Police clash as Italian citizens protest in Tunis
In Tunisia, police battled hundreds of Italian residents and arrested scores as Italians demonstrated for fascist claims on Tunisia. Key figure Ubildo Rey, head of Italian war veterans in Tunis, was among those detained amid heightened clashes near Italian consulates. Reports note protests in Tripoli and across the border with Libya, with authorities claiming order but ongoing tension over French colonial holdings.
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Np. Unis
Tunisia
Ubildo Rey
Tunis
Rome
Mediterranean
Italian
Libya
Tripoli
Giavi Nezza
Philippines Hit By Devastating Typhoon
A powerful typhoon swept southeast of Manila causing thousands to lose homes and widespread floods. It passed south of Manila, struck northern Mindoro and entered the China Sea. Heavy damage hit private and public properties and crops across provinces including Sorsogon Albay Camarines Sur Masbate Romblon Marinduque Leyte Samar and South Tayabas. Communication lines were prostrated in fifteen provinces. A 28.50 barometer reading marked the center as the storm moved through Sorsogon with winds over 75 mph.
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Manila
Mindoro
China Sea
Sorsogon
Albay
Camarines Sur
Cloudy and Continued Cold Tonight Friday
Weather report notes cloudy skies and continued cold conditions into Friday with highs around 84 and lows near 32. Rain chance listed at 1 percent. River stages shown for Jefferson City Keokuk and others with minor rises and falls, Lake of the Ozarks at seven feet below full.
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Wight
Telferson City
Kansas City
Waverly
Boonvie
St. Thomax Jo
Hamann
Urton
Lake of the Ozarks
Final Tabulation On Bond Election
The bond issue for water purchase failed 872 to 197 votes. Precinct results show First Ward totals with Yes and No counts across three precincts, Second Ward, Third Ward, Fourth Ward, and Fifth Ward precincts. City officials aimed to gauge cost as council prepared to meet next Monday to tally figures and handle routine business.
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Fifth Ward
Vale
Divorce Granted to Lucille Ward Seymour in Hermann
Mes. Lucille Ward daughter of Alderman O A Seymor obtained a divorce from Ralph S Ward in circuit court with Judge Breuer presiding after Judge Sevier recused himself. Ward did not appear and Lucille Seymour w Parkinson widens her name. Separately Gov Lloyd C Stark freed three former bank robbers Sylvester Ziegeimeier Lynn Clark and Edward Bloebaum serving 15 year terms for the Hawk Point bank robbery after merit time for hospital service during a meningitis outbreak. Court letter from Judge Woolfolk noted disparity in sentences for another participant Jasper Holmes and 1500 residents petitioned for clemency.
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Lucille Ward
Nike G. Sevier
R. H. Breuer
Hermann
Sevier
Ward
Alderman
O. A. Seymour
Lloyd C. Stark
Sylvester Ziegemeier
Lynn Clark
Edward Bloebaum
Hawk Point
Lincoln County
Board of Probation and Parole
Stark
Edgar B. Woolfolk
Troy
Woolfollk
Jasper Holmes
St. Charles
Sheriff Cracks Down on All Undesirables
Sheriff policy in Jefferson City targets transients with thirty day jail terms, reducing shoplifting and mooching. Deputies say merchants report fewer undesirables and suspicious characters around railroad yards and stores.
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Jefferson City
Bricks Thrown at Cotton Club Window on Highway 50
Four bricks were hurled through windows of the Cotton Club on Highway 50 west yesterday morning. Owners say the new club, successor to Swinglard, will proceed with its formal opening tonight. A clue to the offender was promised.
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Cotton Club
Highway 50 West
Swinglard
Two Killed When Train Hits Hog Truck in Rector
In Rector Arkansas a fast southbound Cotton Belt freight train struck a hog-truck and trailer at a main street crossing. Henry McCord 45 a stock man was killed instantly and Doyle Hampton 25 died later at a hospital in Paragould. Their associates Victor Glaub and Guy Adams escaped just ahead of the train. Dead and injured dogs scattered along the right of way. McCord had long operated his business. he leaves a widow and child. Hampton was unmarried.
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Rector
Ark
Henry McCord
Doyle Hampton
Mountain Home
McCord
Hampton
Paragould
Victor Glaub
Guy Adams
Man Arrested in Death of Delisle Boy
Len Harmon, sought after a fatal crash that killed Eugene DeLisle, was captured in Eureka Illinois. Police say he will resist extradition as Sheriff Walz and deputy prepare to take him to Springfield for extradition papers. The DeLisle boy died after a bicycle collision with a car driven by Harmon, who reportedly fled the scene. O Dwyer escaped serious injury.
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Len Harmon
Eugene DeLisle
Eureka
Carl Walz
Walz
Harmon
Robert Scholten
Springfield
Horner
DeLisler
East Capitol Avenue
Lafayette Street
Mary Brazier
Evelyn Trigg
H. Romberg
St. Louis
Jedvi
St Louis
DeLisle Boy
Bob O’dwyer
DeLisle
O'Dwyer
Leader of Purge Resigns in Russia
Nikolai Yezhov, famed for the political purge, resigns as commissar for internal affairs in Moscow on December 3. Lavrenti Beria succeeds him, with Yezhov remaining commissar for water transport.
