Snow Blanket Covers South Records Broken Across States
The dec 23 weather bulletin reports a sleet storm overnight near Dothan followed by heavy rain and rapidly falling temperatures. Snow totals reach 17 inches near Eldorado Arkansas, with 30 miles from Mobile Alabama showing 4 to 5 inches. ice and power outages disrupt travel and communications across the southern region. Florida enjoys 70 degree warmth while northern areas face frozen conditions and scattered blizzards.
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Aviators Above New York Talk Over Telephone
A Leviathan 700 miles at sea and a Ford tri motor plane 3000 feet above Manhattan tested radio telephone links. Ball Laboratory engineers and two reporters spoke with Commodore Harry Cunningham aboard the liner as a plane relayed signals via land wires and radio through Whippany Deal Forked River and back. Power for the plane’s equipment came from its own motor as special mouthpieces reduced motor noise.
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Leviathan
Manhattan
Ball Telephone Laboratories
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Berngard
Whippany
N. J
Telephone Company
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Peace protocol ends Manchurian railway dispute
Moscow and Mukden announce a protocol restoring the status quo on the Chinese Eastern Railway and immediate resumption of consular and commercial relations. Troops will withdraw, arrests related to the dispute released, and Russians disarmed and deported by the Chinese. A conference on January 25 will arrange formal relations. joint railway operation to begin per 1924 Peking-Mukden accords.
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Tzai-Yun-Shen
Mukden
Khabarovsk
Siberia
Hig
Harbin
Peking-Mukden
China
Russia
Manchuria
Trans Atlantic Aviators On Way To Montevideo
Dec 23 Rio news reports Aeroportal Company plane took off at 6 02 am carrying Major Tado Larre Barges and Lieutenant Leon Challe bound for Montevideo Uruguay. They arrived from Natal in northeastern Brazil near a prior crash at end of a trans Atlantic flight from Seville.
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Rio
Men Arrested After Collision On Campbellton Road
Police say two men named Johnson and McKay were arrested on minor charges after an alleged collision with Teddy Riley’s car on Campbellton road Saturday night. The suspects suffered minor facial cuts. Riley and his occupants had no reported injuries.
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McKay
Teddy Riley
Campbellton Road
Riley
Judge McCormick condemns illegal methods in prohibition
Los Angeles dispatch reports Judge Paul J. McCormick of Hoover Commission protests illegal enforcement practices. He cites home searches without warrants as a violation of constitutional rights and calls for ending third degree methods. He also criticizes outdated enforcement machinery and urges reform.
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Los Angeles
Hoover
Law Enforcement Commission
Paul J. McCormick
McCormick
Solons Question Future of Railroad Consolidation Plan
Harvard economist Professor Ripley denounces the interstate commerce commission plan for railroad consolidation as failing to ensure operating efficiency or financial equality. The 19 competing units, regional lines, and fixed territories are criticized as impractical and inequitable.
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Would Bell the Cat Movement Aims at Coconut Grove Cats
Miami effort to protect birds calls for belting all cats in Coconut Grove a Miami suburb as residents react to wildlife concerns.
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Fla
Coconut Grove
Defendants in Avant case released on bond
The Eagle reports that the tour de defendants in the Avant case were released on bond at 3 o clock yesterday afternoon, their first freedom since arrest weeks ago for murders involving Slocum High principal Dr. G W Smith and his son Clyde Smith. Rantal Jones and Charlie Brown were freed on bonds of 1000 and 500 respectively. A judge ordered resentencing after appeals actions, with Attorney General C C McCall filing the case. Dr Smith declined to comment. Berlin dirigible Zeppelins news follows.
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Orme
Dike
Unknown historical note from Houston county
Fragmentary OCR text references a 1929 date in Houston county with garbled names and phrases. Readable elements mention a person, a place, and a compare or event but the exact action, context, and identities are unclear.
Attempted jail break foiled by two officers
Deputy Walter Cameron stopped a rush by fourteen Negro prisoners at the county jail when he blocked the door with a heavy revolver. Jailer Howard Rogers and guard Flournoy countered the escape attempt as prisoners tried to reach the front door. Flourney led the assault, claiming no escape plan, while Rogers says the group merely rushed him. Kansas plans road improvements estimated at 500,000 dollars in 192.
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Howard Rogers
Roggers
Norma Flournoy
Cameron
Flournox
Rogers
Flourrey
Cameron Wain
Flournoy
Bogers
Bay Linz Proposes Replacing Trains with Buses Hearing Set
A Bay Linz plan to replace passenger trains with buses faces a January 14 hearing in Dothan. The commission announced the petition details and a public session to weigh the proposed service discontinuance affecting routes through Alabama and Florida.
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Bay Linz
Ther Lake
Florida
Dothan
Negro Home Damaged By Fire Last Night
Fire damaged a black preacher named Austin’s home on East Adame Street around 10:30 last night. Firemen report the blaze likely started when a piece of clothing landed on a bed torch. the home next to the bed being burned, with wall damage and water in the room.
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Negro
Austin
East Adame Street
Ts. Giremes
Sethouf
Debate over Hoover links to Cuban sugar tariff dispute
In Washington a dispute erupts between Republicans and Democrats over President Hoover’s role in Cuban sugar interests. Wood of Indiana defends Hoover against Garner of Texas who calls for Hoover to issue a full White House statement. The clash centers on testimony before the Senate lobby committee and alleged White House contact via secretary Walter Newton.
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Hoover
National Republican Congressional Committee
Buronu
Democratic National Committee
Representative Wood
Indiana
Garir
Texas
House
Hover
H. C. Lukin
Cuba Company
Senate
Edwin 2
Thateak
New York
Hing
Shattuck
Ways and Means Committee
Wood
Liouver
Garner
White
Merchandise Given to The Salvation Army
Morgan Rogers Jr a student at a private school in Todlidegs was brought to the Salvation Army by his father Saturday to spend the holiday period before returning to resume his studies.
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Salvation Army
Muargers
Wiate Sete
Todlidegs
Eie
Catton futures open steady with mixed bids
New Orleans futures market reports Catton contracts opening steady with January 10.99, March 17.21, May 27.49, July 17.04, October 17.55, December 16.89 bid. The item notes the initial price levels and bids for the upcoming contract months.
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Nec
O— Catton
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