Peace plan collapse forces resignations in Europe
British Foreign Secretary Hoare resigns after a failed peace plan with Laval to grant Mussolini control in Africa. Haile Selassie denounces Britain and France for league violations as the council kills the initiative. A 18-member committee will study the Italo Ethiopian crisis while Europe edges toward wider conflict.
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Ethiopia
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Laval
France
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House of Commons
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Paris
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Radical Socialist Party
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Geneva
League Council
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Great Britain
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Borah favored as liberal GOP candidate in Wisconsin push
State Senator P B E Nelson and Bernhard Gettelman urged Borah to allow circulating nominating petitions in Wisconsin, framing a liberal delegation plan. Borah said he favors a liberal convention and platform with flexible tactics to back the right liberal candidate or another liberal if it aids the cause. He stressed the objective over personal matters. Kidnaping Threats Drive Lindberghs to England. Repeated threats of kidnaping and murder force Col Charles A Lindbergh and wife to sail with their son to England planning residence there while retaining American citizenship.
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Wisconsin
Senator Borah
Idaho
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Maple
Wis
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Milwaukee
Washington
Nelson
Gettelman
Col
Charles Aa. Lindbergh
United States
Jon
England
Government Ownership of Railways Urged Campaign
The Railway Labor Executives Association launches a campaign urging government ownership of America's railroads. They describe carriers as chips in a financial poker game and call ownership the only way to end the current banking driven morass. Senator Wheeler previously introduced a government ownership resolution but did not seek immediate action.
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America
Railway Labor Executives’ Association
Congress
Wheeler
Montana
Indictments in War Department lobbying case involve ex-officer ex-congressman
A Washington indictment closes a two year probe by two grand juries a house committee and an army court martial into War Department lobbying. Named defendants include former Brig. Gen. Alexander E. Williams once acting quartermaster general convicted of an improper loan ex representative Thomas J. Ryan and fellow dealers Joseph Jr and Nathan Silverman. They allegedly conspired to shield mystery witness Frank E Speicher from questioning by the House Military Affairs Committee.
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House Committee
Washington
Army
Congress
Alexander E. Williams
Thomas Jefferson Ryan
New York
Silverman Brothers
Joseph, Jr
Nathan
House Military Affairs Committee
Frank E. Speicher
Jong
New York City
Gomez dies in Caracas at seventy eight. Contreras provisional president
Venezuela mourns Gen. Juan Vicente Gomez who ruled for twenty seven years and died in Caracas. The cabinet names Gen. Eleazar Lopez Contreras as provisional president until Congress elects a successor. Gomez buried on the anniversary of his 1909 coup as revolts were crushed with an iron hand. He built highways and oil profits while paying off debt, amassing a fortune. Army Air Corps orders new bombing planes. Douglas to supply 90 all metal twin engined monoplanes for 6.5 million dollars and Boeing to deliver 13 four motor sky cruisers. North China Autonomous Council installs Sung Cheh yuan as chairman amid anti Communist protests backed by Japan.
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Venezuela
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Caracas
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Congress
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Cipriano Castro
Europe
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Army Air Corps
Ceme
Douglas Aircraft Company, Inc
Santa Monica
Calif
Boeing Company
Seattle
Wash
Boeing
Harry H. Woodring
North China Autonomous Council
Espite
Peiping
Hepei-Chahar
Japan
North China
Sung Cheh-yuan
Sung
Manchukuo
Hopkins Orders WPA Payrolls to Hit Christmas Eve Deliveries
Progress Administrator Harry Hopkins ordered that about 3.5 million WPA workers receive their paychecks by December 24. He urged overtime payroll handling and courier shippings to avoid delays. Roosevelt met with relief officials to slim the relief budget for the 1936 campaign. Plans also discussed reducing CCC enrollment from 460,000 to 300,000 by next July.
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WPA
Works Progress
Harry Hopkins
Roosevelt
White House
Civilian Conservation Corps
Robert Fechner
CCC
Brisbane's This Week Highlights Great Deeds and Global Tensions
The syndicated column surveys 1935's top scientific feats led by a 200 inch telescope lens, the artificial heart, and a note on passions of aviation. It profiles the Nizam of Hyderabad as the world’s wealthiest ruler, British air power, and warnings of Pacific and Mexican strategic moves amid inflation and political unrest.
There Still Ought to Be Hundreds of Thousands More
A man named Harris recounts surviving a brutal mugging in a crowded city area. He describes being struck with a gun, stripped, and dumped in a marsh before crawling to safety. He later seeks medical help and cannot identify his attackers. He jokes about only repairing tops for well‑referenced clients.
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Harris
Lynn Marshes
Boston
WIN Service
Elephant Bear Bones On Display At Smithsonian Museum
Fossils found in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin show Coryphodon, a heavy-bodied, tusked primitive mammal from about 60 million years ago. The creature had bear like feet with elephant like forefeet, and a position between bear and elephant, as researchers note.
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Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Big Horn Basin
Wyoming
Science Service
Coryphodon
The Elephant Bear Stands Against Changing World
In the same region where the elephant bear once flourished, earlier horse types persisted. The smaller horse ancestors outlived the larger, dominant predator by agility and brainpower, while the elephant bear, a massive conservative, could not adapt and declined.
Lewis and Clark Expedition Sets Out from Washington
Lewis left Washington on July 5 1803 joined by Clark at the Ohio. Delayed at Pittsburgh until August 81 then moved toward the Mississippi with volunteers from military posts. The party includes three sergeants twenty three soldiers three interpreters and York Clark's enslaved aide.
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Lewis and Clark
Washington
Clark
Ohio
Pittsburgh
Mississippi
York
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