High Water Recedes Across Pacific Northwest Amid Damage Increases
Flood waters retreat from coast to Idaho except Skagit and Snohomish valleys. Two million dollars damage in Puyallup River Valley and Tacoma area, four million in Kings County. Chicago? No. Two deaths in Pennsylvania train wreck, Maine blizzard deaths total 15 nationwide. Apartment collapse in Seattle avoided tragedy. Europe endures cold with four dead in France and five in Hungary.
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Pacific Northwest
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Skagit
Snohomish River
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Maine
Europe
London
France
Hungary
Woman Shot Down in Seattle Night Club Tragedy
In Seattle on December 12, Percy Moubray, 27, shot and killed Mary Dean also known as Mary Purvis in a night club. He claimed she squealed on him as she ran from a booth where they sat, dying of a gunshot wound at dancers’ feet.
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Percy Moulfray
Mary Dean
Mary Purvis
Moubray
Eou
Slip of Ladder Saves Life of Texas Electric Worker
Bills Green, 35, an electrical worker from Hoveton Texas, survived a 2400 volt contact when a ladder slipped at the right moment, preventing fatal injury. He was alive today, with recovery hoped.
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Hoveton, Tex
Des
Bills Green
Money Battles that Made History No 2 Hamilton and Jefferson
Washington December 12 The second of four articles traces the first major money dispute after the Constitution centering on Alexander Hamilton as first Treasury Secretary. It chronicles Continental currency depreciation and the struggle over taxation and national credit, leading to calls for a stronger central financial system and debates over a national capital.
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Washington
United States
Alexander Hamilton
Treasury
George
Continental Congress
France
England
Europe
America
Congress
Massachusetts
Daniel Shays
Hamilton
Alaskan Dies After Flight From Suskokwim
Joseph Demendal, pioneer of the Suskokwim, flown 500 miles to Anchorage suffering blood poisoning from a fish bone in his finger. He lost his face and died soon after arrival. Widow and two children survive at Sleetmute.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Joseph Demendal
Sleetmute
Alaskan Musher Slim Williams En Route to Chicago
A note to Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond states Slim Williams who left Copper Center Alaska for the Century of Progress Exposition is now en route from Chicago toward the east awaiting arrival.
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Washington
Alaska
Anthony J. Dimond
Slim” Williams
Copper Center
Chicago
George Peek Switched to New Government Post
Washington reports a compromise end to the Parm Administration controversy as President Roosevelt selects a new ration to pursue foreign markets for farm products. George Peek is shifted to the new role amid the restructuring.
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George Peek
Washington
Parm
Roosevelt
Woman Hangs Self in Police Station Cell
Chicago report of Mrs May Weston aging forty six found dead by hanging with stockings in a cell at the State Street police station annex. She had been arrested for failing to pay a taxicab bill and was known to police as a drug addict.
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Chicago
May ‘Weston
State Street
Profit Taking Hits Stock Prices In Mixed Trading
New York December 12 reports intermittent profit taking in stocks with declines trimmed after a brief sell off. Total daily volume reached about 1,500,000 shares as some gains followed late-day recoveries. Closing quotes list Alaska Juneau mine at 20 1 2, General Motors 34 1 2 and United States Steel 47.
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Postal
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Allied Chemical
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American Telephone
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Juneau
American Power and Light
Anaconda
Armour B
Bethlehem Steel
Calumet and Hecla
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Kennecott
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North American Company
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Standard of of California
United Corporation
Third French Debt Default Confirmed Amid Cabinet Stand
Paris reports that the cabinet confirmed the third default on France debt to the United States. The same session rejected Hitler’s demand for a standing army of at least 100000 men.
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Paris
United States
Hitler
Germany
Cuts Arms Budget Signal Uncertain Security in Europe
TIRANA December 12 with no call for reunion at the Geneva disarmament talks Kant, youngest of European kingdoms, halves its military budget, saving about 1.2 million dollars, signaling cautious security recalibration.
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Tirana
Liquor Tax to Be Kept to Minimum
Senator Pat Harrison said President Roosevelt favors stopping bootlegging over boosting federal revenue from liquor levies. After a Senate Finance Committee meeting, Harrison stated the panel would likely keep liquor taxes at a minimum to prevent bootlegging.
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Washington
Pat Harrison
Senate Finance Committee
Roosevelt
Harrison
Wallace Beery to Play P. T. Barnum on Screen
Wallace Beery will portray P. T. Barnum in The Great Barnum, announced by Twentieth Century Pictures. Production to begin after January 1 in Hollywood California.
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Wallace Beery
P. T. Barnum
Hollywood
Cal
Twentieth Century Pictures
Eighteen Year Old Boy Confessed Thrill Seeker Under Arrest
CURLY-HAIRED Henry Boyington of Livingston Montana aged 18 confessed to 15 strong arm robberies in Los Angeles California with one murder attached to his spree. He told Detective Captain Fred Parsons he took a "big kick" from squirming victims and said his sweetheart asked him to be booked for murder and robbery.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Henry Boyington
Livingston
Montana
Ally
Fred Parsons
Boyington
Industrial Recession About Over
The Departments of Commerce and Labor report that the industrial recession May have ended in November. About two billion dollars were added to payrolls between April and October 15. Secretary Perkins notes four million people rehired by October 15 and prices under NRA codes up 16 percent with payrolls up 60 percent.
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Washington
Department of Commerce
Department of Labor Today
Perkins
NRA
Lindberghs Start Flight Over Unexplored Jungles
Bul Letin reports Col Charles A Lindbergh and his wife arrived in Manaus Brazil and then took off on a flight over wild jungle and mountain country toward Trinidad and Miami shore.
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Lindbergh's
Manaqs
Brazil
Charles A. Lindberg
Trinidad
Miami
Florida
Washington lawmakers advance numerous bills in special session
In Olympia Washington legislators introduced 98 bills and resolutions as the House and Senate pushed a liquor control measure through committees while Gov Clarence D Martin called a special session for liquor reform. Conservatives expect adjournment once the liquor bill clears both chambers.
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Olympia
Wash
House
Senate
Washington
Clarence D. Martin
Man Drowned After Boat Swept Over 60-Foot Oregon Dam
Valentine Schumachner, 30, was crossing the Bandy River in a shiplap boat when it was swept over a 60-foot dam. He drowned in Oregon City on December 12.
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Oregon
Oregon City
Valentine Schumachner
Aig
League of Nations Crisis Warns of Imminent Anarchy
London December 1. Joseph Avenil secretary general of the League declares the world faces a choice not between the League and a better system but between the League and near anarchy, framing the current global dilemma.
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London
League of Nations
Joseph Avenil
League
Salmon Packers Seek Separate Code From Fresh Fishery
At a hearing on the general code Alaska Pacific Northwest salmon packers and California tuna canners asked for a dedicated code. H Thomas Austern argued salmon canning should be divorced from the fresh fish industry and noted the California tuna industry has its own subsidiary code. He said including salmon under the omnibus code would impose administrative costs that aid only the fresh fish industry.
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Washington
Alaska
Pacific Northwest
California
H. Thomas Austern
Austern
California Tune Fish
Farmers Rally Behind Roosevelt Plan At Nationwide Convention
Farm leaders express staunch support for the President's farm recovery program. President Edward O Neal urges full cooperation for ultimate success as delegates at the convention voice backing even before the message is read.
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Edward O'Neal
Federation
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