Central government forces drive toward Sian Fu to rescue Chiang Kai-Shek
Shanghai dispatches report central government troops move west toward Sian Fu to free Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, held after his seizure by Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang. Negotiations and mutinies unfold as Eight Demands for release emerge, amid martial law in Hankow and Nanking.
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Shanghai
Sian-Fu
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Pieping
Chang Hsueh-Liang
Japan
Chiang
Australia
Feng Yu-lsiang
Nanking
iManaguria
Manchukuo
Sian- Fu
Prohibition Legislation Faces Legislature Debate
Missouri lawmakers weigh local option on liquor as pressure builds from constituents. Observers expect low chances for passage in both houses due to opposition and reorganizing. Revenue from liquor control nears 5 million this year with one third funding schools, the sales tax, and social programs, prompting pension funding concerns if local option passes.
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Missouri
House
Senate
Department of Liquor Control
Widow of Sedalia bank leader dies after brief illness
Sedalia Missouri December 14 AP Leona Boggs Harris widow of Henry W Harris and one of Sedalias wealthiest residents died today after a few hours of illness. She leaves sons Henry R Harris president of Third National Bank and John Boggs Harris of Kansas City plus daughters Nina and Marine and sister Mrs Marshall Rust of Pilot Grove.
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Sedalia
Leona Boggs Harris
Henry W. Harris
Henry R. Harris
Third National Bank
John Boggs Harris
Kansas City
Nina
Marine
Marshall Rust
Pilot Grove
Girl in Boy’s Clothes Returns to Montrose School
In Montrose Colorado Helen Coberly a 16 year old girl who dressed as a boy to attend Montrose high school returns to classes after a court ruling. County Judge Earl J. Herman said she committed no offense and may stay after parents consent. Helen wore a dress on her return and resisted the dress code but complied to re enroll.
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Montrose
Colo
Helen Coberly
Helen
Montrose High School
Trinidad
Joe Coberly
Joseph Coberly
Earl J. Herman
Earth tremors felt near home of Qui nts in Ontario
Slight earth shocks were felt today in North Bay and Callander home of the Dionne quintuplets. The shocks lasted about 30 seconds and caused no visible damage.
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North Bay
Ont
Callander
Fear of tickling causes gun wound in Missouri
Hershel Bruton, 16, was shot and gravely wounded near his Springfield home after a weed tapped him and he thought a companion, Cecil Bruton, had tickled him and threw down his shotgun. The weapon discharged in the incident attributed to fear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Hershel Bruton
Rosa Ponselle Honeymoon Begins After Long Wait
Opera star Rosa Ponselle began her honeymoon with husband Carle A. Jackson son of Baltimore mayor Howard W. Jackson. Justice Salvatore Cofillo of the district court officiated the ceremony at Ponselle’s apartment in New York.
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New York
Rosa Fonselle
Carle A. Jackson
Howard W. Jackson
Baltimore
Salvatore A. Cofillo
Supreme (District) Court
Med
Miss Ponselle
Boonville Clerk Sentenced to Two Years in Prison
Charles H. Huber former Boonville city clerk pleaded guilty in Huntsville circuit court to embezzling 25,400 from the city. He was sentenced to two years on each of 12 indictments, to run concurrently, in a case moved there on change of venue.
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Huntsville
Charles H. Huber
Boonville
Huber
W A Naylor Death Linked to Regard for Injured Son
W A Naylor a 40 year old Kansas City Missouri man took his own life in Grenada Mississippi today, following worry over injuries to his 12 year old son on a construction job he supervised. Police believed the incident stemmed from the boy's injuries.
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Grenada
Miss
W. A. Naylor
Kansas City
Verdict of Accident in Merchant Death at East Prairie
A coroner ruled R. D. Watson a 56 year old East Prairie merchant died in an accidental crash near a bridge south of East Prairie. His car struck the bridge rail, was held 20 feet above a drainage ditch by a steel railing, and he died from injuries sustained.
