President And Power Executives Cenfer On Industry Peace Pact
President Roosevelt signals progress for 1935 with talks among power industry leaders that could widen the peace pact to the large power sector. Officers consider squeezing capital and lowering rates to ensure fair returns, while no names were released. The Washington Post notes the Edison Electric Institute may not sue TVA, amid ongoing industry discussions.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Tennessee Valley Authority
White House
Washington Post
Edison Electric Institute
Association
TVA
Lapaz Bank Robbed of 85000 by Trio in Lapaz
The Farmers State Bank of Lapaz was robbed of 85000 by three men today. They fled in a car heading north toward South Bend after firing one shot.
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Lapaz Bank
Lapaz
Ind
Farmers State Bank of
South Bend
Vanderbilt Heiress Guardian Nomination Refused
Surrogate James A. Foley today refused to appoint Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt as personal guardian of her ten year old heiress daughter Gloria.
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New York
James A. Foley
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt
Gloria
Bomb blast hits aqueduct near Havana
A bomb exploded under a branch aqueduct five miles from Havana raising tensions in Cuba. The Mazorra area supply line was damaged but the city water system remained unaffected.
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Havana
Cuba
Mazorra
Fitchburg High School Fire Kills One Injures Two
A fire at Fitchburg Senior High School today killed one firefighter and injured two others. The blaze leveled the building, causing an estimated 750000 dollars in losses. Fire crews battled the smoldering ruins through the morning.
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Fitchburg
Mass
Fitchburg Senior High
Two Cop Killers Die In Electric Chair
CHICAGO December 15 two men Walter Dittman aged 28 and Herman Boulan aged 36 were executed by electric chair for the slaying of Policeman Earl M Jensen. The deaths bring to seven the total cop killers executed in two years in Chicago.
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Chicago
Walter Dittman
Herman Boulan
Earl M. Jensen
Weather forecast by states and coastal winds data
North Carolina shows fair conditions with a warmer trend and rain in the extreme west, while South Carolina remains fair with clouds building in the mountains. Winds vary from northeast to southeast along the coast with changes Sunday, and temperatures and rainfall in the cotton belt are recorded by the official weather bureau.
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North Carolina
South Carolina
Hatteras
Jacksonville
Sandy Hook
Charlotte
Official Weather Bureau
North Carolina backs Bankhead Act by wide margin
North Carolina farmers voted 177,087 to 9,540 in favor of continuing the Bankhead act to reduce cotton acreage, with 66 percent turnout. Caswell and Stanley opposed, while Lenoir showed the largest support. Granville meanwhile backed the Kerr-Smith tobacco control act 1,497 to 3 and Bankhead cotton act 520 to 34.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
McDowell
Stanley
Caswell
New Hanover
Yadkin
Lenoir
Bankhead
Oxford
Granville County
Granville
Education Leaders Set To Address North Carolina Council
GREENSBORO Dec. 15 Leaders in state education will speak to the North Carolina Emergency Council on Education at the Raleigh meeting Monday B C Siske president of the organization said today. Speakers include Governor Ehringhaus Clyde A Ervin state superintendent Dr Frank P Graham UNC president and Dr L R Meadows new president of Eastern Carolina Teachers College.
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Greensboro
North Carolina Emergency Council On Education
Raleigh
B. C. Siske
Pleasant Garden
Siske
Ehringhaus
Clyde A. Ervin
Election Protest Evidence Examined by State Board
Evidence in protests from Graham Watauga and Alexander counties was studied today at a meeting of the state board of elections in Raleigh.
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Raleigh
Graham
Watauga
Alexander
State Board of Elections
Execution Of Missionaries By Brigands Described
Shanghai dispatch reports describe the public killing of American missionaries Mr. and Mrs. John Stam by Chinese bandits near Tsingteh. Orphaned infant Helen Priscilla Stam survived, found by a Chinese pastor and cared for on the way to Wuhu, where she arrived healthy for care at the Episcopal board hospital.
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Tsingteh
China Inland Mission Station
John
Stam
George Birch
Birch
Stams
Helen Priscilla
Wuhu
United States
Helen
Episcopal Foreign Board Mission
Wuhbu
Violent Weather Hits Worlds Across Continents
The report notes cloudbursts in California volcanic eruptions in Honduras floods from the Tiber in Rome heavy snow in Nova Scotia and a mid Atlantic gale that left the British steamer Usworth abandoned with eleven rescued.
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River Tiber
Mid-West
OY Associated Press Nature
Honduras
Tiber
Rome
Italy
Nova Scotia
Usworth
Sierra Madre Mills
Los Angeles
Foothill
Powell Given Two Years For Assault On Local Girl
J M Powell a Reidsville insurance man and father of two was sentenced to two years on the roads after a Guilford Superior Court jury found him guilty of assaulting Miss Mabel Alexander a High Point operator. Powell appealed and bond was set at 2500 for the state supreme court. The incident arose from a blind date and car ride on October 30 in a woods near High Point where medical testimony supported an assault. Powell admitted fondling her but denied assault.
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Greensboro
J. M. Powell
Reidsville
Thomas J. Shaw
Guilford
Shaw
Asault
High Point
Miss Alexander
Powell
Italy Charged With Aggression in Abyssinia Dispute
Geneva reports an international controversy between Italy and Abyssinia drew League of Nations focus as the Ethiopian government telegraphed a grave situation along the frontier between Italian Somaliland and Ethiopia.
