Weather Map Shows Freak Snow Storm Across Nation
Snowstorms and subzero cold roared eastward leaving nine to 18 inches of snow in the dust bowl area while New England faced its coldest spell of the season. Temperatures plunged to well below zero in Vermont and New Hampshire and rose to the 20s in Michigan.
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Dust Bowl
Missouri
Arkansas
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Vermont
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Springfield and East St. Louis, Ill., and Louisville, Ky
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Rocky Mountains
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Fla
Mobile
Ala
Beloved Lady Laid To Rest In Elora Tennessee
Mrs. J. T. Robertson 71 died Sunday at her home in Elora of pneumonia after a week of illness. Funeral services were held Monday at Elora cemetery with Brown directing interment there. She is survived by her husband six daughters and two sons. Pallbearers included Knox McRae Raymond Jacks Hoy Fowler and others.
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J. T. Robertson
Elora
Tenn
Robertson
Elora Cemetery
Brown
A. E. Jacks
New Market
R. B.evan
Huntsville
Featur
Forced Feeding Considered to Break Slayers Hunger Strike
Sunbury Pennsylvania December 27 forced feeding was considered as a means to end a six day hunger strike by condemned slayer Schurtz at Northumberland county jail. Warden Minnick announced a turkey dinner served and Dr George A Deitrick said forced feeding would be used if he refuses to eat within days. Schurtz was convicted of fatally shooting Lieut Edward C Fisher of the Pennsylvania National Guard on a WPA project last spring. He is isolated under 24 hour guard awaiting the state supreme court action on his appeal. No execution date set.
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Sunbury
Northumberland County
Rober Minnick
Rew J
George A. Deitrick
Schurtz
Edward C. Fisher
Pennsylvania National Guard
State Supreme Court
Parity Price Plan Sticks to Farm Subsidy Policy
Senator Bankhead after a Roosevelt conference asserts the administration will not abandon parity price benefits for farmers. He notes parity payments depend on market gaps and may be unused if prices rise, and he backs possible higher taxes to fund subsidies while indicating current 225 million dollars may be underspent.
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Washington
Bankhead
D-Ala
Roosevelt
Congress
Hd Navyse
Rites Held for J L Wooten in Decatur Auto Crash
Final rites were held for 19 year old Joseph Lamar Wooten of Decatur killed in a weekend automobile accident near Cullman. Rev Doss of Mt Zion Baptist Church Alexandria officiated at Anniston. Burial followed at Anniston Funeral by Ursey Funeral Home. Survivors: W C Wooten and Mrs Ellen Wooten, parents. Walter Lee Wooten of Louisville. Miss J F Wooten of Anniston.
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Joseph Lamar Wooten
Decatur
Cullman
Anniston
Doss
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Alexandria
Ursey Funeral Home
W. C. Wooten
Ellen Wooten
Walter Lee Wooten
Louisville
J. F. Wooten
Jack Tipton
Clay Massey
John Cates
D. E. Crow
Wiliiinecrow
Bill Campbell
Annie Florence Ferguson
Ednelia Hargrove
Iris Ferguson
Young Wooten
Vinestreet Baptist Church
Biringham
Decatur National Guard Company
Smith resigns as Kansas City mayor
Mayor Bryce B. Smith resigns after a city council shift reestablished the Tom Pendergast Democratic machine faction. His departure follows the council rejecting his plan to appoint an out of town manager to address waste and payroll abuses revealed by federal grand juries. Smith had sought control after Ross Pendergast’s imprisonment and multiple Pendergast officeholders faced scrutiny.
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Kansas City
Bryce B. Smith
Tom Pendergast
Smith
Ross Pendergast
Pendergast
Union Chiefs Clash Sparks Sit-Down at Nash-Kelvinator Plant
In Detroit 400 workers faced police removal as Mechanics Educational Society of America members staged a sit-down. The dispute centered on local control and $500 in union funds after Russell Smith and Newton Avery were suspended by the International board.
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Detroit
Nash-Kelvinator
Mechanics Educational Society of America
MESA
Russell Smith
Smith
Newton Avery
Mesa International Executive Board
Matthew Smith
Two Russians Plead Guilty in Foreign Agent Case
Two Russians and a Soviet corporation pleaded guilty to violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act and were fined a total of 2500 dollars. Boris Nikolsky, president of Bookniga Inc, and Ilyin, a secretary treasurer, admitted withholding material information in registering with the State Department. Nikolsky received a 1000 dollar fine and planned to return to the Soviet Union. Ilyin 500 dollars.
