Island.
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Honolulu
Visa
Pan- American Airways Radio
Midway Island
Wallage outlines substitute plan for farm control
Secretary Wallace proposes eight alternatives to processing taxes and AAA control of farming. Options include general sales tax, higher income taxes, compulsory production quotas with levies, stabilization loans, pro rate two price marketing, and foreign aid or tariff adjustments to shift balance of trade. He says AAA could persist regardless of Supreme Court ruling.
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Chicago
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace
AAA
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
High Tribunal
Wallace
Hoover plans to intensify attacks on the New Deal says Joslin
Theodore Joslin writes in Today that Herbert Hoover will sharpen his public criticisms of national policy in 1935 while denying any political organization for himself. He is portrayed as a nonpersonal, principled leader aiming to force debate on fundamental issues.
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New Deal
New York
Herbert Hoover
Theodore Joslin
Republican Party
Hoover
Hughes Found Guilty of First Degree Murder in Cabell County
Samuel Lee Hughes, 31, was convicted by a Cabell County jury of first degree murder with mercy, for the September 21 death of Myrtle Irene Robertson. Judge H. Clay Warth imposed life imprisonment at the state penitentiary in Moundsville.
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Huntington
W. Va
Samuel Lee Hughes
Common Pleas
H. Clay Warth
State Penitentiary
Moundsville
Hughes
Myrtle Irene Robertson
Worth
Cabell County
Robertson
Boyd Robertson
Baltimore
Civil service jobs for West Virginians noted
Washington reports 20 civil service positions for West Virginians under a federal quota. West Virginia is entitled to 506 jobs and 486 were filled as of November 30.
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Civil Service
Washington
Dec
West
Business and New Deal Near Formal Parting of Ways
The 1935 Congress of American Industry and the 40th annual meeting of the National Muna peepee association opened in New York with forecasts of a platform denouncing new deal policies. The tentative platform supports constitutional guarantees, preservation of individual enterprise, elimination of undue regulation, opposition to high taxes, and a fixed gold currency. An executive session led by W. B. Bell discussed late today social security measures.
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The
Associated Press
New York
Congress of American Industry
National Manupeepee Association
Toay
W. B. Bell
American Cyanamid Company
Sloan warns industry must broaden responsibilities or invite government interference
Alfred P. Sloan Jr., president of General Motors, told a New York audience that American business must expand its horizons and assume enlightened industrial statesmanship. He warned that inaction risks increased outside government interference and possible socialization of industry through regulation and profit-system breakdown.
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New York
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr
General Motors Corporation
American Business Tonight
Ailure
Sloan
Congress of American Business
National Association of Manufacturers
Airmail Service To Europe Forecast Within One Year
Washington reports an aimed start for trans Atlantic airmail with experimental flights next summer and full service within a year subject to reciprocal agreements allowing American planes to land abroad. A British Irish and Canadian delegation travels for talks as routes and landing fields are debated.
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Washington
Farley
Europe
Committee On Civil International Aviation
Harlee
Bermuda
Azores
Newfoundland
Ireland
Great Britain
Drys Call For Ban On Intoxicants At White House Fetes
Washington debates Townsend old age pension as it gains clubs nationwide. Politicians weigh its impact on 1936 elections while Townsend backers claim broad support and potential influence in congressional races.
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White House
Washington
Dec
Congress
F. E. Townsend
Movement
Townsend Clubs
B. G. Rankin
Democratic
Republican
Severe Cold Grips Midwest and Northeast with Snow
Cold waves push across the Midwest and Northeast as Detroit logs its coldest December 4 in 62 years with six above. Upstate New York endures six inches of snow while Lima Ohio notes two below. Pittsburgh and Milwaukee report frigid conditions. fire damages a tavern in Tomah Wisconsin. 1 death connected to the cold near Lima and two in the region flee in night attire.
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Chicago
Mercury
Detroit
Owl's End
New York
Pennsylvania
New York City
Weather Bureau
Ohio
Lima
Tomah
Wis
Milwaukee
Middle West
Bemidji
Minn
Philadelphia
Fort Wayne
Callers Flock Kansas Capital as Landon Sparks Talk
A procession of visitors tied to Herbert Hoover met Gov. Alf Landon in Topeka amid strong speculation of a possible London candidacy. Attendees included Mark L. Requa, Charles Curtis, Henry J. Allen, W. M. Jardine, John D. M. Hamilton, and Edward F. Calladay, with most backing Landon though Hamilton avoided comment.
