Guerilla War Continues in Northern Zone Amid Skirmishes
In Eritrea and neighboring zones, Ethiopian forces rout Italian outposts, round up 12 natives in a court martial for spying, plus an Ethiopian air force claim of shooting down an Italian plane at Daggah Bur. Laval told the French cabinet France will refrain from military moves unless provoked by Italy.
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Eritrea
Italien
Asurawan
Danakil
Laval
Paris
Pierre Laval
France
Italy
Roosevelt Drafts Annual Congress Message
President Roosevelt began serious work on his annual message to Congress for the budget year starting July 1. He concentrates on the state of finances while signaling a brief address and likely focus on neutrality legislation amid the international situation.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Tah Yu Jen Assassinated in Shanghai France Concession
Tah Yu Jen minister of Railways and former vice minister of foreign affairs was assassinated as he stepped from a car into a house in the French Concession. He was a key ally of Gen. Wang Ching Wei in the pro Japanese Chinese government. Maj Gen Isogai warned the killing would cause serious effects on Sino Japanese relations.
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Shanghai
Tah Yu Jen
China
Wang Ching Wei
Rensuke Isogai
Tsogai
President Attends Coal Services in White House
President Roosevelt attended church services yesterday in Washington and later presided at the family fireplace in the White House, reflecting a quiet day at the capital.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Convict Three on Huge Mail Fraud Charges in Seattle
Three defendants Alexander Coplin Benjamin F. Serlis and Joseph Konwiser were convicted in the $625 000 Coplin mail fraud trial under the National Securities Act of 1933 for sales of 300 000 shares of the Arizona-Comstock Mining Company of Nevada. The government alleged misrepresentation by mail and telephone and the jury deliberated 72 hours with appeals noted.
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Seattle
Coplin
Alexander Coplin
Benjamin F. Serlis
Los Angeles
Joseph Konwiser
New York City
Arizona-Comstock Mining Company
Nevada
One Dead As Theatre Fire Wrecks Hotel
Fire at Princess Theatre in Hot Springs Arkansas destroys a small rear hotel. Three missing, four injured as walls collapse and a body is recovered. Damage estimated at 200000 dollars. occupants include hotel guests among the missing and injured.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Princess Theatre
Army Officers Die in Blaze in Waterbury Vermont
Three Army officers attached to the CCC camp in Waterbury Vermont are dead after a fire destroyed the officers quarters early today. Three others were critically burned. The deceased are Capt. Rol and Potter Capt. E W Boothby and Lieut Leonard Bushey.
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Waterbury
Vermont
CCC
Roland Potter
E. W. Boothby
Leonard
Bushey
Lindbergh Threats Drive Family Into Exile
New York December 4. Jack Lait reports Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has fled abroad after threats that his wife would be kidnapped and killed if Bruno Hauptmann is executed. Col. H Norman Schwartzkopf denied the claim. Del Lindbergh and his wife with child left for England last week to remain there.
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New York
Jack Lait
Charles A. Lindbergh
Bruno Haupmann
H. Norman Schwartzkopf
New Jersey
del Lindbergh
England
Five Die In Bay Area Holiday Accidents And Crises
San Francisco reports holiday traffic crashes, a Coast Guardsman William Stein aged 22 died after falling from a moving car, a man leapt from a ferry boat and drowned, and an itinerant man was found dead beside a railroad track believed struck by a train. Several others are seriously injured while domestic crises add to the toll in the Bay district.
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Cal
San Francisco Bay District
William Stein
Coast Guardsman
Manitowoc
Wis
Port Smith
Ark
Miner
Sutherland
Neb
Dorothy Metcalf
E. C.mage
Nowats
Okla
Clayton
Okt
Lawrence Mayten
Stedward
Successor to Peck Chosen
Samuel D. Sanders, president of the Washington Cooperative Egg and Poultry Association, was named cooperative bank commissioner of the Farm Credit Administration, succeeding Francis W. Peck who recently resigned.
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Washington
Samuel D. Sanders
Washington Cooperative Egg and Poultry Association
Cooperative Bank
Farm Credit Administration
Francis W. Peck
A L Callahan Fatally Hurt In Street Collision
Bellingham Washington December 26 A L Callahan long a leading Pacific Northwest police official former sheriff of Whatcom County and former Bellingham police chief died from injuries after being struck by an auto at a street intersection on Christmas Eve.
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Bellingham
Wash
A. AL. Callahan
Pacific Northwest
Whatcom County
Blanche Williams
Chauncey Canning
Cle Elum
Frits Horgan
Cenralla
Hubbard party plans Arctic trek next January
Ed Levin’s kin report the Alaska explorer en route home from New York and arranging a 14 month expedition with Father Bernard Hubbard the Glacier Priest to King Island Alaska. The party will study an almost extinct Rakimos tribe as a dog team left as a Christmas gift. Akutan and Wolf supplied seven male pups for Hubbard’s planned historic dog team. Katmai, another famed Hubbard dog, was recently killed by a hunter at Lake Tahoe.
