Martial law rumors swirl as courts weigh unemployment act
A three judge panel enjoins Alabama from enforcing an unemployment insurance provision while challenges to the act proceed. The decision names Gulf States corporation and South Coal and Coke company in the case, with Attorney General A. Michael and the state unemployment insurance board involved. A separate Supreme Court filing from P Davis of Maine seeks to test taxing provisions under the Social Security act. The high court may weigh whether Title Nine taxes are constitutional after lower court dismissal.
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Thehusetts Federal District
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Court of Appeals
Rliner Lost in Utah Snow On Mountain Flight Into Snowy Wastes
An airliner bound from Los Angeles to Lake City with passengers including Gladys the stewardess disappeared in Utah snow. The craft vanished near Milford while at about 10 000 feet. A clue emerged when a radio contact described a high over one plane. A second report noted a sighting near Delta, 90 miles from Milford, suggesting a remote landing or forced diversion.
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Duke Power to file brief in High Point hydro project case
Duke Power Company officials said they would file a brief in superior court in Greensboro challenging the proposed 2.595 million WPA grant to High Point for a Yadkin river hydro electric plant. Judge Hoyle Stak will hear the case Monday with J. Paul Williamson's friendly suit against High Point.
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Woman Killer Hangs Self in Michigan Jail
Hope Morgan 25 confessed a homicidal impulse killed her friend Elizabeth Gilter after jealousy over an upcoming marriage. She hanged herself in Mason county jail while awaiting a sanity commission. Sheriff’s wife found her body. coroner said death likely occurred about 3:30 AM.
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Allan A. MacDonald
Hope Morgan
Mason
Sanity Commission
Elizabeth Gilter
Michigan State College
Allan McDonald
North Carolina Senate Passes Unemployment Bill and University Bond Measure
Raleigh reports the senate passed the unemployment compensation bill on second reading by 47 to 0 and approved a house measure allowing UNC to issue bonds through June 1 to match PWA funds for an athletic building and a women's dormitory at Chapel Hill and improvements at State College.
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Washington
Edgar Pharr
Charlotte
Walter Murphy
Rowan
Constable Croom Advocates Peace Over Jail Time
Kinston December 15 Constable Seth Croom says he favors keeping people out of jail rather than sending them there. In 18 years on the force he has been shot twice nearly drowned once and knocked unconscious four times while handling mules. He became known as a countrywide peacemaker and says he is working hard at it.
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Seth Croom
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Meeting Called To Study PWA Hydro Electric Loans
Mayor Ingram of Tarrant City Alabama calls a December Decatur conference of Alabama Mississippi and Tennessee municipal officials to examine faster court action on PWA loans for power plants. He aims to form a Southeastern Municipal Ownership league and press Congress to back low interest municipal funding and to investigate private financing restrictions.
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Roosevelt lands in capital after Buenos Aires cruise
President Roosevelt lands at Charleston completing a 28 day round trip to the Buenos Aires peace conference. He steps ashore in a gray suit, is greeted by Mrs. James Roosevelt Jr. and secretaries, then heads to a 12 hour ride to Washington amid cheering residents.
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James Roosevelt
Washington
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Chester
Night hours for Christmas shopping planned by city merchants
Merchants in Winston Salem begin evening hours Friday through Christmas Eve to ease holiday demand. The plan includes a potential three day Christmas closure with Dec 28 reopening and 22 store owners signaled support. Greensboro weighing the option as well.
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Winston-Salem
Greensboro
Duke of Windsor Seeks Sedatives Amid Ill Headache
Edward, the Duke of Windsor, demands sedatives to ease a torturing head and earache while staying at Enzesfeld. Baron de Rothschild arranges medicine from Baden. detectives guard the chateau as remodeling continues. Packages to Windsor include coffee and a Cannes parcel. Mrs Simpson remains abroad.
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Insurgents Beaten Off By Defenders In Madrid Assault
In Madrid the government reported repulsing renewed Fascist attacks near Boadilla Del Monte and Fresnedilla. Socialist militia countered with artillery and flank strikes, halting the assaults on Valdemorillo and the capital defenses. A Red Christmas collection began as celebrations shifted from battle to morale.
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Wallis Simpson Plans Riviera Social Return
Mrs Wallis Simpson tired of seclusion in Cannes plans to re engage with Riviera society after King Edward VIII's abdication ends the crisis. Through hostess Mrs Herman Rogers she hopes to join golf teas concerts at the Casino and bridge parties once crowds stop following her at the villa.
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Buzzard Roost Hydroelectric Case Set for Retrial
The Public Works Administration loan and grant contest over the Buzzard Roost hydroelectric plant in Greenwood County is slated for retrial within about 80 days. Judge Wilbur D. White of the South Carolina Western District Federal court announced the remand for rehearing after Supreme Court error of procedure in lower courts.
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Edith Maxwell Not On Stand In Virginia Murder Trial
Defense for 22 year old Edith Maxwell rested without calling her to testify in the case alleging she killed her 52 year old father Trigg Maxwell at their Pound County home on July 21 1935. Ediths sister Mary Kathryn testified the father threatened to finish Edith after an earlier altercation.
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Conferees Press Toward Peace in Maritime Strike
In San Francisco on December 15 conferees from offshore ship owners and unlicensed seagoing unions pressed peace talks in the maritime strike now in its 47th day. Talks narrowed to hiring halls control and how to enforce agreements and settle future disputes. Assistant Secretary Edward F. McGrady voiced cautious optimism, not expecting a settlement for at least ten days.
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Edward F. McGrady
Federal agents capture desparado in gun fight on West Side
Federal agents laid siege to an upper West Side apartment for 45 minutes and captured Harry Brunette 25 after a exchange of gunfire that wounded his wife. J Edgar Hoover said Brunette sought for kidnaping a New Jersey state trooper and several midwestern bank robberies.
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Fate of Chief Chiang in doubt as Reds hold city
Dec 15 dispatches report martial law across China after Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang killed Chiang Kai-Shek and other leaders. Nanking government orders a crackdown on demonstrations, vows to crush rebellious forces in the north, and confirms Chiang's policy line while advancing against Chiang’s rebel capital.
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Local Weather: Rain Tonight Across Regions
Rain expected tonight and on Wednesday in North and South Carolina with warmer conditions in the central and southeastern areas. Northeasterly winds rise, shifting to northwest in the south, and overcast skies with rain are forecast from Hatteras to Jacksonville and Sandy Hook to Hatteras.
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