Wallace Warns Against Low Prices To Hold Markets
Secretary Wallace told President Roosevelt that America should not keep farm prices low to preserve export markets. He argued production control is needed to match demand and warned against a full return to unregulated cotton production. The report cites gains from 1933-34 and outlines plow-up and Bankhead programs.
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Washington
Wallace
America
Roosevelt
United States
India
Africa
Russia
China
South America
Arkansan Kills Wife Then Shoots Self in Head
Texarkana Arkansas December 12 AP Police report W E Preston 56 shot and killed his wife then drove off neighbors who came to her aid and killed himself with a pistol shot. Neighbors said Preston had been drinking and fired for amusement.
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Texarkana
Ark
W. E. Preston
Preston
Roman Dental Practice Ignores Time in Ancient Skeletons
Naples reporters recount ancient Roman dentistry found on bones dating to the third century B C. Gold caps and fillings remained intact in skeletons as archaeologists study forgotten techniques amid excavation at Fertilina necropolis.
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Naples
Italy
Julius Caesar
Fertilina
Parole Publicity Urged by Crime Parley
At a national crime conference Attorney General Cummings and Joseph B. Keenan urged public release of names of parole sponsors and clemency petitioners. Mayor Frank Hague backed openness, while J Edgar Hoover criticized some parole board decisions amid debate over how much publicity parole cases merit. George Nelson's clemency case drew applause for criticism of leniency.
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Washington
Cummings
National Crime Conference
Joseph B. Keenan
Frank Hague
Jersey City
George
Baby-Face
Houston Schools Will Keep Going
Houston county schools can operate until mid janvier while Alabama lawmakers meet to decide federal or state aid for teachers. Superintendent Solomon Baxter said if the legislature raises funds, schools may run on credit until revenues arrive. teachers have been paid for November and the board would rather suspend rather than leave teachers unpaid.
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Houston County
Alabama
Solomon Baxter
Baxter
Capitol
Houston
Board of Education
Italy reports heavy loss to Abyssinians at Ualual clash
An Italian communique states 110 Ethiopians were killed December 5 at Ualual in Italian Somaliland. No Italian casualties are listed. The report notes rising tensions over the boundary between Ethiopia and Italian possessions in Africa, including Eritrea.
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Rome
Ualual
Italian Somaliland
Italy
Ethiopia
Eritrea
Geneva pool cafe owner suffers stroke in cafe
James McGowan proprietor of a swimming pool and cafe in Geneva Alabama collapsed with a stroke while in his cafe this afternoon. His condition is not yet known.
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Geneva
Ala
James McGowan
Tis
Roosevelt presses laws to end profits from war
President Roosevelt outlined plans to enact legislation this session to remove profits from war and reform military and economic systems. He convened a meeting with Bernard Baruch and Hugh S. Johnson, discussed by high officials, and reappointed General Douglas MacArthur as army chief to help shape the plan.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Bernard Baruch
War Industries Board
Hugh S. Johnson
NRA
Baruch
Douglas MacArthur
Army
Hull
Morgenthau
Dern
Swanson
Perkins
Wallace
Navy
General MacArthur
Joseph B. Baatman
George Peek
Navy Conference Soon to Break Up
London Dec 12 AP The preliminary naval talks among the United States Great Britain and Japan are to adjourn this week British cabinet action to adjourn the stalemated discussions was conveyed to US delegates for approval Adjournment may allow the American group to sail home on the Manhattan Saturday The talks two months long may now be regarded as finished Next step to decide if termination or postponement to a future date.
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London
United States
Great Ritain
Japan
Manhattan
Garrard's Crossroads Confirmed Spelling by Local Assistant
M. L. White of Houston county cotton adjustment confirms Garrard's Crossroads is the correct spelling. He cites the founder's grandson as the authority and locates the community about 12 miles south of Dothan on the Alabama Florida highway.
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Garrard
Garrett’s
M. L. White
Houston County
Mr. White
Business Graphs Show 1934 Recovery Levels
Statisticians say 1934 matched or surpassed 1931 in many measures with year end data. Industrial output nearly equal to last year, but totals rise over 1933 due to 1933 lows from banking crisis. A table lists 1934 steel 25.5 million tons, freight 30.6 million cars, autos 2.8 million, building contracts 1,550 million dollars.
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Claude A. Jagger
Associated Press
New York
Rockies
Rum Runner Mary Kenney Battle Waits At Sea
Coast Guard units including the Champlain and Icarus tail the Canadian steam ship Mary Kenney amid a stalemate on a stormy Atlantic. Officials suspect contraband liquor aboard while the crew reportedly grows hungrier and attempts to avoid tow. Continuous waits and brief wireless updates describe a tense, unresolved standoff.
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New York
Mary Kenney
Atlantic
Coast Guard
Mary Kennedy
Champlain
Icarus
Cadet Killed In Kelly Field Bomber Crash
Cadet Charles Fridge, 24, died when a Kelly Field bomber crashed after its engine failed eighteen miles northeast of Boerne during a cross country flight from San Antonio to Dallas. Cadet Anthony C. Eubanks leaped to safety with a parachute.
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San Antonio
Tex
Charles Fridge
Boerne
Anthony C. Eubanks
Dallas
Alabama Legislature Faces Prohibition and Finance Debates
Alabama's quadrennial legislature opens January 8 amid a heated fight over prohibition and state finances. Governor elect Bibb Graves backs a triple referendum on dry law changes, light wines and beer, and hard liquor, while some lawmakers push to legalize beer early for revenue.
