Roosevelt Proposes Enlarged Work Relief Plan in State of the Union
President Roosevelt urges Congress to replace dole with a broad work relief program. He calls for 10 000 unemployed to work on rural clearance and public works, and outlines a national chart for unemployment and old age insurance. The speech also seeks consolidation of federal revenue, NRA reforms, and gradual expansion of emergency credit.
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Washington
D. C
Congress
Roosevelt
Senate
Emericy Credit
John N. Garner
Joseph W. Burns
Vickers Succumbs After Long Illness at Midland City Home
Vickers, 70, died at his home on Route 1 Midland City after an 11 week illness. He is survived by his wife and children and several grandchildren. Funeral services set for 10 a m at Midland City with Rev Peter Bald officiating and Houston at home in charge.
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Vickers
Ordon Route
oNowing
Four Hatcher
Jesse Vickers
Young Vickers
Columbus
Alto Vickers
Donalson- Ga
Haewis
Midland City
Wilentley
Kizziees
Mississippi
E Lee
Phyllis Jean Vickif Gordon
Ieral
Howell Passes Auto Footballs Back to Friends
Arizona Texas or Arkansas hear something whizzing over heads it won't be a plane. Howell passes footballs back to friends in Missouri.
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Arizona
Texas
Arkansas
Howell
Oosa
Houston County Schools Hope for Outside Aid
Houston county schools will operate beyond the mid term awaiting federal or state help as state education officials advise preserving morale. Superintendent Solomon Baxter said funds on hand cover payroll through the mid term and that salaries would be provided if aid is found.
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Houston County
Solomon Baxter
Baxter
Meeting at Berlin Opera Sparks Nazi Rumors and Solidarity Show
Berlin reports a sudden Nazi meeting at the state opera house drew 2,000 attendees including cabinet members and top military and security chiefs. Hitler denounced emigre rumors while officials described the gathering as a display of Nazi solidarity amid speculation of possible military plans and Saar plebiscite implications.
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A. D. Stefferud
Associated Press
Berlin
Hitler
Reichswehr
Schutz Staffel
Saar
Germany
Reich
Opera House
Reichfeld
Mrs Hannah E Ashley 83 Dies After Brief Illness
Mrs Hannah Elizabeth Ashley 83 died at her Ashford home at 10 p m after a week of illness. A lifelong Ashford resident and Bluff Springs Baptist member, she was survived by husband O H Ashley three daughters Mrs John Dickens Gordon and Mrs J W Bruner and Mrs J W Buckharl of Ashford and sister Mrs Joe Chandler Port St Joe Fla Funeral at Bluff Springs Church 3 p m today with Rev Joe White officiating Fellows and Forrester in charge.
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Hannah Elizabeth Ashley
Ashford
Bluff Springs
Bluff Springs Church
Joe White
Fellows
Forrester
Wets Will Cling To Graves State Referenda Plans
J Sanford Mullins Alabama League for Prohibition Repeal says the group will oppose any legislative steps to alter bone dry laws before a statewide referendum called for by Governor-Elect Bibb Graves. The league will cooperate with Graves and avoid local options until voter expression. Campaign HQ planned in Montgomery with Alabama Temperance Alliance directing statewide organization led by H In Anderton.
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Montgomery
J. Sanford Mullins
Alabama League For Prohibition Repeal
Bibb Graves
Graves
Mullins
Against Repeal
Alabama Temperance Alliance
H. In Anderton
Birmingham
Forty Red Shirts Held for Churchyard Slayings in Mexico City
Forty members of the Red Shirts organization were ordered imprisoned pending trial for the Sunday slaying of five Catholics outside a suburban Mexico City church. Twenty five others were released and two men charged with lynching a 20 year old Red Shirt faced formal imprisonment. The group, anti religious, claimed innocence and circulated leaflets to defend their stance.
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Mexvico
D. F
Redshirt Young Revolutionaries Organization
Federal Penitentiary
Rafael Encisco
Coyoacan
Supreme Court Asked to Rule on NRA Constitutional Validity
The government appealed to the Supreme Court from Judge Grubb of Birmingham Alabama who ruled the NRA industrial recovery act and the lumber code invalid. The appeal seeks a ruling on section 3 of the act penalizing code violations affecting interstate commerce in the case involving William E Belcher a timber producer and lumber manufacturer charged with overlong hours and underpaid workers.
