Alibi Law Out of Hauptmann Trial in New Jersey
Dec 27 report notes New Jersey will not invoke the 1934 alibi law in the Hauptmann trial. Officials say its constitutionality is untested and it could invite surprise witnesses. The state plans to show Hauptmann near the Lindberghs’ Hopewell home March 1, 1932, with several Sourland Mountain residents testifying.
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Flemington
N. J
New Jersey
Brono Richard Hauptmann
Hauptmann
Vhe
Hopewell
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Sin
Eight Year Old Ann Reeder Injured By Car In Boonsboro
Eight year old Ann Reeder daughter of Otho Reeder Boonsboro suffered a fractured skull and a broken leg when struck near her home yesterday evening about five o clock. Driver K Brent Johnson of Hedgesville WV says she ran into the street from behind a parked car to meet friends. Johnson and witnesses Thompson and Vermityea corroborate. He took her to a Boonsboro clinic then to the hospital. Police were notified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Reeder
Otho Reeder
Boonsboro
Brent Johnson
Hedgesville
W.va
Reeder
Ross
Johnson
James x Thompson
Kermit, Vermityea
New Air Plan Seen Potent Defense Plan
The army's air armada would organize nearly 1000 combat planes into a general headquarters air force based on the Atlantic Pacific coasts and the southwest. Command would shift from Foulois to Lieutenant Colonel F M Andrews under General MacArthur with three wings planned for mobility along midwest, Atlantic, and Pacific fronts.
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Washington
General Headquarters Air Force
Atlantic
Pacific
Southwest
Benjamin D. Foulois
Air Corps
Army Corps
F. M. Andrews
Army
Benjamin D. Foulsis
Army Air Corps
Douglas MacArthur
War Department
House
Foulois
Baker Aviation Committee
United States
Middle West
Relief and NRA Debate Opens in Senate Clash
Debates over relief measures and a cash bonus for distressed ex-soldiers split lawmakers as the White House may press changes to the Recovery Act. Senate Republicans allied with Borah call for policy shakeups including restoring anti-trust laws and altering price and production controls. The January 3 session will begin as a formality with Pittman to serve as president pro tempore. In the House, new officers and leaders compete with Rep Burns favored for speaker.
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Senate
White House
Senate Republicans
Pittman
Ney
House
Representative Burns
Tenn
Sunday Pageant at Howard Street Methodist Church
Rehearsals for the pageant Come Unto Me proceed at Howard Street Methodist Church. The production spans an old fashioned home to a cathedral finale with primary to senior cast, Sunday evening December 30 at 7 30 in the church auditorium. Troop 5 Boy Scouts plan their first annual reunion at 7 30 Friday in the troop meeting rooms with current and former members urged to attend.
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Howard Street Methodist Episcopal Chuch
Howard and
Chestnut Streets
Troop 5
Boy Scouts
Cold Spell Leaves High Death Toll Across Regions
A fierce cold wave and blizzards lash the Midwest and Northeast with zero to subzero temperatures. Deaths rise as cars skid on icy roads, trains strike vehicles, and motorists are stranded in blizzards from New York to Minnesota, Montana, Wisconsin, and Canada.
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Cascades
Los Angeles
Middlewest
Appalachian
Middle
North Atlantic
Niagara Falls
New York State
Adirondack
Malone
Minnesota
Eveleth
Iowa
Chicago
Montana
Wisconsin
Upper Michigan
Canada
Promising Sleeping Sickness Vaccine Reported
Pittsburgh dispatch reports at the American Association for the Advancement of Science that Morris Brody and William H. Park describe a vaccine approach for sleeping sickness. Mice inoculated with dead virus from human cases showed immunity with no apparent adverse effects.
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Pittsburgh
American Association For the Advance of Science
Morris Brody
New York
Carillon Recital At Mercersburg Academy
Bryan Barker presents a Mercersburg Academy carillon recital on Saturday December 29 at 3 30 p m featuring Shadow Song from Dinorah a Minuet from Die Entführung nearer My God to Thee God of Our Fathers Fight the Good Fight Country Gardens and other selections with O God Our Help in Ages Past My Faith Looks Up to Thee Lead Kindly Light Fantasia and Minuet Go Down Moses La Paloma Where the Bee Sucks and Prelude in B Flat by Denyn Also a New Year Eve recital on December 31 at midnight including Go Down Moses La Paloma Where the Bee Sucks and God of Our Fathers among others
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan Barker
Mercersburg Academy
Giordani
Steffe
Grainger
God
Croft
Mason
Wambach
Moses
Yradier
Arne
Jef Denyn
Warren
Large Rose Blooms Despite December Cold in Vincennes
Cold near zero weather grips Indiana as John Hill of Vincennes reports a large bloom and rose bush in his yard. City tax notices urge timely payment of 1934 city taxes, water and sewer rents, with interest from September 1 if not paid by December 31. Charles E Fry, City Tax Collector and Treasurer, appeals for cooperation to meet city obligations.