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T. M. Davenport
Associated Press
Alabama
Graves
Bibb Graves
First Cold Snap Casualty Burned Very Seriously
Ashford resident Co. E. Wallace, 36, is Houston county’s first freezing spell victim. He lies in a Dothan hospital with burns from his face to his legs after a gasoline can handed to him near a heater at Jack Pate’s filling station ignited. He was treated on the scene as onlookers smothered flames with coats.
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E. Wallace
Ashford
Houston County
Dothan
Wallace
Hix McCrary Charged With Knife Assault in Texas Jail
Hix McCrary, a Black man, was in Houston county jail today charged with assault with a weapon for an alleged knife attack on Jessie Mae Williams.
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Hix McCrary
Houston County
Jessie Mae Willams
Fire damages apartment. stove connections blamed
Firemen blamed defective stove connections for a blaze that slightly damaged the apartment of O. R. Hipp at 206 West Main Street yesterday afternoon.
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O. R. Hipp
W. Main Street
Fire Charred Hotel Ruins Yield More Bodies To Put Known Death Roster At 22
Michigan officials report 22 dead after fire at Hotel Kerns in Lansing. Among victims are six Michigan legislators. morgue opened as searchers sift debris and bodies pulled from Grand River. Three-way inquiry launched into alarm timing and causes as work continues.
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Lansing
Mich
Kerns
Michigan
Grand River
FE. L. Welch
Dan McCullough
Ingham County
McCullough
William Lesher
Lesher
Oldest Florida licensed car runs in Marianna shop
In Marianna Florida the oldest licensed automobile is a 1908 Chalmers owned by Harry Wille. The vehicle has been converted from a roadster to a runabout for use in Wikies auto repair shop.
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Marianna
Fla
Florida
Harry Wille
Wikies
Farmer Calbreth Arrested After Espy Accident Probe
W A Calbreth, a Headland farmer, was arrested on a highway code violation charge linked to the head-on Alabama Florida highway crash that killed John J Espy. The crash involved Alto V McClenny and C A Stringer, and D P Clark. Calbreth was released on $100 bond to appear in county court the first Monday in January.
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W. A. Calbreth
John J. Espy
Headland
Eapy
Alto V. McClenny
C. A. Stringer
D. P. Clark
Joe
Wallace urges balanced abundance through agriculture program
Secretary Wallace defends the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in Roosevelt’s annual report, calling for balanced abundance by restoring purchasing power and aligning farm output with demand. He warns against overproduction, notes costs beyond money, and emphasizes consumer and national democracy considerations.
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Washington
Wallace
Roosevelt
Department of Agriculture
Vote Urged On Bankhead Act By Houston Farmers
C M Ling, Houston county farm agent, urged all Houston farmers to vote in the Bankhead Cotton Control Act referendum. He stressed the act’s continuance impacts on prices, noting 29 200 bales produced in Houston county and over 30 000 acres rented to the government, with election fairness assured.
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C. M. Ling
Houston County
Houston
Washington
Ling
Escape of Communist Horde Strains Chinese Accord
Hong Kong dispatch reports 69,000 Chinese Communist escapees from Western Kweichow province threaten the recent peaceful settlement between the Nanking Nationalist government and Canton. A telegram quoted Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek criticizing Pei Chung-hai, who blamed Nanking military incompetence for the Communist breakout amid a siege by Nationalist forces.
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Hong Kong
Kweichow
Nanking
Canton
Chiang Kak-Shek
Pei Chung-Hai
Kwangs Province
Pei Chung-Hsi
Chiang Kai-Shek
Intense Cold Grips Wiregrass and Miami Shivers
Unseasonably cold weather grips Wiregrass and northwest Florida with 30.4 F in Miami and 20 F readings elsewhere. Forecast calls for 10 F near regions tomorrow as residents brace for continued freezing conditions and rural areas prepare for hog killing and related farm activity.
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Florida
Alabama Faces Coldest Weather of the Season
Dec 12 report from Birmingham notes ice bound conditions across the Sand Mountains to the Gulf with record low minimums in Huntsville 10 and Florence 14. Birmingham 17 and Tuscaloosa 16, Montgomery 20, Selma 20. Frost blankets state. no fatalities reported amid early snow reaching deep into Florida.
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Alibama
Sand Mountains
Gulf
Huntsville
Alabama
Huntaville
Florence
Tuscaloosa
Black Belt
Montgomery
Selma
Florida
Page Bix
Flying Arrow to serve Dothan on tri weekly schedule
Atlantic Coast Line announces the Flying Arrow rocket train service from Chicago to Jacksonville with tri weekly runs starting January 2. It will pass through Dothan at 2 20 p m on northbound trips and continues to Montgomery and Jacksonville with stops at Troy Dothan Bainbridge Thomasville Valdosta and Waycross.
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Jacksoville
Alantic Coast Line Railroad
Pennsylvania
L. Arid N
Troy
Dothan
Bainbridge
Thomasville
Valdosta
Waycross
Weather Forecast for South Florida and Tennessee
Fair, slow rising temperatures tonight with lows around 32 degrees in southern parts. Thursday brings partly cloudy skies and warmer air. Northwest Florida remains fair and cold with frost tonight but warms up. Tennessee sees fair conditions tonight and Thursday with gradual temperature rise.
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Rortion
Tennessee
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