WPA Emergency Appropriation May Be Voted
In Washington Senate and House leaders plan quick talks with President Roosevelt over an emergency WPA relief appropriation as the agency nears a funding cliff. CIO leader Joan L. Lewis says 1 billion dollars may be needed through July 1, with Hill estimates ranging 500 to 750 million.
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WPA
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House
Roosevelt
Joan L. Lewis
CIO
Capitol Hill
Congress
Treasury
Rep
Woodruff
R-Mich
Republican Conference Committee
McNary
Oregon
Hatch
D-Nm
Wheeler
D-Mont
Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee
Walsh
D-Mass
Indictment Critics Fight AMA Prosecution Critique
Dr RG Leland of the AMA denounces federal indictments against District of Columbia Medical Society members and five AMA officials as diabolical persecution. He spoke to the Multnomah County Medical Society claiming armchair Washington statisticians misjudge medical service adequacy while noting low death and morbidity rates and predicting more than 1 million dollars in daily charity from doctors.
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Portland
Ore
RG. Leland
Bureau of Medical Economics
American Medical Association
District of Columbia Medical Society
Multnomah
15 Year Sentence For Killing Man
Fern Patricia Dull was sentenced to 14 to 15 years in the Detroit house of correction for manslaughter in the October 17 shooting she called her common law husband. Circuit Judge Mark D. Taylor denied a new trial as she stood before him. The former “office wife” of attorney William Holbrook answered questions with a weak no.
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ST. Joseph
Mich
Dmrs
Fern Patricia Dull
Detroit House of Correction
Mark D. Taylor
William Holbrook
Benton Harbor
Judge Taylor
White Slavery Suspected In Death Of Girl
Keelersburg, Pa., Dec 22. Authorities suspect 19 year old Margaret Martin was kidnapped and murdered by white slavers after her nude body was found trussed in a gunny sack in a creek. Police linked the case to a Wilkes-Barre ring that lured girls with fake stenography jobs then forced them into disorderly houses. 270 troopers hunted the area as autopsy indicated strangulation and torture.
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Margaret Martin
Here
Miss Martin
Kingston
Williams‘port Road
John
Martin
Wilkes-Barre
Tunkhannock
William A. Clark
State
Wilkes - Barre
Ray W.greenwood
H. Gordon Guyler
A. B. Davenport
Greenwood
Clark
Reenacted Los Angeles hatchet slaying details emerge
In Los Angeles a planned re enactment centers on the rotund suspect William Spinelli who allegedly killed his wife Rose Spinelli after threats to leave. Police say Spinelli confessed after being shown bone fragments and teeth from the incinerated body and described dismembering and burning her in a home cremation setup.
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Los Angeles
Rose Spinelli
Hubert Wallis
William Spinelli
Spinelli
Wallis
William
Helen
Dec. LZ
Joseph
Phat
Billy
Island Expedition at St Paul Island All Clear
Reports from the 48 person island expedition at St Paul Island say all is well after distress reports due to storms and coal shortages in the Indian Ocean. Captain John de Boers remains in command as the 580 ton trawler L Isle Bourbon began with 33 aboard Malo France. Cherokee Strip intact in Senate seating Republicans still hold majority with six Democrats nearby amid mixed party distribution.
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Paris
South Indian Ocean
St. Paul Island
Madagascar
St. Paul
John de Boers
Malo
France
L'Isle Bourbon
Cherokee Strip
Washington
Senate
Trapper Discovers Girl’s Body in Keelersburg Creek
Mary aged 18, Helen 15, and John 12 are named in a fatal incident near Keelersburg. Anthony Rezykowski, 19, a trapper, spotted the girl’s hand above the water while checking traps along the creek bank. He alerted authorities from a nearby farmhouse after the discovery.
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Mary
Helen
John
Anthony Rezykowski
Keelersburg Creek
Opie Read Birthday Reflections From a Humorist Giant
Chicago reports Opie Read turning 88 with humor and philosophy on literature. He cites that leadership comes from noble books and laments the era’s literary scene while preparing his Autobiography of the Devil. A jovial, self aware veteran of American letters shares wry anecdotes and views.
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Chicago
Opie Read
Mark Twain
Eugene Field
John Billings
Artemus Ward
Read
Devil
Satan
Britons urged to hire birth rate policy debate
London December 22 AP The British government urged the public to increase the birthrate for imperial reasons. Young dominions secretary Malcolm MacDonald, described as bachelor like Hitler, told the House of Commons that Britain must find a policy to raise the falling birthrate and conceded he could not take action himself.
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London
Hitler
Mussolini
Dominions
Malcolm MacDonald
House of Commons
Britain
Bespectacled bachelor backs emigration resolution
The bespectacled bachelor spoke in support of a resolution adopted by the house urging increased emigration from the United Kingdom to the dominions. The dialogue occurred as members laughed, noting the size of the largest authentic sea serpent at ten feet.
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MacDonald
House
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