Revolt Flares Anew In Spain As Rebels Besieged
Madrid reports an airfield rebellion by Ramon Franco and officers, with airpower used to proclaim a republic. Loyal troops recaptured Cuatro Vientos, rebels surrendered after a brief battle, Franco and Dellano escaped by plane as authorities declared martial law and prepared for nationwide disruptions.
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MADRID
Spain
San Sebastian
Franco
Santander
Bilbao
Cadiz
TRANCO
Ramon Franco
Quiepo Deljeno
Cuatro Jientss
Dellano
Alcala Zamor
vacm
Beesemeyer Plea Delayed In Embezzlement Case
In Los Angeles, Gilbert H. Beesemyer faces ten counts of embezzlement in a Guaranty Building and Loan Association defalcation case. The superior court postponed his plea to tomorrow after he sought more time to study the indictment and stated he has no attorney. The judge urged legal counsel, including the public defender, and ordered Beesemyer to appear with or without a lawyer.
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LOS ANGELES
Gilbert H. Beesemyer
Guaranty Building and Loan Association
superior court
Beesemyer
Baron Fitte
morrow
Blast Shatters Porch Of Virginia Magistrate Home
A dynamite bomb shattered the porch of Magistrate R. Fitts in Danville Virginia early today. He, his wife, and two grandchildren slept inside with no injuries. Fitts had warned of militia guards after endorsing troops’ deployment amid a textile strike at Dan River Cotton Mills. Plants at Schoolfield and Riverside reopened with nonunion labor and no mass picketing occurred.
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DANVILLE
R. Fitts
Schoolfield
Philip
Patricia
Fitts
Pollard
Dan River
Riverside mills
Denville
Soldier Falls to His Death Near Cheyenne
In Cheyenne Wyoming on December 15 a sergeant from Battery eighth field artillery, Scofield barracks Hatvai1, leaped or fell from a train near the city. He jostled a brakeman in the door, nearly knocking him off. Coroner Bailey Finkbiner ruled the death instantaneous from a fractured skull.
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CHEYENNE
Wyo
Michael W. Smith
eighth field artillery
Scofield barracks
Hatvai1
Bailey Finkbiner
Doctors Testify On Treatments For Officer's Wife
Defense in Major Charles A. Shepard murder trial contends another Army officer used bichloride of mercury to treat Mrs Shepard. Major M. A. Rose testified he directed four or five pints of mercury mouthwash over two weeks for trench mouth, noting the solution was poisonous and should not be swallowed. He reported gradual mouth improvement and described the autopsy smear findings.
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KANSAS CITY
Kas
Charles A. Shepard
army medical
army medical corps
Shephard
M. A. Rose
Shepard
Blast wrecks convict ship La Martiniere near Devil's Island
A terrible explosion tore through the convict ship La Martiniere near La Rochelle. The blast killed the fourth engineer and wounded a fireman, leaving the floating penitentiary too damaged to sail its next voyage on February 1 with five hundred convicts bound for Devil's Island.
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LA ROCHELLE
France
La Martiniere
Devil's Island
Poincare Ill At Paris Home
Paris December 15 The condition of former President Poincare ill at his home here was described by friends as serious and possibly critical He had suffered partial paralysis due to age and past operations and a late evening consultation with several doctors heightened concern about his health.
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PARIS
Poincare
Miss Cinderella Sparks Riot at Berlin Apollo Theatre
Nuremberg dispatch reports Miss Cinderella wearing rags incited a riot in the Apollo Theatre Berlin. Police cleared the theatre after a fainting performer and audience demonstrations spilled outside, as demonstrators protested depictions of Miss France and Gretchen.
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Berlin
NUREMBERG
Germany
Apollo theatre
Gretchen
Debate on relief bills sparks Senate and House clash
Washington December 15 Lively debate over the Hoover relief program with the House voting 205 to 169 to suspend rules for quick passage of the 830 million drought relief measure. Senator Watson defended the plan while Senator La Follette challenged the administration’s approach amid partisan spikes. Republicans and Democrats clash over funding and timing as efforts to bring the drought bill to the floor continue.
