Tragedies On Christmas Day Leap Across World Toll
Portland reports four killed when a natural dam released mud and rocks in Clatskanie Oregon. Milo Allen and his three sons perished. wife critically injured as rescuers pulled two other sons from wreckage. Floods strain Coeur D Alene Idaho and Spokane Washington with widespread damage and evacuations as Manila counts nine dead in flood outlying districts.
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Portland
Ore
Oregon
Pacific Northwest
Clatskanie
Milo Allen
George
Robert
Donald
Allen
Picton
Clifford
Coeur D'Alene
Ida
Wallace
Kellogg
Kingston
Evans Ville
Rose Lake
Spokane
Peaceful Valley
Kane River
Livestock Leaders Head to National Convention in January
Albuquerque December 26 AP The American National Livestock Association annual meeting January 11 and 12 may draw a record attendance. F E Mollin of Denver said despite a cattle market crisis, more members have paid dues and many new applications arrive. Over 1,500 cattlemen from the west expected. New Mexico Wool Growers and Cattle Growers meet January 10 to seek a federal production credit agency for New Mexico with 1 million dollars. Plans include a two year ban on imported canned meats and a government beef purchase of 75 million for the needy. NM and Texas Panhandle groups back the move.
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Albuquerque
N. M
American National Livestock Association
F. E. Mollin
Denver
New Mexico Cattle Growers Association
Mollin
West
New Mexico
American National Livestock Meeting
Floyd Lee
Farm Credit Administration
Texas Panhandle
Clear But Cold Forecast For New Mexico
The AP reports colder clear weather forecast for New Mexico after a record warm Christmas. Albuquerque recorded 61 degrees this December 25, the warmest since 1893, beating the 1904 high of 58.
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Albuquerque
N. M
New Mexico
Weather Bureau
Airplane attacks kill civilians in Fukien China clash
Reports from Nanking say Nationalist planes bombed Fukien provinces killing 58 civilians and soldiers around Foochow and Changchow. Eugene Chen condemned Chiang Kai-shek for using planes against Chinese civilians amid the anti-Japanese struggle. A winter storm then hit the eastern U.S. with heavy snow, delaying travel from New York to Chicago and across the Ohio Valley.
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Nanking
China
Fukien
Foochow
Changchow
Eugene Chen
People’s Independent Government
Chen
Sun Yat-Sen
Chiang Kia- Shek
Chiang Kai-Shek
Heavy Increase in Internal Revenue in November
Albuquerque. December 26. Internal revenue collections for November totaled 135,706,922 dollars, up 50 million from a year ago. Commissioner Guy T. Helvering announced that gains came from dividends, estate taxes, fermented malt liquors, autos, gasoline, and agricultural processing taxes, with estate taxes and autos rising sharply from November 1932.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Internal Revenue
Guy T. Helvering
Adv
Helvering
Archbishop Leon Tourain Slain in New York Church
In New York an Archbishop of the Armenian Apostolic Church in America was killed during a church procession. Police say five men were arrested as they traced a blood-stained shirt to a fifth suspect. Rebels described as anti Soviet activists are blamed for the murder.
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New York
Old Republic of Armenia
Tashnag
Leon Tourain
Holy Cross
Armenian Apostolic Church
North
South America
199 BIE IN FRENCH RAILROAD WRECK
Paris report confirms 199 dead in the Strasbourg Flier disaster with three more victims identified. Remains unidentified include two women and a man. Survivors face infections as the Nancy Express wreck near Nancy is probed as the worst in French history. Engineer Lucien Daudigny and fireman Henry Charpentier jailed for homicide by imprudence. A national funeral service scheduled for Wednesday.
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Paris
France
Strasbourg
Nancy
Lucien Daudigny
Henry Charpentier
Japan to Spend Big for Arms and Military Budget
Emperor Hirohito opened a Diet session amid approval of peacetime defense appropriations in Japan. The plan, led by War and Navy ministers, includes army and navy funding of 938 million yen about 281 million dollars, comprising 44 percent of all budgeted expenditures.
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Tokyo
Hirohito
Japan
Winter blizzards and crashes claim many lives
A holiday period survey reports over 180 deaths across the United States from blizzards and accidents. A cold Canadian air mass drove temperatures near or below zero in the Midwest, blamed for at least five fatalities.
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Associated Press
United States
Canadian Northwest
Mid-West
Armstrongs in Low Bid on Road West of Roswell
The U S Bureau of Public Roads announced the lowest bids for two New Mexico forest highway projects. Armstrong & Armstrong Construction Co of Roswell bid $62 159 86 to grade two miles of the Carrizoto Roswell forest highway. C V Hallenbeck of Denver bid $101 583 to grade 5 3 miles of the Navajo Canon forest highway in Rio Arriba.
