War Threatens In Mediterranean As Britain Wins War Sanctions Support
Reports from London state that British and French staffs reached satisfactory talks on mutual military support in case of an Italian attack in the Mediterranean. Paris discussions with Laval, Turkey, and Greece aim to extend sanctions and oil embargo. Eden orients British policy to defend League states and enforce penalties. The French Atlantic fleet is ordered to Brest for West African patrols, signaling broader naval readiness.
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Devon Francis
Mediterranean
Europe
London
Great Britain
France
Paris
Lavals
Turkey
Greece
Laval
Mussolini
Ethiopia
Associated Press
Anthony Eden
League of Nations
Italy
Stanley Baldwin
League Affairs
Eden
Britain
Geneva
Brest
Weather Snow and Colder in Tennessee and Nearby States
Partial clouds and colder air spread over Tennessee with some snow flurries in the east tonight. Kentucky expects clouds and light snow in the east, followed by colder, generally fair conditions. Virginia shows light snow tonight then fair and colder. North Carolina faces cloudy skies with snow flurries tonight and chilly temps tomorrow. Yesterday’s highs around 60 and snow measured in inches. no major storms reported.
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Tennessee
Kentucky
Lion
Wednesady
North Carolina
Drive Against Car Deaths Gains Momentum in Move
Washington reports a push to curb automobile fatalities following a fatal bus crash in Hopewell Virginia and the death of Senator Thomas David Schall a Minnesota Republican known critic of the New Deal. Schall died after being struck by a car while crossing near his home in a Mary suburb.
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Washington
Dee
Thomas David Schall
Minnesota
Hopewell
Borah
Idaho
Congress
Sehal
Senate
Covernor Lloyd B. Olson
Gurmer-leborite
Olson
Stevess Schall
Sehals
Cay
Mary
Smiths plans for 1936 press speech to Liberty League
Washington Dec 23 Alfred E Smith plans for 1936 are under question as he will speak January 25 in Washington to the American Liberty League on national issues. The event raises interest due to his past criticism of Roosevelt policies and his role on the league's national committee. Also noted is the Minnesota political outlook after Senator Schall's death and Governor Olson's potential bid for Schall's seat.
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D. Harold Oliver
Associated Press
Washington
Alfred B. Smith
Happy Warrior
American Liberty League
Smith
League
Wals
Charles Dawson
Kentucky
Neil Carothers
Lehigh University
Schall
R-Minn
Minnesota
Olson
Funeral planned for slain officer in Kentucky
Funeral plans were made today for State Highway Patrolman Robert Rowland Sr. of Franklin and J. P. Hayes of Smiths Grove after a gun battle at Bardcastle garage in Frankllin. Henry Hardcastle, 45, and his brother Howard were arrested with murder charges as a multi jurisdictional manhunt followed the raid. Sheriff Milliken said Hardcastle was slightly injured during arrest while night officer Arthur Garrett was wounded in the arm amid the confrontation.
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Bowling Green
Robert Rowland
Franklin
J. P. Hayes
Smith's Grove
Henry Hardcastle
Rowland
Bardcastie
Franklill
Hayes
Simpson
Harricastle
Howard
Henry
Irving Gregory
Kentucky
Tennessee
Milliken
Hardcastle
Arthur Garrett
Hard
Negro Holds Death Siege in Richmond Apartment
Police search for the unidentified Black man who forced his way into Miss Lillian Burton's Keysville apartment locking her at gunpoint for over two hours. Burton said the man drank whiskey, dozed, and she slipped away allowing neighbors to alert authorities. The man shot himself in the left side and died as officers entered.
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Richmond
Lillian Burton
Keysville
Felice
Grand jury probes Thelma Todd death details
Los Angeles December reports say the county grand jury sought murder details in the actress Thelma Todd case. Deputy DA George Johnson explained the inquiry aims to answer whether death was murder or accidental, with jealousy and unrequited love cited as possibilities. Todd's maid May Whitehead testified about finding the body in a seaside garage after a Hollywood party.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Grand Jury
Thelma Todd
George Johnson
Miss Todd
May Whitehead
Hollywood
Master Criminal Pauper at Death
Henry Midget Fernekes a gang leader died by suicide in a Joliet Chicago cell after a two month probe into his profits. Public administrator Bark Ruben notes burial costs will not exceed 2008 dollars as Fernekes, famed for criminal education, pursued self improvement and studied high explosives before his death in October. Continued on page eight.
