Leader of French Kidnap Syndicate Flees Police
Paris reports the head of a kidnap murder gang escaped after a famed killer in the group fled with his mistress and a third suspect from a Nantua hotel. Weidmann, the killer tied to Miss Jean De Koven’s death, plus an associate, were among those at large as authorities traced the escape in a blue car.
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Paris
Jean de Koven
Brooklyn
Judiciary
Heir
Nantua
Tri
Weidmann
Miss de Koven
West Virginia Liquor Board reports progress on control plan
The State Liquor Control Commission releases its annual report to Governor Holt citing stricter fines and harsher penalties as key to improved public sentiment. The report notes fewer local option elections, a rise in drunken driving prosecutions, and more autos on the highway, with further details continued on Page Four.
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Charleston
State Liquor Control Commission
West Virginia
Holt
WPA Spending Increased By 23 Million A Month
Washington December report says unemployment rose, prompting a boost in WPA funding by 23 million dollars monthly. The employment rolls reach 1,575,000 and will grow to take on 350,000 more workers. Announcement by WPA Administrator Harry L. Hopkins before Mayo appointment.
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Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
Mayo
East High Girls Spark Boy Study With No Makeup Week
Salt Lake City readers learn East High School girls ended a makeup week to silence jokes about their “war paint.” The story notes boys at the school observe how classmates appear without cosmetics and comments on the joke turning point.
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Salt Lake City
East High School
Bingo Bazaar Opens Tonight on West Main Street
Tonight marks the opening of the Bingo Bazaar sponsored by Protective Home Circle in the Tooms on West Main street formerly Gaines Rac ket store. A free Bingo starts at 7 p.m. A large supply of merchandise including lamps and aluminumware will be given away, with games expected to run until Christmas.
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Protective Home Circle
Tooms
West Main Street
Gaines
Roosevelt Nominates Hanes and Frank to Securities Commission
President Roosevelt named John W. Hanes of North Carolina and Jerome N. Frank of New York to the Securities Commission. Hanes will replace J. D. Rossa Seattle who resigned to administer Bonneville Dam, while Frank replaces James M. Landis who left to become Harvard law dean at Tawnshoal.
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Washington
Roosevelt
John W. Hanes
North Carolina
Jerome N. Frank
New York
Securities Commission
Hanes
J. D. Rossa
Seattle
Bonneville"dam
Frank
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
James M. Landis
Harvard
Iron lung needed for 17 year old Artis in Portsmouth
Doctors warned a Portsmouth Ohio youth, 17 year old Har old Artis, has only five days to live without artificial breathing. He was paralyzed from the neck down after a tele phone pole fell while he helped with rescue work at a Fortsmouth auto accident. A drive to provide an iron lung is underway led by W E Chilton Jr of Charleston, Grand Chef De Gate of the West.
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Huntington
Harold Artis
Portsmouth
Ohio
Artis
Fortsmouth
W. E. Chilton Jr
Charleston
Gate of the West
Two Men Arrested For Robbery Slaying
CRETE Til Dec 10 Two men identified by a farmwife as the robbers who killed her husband and shot her were arrested today. John Jelliga 38 of Whiting Ind and Mike Menjas 45 of Indiana Harbor were seized as deputies hunted the gunmen after a deadly raid. Police said the farmwife Hulda Pansa 38 picked them out and that weapons used in the slaying were found at their homes.
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Crete
Til
Will
Cook Counties
John Jelliga
Whiting
Tho
Mike Menjas
Indiana Harbor
Ind
John Sudukowski
The
Whiting Police
Hulda Pansa
Christmas Parade To Proceed In Grafton Tonight
Taylor County Board of Trade officials said the second Christmas season parade would start at 7 pm with Santa Claus as the lead. The Grafton High School band the Sons of the Legion drum corps and the Grafton Drum and Bugle corps sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars would provide musical features this evening.
