Four Dead and Wounded in Holiday Mishaps
Multiple holiday incidents leave four dead and several injured. A Frogtown shooting injures T. M. Spivey of Columbus after a drunk crowd fired at riders. Cloudis Martin near Dothan is in serious condition after a two car collision on Oates street. Police hunt the alleged shooter and investigate the crash cause amid unclear witnesses.
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Cloudis Martin
Oates Street
T. M. Spivey
Columbus
Roy Spivey
Frogtown
Spivey
Near Dothan
C. H. Edwards
Edwards
Martin
Eddie Clark
Dothan
Clark
Russell Parrish
Latness Smith
Christmas toll from Alabama snow and accidents noted
The AP reports a four death Christmas across Alabama from traffic, exposure, and hunting incidents. Windell Herron 74 died after being struck by a train in Cordova. others injured or missing in Jasper Mobile Beloit and Selma. Snow thaw eased roads, but fires and crashes continued.
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Associated Press
Alabama
Windell Herron
Cordova
Jasper
Sanders
Sumston
H. E. Layfield
Mobile Shipyard
Mertz Station
Cottage Hill
Ala
Troy
Selma
Beloit
Roy Sutton
John Dawson
Carbon Hill
Montgomery
Birmingham Fire
Automobile sinks in lagoon after snow obscures road
In Garfield Park Chicago on December 26 Arthur Young his wife and son drove onto a snow filled area misread as road and their car broke through the ice into a lagoon. A tow truck attempting the recovery also sank into the water as it slipped on the slippery surface.
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Chicago
Arthur Young
Garfield Park
Young
Youngs
Presidential Study to Be Used Following Fire
President Hoover will conduct national affairs from the historic Presidential study on the White House second floor after the Christmas Eve fire. Bids are sought for rebuilding headquarters, with operations to move to the adjoining War and Navy Building by week’s end. Experts cite defective wiring as the fire’s cause, with officials preserving presidential files and most furniture at the state building.
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Hoover
White House
Executive Mansion
Adams
Roosevelt
State War and Navy
W. K. Henderson
KWKH
Shreveport
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
Governnor
Alabama
Wall Street
180 Korean Students Arrested by Tokyo Police
Tokyo police arrested 180 Korean students from Tokyo universities amid reports of student unrest with political overtones linked to a secret Communist tendency. In Seoul, over 900 students were arrested on December 9 and many remain under examination.
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Tokyo
Korea
Seoul
Craze strikes Walnut Cove farmer kills wife and six children
A Stokes County farmer Charles D Lawson 43 killed his wife 38 and six children Marie 17 Carrie 14 Mari belief 10 James 7 Raymond 5 and Mary Lou 5 months then died by suicide. Son Arthur 19 was away. Coroner cites brain degeneration observed after a post mortem disproving earlier head injury theory.
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N. C
Stokes County
Marie
Carrie
Maribelief
James
Raymond
Mary Lou
Arthur Lawson
Germantown
C. J. HalSbeck
Madison
Lawson
Halsbeck
Quiet Christmas Reported By City County Officers
Law enforcement officials say Christmas passed with exceptional calm. No arrests for drunkenness. doors of the city jail were opened at midnight Tuesday, allowing inmates to bond themselves out and return home.
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Usua
Joe Rollins
Oscar Clark
Rollins
Clark
Rolling Tree Bears Presents Christmas Train Across Panama City Route
Bay Line Railroad officials treated their employees' children Tuesday with a rolling Christmas tree tour from Panama City to Dothan. Santa Claus appeared at stops to supervise gift distributions, and every child of an employee received a toy.
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Bay Line Railroad Company
Panama City
Dothan
Santa Claus
Santa Claus in Jail Seeks to Deliver Gifts
Chicago December 26 A man calling himself Santa Claus, James Buck, was caught crawling through a window with a pack of gifts. Police officer Buck explained Buck might be Santa to children but was a suspicious character to him. Buck admitted the presents came from Evanston’s best places as he explained the plan.
