Fire at Kerns hotel in Lansing claims multiple lives
An early morning blaze in zero weather trapped guests at the Kerns hotel. Eleven known dead and at least 27 injured, with authorities fearing the death toll could rise to about 40. Five drowned and others injured leaping to the street or river. Names identified include Representative T. Henry Howlett and Representative John W. Goodwin. state senator John Leidlein is missing. The fire began around 5:30 a.m. and may take days to determine full losses as records were destroyed.
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Lansing
Mich
Kerns
Grand River
Hotek
David Monroe
T. Henry Howlett
Gregory
John W. Goodwine
Marlette
IL Wishneff
Los Angeles
John Leidlein
Saginaw
Don E. Sias
Midland
Marlette, Mich
F. H. Nixon
Boston
Mass
R. C. Caldwell
Chicago
Lansing State Journal
Kerns Hotel
Drinks Fight Ends in Murder Over the Bill
Brooklyn report of a fatal shooting after a dispute over paying for drinks at a beer garden. Clyde Young drew a pistol during the quarrel with Joseph Chagnon, who was killed. Frank Pohl was wounded as Young fired. Young was arrested for homicide as the drinks were on the house.
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Dale Harrison
Brooklyn
N.Y
Joseph Changnon
Clyde Young
Chagnon
Pal
Young
Clyde
Joe
Frank Pohl
Pohl
Mrs. Maude Domingus Dies in Atlanta
Mrs. Maude Domingus wife of Dothan's retired chief of police died in Atlanta. Funeral will be held at 3 pm tomorrow at the family home with Rev L W Dockery and Rev C S Talley officiating. Survived by three stepsons four stepdaughters and numerous relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maude Domingus
Dothan
J. L. Domingus
Atlanta
Florida
Ora Hughes
Annie Lou McGuire
Albany, Ga
Buck Hannon
S. W. van Landingham
Lakeland
Fla
S. Appletree Street
L. W. Dockery
First Baptist Church
C. S. Talley
Lafayette Street Methodist Church
Otis Harrison
Bob Martin
J. S. Davis
H. F. McCarty
Oscar Clark
J. E. Ziglar
L C. Ezell
J. LL Vaughn
W.F. Martin
D. M. Jerkins
B OH Lisenby
A. J. Grant
T. H. McIntyre
J T. Botts
I. C Bates
J. J. Newton
W. J Bell
I. P Scarborough
M. Tatum
Araree Jones, Retired Columbia Businessman Dies
Araree Jones age 78, a retired Columbia businessman, died at 8:30 yesterday morning after an apoplectic stroke. He had been in declining health for years and died at home. Survived by son Dc. T. Jones Decatur Alabama and two daughters Mrs N B Smith Florala Alabama and Mrs W W Peterson Columbia. Funeral at Columbia Baptist Church at 3 pm with ministers officiating. Pallbearers named. burial in Columbia Cemetery. Houston Funeral Home in charge.
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Houston County
Araree Jones
Columbia
Jones
Dc. T. Jones
Decatur
Ala
N. B. Smith
Florala
W. W. Peterson
Young Tulsan Fined In Malicious Mischief Case
Homer F. Wilcox Jr and a $75 fine plus $1 costs were imposed after he pleaded guilty in municipal court to malicious mischief for shooting out street lights in Forest Hills Tulsa. The incident occurred Thanksgiving night near a site where a dental student was later killed by Phil Kennamer, a federal judge's son, a coincidence local police found unconnected to Wilcox’s case.
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Tulsa
Okla
Homer F. Wilcox, Jr
Forest Hills
John Gorrell
A. A. Hatch
Phil Kennamer
Franklin E. Kennamer
Kennamer
Dager
Britain Declares War Debt Default. Seeks Settlement Talks
London formally notifies Washington that Great Britain will default on 379 million dollars in war debt installments due Saturday. The note says payments are useless and unwise pending a broader revision, with Finland as the only country expected to pay. The British government says it will monitor for any viable path to negotiations and will consider proposals for Congress.
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Washington
Great Britain
United States
State Department
Finland
Congress
Bond Approval and Scholarships at County Board Meeting
Houston county officials to be inducted January 14 had their bonds approved by the county board. The board ordered equal distribution of the county's insurance among agents and approved several appropriations including $100 for a Rose Bowl booklet project, $40 for the child welfare department, and 50 gallons of gasoline for the health unit dengue control. Lowell Dennis won the county scholarship to the University of Alabama medical school.
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Houston
County Board of Revenue
H. K. Martin
Lowell Dennis
University of Alabama Medical School
Pasadena
Calif
Child Welfare Department
Paraguayans Push to Cut Bolivian Nerve Center at Villa Montes
AP dispatches from Asuncion and La Paz say Paraguayan forces advanced to bypass the Bolivian line and sever communications. Both sides claim key gains with Paraguayans capturing Picuiba, opening access toward the northwest Chaco and the Villa Montes communications hub.
