U S Rates Shift in Chaco Peace Effort with League
Secretary of State Hull reportedly agreed to limited U S participation in purely American Chaco negotiations with Paraguay and Bolivia, rejecting Geneva end of plan but backing a regional dispute resolution. Paraguan forces push toward Bolivian positions as Curenda falls. Federal agents hunt a Boston kidnap gang targeting Eugenie Grew and other prominent families amid guard-heavy searches.
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Hobart C. Montee
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Washington
United States Today
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Cordell Hull
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Bolivia
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Cururenda
Prim Guarenda
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Las Vacas
Boston
New England
Eugenie H. Grew
Randolph Clark Grew
Mulheirn suit slated Monday
Mrs. Sarah Mulhelm of this city seeks damages for her husband J. J. Mulhelm's death in a Carry-Linton City highway automobile crash two years ago. The civil suit, postponed several times, was set for Monday with local witnesses summoned. Patrolman Multeron was a passenger in the car driven by Leon Brown when it left the road, died after hospital admission. Ohio also adopts a three percent sales tax, expected to raise over 60 million annually, awaiting governor approval.
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Sarah Mulhelm
J. J. Mulhelm
Carry-Linton City
Poreng
Multeron
Leon Brown
Corry Hoapital
Brave storm in search but no trace of fliers
United Press report from Honolulu describes a violent storm hindering the US Navy’s effort to locate the transoceanic plane Stella Australis and its crew Capt. Charles T. P. Ames, George Littlejohn, and Leon Stalling near Oahu. Eleven boats scoured the seas north of Oahu as the rescue search continued despite worsening weather.
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T. Hi
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Xesave
Charles T. P. Aims
George Littlejohn
Leon Stalling
Oahu
Ulm
Government costs pass 3 billion in current fiscal year
Washington officials report government spending for this fiscal year, now in its fifth month, surpassing 3,000,000,000. Treasury gold stocks reach a record 8,181,195,872, exceeding February 1 levels by 1,142,931,946 and October 31 by 160,673,304. For the year to date outlays total 38,093,868,006, up from 2,029,808,055 in the prior year’s comparable period.
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Washington
Erec
Treasury
Christmas Fun In Samos Festivities Feature Queens
The people of Samos celebrate Christmas with joy and feasting. Each village selects two beauties to serve as ceremonial queens, hosting guests at a great feast and overseeing gift exchanges while hospitality centers on their court.
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Samoa
Samos
Advertiser Seeks Three Former Senators for Work
New York December 7 an anonymous advertiser offered employment to three ex United States senators preferably Republicans. The ad promised ten weeks work at substantial wages and a possible year long contract. It described the work as honorable and respectable with a remarkable chance for advancement in a slow and exciting field.
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New York
United States
Salare
School Board to Announce Committee Assignments
Millen Brown newly elected president plans to announce year committee assignments at the regular December meeting in the school offices Monday evening. Brown, who assumed duties after the reorganization, will preside next week. Current chairmen are Hillstrom finance Brown administration and instruction Love property.
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Seceed
Brown
Lincken
Republican state committee spent with large total funds
Harrisburg December 7 The Republican state committee reported expenditures totaling 530 703 in the last general election campaign in Pennsylvania. The report shows 9 2880 contributions including 239 000 from the Republican national committee finance arm. After June 8 to November 28 expenses and prior-period deficit left a cash balance of 28 345. Lamson must stand trial again in San Jose on charges he killed his wife Allene.
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Harrisburg
Des
Republican State Committee
Pennsylvania
Finance Committee
Republican National Committee
Lamson
San Josh
Cal
Syer
David Lamson
Allene
Yugoslav envoy accuses Hungary of aiding assassins
Geneva December 7 Yugoslavia’s foreign minister Bogoljub Jevtic denounced Hungary before the League council, charging Budapest with complicity in the Marseille killings. He said the Hungarian government aided the assassins based in Jankaputa to strike at King Alexander and the Portuguese premier Louly.
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Geneva
Bogulmh Jevtic
Jugoslavia
Hungary
Council of the
League of Nations
Marseilles
Heavy Snowfall Delays Across Regions Spark Record Cold
Winter grips the east northwest and midwest with a blizzard looming toward western Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh posted a record 20s below, Old Forge reported 20 below, St Paul 8 below, and Chicago surged to clear streets after 6.2 inches of snow. Flights halted, no accidents reported, New York saw a cold but milder spell with 20 degrees above zero.
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Northwest
Midwest
Memphis
Tenn
Pennsyleai
Pittsburgh
Old Forge
St. Paul
Chicago
North West
New York
NRA Code Violation Trial Nears Verdict for Perkins
In Harrisburg on December 7, federal court proceedings closed toward a verdict in the NRA code violation case of Fred C. Perkins, a West York battery maker. The seven man five woman jury was expected to decide this afternoon after government witnesses testified on wages from June 24, 1934, while Perkins faced ten NRA charges not signed by him.