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Washington
NRA
Supreme Court
Justice Department
Federal District
W. S. Grubb
Birmingham
Ala
Congress
Grubb
High Court
William E. Belcher
Belcher
Oil Plant Hands Battle Long Tax Imperilling Jobs
Baton Rouge reports a mass meeting of oil refinery workers opposed to Huey P Long’s five cent per barrel tax. Long moves to buy radio station WDSU in New Orleans for LSU, amid appeals to President Roosevelt for aid.
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Baton Rouge
Huey P. Long
WDSU
New Orleans
Louisiana State University
Standard Oil Company
Roosevelt
Huey Long
Long
Fnal
James M. Smith
Marion J. Smith Dies at Ashford Home Age 63
Marion J. Smith prominent in civic affairs the Masonic lodge and the Baptist church died at the family home on Ashford route 1. He was 63 a lifelong Houston County farmer survived by wife two sons and a daughter funeral at Union Hill Church with Masonic services and burial at the church cemetery. Dowling Griffin Inc. arranged.
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Marion J. Smith
Ashford
Route 1
Mr. Smith
Houston County
A. W. Smith
J. E. Smith
Route
Della Bigbee
Howard Davis
O. M. Murphy
Owens
Union Hill Church
Dothan Masonic Lodge
Ashford and Cottonwood
Dowling- Griffin, Inc
Six Convictions In Sequel To Mass Killing
Kansas City January 4 AP Six persons were convicted in Federal court of arranging the delivery plot that killed Frank Nash and four officers at Union Station Plaza on June 17 1933. The jurors deliberated two hours and 12 minutes before returning the verdict at 9 30 this morning. Convicted were Louis Doc Stacei Frank B Fritz Mulloy Richard Tallman Galatas and his wife Elizabeth Gallatas Herbert Allen Farmer and Mrs Esther Farmer. Vivian Mathis pleaded guilty as the trial opened. The judge ordered the four men held for sentencing tomorrow morning while the two women were released on bond.
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Kansas City
Frank Nash
Union Station
Louis
Doc) Stacei
Chicago
Frank B
Fritz) Mulloy
Richard Tallman Galatas
Elizabeth Gallatas
Hot Springs
Ark
Herbert Allen Farmer
Esther Farmer
Joplin
Vivian Mathis
Verne C. Miller
Merril E. Otis
United States
Henry Dillingham
John L Bledsoe: Coffee County’s Oldest Resident
John Larkin Bledsoe of Mt. Pleasant, aged 96, is hailed as Coffee county’s oldest citizen. Born March 17, 1838 in Pike county, he served in the Civil War and was a prisoner for six years. Eight of his ten children survive along with 51 grandchildren. He enjoys cars and the movies and remains engaged in county affairs.
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Coffee County
Californian Seeks $206 Monthly Pensions Under Townsend Plan
Washington January 4 AP reports definite steps to Congress on the Townsend plan to pay $200 monthly pensions to every person over 60. Representative Hoeppel of California says he will introduce a bill to enact the proposal after a House caucus.
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Washington
Congress
House
Hoeppel
California
Will Bankhead Making Time On Recovery Road
Representative Bankhead of Alabama, a Democratic leader, is reported by his family to be improving after illness attributed to a cold and indigestion. He is at Naval Hospital where officials will not disclose his condition. Friends differ on his return to Capitol Hill, with estimates ranging from one week to a month or more.
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Washington
Pankhead
Alabama
Naval Hospital
Bankhead
Capitol Hill
Lindbergh
Reilly
Fiier
Hauptmann
Bettly
Suate
Hopewell
Coleone Lindbergh
Faerlewood
Grove Hill Boy Chosen for Rhodes Scholarship
Birmingham January 4 AP Croom Beatty a Birmingham junior at Sewanee Tennessee and Silas Coma Garrett an ITI Grove Hill senior at the University of Alabama have been named Rhodes scholarship candidates in district competition. The announcement came from Dr Thorge H Denny president of Alabama and committee chair.