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Associated Press
Asuncion
la Paz
Picuiba
Chaco Boreal
Piculba
Chaco Horeas
Villa Montes
Forty Nine More Face Trial as Red Rule Enemies
MOSCOW December 11 Forty nine more persons were ordered to trial for their lives before the military collegium of the Supreme Court on charges of promoting terroristic action against Soviet officials. This brings to 120 the total of White Guards tried on the same charge since the assassination of Sergei Kirov in Leningrad. New arrests were made in Ukraine where 37 were held and in White Russia where 12 were arrested last Friday.
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Moscow
Supreme Court
Sergei Kiroff
Leningrad
Ukraine
White Russia
Lenold Nico- Heff
Kiroff
J. W. Dozier Dies Sudden in Dothan Store at 79
J. W. Dozier, a longtime Dothan grocer and LaFayette Street Church organizer, died of a heart attack while seated in R. L. Cox’s East Main Street store. He was 79, retired two months ago, and survived by his wife, three daughters, two sons, a stepdaughter, a stepson, and a brother. Funeral at LaFayette Street Methodist Church with burial in city cemetery. pallbearers listed.
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J. W. Dozier
Dothan
R. L. Cox
East Main Street
Mr. Dozier
South Appletree Street
LaFayette Street
C. &. Talley
L. W. Dockery
First Baptist Church
Dowling and Griffin
G. W. Clark
C. W. Evans
R. L. James
Miami
Alva Dozier
West Palm Beach
Paul
Earl Patterson
Howard Weed
Jacksonville
Fla
W. W. Dozier
Americus
J. E. Ziglar
Abbott Burdeshaw
Jack Kingery
A. B. Blount
H. T. Scarbrough
Drew Holland
W. T.singletary
O. L. Tompkins
J. K. Whiddon
Frank Newton
Wade Griffin
I. L. Skyler
E. F. Moody
Bob Cox
M. §. Spann
J. FE. J. Holland
Wyatt Gregory
Bruce Page
O. M. Murphy
E. T. Riley
LC. Ezed
S$. Lisenby
M. Tatum
I. T. Merrill
Meyer Blumberg
W. E. Ivey
Floyd McCarty
C. L. Morgan
Frank Jones
J. K. Craughon
Taylor Hicks
Theo Senn
Grady Gilstrap
B. J. Wiliams
Alex Ross
J. G. Owens
Governor refuses extra legislature call for relief funds
Alabama Governor B M Miller declined Harry Hopkins request for a special session to secure 3.55 million dollars for school operations. Legislators meet regular session January 8 with new administration starting January 15. Hopkins reaffirmed federal role begins after state exhausts resources and that primary school responsibility rests with states.
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Montgomery
Alabama
Harry L. Hopkins
B. M. Miller
Hopkins
Miller
War cloud lifted as world league helps resolve Yugoslav Hungarian dispute
In Geneva the League of Nations secured consent from Hungary and Yugoslavia on a resolution deploring the assassination of King Alexander. The council will form a committee of experts to draft an international convention to repress political conspiracies and crimes. The Saar plebiscite policing issue was settled, with Franco-German financial arrangements aiding the vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph E. Shafkey
Associated Press
Geneva
Dec. WA
League of Nations
League
Saar Basin
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Alexander
Marseille
Budapest
Headland Native Victim Of Wreck
Roy Edgar McKnight 40 of Headland died from a fractured skull after the Atlantic Coast Line Southland wreck at Forrester Florida on December 3. The fireman died instantly. the engineer died days later. Several others injured remained in Thomasville infirmary. Funeral at Headland Methodist Church with burial in Headland Cemetery.
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Atlantic Coast’ Line
Southland
Forister
Fla
Roy Edgar McKnight
Headland
Thomasville
McKnight
American Railway Express Co
Thomanville Infirmary
Express Company
Headland Methodist Church
Daniel W. McKnight
Tolle McKnight
Abbeville
James F. McKnight
C. C. McKnight
Hartshoro
A. W. Roney
Dot- Fice
Lois McKnight
Am erican Dies as Cuban Liner Crashes Hill
A Havana Santiago passenger plane crashed in the hills of Oriente province killing four, including American George H. Bunker of Yonkers New York, 47, vice president of Guantanamo Sugar Co., and pilots Torres Navarro and Emeterio Vorilis.
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Havana
Havana-Santiago
Oriente Province
George H. Bunker
Yonkers
N. Y
Guantanamo Sugar Company
Torres Navarro
Emeterio Vorilis
Farm Credit Leaders Urge Continued Debt Relief Policy
Nashville, Tenn. AP says W I Myers of the Farm Credit Administration warns that emergency refinancing of farm debts should continue while creditors seek liquidation, but opposes government subsidy as a permanent policy. Chester C. Davis of the AAA defends the cotton program amid export market concerns and foreign exchange restrictions.
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Nashville
Tenn
W. I. Myers
Farm Credit Administration
Chester C. Davis
AAA
Davis
Power executive mum on rate cut in Alabama hearing
W. M. Stanley vice president of Alabama Power told the Alabama Public Service Commission they are not in a position today to state what they will do about TVA rate reductions. He cited ongoing exhibits on TVA property sales and pledged to rely on future study and amicable discussions with the commission. President Hugh White noted national policy pushing cheaper electricity.
