Lindy Reaches England Guard Escorts Flier Home
The Lindberghs landed in Liverpool aboard the American Importer and, escorted by detectives, went to the Adelphi Hotel. Anne Morrow Lindbergh and their son Jon followed, as crowds cheered and a police escort cleared a path. The family avoided comment while authorities noted Hauptmann’s upcoming murder-conviction in New Jersey.
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Lloyd Lehrers
Coupyright
Associated Press
Liverpool
Charles A. Lindberghs
United States
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
American Importer
Adelphi Hotel
Jon
Gladstone
Mersey River
Home Office
Farmix
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Lindberghs
Tittle
Itler
Hauptmann
New Jersey
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr
Enllow Cindy Hive
Wales
Seathind
Stra
Shippit Company
Lindberzins
Weather Report Notes Snow and Warm Air Near Coast
Fragmented text describes snow and warm air affecting Virginia and North Carolina with references to Wednesday conditions. Mentions freezing, mixed precipitation, and unsettled forecasts across regions.
World in 1936 Faces Italo Ethiopian War and Global Tensions
A 1936 outlook by Richard H. AP staff surveys three major flashpoints. Italo Ethiopia war strains drive East African risk while European rearmament and dynastic shifts signal upheaval, and Far East tensions rise as Japan presses into North China and Manchukuo.
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Richard Hippelheuser
Associated Press
New York
East Africa
Hapsburg
Far East
China
Japan
Mancheukuo
Rus Gia
Peolus Republic
Mussolini
Ethiopia
League
Europe
Tr Duce
Tennessee cold wave yields sixth death as 80 year old woman dies
In Tennessee the cold snap continues with snow and ice. Margaret Netherland an eighty year old Black woman was found frozen to death in a ditch near Mascot Knox county after being missing since Sunday night. A 14 year old girl Helen Meadors was injured in a sled accident. A downtown fire in Jackson destroyed a three story furniture store. Minimum temperatures rose slowly but remained low.
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Washville
Tennessee
Magaret Netherland
Jackson
Memphis
Farley defends New Deal prosperity in 1936 campaign
Postmaster General Farley urged voters to judge the Roosevelt era by rising business and employment indices. He argued that prosperity disproves Republican attacks and emphasized contrasts with 1932 as Democrats rally behind FDR. Other developments include Massachusetts ex-governor Ely backing Smith and Hamilton Fish Jr. planning outreach.
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Washington
Farley
Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Republican National Committee
Joca
Joseph B. Ely
Massachusetts
Alfred Smith
Smith
Hamilton Fish, Jr
Nye's Neutrality Plan Nears Press Release
Memphis December 31 Senator Nye outlined a proposed neutrality bill after warning the U S is edging toward war. He said the plan will mandate administration of the neutrality act, compare 1914 15 policy to a more permissive era, and will be sent to the press Friday for Monday publication. The address drew militant peace resolutions from a Methodist Youth conference and Nye stated support for Senator Borah for the Republican nomination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Nye
Peave
Methodist Young People’s Conference
Willian E. Borah
Repub
Roosevelt Plans Note to Congress in Budget Year
President Roosevelt drafts address to Congress outlining 1936 budget and deficit reduction. He plans to submit 1936 expenditures, public works proposals, and White House consultations with Morgenthau Glass and others. Redistribution of federal reserve board and tax policy are anticipated parts of the plan.
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Wrington
Roosevelt
Congress
Capitol Hill
White House
Morgenthau
Daniel Bell
Glass
Virginia
Secretary of the Treasury
Caks
Senate
Federal Reserve Board
Rekes
Chicago
Notre Dame University
Talmadge Ready to Control Money
Georgia governor Eugene Talmadge pledges there will be plenty of money to run the state next year while refusing to detail how finances will be managed. The 1935 legislature failed to pass a 1836 appropriations bill and Talmadge declines an extra session, prompting talk of a tax strike as opponents cite December revenue trends.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Eugene Talmadge
Thay
Talmadge
Wrisen
Milton Shirah
Colnwitt
Death Moves In Cycles Says Filmland
A garbled report recalls a string of film industry deaths and tragedies tied to cycles of time. It lists figures such as William Boyd, Millard Webb, Trent Clavier Lore, and Jackie Coogan with references to accidents and fatalities across 1920s events amid sensational Hollywood lore.
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Filmland
Fommerty
Millard Webb
Trent Clavier Loreaim
Jack Coonan
Jackie Coogan
Phillip Klein
Ted Tune
Ray Long
Subie Graham
Tor Monroe Salisbury
Vile Resers
Maurjorie White
Wis Isledi
Hollywoo
Mack
Japs to Welcome New Year Tonight
San Francisco dispatch notes Japanese communities worldwide will celebrate the end of the year and greet the Year of the Moon. The 1936 cycle begins with the mouse followed by the cow tiger rabbit and others. Businesses close for two weeks as families visit, share sake, and purify homes with Shimenawa decorations.
