Roosevelt plans for 1935 unfold in retail talks
President Roosevelt's plans for 1935 moved toward broader government business pacts in the power industry. Officials disclosed that leaders of major utilities met with the White House to discuss capital structure, rates, and a possible peaceful approach to the Tennessee Valley Authority. Edison Electric Institute members indicated no push to sue the TVA constitutionality, while executives like Ed Carlisle of Hudson and Hudson Co and Preston Arkwright of Georgia Power joined discussions. The White House signaled support for investment measures over recoverable reproduction costs, amid continued TVA criticism as unconstitutional. TVA urged Alabama cities to begin their own electric distribution systems.
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Roosevelt
Agd
Asee Valley Authority
White House
Sat
Washington Post
Edison Electric Instlan Association of Utiliies
TVA
Ed Carlisle
Ara and Hudson Company
Roosevelt Yester
Wendell Wilkie
Commonwealth and Southern
Preston Arkwright
Georgia Power Company
Tax deadline enforces penalties on delinquents
Washington AP reports the tax deadline looms for income tax payments with penalties for late remittance. The treasury cites totals of about 60 million dollars due this fiscal year, with varying quarterly and monthly receipts and penalties for late fourth quarter payments.
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Washington
Treasury
Will Rogers on aviation and war from Kitty Hawk
Hollywood columnist Will Rogers recalls the Wright brothers flight at Kitty Hawk, calling aviation a potential equalizer and predicting its impact on war and world maps. He argues aeroplanes could even out power between nations and mentions profits and peacetime use.
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Hollywood
Cal
Wrights
Kittynk
Aviaon
Switzerland
Long's Yes Men Called To Third Special Assembly
Huey Long's influence prompts Governor Allen to summon a special Louisiana Legislature session at 8 p.m. Sunday for a third extraordinary meeting this year. The agenda includes revising the liquor law, reallocating surplus funds, supervising pensions, funding unemployment relief, and repealing a Pullman car light tax clause. The session is set for up to 12 days but expected to last five.
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Baton Rouge
Huey Long
O. K. Allen
Louisiana
Long
Unemployment Relief Commission
Allen
Allan
Italo Ethiopian Imbroglio Gives League Headache
Geneva dispatch reports Abyssinia protests Italian frontier aggression along the Somaliland Ethiopia border. The Ethiopian telegram to the League says the gravity of the situation. no appeal for action was made. Officials anticipate League Council consideration at January 11.
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Italy
Abyssinia
League of Nations
League of
Ethiopia
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League Council
Saar Basin
Haile Selassie
Used boiler for city power plant declared excellent
The city council bought a used boiler from Orlando, Florida, for 2500 dollars with total costs up to 3000 dollars including freight and installation. R J Goodwin, superintendent of the Dothan plant, said the unit is in excellent condition after eight years of use. Ratification of the purchase will be sought at the regular Monday night meeting, with five council members voting in favor.
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City Council
Orlando
Fila
Municipal Light and Water
R. J. Goodwin
Dothan
Last Tom Car of Season Will Load Wednesday
The last turkey car of the season will be loaded next Wednesday by farmers in cooperation with the Houston County Farmers' Exchange. Prices paid at the car on N Andrews Street list 18 cents a pound for No Ones, 13 cents for old Toms, and 10 cents for culls.
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Houston County Farmers’ Exchange
N. St. Andrews Street
President's Son Cleared of Insubordination in Spain
Luis Alcala Zamora, son of President Niceto Alcala Zamora and corporal in the Soanieh army, was acquitted by a court martial of insubordination. The military prosecutor said Zamora committed no crime, only an indiscretion, and the tribunal halted further proceedings.
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Jaca
Spain
Luis Alcala Zamora
Niceto Alcala Zamora
Soanieh
Zamora
Graves promises Alabama schools will stay open
Governor-elect Bibb Graves pledges that Alabama public schools already closed will reopen Monday and stay open. He secured federal relief funds from Federal Relief Administrator Hopkins, with relief expected at least until March, to cover the state’s distressed school system. Officials say Graves hinted of seeking legislature action to ensure Alabama’s share of relief costs.
