Girl Hit by Auto Near Bristol Club Puts Chest Drive Ongoing
Miss Gertrude Melvin 27 of San Diego was badly injured when struck by a car on the John son City highway near the Green Parrot club. Doctors fear leg amputation. driver Gordon Trussell held without bond. The 1936 community Chest drive remains short of its $32,500 goal and will continue into next week.
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San Diego
Calif
Johnson City
Green Parrot
Community Hospital
Gordon ‘Trussell
Park
City
Ed Tittle
Bristol
Miss Melvin
Frank Melvin
Trussel
Five Die in Crash Near Portsmouth on Highway 52
Five persons were killed and four injured in a head on collision on U S highway 52 four miles west of Portsmouth. Deputy Sheriff Harry Thornton Norma Fannin Robert Kaylor John Reiser and Ralph Arnold died in the crash. Simer Reiser and Lawrence Schneller were injured. Survivors were unconscious, origin of the crash undetermined.
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Fortsmouth
U. S Highway 52
Portsmouth
Harry Thornton
Norma Fannin
Robert Kaylor
John Reiser
Ralph M. Arnold
Peebies
Crnton
Simer Reiser
Iaims
Lawrence Schneller
Thorntos
Weather Outlook Across States With Rain and Cooler Temps
Forecasts describe periodic rain and cooler conditions across Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, Ohio, and surrounding areas. Sunday brings varying rain with a warmer trend in Virginia and North Carolina, while Monday turns unsettled with colder, windy spells and possible showers late in the day.
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Kentucky
Tennessee
Collee
Virginia
Ohio
Moskay
North Carolina
South Carolina
Voller
Brazil backs peace plans at Inter-American conference
At the second plenary of the Inter-American peace conference in Buenos Aires, Brazil pledged full support for President Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policy. U S Secretary Cordell Hull proposed an eight point program to foster regional peace, while Brazil urged solidarity and warned of economic tensions. The Dominican proposal for an American League of Nations faced doubt as BRASIL and Chile opposed, and the plan envisioned a regional court and armed forces limits.
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Brenos Aires
Brazil
America
American League of Nations
Chile
United States
Argentina
Hweelvet
WPA Relief Slashes Prompt Protests and Demands
Relief workers threaten strikes and a Washington march over WPA cuts as Aubrey Williams cites a $16.6 million monthly level to justify a $2 billion annual rate. Labor committee says layoffs signal WPA liquidation while the Chamber of Commerce challenges 1936 relief spending. Williams calls the figures misleading and defends reduced costs.
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John Henderson Washington
aAn
Washington
Aubrey Williams
Works Progress
Congress
Williams
WPA
United States Chamber of Commerce
Washington Review
Mother and seven children die in Quebec explosion fire
In St Ambroise a cooking shed ignition by a dog caused gasoline to spill and ignite the family home. Louis Brassard found his wife carrying their 15 day old baby as flames spread. an 18 year old daughter Cyrienne escaped and rescued the infant, but seven children perished in their beds.
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Chicoutim
St Ambroise
Louis Brassard
Cyprienne
Sailor Confesses Extortion Plot Against Ginger Rogers
James Hall, a 20 year old Navy sailor aboard the aircraft carrier Lexington, was arrested near a Lone Beach café for attempting to extort $5000 from actress Ginger Rogers. J Edgar Hoover announced the capture by agents luring Hall with blackmail letters, ending fears for Rogers. Rogers and her mother Leila expressed relief at the arrest.
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LS Angles Dew
Ginger Roger
Department of Justice
J. H. Hanson
Department
James Fa Hall
Lestigion
Miss Rogers
Halcone
Jepperd Hie
Sue
Jame
J. Edgar Hoover
Ellet
Washington
Rogers
Leila Rogers
Joom
Tam
Wanson
Los Angeles
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hail
Miaris
Beaverbrook Launches Campaign Over Duke of York
Lord Beaverbrook begins a public push regarding the Duke of York as Britain faces a government crisis linked to King Edward's friendship with Wallis Simpson. The move coincides with Beaverbrook's return from the United States amid press coverage of the royal romance.
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Great
Duke of York
Rlse
King Edward
Central Press
Pope Pius XI Stricken by Paralytic Stroke
Vatican reports Pope Pius XI, aged 79, is bedridden with partial paralysis in his lower limbs. Doctors diagnose vascular and hypertensive factors. the pope continues to dictate and sign letters from bed, refusing to halt church duties while awaiting treatment.