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Washington
Boris Nikolsky
Bookiiga, Inc
I. Algin
State Department
Jennings Bailey
Nikolsky
Soviet Russia
Lyin
Justice Department
Ilyin
Bookniga, Inc
New York
W. M. Houston Rites Held After Birmingham Death
W M Houston 51 a Birmingham area toll plant supervisor for Southern Bell died suddenly of a heart attack in his office. The Decatur native body arrived Wednesday and services were at First Methodist Church with burial at City Cemetery. Survived by widow a son and a daughter and two sisters and a brother. He served 37 years with the telephone company and was a member of the Methodist church and American Legion.
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W. M
Daddy) Houston
Decatur
Southern Bell. Telephone Co
Birmingham
Rufus Peerson
E. Lafayette Street
First Methodist Church
D. C. McNutt
Brown
City Een
Houston
W. M. Houston
Emily Houston
W.A. Burt
Jim Bryant
Phil Pointer
J. O. Townsend
The
Telephone Company
Mr. Houston
Methodist Church
American Legion
Quake Death Toll Feared In Two Regions No. Today
A major earthquake rattled Los Angeles area and northern Anatolia causing widespread alarm. In LA the event damaged a Herald-Express building while Long Beach felt the tremor for about ten seconds. no damage reports followed. In Turkey strong quakes near Ankara devastate towns. officials warn of heavy casualties and disrupted communications.
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Associated Press
Herald-Express
Califgels Institute of Technology
Setiological Laboratory
Long Beach
Glendale
Alhambra
Ankara
Anatolia
Black Sea
Turkey
Asia
Ordu
Samsun
Tokat
Amasia
Sivas
Yizgad
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Hunt for Snatcher of Lad is Continued
FBI agents persist in a nationwide manhunt on the third anniversary of the Charles Mattson kidnapping. The 10-year-old Tacoma boy was taken from home by a swarthy man and found dead near Everett. Hoover said 500 suspects remain and 22,700 people have been questioned. the case would not be closed until solved.
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Wash
FBI
Charles Mattson
Charles
Everett
J.”Edgar Hoover
Mattson
Hoover
FDR Approves 24 Housing Contracts Across 12 States
President Roosevelt approves 24 United States Housing Authority contracts totaling 47.9 million dollars for 41 slum clearance and low rent projects. Locations include Los Angeles Oakland Stamford Washington Augusta Decatur St Clair county Dearborn Detroit Camden Jersey City New York City Akron Cincinnati Cleveland Toledo Allegheny County Puerto Rico Honolulu Pelly San Antonio Newport News Williamson and more.
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Prsident Roosevelt
United States _Housing Authority
Los Angeles
Calif
Oakland
Stamford
Conn
D. C
Augusta
Decatur
St. Clair County
Dearborn
Mich
Detroit
Camden
N. J
Jersey City
New York City
Pelly
Texas
San Antonio
Newport News
Williamson
W. Va
U S May Propose Federal Controls on Life Insurance
Federal monopoly committee members disclosed informal consideration of methods to regulate life insurance firms. Proposals include amending the bankruptcy act for insurer failures, creating fund insurance akin to deposit insurance, and a broad control system modeled after the Federal Reserve or an administrative securities body.
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Washington
Federal Monopoly Committee
The
Securities Commission
Debut of Daughters of Two Officials Climaxes Season
In Washington the joint debut of 18 year old Jean Wallace and Mary Jackson, daughters of Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace and Solicitor General Robert Jackson, drew 500 guests at the Carlton Hotel. Debutantes Margaret Houghteling Marilyn Himes and Reb orah Kirk also lit up the season with lavish affairs as they prepare for college and carry on capital society events through Christmas holidays.
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Washington
Henry Wallace
Robert Jackson
Carlton ‘Hotel
Jean Wallace
Mary Jackson
Jean
Connecticut College
Worden
Mary
Smith College
Jackson-Wallace
Margaret Houghteling
Commissioner of Immigration
J. L. Houghteling
Roosevelt son guesses on his father's run for third term
Elliott Roosevelt, son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, said he believes his father has not yet decided about a third term. He noted his father would announce his decision himself and that no one else would make the announcement. He was traveling to New York by plane.
