Britain plans broad security pact to safeguard peace
London reports Britain will push a general European security pact after the Saar plebiscite, aiming to unite Austria's neighbors and major powers in a front against war. Britain, France, Italy to propose at Geneva with talks among Laval Mussolini. aims to stabilize Franco German ties and the Balkans.
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London
Great Britain
Britain
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
Italy
Germany
France
England
Russia
Austria
Romania
Balkan
Poland
Pierre Laval
Benito Mussolini
Rome
Geneva
League of Nations
League Council
Saar
Federal funds apportioned for highway construction aid
Secretary Wallace announced the distribution of 125 million dollars in federal highway funds for the next fiscal year starting July 1. States must provide an identical match. West Virginia is allotted 1,356,793 dollars as part of the apportionment.
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Washington
Wallace
West Virginia
Pickford to Proceed With Divorce Action Against Fairbanks
Mary Pickford’s attorney Loyd Wright said the divorce suit against Douglas Fairbanks will proceed immediately after January 1 as service by mail has been completed. The case has lingered more than a year, with no indication Pickford will drop it. Fairbanks recently returned to Hollywood with Joseph Schenck.
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Los Angeles
Loyd Wright
Mary Pickford
Douglas Fairbanks
Wright
Superior Court
Fairbanks
Miss Pickford
British Isles
Feirbanks
Hollywood
Joseph Schenck
Federal Government Opens Inquiry Into Powellton Explosion
The federal government opened an inquiry into the Pow llton boiler blast that killed 16 miners and injured 42. Inspectors from the Interstate Commerce Commission viewed the wreckage near Powellton, with officials noting the investigation may extend to next week. State and company investigators cited low water in the boiler as the likely cause, while regular inspections were said to have found no negligence. Funerals were planned for the victims as hospitals treated the injured and the Elkhorn Piney operation remained shut for the week.
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Koppers
Powellton
W. Va
Elkhorn-Piney Coal Company
Bureau of Locomotives
Interstate Commerce Commission
McDunn
J. M. Hall
Washington
W. A. McKown
L. D. Allison
Columbus
O. Clarence L. Jarrett
Jarrett
William Blankenship
Blankenship
Thomas E. Lightfoot
Pittsburgh
Lightfoot
Koppers Company
P. C. Thomas
8. S. Follansbee
G. O. Cox
H. E. Dillon Jr
Fayette County
C. R. Sahl
Koppers Coal and Transportation Company
Coal Valley Hospital
Delmar Oxley
Samuel L. Runyon
Miner
Kingeish Redpend Los Angeles Pay New Orleans Hearing
In a barricaded 18th floor office Huey Long's special legislative committee opened a one day probe into New Orleans city government. Long framed the inquiry as privileged, barred press access, and allowed a radio broadcast while denouncing newspapers and defending witnesses under guard.
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New Orleans
Huey Long
Long
Senator Long
Louisiana
State Senate
Controversy over Foulois and War Dept Lobbying
Washington dispatch notes a military affairs committee report denouncing deplorable lobbying in the War Department and renewing calls to remove Major General Benjamin D Foulois as chief of the Army Air Corps. It cites inspector general review of other charges and warns of improper influence by officials and private firms. The panel maintains Foulois’s ouster remains the committee’s stance and cites a prior finding that he willfully violated existing rules.
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Foulois
Washington
War Department
Benjamin D. Foulois
Army Air Corps
House
Air Corps
United States
Canada seeks large damages over I'm Alone sinking case
Washington reports on a U S seaborne liquor smuggling saga tied to the ship I'm Alone. Canada seeks 386000 dollars for the vessel's 1929 sinking off Louisiana as American agent Pepper outlines murder intrigue and racketeer ties while captains and crew await testimony.
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Washington
New York
Seereae Capesen Judicial Commission
George Wharton Pepper
Canada
Louisiana
Coast Guard
Willis Vandevanter
Supreme Court
Lyman Poore Duff
Dan Hogan
Congress Leaders Forecast Hot and Lengthy Session
Democratic leaders in Washington expect a long session with a Roosevelt program to be unveiled in general terms next Friday. Senator Robinson arrived to assess the situation as Burns warns of potential heated debate over NRA provisions, unemployment relief and other major issues.
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NRA
Burns
Washington
Congress
Senator Robinson
Arkansas
Senate
Roosevelt
House
Representative Byrns
Tennessee
Byrns
World Court
St. Lawrence Waterway
Holding 3.2 beer illegal in West Virginia
In Charleston on December 28, Special Circuit Judge R. E. O Connor dismissed a damages suit by BE D Martin and company against Noble Fisher over a 3.2 beer cargo wreck. The judge ruled 3.2 percent beer illegal pending repeal of the prohibition law on March 1.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
R. E. O'Connor
BE. D. Martin and Company
Noble Fisher
Brownsville
Fisher
Fatal boiler blast halts four train carrying miners
The torn engine of a four train carrying 300 miners to Elkhorn Piney Coal company at Koppetsburg exploded on an incline. The boiler burst, soaring into the air and crushing the first coach. Twelve men died instantly, including the engineer William Blankenship whose body landed 255 feet away.