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Morey J. Potter
United Press
Harrisburg
Fred C. Perkins
Frederick Clark Perkins
National Industrial Recovery Act
Orly
A’ Pleas
U.S
Abert L. Watson
Perkine
Cornell University
West York
Miles Standish
Perkins
NRA
Workers Name Committee On Dam Project
A committee to represent relief workers was named for talks with the Columbus Dam Association and Columbus township supervisors. Members include George Cémetensen as chairman, Roy Hamilton, Clarence Thompson, William Bates, Charles Stormes Sr., Hobart Blanchay, and Jon Meehan. If a settlement is reached, a Monday conference with the district engineer in Warren is planned to secure resumption of dam work and a $2,000 funding note for completion.
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Columbus Dam Association
Columbus Township
George Cémetensen
Roy Hamilton
Clarence ‘Thompson
William Bates
Charles Stormes, Sr
Hobart Blanchay
Jon Meehan
Dam Association
Columbus
Warren
Not Guilty Plea in Million Dollar Insurance Scam
Carl M Hanne 68 of Helena Montana pleads not guilty to defrauding stockholders of his insurance company of 1 700 000. The case arises from allegations of large scale financial fraud connected to the insurer and its investors.
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Camden
N. J
Carl M. Hanne
Helena, Mont
NRA Policies Before Supreme Court Next Week
Defense of emergency recovery policies under the National Industrial Recovery Act is argued before the Supreme Court. Briefs defend the petroleum code against Texas producers who challenge its validity as an unconstitutional delegation and overreach of Congress power.
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United Press
Washington
Supreme Court
J. Crawford Biggs
Texas
Congress
Carborundum Dust in Lungs Brings Suit
In Pittsburgh, Matthew F Martonik sues Allegheny Steel Corp for 50000 damages claiming carborundum dust in his lungs left him unable to work since January 30, 1938 after an illness later diagnosed as silicosis. The suit flags industrial exposure as the cause and seeks compensation.
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Restittsburgh
Matthew F Martonik
Allesheny Steel Corporation
Nelson's widow sentenced to year and a day in prison
Madison Wis Dec 7 Judge Patrick T Stone sent Mrs Helen Gillis widow of George Baby Face Nelson to prison for a year and a day to show there is only one end to the life she has led.
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Madison
Wis
Patrick T. Stone
Helen Gillis
George
Baby Face
Threat Letters Target Weiss Family After Kidnapping
Federal agents doubled guard at the Weiss home in Philadelphia after threatening letters were mailed to William Weiss relatives. One letter to Albert Mayer was written in long hand and postmarked New York. Six ransom demands for 100000 were sent to his wife.
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United Press
Philadelphia
William
Bill" Welss
Wels
Albert
Buck" Mayer
Weiss
R. George Harvey
Bureau of Investigation
Mayer
New York
Definite Business Pickup in Western Pa
Pittsburgh reports definite business improvement across several sectors though no sharp surge due to warm weather. The University of Pittsburgh index rose one per cent after seasonal adjustment, matching levels seen in 1633 for the first time in weeks. Department store sales run about ten per cent ahead of last year, according to Dun and Bradstreet.
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United Press
Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh
Bradstreet
Claims terrorist plot had origin in America
Geneva reports cite a claim that murders such as the Marseilles assassinations were part of a Hungarian campaign to seize territories, with Edouard Benes arguing postwar treaties fueled tensions and alleging the Marseilles plot originated in the United States. At the Jugoslav-Hungarian frontier, hundreds of destitute Hungarian refugees faced forced displacement amid cross border tensions and a League of Nations crisis.
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United Press Geneva
Marseilles
Hungary
Tibor Ecknhardt
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Arthou
France
Jugoslavia
Serbia
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Alexander
League of Nations
Geneva
Skeleton of missing man identified near Indiana Pa
Indiana Pa December 7 A skeleton found by hunters near here was identified as Andrew Shuster of Lucitaboro The shoes on the skeleton matched Mrs Shuster s remark about her Andy after a spat last April The case follows a prior disappearance from Lucitaboro with the evidence tying the remains to the missing man Deer hunter shot in Gettysburg Pa December 7 Norald Richardson 22 of Ruth township wounded in the chest at Warner Hospital after a hunting accident He was accidentally shot by his brother Gleason during a deer hunt in Shipley Township
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Iunters
Andrew Shuster
Lucitaboro
Andy
Buth Township
Tete
Warner Hospital
Gleason
Shipley
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