Philippines hit by floods and quakes kill many
Widespread disaster in the Philippine islands from volcanic eruption, typhoon, and tidal floods. Reports cite eight to nine deaths and extensive property damage across Mindanao, Luzon, and Visayas with scattered missing bodies. Disaster history notes 1911 eruption near Manila and large past losses.
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Manila
Philippine Islands
Bureau of Posts
Jose Vera
Nin
Rosin
Colcano
Zamboanna Mindano
Philippines
Nila
Bataan
Formosa
Apo
Mindanao
Americar Cross
Jalo
Cebu
Weyte
Visayas
Mrs Mallonee Buried Today
Mrs. Anna Creel Mallonee aged 84 died suddenly at home on Saturday evening as preparations were underway for Christmas. Family members were present when she collapsed, with children and a son nearby. The obituary notes she was highly respected and known for kindly deeds.
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Anna Creel Mallonee
East Wash- Street
Adson
Jail miner in Vanderbilt aide's death
Fritz Anthony Jr., 28, a Bayard coal miner, is jailed in Petersburg in connection with the automobile killing of John Brodix, secretary to Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., on the Northwestern Turnpike near Germania Saturday night. Anthony admitted an earlier accident and claimed blood on his car came from a boy aboard after a collision on the same road. He was ordered held for a hearing and coroner's inquest.
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Petersburg
Fritz Anthony, Jr
Bayard
John Brodix
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr
Northwestern
Germania
Anthony
J. E.kimmell
Aronhalt, Jr
Brodix
Kimmell
Vanderbilt
Grief Replaces Yuletide Joy In Blaze Deaths In Michigan
In Battle Creek, Ivan Britvee's home burned after straw used in a yuletide ceremony was ignited by a stove. A blind wife and infant daughter died from the blaze. The child died upon discovery, the mother Mary Britvee died the next morning.
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Battle Creek
Mich
Ivan Britvee
Mary Britvee
Assassin Murder Shocks Armenian Archbishop in Church
Four men were jailed on homicide charges after Archbishop Leon Tourian was stabbed during a Sunday procession at Holy Cross Armenian Church on West 197th Street. Police say rebels of the order of Tashuag drew lots to pick the killer, aiming to protest Soviet policy by bloodshed amid Armenian neighborhoods. The suspects Maxtos Leylegian Nishin Sarkasian Martin Nazian and Aslan Yerjianen were identified by witnesses near the archbishop as he fell, blood staining his robes and the crucifix in his hand.
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Leon Tourlan
Armenian Apostolic Church
North America
Heath
Holy Gross Apostolic Church
New York
Ous Tive
Old Republic of Armenia
Tashuag
Lean Tourian
Oday
Holy Cross Armenian
Iis
Leon Tourian
Armenian National Apostolic Church
Holy Cross
West 197Th Street
Maxtos Leylegian
Nishin Sarkasian
Martin Nazian
Aslan Yerjianen
Mazian
Yerjianen
Nis
Morris to Remain in Jail Additional Two Days
C C Morris of Charleston must stay behind bars for at least two more days after his sentence for attacking Senator Henderson in the senate chamber. Attorney General Holt requested a habeas corpus hearing, continued by Judge A P Hudson of Kanawha county until Thursday to allow talks with senate officials.
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Charleston
C. C. Morris
Senate
Holt
Henderson
Dem
Doddridge
Soldiers Restore Peace After Feud Renewed in Arkansas
National Guardsmen patrolled Marshall Arkansas after a Christmas Eve feud flared with gunfire on Main Street. City Marshal J H Barnett was wounded. Leland Henley was under a life sentence and rumored to be in town. Barnett and his sons fired on Henley's restaurant as Henley’s relatives returned fire. Authorities sought to reconcile the feuding families as more shots rang out and several people were involved.
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Barnett
Rupert
Oscar
Henley
Ralph
Leland
Nobe
Jack
Bennie Matthews
Barnetts
G. Robertson
Henleys
Littleee
Searcy
Fay
Brown
Clarksville
Futrell
Jim Holt
Confesses luring boy to death in Columbia
Robert H. Wiles, 49, automibile mechanic, confessed to luring Herbert H. Harris Jr., 15, from his home and beating him to death with an ion bar at a deserted house. The body was found in a vacant house nine miles from Columbia in a swampy area. Sheriff Heise said Wiles implicated J. M. Rushton, a former meat cutter, as part of his motive, but investigation is not yet complete.
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Columbia
S. C
Robert H. Wiles
Herbert H. Harris, Jr
Congaree
T. Alex Heise
Wiles
J. M. Rushton
Harris
Rushton
Heise
Vets to Fight Economy Act Modifications Pushed
Washington reports a four point plan by the American Legion to modify the national economy act as it affects veterans benefits. Rep Rankin will present the amendments costing an estimated 70 million dollars. The plan seeks free hospitalization for improvident veterans, changes in terminology to compensation, restoration of World War I death and disability payments to the old recipients, and new payments for WWI orphans and widows.
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Washington
American Legion
Rankin
D-Miss
House Veterans Committee
Legion
Monetary Plan Unchanged for 1933 End of Year
President Roosevelt's monetary program entered the last week of 1933 with no official sign of immediate new moves toward an international gold understanding like the silver agreement. The report notes continuity in policy as the year closes without fresh steps toward a broader gold standard agreement.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Rainey forecasts 1934 budget over six billion dollars
President Roosevelt will deliver his first annual message January 3. Speaker Rainey expects total budget requests to exceed 6.09 billion dollars for 1934, including 2.6 billion ordinary expenses and 1.7 billion for public works, with 0.5 billion for federal relief and more capital for the Reconstruction Corporation.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
House
Rainey
Senate
Dshemocrats
Reconstruction Corporation
Salvation Army Christmas joy reaches 520 needy kids
The Salvation Army, led by Mrs Captain W H Arnold, distributed gifts and toys to 520 children from jobless families in its yuletide cheer campaign. She praised donors who supplied new and used toys and funded kettles and the toy center depot, noting an extraordinary outpouring of generosity.
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Salvation Army
W. H. Arnold
Santa Claus
Toy Center
Winter blues blamed for 180 US deaths in crashes and cold
The Associated Press reports over 180 deaths in the United States over yuletide and the weekend, mostly from motor vehicle crashes. A cold Canadian northwest blast sent temperatures plunging to near zero in the Midwest, contributing to exposure deaths including several in Chicago and Minnesota. Snow blankets Iowa Illinois the Dakotas Nebraska Wisconsin and parts of Indiana Michigan and Missouri.
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Associated Press
Yuletide
United States
Canadian Northwest
Midwest
Chicago
Minn
Rhinelander
Wis
Iowa
Illinois
Dakotas
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Indiana
Michigan
Missousi
Earned
France mourns as train crash toll nears two hundred
Paris reports 165 killed immediately when the Strasbourg Flier crashed into the Nancy Express in fog near Meaux. The death toll may exceed 200 as 23 unidentified bodies are found. Engineer Daudigny and fireman Charpentier claim a clear track and no warning torpedoes. Paris figures include President Albert Lebrun visiting caskets and hospitals.
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Paris
France
Strasbourg
Nancy
Meaux
Albert Lebrun
East-Paris
Lucien “Daudigny
Henry Charpentier
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Philippine
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Phato
Vanderbilt, JR
Yule Joy
Blaze
Morris
Arkansas
South Carolina
CITES
Lad
Ethel Zuckerman
Wastolin
Gaston
Gle
Jokness
Northwest
Christendom
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