Senate approves moratorium on war debt and reparations
Congress ratifies a moratorium on war debts and reparations as the Senate votes 69 to 12 and the House had already approved. Law keeps debts intact while halting payments, with a Christmas recess to January 4 amid heated speeches and political sparring.
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Wasgton
Congress
Senate
House of Representatives
St. Nicholas
United States
House
Washington
Garner
Rainey
Four Lives Lost in Vatican Library Roof Collapse
Vatican City reports four deaths in the Vatican library roof collapse. Rescue teams recovered a young Italian attorney Marco Vatagio, and two workmen, with a fourth body found after extensive tunneling through debris.
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Vatican
Vatican City
Vatican Library
Marco Vatagio
Broadway Bank Fails After Christmas Deposits Liquidated
New Haven report states Broadway Bank and Trust Company did not open for business. Its latest statement showed savings deposits of 1.6 million dollars, general deposits of 846 thousand, and certificates of deposit 202 thousand. Christmas savings of 23 thousand were believed liquidated.
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New Haven
Conn
Broadway Bank and Trust Company
Riley Couple Sentenced for Cruelty to Child Edith
In Washington on December 23, Mr. and Mrs. Harry N. Riley received two years in prison and a $250 fine for cruelty to their 12 year old daughter Edith. Justice F. D. Letts imposed the maximum penalty after stating the evidence showed years of mistreatment including confinement in a dark closet. The stepmother was described as the dominating factor in the home while no evidence showed the husband protected the child.
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Harry N. Riley
Washington, D. C
Edith
Washington
F. D. Letts
Riley
Letts
Mr. Riley
Culbertson and Lightner Extend Lead in Bridge Match
Eleventh and final session at the Chatham ended with Culbertson and Lightner 10 705 points ahead and moving to the Waldorf Astoria. The Culbertson team lost 415 points as Lenz and Jacoby gained 59 550 points total in the rubber series, now 42 to 36.
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Chatham
The
Waldorf-Astoria
New York
Ely Culbertson
Theodore A. Lightner
Waldorf
Culbertson
Sidney
Lenz
Oswald Jacoby
Lightner
Jacoby
Mother and Child Drown When Auto Plunges Into Creek
Mrs. Clark Turlington aged 28 and her two year old daughter Emma Cathryn drowned when their car left a bridge over Markle creek twelve miles north of Clinton. Passersby later found the railing broken and car parts nearby. the mother and child were recovered from the submerged vehicle. The exact time of the accident could not be determined.
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Goldsboro
Clark Turlington
Emma Cathryn
Markle Creek
Clinton
States grant Christmas pardons to thousands of convicts
Nearly 2,500 inmates across 14 states will spend Christmas at home after pardons or paroles by governors and parole boards. Mississippi’s Theo Bilbo issued 108 pardons, Alabama’s B M Miller freed more than 1,000, Texas and Arkansas also extended releases, New York set a rare holiday precedent, Illinois granted 97 paroles, Minnesota sent 100 boys home from Red Wing reform school, with most inmates expected back after the holiday.
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United Press
Theo Bilbo
Mississippi
Bilbo
South
B. M. Miller
Alabama
Parnel
Arkansas
Sterling
Texas
Moody
New York
Parole Board
New York City
Emmerson
Illinois
White
Southern Illinois Penitentiary
Minnesota State Training School
Reform Institution
Red Wing
Slain Marian McLean Case Advances as Slayr Indicted
Cincinnati reports the Hamilton County grand jury returns a first degree murder indictment for Marian McLean's killer. The case names two murder charges and seeks rapid extradition or direct arraignment to speed justice. Police question three men as a nationwide manhunt continues.
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Cincinnati
William Ornsby
Marian McLean
McLean
William Hornsby
East 12Th Street
Marian
Hamilton County Grand
Lely
Charles Bischoff
Pudgy
James Devenny
Hornsby
Dennis Delaney
R. N. Gorman
John Doe
Common Pleas
Watermelons Bring Christmas Cheer in Dalton
In Dalton Georgia this Christmas season Jim Fowler produced several luscious watermelons and shared them with friends to augment the holiday celebration despite cold weather.
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Dalton
Jim Fowler
Actress Virginia Buchanan Dies at 88 in Amityville
Virginia Ellen Buchanan a longtime stage actress whose career ran from Edwin Booth to John Drew died yesterday at the Brunswick home in Amityville Long Island aged 88 Her father was early American tragedian McKeen Buchanan.
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New York
Virginia Ellen Buchanan
Edwin Booth
John Drew
Brunswick
Amityville
Long Island
Miss Buchanan
McKeen Buchanan
Hartsville Obituary for Coker Family Leader
James L. Coker oldest son of Major James L. Coker founder of Coker College and president of the Carolina Company dies in Hartsville South Carolina. Turkish boat disaster reports ten drowned after heavy storm on the Black Sea near Istanbul. An army airplane crash near Billingsley Alabama kills two, Lieutenant Bruce A. Tyndall and Private Walter N. Newborn.
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Hartsville
S. C
James L. Coker
Coker College
The
Carolinas Company
Istanbul
Black Sea
Sea of
Marmara
Hmyrna
Billingsley
Ala
Bruce A. Tyndall
Maxwell Field
Montgomery
Walter N. Newborn
Memphis
Tenn
State Railroads Seek Higher Intra State Freight Rates
North Carolina railroads filed with the state corporation commission a petition for higher intra state freight rates to align with new rates approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The carriers argue similar federal actions justify increases in intra state charges, noting comparable petitions in other states.
