Cowboy Guarded From Mob Violence After Kansas Couple Murder
Jack Wisdom, a 26 year old cowboy, was moved to the Kansas state reformatory for safety as investigators linked him to the Pritchard couple murder near Wellington. Detective captain Lyle said Wisdom admitted presence at the crime while insisting Buck Smith did the killings, though Smith may be fictitious. A body identified as Pritchard was found near El Reno. guards protected the reformatory as Gov Lanham threatened national guard action to avert mobs.
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Hutchinson, Kas
Jack Wisdom
Kansas State Reformatory
W. O. Lyle
Wichita
Harry Pritchard
Lyle
Buck Smith
Wisdom
Smith
Wellington
Kas
Pritchards
Bison
Okla
Govenor W. H. Murray
Oklahoma
Enid
Kingfisher
Pritchard
Hutchinson
Kan
Government workers told to report contact attempts by agent
Washington officials say James Bernard, a manufacturers' agent, is persona non grata at the interior building. All public works staff are ordered to report any approach by Bernard, who allegedly threatened Florida governor Sholtz to push a road project for federal action.
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Washington
James Bernard
Ickes
Public Works
Bernard
The
Washington Star
Dave Sholtz
Florida
Sholtz
Administration eyes next Congress to push program
The Roosevelt administration outlines a plan to advance its program in the upcoming Congress session. Treasury policy, public works, taxation, budget, and national credit will shape debates, with emphasis on railroad consolidation, securities act revisions, liquor control, and St. Lawrence treaty ratification.
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Senate
House
William C. Bullitt
Brooklyn Dodgers Card Spring Season Games
New York December 11 The Brooklyn Dodgers announce a 24 game spring training schedule. Batterymen report in Orlando March 44 and the rest of the squad on March 11.
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Brooklyn Dodgers
New York
Brooklyn Dodgers Today
Orlando
Fla
Administration Sets Gold Price and Market Glance
The administration renamed the gold price at 34.01 dollars per ounce for RFC purchases, higher than the world price set London. London gold rose to 127 shillings per ounce, about 32.80 dollars. The dollar weakens on the inter national market while treasury silent on a reported gold leak and an impending probe is implied.
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Washington
RFC
London
Treasury
The
HE. S. T
Effort to Export Gold Suspected Across Border
Monetary Washington reports a suspected organized effort to export gold violating Roosevelt policy. Canada-U.S. patrols stopped two Americans with a 100 ounce bar, with officials cautious on total movement. DOJ said no evidence of a large ring. Morgenthau tightens daily gold price safeguards before press reveal.
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Washington
United States
Roosevelt
Customs Bureau
Border Patrol
Canada
Justice Department
Bureau of Investigation
Morgenthau
Bullitt Arrives in Moscow as Flag Flies Over City
United States Ambassador William C. Bullitt arrives in Moscow with nine year old daughter Anne and aides. The Star Spangled Banner is raised over Moscow for the first time in Soviet history. Bullitt will present credentials to President Kalinin on December 13.
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Moscow
Soviet Republic
United States
William C. Bullitt
National Hotel
Bullitt
Anne
Joseph Flack
Berlin
Keith Merrill
State Department
George Kennan
Washington
Michael Kalinin
Winter storms leave trail of damage across nation
Associated Press reports pre-winter conditions across the United States. Western Washington faces floods from the Puyallup and Nisqually rivers while Tacoma and Olympia areas report heavy damage and stranded motorists. All rail lines Seattle to Tacoma washout. Midwest cold wave chills Great Lakes region and northern plains. Pennsylvania records three cold deaths, New York two.
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Washington
Puyallup
Nisquelly
Tacoma
Nisqually
Olympia
Seattle
Midwest
Great Lakes
Northern Plain States
Rocky Mountain
East
Pennsylvania
New York
New December Low Set at Owls Head New York
Owls Head New York records a December low of 24 degrees below zero with yesterday at 14 below, marking a new cold spell extreme for the Adirondack village.
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Owls Head
N. Y
Adirondack
Two-Inch Snowfall in New York City
A warm spell ended a severe cold snap as New York City recorded two inches of snow. Unemployed men gathered at sanitation garages from dawn seeking snow removal work but the regular force handled the duties. Temperatures fell to 20 degrees above zero from 12 yesterday, and the cold yesterday caused two deaths.
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New York
Dec
Metropolitan
Department of Sanitation
Lindberghs Plan to Stay in Manaos Tonight
Manaos, Brazil, Dec. 11. Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh plan to remain here today and tonight, Pan American Airways announced. They will depart about 5 a m tomorrow on another leg of their flight home for Christmas. Immediate destination not known.