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Vincennes
Ind
Indiana
John Hill
Shirt Studs Give F. D. R. Most Trying Moment
Washington dispatch details President Roosevelt’s day with a mix of official duties and personal rituals. He begins at seven, reads multiple newspapers in bed, hosts key officials at breaks, then handles lunch with Morgenthau. Afternoons involve mail and conferences, then a swim with companions, followed by dinner and more work before midnight.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Mr. Roosevelt
Farley
Morgenthau
Hull and
Ickes
Donald Richberg
Emergency Council
Stephen T. Early
Marvin H. McIntyre
Gus Gennerich
Divorced Edith McCormick McAdoo Keith Ties Partial Split
Towson Md December 27 Mrs Edith McCormick McAdoo Keith of Brooklandville Md today held a partial divorce from Walter Winchester Keith Baltimore society man Testimony made public by Judge C Gus Grason in signing the decree yesterday said Keith when he left his wife in June threatened her and her mother with a pistol Charges that he had been extremely cruel and drank to great excess were laid by Mrs Keith
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Towson
Edith McCormick McAdoo Keith
Brooklandville
Walter Winchester Keith
Baltimore Society
Keith
Isaac E. Emerson
C. Gus Grason
Men Wanted for Representation in Hagerstown Ad
Wanted men to represent a large company in Hagerstown. Good pay for qualified applicants. Friday to 12. Call Mr Williams at the Hamilton Hotel. Adv.
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Hagerstown
Williams
Hamilton Hotel
Blast Wrecks Coal Mine Killing Dozens Near Montgomery
Explosion 11 miles from Montgomery wrecked a coal mine on Armstrong Creek. Fifteen bodies recovered in the morgue. Dozens injured as boiler plunged from trucks onto a coach. Workers, many commuting by train, faced a chaotic scene as families watched from mine homes. The Montgomery area lies 60 miles from Charleston in West Virginia’s coal region. The company operates 25 mines and uses a Pittsburgh subsidiary railway to move workers and coal.
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W. R. Wilkinson
Armstrong Creek
Montgomery
Tay
G. BR. Stahl
The
Coal Company
Charleston
Koppers Coal and Transportation Company of
Pittsburgh
Condemned Man Saved From Electric Chair For Fourth Time
In Little Rock, Akron attorney Mark H. Shank lay on his prison cot as a stay halted his fourth scheduled execution within a year. Shank, convicted in one of four poison slayings, sought federal relief after state appeals failed. A judge ordered a hearing without date, postponing Friday's electrocution. He had broken a six day hunger strike and spoke with a visiting priest after a late breakfast.
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Little Rock
Ark
Akron
Ohio
Tucker Prison Farm
Mark H. Shank
Shank
Martineau
Poison Slayer
State Supreme Court
Lberty
Tucker
Here
Stolen Ice Wagon Returns Hidden in Barn
Cleveland police report Joseph Horace on one of the year's coldest days found his horse and ice wagon missing. Minutes later he called to say the horse was found in his barn munching hay, with the wagon and 600 pounds of ice still hitched in warmth.
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Cleveland
Joseph Horace
Quits Retirement Dies After Returning to Work
Ruy J. Carriere, 60, a salesman, retired last week after 42 years with a New Orleans company. He returned to work yesterday and died of a heart ailment while on the job. In Dam No. 4, a shooting match is listed for Saturday December 28 featuring clay bird and still target, with turkey, chicken, and duck events. D. W. Milburn Adar.
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New Orleans
Ruy J. Carriere
Decision on Lumber Code Broad In Interstate Commerce Limits
The court held that selling yard goods at retail, like shingles shipped from Oregon to Oklahoma, does not amount to interstate commerce. It rejected Congress's power to fix prices in transactions within commerce among states, stating the Constitution does not empower such price controls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
Oregon
Congress
Chicago Grain Market Prices and New Year Dance Ad
Quotations from Stein Bros and McComas Armstrong Building show wheat, corn, oats, and rye futures with varied open high low and close figures. Firemen host New Year Dance in Smithsburg on Thursday December 27 featuring the Dixie Ramblers with spot prizes, advance 25 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stein Bros. & Boyce
McComas-Armstrong Building
Firemens
Smithsburg
Thurs
Dixie
Ramblers
Trotzky Safe in France Exile From Soviet Will Not Seek Deportation
The article recalls Leon Trotzky as an exile from Soviet Russia living in France. It notes he had once risked his life to overthrow the regime and played a central role in Brest-Litovsk and the early Soviet state. It mentions his wartime leadership and his decline after Lenin's illness.
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Leon Trotzky
Russia
New York
Europe
Asia
Nikolai Lenin
Frotzky
Brest- Idtovak
Lenin
Trotzky
Soviet Reggime
All-Russian
Cheaper Bread Seen As France's Hope For 1936
Paris reports Premier Pierre Flandin aims to lower bakers' prices to ease hardship as France faces a wary year. Prefects are instructed to cut costs on grayish bread, currently six cents a pound, with a possible further cut of 2 to 5 tenths of a cent. Foreign Minister Pierre Laval plans a Rome trip, seeking for peace linked to Mussolini talks, while questions about war in 1938 cloud national mood.
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Paris
Pierre Flandin
France
Europe
Pierre Laval
Rome
Mussolini
Great Britain
America
Minnie Osborne Spencer Corsettiere Ady error corrected
In 1981 Home Service notices the figure faults corrected for Minnie Osborne and Spencer Corsettiere with Ady listed among the corrections. The brief item notes adjustments to figures as part of the public notice.
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Minnie Osborne
Spencer Corsettiere
Ady
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