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Robert M. Yoder
Dillinger
Henry
Midget" Fernekes
Fernekes
Bark Ruben
Joliet Penitentiary
Chicago
Poli
Ferenkes
Fernetes
Lindberghs Leave U S for England Home in Britain Planned
The Lindberghs the flying Colonel his wife and their son Jon will establish a home in England due to threats and fear of kidnapping. Friends say Colonel Lindbergh disliked New Jersey governor Holman’s handling of the Hauptmann case and chose to depart the United States for a calmer life in the British Isles where Jon can grow up with less danger.
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New York
Charles A. Lindberghs
Jon
America
England
Lindbergh
Harold G. Holman
New Jersey
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Lindberg
United States
Hauptmann
Plane pilot bails out in soup over Bell Buckle
Joe Greer a 34 year old U S weather bureau pilot bailed out before his plane crashed four miles north of Bell Buckle Tennessee. He was uninjured and reached Bell Buckle by parachute or ground later. He was substituting for Franklin N Knapp who was injured in a prior crash.
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Bell Buckle
Tean
Joe Greer
U. S. Weather Bureau
Associated Press
Nashville
Sky Harbor
Greer
Memphis
Franklin N. Knapp
Tenn
Dev
Weather Bureau
Films and death by own action Seen in 1936 by Astrologer
Hollywood discloses 1947 forecast from Mahlon Norvell noting 1936 would bring unhappy events for movie stars. He hints at a prominent death by own action, a Ruby Keeler and Al Jolson divorce risk, a sudden Dick Powell marriage, and Charles Chaplin facing business and romance troubles.
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Belman Mori
Associated Press
Hollywood
Mahlon Norvell
Thelma Todd
Norvell
Ster
Ruby Keeler
al Jolson
Dick Powell
Charles Chaplin
Quints Receive Dolls From Movie Star Shirley Temple
Quintuplets in Callander Ontario are gifted dolls by child star Shirley Temple. The dolls with wardrobes arrive as the Dionne siblings await Christmas. Dr Allan Roy DeFoe will place them around the nursery tree before a family Christmas day at the Defoe hospital. The Dionnes will share the hospital with 12 relatives from early Christmas morning.
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DeFoe
Dionne
Elzire
Oliva Dionne
Christ
Pagan Outlaw Declares Yuletide College Professor Says Christmas Forbidden
University of Illinois historian Professor William Woerrett Sweet says early Massachusetts law condemned Christmas as pagan and forbidden festival. He notes 17th century Puritan enforcement fined five shillings for Christmas observance, with Christmas popular only in the last half century in America. The AP dispatch from Chicago reports on this historical view and cites colonial legislation.
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H. John Lear
Associated Press
Chicago
New England
Paritins
William — Woerrett Sweet
University of Oliciare
Hodwin
Colony of
Massachusetts
America
Sweet
Nine identified in Bug plunge deaths at Appomattox River
Hopewell officials move toward formal inquest after autopsy confirms nine of fourteen victims identified in the Greyhound bus plunge into the Appomattox River. Authorities, including Captain HH B. Nicholas and Commonwealth's Attorney John Goodman, plan a full investigation and a Thursday inquest.
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Hopewell
Greyhound
Appomattox
Richmond
L. G. Alford
Anne Wi. Duncan
Pottsboro
N.C
J. O. Massey
John Belch
T. H. Fairfax
Superior
Wis
Lillian Fairfax
John Q. Rhodes
Virginian
HH. BE. Nicholas
State Police
Atlantic Greyhound
Appomattox River
D. D. McAfee
Reteigh
McAfee
Arthur Clark
Commonwealth
John T. Goodman
Allew
1D. L. Elder
Goodman
Elder
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Alrrady
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Greenfield
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