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Vatican City
Pius XI
Crispi
Pius
Ram
Vatican
Agostini Gemelli
Milan
Father Gemelli
Catholic University At
Pontifical Academy
Linvei
Malvestuti
Callie Clies
Jardina
Tle
Eugenio Pacelli
Blum Cabinet Wins Confidence Vote On Spain Neutrality
Paris reports Socialist Premier Leon Blum’s cabinet wins a confidence vote 250 to 171 despite Communist abstention. He vows to override opposition and pursue a hands off Spain policy while Thorez warns that German and Italian intervention risks a European war. Blum links French peace to all Europe.
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Paris
Popular Front
Leon Blum
Communist Party
Blum
Ris
Spain
Thorez
Maurice Thorez
Germany
Perkins Foresees Close of Strike
Thousands of maritime workers marched in San Francisco while Labor Secretary Frances Perkins predicts an early end to the wide scale walkout. Government officials urge rapid action to ship supplies to strikers in Hawaii as 5,600 idle workers endure nine Bay Area strikes and related actions ripple across Pacific Atlantic and Gulf ports. Violence flared in Houston with one seaman shot and several beaten as French longshoremen end a boycott affecting New York cargo. Pittsburgh glass workers vow to negotiate as 7,200 expected to return to work at Pittsburgh Plate Glass after earlier walkouts.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Market Street
Frances Perkins
Texas
New York
Rank and
Acamen
Pittsburgh
J. McCabe
Federagfian
Flag
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
McCabe
Lite bey-Oweens-Flord
Wallis Simpson Evades Public in France Privacy Drive
In Cannes Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson ends a two day flight into southern France and is driven to the Villa of friends in a guarded arrival. A 70 ton yacht Sister Anne lies near Monte Carlo ready to carry her to distant shores if her privacy is breached.
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France
Dec
Wallis Warfield Simpson
Aerosk
Her
New York
Mrs. Simpson
Rogers
King
Riveria
Rogers Villa
One Body Favors Merged Churches
In Columbus Ohio on December 5 the Methodist Episcopal church votes overwhelmingly for a plan to merge the Methodist Episcopal, South, and Protestant churches into a single body. The merger would total about 7,213,000 members, with two-thirds of circuits required to ratify.
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Columbus
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Episcopal
John M. Arters
Bangor
Record of Eleanor Berger Court Appearance in Chicago
Eleanor Berger faced charges in Chicago for possession of alcohol believed to be too freely displayed in a tavern. She allegedly admitted to singing and saying she was not worried about talk as it related to her period. Five men testified against her. she also faced parole violation from a New York prison.
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Chicago
Eleanor Berger
Alice
Miss Berger
New York
Central Press
Bombs Hit Center of Madrid in Second Raid
Fascist aerial bombing strikes central Madrid near the American embassy and Arguelles sector, killing at least score of Marbilenos. Rescue crews search rubble as fire and shrapnel disrupts streets and a telephon building housing refugees. Two raiders shot down in aerial clash as govt ships take air.
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Madrid
Glorieta
de Queveda
Ainst
Pureair
Arguilles
San Jose Noapital
New Murder Charges Facing Widow's Mutilation Slayer
Brookville Indiana December A Heber L Hicks who served eleven years in Kentucky for killing a young widow and severing a finger to steal rings faces four first degree murder counts in a plot to kidnap and slay Harry R Miller a wealthy retired fire captain Prosecutor Kenneth Capes withheld whether death penalty would be sought Poholska former federal administrator aide indicted with Hicks trial date not set Confessions obtained by Captain Leach from Hicks and Poholska described the theft and plan with two accomplices. defense attorneys continued from page sixteen.
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Brookville
Ind
Heber L. Hicks
Kentucky
Harry R. Miller
Cinedas
Kenneth J. Capes
John J. Pohols
World Progress
Hicks
Poholsky
Matt Leach
Indiana
Leaeh
Fohaishy
Billera
Trent Ain Miller
Tehalsiy
Shisdiys
Stephens L
Edward's Next Move Awaited Over Country
London reports indicate King Edward VIII may abdicate Monday but no decision has been reached. The king weighs documents at Fort Belvedere amid mounting debates over his proposed marriage to Wallis Simpson as officials in Canberra and London remain uncertain. Royal aides and Winston Churchill oppose the union while Baldwin and Simon push for constitutional stability during the crisis.
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Britain
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Stanley Baldwin
Canberra
Australlia
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Edward
Wallis Warfreld Simpson
Baltimore
Herman Rogers
France
Simpson
Reginald Felowes
Monte Carlo
Wallie
Mrs. Simpson
Winston Chutchill
Downiurg
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Lord Craigarun
Prin
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