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Denver
U.S. Bureau of Public Roads
New Mexico
Armstrong & Armstrong Construction Co
Roswell
Carrizoto-Roswell
C. V Hallenbeck
Rio Arriba
Can Believe in Science and God
Dr Arthur H Compton of the University of Chicago advocates a deistic view linking faith and science. In a Christmas Day interview he says faith in God can be a scientific attitude even if the correctness of belief remains unproven. He notes science and religion need not quarrel when religion posits a God who has children.
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Chicago
Arthur H. Compton
University of Chicago
Compton
RFC Holds Insull Securities and German Bonds as Collateral
The reconstruction finance corporation reported to a senate committee that it holds several million dollars in Insull securities and German bonds backing the loan to the Central Republic Bank and Trust Company. About 60.9 million of the original 50 million loan remains outstanding. collateral also includes commercial paper mortgages and stocks. The committee plans to meet to review the report, which is not yet public.
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Washington
Reconstruction Corporation
Senate
Central Republic Bank and Trust Company
Dawes Bank of Chicago
Riifc
Fletcher
RFC
Chicago
Charles G. Dawes
Congress
Bootlegging Persists in New Mexico Under Lane Law
In Santa Fe region bootlegging continues despite the Lane liquor law. The system of individual permits faces strong opposition as leaks in enforcement appear to favor bootleggers. The story notes the law’s supposed airtight intent versus practical escape routes.
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Santa Fe
Officers Report A Ordered Christmas In Roswell
Path city and county officers report one of the most orderly Christmas holidays Roswell has ever had. There were no serious fights and no shooting scrapes. Four cases of drunkenness and one of drunken and dis orderly were brought before police judge L. L. Johnson. One defendant received 30 days in jail and another 15 days plus a fine and costs of 19.50. The other three were fined, two at 17.50 and one at 19.50.
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Path City
Roswell
L. L. Johnson
Girl Escapee from Tecumseh AIS Arrested Here
Emma Louise McClatchey fifteen, previously part of the Oklahoma Industrial School escape group from Tecumesh, was arrested Saturday night by Officer O Neill as Oklahoma authorities planned her return to the institution. She has a prior arrest in Roswell for purse theft.
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Emma Louise McClatchey
Oklahoma
Tecumesh Oklahoma
Fatal Christmas Shooting in Albuquerque
AP reports Juan Chavez is held for investigation after Vicente Sanchez a 37 year old civil works employee dies from a Christmas morning shooting. Chavez claims self defense as he says his intoxicated wife was being troubled while witnesses say Sanchez asked him to stop molesting the woman. Chavez was arrested at his home. coroner's inquest pending. Sanchez died hours after being rushed to hospital. he leaves a wife and five children.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Juan Chavez
Vicente Sanchez
Civil Works
Sanchez
Chavez
Rates Set for 1934 Livestock and Grazing Lands
Santa Fe reports the state tax commission will announce 1934 rates on livestock and grazing lands. Chief Commissioner Byron O. Beall withheld valuation trends, but sources suggest cattle values may edge down while sheep valuations rise slightly. A recent meeting discussed farm timing for lamb crops and sales after the January tax rolls.
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Santa Fe
State Tax Commission
Byron O. Beall
Car Turns Over North of Roswell in Narrow Crash
A Chevrolet sedan carrying Mrs. H. K. Stamfield of Amarillo, her young son, and maid Miss Mary Pozner turned on a curve about 20 miles north of Roswell. Mrs. Stamfield suffered a facial bruise. the others escaped serious injury. The left side was crushed but the car regained its wheels and reached Roswell. The radio reportedly continued playing. Mrs. Stamfield was en route from Amarillo to California.
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Roswell-Clovis
Roswell
H. K. Stamfield
Amarillo
Mary Pozner
Stanfield
California
Spanish cruiser Jaime I ordered to Havana denied
Madrid reports from El Ferrol said the cruiser Jaime I was ordered to Havana, but Navy Minister Pita Romero denied any government plan. Still, dispatches from El Ferrol claimed the ship was being cleaned and trimmed in preparation for a lengthy deployment.
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Madrid
el Ferrol
Jaime I
Havana
Cuba
Pita Romero
Navy
Arkansas feud brings out guard in Marshall
Quiet settled over Marshall Arkansas after two families rekindled an ancient feud that has already claimed two lives. National guard and county officers moved to restore peace as a reported furlough return of Leland Henley 29 sentenced to life for the killing of W W Findley prompted a Christmas street shooting that wounded city marshal J H Barnett.
Weather Outlook Across U.S. Regions Tonight and Wednesday
Fair and colder conditions expected in New Mexico and Colorado with increases in temperature in the northeast Wednesday. Kansas sees partly cloudy skies with a warming trend and possible northeast snow in the afternoon. West Texas and Wyoming show fair to chilly conditions with frost in the southeast and potential snow in the northwest. Nebraska reports east fair and west unsettled with possible snow in the east. Temperature readings include Amarillo 60-24 and Denver 55-41.
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West
Texas
Colorado
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Nebraska
Amarillo
Chicago
Denver
el Paso
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Los Anarene
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