Hurricanes Sweep British Isles Amid Disaster Watch
Storms lash the British Isles with hurricane force winds as a record weekend ends. More than 60 vessels report distress while night steamship and air services halt. The Cunard steamer Alaunia aids Tyne Bridge. Britannia runs ashore near Pembroke. Homerte arrives 20 hours late from New York. President Roosevelt reaches Plymouth after fierce winds.
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London
British Isles
Weather Bureau
Cunard
Alaunia
New York
Tynebridge
Bishop’ Rock
Britannia
Linney Head
Saint Gowans
Pembroke
Wales
Milford Haven
Roosevelt
Plymouth
Youth claims he's one who was attacked
Mountain View Ark Dec 9 A young man who says he is Connie Franklin has sung The Lonesome Pine by request of the girl he regards as his fiancée and whose story of his death led to five men being charged with murder. The trial date nears as defense men welcome proceedings.
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Mountain View
Ark
Connie Franklin
Lonesome Pine
Connie
Franklin
Tiller Ruminer
Humphrey
Luncheon at First Church December 11
A lunch event at First Church of Christ on Wednesday December 11 offers cream chicken and hot biscuits from 11 to 1 for 50 cents with a bazaar ongoing all day. Public invited.
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Church of Christ
Pipe Is Used As Weapon In Slaying Of Teacher
Police investigate the slaying of Miss Cordelia Gummersheimer 80 a German and dramatic arts teacher in Rockford Iowa. Fingerprints on a pipe found at the scene are key clues. Neighbors recall visitors as officers review letters telegrams and voices heard between 8 and 9 p m on Saturday. Coroner’s physicians note the light went out around 11 p m.
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Rockford
Cordelia Gummersheimer
Miss Gummershheimer
Four Killed In Weekend Plane Crashes In Florida
Two aviators from St. Louis died when their SealdSweet refueling plane crashed at a Tampa municipal airport in fog with fuel low. The SealdSweet aircraft later burned in a pine woods near Kissimmee. Co-pilot Leonard Carothers and Ry W. Schrock of St. Louis were lightly injured. The crash occurred after takeoff with eighty gallons of fuel and the craft flipped during a turn to gain altitude. Continued on Page Seven.
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A. Dempsey
Stanley Smith
St. Louis
Kissimmie
Plais Pilots
Ry W. Schrock
Chicago
Leonard Carothers
Cedar Rapids
Dempsey
Stith
al- Utude
Carruthers
Schroke
Kissimmee
Page Seven
Settlement of War Debt Considered Tomorrow in House
Washington December 9 President Hoover asked Congress to approve a plan to settle the French war debt. The proposal would provide payment of 4,025,000,008 dollars over 62 years, the only wartime obligation still unpaid, and will be taken up by the House Ways and Means Committee tomorrow.
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Washington
United States
House Ways and Means
Hoover
Chinese Pirates Attack British Ship Off Shanghai
A swarm of pirates seized a British steamship near Shanghai, killing twelve and drowning about sixty passengers as the vessel burned from kerosene fire. Sterling and Sirdar rescued survivors after brave Chinese radio operator held the line and prevented further catastrophe.
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Hongkong
Sterling
Swatow
Rescuers Free Entombed Men In Brock Mine
Rescuers after tunneling 175 feet freed three Continental Coal Brock mine miners near Oaesville Morgantown West Virginia. The men Sam Kratchen James Martindale and Lunier Holt were trapped for 34 hours after a coal fall. Charles Davis aided the final ascent by scraping away coal with his hands.
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Morgantown
Wy Va
Brock
Continental Coal Company
Oaesville
Sam Kratchen
James Martindale
Lunier Holt
Charles Davis
Twin Daughters Born to Princess Zenaida Kin at London
London reports Mrs J C Hanbury Williams formerly Princess Zenaida Catacuzene, granddaughter of General Grant, welcomed twin daughters Friday. The birth highlights a notable lineage amid aristocratic circles.
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London
J. C. Hanbury -Williams
Zenaida
Catacuzene
General Grant
Muniz Goes On Trial In Burl Lambert Death
Miguel Muniz 34 faces murder charges in Harrison County for the death of Burl Lambert 37 of Grafton after injuries from an incident at the Crow's Nest on August 31. The case was severed from co-defendant Lorenzo, whose trial won’t occur this term. Prosecutor Morris outlined the crime with testimony from the road trip and roadhouse stop.
