Seventeen Seamen Rescued From Burning Ship
Halifax N S December 16. A fire aboard the American fishing schooner Ellen T Marshall near Seal Island 18 miles west of Cape Sable N S left two drowned and seven missing. The Lars Kruse rescued four from a lifeboat then four more at 7 am after sending one life boat to safety.
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Halifax
N. S
Ellen T. Marshall
Seal Island
Cape Sable
Pease's Island
Sea Island
Nova Scotia
Lars Kruse
Six Men Lost After Schooner Burned Offshore of Boston
Coast Guard interception reports six men lost and others adrift after a schooner burned about 200 miles from Boston. No additional details on vessel name or fate provided in the message.
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Woods Hole
Mass
Coast Guard
Boston
Ellen T. Marshal Abandoned Off Nova Scotia With 22 Missing
Twenty two men are missing after the Ellen T. Marshal schooner caught fire off Nova Scotia. Lars Kruse rescued four crew, eight boats used, coast guard and Canadian Aras assisting. distress reported at 7 p.m. yesterday.
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New York
Ellen T. Marshal
Nova Scotia
Radio Marine Corporation
Chatham
Mass
Lars Kruse
Coast Guard
Arras
Yarmouth
Radio Marine
Robert W. Chambers Dies at 68 in New York City
Noted author and artist Robert W. Chambers died at Doctors Hospital in New York at 1 a.m. following an intestinal illness operation. He was 68, survived by his widow and son Robert Edward Stuart Chambers, with funeral planned at his Broadalbin, New York estate.
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New York
Robert W. Chambers
Doctors Hospital
Chambers
Broadaldin
N. Y
Walter B. Chambers
Broadalbin
Robert Edward Stuart Chambers
Brooklyn
Julien Academy
L’ecole Des Beaux Arts
Paris
United States
Life
Vogue
Truth
Roosevelt Hopes for Fair Trial on Bank Insurance
President Roosevelt expects the new federal law allowing deposit insurance to be tested with minimal changes. He told American Bankers Association officials to refrain from pushing major revisions for a period to allow a fair trial.
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Roosevelt
Washington
American Bankers.Association
Hangman's noose ordered for Neu convicted slayer
Louis Kenneth Neu, 26, a Savannah born cabaret singer, was condemned to the scaffold in New Orleans for the slaying of Shefield Clark Sr., a Nashville businessman. Neu, who argued insanity, vows to appeal as psychiatrists debated his mental state.
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New Orleans
Louis Kenneth Neu
Sheffield Clark
Nashville
Neu
Hiroshi Saito Named New Jap Ambassador to United States
Hiroshi Saito, the youngest ever chosen for the post, was named ambassador to Washington. He currently leads Japan’s mission to the Netherlands and will replace Katsuji Debuchi who resigned. Saito, 47, has served in London and Washington, was consul general in New York, and is fluent in English.
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Glenn Babb
Associated Press
Tokyo
Hiroshi Saito
Washington
Saito
Netherlands
Katsuji Debuchi
London
New York
United States
Midwest Menaced by Powerful New Criminal Ring
Chicago detectives linked a new crime ring to the slaying of a police officer and a daylight theft of about 100 safety deposit boxes in a closed bank. The name John Hamilton ties the Touhys and the Dillingers, with Hamilton described as a Dillinger associate and former Indiana prisoner involved in a Lima jail raid.
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Chicago
Middlewest
John Hamilton
Touhys
Dillingers
Hamilton
John Dillinger
Indiana State Penitentiary
Lima
Hoosier
Michigan City
Prediction of general revenue bill today
Chairman Doughton of the house ways and means committee predicted a general revenue bill could be drawn that would suit both legislative and executive departments despite wide differences in plans proposed by the treasury and a house sub-committee.
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Washington
Doughton
House
Ways and Means
Treasury
French Cabinet to Oppose Italy's Plans for League
Paris reports the French cabinet plans a united front with Poland and the Little Entente against Mussolini's bid to reorganize the League of Nations and against Hitler's push for German armament equality. A session was set after talks between Edvard Beneš and Boncour with other leaders.
