Stimson Sees U S Policy in London Naval Talks
Secretary Stimson says the United States will defend capital ships as fleet core while supporting reductions if Britain Japan France and Italy concur A Japanese proposal for a building holiday or longer age limits may shape 1936 ship construction plans Officials frame naval limits as separate from League of Nations efforts aiming to reduce international naval rivalry A final London accord could mark a pivotal US stance in disarmament talks
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Washington
Stimson
United States
Great Britain
Japan
France
Italy
Reijiro Wakatsuki
League of Nations
League
League Preparatory Disarmament Commission
German Finance Chief Quits Cabinet Amid Christmas Crisis
The Berlin government reels as Finance Minister resigns with State Secretary Popitz amid alarm over year end obligations. Interim minister Moldenhauer appointed as cabinet discusses Young Plan execution and Reichsbank moves to take over 360 million marks in treasury bills for redemption.
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Berlin
Felding
Johannes Popitz
Popitz
Paul Moldenhauer
Hague
International Bank
Mueller
Curtius
Moldenhauer
Schacht
Reichsbank
Finance Ministry
Reichstag
Professor Moldenhauer
Dr. Schacht
West Virginia Receives 7015 From Federal Road Fund
Secretary Hyde announced the apportionment of a 4.5 million road fund. West Virginia is allotted 7015 dollars for use in the coming fiscal year starting July 1. The money supports construction in state and national forest roads.
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Washington
National Forests
Hyde
West Virginia
Byrd Raised to Rear Admiral in Navy
Richard Evelyn Byrd becomes rear admiral as President Hoover signs the act elevating his rank. At 41 he is the youngest living nurse officer with the permanent peacetime title. Senator Swanson notes the award honors the entire polar expedition.
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Washington
Richard Evelyn Byrd
Hoover
Antarctic
Byrd
Navy
Senator Swanson
Virginia
White House
House
South Pole
Pole
Christmas broadcast for Byrd expedition in Pittsburgh
Broadcast from station KDKA in Pittsburgh aired Christmas services for Commander Richard E. Byrd and Captain Sir Hubert Wilkins and their expedition. Reverend Hugh Thomson Kerr delivered the address "Merry Christmas, Little America" at Shadyside Presbyterian Church with the choir. Two hundred messages from expedition relatives were read.
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Pittsburgh
Richard E. Byrd
Sir Hubert Wilking
Park
KDKA
Little America
Hugh Thomson Kerr
Shadyside Presbyterian Church
Noted Divorce Judge Brings About Reunion
Chicago reports Judge Joseph Abath credited with preventing about 250 divorces in the past year. He reunited a couple by talking them through Christmas hopes and family needs, inviting them to celebrate with a dinner and promising to stay for the meal. Names not disclosed.
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Chicago
Joseph “Abath
Real E
Abductor Faces Death By Hanging
Kansas City Det. 21 reports Russell C. Arnold a 63 year old abducted and held 14 year old Dorothy Van Camp for more than twenty four hours in an underground chamber near a garage. Prosecutor seeks death penalty at trial. Dorothy was found chained to a bed after police uncovered a buried floor.
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Kansas City
Russell C. Arnold
Dorothy van Camp
Arnold
A. S. Lyon
Lyon
Jerry van Camp
van Camp
Thompson Trophy for Fast Land Planes Announced
Cleveland on December 21 reports Charles E. Thompson of Thompson Products has announced the Thompson trophy for the fastest land plane in international free-for-all events at future national air races. He predicts land planes will exceed seaplanes, citing a Schneider cup speed and past trends. A cup is donated by Thompson and presented by Thompson Products.
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Cleveland
America
Charles E. Thompson
Thompson
Thompson Products
Man Mourned as Dead Returns to Relatives
Springhill N Dect 21 A Ernest Austin mourned as drowned after storm near Detroit returns to relatives. He said he was aboard the steam ship Selkert when deck load shifted and he was thrown overboard. In the water over an hour, he was picked up by a tug and taken to Windsor Ontario. The captain wired his parents that he had drowned two hours after the cargo shift.