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Dee
Miguel Muniz
Harrison County Criminal Court
Burl Lambert
Grafton
Grafton ’ City Hospital
Muniz
Louis Lorenzo
Crow's Nest
Lorenzo
Lambert
Veniremen
William Morris
Harrison County
James C. Holt
Taylor County
B. Merendino
James W. Robinson
Robinson
Merendino
Hobart R. Griffin
J. R. Westfall
H. E. Drummond
Charles Rittenhouse
G. Barger
S. J. Singleton
G. B. West
Charles E. Smith
E. E. Griffin
J.L. Lovell
W. L. Davis
A. C. Clark
W. E. Moore
Morris
Carl Mason
Woman's Music Club May Join 20th Century Club
Efforts were under way to consolidate Grafton's oldest musical group, the Woman's Music Club, as a department of the Twentieth Century club. The Twentieth Century club is a leading civic organization with a large, representative membership, announced Saturday by Mrs. J. S. Autt.
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Woman's Music Club
Grafton
Twentieth Century Club
J. S. Autt
Temporary Appointments Fill Two Of Three Vacancies In Senate
Washington dispatch reports two of three vacant senate seats filled by temporary appointees David Baird to New Jersey and Pattek J Sullivan to Wyoming Warren seat. Sullivan under study by selections committee amid doubts on governor power. Pennsylvania seat for William S Ware remains unfilled.
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Washington
David Baird
Walter Edge
New Jersey
Pattek J. Sullivan
Warren
W;iing
Sullivan
Wyoming
Emerson
Pennsylvania
William S. Ware
Quiet Prevails in Haiti After Riot
Haiti quiet dominates as 50 marines arrive at Jacmel with hundreds more en route. Americans evacuated from Port au Prince and Jacmel. Washington welcomes peace as Porter seeks Haiti commission authority. Gen Russell reports 2000 Haitian demonstrators gathered at Chantel before identification failure.
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Jacmel
Haiti
Galveston
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House Foreign Affairs Committee
Hoover
Port Au Prince
American envoy signs adhesion protocol at Berne
Jay Pierrepont Moffat, American chargé d affaires at Bern, signed for the United States today the protocol for joining the world court.
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Geneva
Dec
Jay Pierrepont Moffat
Berne
United Sernment
United States World Court
United States Near World Court Adherence
Washington reports the Senate likely to ratify in the future a protocol of adherence to the World Court. A U S representative signed the protocol on behalf of America, joining most nations as Lithuania and Abyssinia were absent. Debate centers on Senate ratification and prior reservations seen in 1926.
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Washington
Geneva
U. S
Senate
Hoover
Akg Moffat
Assembly of the of Nations
Americ
America
World Court
Press Hoover
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Washington Governante
International Justice
Ghostly Voice Foils Robbery Attempt at Brooklyn Theatre
In New York a haunted voice from a talking movie scared off three robbers targeting the B.T.T theatre in Brooklyn. They bound watchman Edward Jones, 68, and tried to force his son Charles to reveal the safe combination. A hidden vocal cue spooked the intruders, who fled as voices from the manager’s office were heard.
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New York
Brooklyn
B.T. T
Edward Jonces
Charles
Early Action on Tax Issue Hopes for Haste
Washington dispatch reports uncertain timing for Senate debate on the administration income tax reduction proposal amid tariff bill controversy. Republican leader Watson seeks quick action once finance committee reports the measure, with support from the Democratic Independent Republican coalition but opposition within his party. Smoot advocates proceeding with the tariff bill first.
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Senate
House
Watson
Indiana
Finance Committee
Republican Coalition
Administration
Smoot
Bombing Kills Three Children in Brooklyn Home
Police seek a solution to a blast that killed Mary Falzone 15 Phillip 13 and Rose in the kitchen of their Brooklyn residence. The mother and two younger siblings were in another room and escaped. Father Joseph was away when the explosion occurred.
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New York
Brooklyn
Mary Falzone
Phillip
Rose
Joseph
Wild Life Leaguers Hold State Meeting in West Virginia
About 100 delegates attended the eighth annual Wild Life League of West Virginia convention in Ot ton welcomed by Mayor W. W. The WB Byrne Charleston president presided. Reports were presented by G. A. Bolden Charleston executive Secretary and M. French Beckley treasurer. Vernon E. Jo Berkeley Springs announced the state game fish and forestry mission as the afternoon speaker amid coffee remarks.
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Otton
W. W
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Charleston
G. A. Bolden
Chileston
M. French
Beckley
Treasu
Vernon E. Jo
Berkeley Springs
Game, Fish and Forestry
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