Christmas Toll on Coast as 200 Die in Nation
A coast to coast tally shows at least 35 deaths on the Pacific Coast during Christmas, with autos and drownings the leading causes. In California three drowned when a launch capsized near Sausalito. ten rescued and others feared dead after a launch disaster en route to the Janidore yacht in Richardson's Bay.
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Associated Press
Middle West
Whiting
Ind
South
New York
California
Missouri
Montgomery
Indiana
Pennsylvania
SAN FRANCISCO
Pacific Coast
Sausalito
Cal
Berkeley
Palo Alto
Henry T. Batterson
Alabama
Los Angeles
Wenatchee
Wash
Vancouver
B. C
Bellingham
Seattle
Spokane
northwest
Richardson's bay
Isadore Zellerbach
Sam Bowman
Frost Damages Hit Northern California Orange Groves
The United States weather bureau reports unheated orange groves in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys severely damaged by frost last night. Oroville temperatures fell to twenty, San Francisco to forty two, with continued cold endangering orchards as ranchers exhausted crude oil for smudges. Forecasts expect more fair but cold weather tonight and tomorrow across the state.
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SAN FRANCISCO
United States weather bureau
Sacramento
San Joaquin
Oroville
California
mercury
Kin Hubbard Dies Suddenly
Indianapolis humorist Kin Hubbard creator of Abe Martin died suddenly in Indianapolis at age. Death attributed to heart disease. Hubbard born in Bellefontaine Ohio and moved to Indiana as a youth. He created Abe Martin in 1900s, a feature of the Indianapolis News, later appearing in other papers nationwide.
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INDIANAPOLIS
Ind
Kin Hubbard
Abe Martin
Mr. Hubbard
Bellefontaine
hills of
Brown
county
Indiana
Abe
Indianapolis News
Clergymen Targeted in Auto Company Fraud Scheme
Twenty clergymen were defrauded of 150000 dollars in a scheme led by Clark W. Parker a Church of the Strangers trustee who, with his son and others, faced federal indictment over Automotive Royalties Corporation stock sales. Promoters touted a marvelous automobile invention with 1929 income projections of 36688000 dollars. stock sales began in 1926 aided by the late Dr. Eugene Christian vitamin foods promoter.
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NEW YORK
United States district attorney's office
Clark W. Parker
Church of the Strangers
Automotive Hoyalties Corporation
Tompkins
Automotive Royalties Corporation
Eugene Christian
Prisoners Escape During Town Christmas Celebration
Two bank robbers, Harold Domisse and Forrest Cook, battered from the county jail while citizens sang carols outside the jail during a Christmas tree event. A crowbar and heavy tools were used to break out on the third floor. The fugitives had pleaded guilty to the Hay Springs bank robbery that netted $14,000. The car they used was found with the motor running at Chadron, fifty miles away.
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Chadron
Neb
here
Alliance
George F. Jones
Hay Springs
33 Lives Lost in Salta Earthquake
In Salta Argentina a deadly earthquake destroyed La Poma over the holidays. Thirty three people died and more than seventy were injured as a relief expedition reached the village. Survivors described a thunderlike rumble and a horselike roar as houses collapsed and crevices opened.
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SALTA
Argentina
La Poma
little mountain
Five Prisoners Escape Ware County Jail
Waycross Ga Dec 26 Five inmates including J H Parker awaiting execution for the murder of his child escaped Ware county jail by sawing bars and leaping from a second story window. Parker's wife and baby were found buried near his home months ago. He is to die in the electric chair January 9 1932. The wife’s murder charge has not yet gone to trial.
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WAYCROSS
J. H. Parker
Ware
Parker
naa
Youth Sentenced to Prison for Extortion Attempt
Charles L. Duncan, 23, was sentenced to two and a half years in the Missouri penitentiary after pleading guilty to attempted extortion from R. A. Long, a wealthy lumberman. He confessed following decoy bills and a staged payoff, and was arrested as he moved to seize a decoy package, with handwriting clues linking him to the plot.
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HANSAS CITY
Charles L. Duncan
Missouri
dudge Ralph
Latshaw
R. A. Long
Duncan
carbon
Edwards
McDuffie Named President of Richfield Oil Company
William C. McDuffie, president of Pacific Western Oil Company, has been elected president of the Richfield Oil Company. He says this change will not alter his role at Pacific Western. Despite consolidation rumors, the two firms remain independent with Pacific Western supplying up to twenty thousand barrels daily at posted prices under the existing contract.
