Impeachment Vote Moves Cuba Toward Ouster Amid Sugar Bill Clash
Havana reports say the Cuban house impeached President Miguel Mariano Gomez by a narrow margin over vetoing a 1.5 million sugar tax bill funding rural schools. Senate prepared to hold a noon trial as Batista advocates strong action.
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Gold Flows to Be Retired Under Treasury Plan
Washington reports the treasury began actions to freeze gold inflows and remove loanable money from the economy. The program purchases all imported and domestic gold with treasury receipts, deposits future acquisitions in an inactive account, and buys or redeems outstanding bills as gold flows out, creating a balance wheel to stabilize credit.
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Driver rescued after overturned truck crash in Taylor County
Mercer county sheriff charged after a driver wrecked a truck carrying turkeys and intoxicants. The incident prompted a safety council response and raised concerns about driving conditions and alcohol impairment.
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Mercer County
Taylor County Safety Council
Grid Iron Club Satirizes 1936 Election At Capitol
Washington December 22 four presidential candidates attended the Gridiron Club dinner and saw a satirical review of the 1936 election. Roosevelt portrayed chasing a ninth term in 1968 and a balanced budget. Landon depicted as a damaged GOP, with an apron of a dinner pail and fish bone in the throat. Norman Thomas and Earl Browder joined about 400 guests as the banquet closed.
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Browder
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Earl Browder
Organization of Washington
Three Men Hurt Fire Blasts In Gordon Mine Blast
In Gordon Boone county three men Hibbard Gore Owen Shepperd and Paul Rice were burned when a powder bag exploded in No 2 operation of Detroit Mining company. A miner’s cap knocked a wire causing ignition. The men waited at a conveyor end as flames swept over the crowd. no mine damage reported.
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Detroit Mining Company
Gordon
Boone County
Hibbard Gore
Owen Shepperd
Paul Rice
J.T. Huddy
E. M. White
Five Children Die In Ottawa Fire Tragedy
Ottawa police report five children perished as fire engulfed a lower city home. Parents Adelaide Giroux and spouse along with two other children escaped by leaping from a second story window, suffering minor bruises. the father carried a two year old as he jumped to safety. Victims named Romeo 17 Cecile 11 Therese 10 Marie agierite 8 and Jeannette 6.
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Adelaide Giroux
Romeo
Cecile
Therese
Mareiagierite
Jeannette
Earthquake toll fixed at 250 in San Vicente
SAN SALVADOR El Salvador Dec 22 Rescuers searched ruins of earthquake struck San Vicente as officials kept the death toll at 250 and at least 800 were injured. Interior Minister Calderon led relief with Red Cross doctors and nurses aiding the wounded while the Santa Rita volcano subsided. Bodies were loaded into trucks for rural cemetery burial.
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Calderon
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Archbishop of York condemns Edward VIII abdication remarks
In England, December 22, the Archbishop of York urged that the king’s abdication would not be made by a man of honor. He said the critical moment was when a man of honor should cease meetings with another man’s wife to avoid a clash between love and duty, citing prior cases of moral failure.
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England
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Canterbury
Church of England
New Nurses Memorial Hall Planned at Davis Memorial
Officials of Davis Memorial Hospital announced today that construction will begin soon on the Katherine Elkins Hitt Memorial Hall, a three story nurses home at the hospital. It was donated by William F. Hitt of Middleburg Virginia in memory of his wife, the late Katherine Elkins Hitt, and will house 60 nurses.
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William F. Hitt
Middleburg
Patman Promises Rigorous Robson-Patman Trade Measure
Huntington December 22 Representative Wright Patman said the Robinson-Patman bill regulating trade practices is a “law with teeth” and that 90 to 95 percent of business faces its provisions. He warned lawyers seeking loopholes risk exposing themselves to a “noose” and claimed the measure protects the weak by granting equal rights and opportunities.
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Wright Patman
Texas
Robinson-Patman
Texan
Company Will Furnish Strikers Dinner at Clarksburg Plant
The Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co announced it will host Christmas dinners for 600 striking workers at its Clarksburg plant. Officials told city food stores to charge groceries for Christmas dinners, with orders handed out this morning and a similar plan reportedly in effect at other plants.
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Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
Regrouping of Agencies Contemplated by Roosevelt
Washington observers report the president may seek authority for consolidation or elimination of agencies by executive order rather than a full congressional plan. A broad regrouping on a functional basis is favored by some advisers, with a veto option for Congress on major steps. The Resettlement Administration becomes part of the consolidation move.
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Congress
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The
Resettlement Administration
Huntington to boost night police patrols after two safes robbed
In Huntington on December 22 officials ordered an expanded night police patrol after safes were robbed, netting more than 1500 dollars. Star Furniture owner Samuel H. Glick reported a lock was knocked from his store safe taking 638 dollars, while the Gold Furniture office lost 900 dollars in the same manner.
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Samuel H. Glick
Star Furniture Company
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King's Romance Called True Love By Londoner
Huntington December 22 Robert B. Mosley president of the American Society of London says the romance between Mrs Wallis Simpson and the Duke of Windsor is a true love match He spoke during a visit to stamp collectors noting changes to the royal standard and suggesting the king found solace among the American colony in London.