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Geneva
Italy
Abyssinia
League of Nations
League of
Ethiopia
President Roosevelt to seek two more years for CCC
Robert Fechner, director of emergency conservation work, disclosed that President Roosevelt plans to ask Congress to continue the Civilian Conservation Corps for two more years. Fechner cited the benefits of relief and conservation and the president's belief that this work must go on.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Civilian Conservation Corps
Robert Fechner
Fechner
CCC
Secret Army Plan Studied by Senators
The Senate munitions committee examined a secret wartime mobilization plan held by the U S army. Investigators dispute claims that industry would forego inflated profits while officers tied to manufacturers would direct contracts. The panel considers public disclosure risky and aims to conclude hearings with a congressional summary.
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Charles P. Nutter
Washington
United States Army
Senate Munitions Committee
National Ofense
Dern
Army
Congress
Louisiana’s Scions Called Into Third Special Assembly
Baton Rouge December 15 AP Huey Long’s request prompted Governor Allen to call Louisiana’s legislature into a twelve day session likely shortened to five. The aims include amending the liquor law, clarifying use of surplus funds, establishing state supervision of industrial pensions, funding unemployment relief, and repealing a 2 percent Pullman car utility tax.
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Baton Rouge
Huey Long
O. K. Allen
Louisiana
Long
Unemployment Relief Commission
Landslide Approval Of Cotton Control Points To Other Crop Curbs
The nation approved compulsory cotton control in a landslide with Yea 896 238 and Nay 91280 in a vote of 2.6 million eligible producers across 17 states. Arizona California New Mexico and Oklahoma failed to reach the two thirds needed, signaling possible limits on extending quotas to other crops.
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Tha Enanth Watead
Wallace
Arizona
California
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Farm Administration
Roosevelt
Gang Burglars Plunder North Fairfield Bank Under Cover of Night
A gang of 11 or more burglars blocked North Fairfield, Ohio, with gunmen watching residents as seven charges blew open the village bank. They looted about $2,000 and cut telephone and electric lines before escaping. The town of 800 residents faced isolation as lines were repaired.
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James Garrett
Garrett
Norwalk
North Fairfield
Finland Only War Debt Payer Amid Global Shortfall
Washington reports a slim payment on war debts with only 238 538 dollars of 629 816 000 due received. Estonia Latvia and Rumania were seen defaulting on installments while eight other nations would not pay. Finland sent 228 538 dollars to the New York Fed as the sole cash collection. A Hungarian note promised a 2 percent certificate deposit at Budapest as repayment. President Roosevelt noted a possible settlement in time and no new moves were seen from the State Department. Total debt amounts to about 12 billion dollars.
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United States
Estonia
Latvia
Rumania
Finland
Federal Reserve Bank
New York City
John Pelenyi
State Department
Hungary
Roosevelt
William Phillips
Barden Promises Cautious Start in Congress
Representative-elect Graham A. Barden of North Carolina vows to speak only when he is sure of the facts. He plans to back a compulsory crop control for potatoes and is in Washington for a meeting with Eastern Seaboard potato growers.
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Washington
Graham A. Barden
North Carolina
Congress
Barden
New Bern
N. C
Seaboard
Seventeen Die In Seaward Rescue Tragedy
Seventeen men perish while rescuing the British freighter Usworth as wild seas force the ship to a helpless hulk near Liverpool. The Cunard-White Star liner Ascania reports eleven Usworth crew saved, nine by the Ascania and two by the Belgian liner Jean Jadot, with two crew from Jean Jadot also lost. The Usworth was abandoned and adrift east of the rescue effort.
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Usworth
Cunard-White Star Line
Ascania
Jean Jadot
North Carolina finances show state cash balance December 1
State treasurer report indicates a December 1 cash balance of 32.7 million with 66 thousand highway funds and a general fund overdrawn by 2.6 million. November receipts reached 1.84 million while expenditures totaled 2.78 million. Highway receipts in November stood at 4.33 million. Fueled by bonds, funded debt was 174.156 million, including 55.129 million in general bonds and 99.704 million in highway bonds.
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Raleigh
Northlina
Jeffress Shows Ongoing Improvement After Operation
Dr C C man of Richmond reports continued improvement in B Jeffress state highway and public works commissioner who is recovering from a brain operation. Jeffress, who returns home in October, remains in slow but steady recovery according to August Coleman of Greensboro.
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Greensboro
B. Jeffress
Tte
C. C.man
Richmond
August
Aviation Thirty Years After Kitty Hawk
Hollywood columnist recalls the Wright brothers flight at Kitty Hawk, noting its fragile box kite origins and its lasting impact on maps and aviation. The piece muses on the modern spread of airpower, comparing aviation to a dashed pistol and suggesting vast, profit driven military growth is not the cure for war.
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Hollywood
Calif
Wrights
Kitty Hawk
Switzerland
Dragnet Tightened For Mass Leading Philadelphia Gangs
Philadelphia police and federal agents sharpened their dragnet for killer Robert Mais, suspected gang kingpin behind a kidnap slaying and jail-delivery plot. They reported a series of near captures at Wayne Junction and West Philadelphia as they build a case from a recent roundup of six men and a woman. They allege Mais’ gang was tied to the October kidnapping of William Wells and the Camden holdup slaying of William Feitz, with plans for armed prison delivery and gun seizures from a Norristown armory.
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Philadelphia
Robert Mais
Wayne Junction Railroad
West Philadelphia
Mars
Glen
William Wells
Delaware River
Has State Penitentiary
Norristown
William Feitz
Camden, J
Mais
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