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Springhill
Ernest Austin
Detroit
Austin
Selkert
Windsor
Ont
Ten Days Left to Use Old West Virginia License Tags
Charleston reports only ten days remain for using 1929 West Virginia license plates. W. Va. Road Commission official 8. P. Smith said fewer than 54,000 of 330,000 plates required by January 1 have been applied for, with 42,000 of about 250,000 plates issued for private motor vehicles.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virgina
P. Smith
Automobile Division
The
Road Commission
Smith
Pocahontas And Tug Fields Output Passes Peak Record
Coal production in the Pocahontas and Tug River field this year has surpassed the 1926 peak. Through December 14, output reached 29,559,764 net tons, 296,861 more than 1926, with Tug River setting a new weekly high of 219,169 net tons for the week ending December 14.
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Pocahontas
Tug River
Pocahontag
Pacific flight purse posted by Easterwood for aviator feat
Colonel William Easterwood offers a purse of 50 000 dollars to the first aviator to fly across the Pacific Ocean. He is sailing with Mrs. Easterwood to Honolulu to meet James Dole to discuss backing the venture. A separate 25 000 dollar prize is offered for a Rome to Dallas flight.
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Pacific Ocean
William Easterwood
Texas
Heflin to Lead Insurgent Democrats in State Meet
Selma Alabama December 21 E W Pettus chairman of the state Democratic executive committee says the panel barred 1928 defectors from the August primary. He cites loyalty requirements and says Senator Heflin and Hugh Locke were barred. Heflin to head a January 3 state wide meeting with independent Democrats organizing. A voter not believing in Democratic principles should join another party.
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Selma
Ala
E. W. Pettus
State
Democratic Executive Committee
Pettus
J. Thomas Heflin
Alabama
Hugh A. Locke
Birmingham
Indecats Democrats
Heflin
Democratic Party
Governor Patterson of Oregon Dies from Pneumonia
Salem reports Gov. 1 L Patterson of Oregon died at home from pneumonia after a cold. He had been ill only briefly. Widow Tanae Lee Patterson and two sons Lee and Philip survive. Patterson, born Sept 17 1859 in Kingsville, served in the state Senate from Marion county and chaired the ways and means committee.
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Salem
Ore
L. Patterson
Oregon
W. H. Moree
Kingsville
F. A. Patterson
Hetleville
Carolina Tatum
Missouri
State Senate
Marion County
Ways and
Patterson
Mise Mary E. Woodworth
Lee
Philip
Famed Physicist Michelson Announces Retirement Plan
Chicago notes Nobel laureate Albert A. Michelson, veteran University of Chicago physicist, will retire from the faculty after completing this school year. He aims to conduct final light speed experiments in May and hopes to continue some research but says he will have no further interests in the matter after final checks.
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Chicago
Albert A. Michelson
University of Chicago
Michelson
California
Fay
Aead Anaiegens
University of Chi Board of Trustees
Weemaor Michelson
Former Congressman Henry Clayton Dies in Alabama
Henry Delamar Clayton, a former U S congressman who helped frame an antitrust act, died after a three week illness in Montgomery at age 76. He served as judge of the middle district of Alabama, was a Democratic national committeeman, and held multiple terms in Congress starting in 1897 before joining the federal judiciary in 1914. His father, a Confederate general, died in the Civil War.
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Montgomery
Ala
Henry Delamar Clayton
Congress
Dstrict
Alabama
House
Federal Judiciary
National Democratic Committee
Barbour Es Bay
Tore
Henry D
Victoria Virginia Clayton
University of
Deputies Free of Strike Death Charge in North Carolina
Eight McDowell county deputy sheriffs were acquitted of second degree murder after a Marion cotton mill strike clash. A Yancey County jury found them not guilty for firing into a milling mass at the Marion Manufacturing Company gates during the October 2 strike seeking to bar workers from entering.
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Burnsville
N. C
McDowell County
Marion
Webb Fender
Robert Ward
Charles Tate
Taylor Greene
William Twiggs
James Owens
Broadus Robbins
Dave Jarrett
Yancy County
Marion Manufacturing Company
Kentuckian Dies in Street Battle in Paintsville
In Paintsville Kentucky Pa trolman Jess Dills was killed and Joe Castle a Johnson county constable and former jailer was seriously wounded after Castle confronted Marshal during an arrest for drunkenness. Both men fired their weapons and fell as shoppers watched. Dills a World War veteran died. Castle later died.
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Paintsville
Jess Dills
Joe Castle
Johnson County
Kentucky
Castle
Dills
John Marshal
Standers
Marshal
Protruding beam saves man in seven story fall
A bracket gave way while Harry Miller dismantling a fire escape on the seventh floor. He began to fall as Christmas shoppers looked on, but his grip on a protruding beam saved him from injury. He remained uninjured.