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WASHINGTON
senate
house
Re Publican
Hoover
WATSON
Lee Follette
Tilson
house agriculture committee
congress
LaFollette
Bill
McKellar
Tennessee
Cittizens
Michigan
Smoot
treasury department
onc
Black
cote
Yok
Kvale
Siateen
Graddock and
Veteran editor dies on the coast in Bolinas California
Alfred Holman seventy three veteran Pacific coast editor and advocate of world peace died yesterday at Bolinas California He edited the weekly Argonaut for seventeen years and appeared in discussions for ambassador to Japan and minister to Greece He served as a Carnegie endowment trustee attended international peace conferences and lectured in the United States He was born in Yamhill County Oregon educated in Portland He was a Columbia University Pulitzer School of Journalism advisory board member His wife died last April and a daughter Mrs Burton Williams of Carmel survives
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SAN FRANCISCO
Alfred Holman
Pacific coast
Bolinas
Cal Holman
Argonaut
Japan
Greece
Carnegie endowment for International peace
Florence Locke
Holman
Yamhill county
Oregon
Portland
Pulitzer School of Journalism
Columbia University
New York
Carnegie endowment
Europe
South America
Honolulu
qed j
Burton Willams
Carmel
Cal
Rescue tale as 130 aboard burning Eureka II off Miami
A glass bottom excursion boat Eureka II sank fifteen miles south of Miami Beach after explosions. About 130 survivors were saved, with three bodies recovered and three believed missing. Names of potential victims included Mrs Mary Holler, Plank J Keefe, and J S Haig. Survivors recounted chaotic scenes as crews and a civilian yacht worked to pull people aboard and reunite families.
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MIAMI BEACH
Fla
Eureka 1
here
Mary Holler
Milwaukee
Plank J Keefe
Providence Rct
J.S Haig
Pomona
furv ivors
P. M. Miller
Cincinnati
Dorothea
Davis Election Costs Increase in Pennsylvania Campaign
Senate campaign funds committee chair Nye said investigations show expenditures of well over 1,000,000 for the Davis-Brown primary and Davis election campaigns in Pennsylvania. A meeting was planned to review reports and hear witnesses including Samuel Vauclain, treasurer of the state Davis-Brown committee, with complete county expenditures except Allegheny and Philadelphia.
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WASHINGTON
Nye
senate
Davis-Brown
Davis
Pennsylvania
Samuel Vauclain
Davis- Brown
North Dakotaa
Allegheny
Philecelphuia
Policeman kills two robbers in Chicago tea room
In the Loop, Policeman Reymond Schlegel, detailed after a December 1 robbery at a Cliff Street tea room, shot and killed both robbers as they entered today. The two men fired first, one taking four head shots and the other twice, with patrons ducking at tables.
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CHICAGO
Reymond Schlegel
Cliffs
Schlegel
Parents Given Boys Custody In New York ruling
Supreme Court Justice Vallente ruled that Mr and Mrs Pietro Ricci may keep custody of their two young sons Ruggiero and Giorgio Ricci, prodigies. The children had run away from their former guardian Miss Elizabeth Lackey and returned to their parents in San Francisco.
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NEW YORK
Lirs
Pietro Ricci
Ruggiero
Giorgio
Supreme Court
Vallente
Elizabeth Lackey
Capone Sister Weds In Elaborate Chicago Ceremony
Mafalda Capone, eighteen, sister of Al Capone, wed John J. Maritote in St Marys church Cicero as guards shielded the mob-linked guests. The ceremony drew thousands outside amid lavish decor and a costly cake, with rumors Capone attended or watched from afar.
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CHICAGO
Mafalda Capone
Alphonse Capone
John J. Maritote
TINY
Capone
Wone
Zallure
St Mary‘s Catholic church
Cicero
Ralph Capone
vinegate
Mere
Honolulu
Cuba
Mafalda
North Shore
Frank Diamond
Alphonse
Chicago crime commmission
Police Chief and Four Officers Face Conspiracy Trial in Great Falls
In Great Falls Montana on December 15 the police chief Ray Gamut and four officers were charged with conspiring to violate federal prohibition laws. The government had indicted the group for consulting with twenty bootleggers to break federal statutes. Several private citizens named in the blast pleaded guilty or moved to testify for the government.
