Labor Strikes Strain Nation Amid Peace Efforts
Washington reports a rising tide of labor trouble reaching the White House as the Pacific coast maritime strike stalls progress and plate glass production threatens auto output. John L. Lewis presses GM to bargain with the United Auto Workers while steel and other sectors face organizing efforts.
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Washington
White House
Pacific Coast
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
General Motors Corporation
United Automobile Workers
Steol
Lewis
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
Roosevelt
South America
Per Ins
Apm
Labor Department
Commerce Roper
Detroit
Kelsey-Hayes Company
Beitiges
Glenn McCabe
Federation of
Flat Glass Workers
Jett Toledo
Homer Martin
Automobile Workers
Hea
Libbey-Owens- Ford Glass Company
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
Libbey-Owens-Ford
Hull urging world to destroy war at peace conference
Secretary of State Cordell Hull urged the world to destroy war or it will destroy us as the inter American peace conference closed. He called for cooperation among the Americas to chart a path to peace and denounced militaristic policies. Hull spoke through Assistant Secretary Sumner Welles due to hoarseness.
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Buenos Aires
Cordell Hull
United States
Sumner Welles
Hull
Roosevelt
New World
Adonis
Hult
Armies Granted Holiday Lull on Shensi Front
Nanking China December 24 United States dispatch reports a three day armistice extending over Christmas on the Shensi revolutionary front. Government forces halted the march on Sianfu to allow time for ransom and peace talks. Chiang Kai-shek and Soong left Sianfu to discuss Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang's demand for 30 million dollars. Japanese sources note Sianfu cut off from telegraphs and telephones. A potential international crisis looms amid ransom negotiations and reports of wounded German doctors attached to Chiang’s staff.
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Nanking
China
Shensi Revolutionary Front
Chiang Kai-Shek
Ghang Hesuteh-Liang
Sianfu
T. V. Seong
Soong
Mme
Chiang Kai- Shek
Chang
Tokyo
Herbert Wunsch
Wilhelm Friese
Chiang
Marshal Chang
Feiping
United States
Russian Italo Envoys Clash Over Spain Crisis
London dispatch reports a sharp clash on the international non intervention committee as Soviet ambassador Ivan Maisky calls Francisco Franco a puppet general, prompting Italian ambassador Dina Grandi to accuse him of a recurrent fever amid Euro pean tensions surrounding Spain's civil war.
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London
Spain
Russia
Italy
International Non-Intervention Committee
Ivan M. Maisky
Great Britain
Francisco Franco
Franco
Fremier Mussolini
Hitler
Dina Gran@i
Britain
Maisky
Grandi
Pontiff Prepares World Wide Christmas Address
Pope Pius XI labored in his sickroom tonight to finish the Christmas Eve speech for a world wide radio audience despite doctors advices to conserve energy. Vatican officials said the pope, under emotional strain, would urge renewed pleas for peace to a war frightened world.
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U.S
Vatican City
Pius XI
Pontiff
Vatican
Universal Service
Santa Claus Visits Camp Fairchance Tonight
Santa Claus will visit Camp Fairchance this afternoon and bring gifts for 200 underprivileged children at the state reconditioning center near Madison. William Humphreys plays Santa with his uncle 3. 2. Garrison leading a party of Gazette delivery trucks and volunteers to unload presents at the recreation building.
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Santa Claus
Camp Fairchance
American Legion Hall
Hale Street
Gazette
Madison
Boonecoun
Francis W
English Church Split by Blasts At Former King
London dispatch reports a sharp split in the Church of England over Edward VIII's abdication and marriage plans. Archbishops Canterbury and York defend the former king while other bishops criticize him. A Labor MP accuses royal pressure influenced his throne. The Bishop of Ely sides with the archbishops, arguing the issue centers on divorce and remarriage.
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Edward
Wallis Simpson
Ely
Canterbury
York
ExSen Simeon Fess Dies in Capital at 75
Former Ohio Republican Sen Simeon D Fess died of a heart attack in Washington while preparing for a Christmas reunion with his son Charles Fess who had just arrived from Cleveland The 75 year old veteran who opposed the New Deal had been in good health moments before his collapse and is survived by two other sons Lehr and Lowell and five grandchildren Funeral services are planned tentatively for Saturday at Yellow Springs Ohio The survivor list includes Lehr Fess Toledo attorney and Lowell Fess of Yellow Springs plus a manufacturers association representative Mrs Fess died in 1926
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Washington
Simeon D. Fess
Ohio
Cleveland
Charles §. Fess
Margaret L. Welsh
Charles Fess
Yellow Springs
Lehr Fess
Toledo
Lowell Fess
Manufacturer's Association
Fess
Slain salesman confession links trio to gas station death
W Earl Dellman 34 Charleston salesman killed en route to a gas station near Gassaway on Nov 25. A confessed statement by Kirby 20 of Scranton named two accomplices, Reed 25 and Gingell 20, as the killers. Body burned in car. investigators connect other murder links and Robbery motive reported by state police.