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Montgomery
Washington
Alabama
Bibb Graves
Hopkins
Graves
Escambia County
Education Department
Campbellton Trucker Killed Under Logs At Plant
Campbellton trucker known as Kid Mayo, age about 35, was crushed when logs and blocks slipped at Rex Lumber Company in Graceville. A fellow driver found Mayo near midnight, with authorities believing the accident occurred around 1 AM. Survived by Mrs Mayo and Mayo’s parents. Body to be sent to Campbellton for funeral.
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Graceville
Fla
Kid” Mayo
Campbellton
Cab Powell
Rex Lumber Company
Mayo
Yawning Woman in Illinois May Become Sneezing Case
In Round Grove Illinois on December 15 AP reports doctors monitor Mrs Harold McKee 35 as yawning continues. Physicians recall a Chicago cited case of a 15 year old girl who yawned after a tooth extraction, yawned for days and then sneezed before yawning again.
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Round Grove
Harold McKee
Chicago
Morris Fishbein
Journal of the American Medical Association
Daya
OConnor Leadership Victory Claimed in House Fight
Washington December 15 AP backers of Representative OConnor of New York said 10 Tammany members agreed to back him for Democratic leader of the House. Bloom said OConnor had nationwide support while Vinson predicted Bankhead would win and OConnor would become House rules committee chairman.
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Washington
Representative O'Connor
New York
Tammany Group
House
Representative Bloom
O'Connor
Representative Vinson
Georgia
Representative Bankhead
Alabama
House Rules Committee
Miller forwards list of federal beer tax payers
Montgomery Dec 15 Governor Miller sent a list of approximately 2600 Alabama liquor licensees to county sheriffs and solicitors with a call to enforce state prohibition laws. The list from Harwell G. Davis shows licenses by county and notes the $25 stamp as prima facie evidence of violation. Miller emphasized duty and opposes any post office retirement changes.
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Montgomery
Alabama
B. M. Miller
Miller
Harwell G. Davis
Federal
Internal Revenue
Davis
Steagall to visit with VFW veterans in Dothan
VFW Wiregrass Post 3073 to receive its charter with U S Representative Henry B Steagall and Department leaders Bunkley of Mobile and Joyner of Montgomery attending. A 6 pm dinner and 8 pm auditorium charter presentation are open to the public as part of a statewide inspection and membership drive by VFW posts nationwide.
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V. S
Henry B. Steagall
Rank Bunkley
Mobile
John B. Joyner
Montgomery
Dothan
Wiregrass Post 3073
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Carl B. Sellers
Bunkley
V.flw
Sellers
Joyner
V. F. W. Posta
Capitol Closed for Christmas Recess in Montgomery
Governor Miller announced the state capitol will close from noon December 22 and reopen the morning of December 27 for the Christmas holidays.
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State Capitol
Montgomery
B. M. Miller
Senators Seek Disclosure On War Industry Plans
Washington Dec 15 AP A Senate munitions committee session focused on a secret army plan to mobilize industry for war. Investigators question if public disclosure endangers defense while noting the plan could profit major firms and involve reserve officers in wartime contracting. Secretary Dern promised access to secret plans but avoided responsibility for disclosure.
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Washington
United States Army
Senate Munitions Committee
Dern
Army
Congress
Surrogate Denies Vanderbilt Plea for Guardian
In New York on December 15 AP says Surrogate James A. Foley refused to appoint Mrs Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt as personal guardian of her heiress daughter Gloria 10. The decision follows Justice John F Carews custody ruling making Gloria a ward of the Supreme Court and designating principal custody to Mrs Harry Payne Whitney. Foley set January 3 1935 for a future hearing on Mrs Vanderbilt’s bid to be co guardian of Gloria’s estate estimated at 3 800 000 dollars.
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Mrs. Vanderbilt
Gloria
Lokey Buys Burned Headland Ice Plant
Vo C Lokey operator of Lokey Ice Co bought the Headland Ice Co today and announced the plant would operate by the first of next year. The Headland plant was destroyed by fire last June.
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Vo. C. Lokey
Lokey Ice Co
Headland Ice Co
Re Jast
Payroll totals for relief office and work relief
The report shows a total payroll of 1 230 470 dollars for the local Federal Emergency Relief Administration office and work relief for the past week. Relief roll workers received 745 95 dollars and white collar workers and professional employees 429 57 dollars.
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Federal Emergency Relief Administration Office
Earthquakes Reported in Santa Rita and Copan
Four earthquakes at Santa Rita and three at Copan were reported in dispatches received today from those places.