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GREAT FALLS
Mont
Pelce Ray Gamut
David T. McEtott
H. H. Dennis
Steve Lelly
Tex Hunter
wenna ea
Bingo Rescued After Four Days in Cavern
In Pleasant Ia on December 15 a Fox Terrier named Bingo was saved after four to four and a half days spent in a cave. Lawrence Mills hauled the weak, bloodied dog from a underground pit using a dynamite cleared entrance, after Bingo chased a raccoon into the chamber and fell in. Allis at the cave mouth assisted the search as workers enlarged the entrance. Bingo finally emerged hungry and limping to be rescued by Mills.
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MI, PLEASANT
Bingo
Lawrence MILs
Bingy
Allis
flis
Mills
himer
Missing Broadway agent rumored lost in Death Valley
Ralph G Farnum Broadway theatrical agent vanished during a westward excursion with his wife. A mules’ trek through Death Valley yielded only a single emaciated burro returning to Furnace Creek, with no word from Farnum. Deputy Sheriff Harvey Goper updated Los Angeles police on the uncertain fate. Farnum had represented Will Mahoney Zelma ONeill Ginger Rogers Ted Lewis Ruth Etting. Signs of spring appeared in New York as Brooklyn Robins await contracts for Del Bisso nnette and Wally Gilbert.
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LOS ANGLES
Death Valley
Ralph G. Farnum
New York
Broad fm
California
Furnace Creek
Harvey Goper
Death Valley Junction
Los Angeles
Goper
Ralph Farnum
Ralph G Farnum
Marielle Griffith
Baltimore
Far West
Will Mahoney
Zelma O'Neill
Ginger Rogers
Ted Lewis
Ruth Etting
Farnum
West Seventy-seventh street
Man Increases Wife's Alimony Much to Surprise of Jurist
Los Angeles dispatch reports Adolphus J. Benal caused a courtroom stir by raising alimony to fifty dollars monthly rather than forty. The judge queried the need for such generosity but Benal insisted higher support would ease his spouse’s burdens in tough financial times. The judge requested a drink as the unusual exchange ended with Benal's demand approved and humorous remarks at the bench.
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LOS ANGELES
Diogenes
Adolphus J. Benal
Benal
Adolphus
Malibu Film Colony Blaze Destroys Nineteen Homes
A forty mile wind fueled a disastrous Malibu beach blaze that destroyed nineteen summer houses valued at over 800000. Fire officials blamed a high tension wire snapping in the off shore wind and falling on a gasoline tank causing an explosion. The fire forced residents including Maile Prevost and Dave Butler to flee as Malibu firefighters and county units battled the flames for nearly three hours.
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LOS ANGELES
Malibu beach
todas
Maile Prevost
Dave Butler
George de Sylva
J. B Fredericks
Malibu
Santa Monica
fie
Los Angeles county
Louie Fazenda
Frank Fay
Oliver C Marsh
Ben Hendricks, Jr
James M Kehlen
A L. Rockett
Leo McCarey
Allen Dwan
Clara Bow
George O'Brien
Corinne Griffiths
Laura La Plante
Gloria Swanson
Ruth Chatterton
Ronyald Colman
Secretary Stimson bars visa chief from open hearing
Washington December 15. Secretary Stimson refused to allow Dana Hodgdon chief of the visa division to testify before the House Communist Investigation Committee. Hodgdon said the secretary instructed him not to testify in open session as such testimony if published would be against public interest. Chairman Fish pressed for reasons but Hodgdon replied that giving reasons would be testimony.
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WASHINGTON
Stimson
state department
house
communist investigation committee
Dana Hodgdon
visa division
department
fish committee
Fish
Hodgdon
Treasury Bill Wins Approval In Senate
The Senate approved the government's annual supply measure, the treasury post office appropriation bill, carrying 1.085 billion dollars and now sent to the House for agreement to amendments. The chamber added 1.19 million for government employee pay raises and authorized funding for a new northern transcontinental air mail route, international air mail extension, and a Green Bay Wisconsin coast guard station, along with salary increases for government workers.
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WASHINGTON
treasury-post office
senate
house
coast guard
Green Bay
Wis
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