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Montgomery
Nec
W. M. Stanley
Alabama Power Company
Alabama Public Service Commission
Toolate
TVA
Stanley
General Conference of
Electric Utilities
Commission
Tennessee Valley
Alabama Mwtihtles Company
Hirmingham Electric Company
Tuskegee Lighting Power Company
Chickasaw Utility Company
Wedell Power Comany
Riveria Utility Corporation
Tallansee Milla Power Company
Fairfield Utility Company
Birmingham
Hugh White
North
Alabama
Distress Call From Gatun Intercepted Near Cuba
Coast Guard headquarters says a distress call from steamship Gatun near Bahia Honda Cuba was intercepted. Cutter Yankee was ordered from Key West Florida to aid the Gatun.
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Mobile
Coast Guard
Cuba
Bahia Honda
Quintuplets Birth Told By Dionne Doctor At Carnegie Hall
Dr Allan Roy Dafoe described the Dionne quintuplets birth as a modern fairy tale with a medical flavor to a 3,000 strong Carnegie Hall audience. He recounted the dramatic May 28 scene at the Dionne home with two neighbors acting as midwives and his swift, reluctant baptism of the infants before seeking a priest as the mother improved within hours.
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Tom Hagenbuch
New York
Allan Roy Dafoe
Carnegie Hall
Dionne
Byrns Leads Field in Battle for Speakership
Joseph W Byrns, a Tennessee representative and longtime Democratic leader, leads the race for the speakership of the second Roosevelt Congress. The Pennsylvania delegation’s backing strengthens Byrns’s bid, while Rayburn Bankhead trail as other contenders remain in the race.
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Joe Byrns
Cecil Dickson Washington
Joseph W. Burns
Roosevelt Congress
Black
Ayrns
Pennsylvania
Byons
Roosevelt
Tennessee
Byrns
Accret
Guffey
Dyrna
Sam Rayburn
Texas
William F. Bankhead
Alabama
Kyrna
House
Democratic Congressional Committee
Be Wonme House
Noor
John W. McCormack
Massachusetts
James M. Mead
John J. O'Connor
Newark
Arthur H. Greenwood
Indiana
Willam W. Arnold
Illinois
Second Death Feared After Fire at Atlantic Ray Plant
Baltimore authorities feared a second death after a blaze tore through the four story Atlantic Ray company factory. Fireman Thomas Fahey, 46, trapped with 11 others, faced fatal injuries from skull fracture and exposure. Edward Rithmiller died en route to hospital and 11 more firefighters were treated for injuries.
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Baltimore
Atlantic Ray Company
Thomas Fahey
Edward Rithmiller
Exiled Cuban Dictator Lands on German Soil
Gerardo Machado former president of Cuba disembarked from the Frida Horn in Hamburg seeking weeks in Germany before Italy. The Cuban legation in Berlin could take no action as it awaited Cuba guidance amid extradition efforts over murder charges.
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Hamburg
Gerardo Machado
Cina
U. S
Frida Horn
Germany
Italy
Berlin
General Machado
Cuba
New York
Havana
United States
Dominican Repubiic
December Freeze Grips Wiregrass and Northwest Florida
Forewarned by plummeting temperatures, Wiregrass and Northwest Florida brace for the coldest spell of the season with subfreezing readings down to 25 in Florida. The weather service cautions drains and radiator precautions as a coastal hard freeze is predicted. city pockets report unofficial lows around 23 in Dothan.
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Katherine Lenroot
Lenroot
Wisconsin
Children’s Bureau
Department of Labor
Roosevelt
Grace Abbott
Florida
Weather Bureau
Dothan
H. H W. Brown
Dutch Contingent Heads to Saar Election
Amstermad December 11 AP says two hundred marines will leave Rotterdam Wednesday for the Saar basin to form part of the international army on duty for the January 13 plebiscite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amstermad
Rotterdam
Sanur Basin
International Army
Weather Summary for Alabama and Florida Regions
The forecast calls for fair and continued cold weather with a hard freeze to the coast. Temperatures dip to 20 to 26 degrees in southern areas, around 25 in Florida, tonight. Wednesday brings fair skies with a slowly rising temperature. Tennessee sees fair conditions tonight and Wednesday with gradual warming, especially in the western portion.
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Birmingham
North Alabama
Gulf
Tennessee Valley
Southwie
Selms
Florence
Huntsville
Tuscotoosa
Montgomery
Selman
Mobile
Atlanta
Richmond
Ohio
Michigan
Chicago
Saule Ste. Marie
Mich
Grand Rapids
Kansas City
St. Louis
Hoston
Ami Greenbay
Wis
South
Nashville
Tenn
Vlouteville
Knoxville
Memphis
Little Rock
Tinfeigh
N. C
Shreveport
Macon
Ala
Savannah
Augusta
Jacksonville
Charleston
Miami
N. W. Fla
Florida
Tennessee
West Portion
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Hollywood
Cal
Will Rogers
Young Tulsan
London
Okehed
Board of Revenue
World League
League Council
Roy McKnight
FCA
Myers
Feta
Tion
Mercury
Saulte Ste. Marie
Saar
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