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Raleigh
N. C
Interstate Commerce Commission
State Corporation Commission
North Carolina
Snowflake photographer W. A. Bentley dies in Vermont
W A Bentley aged 67, famed as a world authority on snowflakes and nicknamed The Snowflake Man, died at his Jericho Vermont home. His work popularized snowflake photography and he was renowned for his scientific passion.
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Jericho
W. A. Bentley
The
Ian
Will Say: ERS PRIPING Dinner Note
In a dispatch from Dec 22 the author, possibly a vice president, asserts America supplies Orient needs and advises travelers to bring few clothes and four pillows with one feathered. The letter humorously notes rice-stuffed pillows and suggests acquiring toilet articles cigarettes shoes and standard American gear locally.
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Marshall
America
Asheville widow found in burning bed at her home
Mrs Georgia Ward a 66 year old widow was found dead in a burning bed at her West Asheville residence by firefighters. Police and detectives viewed the case as peculiar with no foul play evident while coroner Dr John Carroll prepared to hold an inquest later that afternoon led by Detective Captain Fred Jones who heads the inquiry.
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Asheville
N. C
Georgia Ward
John Carroll
Fred Jones
Jones
Judge rules out evidence in Buncombe county case
Two former Buncombe grand jurors Clyde Casey and C E Kiser testified before Judge C S McRae that they faced no intimidation. They recalled brief remarks about Charles N Malone and said a city official’s allegations were unsubstantiated. A Mrs Davie Frady corroborated their accounts.
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Buncombe
Asheville
N. C
Buncombe County
C. S. McCrae
Clyde E. Casey
C. BE. Kiser
Wickes Wamboldt
Charles N. Malone
Case
Kiser
MacRae
Malone
Grand Sur
Davie Frady
Merchants Trust Co Fails To Open In Waterbury
New England bank collapses while holding savings deposits of 3.19 million and commercial deposits of 2.7 million in Waterbury Connecticut. Officials report the Merchants Trust Company failed to open on December 23. The bank faced sudden closure impacting local customers and businesses.
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NEW England Bank
Waterbury, Conn
Merchants Trust Company
No One Takes This Gunman Seriously Except Himself
Los Angeles police report a young Billy Lyon, a year old negro boy, tried to pose as a gunman but no one took him seriously. A garage worker laughed when he used a toy pistol, a policeman laughed at the scene, and Billy was arrested not as a gunman but as a runaway and returned to his father.
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Los Angeles
Billy Lyon
Billy
Kansas City Woman Identifies Leader of Kidnaping Gang
Mrs Nell Donnelly a Kansas City manufacturer identifies Marshall de Pew 38 steam shovel operator as leader of a so called amateur kidnapping gang. She says he drove the car that carried her and her chauffeur to a rendezvous near Bonner Springs Ark last Wednesday night. Browning and Scheidt have confessed and were arraigned on kidnapping charges. They are held without bond as the crime is a capital offense in Missouri.
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Kansas City
Nell Donnelly
Marshall de Pew
Ark
Lacey Browning
Paul Scheidt
Missouri
Pravda Blames United States for Japanese Invasion
Pravda editorial holds the United States primarily responsible for Japan’s occupation of Manchuria. It blames U S policies under Secretary Stimson for weakening Japan and provoking conflict between Japan and Soviet Russia.
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Moscow
Pravda
Manchuria
United States
Stimson
Japan
China
Soviet Russia
Air Mail Pilot Recounts Narrow Akron Near-Miss in Fog
Air mail pilot Ray Fuller of New Orleans recalled nearly striking the Navy airship Akron in fog near Mobile. Flying 120 mph over Mobile, Fuller said he saw the blimp briefly in the mist and swooped beneath it, noting the Akron resembled the fog and could have caused disaster. The Akron was on a training flight from Lakehurst to New Orleans when bad weather forced it to abandon course.
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Air Mail
Akron
Birmingham
Ala
Ray Fuller
New Orleans
American Airways
Sam
Fuller
Gulf Coast Air
Mobile
Atlanta
Bay
Navy
Lakehurst
N. J
Atlantic Seaboard
Japanese Armored Train Attacks Chinese Train
A Japanese armored train attacked a Chinese armored train between Yinkow Newchwang and the next station as a cavalry regiment joined the assault from the rear. Mukden hosts new Manchurian bandit expeditions with Lieut. Gen. Jiro Tamon directing forces against thousands of bandits near the Liao river and the south Manchuria railway.
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Yinkow
Newchwang
Gulf of Liaotung
Chinchow
Mukden
Manchuria
Japan
South Manchuria
Liao River
Jiro Tamon
Tsitsibar
Linchang
Liaoyang
Nenchwang
Peiping
Fukumen
South Manchuria Railway
Mukden-Antung
Chinwangtao - Shanhaikwan
Port Arthur
Chinwangtao
Tokyo
Chang Hsueh-Liang
Tokyo Supreme War Council
Honjo
Committee hears request for more land bank funds
Washington hearing reveals a proposal to add 25 million dollars to the existing 100 million land bank bill aimed at easing delinquent borrowers. Chairman Carey leads the banking subcommittee as Paul Bestor cites large delinquency totals and discusses a tentative moratorium plan.
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Washington
Senate
Carey
Banking
Paul Bestor
Federal Farm Loan
Coe
Brace
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