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Chicago
Santa Claus
James Buck
Mr. Buck
Buck
Rumors of Bribe Shake Mexican Probe on Sandino
Mexico City reports informants accuse General Sandino of accepting a sixty thousand dollar bribe to leave Nicaragua. El Universal cites the Communist Party of Mexico and allied groups claiming they saw a photograph of the check. Sandino is said to have lived in Merida Yucatan with a five officer entourage and vowed to resume resistance.
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Mexico City
Augustino Sandino
Nicaragua
el Universal
Communist Party of Mexico
Anti-Imperialist League
General Sanchxo
Mexico
Merida
Yucatan
Sandino
Ansido
Divorces Rise in Cook County Courts in 1929
Chicago reports 9,669 divorces granted in circuit and superior courts for 1929, up 220 from the prior year. The average is one divorce every 55 minutes, or one per 103 homes, with wives petitioning in about three of four cases for desertion cruelty cited as main causes. Infidelity cited by men in most suits. only about 15 percent of contestants were Native American.
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Chicago
Cook County
Grass Fire at Roy Helma Home Briefly Burns North Oats Street
A grass fire behind Roy Helma’s residence on North Oats Street was extinguished shortly before noon today. Firemen reported one damage incident from the blaze.
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Roy Helma
North Oats Street
Weather Update for Alabama Tonight and Friday
Partly cloudy skies prevail with warmer temperatures tonight in Alabama. Friday shows further warming mainly in the southeast portion with continued pleasant conditions.
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Alabama
Aged Father of Lost Eielson Sates Search Will Continue
Ole Eielson, father of missing Arctic flyer Carl Ben Gielen, plans no defeat. He notes his son may have lived a full life and expects aviation contributions, and if not found by February 1 he will seek Joe Crosson to join a search mission in the Arctic.
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Eielson
Far Northland
NEA Service
Fielson
Mechanic
Siberia
Ben
Arctic
Antarctic
Joe Crosson
Crosson
Fire damages roof at 042 North St. Andrews Street
Firefighters responded to a late afternoon blaze at a Tremnen residence on 042 North St. Andrews Street. The roof suffered a hole from a flying spark. damage amount remains undisclosed.
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Tremnen
Panage
North St. Andrews Street
Fire blamed on defective flue in White House office
Fire that destroyed the White House office on Christmas Eve was traced to a defective and overloaded flue in the office of Walter Newton, one of the President's secretaries, according to the district of Columbia Fire department.
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White House
Washington
Walter Newton
District of Columbia Tire Department
Son of Officer Shot to Death by Coast Guards
Eugene F. Downey Jr., 27, son of Buffalo Police Lieutenant Downey, died after being shot by coast guardsmen aboard the Dodge during a liquor smuggling chase near Buffalo. The Dodge, found empty, drifted to a pier after a high seas pursuit. The shooting, questioned by Medical Examiner Dr. De Moninicis, occurred as three bullets pierced the boat, with speculation over whether Downey stood to reach shore before being hit. Downey had pled not guilty to conspiracy to smuggle liquor and faced $10,000 bail in a case tied to the Parge Loretta operation involving multiple barge captains and Canadian liquor imports forgotten at sea.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Eugene F. Downey, Jr
Eugene F. Downey
Downey
Dodge
Canada
Rocco C. de Moninicis
Richard ¥. Templeton
de Minakis
Thomas J. Riordan
Buffalo Department
Coast
Parge Loretta
Coast Guard
Fort Colborne
Ont
Rasmussen
53 Alcoholic Poisoning Cases Treated At Bellevue Hospital
New York reports 53 cases of alcoholic poisoning treated at Bellevue Hospital over Christmas with no deaths. Three cases worsened, no wood alcohol symptoms observed. Bellevue had 43 cases yesterday and the day before, other city hospitals treated few cases.
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Bellevue Hospital
New York
Hellever
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