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Birmingham
Croom Beatty
Birrmingham
University of the South
Sewanee
Tenn
Silas Coma Garrett
ITI
Grove Hill
University of Alabama
Rhodes
New Orleans
Thorge H. Denny
Lindbergh Trial Hearings Recall Baby's Abduction
Betty Gow, nurse to the Lindbergh child, could not testify after the harrowing recollection of the kidnaping, as Mrs. Lindbergh described the tragedy for forty minutes at the Hauptmann trial.
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Mary Elizabeth Plummer
Associated Press
Flemington
WN. J
Anne Lindbergh
Betty Gow
Anne
Ber
Lindbergh
War debt liquidation noted in year end report
Washington via Charles P. Shaeffer reports that twenty billion dollars of original World War debt has been liquidated, reducing the total war debt to about 25.47 billion by year end 1934, with several Liberty bonds remaining uncalled and a prior peak near 26.6 billion. The debt burden rose during four years of economic malaise while postwar surpluses aided gradual reductions.
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Ury
Liberty
Honda
First Liberty
Pcross
United States
Florida couple first to wed here for 1935
Sterling Lee Hall and Berth Lee Nowell, both of Marianna route 8, became the first couple to obtain an om marriage license in Houston County for 1935. Willie Q. Lararoore and Edna Pyke followed closely, then Ollie J. Lansbury and Finn Mae Gilley secured licenses today. Forty three drivers bought three quarter year plates after New Year.
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Houston County
Sterling Lee Hall
Berth Lee Nowell
Maurianna
Willie QD. Lararoore
Edna Pyke
Altha
Ollie J. Lansbury
Daleville
Finn Mae Gilley
Newton
Missing Heiress To Oil Millionaire Leaves Family Mystery
Texas officers hunted villages for a trace of Mrs. Johnnie Fox Oxford missing since last night. Her husband O. O. Oxford, employed by his father in the oil business, led frantic search efforts. Police described a five foot six inch woman with dark hair, a Nepro car involved, and radio advisories statewide as investigators pursued a kidnapping theory.
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Millville
N. J
District of Columbia
Nellie Queen
Fourth Street
N. W
Washington
D. C
Tyleer
Pex
Texas
Johnnie Fox Oxford
Tyler
O. O. Oxford
Nepro
J. O. Wheelis
Pire
Jane
Wheelig
Wei
John Mesrer
Wheelis
Wrasse
Wheelia
Dothan Faithful Return From Coast Battle
Crowds plan to greet the Dothan faithful arriving from the Rose Bowl trip as Alabama’s team beat Stanford 13 to 10 in Pasadena. Trains carrying returning fans will arrive in Montgomery at 4 45 a m with other travelers arriving later.
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Crthan
Crimson Tide
Stanford Indians
Pasadena
Calif
Wil
Montgomery
Capitol
Golden Arrow Maiden Run Delights Crowd in City
A crowd of about 3,000 gathered as the Golden Arrow passenger flyer halted at the A C L station on its Chicago to Jacksonville maiden run. Delayed by a hot box between Troy and Dothan, the train resumed to Bainbridge, Ga, after Bainbridge its next stop. En route souvenirs of the Wiregrass were distributed to passengers.
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Chicago
Jacksonville
Troy
Dothan
Bainbridge
Weather forecast for interior and coastal regions
Interior forecasts show fair and partly cloudy skies tonight with slightly colder air and frost in southern sections. Northwest areas expected to rise in temperature by Saturday. Northwest Florida limited to partly cloudy conditions with cooler tonight and Saturday, slightly warmer by day. Tennessee regions report fair skies with slightly colder air tonight and becoming warmer by Saturday.
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Ala
Fasr
Liouag
Tennessee
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Mt. Pleasant
Will Bankhead
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Mrs. Lindbergh
Charles P. Shaeffer
America
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William A. Kinney Byright
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Charles A. Lindbergh
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Bronx
Francis M. Stephenson
Golden Arrow
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