Kiroff Buried as Soviet Terror Drive Expands
Sergei Kiroff laid to rest beside Bolshevik immortals in Moscow. Russia announced executions of 106 enemies, including 37 in Leningrad and 20 in Moscow, with no defense counsel or appeals. The White Guards’ leaders were named but not all details released. More than 200,000 workers viewed the cremation bier as the state vows stern action.
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Moscow
Soviet
Russia
Sergei Kiroff
Red Lealer
Cra
Leningrad
Reime
Kiroff
Red Square
Joseph Stalin
Lenin
Finland
Latvia
Poland
Supreme Court
Idt
Leonid Nicolieff
Stern
Caucasus
Champion Steer Of Exposition Sells At Auction For 3 Pound
The grand champion steer Campus Idol from the Exposition sale fetched 3 a pound, bought by Kroger Grocery & Baking Co of Cincinnati. Campus Idol weighed 1144 pounds and is slated for slaughter in Chicago with meat donated to charitable orphanages in St Louis Detroit and Cleveland.
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Chicago
Kroger “Rocery & Baking Co
Cincinnati
Town State College
Ames
St Louis
Detroit
Cleveland
Roosevelt Returns Home From Three Week South Visit
President Roosevelt, refreshed after a three week stay in the south, returns to the White House. He plans to push Congress for a permanent new deal and an immediate work relief program for unemployment, focusing on unemployment insurance and budget issues.
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Southland
Washington
Roosevelt
Ville House
Congress
Apts
Fliers Searched as Pacific Monoplane Missing Near Hawaii
Dec 6 Honolulu weary naval searchers combed 200000 square miles of the Pacific for Flight Lieutenant Charles T. P. Ulm, co pilot George Littleton, and navigator J. L. Skilling after their Star of Australia monoplane ditched off Hawaii due to fuel exhaustion. Authorities planned northern ocean surveys from Oahu, citing Rodgers 1925 drift as a reference amid improving conditions and fading hope.
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Honolulu
Charles T. P. Ulm
Pacific
Star of Australia
Ulm
George Littleton
J. L. Skilling
Oakland
Calif
Australia
John Rodgers
Oahu
Rodgers
Kaui
Hawaiian Island
E. W. Stephens
Navy
Five alarm blaze at St. Francis clears guests
A five alarm fire at the St. Francis hotel in downtown San Francisco forced hundreds from their rooms around 6 am. Firefighters gained control within about 30 minutes and guests returned to their rooms shortly after awakening to shouts and clerks calling.
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San Francisco
Smart St. Francis
Alaska Storm Devastates Coast With Heavy Rain
A violent storm swept Alaska causing about 100000 dollars in damage. A 55 mile per hour gale lashed Cordova and Seward as heavy rain pushed total precipitation to 12.38 inches in 60 hours.
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Cordova
Alaska
Seward
German General Oscar von Huttern Uun Dies in Berlin
Berlin reports the death of General Oscar von Huttern Uun a former western front commander who helped seize Riga from Russia in 1917. His career included key leadership roles and involvement in major World War I campaigns.
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Berlin
Oscar von Huttern Uun
Riga
Du Pont Defied Embargo On Arms Shielding China Shipment
Senate investigators heard evidence that Du Pont shipped gunpowder to Holland in 1929 for resale to China during an embargo. Senator Clark pressed that munitions makers profited from World War involvement and noted Du Pont borrowed a U S navy gun to test powder. The test costs were paid by the company as part of a legal supply path.
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Washington
du Pont Company
Holland
China
Senate
Clark
Missouri
United States
Munitions Committee
State Department
Department
Herbert Hoover
Kellogg
Frank B. Kellogg
Irenee du Pont
K. K. V. Casey
Driver Of Machine In Fatal Accident Held For Grand Jury
W. E. Blackburn age 32 of Scioto Furnace was bound over to the grand jury on a manslaughter charge after a preliminary hearing in municipal court before Judge Horace L. Small. A driving while intoxicated charge was continued. The death of Roy Dutiel 22 of New Boston followed a Nov 26 crash on route 14 near South Webster when Blackburn drove into a parked truck owned by Joseph Childers 89 of Fifort. Nine state witnesses and one defense witness testified including lights on the trucks and a taillight mud obstruction.
