Ethiopia War Peace Formula Declared Dead in Geneva
A Franco British plan to end the Italo Ethiopian war is described as dead by a League of Nations delegate in Geneva. Mussolini pressures Europe to continue the campaign while other council members doubt council approval of the Hoare Laval plan. A council member even suggests Mussolini could resign from the league.
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Associated Press
Europe
Geneva
Anthony Eden
League of Nations
League Council
Italy
Mussolini
Ethiopia
League
Samuel Hoare
Itish
Pierre Laval
France
Italian North Ethiopia Army Defeats Ethiopian Forces
Rome announced the Italian government reports its northern Ethiopia army defeated Ethiopian forces in heavy fighting. The brief dispatch notes the victory as part of ongoing military operations in the region.
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Rome
PARDONS COURT AGAINST GIVING BRUNO CLEMENCY
The New York Evening Journal reports six of eight New Jersey pardon court members oppose clemency for Bruno Hauptmann based on evidence to date. Commute to life possible if he confesses or names an accomplice, otherwise no clemency.
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New York
The
New York Evening Journal
New Jersey
Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr
Townsend Plan Man Elected by Michigan Voters
Verner W. Main Battle Creek attorney and Townsend plan advocate wins Michigan’s third district seat in a decisive GOP victory. He defeats Democrat Howard W. Cavanagh by about two to one with 24 686 to 11 342 votes. E G. Kiefer gains 397. Main’s election signals early Townsend plan support amid party regularity claims.
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Battle Creek
Mich
Verner W. Main
Michigan
Main
F. E. Townsend
Registration to Close Saturday for Parish Voters 1935
The parish registrar of voters will close registration next Saturday December 21 at 6 p.m. This ends the 30 day period before the January 21 Democratic primary. Voters who have not registered since January 2, 1934 must register by 6 p.m. Saturday to be eligible. The office remains open at noon this week. Two receipts from poll registration books are handled by the sheriff on the first floor.
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Parish
Sheriff's Office
Santa Claus Act May Abolish Alimony Rows
Chicago report: the Santa Claus Act may end alimony disputes. Sixteen Cook County jail alimony club members were ordered to appear in court to learn their spouses' attitudes. Judges Labath and Desart said if the wives agree they would free the men jailed for contempt over alimony.
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Chicago
Santa Claus
Cook County
Joseph Labath
Rudolph Desart
Magic Tree Brings Joy to Police Press Room
In Memphis on December 18 a small Christmas tree in the press room at police headquarters has become a yearly symbol of cheer. Six years ago Captain John P. Cross suggested the idea and his wife decorated the tree with tinsel and colored glass. Each year the tree grows brighter as officers and inmates pass by.
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Memphis
Tenn
John P. Cross
Two Hurt In Collisions In Separate Crashes
C M Hunt 25 of West Monroe and W B Perkins 47 of Clarks injured Tuesday in separate accidents. Hunt suffered a compound fracture and scalp laceration when his bicycle collided with a car at Pine and North Fifth in West Monroe. Perkins dislocated his left shoulder and four bones in his left foot broken when he fell from a moving truck near Chester, about 17 miles west of Clarks. Both men were treated at St Francis sanitarium.
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C. M. Hunt
West Monroe
W. B. Perkins
Clarks
St. Francis Sanitarium
Hunt
Pine and
North Fifth Streets
Perkins
Chester
North Fifth Street
Pine Street
Accused Negroes To Be Returned To Shreveport
Authorities in Shreveport await the return from Los Angeles of Mack Thomas and Emmet Lester indicted by a federal grand jury in Lake Charles for the robbery killing of J. A. Faulkner. The men fled to California to avoid prosecution and are opposing extradition proceedings.
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Shreveport
Los Angeles
Mack Thomas
Emmet Lester
Lake Charles
J. A. Faulkner
Shreveport Grocer
California
Thomas
Lester
Benes elected second president of Czechoslovakia
Eduard Benes won 340 votes to 24 for Bohumil Nemec in the national assembly, succeeding Thomas G Masaryk who resigned at 85. Benes, Masaryk's protege and long-time foreign minister, is described as a committed follower of Masaryk with a taste for football and tennis and a love of reading.
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Praha
Eduard Benes
Republic of
Czechoslovakia
National Assembly
Thomas G. Masaryk
Benes
Masaryk
Bohumil Nemec
Czecho Agrarian Party
Czech
Tabor
Congress Faces Big Controversy Over Armaments
Senator Lewis calls for stronger army and navy to keep the United States on a course of fearless independence as war threats loom. Senator Frazier denounces war preparations as a path to bankruptcy and profiteering from war. The War Department advances plans to expand air power with 100 swift craft and upcoming bombers and pursuit planes funded at 17.5 million dollars.
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Washington
Lewis
Illinois
United States
Frazier
North Dakota
War Department
Army Air Corps
Relief program next year may be greatly cut
Washington reports informants say the Roosevelt relief plan for the coming year could feature only a main new outlay the public works program. The president said it would total under 500 million dollars and be proposed to Congress next month. Other major relief recommendations were uncertain.
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Washington
Congress
Good Fellows Fund Receives $522 Amid Christmas Tragedy
A baby dies despite Good Fellows donations totaling just over $522 for a Christmas basket. The fund's effort to aid a poverty-stricken Monroe family is described as the season's hopeful gesture that ends in sorrow as the child passes away before Santa arrives.
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Santa Claus
Monroe
St. Nicholas
Good Fellows Fund
Leche vows gun duel with Dear in Louisiana campaign
Winnsboro rally features Judge Richard Leche challenging Congressman Cleveland Dear to a shootout after Dear calls for riots. Earl Long stacks against Clement Moss and defends strict anti-Long stance as New Orleans crowd hears anti administration speakers.
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Winnsboro
Richard Leche
Huey P. Long
Cleveland Dear
New Orleans
Long
Lewhe
Dear
Earl Long
Clement Moss
Senator Long
Dear Declares He Will Answer Leche On Challenge To Fight Duel
New Orleans dispatch reports Judge Richard Leche challenged Congressman Cleveland Dear to a duel with revolvers. Dear said he would answer from the stump and expose Leche’s nerve in the campaign. Observers view the feud as a sign of weakness in the Leche camp amid the Home Rule struggle.
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Dear
Leche
New Orleans
Richard W. Leche
Cleveland Dear
Congressman Dear
Eighth
Judge Leche
Winnsboro
Louisiana
State Machine
Cleveland
Richard Leche
O. K. Allen
Huey P. Long
Mr. Dear
Switch Engine Strikes Auto at New Orleans Crossing
A switch engine plowed into a car at a grade crossing in New Orleans early today. The engine dragged the car about 300 feet before tossing wreckage aside. three occupants escaped without serious injury. Edgar Smythe 18 Edward Whalen 18 and Albert Johnson 22 were in the car. Smythe suffered a fracture of the left arm and a facial laceration.
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New Orleans
Edgar Smythe
Edward Whalen
Albert Johnson
Smythe
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