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San Francisco
Japan
Sound waves may destroy insects in future pest control
Scientist Stephen J. McDonough reports that sound waves could be used to kill the periodical cicada and similar pests. He notes the male chorus driving tree damage and suggests targeted sound frequencies might suppress the insect’s mating calls, reducing crop harm.
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Stephen J. McDonough
Associated Press
ST. Louis
S. Ie
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Pendue
Organize Defense Scottsboro Case Formed in Birmingham
Birmingham, Ala. Dec 31 announcement of Scottsboro Defense Committee with Norman Thomas letters. Sponsors include prominent North and South figures. Arraignment for nine Negroes on March 25 1931 charges set for Jan 6 in Decatur. National groups join in defense amid funding and leadership roles.
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Birmingham
Ala
Scottsboro Defense Committee
Norman Thomas
Socialist Party
Thomas
North
South
Scottsboro
Victoris Price
Ruby Bates
Southern Railway
Decatur
Thomas Fisted
National Association For Advancement of Colored People
The
American Civil Liberties Union
League For Industrial Democracy
Labor Defense Committee
International Labor Defense Ax
Bachelors Seek Cover in Year of Open Season on Men
The 366 day bachelor year prompts unattached women in New York Chicago and Washington to eye top eligibles. Frank Crownshield editor of Vanity Fair and New York's “most chivalrous gentleman” leads a list that includes Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and Harvey Laden. In D C the hunt centers on Edgar Toover and Sen Rush D Hult among others as observers warn the bachelor hunt may backfire.
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Chicago
Dec
New York
Washington
Hollywood
Frank Crownshield
Vanity Fair
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
Harvey Laden
I Y
Woolworth Donahue
Woolworth
Barbara Hutton
Jrandsome
Fin Love Ing
Edgar Toover
Rush D. Hult
West Virginia
Senate
David T. Walsh
Massach
Memphis Considers TVA Power Distribution Options
Memphis officials weigh three paths to TVA power including private utility distribution, purchasing another firm's lines, or building a municipal system. The city already signed a 20 year TVA power contract and $9 million bonds for a distribution plant while coordinating loan financing with the water department.
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Memphis
TVA
Allen
Memphis Power & Light Co
Rampiny
City Light Department
Water Department
Final Appeal Prepared In Edith Maxwell Case
Counsel prepared for a final appeal in Wise county Virginia relating to Edith Maxwell. The case involves a suppression hearing and questions of intent as Maxwell testified about striking her father with a slipper. the court heard arguments from defense and Richmond based counsel for a national interest group. The trial concerns a fatal death attributed to premeditated murder in Terme Virginia and a local judge presiding.
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Wise
Edith Maxwell
Wise County
Kehod
Serhabbor
Jwise
H. A. Siseen
Reed Sect
Vretion Thes
M. J. Fulton
Bop
Dotton
A. A. Skeen
Putive
Richmond
Virginia
National Woman's Party
Maxwell
South- West Virginia
Edith
Trips Ataewok
Terme
Nine Swedes and 23 Ethiopians Killed In Aerial Bombardment
The Ethiopian high command reported to Addis Ababa that nine Swedish troops and 23 Ethiopians in an ambulance unit were killed by Italian bombs near Dole on the Ethiopian Italian Somaliland frontier. Reinforcements moved to the northern front as Mussolini outlined slow advances toward Ethiopia.
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Addis Ababa
High
Southern African Front
Ras Desta
Demtu
Haile Selassie
Dole
Associated Press
East Africa
Ethiopia
Italy
Mussolini
Makale
Aksum
Fusciats
Nnie
Takk
Multale
Tembien
France
Faselgts
Africa
Markate
Wlhiapwy
Communiquy
Fragmentary Historic News Item
An unclear OCR fragment mentions Benjamin Franklin, a person named Judgie Thomas Groun, and a reference to a long vacation in Chicago with vague wartime or delay details. The readable parts are disjointed and do not form a coherent event or outcome.
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William Boyd
Samuel B. Leibowits
Southern Ounce
de. Allen K. Chalmers
Willam J. Schieffelin
America
Leibowitz
State of
Alabama
HOPEI
Confucius Temple
Peiping
New Hopei Province
Yin Ju-Keng
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M. E. Collins
Siny
Thomas H. Allen
the Light and Water Commission
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Thomas Groun
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