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Taylor County Board of Trade
Santa Claus
Grafton High School
Sons of the Legion
Grafton
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Roosevelts stance on freight rate increase and railroad solvency
President Roosevelt urged the Interstate Commerce Commission to pursue solutions that preserve railroad solvency under private management while considering higher freight rates. He warned against government ownership, noted receivers need financial restructuring, and dismissed government subsidies as socialist, signaling ongoing coverage with details continued on page seven.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Interstate
Somamerst Commission
Four Killed as Auto Hits Train Near Durand Mich
Four persons died when their car struck a moving Grand Trunk freight train a half mile north of Durand Michigan. Victims were Carl T. Euler Lester Hoag and Mrs. Lester Hoag of Perry Michigan and Beatrice Beiler of Morrice Michigan. Sheriff said icy snow caused the auto to skid into the train. The train crew learned of the wreck upon reaching Durand yards.
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Durand
Mich
Grand ‘Trunk
Here
Carl T. Euler
Lester Hoag
Perry
Beatrice Beiler
Morrice
Durand Yards
Engineer Griffith Hurt In Fall Near Fairmont
A. M. Griffith, 52, Baltimore & Ohio railroad engineer from Bridgeport Ohio, is hospitalized in Cook Hospital Fairmont with a fractured back after a 4:30 AM fall from his engine between Denver and Wheeling. He slipped on ice while inspecting valves and slid into a creek bed. Doctors report his condition excellent and recovery likely.
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Fairmont
A. M. Griffith
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Bridgeport
Cook Hospital
Griffith
Denver
Wheeling
Vote on Farm Bill to Come Late in Day
House leaders prepared for a final vote late today on the farm bill amid confidence of passage and a push to reinstate compulsory marketing quotas for wheat. Senate debate slowed by tobacco sections, with leaders hopeful for a vote by week’s end. a substitute bill proposed to guarantee farmers a cash income equal to cost of production.
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Washington
House
Agriculture Committee
Senate
Jones
Tex
Massingale
Okla
Barkley
Copeland
Retail Trade Surges Ahead of Last Year in Nation
New York December 10 Dun & Bradstreet reports retail trade quickened as shoppers stormed stores to buy Christmas gifts and winter goods. Week to week gains ranged from 3 to 8 percent while year over year sales rose 4 to 15 percent nationwide. East region sales were 2 to 8 percent above a year ago.
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New York
Dun & Bradstreet
Fifteen Hurt In Cleveland Street Car Crash
Fifteen persons were injured today when a crowded street car skidded on icy wheels and tracks on Cedar Hill on Cleveland east side. Patrolman Milo Sebek said the motorman applied brakes too late. several passengers suffered cuts from flying glass as the car left the curve.
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Cleveland
Cedar Hill
Milo’ Sebek
Sebek
Liquid Coal Held Out As Hope to Mining Industry
Pittsburgh report on December 10 quotes Dr. Thomas E. Baker president emeritus of the Carnegie Institute of Technology proposing liquid coal as a substitute for dwindling petroleum and a stimulant for mining. He foresees coal propulsion of motor vehicles and notes coal already provides ersatz substitutes for natural substances as prices rise.
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Pittsburgh
Thomas E. Baker
Cathegie Institute of Technology
Baie ‘Tauetae
Price Corpetuieum
Rise
Institute
Coal Research Laboratory
Coalition for Prosperity Urged by American Industry
New York industry leaders urged government and labor to form a coalition government to raise prosperity, as 3,000 industrialists closed a convention with a labor day session opposing federal wage hour laws and urging revision of the Wagner Act. Colby M. Chester framed the call, pledging to broaden the association program to be fair and constructive, and to make it more effective if needed. Resolutions backed industrial peace and cooperation, aiming to level seasonal fluctuations in production and employment.
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New York
National Association of Manufacturers
Colby M. Chester
Times
Association
Scared Bunny Leaps Into Arms of Carolina Hunter
In Dunn North Carolina on record time a frightened rabbit leaped into the hunter’s arms as he stood ready to shoot. The incident drew praise from friends who vouched for the hunter’s ready aim and steady hand.