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NEW YORK
William C. McDuffie
Pacific , Western Oil Company
Richfield Of Company
Pacific Western
Estate shares their gift in Frederic Renaud’s million estate
Walter and Eugene Weber, brothers who run a radio supply shop in Van Nuys, learned at Christmas dinner that they will share in the will of their late uncle, Frederick Renaud of New York, amounting to about 1 million dollars with four relatives and three charities.
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VAN NUYS
Cal
Walter
Eugene Weber
Frederick Renaud
New York
Lyle in Race for Mayorship in Chicago
Judge John H. Lyle, a Republican candidate and anti gangster jurist, announces a mayoral platform to break up crime politics ties. He will challenge Mayor William Hale Thompson and Charles Barrett in the February primary, seeking an independent path amid factional opposition.
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CHICAGO
John H. Lyle
Lyle
Willam Hale Thompson
Charles V. Barrett
county board of tax review
Thompson
Barrett
Dog on Way South for Winter But His Owner Stays at Home
A Chicago business man sent his bulldog in a crate to Hot Springs Arkansas for a winter vacation while he remained home. A trust fund was placed at a local bank for the dog, and the owner could not arrange his own affairs for the trip.
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CHICAGO
Hot Springs
Ark
Caterpillar Club Gains 41 Pilots as 1930 Members
New York reports the Caterpillar Club has 326 members who bailed from unmanageable or fuelless aircraft since November 1929. Among pioneers listed are John Boettner as No 1 and Henry Wacker as No 2, with Charles A Lindbergh noted as a founding member.
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CATERPILLAR CLUB
NEW YORK
Der
Caterpillars
cnes
New York Sun
army
navy
John Boettner
Henry Wacker
Chicago
Charles A. Lindbergh
Paris
Italian Airplanes Ready Ten Take Off Across Atlantic
A fleet of thirteen Italian seaplanes is poised at Bolama Guinea for a transatlantic flight to Natal Brazil. Led by Gen Italo Balbo, the mission aims for a 1800 mile route via Natal Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, weather permitting.
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Guinea
Atlantis
BRAZIL
Natal
Rio de Janeiro
Buenos Aires
Villa
Cisneros
Rio de Oro
Orbetello
Italy
Cartagena
Spain
Balearic Isles
Kenlt
French Morocco
Villa Cisnerea
Italo Balbo
Christmas Day Call From Australia Sets Record
Kansas City reports John Hicks spoke to relatives in Sedalia Missouri on Christmas Day though his December 26 call crossed the international date line. Company officials said Hicks' call was the longest Christmas message on their records.
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KANSAS CITY
John Hicks
Sendalla
Hicks
Australia
Bandit Suspect Dies of Wounds in Oklahoma City
December 26 report states Les Cargo, a suspected bank robber blamed for recent Oklahoma town robberies, died from gunshot wounds inflicted by Ivan Gates, who said he fired asCargo tried to seize the officer’s pistol while Gates attempted to arrest him. Cargo reportedly boasted he would not be taken alive.
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OKLAHOMA CITY
Les Cargo
Ivan Gates
Gates
Cargo
Oklahoma
Boy Uses Gift to Kill Father in Belen
A twelve year old boy in Belen Mississippi is believed to have used a shotgun given as a Christmas present by his father H L Hall to kill his father during a family dispute. Police report says Hall threatened his wife with a wood click in view of Paul and five other children. the boy is in neighbor custody awaiting possible charges. Also noted Mrs F C Hall, wife of an Oklahoma City aviation figure, died today.
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BELEN
Miss
H. L. Hall
Paul
Hall
Gil Man
OKLAHOMA CITY
Der
F.C. Hall
Court congestion blamed on nation’s dry statutes
Washington dispatch reports the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment blames federal court congestion and rising prisoner totals on dry laws. It cites 50,000 prohibition prisoners and two thirds of federal criminal cases tied to prohibition, with civil-action gains and vast costs cited as evidence of inefficiency.
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WASHINGTON
Association Against the
association
Hoover
the
United States
PITAD
Four Foreign Priests and Five Nuns Freed in Peiping
The apostolic delegation reports four foreign priests and five nuns captured by Chinese communists in October have been released. Earlier, it was said that Italian Catholic bishop Monsignor Mignani six priests and ten nuns were held. The bishop and one priest were later freed to arrange ransom.
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PEIPING
China
Italar
Mignani
Flames Sweep Tracy Warehouse Loss Reaches Eight Hundred Thousand
Fire last night tore through a Helly Sugar Company warehouse in Tracy California, destroying 160000 sacks of sugar. Officials estimate the loss at 800000. A brick wall spared a nearby plant. The Tracy site is among sixteen western branches. a similar Torrington Wyoming blaze struck the company a year earlier.
