1935 Gains Hint At Stronger 1936 Recovery
The Associated Press outlines 1935 growth in factory orders and consumer goods, with high auto output and home appliances signaling a broader recovery. Indicators show capital goods reviving, employment improving yet unemployment remains high, and residential construction rising as modernization accelerates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude A. Jagger
Associated Press
NEW York
Uncle Sam
National Industrial Conference Board
Ees
Michigan Famous Morlok quadruplets celebrate Christmas
Michigan's Morlok quadruplets Edna Wilma Sarah and Helen woke on Wednesday to Santa gifts and formed a drum corps. They received four red drums, four sweaters, four kimonos, books, handkerchiefs and a silverware set. Their mother noted the loud joy of four drums.
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Lansing
Mich
Michigan
Santa Claus
Edna A
Wilma B
Sarah C
Helen D
Morlok
Longtime Linn County jail cook prepares 14th Christmas dinner
Mrs. Jennie Mote, Cedar Rapids resident for over fifty years and jail cook under four sheriffs, leads the Christmas meal for inmates at the Linn County jail. The 77 year old, born in New York, began in Marion, now resides in the jail staff quarters with two children named James Mote and Addie B. Holland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred C. Henson
Jennie Mote
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Santa Claus
James D. Kennedy
Board of Supervisors
James H. Smith
Secretary Roper Plans Broad Business Aid Initiative
Secretary Roper outlines an intensive program starting mid January with officials and congressional members to study and aid major industries. The plan targets the automobile fisheries and electrical equipment sectors first, aiming to smooth employment and extend the method to all commodity divisions in the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department
Chester McCall
Roper
Makters
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
McCall
Europe observes holiday as soldiers loom in memory
Light rainfall kept people off streets while troops in east Africa topped public concern. Paris celebrated with mass crowds and festive lights as Spain faced rain and closures for Christmas. In New York, Mrs. Clara J Fisher fed pigeons with a 100 pound bag of seed on Christmas Day.
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East Africa
Paris
Spain
Three Wise Kings
New York
Clara J Fisher
Santa Claus
New Ship Rules Aimed at Reducing Sea Disasters
Federal officials propose five point safety program to raise U S standards above international code. Rules cover fire prevention detection emergency action steering life boats and ship construction changes. Effective next week backed by legislation, cited after Mohawk and Morro Castle incidents.
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Washington
Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspecon
Commerce ‘Department
Morro Castle
Eight Die in Los Angeles Drunk Driving Orgy Crash
Police report a ten hour Christmas Eve crash spree in Los Angeles left eight dead and 145 arrested for drunk driving. The incident sparked a statewide crackdown on impaired driving as authorities investigated the string of incidents.
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Los Angeles
INS
Plane Crash Kills Four Near Lima Tambo Airport
Foggy conditions Tuesday night caused a giant tri motor plane to crash into an adobe hut near the Lima Tambo airport. Victims include Harold Mac Mickle pilot and Russell Pecht chief engineer of Pan American Grace Airways, plus an eight year old boy and a woman in the house. The crash occurred during a test flight as the plane circled the airport at about 600 feet. Investigators blame dense fog for restricted visibility and loss of bearing. Mac Mickle, with 9000 flying hours, was decapitated by the cockpit glass. Pecht suffered a severe skull wound.
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Lima
Lima-Tambo
Harold Mac Mickle
Russel Pecht
Pan-American Grace Airways
Mac Mickle
Pecht
Pan- American Grace
Surquillo
San Felipe
Russell Pecht
Peru
United States
Amateur engineer causes derailment in Mattoon switchyard
Maurice Spurlin of Mattoon, 32, allegedly drove an Illinois Central locomotive onto the main track Tuesday night. He collided with a freight train five miles south, derailing both engines and costing the railroad about 1500 dollars. Spurlin was jailed for safekeeping but not injured.
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Mattoon
Ill
Maurice
Spurlin
Iesis Hikari Eh
Illinois Central
Radio Schedule of NBC CBS and ABC Listings
A dense listing of 1940s era radio programming across networks NBC CBS and ABC. It names performers such as Dove Lang Lang and Ruth Lyon with orchestras and time slots from morning through late evening including Philharmonic and church programs.
