Senate Battles Ahead as New Session Opens in 1935
Washington January 3 The new Senate faces its first big test as it opens with a split between conservative and progressive factions. Roosevelt must navigate left wing pressure from Progressives while fending off hardline conservatives led by Glass Byrd and Borah. Notable figures include Robinson Harrison Wheeler Borah Long Bone Caraway Johnson Clark LaFollette LaFollette and Norris Costigan.
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Huey Long
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Rescued After Adirondack Airliner Crash Near Little Falls
Four men marooned for two days after a snowbound Adirondack airliner crash were rescued by a snowshoe party guided by another plane. Pictured are Ernest Dryer the pilot, his brother Ernest the co-pilot, and Robert W. Hambrook, an ordinary seaman. The report notes the rescue amid ongoing New York market briefs on cotton futures and Chicago livestock conditions.
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Little Falls
N. Y
Adirondack
Ernest Dryer
Ernest
Cleveland
Robert W. Hambrook
Market Report Shows Mixed Cattle Action and Steady Slaughter
Yearlings and light steers stay steady with strong demand for stockers while common cows dip slightly. Bulls rise up to 15 higher. cows and stocker cattle trading active. lambs and ewes indicate a grazing lift with good to choice natives and fed western lambs at 8.75 and up.
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Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Alabama Looking Toward Bowl Games and Rose Bowl Contenders
Decatur notes include Darry Peebles speculating Alabama may not be invited to the Rose Bowl again, with Sugar Bowl as a possibility next year. Dan Burnum travels to the Rose Bowl as a Christmas gift from a highway department employer. Other items mention visits, travel, and local ambulance transfers of Mrs. Roy Poteet’s family and Miss Mary Love’s operation recovery.
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Darry Peebles
Alabama
Dan Burnum
Paul Burnum
State Highway Department
Mary Love
Brown's Ambulance
Grain market slides as regulation talk hits trading
Chicago grain markets fell as House agricultural committee chair Jones planned bills to curb commodity exchanges. September contracts opened at a discount to July while wheat and corn declined. provisions dropped 15 to 25 cents. Local notes report job moves, sports chatter, church canvass, and Scout plans amid a busy Decatur scene.
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Chicago
Jones
House Agricultural Committee
Market Quots Open 1935 With Little Enthusiasm
New York prices showed dullness on the first trading day of 1935 as buying momentum lagged and profit taking appeared in several leaders. U. S. Steel and others fell modestly while American Can and American Telephone rose slightly. cotton closed steadier with spot prices steady in New Orleans.
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Wall Street
Victor Eubank
Associated Press
New York
Washington
New Year Cotton Starts Quiet and Steady in New Orleans
Cotton in New Orleans begins the year steady with quiet activity. Liverpool cables report better than due general buying from Bombay and the trade notes.
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New Orleans
Liverpool
Bombay
Liverpool Cotton Prices Up In Quiet Market
In Liverpool on January 2 AP reports 20 000 bales of cotton including 4 700 American. Spot demand fair and prices firm up about one point. Quotations show American middling fair 8.27, good middling 1.22, strict low middling 7.07, low middling 6.87 with other classifications listed as steady or higher.
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New York
Liverpool
Bombay
March
Liverpool Cables
New Orleans
Strick
Mother of Slain Tot Faces Accused Man in Court
Anne Morrow Lindbergh leads a courtroom crowd in Flemington as Bruno Hauptmann’s trial opens. Twelve jurors hear testimony with eight women, including Lindbergh and Mrs. Hauptmann, among the audience, while a nurse and the widow of a butler testify later. The case focuses on whether Hauptmann abducted and killed the Lindbergh baby.
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Ollie Wheatley
Lindbergh
Anna Hauptmann
Mary Elizabeth
Plummer Associated Press
Anne Lindbergh
Anthony M. Hauck
Hunterdon County
Dwight W. Morrow
Englewood
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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