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TRACY
Cal
Helly Sugar Company
sugar company
Torrington
Wyo
Cold Weather Moving South Prompts Frost Forecast
Atlanta reports a renewed cold spell spreading through Dixie with frost forecast for the gulf coast tonight. Snow and sleet lingered from a last week storm as freezing conditions push toward Louisiana Mississippi and beyond with warming only in Kentucky.
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ATLANTA
Dixie
gulf coast
South
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Florida
Norris Scorns Third Party Bid and Electoral Reform
Washington dispatch reports Senator Norris rejected leading a third party movement and said he would not run for president. He proposed a constitutional amendment to abolish the electoral college to allow an independent presidential candidacy, but doubted sufficient support exists to form a nucleus for a new party.
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WASHINGTON
Norris
Nebraska Republican Independent
Norra
the
Nebraskan
John Dewey
League for Independent political action
senate
Hoover
power trust
Democratic party
Owen D. Young
Mr. Young
fevyen
yey
Robert H. Luc
Republican national committee
Dewey
league
Republican party
Dewsy
United States
Debut Ball for Miss Doherty at Mayflower Tonight
A Washington debutante Miss Helen Lee Eames Doherty, daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry L Doherty of New York, will grace a grand society ball at the Mayflower tonight. Nearly a thousand guests, including New York society and high officials, are invited to attend the dinner and midnight dance. The Dohertys secured the hotel’s first floor for the event with a 22 piece jazz band, elaborate decorations, and a five course dinner. Miss Doherty, noted for art studies in Europe, will wear a simple pink chiffon gown, while her mother wears a white chiffon dress with a black beaded dinner jacket.
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WASHINGTON
Henry L. Doherty
New York
Helen Lee Eames Doherty
Miss Doherty
Curtis
Edward Everett Gann
Hurley
Doherty
Mayflower hotel
radio celebri
Rezal
Europe
Miss Dohert
Mr. Doherty
H. L. DONERTY
Death mystery at North Lawrence home in Potsdam
Margaret Reynolds, eighty, a widow, was found dead in her North Lawrence residence with facial bruising and multiple injuries. Her sister Rose Ann O'Donnell, eighty, a partly crippled widow, lived with her. Nephew Anthony O'Donnell reported the discovery, noting the corpse appeared dazed in the kitchen. Coroner says she died at least twenty four hours earlier.
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POTSDAM
Pi—rgaret Reynolds
North Lawrence
Rose Ann O'Donnell
Anthony O'Donnell
Miss O'Donnell
Poincare Regaining His Health Quickly
Paris December 25 The physician said President Poincare was progressing satisfactorily after a vascular spasm and a doctors’ consultation planned for today was postponed until tomorrow.
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Poincare
PARIS
Reymond Poincare
Garner pushes proposal for veteran bonus payment plan
Washington December 26 The Democratic leader Rep Garner of Texas urged a plan to pay veterans by allowing surrender of certificates for their original value plus four percent interest or hold to maturity The measure would cost about a billion dollars funded by treasury borrowing at about 1.75 to 3.5 percent Garner argued the move would restore economic balance and stimulate states cities and communities even if only a portion of veterans redeem now He emphasized the favorable borrowing rate and the potential broad impact of timely debt payment to veterans
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WASHINGTON
house
Garner
Texas
treasury
Independence Opens Municipal Woodpile to Aid Jobless
Independence Kansas launched a municipal woodpile program funded by proceeds from a charity football game to aid the unemployed. Twenty nine men reported for work this morning, five arriving by automobile as the effort began.
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INDEPENDENCE
Kas
Wounds Fatal to Mill Clerk During Payroll Robbery
Charles A. Kern Jr. a 45 year old chief clerk at the American Mills Company in West Haven died from shotgun wounds after a payroll robbery. Joseph Ordazzo, 54, gate tender, also was fatally wounded. Edward Slattery of New Haven claimed guilt but police found no connection. he was intoxicated.
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NEW HAVEN
Conn
Charles A. Kern, Jr
American Mills Company
West Haven
Kern
Joseph Ordazzo
Edward Slattery
Slattery
Christmas at Chicago Church Not So Merry
Chicago readers recount a grim Christmas Eve at St. Adalbert's Catholic Church where two robbers entered during services, tied and gagged four priests, and escaped with about 2000 in church collections. Parishioners describe the incident as a violation of sanctuary and a shocking breach of trust.
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Chicago
St. Adalbert's Catholic
sert
Orchids Costly This Christmas in New York
New York, Dec. 26. Christmas orchid sales reached $100000 with florists moving 25000 stems. Last minute shop prices soared to 12 per orchid for some blooms as demand remained high.
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NEW YORK
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