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Robert B. Mosley
American Society of London
Wallis Simpson
Duke of Windsor
Moseley
England
London
Pope Pius XI Opposed By Doctors On Broadcast Plan
Vatican sources report physicians to Pope Pius XI object to his plan to broadcast a Christmas message to cardinals. They rushed to the papal apartments and feared the exertion would exhaust His Holiness. Doctors urged absolute rest and minimal daily work to ensure he can recite the allocution.
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Nude woman found dead at golf club in gas tragedy
A nude woman identified as Edith B Gaither 33 a patient escaped from Spring Grove State Hospital was found dead in the gas filled kitchen of Rolling Road Golf Club near Baltimore The head of the hospital Dr Silas Weltmer and club manager W C Bauer describe the scene odor of gas detected by Herbert Schaub bartender and the case continues on page five
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Silas W. Weltmer
Edith B. Gaither
Spring Grove State Hospital
Rolling Road Golf Club
Herbert Schaub
Schaub
W. C. Bauer
Bauer
Electric Chair Fate For Fire Captain Killer
Heber L. Hicks, 39, found guilty of premeditated murder for the second time in 20 years in the slaying of Harry R. Miller, a wealthy Cincinnati fire captain. A jury in Brookville, Indiana, sentenced Hicks to die in the electric chair on April 10. Miller’s body was discovered missing its head and hands, later traced to a culvert near Eminence, Kentucky, with the missing parts found in a cement lined box at Lake Singleton near Carrollton.
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Heber L. Hicks
Harry R. Miller
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Indiana
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Eminence
Lake Singleton
Carrollton
New Aerial Attack Strikes North Madrid District
In Madrid on December 22 a squadron of Fascist airplanes bombed the northwestern Rosares district in the first air raid in days. One plane, thought to be an insurgent ship, crashed. Socialist pilots responded at first signal, driving the Fascist craft from the suburban area.
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Rosares
Coast strike vote likely to extend deadlock across ports
Indications that a settlement may be deferred indefinitely threaten to prolong a Pacific coast maritime walkout. Sailors union head Harry Lundeberg said a member vote on a tentative agreement with shipowners would likely be postponed. Glass workers chairman George Charlott said the 54 day strike would continue until employers on east and west coasts reach accords. Flat Glass Workers president Glenn W. McCabe said negotiations were at a standstill and the next move rests with employers or the Labor Department.
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Pacific Coast
Harry Lundeberg
Salors’'Union of the’ Pacific
San Francisco
Glass Union
New York
George Charlott
Masters, Mates and Pilots Union
West Coasts
Glenn W. McCabe
Columbus
Department of Labor
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Com
Three Escapes Inmates Are Captured
Morgantown police arrested three youths after a week long escape from the Lakin state penitentiary. Eddie Napper 17 of Clarksburg Walter King 18 of Wheeling and Dever Hayworth 17 of Beckley admitted the escape and were found in a car bearing plates issued to Ray Thomas of Fairmont.
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Lakin
Eddie Napper
Clarksburg
Walter King
Wheeling
Dever Hayworth
Beckley
Ray ‘Thomas
Fairmont
Million and Half Will Be Paid WPA Workers
State Administrator F Witcher McCullough announced that WPA projects in the state have paid out 1.58 million dollars to 15 000 workers during the two weeks before Christmas. The program sped up pay periods so workers who would normally be paid after Christmas received funds, with sewing rooms contributing toys to holiday funds and food to needy families through various channels.
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Charleston
F. Witcher
McCullough
WPA
Flannel-Foot Keeps Up His Irritating Tactics
London crime note reports the elusive thief nicknamed Flannel-Foot taunting Scotland Yard from a telephone call. The errant figure continues to frustrate investigators during Christmastide as detectives press to collar the slipperiest robber and end his run of nuisance.
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London
Scotland Yard
All American Republics Unite for Own Protection
Buenos Aires December 22 delegates at the inter American peace conference closed the last session and moved toward a Wednesday finale. The major achievement is the guarantee of American peace by all 21 republics of the American continent, not by the United States alone. Delegates were unanimous in the belief it is imperative for collective security.
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Buenos Aires
United States
Former Logan Chief Jailed for Shooting
Elliott Mitchell a 63 year old former Logan police chief is jailed without bond in the death of housekeeper Elsie Dacus 32. Coroner Bruce Harris said the shooting happened during a drinking party but witnesses were too intoxicated for questioning until the inquest. Witnesses described a quarrel over marriage then two shots were heard. Godby Barker said Mitchell blurted Louise shot herself after finding him with Dacus. Police arrested the trio. Godby and Barker were later released. The inquest jury found death by gunshot wounds at unknown hands and urged further inquiry. Friends say Dacus was the divorced wife of a Logan barber and had worked for Mitchell and his son for two months.
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Jess Watts
Godby Barker
Mitchell
Chiang Kai Shek's wife flies to prison in effort to win release
Nanking reports the American educated wife of Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek flew to his prison amid protests from officials as Japan crisis loomed and Sichuan Shensi's government was dissolved. Mme Chiang and her brother Dr. Soong carried heavy luggage, signaling a likely prolonged stay in Nanking.
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Chang Hsueh-Liang
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Chiina
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