Solid Military Front Against Italy Reported by London and Paris
British and French general staffs have agreed on mutual support in case of an Italian attack in the Mediterranean. Paris talks involve Laval with Turkey and Greece on similar terms. Italy claims success against Ethiopian forces as Eden takes charge of British foreign policy to press for league sanctions.
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Europe
London
Great Britain
France
Paris
Laval
Turkey
Greece
Mussolini
Ethiopia
Anthony Eden
League of Nations
Stanley Baldwin
Circus Fat Woman Regains Health In Tampa Return
In Tampa a year after arriving frail and underweight a circus performer now weighs 735 pounds, 35 pounds above standard for fat women. Ruth Pontico credits sunshine rest and food for her recovery saying she faces clothes and self image challenges like ordinary women while enjoying life.
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Tampa
Fla
Ruth Pontico
Christmas Decoration Contest Nears Deadline Tonight
The Tribune reports many eleventh hour entries as rolls close at 8 pm. Winners to be chosen between Christmas and New Year’s. Judges face a tough task with colorful schemes visible from the street. Three awards lounge floor and study lamps funded by Idaho Power. Late entrants must sign up by 8 today.
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Tribune
Idaho Power Company
Schall Death Spurs Push to Curb Auto Accidents
Senator Thomas D. Schall of Minnesota died from injuries after a motor car collision. His death amid a bus disaster in Hopewell Va. highlights rising auto fatalities totaling about 36 000 last year. The incident prompts calls in Congress for action and stirs Minnesota political maneuvering for Schall’s seat. A man, Lester G Humphries, faces manslaughter charges in the Maryland case with arraignment set in Hyattsville.
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Washington
Thomas David Schall
Minnesota
Hopewell
Borah
Idaho
Congress
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Senate
Floyd B. Olson
Farmer-Laborite
Olson
Maryland
Garner
Burns
House
Lester G. Humphries
Hyattsville
Alan Bowie
Prince Georges County
Death of Latter Day Saints leader George S Romney
George S. Romney, president of the Latter Day Saints church northern states mission, was buried at Wasatch Lawn Burial Park after services led by President Heber J. Grant in the temple grounds assembly hall. The prominent churchman lay in state yesterday following the funeral.
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Salt Lake City
George S. Romney
Latter Day Saints Church
Northern States Mission
Wasatch Lawn
Heber J. Grant
Assembly Hall
Temple Grounds
Thumbless Last Laugh Denver Turkeys Cut Down
Richard McLellan delivered the blow with an axe causing a turkey to be slaughtered after the bird began to flap its wing, the incident described in a grim local note from Denver dated December 23.
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Denver
Richard McLellan
McLellan
Thelma Todd Murder Inquiry Expands to First Witness
Grand jury in Los Angeles summoned brunette film actress Margaret Lindsay as the first witness in the inquiry into the alleged murder of Thelma Todd. The case follows Todd’s death from monoxide poisoning after parties at the Trocadero in Hollywood.
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Margaret Lindsay
Los Angeles County Grand Jury
Thelma Todd
Los Angeles
Miss Lindsay
Pasquale di Cicco
Miss Todd
Hollywood
Roland West
di Cicco
George Rochester
George Johnson
Jewel Carmen
West
Alice Todd
Ernest Peters
May Whitehead
Sid Grauman
Hollywood Theatre
Venezuela Tangled in War as Gomez Death Sparks Riots
A week of rioting in Venezuela after President Juan Vicente Gomez's death escalates into near martial law in Caracas. Provisional President Eleazar Contreras struggles to stay in office as Gen Eustoquio Gomez is killed and revolutionaries attack theatres and the El Nuevo Diario office, with damage around 200000 dollars.
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Trinidad
Venezuela
Juan Vicente Gomez
Eleazar Contreras
Gomez
Caracas
Lopez
Marshal Law
Eustoquio Gomez
el Nuevo Diaro
Arson Brothers Held After City Wide Alarms
In Oakland California two brothers named Arson, Joseph 20 and Melvin 21, were seized by a motorcycle officer after police set traps. Fire Chief G W Lutke questioned them about 21 false alarms that sent 84 fire apparatus racing through the streets costing the city 1050 dollars.
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Oakland
Calif
G. W. Lutke
Lutke
Joseph
Melvin
Jack Baker
Inquest Planned in Bus Wreck at Open Drawbridge
A coroner ordered an inquest in Hopewell Virginia for Thursday into the deaths of 14 people when an Atlantic Greyhound bus plunged through an open drawbridge into the Appomattox River at 8 55 am Sunday. Eight victims identified, driver L G Alford 38 of Five Points NC, autopsy planned to probe whether he was alive on impact. Bridge attendant Lacy McNair recalled the fatal plunge and screams of women and children.
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Appomattox
D. L. Elder
Commonwealth
John Goodman
Atlantic Greyhound
Elder
D. D. McAfee
Raleigh
N. C
L. G. Alford
Five Point
McAfee
Arthur Clark
Richmond
Burglary at Golden Rule Mercantile Stolen Cash
Police from Bingham County and Blackfoot seek the burglar or burglars who entered the Golden Rule Mercantile company store between 1 and 2 AM Sunday and fled with 600 in checks silver and currency. Entry was made via a rear door after unhooking a screen door and removing a glass pane. the thief went straight to the desk drawer, leaving other items undisturbed.