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Charleston
Paul Hackney
R. D. Watson
East Prairie
Watson
Condition of Pope Pius XI Worsens With Varicose Complication
Vatican reports say Pope Pius XI suffers circulatory stagnation worsened by a grave varicose condition in a left leg. At 79, officials caution against predicting relief, though no imminent danger is stated. He slept with a book on Ethiopia and engaged with Cardinal Pacelli in church affairs yesterday.
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Vatican City
Pius XI
Holy Father
Emilio de Bona
Pietro Badoglio
Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli
Escaped inmate Enochs recaptured with gunshot wounds
Charles Enochs, who escaped Warrensburg jail three times since June, is held in Wichita with five gunshot wounds after police trapped him with two burglary suspects identified as James Jenkins and Ira Green in Eldorado. Police recovered stolen goods and nitroglycerine. Enochs claimed wounds during prior arrests in Excelsior Springs and near Kansas City. Eddie Scott, 32, admitted aiding the escape and faces three years. Jack Stewart and R. C. Grant receive four and five years in reform school and Algoa.
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Wichita
Kas
Charles
Enochs
Warrensburg
James Jenkins
Ira Creen
Eldorado
Leroy Bowery
Bowery
Excelsior Springs
Kansas City
Jack Stewart
R. C. Grant
Algoa Re
New King to Uphold Honor of Realm
The former King of England, after quitting the throne for Mrs Wallis Simpson, is living as a private citizen in Austria. He plans a Vienna medical visit for a long standing ear ailment and was seen leaving Vienna station, with doctors noting the ailment likely from a fall or infection. Federal agents report Oklahoma moonshine seizures averaging 43 stills monthly.
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Edward
Vienna
Voeslau
Austria
Duke of Windsor
England
Wallis Simpson
Heinrich Neumann
Eugene de Rothschild
Here
France
Switzerland
Neumann
Strike ends strikebound vessels freed in Pacific coast
A surprise settlement ends 45 day maritime strike stalemate. 230 vessels liberated, Western shipping to resume as unions and shipowners settle most issues. Mediator McGrady calls progress optimistic. Gulf ports see related victories as deck officers and engineers return to work with enhanced pay and benefits.
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San Francisco
Sailors Union of the Pacific
Pacific Coast
Sailors Union
Ewa
Maritime Workers
Harry Lundeberg
Edward F. McGrady
Houston
Tex
Sykes Brothers Steamship
Gulf Ports
International Seamen’s Union
Masters, Mates and Pilots Association
Steamship Hines
Former Odd Fellows Official Succumbs
George Grant Lyd, 71, former grand master of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Missouri and longtime chairman of the grand lodge committee, died of pneumonia in Springfield.
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Springfield
George Grant Lyd
Independent Order of Odd Fellows of
Missouri
Grand Lodge
IOOF
Oklahoma deputy frees two men tied to Funk holdup slaying
Deputy Sheriff Dan Kean released two men questioned in the holdup slaying of Robert D. Funk, a 34 year old Tulsa pipeline worker. An foreman reported seeing them at Sapulpa within thirty minutes of the Dec 5 incident near Moore, as the investigation continues.
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Oklahoma City
Dan Kean
Robert D. Funk
Tulsa
Kean
Sapulpa
Funk
Moore
21st Child Born to Michigan Couple in Caesarean Birth
Benton Harbor Michigan December 14 AP a factory worker and his wife welcomed their 21st child after a Caesarean delivery of a 74% pound son to Mrs Fred Hungerford 45. The birth followed weeks of anticipation and adds to a large family renowned in the community.
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Benton Harbor, Mich
Benton Harbor
Fred Hungerford
Keytesville Man Killed in Car Crash
Morgan Huddle, 25, of Keytesville died from injuries after an automobile collision on Highway 24 near Huntsville Saturday night. Raymond Quick of Keytesville, driver of the car, is in Huntsville jail pending investigation.
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Moberly
Deco
Morgan Huddle
Keytesville
Huntsville
Raymond Quick
Huddle
Postal Life Insurance policy offer advertised
An offer from Postal Life and Casualty Insurance in Kansas City promotes a new disability and death policy. It pledges up to 190 a month for 24 months of disability and up to 1000 for death, with annual cost around 43.50. The ad claims nearly a quarter million policyholders and invites all ages to apply with a free medical examination, no money required and no agent visits.