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Manaos
Brazil
Charles A. Lindbergh
Pan- American Airways
Federal Court Opens Hearing on Telephone Rate Petition
In Atlanta the Southern Bell Telephone Company asks a federal court to permanently block the Georgia Public Service Commission’s 26 percent rate cut. Judge E Marvin Underwood presides with two other federal judges. Earlier, a temporary injunction to delay the reductions was denied. Several independents were granted injunctions at Gainesville while others obtained exemptions pending further hearings.
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Atlanta
Southern Bell Telephone Company
Georgia Public Service Commission
E. Marvin Underwood
Gainesville
Underwood
William I. Grubb
Federal District Court
Birmingham
Samuel H. Sibley
Federal District Court of Appeals
Five Nations Harassed by Disorders Across Nations
Political disturbances intensified across Spain Cuba Romania Irish Free State and Austria with violence and arrests. In Spain anarchists sparked a nationwide strike leaving 85 dead and hundreds wounded. In Cuba accord to restore peace faltered as Havana saw shooting in midtown. Romania hunted Corneliu Codreanu after 3500 followers were rounded up. In Ireland Dublin sought General Eoin O Duffy to break the Blue Shirt movement. Austria saw bombings blamed on Nazi affiliates despite a Christmas truce call. South American and Chinese tensions also persisted with Paraguay’s victories over Bolivia and Fukien resisting Peiping/Nanking authority.
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Cuba
Havana
Rumania
Irish Free State
Weather forecast for the Southeast states
The forecast covers South Carolina Georgia Florida and Alabama with partly cloudy skies through tonight and Tuesday. Temperatures fall slightly in northern and central areas with cooler conditions inland and in the interior tonight and Tuesday.
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South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Ickes Injured in Ice Fall and Hospitalized
Secretary Ickes was confined to the naval hospital after a fall on the ice near his home. Doctors diagnosed a fractured rib and muscular derangement, with the condition described as not particularly serious. He will remain in the hospital for some time and visitors are restricted.
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Ickes
Naval
Hos
Pital
Ralph W. McDowell
Southern Bell Faces Rate Cuts and Revenue Loss
Southern Bell officials warn that sustaining proposed rate reductions would slash the company’s annual revenue by about $1,000,000, amounting to confiscation of property without due process of law.
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Southern Bell
Roosevelt sends message to farm group meeting
President Roosevelt addresses the American Farm Bureau Federation outlining relief efforts for farm income and supply adjustments. He notes improvements in prices and government aid, urging continued farmer cooperation to ensure lasting prosperity and avoid overconfidence in rising income.
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Roosevelt
American Farm Bureau Federation
Chicago
Farm Bureau
Manny
Government launches extensive business inventory program
Washington reports a government initiative to conduct a broad business inventory. With 5,415,120 dollars for civil works, the census bureau and the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce will study commerce and industry from 1929 to 1933 and employ 28,577 people.
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Washington
Dec
Civil Works Administration
Bureau of the Census
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Rebels Capture Villanueva Barracks In Bombardment
Madrid reports a brutal assault on Villanueva barracks where rebel forces withstood heavy bombardment and later fell to government troops. Casualties total at least 85 in the anarchist revolt as strikes and unrest continue across central and northeastern Spain.
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Madrid
Villa-Neuya
Forcces
Spain
Comnel
Waycross Man Slain by Masked Bandits in Roadhouse
English Bagley a Waycross service manager was shot and killed by a masked bandit in a roadhouse on the Waycross Blackshear highway. Jim Manning and Frank Pead were wounded. police had no clues. Three men Byron Phillips Clarence Brooks and J E Cothren were later arrested at Hazlehurst with two cars but denied involvement.
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Waycross
Blackshear
Anl
Waycross-Blackshear
Bagley
Waycross-Blackshead
Jim Manning
Frank Pead
Sheiff Carter
Pierce County
HH. M. Carter
Byron Phillips
Clarence Brooks
J. E. Cothren
Hazelhurst
Here
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George Ny Peck
Wallace
Peck
Associated Press
Edward J. Duffy
Congress
Treasury Policy
Mid-West
New York City
Lindberghs
Austria
Five Nations
Corneliu Codreanu
Iron Guard
South America
China
Asuncion
Bolivia
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Nanking
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Atlanta, Ga
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Tion
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Vil-lineuva
Seville
Carter
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