The Very Last Day and the Barrenness of America
Arthur Brisbane comments on a world in flux as 1934 ends, noting revolutions and reforms as slow glacierlike progress. He cites Russia’s rise, American cynicism, and a looming future where Uncle Sam faces challenges from Red zealots and social upheaval, while Amelia Earhart plans a solo Hawaii to California flight amid government resistance.
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Auzela
Russia
Peter
Amelia Barhart
Hawaii
California
Providence
Russia Today in Moscow’s Metropol hall of revelry and fear
Knickerbocker reports from Moscow on life under the dictatorship of the proletariat. Balloons rise, music booms, dancers perform while guests revel. yet questions linger about the standard of living, punishment of dissent, and the Soviet promise of planned economy versus capitalist systems. The piece asks how 17 years of Soviet rule have affected 168 million Russians and what an American worker can learn from the Soviet experiment.
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Knickerbocker
N.S
Copsticht
Kewabervlee
Mobcow
Russia
Yar
Rasputin
Metropol
Moscow
Soviet Union
Europe
President Roosevelt urges immediate bonus funding veto looming
President Roosevelt issued a public letter opposing immediate payment of the World War II bonus, arguing the obligation not due until 1945 would burden borrowing, noting veterans may not gain real relief and citing large certificate values and potential costs to cancel loans. He addressed the issue as Congress prepared to convene, while lawmakers and veterans groups weighed installment plans and timing.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
Texas Post
Garland R. Palmer
American Legion
Henderson
Texas
Burns
Tennessee
Byrns
Capitol Hill
Roosevelt
Representative Fuller
Arkansas
Ways and Means Committee
Goubbless
Tax on Bank Checks Expires
Washington reports the nuisance tax of 2 cents on each bank check will expire at midnight, ending a levy that yielded about 1.01 million dollars to the treasury through November, far above 3.4 million per month. Congress is not expected to renew the tax.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
Public Refuses to Buy U. S. Currency at Reduced Rate
In Los Angeles on December 31, Paul Taylor challenged Mel Smith to sell genuine $5 bills at a bargain price. About 5000 passersby rejected the offer while two accepted. Police halted the spectacle as spectators crowded the downtown corner and blocked the tent.
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Los Angeles
Den
Paul Taylor
Mel
Smith
Nut Two
Bandit Dares Death in Jail Break Attempt
Chicago filed prison escape tale follows Dee 31, a confessed bandit linked to 60 holdups, who slipped from an eleventh floor cell block at downtown police HQ. Mario Distefano, captured after a tavern holdup left an elderly man dead and a officer wounded, crawled through a window to a fire escape and risked a climb.
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Chicago
Dee
CINS
Flanr
Downtawn
Mario Distefano
Four rescued after three-day Adirondack wreck ordeal
Four men flown from Syracuse to Albany bound airliner survivors reached civilization after three days trapped eight miles from Hoffmeister. State police and National Guard led the rescue amid waist-deep snow and 30 below temperatures with Woodmen lending aid and an aerial search guiding ground parties to the crash site.
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Albany
N.Y
Adirondacks
Civilization
Atate Conservatons Department
Hoffmeister
Conservation Department
Dew
Morhouseville
Thorugh
Hamilton @Kenners
Ernest
Dale
Morghouseville
Dryer
American Airlines
Syracuse
Lester Portello
Floyd Krueger
National Guard
Airline i Company
ATR
Ernest Dryer
J. A H. Brown
Boston
Anrrican Airlines
R. W. Hambrook
Washington, D. C
Chem
Pertello
Jain
Charles
Krueger
Hofmeister
Lieut
Jakway
Massasehusetts National Guard
Emerson
Jakwayad
Jesse Reed
Man Slays Kin and Then Kills Himself
In Indianapolis Der 31 a man shot and killed his brother James F. Pierce 67 after a dispute over opening a door. Their 87 year old mother Mary E. Pierce witnessed the event and then took her own life.