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W. E. Blackburn
Scioto Furnace
Horace L. Small
Blackburn
Roy Dutiel
Clay Dutiel
Blaine Avenue
New Boston
South Webster
F. E. Bollin
Dutlel
Joseph Childers
Fifort
Joseph Cantrell
Arthur Kniggs
Charles Lykins
Ed Cole
Arthur Baer
Kenneth Bostwick
Homer Lansing
Victor Powell
Parsons
Insull Jury Impaneled in Embezzlement Trial
Jury impaneled in Chicago for the Martin Insull embezzlement case involving about 344000 dollars from Middle West Utilities Co. The state expects a 10 day period to present its case, with charges of stock appropriation to bolster a personal brokerage account. The company was a core unit in the Insull empire before its collapse and In sull fled to Canada.
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Chicago
Martin Inschi
Middle West Utilities Co
John O'Hara
Insull
Insul Utilities
Canada
Temperatures Observer Schirrman's Weather Report Today
To day at 11 a m 40 today s minimum 23 yesterday s maximum 47 One year ago today Maximum 51 minimum 37
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Schirrman
Island death mystery partly solved as man found dead
Smithsonian scientists report on Charles Island off Ecuador where Captain G Allan Hancock and Friedrich Ritter untangled a tale of death and disappearance. Three victims, including Alfred Lorenz and Trygve Nuggrud, died after baroness Eloise Bousquet de Wagner vanished with Robert Phillipson.
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Island
Preen
Los Angeles
Smithsonian
G. Allan Hancock
Velcro 111
Charles
Ecuador
Friedrich Ritter
Berlin
Lonely Island
Captain Hancock
Civilization
Marchena
Hancock
Alfred Rudolph Lorenz
Charles Island
Trygve Nuggrud
Chatham Island
Nuggrud
Eloise Bousquet de Wagner
Dr. Ritter
Robert Phillipson
Lorenz
Grayson Jury Acquits Tom Yates in Murder Trial
In Grayson Kentucky a Carter county circuit court jury of eleven men and one woman acquitted Attorney Tom Yates fifty former Grayson postmaster and former commonwealth counsel of murder after a twelve minute deliberation. Yates testified self defense claiming Owen Fitzgerald attacked him with a knife in the courthouse corridor after an earlier disturbance and a brief jail detention. The verdict was greeted with fainting by Fitzgerald’s mother and support from defense witnesses while prosecutors were led by Henry C. Rose J R McGill and W T Cain.
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Grayson
Carter County
Lsto
Tom §& Yates
Commonwealth Counsel
Jim Fitzgerald
Olive Hill
Owen Fitzgerald
Yates
Fitzgerald
Floyd Bird
Lexington
Arthur Jarvis
Roscoe Littleton
Henry C. Rose
Commonwealth
J. R. McGill
W. T. Cain
Louisa
Plane Crash Kills Three Near Richmond Airport
Three people die and one man is injured when a small airplane crashes while attempting to land at Richmond airport. Victims include Dr. A. M. Mendenhall of Indianapolis and Dr. John Carmack, secretary of the American Medical Society otolaryngology section. Evelyn Mendenhall of Richmond is among the deceased. Howard Maxwell of Indianapolis is the injured pilot.
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Richmond
Ind
A. M. Mendenhall
Indianapolis
Evelyn
John Carmack
Howard Maxwell
Carmack
American Medical Society
Envoy's Niece Threatened in Kidnap Plot Near Manchester
In Manchester Massachusetts a plot to abduct Eugenie H. Grew 17, daughter of Randolph Clark Grew, prompted secrecy as federal agents hunted the would be kidnappers. A car followed the girl to the estate gate and fled when floodlights were shown. agents prepared a trap but the kidnapers did not take the bait.
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Manchester
Mass
Eugenie H. Grew
Randolph Clark Grew
Joseph C. Grew
U. S
Japan
Otside
Helen Jones Coffin
Mr. Grew
Widow's statements spur U.S. agents to finish Dillinger gang
Chicago dispatch reports federal men ready to press a cleanup against the Dillinger gang after Baby Face Nelson's widow Helen Gillis talked to investigators. Agents gathered key details as they questioned her about the Barrington gun battle that left Nelson and two federal officers dead.
