Blizzard Prepares Along East Coast After Yuletide Toll
An Associated Press survey reports heavy Christmas week deaths from weather and accidents across the United States. Exposures froze in Minnesota and Wisconsin as temperatures plunged to near zero. Snowfalls blanket New York City, Chicago, and surrounding areas with several inches, while blizzard conditions threaten the East as a polar air mass shifts south.
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Chicago
United States
Associated Press
Canadian Northwest
Midwest
Eveleth
Minnesota
Rhinelander
Wis
Ughuy
Nelson
New York
60 Men Resume Work Today on Local Projects
Approximately 80 men resume jobs here this morning on PWA and CWA projects under the Alaska Road Commission. By next week 188 more will be added to the CWA list in Southeast Alaska and 94 elsewhere in the Territory under the Alaska Game Commission. At the Bureau of Fisheries headquarters applications for stream clearing work were being taken. Forty six men returned to the Gold Creek project and 17 on the Seatter Track were reassigned. About 24 tracks hauled rock in the Willoughby Avenue extension project funded by PWA. Seventy four miles of pear trees and 31 miles of peach trees are being cultivated in a northern Italian orchard.
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PWA
CWA
Hawley Sterling
Alaska Road Commission
Alaska
Bureau of Fisheries
Alaska Game Commission
Focal
Bureau
Gold Creek
Seatter
Willoughby Avenue
Smiling Boy Enticed Away Then Murdered in Columbia
Robert Wiles, 49, auto mechanic, enticed Herbert Harris Jr., 18, from home in Columbia on a Friday afternoon. Harris’s body found in a shack nine miles from the city. J M Rushton, former meat cutter, implicated by Wiles. No charges filed. police pursue theory the boy was abducted and killed in a spirit of violence. Harris was son of two, connected to local chain store leadership.
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Columbia
South Carolina
Sabir
Ida
Christus
Harris
Raiton
Riehten
Paris Strasbourg flier wreck kills nearly two hundred
A Paris Strasbourg flyer crashed into four Nancy Express coaches in dense fog, killing 199 and injuring hundreds. Investigators press government inquiry as bodies remain unidentified. the disaster cited as France’s worst rail crash.
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Langny
France
Nancy
Mer
Dutch Harbor Battered by Severe Gale From East to Northwest
Dutch Harbor Alaska reports a ferocious 24 hour gale with winds up to hurricane force. Roofs and storm windows were torn from buildings, radio and telephone lines were down, boats wrecked on the beach, and the barometer continues to fall this morning.
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Dutch Harbor
Alaska
Gold Price Not Changed by $34.06
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation announces today that the price of gold remains at $34.06 per ounce, unchanged from last week’s daily value. The note appears from Washington on December 26, with a brief mention of the market status.
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Washington
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Ven E Neon
Market Stocks Fall On Dull Session And Widespread Losses
Stocks showed little resistance to selling pressure as losses of one to three points predominated. Trading was dull with wide bid offer gaps and a heavy close. Bonds steady, U S Government bonds firm, metals generally heavy, and select issues like General Motors and American Telephone down several points. Closing prices list Alaska Juneau mine at 21, American Can 96, General Motors 34, Standard Oil of California 38, United States Steel 47, with several other major names showing declines. There are 15 separate oil and gas fluids in Moritana.
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New York
United States
General Motors
Public Service of
New Jersey
U. S
American Smelting
DePasco
American Telephone and Telegraph
Standard Oil
California
Johns-Manville
Texas
United States Steel
Santa Fe
Union Pacific
Chrysler
Standard OM
Alaska
Juneau
Dupont
American Can
Allied Chemical
American Power and Light
Anaconda
Armour B
Bethlehem Steel
Calumet and Heela
Curtiss-Wright
Fox Films
International Harvester
Kennecott
North American Aviation
Chicago
Milwaukee
Montgomery ~ Ward
Standard Oil of California
Intimidation Tactics Target Estate Heirs in Lurid Fight
Salt for a quarter million dollars alleged by Mrs. Mary Towle against her father and brother Albert Allen senior and junior of Medford Oregon in a contested estate dispute. She accuses them of kidnapping threats intimidation and coercion to seize her share of the Keir estate and claims she was held in Oregon against her will for over 30 days. Damages sought include 100000 for injuries plus 25000 bonis and 100000 in property. In Miami Florida Helen Richey and Frances Marsalis near a record endurance feat, facing undisclosed trouble as they approach eight days and four hours. A wind winding issue and a gear problem were reported with photogs aboard.