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W. Earl Dellman
Charleston
Gassaway
Joseph Kirby
Scranton
James Fillinger
Doliman
Philadelphia
Dollman
Kirby
William B.reed
Four Corners
Lawrence Gingell
Gingell
Washington
National Capital
Corp. L. A. Taylor
Montgomery
Deepwater Mountain
Paul
P. Wilson
Charleston National Bank
Virginia Street
Reed
Elwood
Matthews
Rockville
Delimsn
Fillinger
Read
Owens-Illinois Bonus Is Paid
Owens-Illinois pays Christmas bonus checks to employees at plants including the local facility. President William Levis states the firm had a successful year and thanks the more than 17,000 workers for cooperation and enthusiasm.
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Owens-Hilinois Glass Company
William E. iLevis
Levis
Owens-Illinois
Flashes of Life In These U.S. SPRINGF iow opening offensive
The conservation commission used heavy artillery against pests near Springf iow in two roosts, blasting with eight inch field pieces. An estimated 6,000 pests were killed as smoke rose from the blasts. In Tacoma Carl Molier, 17, leaves Sunrise Beach at 3:25 a.m. to row two miles, take a ferry, and ride 4 1/2 miles of streetcars to reach his high school, never tardy.
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Tineis Conservation Commission
Tacoma
Wash
Carl Molier
Sunrise Beach
Puget Sound
Carl
Mass Funeral for Miners in Rosita Shaft Disaster
In Eagle Pass Texas a mass funeral was held for 39 miners killed by an explosion at the Rosita Coal Company shaft No 6 near Nuevo Rosita Mexico. 35 others were injured as seven hundred miners were underground when the blast occurred. Officials blamed carbon monoxide and unsafe conditions. no Americans were killed or injured.
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Eagle Pass
Tex
Nuevo Rosita
Mexico
Rosita Coal Company
Rosita
J. M. Riojas
Riojas
Gazette announces abdication of King Edward VIII
The Gazette reports an extra on December 9 1936 stating King Edward VIII has signed abdication papers and sent them to Prime Minister Baldwin. The December 10 edition repeats that the king signed and forwarded the abdication papers. An exclusive West Virginia state beat with strong circulation claims.
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The
Gazette
Edward VIII
Baldwin
West Virginia
Charleston Gazette
Missing Angora Kitten Rescued From Laundry Bag
Seattle resident Mrs J M Denton reported one of her four white angora kittens missing. She called the laundry, then the manager who located the kitten tucked inside a Denton bag buried in dirty clothes at the plant.
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Seattle
Mrrs
J. M. Denton
Denton
Gift of God Baby Hoax Admitted by Mrs Muench
Mrs Nellie Tipton Muench admitted to day in a St Louis Post Dispatch copyright story she carried out the gift of God baby hoax for love of Dr Marsh Fireman a middle aged bachelor physician. She said she made a voluntary confession to do some good for the only innocent person convicted in this conspiracy her devoted husband Ludwig Muench. Also named are Mrs Heled Berroyer and attorney Wilfred Jones who were convicted in federal court last Sunday of attempting to defraud Pittman.
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ST. Louis
Nellie Tipton Muench
St Louis Post-Dispatch
Marsh Fireman
The
Post-Dispatch
Muench
Br. Ludwig
Late Shoppers Deplete Stocks in Charleston Rush
Thousands jam downtown Charleston stores as Christmas sales surge. Stores report depleted merchandise after bonuses and a city party season. Officials debated closing city hall and courthouse Saturday after Christmas while several shops announced they would stay closed.
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Charleston
En Glass ‘Company
Christman
D. Boone - Dawson
People’s Store
Diamond Department Store
Va. Wo
Six Braniff officials die in Love Field crash
Six Braniff Air Lines officials and employees were killed when a 10 passenger plane crashed and burned near Love Field in Dallas. The victims include Don Walbridge, 35, manager. Sterling Perry, 38, superintendent of maintenance. W. J. Chambers, 35, crew chief. Paschal Florence, 30, mechanic. Hubert Daane, 28, mechanic. and Fred Sleeper, 28, mechanic. The engine was undergoing a routine test after a motor replacement.
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Dallas
Braniff Air Lines
Love Field
Don ‘Walbridge
Pues Sterling Perry
Wiley Post
W. J. Chambers
Paschal’ Florence
Hubert Daane
Fred’ Sleeper
Walbridge
W. M
Quiet Bethlehem War Clouds Mark Christmas in Holy Land
Bethlehem and Jerusalem show scant Christmas observance as Christians are few and tensions rise. British soldiers guard the Church of the Nativity amid armored lorries and strengthened patrols after Arab-Jewish conflicts. A U S Christmas broadcast from Bethlehem is planned at 7 50 p m local time with British and Anglican leaders delivering messages.
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Thea
Star of Bethlehem
Holy
Bethlehem
Cairo
Church of Nativity
Kafr Kanna
Britain
League of Nations
U. S
Wadsworth
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