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Russia
Moscow
Nikolai Yezhov
Lavrenti Respi Pavlovica Beria
Stalin
The
Caucasus
Yezhov
Ruling Allows Liquor Sales to Adults at State Schools
Assistant Attorney General J. F. Allebach ruled that selling liquor to students at the University of Missouri and other state-supported schools is legal if buyers are of age. He cited repeal of the statute forbidding sale to students in 1931, acting for liquor control supervisor E. J. McMahon.
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J. F. Allebach
University of Missouri
E. J. McMahon
Allebach
Army and Navy tighten grip on military secrecy plans
Washington reports that the Army and Navy are tightening controls on military secrets as defense work accelerates. New rules restrict photography and map making near forts ships and planes, with aliens in aircraft plants under closer scrutiny. Congress earlier authorized the steps and stricter permits now last only a few months. Penalties reach up to $1000 and a year in prison for unauthorized photos.
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Ewashington
Army
Navy
Roosevelt
Congress
Seven Die In Rock Slide At Bell Asbestos Mine
Seven miners were killed by a rock slide at the Bell Asbestos mine in Thetford Mines Que two hours after a dynamite blast. Three bodies were recovered. two men were uninjured. Workers from Bell mine and five other plants labored for hours to recover victims.
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Thetford Mines
Que
Bell Asbestos
Bell
Railroads Eye Income Tax Concessions to Cut Interest Burden
Three Senate Finance Committee members back letting railroads offset taxes on profits from buying their own securities at a discount to ease long term interest costs. Vandenberg calls it sound, while Truman doubts practicality and warns it could distort prices.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
House
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Herring
D-Ia
King
Utah
Truman
D-Ma
Railroad Finance Investigating Committee
Leo M. Cherne
Pax Research Institute of America
Senate Profit Sharing Committee
Plan Legislative Program to Eliminate All Isms
Veterans of Foreign Wars urged a near term legislative plan to stamp out foreign isms in testimony before the House committee on unamerican activities. Eugene Van Antwerp pressed policies to keep America out of war and to build a strong defense with trained reserves and modern equipment. He urged filing detailed constitutional, financial, and activity summaries for multi state groups, and to require copies of publications by such groups with the Library of Congress.
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Washington
Veterans of Foreign Wars
United States
Eugene I. van Antwerp
House
Roosevelt
Congress
America
van Antwerp
Library of Congress
Monopoly law delay eyed by federal committee study begins
Washington dispatch reports the monopoly committee will delay new anti trust legislation for a broad groundwork study of business machinery. It gathered data on patents in the automobile industry and will review the container industry next week before adjourning for holidays. Possible opposition from Arnold Borah and Henderson cited.
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Washington
Federal Monopoly Committee
Thurman Arnold
Justice Department
Borah
R-Ida
Leon Henderson
Arnold
Borah Jong
Congress
Glass
D-Va
Senate Banking Committee
WPA Expenditures Pass 1.6 Billion Mark
Treasury data show WPA spending totaling 1.6 billion dollars in just over five months of the fiscal year with seven months remaining. Despite peak employment passing, the agency has cut rolls slightly for three weeks as business improves. Expenditures rival last year and contribute to a federal deficit near 708.7 billion and a debt around 38.65 trillion.
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Washington
Treasury
WPA
Japan would close China's open door crisis grows
Tokyo reports Foreign Minister Hachira Ariila told U S and British envoys that it may be necessary to revise the principles of equal opportunity and the open door in China. Japan seeks to clarify its claim of a new order in East Asia after conquests and protests by Western powers.
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Tokyo
Nec
Hachira Ariila
Domei
United States
China
Joseph C. Crew
Robert Leslie Craghe
Japan
East Asia
Arita
Far East
Renzo Sawada
Manchoukuo
Enforcement of liquor law faces intensified drive in state
Attorney General Roy McKittrick calls for tougher action to curb violations of state liquor laws. He urges longer suspensions and license revocations for flouting rules, especially after hours and by establishments selling to minors. Governor Stark supports Lt. Col. E T McMahon, while proposals to codify penalties emerge, with debate over whether to formalize harsher sanctions.
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Alttorney
Roy McKittrick
Mee Iittrick
Col
E. T."mcmahon
St. Louis
Stark
Thomas F. Fitzgerald
Kansas City
Pitzgerald
Alarney
WCTU
Women's Christian Temperance Union
McMahon
Wien
AfcMahon
McKittrick
Fitzgerald
Brambling
Liquor Department
Mel¢ittrick
Train wreck injures four near Austin Texas
Four crewmen were injured when the Missouri Pacific Sunshine Special derailed at McNeil, 15 miles north of Austin. Engineer J C White and three others from San Antonio suffered injuries. the engine overturned, 7 of 12 coaches left the tracks and the train struck lime kilns. Observers cited a possible open switch as the cause.
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Tex
Missouri Pacific
McNeil
Here
J. C. White
San Antonio
J. K. Brown
George Hynes
J. D. Muckelroy
White
Austin White Lime Company
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