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Paris
Poland
Mussolini
League of Nations
Hitler
Eduard Benes
Joseph Paul Boncour
Warsaw
France
False confession misleads police in Siever death case
Pasadena authorities recaptured attention after a woman identified as Yvonne Howard, 34, of Inglewood, cried she killed Dr. Leonard Siever, a noted dentist and art patron, then retracted. Detectives sought new clues by studying Siever’s life while the suspect remained silent.
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Marian Smith
Margie Pilasky Chochock
Pottsvile, Pa
New York
Associated Press
Pasadena
Cal
Leonard Siever
Yvonne Howard
Inglewood
Siever
Thomas Collins
Kemp named new congressman in Louisiana’s sixth district
Baton Rouge announced on December 16 that Mrs Bolivar B Kemp, Huey P Long ally, is elected to fill the late Senator Long's sixth district seat. The appointment follows her husband’s death last spring and confirms Kemp as the new representative.
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Baton Rouge
Bolivar EB. Kemp
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
Champagne Returns to Naval Christenings in Astoria Cruiser
Bremerton Washington December 16 the new 16 000 ton cruiser Astoria slides down the ways Leila C McKay descendant of Astoria founders will crack champagne across the bows ending a 14 year era of grape juice christenings in the Pacific northwest the ceremony marks a return to traditional naval practice with champagne.
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Bremerton
Wash
Astoria
Leila C. McKay
Ore
Pacific Northwest
Blue Eagle May Fly On In 1934 For Uncoded Industries
Washington dispatch reports the NRA blue eagle will continue beyond December 31 and a plan to extend the presidents reemployment pledge for trades and industries without codes. Officials stress the emblem's value and outline options: continued display under new terms or reissuing agreement blanks to renew signatures.
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James Cope
Associated Press
Washington
NRA
Blue Eagle
Augusta Day Faces State Supreme Court Fight Over License Ordinance
In Augusta Georgia opponents of a city liquor licensing ordinance plan to seek a Georgia Supreme Court ruling if a permanent injunction fails in superior court next week. Judge A L Franklin postponed ruling Tuesday with a decision promised by Friday. The drys warn of warrants for violations if licenses issue and may seek further injunctions against operators considered nuisances. The case hinges on whether the ordinance would damage property. The tax stamps cited for federal licenses are discussed as not constituting a true federal license.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Georgia Supreme Court
William H. Fleming
A. L. Franklin
Fleming
Franklin
Collector of Internal Revenue
the Revenue Agency
German Church Groups Weigh New Clash Over Youth Move
Berlin reports German evangelical youth leaders oppose joining the Nazi faction as church factions wrestle over incorporating the protestant movement into the Hitlerized church.
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Berlin
Germany
Evangelical Youth Movement
New Gold Price Held At 34.01 An Ounce In 1933
New domestic gold continues at 34.01 an ounce as government spending nears 50 million with about 15 million feeding domestic mining while the rest supports foreign purchases. The dollar fluctuates against sterling with open at 5.10 1 2 and early quote at 5.13 1 2. Roosevelt aides and RFC officials discuss foreign exchange impact at White House conferences.
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Washington
White House
RFC
Roosevelt
London
Rooosevelt
Morgenthau
Eugene Black
Federal Reserve Board
Jesse Jones
George L. Harrison
New York Federal Reserve Bank
Fred I. Kent
New York Reserve Bank
Fog renews danger in eastern United States
Warmer weather ends snow and sleet as fog returns danger across the east. The Britannic ran aground in Boston harbor, expected to be floated later. Pennsylvania roads urged motorists to stay off unless necessary. A Staten Island ferry was rammed in New York bay but with little damage and 400 passengers landed safely. Rain forecast for the east, cold snap coming Sunday.
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Associated Press
United States
White Star
Boston Harbor
Pennsylvania
New York Bay
Staten Island
Midwest
Liquor Tax Forecast By Chairman Doughton
Chairman Doughton predicted a liquor tax of 2.10 to 2.40 per barrel. He advocated federal collection of all volume levies with a variable state return, suggesting 20 to 25 percent be returned to states not imposing a volume levy, while leaving final decisions to Congress and President Roosevelt.