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Blackfoot
Bingham County
Golden Rule Mercantile Company
Knox Borah meeting hints at 1936 GOP prospects
Two prominent Republican figures Frank Knox Chicago publisher and Senator Borah Idaho engaged in a lengthy political talk in which Borah promoted strict anti trust enforcement and discussed campaign issues. Both declined to reveal specifics and kept positions neutral on naming a favorite for the 1936 nomination.
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Washington
Frank Knox
Chicago
Borah
Idaho
Knox
Ques
Issu
Alfred E. Smith
American Liberty League
Smith
Czane
National Executive Committee
Roosevelt
China Clipper Forced Back From Transpacific Flight
The Pan American Airways China Clipper returned to Alameda at 5:48 a.m. after 144 hours aloft, having covered 700 of 2400 miles toward Honolulu. Captain Edwin C. Musick turned back due to a weather delay. the flight will resume when conditions improve. The Philippine Clipper arrived Wake Island on the Manila to California route, completing a 1536 mile Guam leg in about 13 hours.
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Cal
Honolulu
Pan American Airways
Edwin C. Musick
Pan American
Wake Island
Manila
California
Guam
Hood To Remain Here Christmas Hood To Remain Here Christmas
J L Hood Idaho works progress administrator left Boise for Salt Lake City yesterday with secretary Miss Verda Barnes saying Hood will then go to Pocatello to spend Christmas with relatives. Barnes did not know the reason for the Utah trip.
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Boise
J. L. Hood
Works Progress
Idaho
Salt Lake City
Verda Barnes
NRA Dissolved by Roosevelt Order in 1937 Wind-Down
President Roosevelt signed an executive order dissolving the National Recovery Administration effective January 1. Functions shift to the Commerce and Labor Departments. emergency work relief funds under the 1936 act continue to June 1937. George Berry’s separation from NRA noted. Berry’s role not mentioned in the order.
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Commerce Department
Labor Department
Division of Business Cooperation
Advisory Council
NRA
National Recovery Administration
George Berry
Roosevelt
Berry
CCC Educators Conference Invites Pocatello Advisers
Howard W. Oxley national CCC education chief to visit Pocatello district Saturday December 28 for a one day conference with 14 district advisers and several company commanders. Dr J B Griffing accompanies to inspect local educational activities at Camp Bannock SC56 recreation hall 10 am to 4 pm.
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Howard W. Oxley
CCC
Pocatello
J. B. Griffing
Ninth Corps
Oxley
Camp Bannock Sc56
Griffing
UAH Weather Sets Pair for Tonight and Tuesday
Weather note shows little temperature change with a pair of forecasts for tonight and Tuesday. The region’s conditions remain mild with modest shifts in highs and lows expected.
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UAH
Milne kidnapping tale puzzles federal agents in Philadelphia
Federal agents studied new details of the Milne abduction after a Chester hotel clerk reported a youth answering Milne’s description registered as Harry McLaughlin of Buffalo. Milne said he was lured by a call from Dr Green and driven to a hideaway near Doylestown. Milne Jr.’s grandfather rejected the Chester report as farcical while denying doubts about his grandson.
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Caleb J. Milne
Philip McMahon
Chester, Pa
Milne
Harry McLaughlin
Buffalo, N. Y
Doylestown
New York
G-men
Dr. Green
Gracie Square
Caleb J. Milne, Jr
Chester
Idaho Statehouse Grants Half Holiday for Christmas
Boise, Dec 23 The Idaho statehouse will close from noon tomorrow until Christmas Day. Governor announces an extra half holiday and pay checks on Dec 31 as a gift to about 1,250 state employees to allow many to return home for the holiday.
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Boise
Idaho Statehouse
Lindberghs Plan British Move Amid Kidnapper Case
Famed aviator Charles A Lindbergh his wife and their son Jon will live in England amid rising threats and fear of kidnapping. The Lindberghs complain Governor Hoffmann’s Hauptmann case stance spurs their departure while Hauptmann awaits execution the week of January 13.
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Jon
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New York
Charles A. Lindberghs
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Engeland
Lindbergh
Harold G. Hofferan
New Jersey
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
United States
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Lindberghs
Knorr Hauptmann
This&n
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British Isles
Friends
Jon Lindbergh
Charles A. Lindberth, Jr
Accident ruled unavoidable at grade crossing in Granger
Coroner J W Opie announced the coroner jury found the death of William Middleton 28 at Granger grade crossing November 11 unavoidable. Middleton from Montpelier Idaho worked as a brakeman on the Oregon Short Line. He was struck by a car driven by Alex Bertagnolli Rock Springs sheepman and thrown under a moving train. Bertagnolli testified the crossing signal was not working and he could not stop in time.
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Rock Springs
Wyo
J. Warden Opie
William M .Middleton
Granger
Middleton
Montpelier
Idaho
Alex Bertagnolli
Bertagnolli
Court to Rule on Guffey Act in Coal Regulation Case
The Supreme Court agreed to hear the constitutionality challenge to the Guffey Act regulating the coal industry. Government and Kentucky producers sought direct review, bypassing appeals court rulings. The court issued no new deals, with four minor opinions read before adjournment to January 6.
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Supreme Court
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Court of Appeals
Court of Last Resort
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