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Pittsburgh
Harry Miller
Farm Board Urged to Repudiate Grain Agreements
Senate lobby chair Caraway urged the federal farm board to repudi ate grain handling agreements reached at a private meeting with Alexander Legge and Julius Barnes. Legge defended board policy and said all actions with cooperatives followed law after full farmer representation.
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Washington
Federal Farm Board
Alexander Legge
Julius H. Barnes
Hoover
Legge
Caraway
Senate Lobby Committee
Farm Board
Barnes
Callaway
J.C.C. Groups N W With Wabash Line and Virginian
A pledge drive for the Bluefield Community Christmas Tree through WHIS radio has several donors yet to send in contributions. General chairman T. O J. Wilson urges those missing to deliver gifts to the West Virginian desk or mail to WHIS or treasurer Ben H Williams. The committee requires all funds by Monday noon.
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Bluefield
WHIS
T. O'J. Wilson
West Virginian
Ben H. Williams
Community Christmas Tree Association
Wabash Official Backs Merger Plan Expansion
William H. Williams, chairman of the Wabash railway, endorses the Interstate Commerce Commission’s merger plan uniting Wabash Seaboard into a major Eastern trunk line. He says the consolidation benefits public interest by linking industrial districts, coal fields, Atlantic gateways, and westward routes via Chicago to Lake Michigan ferries and midwest markets.
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New York
William H. Williams
Wabash Railway
Interstate Commerce Commission
Wabash-Seaboard
Williames
Wabash Seaboard
Atlantic Seaboard
Chicago
Lake Michigan
St. Toateansas City
Hannibal
Peoria
Kansas City
Omaha
Des Moines
Calles Plotters Thrown In Prison Report
Mexico City reports say more than fifty people were arrested on suspicion of plotting to assassinate former President Plutarco Elias Calles as he returns from France. Raids targeted a workers club a sports club and private homes amid broader revolts blamed on Jose Vasconcelos sympathizers. A banquet planned at Calles ranch near Mexico City for his return was announced for tomorrow.
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Mexico City
Hl Universal Grafico
Plutarco Elias Calles
France
Mexico
Tampico
Guadalajara
Vera Cruz
Jose Vasconcelos
United States
Congress Extends Holiday Recess After Tax Cut Passages
Congress adjourned for a two week holiday recess after approving a 160 million dollar income tax reduction and a 16 million dollar hospitalization bill as part of three weeks of work since the session began. The Senate and House held brief sessions, with the chamber eyeing post holiday reconvening on January 6.
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Senate
House
Washington
Congress
Aece Jsees
Finass
Beathle
Raynor
Ofsachusetts
Rail consolidation plan outlines nineteen competitive systems
The Interstate Commerce Commission proposed a national consolidation into nineteen systems shaping the U.S. transport map. Key East systems include Pennsylvania, Baltimore and Ohio, Chesapeake and Ohio, New York Central, and Illinois Central. New England roads Boston and Maine and New Haven would dominate locally. The plan faces congressional opposition and questions about enabling legislation, with Senators Fees Watson Pittman Wheeler and Commissioner Eastman debating scope and pace.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
New England
Pennsylvania
Baltimore and Ohio
Chesapeake and Ohio
New York Central
Boston
Maine
New Haven
Southern
Ill Central
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Chicago
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Pacific
Santa Fe
Missouri Pacific
Rock Island
Chicago and North Western
Senate
Atlantic
Senator Fees
Ohio
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Watson
Indiana
Interstate Commerce
Interstate Commerce Committeee
Pittman
Nevada
Wheeler
Montana
Interstate Commerce Committee
Northwest
le Fees
Eastman
Pioneer Road
Murder of Movie Director William Desmond Taylor
Los Angeles report says District Attorney Baron Fitts revealed a secret seven year cold case probe into the murder of film director William Desmond Taylor. He asserted one more link could lead to indictment, citing disputed newspaper dispatches and a statement from an ex convict in Mexico via former governor Richardson.
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Los Angeles
William Desmond Taylor
Baron Fitts
San Francisco
Friend W. Richardson
Richardon
Folsom Penitentiary
Mexico
Dssort
Fitts
Clayton Rochester
Sands
Vas
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