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Doughton
Washington
Der
House
Ways and Means Committee
Roosevelt
Coughton
Congress
Salary sales ruled as device to evade usury laws
In Atlanta, a Fulton superior court ruling labels salary buying as a loan and a scheme to evade usury laws. Judge Helen Douglas Mankin, appointed to hear the case, found in one instance a $25 loan with $54 paid in principal and interest, deeming the sale not bona fide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Helen Douglas Mankin
Fulton Superior Court
Negro lynching follows attempted attack charge in Tennessee
In Columbia Tennessee a 20 year old negro, not indicted on an attempted attack charge against an 11 year old girl, was lynched near Glendale. The victim, Cold Creek, hung from a rope by a tree limb. Sheriff Claude Godwin said bullets may have struck the body and that the lynching occurred after an anonymous phone tip.
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Columbia
Tenn
Here
Cold Creek
Claude Godwin
Glendale
Godwin
Nashville
Lynchings in United States Reach 28 This Year
New York reports 28 lynchings in 1933 up to December 16, highest since 1926. Cold Creek killing near Columbia Tennessee adds to the total. NAACP records back to 1889 show 3,686 lynchings overall, with 226 in 1892—the peak.
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New York
Cold Creek
Columbia
Tenn
United States
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Bomb Explodes in Havana State Department Building
Havana report says a noon blast hit the state department building destroying a wash room with no casualties. Earlier, over 100 Spaniards were detained at Old Cabana fortress amid unrest over a new law mandating 50 percent native hires in commerce and industry.
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State Department
Havana
Cabana
Confessed Kidnapper Sentenced to Fifteen Years in Michigan Pen
Marshall Michigan December 16 Lyle Daly of Kalamazoo confessed member of a gang that abducted and robbed Louis E Brooks wealthy Marshall manufacturer. Daly sentenced in circuit court to five to 15 years in the Michigan state penitentiary on a robbery armed charge. Brooks located later at his farm near Battle Creek suffering severe beating.
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Marshall, Mich
Lyle Daly
Kilamazoo
Louis FE
Brooks
Marshall
Michigan States Penitentiary
Daly
Battle Creek
Lindy Arrives at Miami to Complete Tour
Col and Mrs Lindbergh arrive in Miami on December 16 to conclude a five month aerial odyssey. The red hydroplane landed at 1 06 p m after a 900 mile flight from San Pedro Dominican Republic in six hours 33 minutes. A large crowd watched as customs and immigration formalities proceeded aboard a landing barge with police nearby.
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Miami
Fla
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
International
San Pedro
Dominican Republic
Lindberghs
Customs and Immigration
Flying Lindberghs
North Atlantic Islands
North Atlantic
Lindberghs Leave San Pedro for Miami Flight
Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh depart San Pedro Dominican Republic bound for Miami at 6 33 am on a Pan American Airways flight. It is unclear if they will proceed to Miami or stop in Havana as the Cuban capital is a regular stop on the route. The distance to Miami is about 900 miles.
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Lindberghs
San Pedro
United States
Dominican Republic
Charles A. Lindbergh
Miami
Fla
Pan-American Airways
Havana
Santa Claus Parade Draws Atlanta’s Largest Crowd
Santa Claus led a procession through downtown Atlanta in a record turnout, with Saint Nicholas in person at the head of floats and five bands. Mayor James L. Key noted the crowd surpassed the NRA parade turnout, and the Atlanta Constitution sponsored the event.
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Atlanta
Santa Claus
James L. Key
NRA
Saint Nicholas
The
Atlanta Constitution
Six fishermen drown on Italian coast in storms toll
Rome reports six more fishermen dead on the Italian coast as storms add to the toll. The death total for days of bad weather reaches 16 with 30 seamen still missing. Milan endures one of its heaviest snowfalls in years.
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Rome
Milan
Weather outlook for week in central and gulf states
The forecast covers the week starting Monday for the Central and Fast Gulf states. Expect mostly cloudy skies with showers in the east early, then more general showers midweek. Colder conditions move in mid to late week, especially in the western portion.
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Gulf States
Weather outlook for Southeast states with scattered showers
Cloudy forecast covers South Carolina Georgia Alabama and extreme northwest Florida with probable occasional rain in northwest and central portions tonight through Sunday. Warmer conditions expected in listed regions with unsettled patterns and showers Sunday night in Alabama and northwest Florida.
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South Carolina
Northwest
Georgia
Alabama
Florida
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Rosie O'Grady
Louisiana Supreme Court
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Mrs. Kemp
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Augusta Day
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Earle Wynekoop
U.S
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Lindy
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