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San Jose
Cal
Ed Levin
New York
Pather
Bernard &. Hubbard
King Idland
Alaska
Father Hubbard
Akutan
Wolf
Stock Prices Forge Ahead in Post Christmas Session
Stock prices moved higher in a firm close as the Seattle market led by gains in Alaska Juneau mine stock and major industrials. Several auto accident victims in Washington state were reported, with fatalities including Ida Golloson and Blanche Williams. Dow Jones indices showed industrials, rails, and utilities rising, with scattered gains across sectors.
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Seattle
Washe
Stockington
Ida Golloson
Kirkland
Ray Aror
Peace group would extend FDR powers
In New York on December 26 the National Peace Conference, a coalition of 30 groups, urged revision of the Neutrality Act to widen the President's power to proclaim embargoes on arms and shipments to belligerents. The plan would renew the President's duty to declare states of war, prohibit arms exports to belligerents, and seek talks with Kellogg Briand pact signatories to pursue a pacific settlement. It also notes a draft measure to be sent to Congress for consideration.
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New York
National Peace Conference
Congress
Hunt Convict for Shooting of Policeman in Butte
Henry Bnight, a former convict, is hunted after fatally shooting a police officer and another man and wounding two others in Butte Montana. The dead are Officer Tom ONeill and Frank Walsh, while the wounded are Officer James Mooney and Mrs Florence Benvenue. Knight’s companion Jean Miller named him as the slayer of Deputy Sheriff Thomas Meehan on November 13.
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Butte
Montana
Henry Bnight
Tom O'Neill
Frank Walsh
James Mooney
Florence Benvenue
Knight
Jean Miller
Sherifr Thomas Meehan
British Embassy Counsellor Wiggin Ends Life Aboard Ship
Arthur Wiggins, 43, counsellor at the British Embassy in Tokyo and former Washington envoy, shot himself aboard the President McKinley off Hongkong. No reason is known for the act.
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Arthur Wiggins
Councellor
Tokyo
Washington, D. C
President McKinley
Hongkong
Professor Slain as Colleague Kills Self at University
In Las Cruces New Mexico on December 26 F E Oakes 40 was shot dead by W A Stone a University faculty member. Stone then killed himself. Officials say years of trouble between the women, tied to working hours in Oakes office, led to the deadly confrontation. India now has about 40.
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Las Cruces
N. M
F E. Oakes
W .A. Stone
New Mexico Agricultural and Mining University
Stone
Oakes
Sudden Death Marrs Holiday Celebrations Across Lands
A flood of holiday tragedies mars Christmas celebrations across the U S and beyond. Reports detail twenty killed and eight injured in a German train crash, head on car collisions in Freeport Illinois Newell North Carolina and near Atchison Kansas, plus fires and other fatal accidents in Texas Oklahoma Nebraska Wisconsin and Peru. Several victims are named including Phillip Lee and John W Rogers, with families and communities grieving as authorities assess the string of domestic tragedies and traffic disasters.
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Chicago
Germany
Freeport
Newell
N. C
Missouri
Dent
Atchivon
Kans
Houston
Tex
Ringwood
Oklo
Phillip Lee
New York
Lima
Peru
John W. Rogers
Philadelphia
Governor Hoffman Not Contemplating Hauptmann Reprieve
Washington report says Gov Charles McBrough of Arkansas died at 59 in his Washington home after serving two years as chairman of the Virginia District of Columbia Boundary Commission.
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Washington
Mormer
Charles McBrough
Arkansas
Eave
Virginia District of Columbia Boundary Commission
Many Fatalities From Holiday Weather Across Midwest
Fifty two deaths tied to exposure, fire, and traffic accidents during Christmas Holidays as bitter temperatures and snow spread across the middle west. Illinois saw three exposure deaths, Ohio four, and multiple single fatalities in Wheeling, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, North Dakota, and other states. highways caused nine deaths in Ohio and two in Michigan, while fires claimed additional lives nationwide.
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Ohio
Wheconain
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
North Dakota
South Dakota
Mixsouri
New Jersey
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Tennessee
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Maryland
Michigan
Witneis
Record low temperatures sweep midwest and south
Chicago reports record lows and a heavy snow storm spreading from the Midwest to the Southeast. A Christmas morning blast drove temperatures down sharply within minutes, while a winter outbreak left 15 dead from exposure across Montana to Tennessee and multiple states reported fatalities from Iowa to Missouri and New Jersey.
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Main
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Silver
Georgia
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Gore
Florida
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Norfolk
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Tennessee
Fiinais
Iowa
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Missouri
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Arizona
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Montna
Earthquake Devastates Chengtu. Hundreds Feared Dead
Reports from Sechuan Chu state a great number of deaths, possibly thousands, after a December 14 earthquake. The southern province area is hard to assess due to remoteness. Tribes of Lolo in the mountains are believed to be among the chief sufferers.
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Chengtu
Sechuan
Chu
Lolo
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