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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1933
Page
1
Premier Duca was killed in Sinaia as he prepared to board a train to Bucharest after a conference with Carol. A student fired four bullets into his head at close range, ending his bid to curb anti Semitic groups amid rising Nazi influence and party divisions.
Georgia residents receiving CWA work total 89 497 with a weekly state payroll around 1 350 000 dollars. 176 000 on registration lists have no jobs. Renewed appeals to the government are noted as farmers face seasonable labor shortages and plans to aid farm labor are discussed.
The Georgia Civil Works Administration announced $1 152 for Thomasville library work plus $192 for Ochlocknee and $192 for Meigs and $384 for Boston and $192 for Coolidge library repairs and cataloging. Other allocations cover Sanitation and privy work across nearby counties.
Baltimore December 29 The brain operation on five month old Sue Trammell whose brain was being destroyed by disease was successful, according to the bulletin issued by Johns Hopkins Hospital physicians.
A cloudy pattern dominates the region with rain chances in various zones. Temperatures rise slowly into Saturday across the northwest states and coastlines while extreme northeast Florida and the northeast corner cool moderately tonight.
A share of Georgia’s 300,000 unemployed have begun or resumed farming work. Local agencies report feasible opportunities in agribusiness and related fields for job seekers across the state.
President Roosevelt, addressing a Wilson birthday event, calls world leaders to accept blame for blocking peace and outlines a staged plan to eliminate offensive weapons and pledges a universal non aggression pact. He insists real progress requires broad national commitment and popular support beyond government leaders.
A 13 year old girl confessed to the murder of her eight year old friend Mary Kavala in Hastings on Hudson. She described striking Josephine Woropay with a rock and strangling her with a mop twist and an automobile inner tube. She then tampered with the body and clothing before leaving the scene.
Berlin reports that Nazi officials press a radical overhaul of German law to align with racial ideology. Race stamps law, with Teutonic tradition and Sachsenspiegel cited as bases, while Jews are excluded from juries and non Aryan civil service limits expand.
Newnan Georgia December 29 447 A strike by workers at the Fast Newnan cotton mills shut the plant and left about 300 men unemployed The mill president R H Freeman says the walkout was a protest against a state labor board ruling that the mill was not violating industry code and that some workers were dropped for lack of work
President Roosevelt outlined a three part plan for a universal non aggression pact. One nation would abolish offensive weapons over years while keeping defense arms with neighbor inspections. Second, all nations would declare that no armed forces would cross borders. Third, pacts would require global participation to counter any who still favor invasion.
Atmore Alabama December 29 one man was killed and another seriously wounded as two men attempted to pursue ten escaped convicts from Atmore State Prison A gunman fired wounding both men Kirby died at a local hospital Parker remained in serious condition Citizens joined in the manhunt for the escapees while authorities confirmed ten participants seven African American and three white.
Moscow reports Maxim Litvinoff told the Soviet parliament that Russia and the United States would enjoy the closest relations due to mutual peace aims. He credited Roosevelt for recognizing Soviet Russia and called the move the surrender of the last fortress on the capitalist anti-Soviet front.
Three Georgia projects receive loans and grants totaling 104000 from the Public Works Administration. The allocations will create work for more than 100 men over ensuing months, part of 126 non federal projects worth 19271667 announced by PWA Administrator Ickes. Funds include 26000 for an Effingham County jail 55000 to repair Rome courthouse and 23000 for Folkston water system.
President Roosevelt unveils a three part program for a non aggression pact drawing mixed reactions from France and Germany. Paris thanks the president while Berlin warns the plan treats European disarmament as a continental matter and questions its realism. London papers note the headlines and skepticism.
Durant Shadix, one of two men who overpowered state prison Superintendent B. H. Dunaway, was recaptured in Atlanta at his mother's home after fleeing with T. L. Burris and Will Iwang. Shadix described the attack during a car ride, and said Burris struck Dunaway. He claimed liquor influenced the escape, and that Burris hid Dunaway's pistol to force Burris's handcuffs. The trio fled toward Alabama in another car. Shadix says he left Burris in Birmingham.
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