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Cal
Mary Allen
Towl
Albert al- Hien
Medford Oxenon
Towle
Tegal
Margaret Keir
Albert Allen
Tr ‘Sale
Dilifan Keith Alen Woodson
Keith
Eigen
Oregon
Miami
Florida
Helen Richey
Frances Marsalis
Endurance Fiers
Sipari
Miers
Miss Richey
Residents of Wales Island Resupplied After Shortage
Sixty residents on Wales Island near Prince Rupert BC were reprovisioned and found in good health after a BC Provincial Police boat returned from a supply mission. The ship, which delivered Christmas mail along with food, reported the island had ten whites and fifty Japanese fishermen among residents with almost no food prior to the aid.
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Prince Rupert
Wales
British Columbia
Taland
Assassination strikes New York Armenian church leader
Archishop Leon Elizée Tourkast, head of the Armenian National Apostle Church in the Americas, was stabbed to death during Sunday morning services as he walked down the church aisle in his green and gold vestments. Police say two men claimed the killing reflected church discontent over the Bishop's alleged sympathy with Soviet Russia. Also noted: with winter ground, airport work at Cordova halted. runway planned 1209 feet long and 200 feet wide, rest of project incomplete.
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New York
Leon Elizée Tourkast
Armenian National Apostle
Americas
Lirid
Cordova
Trial ends as bond broker pleads guilty in Kansas case
Topeka December 26 Runie Planey a 34 year old bond broker and principal in the Kanes million dollar bogus bond scandal abruptly ended his trial by entering a guilty plea. The defense failed to prove insanity. He pleaded to forging a $30,000 issue of Hululutieat Park bonds and selling them to Tedh Citizens State Bank of Topeka. Sentence deferred to December 30.
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Peka
Kansas
Runie Planey
Mguve
Kanes
Ferail
Finney
Tedh
Citizens State Bank of
Topeka
Roosevelt to Speak at National Dinner Address
President Roosevelt will address the nation Thursday evening from Washington at the Woodrow Wilson Foundation first National Dinner. The speech will be broadcast nationwide on two systems starting at 10 30 o clock Eastern Standard Time.
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Washington. der
Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson Foundation
Washington
Readine Broadcasting
Three Generations Of Coolidges Have Christmas Reunion
Three generations of the Coolidge family gathered in Plainsville Connecticut for a Christmas reunion spanning Sunday and Monday. The gathering highlighted preserved family ties and holiday traditions among relatives from different generations.
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Coolidges
Plainsville
Conn
Coolidge
Silver Program Not Exciting Says Rainey
Rainey says the silver program is not exciting emphasizing the administration’s press approach. He calls for more effective action and energy to win support for the president’s policy and its goals.
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Rainey
Silver Miners in Celebration at Chicolale Rally
A garbled report notes miners in Denv en celebrating with a parade and general merriment. The text references a president and a protective order but lacks clear specifics on place, date, or participants.
Joy Replaced by Grief in Eastern Home Tragedy
A family in Ivan Frines’s home suffers a double loss as a mother and infant die after a violent incident. The husband sustains injuries and remains hospitalized while the scene draws police attention. Nearby residents report a hush over the neighborhood as investigators piece together what happened.
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JOY
GRIEF
Father and sons die in mud and timber slide at Oregon
Four killed when a sudden flood buried Milo Allen's home on Suallecreek bed. Milo Allen and his three young sons perished. Mrs. Allen and a younger child escaped. Rescue crews pulled survivors from wreckage as the region faced severe flooding and rising waters. In Idaho, Lake Couer d Alene overflow and Christmas rains flood area. sandbags protect Boise neighborhoods. Seattle reports renewed rain over Puget Sound after a brief pause.
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Clateskanie
Oregon
Suallecreek
Milo Allen
Allen
Col Hone
Plood
Aho Boise
Idaho
Lake Couer d'Alene
Grent
Jevel
Democrats to Convene Here for 1934 Convention
Delegates from across the Division will gather January 24 to organize the Democratic platform and operations for 1934. The call for the divisional convention was issued by the Territorial Committee, with each division allotted one delegate per vote at the general election and additional delegates per 50 votes. The Democrats anticipate a record attendance at Petersburg during the first July spurt in years.
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Hellenthal
Tivrliorial
Petersburg
Doc Hamilton Paroled from State Prison in Seattle
John Dos Hamilton, former Seattle fight club proprietor, was released on parole after serving a two year sentence for conducting and gambling joint operations. The parole was granted under terms yet to be disclosed, with authorities noting rehabilitation measures.
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Doc” Hamilton
Seattle
John
Dos" Hamilton
Seattle Heero Fight
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