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Scared Bunny
Arms
Carolina Hunter
Nanking Fall Near at Hand
Shanghai dispatch reports Japanese forces opening a general attack on Nanking after an ultimatum to surrender was rejected by General Tang Seng Chi. Within hours they claimed to have taken Purple Mountain as encirclement of about 100,000 troops tightened around the Chinese capital.
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Morris J. Harris
Shanghai
Nanking
Tang Seng-Chi
Iwane Matsui
Purple Mountain
Great Wall
Man Clowned by Death at Gallows Bonding Jump
Douglas Van Viacks, 33, condemned for killing his wife, leapt from a 30-foot cell block 15 minutes before his scheduled hanging in Boise Idaho. His act occurred four hours after his Tacoma parents arrived to bid him farewell, ending his long flight from justice begun in November 1935.
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Boise
Idaho
Douglas van Viacks
van Viack
Carl van Vinck
Tacoma
Wash
van Vinck
University of Washington
Mildred
Baltimore and Ohio E B Cooperative Traffic Program Moose Home
Baltimore and Ohio joins a cooperative traffic program at Moose Home, coordinating safety and transport operations. Officials from B and O and Moose Home outline measures to improve street flow and reduce incidents. The program emphasizes interagency cooperation and community outreach.
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Baltimore& Ohio
E. B
Moose Home
Plans announced for city Christmas lighting contest
The Business Girls' club of Grafton with the Monongahela System will release entry blanks for the city wide Christmas outdoor lighting contest by early next week. Blanks will be available at West Penn on West Main Street or Roberts Taylor County Hardware. The contest committee is led by chairman Miss Clara Korte with members Miss Helen Constance Lowe and Miss Helen Snider.
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Business Girls’ Club of Grafton
West Penn
West Main Street
Roberts Taylor County
Hardware Company
Clara Korte
Helen Constance Lowe
Helen Snider
Retail Stores To Stay Open Every Night In Grafton
Retail shops in Grafton will open this evening and remain open nightly through Christmas to aid gift buyers. Stores plan to close at 9 p m each night and anticipate a holiday rush today and tomorrow, with heavy shopping expected next week and the week after.
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Grafton
Taylor County Board of Trade
Triggerman of Famous Brady Gang Must Die
Hammond Indiana sentence details report a federal jury verdict for James Dalhover the noted Brady gang member to die in the electric chair for the murder of State Police man Paul V Minneman Dalhover pleaded guilty on November 15 and the jury deliberated two hours and 17 minutes before the decision was reached in the federal court proceeding
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Hammond
Ind
James Dalhover
Brady
Midwest
Paul V. Minneman
Dalhover
Landon rules out 1936 GOP nomination but stays active
Former Kansas governor Alf Landon said he would seek the Republican presidential nomination in 1936 but would not accept the nomination if offered. He appeared at a Gridiron Club dinner in Washington and said he plans to be more active in Republican affairs while not withdrawing from politics.
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Washington
Alf M
Kansas
Repul
Gridiron Club
Landon
White House
Landon Be
Per
R-Kas
Booth Claims. He Was Beaten By Federal Agents
Det. 10 dispatch reports Booth alleging he was beaten by federal agents to extract statements about the killing of Dr. James I. Seder. Booth admits involvement of John Tra and Orville Adkins in an incident tied to an abandoned mine. The older city leader died November 15 after his return from the scene.
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John Sehon
Huntington
Arnett Booth
James I. Seder
Booth
John Tra
Orville Adkins
Divder
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Restrica
Camille Chautemps
Yvon Delbos
Anthony Eden
Hopkins
Main Street
Huntington Hospital
F. DR
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Industry
Labor
Coalition For Prosperity
Triggerman of
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Capital
Dr. der
Saye
Kinsey & CO
P. BH. G
Gaines Store
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