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Elkhorn-Piney Coal Company
Koppetsburg
William Blankenship
Roosevelt explores large scale relief push to expand CCC
President Roosevelt considers more than doubling the civilian conservation corps as part of a broad winter work relief program. Cabinet officers and advisors discuss near final plans while keeping agreed sections confidential. Officials say 1,000,000 men is a frequent figure for the CCC, with age limits and a central employment agency eyed to coordinate state jobs and benefits.
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Washington
Civilian Conservation Corps
Roosevelt
CCC
National Resources Board
Train Bombings Trigger Mayhem in Illinois Coal Fields
On December 28 at Woodlawn Illinois dynamite destroyed ten coal cars off Burlington tracks. The attack marks a new phase of the mine union war with interunion violence resurging in southern Illinois. One injured trainman. no arrests. Bombings target rail lines, with continued attacks and reprisals noted.
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Woodlawn
Ill
Southern Illinois
Interunion
Burlington
Here
Central
Illinois
Union
Eee
Illinois Central
Springfield
Page Ten
Albany Plane Missing After Syracuse Flight
Albany officials said shortly before midnight that an American Airlines passenger plane en route from Syracuse to Albany with four aboard is believed down. The search and rescue operation was underway as authorities updated the status of the aircraft and its occupants.
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Albany
N. Y
Dee
American Airlines
Syracuse
Major Battle Looms in Chaco Oil Fields Stake
86,000 troops clash in the Chaco as Gen. Jose Estigarribia’s forces push into Bolivian positions. Oil-rich Tarija and Chuquisaca appear at stake amid entrenched Bolivians guarding hills after Fort Ballivian’s fall. War ministry reports Paraguayan drive across Carandayty Capirenda and Pico fronts.
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Chaco
Buenos Aires
Bolivia
Paraguay
Tarija
Chuquisaca
Jose Estigarribia
Fort Ballivian
War Ministry
la Paz
Carandayty
Capirenda
Pico
Chamber NRA proposal sparks AFL labor dissent
Washington dispatch reports American Federation of Labor leaders opposing the Chamber of Commerce plan for drastic NRA revision. The AFL cites labor suppression in code making, lack of labor representation in administration, and rejection of majority rule in bargaining. John L. Lewis blasts chamber leaders amid criticism of post New Deal policy. The chamber announced its program following a referendum.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor
Chamber of Commerce of
United States
Chamber of Commerce
New Deal
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Federation
Chamber
Mrs Lindbergh to testify in Hauptmann case
Mrs Anne Morrow Lindbergh was listed as a state witness against Bruno Richard Hauptmann in the Lindbergh murder case. Prosecutors prepared for the Bronx carpenter's trial while Col Lindbergh retraced the night of March 1, 1932. John Hughes Curtis offered to testify but the state rejected the offer. Curtis claimed Hauptmann showed him ransom money. The state also alleged Hauptmann possessed about 49,600 dollars beyond his income.
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Curtis
Hauptmann
Bruno
Flemington
N. J
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Bronx
Carpenter
Hunterdon County
New Jersey
Charles A. Lindbergh
Sourland Mountains
David T. Wilentz
Anthony M. Hauck Jr
Robert Peacock
George K. Large
Betty Gow
Norfolk
W. C. Pender
John F. Condon
Condon
First Woman to Hang in State Sent to Pen
Wheeling W Va Dec 28 Mrs Francis Williams 29 a Negro under sentence to hang March 15 for the slaying of her common law husband today was admitted to the state penitentiary the first woman ever brought to the prison to await execution. Mrs Williams whose home is in Frazier is accused of killing Wil Mitchell a Negro on October The woman mother of a six year old son plans to fight for a commutation of sentence.
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London
Lydia Binks
Home Secretary
Durham
Wheeling
W .Va
Francis Williams
State Penitentiary
Island rulers killed, theory links Lorenz to Galapagos deaths
San Diego report states Capt. William Borthen alleges Alfred Lorenz killed Baroness Eloise Bousquet de Wagner and Robert Philipson on Charles Island. Borthen cites a note Lorenz wrote about a tragedy and findings of desiccated bodies on Marchena. Captain Hancock’s Ecuador report found no vessel left Charles Island this year. Lorenz, 40, moved there with the baroness and Philipson from Paris three years ago amid a tuberculosis battle and shifting affections.
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San Diego
Calif
William Borthen
Eloise Bousquet de Wagner
Charles Island
Robert Philipson
Alfred Lorenz
Borthen
Santa Amaro
Lorenz
Marchena Island
Charles
Capt
Phillipson
Phillpison
Island
South Seas
G. Allan Hancock
Los Angeles
Galapagos
Hancock
Ecuador
Paris
Vote Slips Guarded by Army in Saar Plebiscite
In Saarbruecken on December 28 the League of Nations army prepared to protect ballots for the January 13 plebiscite. American voters abroad, homesick for the United States, awaited the process as Nazis jeered the foreign troops.
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International Army
Saar
Saarbruecken
Saar Basin
League of Nations
International
United States
Landesrat
St. Wendel
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Huey
I’m Alorne
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