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Hoduran
Santa Rita
Copan
Seventeen Men Die Trying To Rescue Usworth Crew
LIVERPOOL December 15 AP Seventeen men perished during attempts to rescue the crew of the British freighter Usworth as hurricane force seas wrecked the ships involved. The Ascania and Jean Jadot rescued survivors while the Usworth drifted helplessly, with many crew still aboard as rescue efforts continued amid raging storms.
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Usworth
Canani-White Star Line
Ascania
Jean Jadot
Sadie Gonthier
Associated Press
Gonthier
Wisworth
Ashworth'a
Landslide to Preserve Bankhead Cotton Act Across States
The Bankhead Cotton Control Act faced overwhelming support as Farmers across 17 states voted to continue compulsory control for another year. In Alabama’s Wiregrass and Northwest Florida strong majorities backed the measure, with precise county tallies showing wide margins and a national tally surpassing nine to one.
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Alabama
Florida
South
Associated Press
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Henry County
Dale County
Geneva County
Coffee County
Jackson County
Washington County
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Roosevelt
Wallace
Bankhead
Dothan Toy Ball Seeks Help For Tiny Tim This Christmas
In Dothan the annual Christmas Toy Ball at the Elk's Club raffles admission as gifts of toys clothing or food. Tiny Tim, a neighbor child crippled by infantile paralysis for five years, hopes for toys and care as hundreds of needy youngsters are remembered on Christmas Day.
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Charles Dickens
Dothan
Charles Dicken
Tim
Elk's Club
Wiregrass Post of
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Eight Houston Farmers and Agent Attend Birmingham Meeting
Eight Houston county farmers and County Agent C. M. Ling will form a delegation to a joint conference of agricultural and industrial leaders in Birmingham on Tuesday. They will be guests of Birmingham business men and board a special train to tour industrial sites. Delegates include J. B. Patterson M. M. Fallon Clyde Hall James L. Kelly H. H. Knowles W. E. Bolle Werke Ivey and Wiley R. Deal.
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Houston County
C. M. Ling
Birmingham
Birringham
Ling
J. B. Patterson
M. M. Fallin
Clyde Hall
James L. Kelly
HH. DD
Knowles
W. BE. Bole
Werke Ivey
Wiley R. Deal
Houston Citizens Urged to Press War on Rats
Houston health officer Dr. F G Granger urged continued rodent destruction as rats rise again after relief projects ended. He warned that increased rats could bring a Brille's fever resurgence, noting widespread rodent control had previously reduced cases and traps were still needed.
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Houston
Houston County
F. G. Granger
Houston Countania
Brille
Dr. Granger
Bank Robbery Rattles North Fairfield Hamlet
A gang of burglars shut the village of North Fairfield from the outside world before dawn, blasting the local bank with seven high explosive charges and fleeing with about $2,000. Residents were kept indoors as gunfire and damaged lines delayed outside help.
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Jameon Garrett
Weven Gshota
Garrett
Pang
Hnemen
James M'Gowan Funeral Held in Geneva
Funeral services for James de Gowan 65 who died after a paralytic stroke were conducted Friday at 2 30 PM in Geneva Euntolia Cemetery with Rev Tomhberlin officiating A Baptist church member and prominent cafe owner he is survived by his wife two sons three daughters two sisters two brothers and a half brother all of Geneva or nearby Florida homes were noted as survivors.
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James de Gowan
Euntolia Cemetery
Tomhberlin
Fe Wr
The
Baptist Church
Jim Austin
Kelsey City
Fla
K. Williams
Orlando
Fia
Charles
Jumpsey
Tom Britt
Burns From Fireworks Hurt Geneva Lad
Geneva, Dec. 15. A boy Cecil Johnson, 4, was burned on the left leg when a package of Christmas sparklers ignited in his pocket this morning. He was taken to Nathan hospital this afternoon and his condition is not serious.
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Geneva
Cecil Johnson
Nathan
Weather Summary for Central and East Gulf States
Fair to partly cloudy and slightly warmer tonight. Sunday brings increasing cloudiness and warmer conditions. Showers expected Sunday night or Monday. Central and East Gulf States forecast considerable cloudiness and unsettled weather through the week with local showers at the start and again later. Temperatures mainly above normal.
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Ala
Florida
Central
East Gulf
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