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Postal Life & Casualty Insurance Ga
Postal Life Bldg
Kansas City
Bence Fissary
Officials Probe Railroad Crash at Boyd Junction
In New Hampton Iowa four trainmen died when a Great Western passenger and freight train collided amid fog near Boyd Ja. Coroner William Larkin called an inquest for tomorrow as investigators seek the crash cause. Victims were Charles Messenger 67 Ole Engelbretson 59 Herman Ottinger 59 and Richard Knutson 51 all from St Paul.
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New Hampton
Great Western
Boyd
William Larkin
Harry Worm
Charles Messenger
Ole Engelbretson
Herman G. Ottinger
Richard Knutson
St. Paul
U S Woman Takes Own Life in Paris
Paris dispatch reports Mrs. Helen Pierce Breaker, 46, a former St. Louis resident and art photographer, committed suicide by inhaling gas today after living in Paris for eight years.
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U. S
Paris
Helen Pierce Breaker
St. Louis
Rioted Suitor Slays Girl and Shoots Himself
Scott City Kansas December 14 A jilted Clearwater Kan athletic coach J M Nicholson 25 shot and killed Ruth Biggs and then wounded himself after a failed marriage proposal to Ruth Biggs who had just married Mrs Lester Owens Nicholson later drove to a Scott City filling station with barbed wire in his car radiator. Authorities withheld charges pending his recovery.
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Scott City
Kan
J. M. Nicholson
Clearwater
Lester Owens
Nicholson
Ruth Biggs
Bentley
Owens
Glenn Ramsey
H. Nicholson
Wichita
Attempt to cross turkeys fails in fertilization test
Washington dispatch reports that agriculture department experts called an effort to cross turkeys and chickens a failure. Artificial methods were used to fertilize Rhode Island red hens and turkey hens, but only a few eggs were fertile and those died during incubation.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Rhode Island
Local names list from Springfield to Moberly
A fragmentary roster-like line lists individuals connected to cities including Springfield Kansas City Canyon St. Louis Moberly with surnames Brenner Johnson Stone Albrecht Bezoni Eichenberger and others. The text reads as a sequence of names and places without full context or action.
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Zer
Springfield
Robert Brenner
Kansas City
Lee Johnson
Canyon
Texas
Herbert W. ‘Jansen
S Springs
Douglas Stone
Irvin Albrecht
St. Louis
Orland’ Scott
Ash Grove
Rey Bezoni
Chamois
Richard Eichenberger
Moberly
Missouri Democrats Plan Early Caucus For Unified Vote
Representative Clarence Cannon of Elsberry Missouri said 12 Missouri Democrats reached a tentative agreement to refrain from pledging to leadership until a caucus returns to the capital. He expects a unit vote after all members return. Sam Rayburn and John J OConnor are leading candidates. Cannon declined to predict the outcome.
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Washington
Clarence Cannon
Elsberry
Missouri
Sam Rayburn
Texas
John J. O'Connor
New York
Cane
Funeral held for Henry Franz dynamite death in Missouri
Funeral services were held today for Henry Franz age 65 who died by his own action Saturday night by placing dynamite under his hat and lighting the fuse. The blast rattled windows within two miles and the body was found yesterday with a pocket watch still attached.
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Moberly
Dee
Henry Franz
Jewish youth convicted of killing Nazi in Switzerland
David Frankfurter, a young Jewish medical student, was found guilty of murdering Nazi organizer Wilhelm Gustloff in Switzerland. He received an eighteen year prison sentence and was ordered expelled from Swiss territory after serving his term.
Delta Sigma Pi initiates ten students in Columbia
In Columbia Missouri on December 14 an announcement was made that ten students were initiated into Delta Sigma Pi an honorary international professional commerce society. Names include Lawrence from Saint Joseph and Richard Schweit among others.
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Columbia, Mo
Delta Sigma Pi
Lawrence Hae
St. Joseph
Richard Schweit
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