New Year Eve Spending Plans Across Cities
Report details varied celebrations as Milwaukee considers Club Sahara events and a liquor policy affects New Year Eve plans. San Francisco prepares Market Street afoot and vendor changes. New York City curfew expectations and Los Angeles nightlife with bands. The president’s family will stay in the White House study.
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San Francisco
Market Street
New York City
Los Angeles
Hollywood
White House
British ship clash near Gibraltar escalates diplomatic tension
Southeast of Europa Point the Jose Luis rammed the Jupiter as British destroyer Vancc arrived. Gunfire and Ceuta forts forced Jose Luis aground on Gibraltar's eastern beach, with many dead and wounded. Earlier, Jose Luis and Canarias-led insurgents fought in the straits last August forcing refuge.
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Europa Point
Jose Luis
Jupiter
Vancc
Ceuta
Gibraltar
Canarias
Straits
Mediterranean
Duce Seeks Chamberlain as Mediator Amid Global Tensions
In Rome reports and dispatches outline Benito Mussolini's push for mediation led by Prime Minister Chamberlain and Foreign Minister Halifax. Pope Pius XI may urge peace while France blocks Italy's territorial aims, as Spanish insurgents strike near Barcelona and Japan presses in Shansi. The Jose Luis Diez battles insurgents at Gibraltar, sinking the Jupiter.
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Associated Press
Pius XI
Spain
Artesa
Catalonia
Balaguer
Franco
Jose Luis Diez
Gibraltar
Jupiter
Jose Luis
Chamberlain
Britain
Viscount Halifax
Pius
Rome
Mussolini
Vatican
Europe
France
Italy
Il Messaggero
Paris
Syria
Mediterranean
Shanghai
Shansi
China
Yellow River
Auto Plants May Provide 150000 Jobs
Prominent industry leaders predict strong growth across sectors with J J Pelley citing brighter railroad prospects, Joseph Schenck foreseeing greater film industry expenditures in 1939, and Dr John F Anderson anticipating new drug products expanding the market. An estimate notes about 3 420 languages spoken worldwide.
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J. J. Pelley
Association of American Railroads
Joseph Schenck
The
Motion Picture Producers
John F. Anderson
American Drug Manufacturers Association
Easy Car Money Loan Offer At Monroe LA Office
A local ad promises fast car loans with no red tape and no repayment until February 1939. The firm will pay existing notes, loan more or reduce payments if the car value supports it, from 500 Walnut Street Monroe LA. manager Leon Dennis.
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Monroe
Old, Reliable Company
Walnut Street
Leon Dennis
Mgr
Kiwanis Club Induction Stresses Service and Leadership
District Governor Henderson lauds Kiwanis founding in 1915 Detroit and the motto We Build. He urges applying the golden rule to foster brotherly spirit, leadership, and humanitarian service as the club honors 100 percent attendance and features performances by members and guests.
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Henderson
Detroit
Kiwanis Club
Kiwanis
Galilee
C. P. Gray
J. B. Walsworth
OS. & Calvert
C. J. Fleming
J. E. Johnson
Ivy Jordan
A. L. Peters
Lawrence Pettit
Hugh Wallace
Dale Cobb
West Monroe Kiwaitis Club
Jenne Ansell
F. C. Holden
Annie Laurie
Fan‘gola
Lake
N. H. Colburn
C. J
Clark
Howard Marks
Accom
Lowery Jefferson
Githanerius
Lectona
Miss Ann Goodwin
House relief program in new Congress faces curb by committee
The interstate agenda shows a possible restriction on the relief program for the year starting July 1 as the appropriations process begins. Brief hearings may follow after the president's estimate and the session's start, while new members occupy offices amid a hubbub in the house office buildings.
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Tions
House
Appropriations Committee
Congress
Shenandoah to finally hold 1886 incorporation election
Shenandoah, Iowa voters prepare a special election to incorporate as a second class city, a move first ordered by the 1886 town council but never carried out. The current council has organized the long deferred vote.
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Shenandoah, In
Shenandoah
Iowa City
Funeral held for Mrs Annie Rabun in Farmerville
The 70 year old Annie Rabun of West Monroe was memorialized in a Thursday funeral at a Farmerville home with interment in a local cemetery. She leaves two Ouachita parish sons and a daughter Mrs J J Turner, who died weeks earlier. Michigan challenged Cornell in 1873 over an intersectional game but Cornell refused travel of 30 men to argue it.
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Annie Rabun
Wood Street
West Monroe
Farmerville
Ouachita Parish
J. J. Turner
Michigan
Cornell
Mercury Rises Amid Cold Snap Across Regions
Weather notes show a broad cold wave with records from Montana to Nebraska while Pacific states enjoy milder air. Reports list temperatures from Minnesota to New York and a Canadian rescue near Mission British Columbia. A local medical case notes an emergency appendectomy with a stable post op condition. In 1997 Americans spent 13 percent more on theater and football tickets.
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Tain
Montana
Colorado
Nebraska
Lyvingston
Mont
Sero
Dallas
Jack” Tanner
Mission
B.C
Lake Erie
Pacific
Canada
Warroad
Minn
Battleford
Canadian Northwest
Devils Lake
Williston
N. D
Moorhead
Duluth
Minneapolis
LaCrosse
Wis
Albany
N.Y
Boston
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Cleveland
Detroit
Kansas City
New York
Atlanta
Famous Men Sons to Take Congress Oaths in Capital
Jersey’s Hamilton F Kean heir, son of a former New Jersey senator, is set to take his oath in the House. The piece notes Kean’s lineage including John Kean and another John Kean, a delegate from South Carolina, and mentions George Washington’s appointment of a cashier in Philadelphia. It also references Meet Stearns of New Hampshire and Joseph W Byrne Jr of Nashville, son of the late speaker Joe Byrne.
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Stearns
New Mampehire
Frank Wo Thesrr
Roston Dry Gate
Calwin Coolitge
Joseph W. Byrne Jr
Nastyilie, Tenn
Joe Byrne
Jane
Joe
State Road Plans Highlight Farm and Trunk Line Expansion
The report outlines $16,000,000 for state roads linking major centers and linking neighboring states. In 1938 work included 25 miles of farm roads at $3.3 million and 146 miles opened. The commission projects 40 miles more in 1899 with nearly $14.083 million carried forward.
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Commixeion Gail
Lynch Law Takes Lives at Tuskegee Report Reveals Death Toll
A Tuskegee Institute report shows six persons were lynched in 1938 and notes a pattern of earlier killings. It also records 42 instances where law officers prevented lynchings and states none of the lynchings were legally sanctioned.
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Lynch-Law
Tuskegee
Tuskegee Institute
Wea
Als
Thone Lyneted
Waa
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