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Endianapolis
Der
Trate
Charles M. Pierte
James F. Pierce
Mary E. Pierce
Drowning of Workmen in River Whirlpool Near Alcarcer
Dispatches from Alcarcer report that seventeen crown Lisbon Portugal workmen were drowned when a final boat capsized in a river whirlpool. The tragedy prompted rescues and inquiries into rope and boat safety.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Alcarcer
Weather Forecast for San Antonio and Vicinity
Mostly cloudy with local showers and some colder conditions Monday night and Tuesday. Low around 48 degrees Monday night, high about 63 Tuesday. Moderate variable winds, shifting to northwest. High Sunday 64, low Monday 63, Monday east Texas near the hundredth meridian. Partly cloudy with local showers in east and south portions, colder in extreme east Monday night, Tuesday generally fair and colder, winds on the coast become northwesterly. West Texas partly cloudy and colder Monday night, Tuesday generally fair.
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San Antonio
East Texas
West
Texas
Rescuers Describe Plight of Fliers Corps
Albany dispatch reports first definite word from the downed American Airlines plane. Charles Pertelio and his brother John, residents eight miles from Wilder's Flow crash site, reached the wreck around 10 PM and relayed details to the Times-Union and International News Service.
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Albany
Wnton
Enternational News Service
INS
Times-Union and
International News Service
Charles
John Pertelio
Wilder
Pertallos
Lester
Floyd Kreuger
Lees
Rioting Surges in Saar Region Over Nazi Clash
Serious rioting erupted in Saarbrucken and surrounding areas as Nazis and anti Nazis clashed over semi military policing. About 15 injured, over fifty shots fired, at Malstatt and Bielkasel as Hitler youths attacked a restaurant. a Catholic trader Johanna Hoffmann present amid allegations of Nazi instigation. Military leaders called for order and a petition urged international troops to intervene and ban the Nazi Front squad blamed for the weekend clashes.
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Associates Press- Saarbruecker
Saar Barin
Tnday
anti-Nagis
Saar
Malstatt
Saarbruecken
Blieskastel
Johanna Hoffmann
German Peoples’ Party
Saay
Germany
Bleiskastel
Une
Bileskastel
Heinrich Imbushh
Teader
Chakce
Hoffmett
Frazkce
Reichstuhrer
Saar Basin
High Hagn
Sun to Rise With New Year Dawn Says Jarboe
Forecasts say sun returns with the New Year dawn after a spell of cloudy days. Jarboe notes mild, cooler temperatures and clearing skies as a low around 48 and a high near 62. Northwest winds are expected to prevail.
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Jarboe
San Aitonio
New York
U.S
J. Hlavlae Mondsy
Mysterious Blast Rocks East Dallas
A mysterious explosion rocked East Dallas early today destroying a sandwich stand opposite the Ford plant. A man with a blazing coat and bleeding from cuts was seen fleeing. EB. J. Johnson reported seeing the man running away after the blast in the ensuing excitement.
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Dallas
Ean
Toy Pistol Bandit Shot by Policeman in City
A youth about 14 brandished a toy pistol and tried to hold up a policeman posing as a drug store delivery man in Oklahoma City. The officer shot the suspect, who was critically wounded.
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Oklahoma City
Classified Rental Ads Seek Listings For 1935 Profits
Ad text requests obtaining additions information on properties and full listings by consulting rental columns in want ads pages of San Antonio papers. Asks for reasonable rates and promises to respond to offers at Fifth Street, aiming to maximize profits and place ads.
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Want
Posabte
Licht
Dts
Wily
Geratest
San Antonio
Defense budget boosts Army and Navy expansion
Washington Post reports the president approved defense budget increases for both the Army and Navy. Navy plans include fleet expansion to full strength per Washington treaty with 24 warships and new ships in 1936, plus subs and aircraft. Army gains include 700 aircraft and motorization of trucks tanks and artillery with many new units and officer additions.
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Washington
Dec
Washington Post
Congress
Dutich
Japan
Hie
Lince
Swanson
War Department
Man Tries to Crash President's Pew at Church
Chester Leroy Kern, 27, was under observation at Gallinger hospital after attempting to force his way into the Roosevelt pew at St. Thomas Episcopal church in Washington. He arrived before the president and family, demanded a seat, and was taken into custody. Kern carried seven letters and telegrams urging him to see the president and claimed he had a plan to prevent the next war in Europe.
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Washington, D. C
Chester Leroy Kern
Gallinger Hospital
Fashionable St. Thomas Episcopal Church
Kern
Roosevelt
Jil
Europe
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