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Memphis
Tenn
Elliott Roosevelt
Roosevelt
New York
Freedom Gift Brings Paroled Woman Early Release
New York state grants belated Christmas mercy to Dorothy Sherwood a former burlesque dancer who served part of a six to fifteen year sentence after pleading manslaughter in the death of her two year old son. She is released from Bedford Hills prison and awaits at the gates with her ten year old daughter Dorothy who has been in Salvation Army care.
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New York
Reedua
Dorothy Sherwood
Salvation Army
Jassie
Bedford
Dorothy
Sherwood
Newburgh
N. Y
MEN WHISKY RAID NETS EIGHT ARRESTS IN TWO COUNTIES
Holiday raids in Decature and Morgan counties result in eight arrests and seizure of 108 gallons of corn whiskey. Two african american suspects are held here with 17 gallons seized. Six white men nabbed in the east end with 91 gallons seized. All released on bonds. Sheriff Willoughby led with deputies and ABC officers.
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Decature
Morgan County
W.L
Willoughby
Bibb Humphrey
Candler Pittman
ABC
Blankenship
C. C. Mile
Skeleton Said to Be 4000 Years Old Unearthed in Pit
A workman uncovered a coffin with a man's skeleton in a Dumbartonshire sand pit. Archaeologist Ludovic Mann estimates the remains are at least 4000 years old and says the find will boost knowledge of the stone age. A carved inscription on a large stone slat is interpreted as standard units of linear measure from that era.
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London
Ludovic Mann
Workman
Dumbartonshire
Mann
Detroit to Be Probe Scene in Sabotage Inquiry
Attorney General Frank Murphy said evidence of sabotage and espionage in Detroit Flint and Lansing will be presented next week to a special grand jury. He noted foreign agents are at work but assured protection of political rights while promising prosecution for lawbreakers. Murphy spoke in Detroit during Christmas. he planned to return to Washington.
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Detroit
Frank Murphy
Flint
Lansing
Mich
Washington
Murphy
Automotive
War Department
Japan Cabinet Endangered as Lawmakers Seek Reevaluation
Premier Nobuyuke Abe faced pressure from a cross party group of 250 of 463 lawmakers who signed a resolution urging serious cabinet reconsideration of its remaining in power. The move, not official party policy, arises amid tensions over Yangtze River reopening and Sino‑Japanese diplomacy.
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Tokyo
Bec
Nobuyuke Abe
House of Representatives
United States
Yangtze River
Nanking
Japan
Foreign Office
Yukichiro Suma
China
Woman held after Bee Line Highway wreck near Athens
Charlotte Smith, a Black woman from Decatur, held by Highway Patrolman R A Troupe after a collision on Bee Line Highway four and a half miles south of Athens at 8 PM Tuesday. She sideswiped a Birmingham truck owned by Jack Cole Co. and slid into an embankment. no injuries to her, car damaged, truck undamaged.
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Charlotte Smith
R. A. Troupe
Athens
McCartney Street
Decatur
Jack Cole Co
Birmingham
Finnish Ski Troops Report Drive Into Russia Near Lieska
Reports from Copenhagen and Helsinki say a Finnish ski battalion crossed into Russia near Lieska about 1154 miles north of Lake Ladoga to threaten the Murmansk railroad. Finnish sources claim Stalin allies massing for renewed blows as Russians bolster forces with deserters and matériel continue to pour into northern fronts.
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Copenhagen
Russia
Lake Ladoga
Lieska
Murmansk
Arctic Ocean
Joseph Stalin
Finland Presses Toward Murmansk Rail Line as War Expands
Reports from Copenhagen say ski troops push into Russia to sever the Murmansk railway vital for Soviet northern supply lines. Soviet air raids hit Finnish cities while 300 000 more Russian troops reportedly move toward central and Arctic fronts.
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Associated Press
Finland
Russia
Murmansk
Copenhagen
Joseph Stalin
Tampere
Tammerfors
Helsinki
Tennessee River Gauge and Temperature Report
The Tennessee river gauge read 163 feet on Wednesday with a high of 47 and low of 37 degrees in the past 24 hours. Weather outlook calls for fair to colder conditions with frost and freeze risks in southern areas, and continued cold with northeast winds.
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Tennessee
Alabama
Tom Onahane
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