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Topeka
Kas
Alf M. Landon
Herbert Hoover
London
Kansas
Landon
Hoover
Mark L. Requa
California
Charles Curtis
U. S
Henry J. Allen
White House
W. M. Jardine
Coolidge
Egypt
John D. M. Hamilton
G. O. P. National Committee
Washington
Edward F. Calladay
District of Columbia
Requa
Hamilton
Ben Allen
Anti Saloon League Pushes Prohibition Rally in Washington
The Anti Saloon League declares a new crusade for prohibition led by Bishop James Cannon Jr and hopes President Roosevelt will condemn the pledge violations. The league reactivates its national committee and outlines a grass roots push for local option, state laws and a national ban. West Virginia reports show prohibition gains as drys win multiple local options and margins shrink since 1933.
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St. Louis
Anti-Saloon League of America
Roosevelt
White House
James Cannon
Los Angeles
Crimea
Washington
League
Bishop Cannon
F. Scott McBride
Ernest H. Cherrington
Weasterville
Edward B. Dunford
R. F. Huntchinson
Pittsburgh
John R. Sampey
Louisville
Southern Baptist Convention
H .He Fout
Indianapolis
West Virginia
B. EK. Ewing
Drys
Ewing
West
Roosevelt backs lower mortgage rates for farmers
President Roosevelt, amid talks with substantial Meriwether county farmers at Warm Springs, Georgia, favored lower interest on farm mortgages and land purchases for tenant farmers. Acknowledging high private loan rates, he was said to support rates as low as three and a half percent, with federal land banks already cutting to five percent. The Frazier-Lemke act faced renewed court challenges.
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Warm Springs
Roosevelt
Meriwether County
Little White House
Pine Mountain
W. G. Harry
Render Terrell
Greenville
Ethiopians Halt Italian Push as Paris Talks Loom
Brisk Ethiopian skirmishes with Italian invaders on the northern front leave several Italian dead at Debri near Makale. Ethiopian emperor Halle Selassie vows no loss of territory as Paris hosts Laval and Hoare seeking terms before a League of Nations vote. Italian royalty pledge rings for the war effort, with December 18 set for transfer.
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Paris
Duce
League of Nations
Italy
League Sanctions Committee of Eighteen
Ilduce
Halle Selassie
Dessye
Add
Ababa
Ethiopia
Magale
Victor Emmanuel
Elena
Ethiopians Engage Italian Forces South of Makale
Two Ethiopian columns push toward Makale and the Takkaze river engaging Italian posts. In Debri southwest of Makale four Italian soldiers were killed. Ethiopian northern forces reinforced by Addis Ababa regulars press to turn the Italian flank as the front near the Takkaze river sees renewed fighting.
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Italy
Debri
Makale
Addis Ababa
Europe
Paris
Pierre Laval
France
Samuel Hoare
Makaie
Ethiopia
Takkaze River
Ialian
Takkaze Line
Fugitives Sought After Muskogee Jail Break
Five federal prisoners escaped from Muskogee jail with a gun battle leaving one officer wounded. Investigators pursue Dewey Gilmore, Dan Headgatch, Russell Cooper, Leonard Short, and Don Garrett across Oklahoma while a sixth assailant was killed. Offenders tied to bank robberies and Kidnaping plots.
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Hartshorne
Okla
Dee
Oklahoma
Belle Starr
Walter
Muskogee
Arthur Napp
Collinsville
Dewey Gilmore
O'Malley
Collineville
Here
Napp
Gilmore
Dan Headgatch
Russell Cooper
Leonard Short
Don Garrett
7 Short
Cooper
Heady
Oke National
Garrett
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Joslin
A. F. of L
John L. Lewis
John Prophy
Brophy
Committee For Industrial Unionism
Lewis
Samuel Hughes
Body
Congress OF Industry
Postoffice Department
Upstate
Kansas Capital
Brick Oniamighes
Laval and
Hoare
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