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Madison Ensemble
CBS
WABC
Morton
Dove
NBC
WEAF
Honeymooners
WJZ
WHBM
WCCO
KMONX
S. Navy Band
Arthur Lang
Voice of Experience
KMOX
the Merrymakers
Nhelen Wyatt
WGST
Tex
Pro Gloss
Sportsman Brotherhood
aib—Academy of Medicine
Wabc ST
Ruth Lyon
Natinies Musicale
Weaf Chain
NBC Music Guild
WJZ Chain
WEBM
Pat Aelmnedy
Wwoc
Lela
CB8
WEAP
John Herrick
Wee
Sade
WLW
Wec
Wwcco
Rew
Bob
Womans Radio Review
Weap Chain
Tnbc
Billie Bailey
Howard Neumiller
Woc
Jimmy Farrell
Louise Flores
All American Boy
WABCO
Clara
Kyw
Christmas Puzzle Clues Unraveled on Ice Floe Rescue
An Irish setter named Pal was rescued from an ice floe as a team recovered a tangled web of clue words. The logline mixes holiday crossword style hints with scattered figures and a dramatic canine daring save.
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Pal
Army to buy 82 new planes as interim boost
Army planners forecast 82 new aircraft joining service while warning obsolescence outpaces gains. A five year program, at 800 planes per year, would better defend the force. Total air power now 1,196 with 25,320 aimed by 1937. 1934–36 appropriations total $35.5 million plus $7.5 million public works funds. about $23 million spent this year.
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Rotary Dern
Army
War Department
Washington Likes This Romantic Tale
In a Klondike era romance a young woman Mimosa June Gates, daughter of Swiftwater Gates, travels with a husky team on a wintry trail. An ambitious attorney, later Senator Key Pittman of Nevada, apologizes after a dog tangling incident. Their delayed encounter sparks a romance ending in marriage.
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Washington
Klondike
Mimosa June Gates
Alaska
California
Swiftwater
Miss Gates
Key Pittman
Nevada
Capital Circles
HOLC Reinstates Rejected Home Loan Applications
Washington officials say HOLC will reinstate 38 417 rejected or withdrawn loan applications for homeowners after fixing technical snags reducing debt on mortgaged property and clarifying titles.
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Washington
HOLC
Coast guardsmen rescue dog at ice floe
In Waukegan Illinois a dog was saved from an ice floe after a five mile maneuver on Lake Michigan. Coast guardsmen finished the voyage exhausted but relieved to have rescued the animal.
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Waukegan, Ill
Coast
Liberty League urges federal reforms to curb government overreach
The Liberty League calls for measures to withdraw government from private business and to curb TVA activities. It urges revising social security acts and agricultural programs to conform with the Constitution, while opposing constitutional amendments that threaten checks and balances. The group stresses the 1936 primaries urgency and warns lawmakers on centralizing power.
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Utility Holding Company
Tennessee Valley Authority
League
Congress
Hoffman Builds Electric Village for His Children
Gov Harold G Hoffman forgot the Hauptmann case and state affairs on Christmas day as he constructed a miniature electric village on the living room floor for his three children in South Amboy New Jersey.
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Hoffman
Bruno
South Amboy
N. J
Harold G. Hoffman
Hauptmann
New York Reporter Warned Over Liggett Case
Forrest Davis of the New York World Telegram reports outsiders in Minneapolis seeking Liggett case information face intimidation. He recounts a call claiming influential figures resented his dispatches and that a lawyer and former G-man forced him to move to St Paul with security.
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New York
Forrest Davis
New York World- Telegram
Minneapolis
Walter W. Liggett
St. Paul
The
World Telegram
Davis
Liggett
Chicagoan Kills Wife Then Self on Plainfield Road
Charles Hanson, 34, was found dead in an automobile on Plainfield road near La Grange after shooting his estranged wife Alice Hanson, 30, who was wounded and taken to a hospital. Police believed Hanson killed himself after the shooting following a rejected Christmas reconciliation.
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Chicago
Charles Hanson
Alice Hanson
Plainfield Road
la Grange
Fred Mulhausen
Cook County
Hanson
Bandits Take $369 In Christmas Robbery
Two men posing as store delivery agents robbed Mrs. Mildred Kramer at gunpoint on Wednesday, obtaining $369 in a Christmas gift heist in Chicago. They used a revolver to threaten her during the theft.
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Chicago
Mildred Kramer
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