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Chicago
Baby Face Nelson
John Dillinger
Helen Gillis
Samuel P. Cowley
Herman Hollis
Department of Justice
Barrington
Nelson
Richberg hints broad NRA overhaul to simplify operation
Washington reports indicate a major NRA reorganization to create simpler cooperation between government and business. Richberg cited harmful rules and regulation and misuse of blue eagle as flaws and urged permanent legislation embracing flexible codes and workers rights with free association under anti trust limits. Observers expect major pruning of fair practice provisions and removal of price and production controls.
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Washington
NRA
Donald R. Richberg
National Association of Manufacturers
New York
Richberg
Income tax fight delays Ohio revenue plan in senate
In Columbus on December 6 the Ohio Senate taxation committee reported without recommendation the House income tax bill amid a divide. Seven of eleven opposed any income tax, while six favored some form. The House earlier rejected a Senate relief act and kept pressure on revenue measures. the plan now returns to the House with proposed changes and further amendments.
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Columbus
Senate
White
House
Senate Taxation Committee
J. G. Lowery
Muskingum County
Cincinnati
Frank Cave
Fire Engulfs Vessel Off Marys Bay Likely Bearcat
Fire swept an offshore vessel near Marys Bay as two schooners stood by. An explosion preceded the blaze and smoke poured from the superstructure. The ship's identity was not confirmed, but it was believed to be the Bearcat with a crew of three.
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Saulnierville
N. 8
Mary’s Bay
Board Begins Check Of Votes To Settle Recorder's Dispute
The county election board opened a recount of the recorder contest per Secretary of State George S. Myers instructions. The process counts Dixon four five times and Hanes one time per five precincts, starting with duplicated applications before proceeding to the individual counts. Hanes seeks a recount of 12 and Dixon 60. officials report Myers usually orders recounts counted for defeated candidates first.
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County Election Board
County Recorder
George S. Myers
Myers
Roy N. Dixon
Harold Hanes
Hanes
Dixon
Russia Fears New Treaties Amid France Germany Moves
Geneva dispatch reports Soviet Russia urges France not to seal any special political pact while the eastern European securities plan, backed by Locarno proponents, seeks broad peace guarantees. France aims to include Germany and Russia, Laval and Litvinoff named as negotiators, with German approval reportedly given for Saar troop dispatch.
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Geneva
France
Germany
Russia
League of Nations
Far East
Pierre Laval
Maxim Litvinoff
Reich
Saar
Konstantin von Neurath
Krauer
Crosser Enters Race for House Speakership
Robert Crosser of Ohio declared his candidacy for the House speakership. He has the backing of nearly all of Ohio’s 18 Democratic votes, a strong bloc in the chamber.
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Washington
Robert Crosser
Ohio
House
Crosser
Cleveland
Martin L. Sweeney
Austria approves extradition of Captain Poderjay
Vienna reports Austria grants the United States request to extradite Captain Ivan Poderjay sought for the disappearance of his bride Agnes Turverson a Detroit and New York attorney. Poderjay faces bigamy charges in New York and has been imprisoned by Austria for six months.
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Vienna
Austria
United States
Ivan Poderjay
Agnes Turverson
Detroit
New York
Yoderjay
Ohio Judge Duncan Dies at 70 After 32 Years on Bench
William F. Duncan aged 70 and longtime Hancock county common pleas judge died of pneumonia in his Findlay home last night. He served 32 years on the bench and was a prominent local figure.
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Ohio
Findlay, D
William F. Duncan
Common Pleas
Hancock County
Davis Warns Against Ban of Navy Pacts
Norman H. Davis, United States ambassador at large, warns that abandoning the Washington and London naval treaties would breed insecurity, international suspicion, and costly competition with no real advantage. He backs continued equality of security and pending reductions only if consistent with the treaties.
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London
United States
Norman H. Davis
Washington
Japan
American Correspondents’ Association
Davis
Simon
John Simon
Tsuneo Matsudaira
Roosevelt
Great Britain
David
Far East
Pacific
Fire damages Alameda plant in Bethlehem shipbuilding joint concern
A blaze swept a Me Clintic Marshal Corp and Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp joint plant in Alameda California causing serious damage before firefighters contained it. Estimated losses exceed 500000 dollars.
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Coast Alameda
Calif
MeClintic Marshal Corp
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp
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