Fracas over Franked Christmas Cards Sparks Senate Row
Washington debate centers on Hyde franking of about 900 Christmas cards. Caraway accuses him of using government funds to aid starving babies while Hyde defends the cards as official outreach to aides and agriculture committee members. A post office official confirmed a small error in franked mail with minimal postage due.
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Washington
Caraway
Arkansas
Hyde
Frank
Department
Senate
House Agriculture
Post Office Department
Direct Airplane Passenger Service to Florida Starts
Atlanta reports the launch of direct air passenger service to Florida from Candler Field with two six passenger planes scheduled to depart at 9 15 tomorrow for the inaugural flight. Passengers include Thomas B. Dos H A Elliott and John K. Ottley Jr. The route links Daytona Beach with Tampa and St Petersburg and connects with Cuba and the Canal Zone. Pilots Douglas Davis and William A Siever will fly the inaugural planes. Macon Ga will be a stop on the southern route.
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Atlanta
Florida
Canal Zone
South America
Cuba
Candler Field
Thomas B. Dos
Eastern Air Transport, Inc
H. A. Elliott
John K. Ottley
Daytona Beach
Tampa
St. Petersburg
Douglas Davis
William A. Siever
Davie
Miami
Macon
Otto Wood, Notorious Bandit Shot Dead by Police
A man believed to be Otto Wood, famed North Carolina escaped convict, was fatally wounded by Salisbury Police Chief R. L. Rankin after a confrontation. He died minutes after arrival at a hospital in Salisbury on December 31.
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Otto Wood
Salisbury
N. C
North Carolina
R. L. Rankin
Guatemala Installs Provisional President After Coup
Dr Reina Andrade was elected provisional president by Guatemala's national congress after resignations of Chacon and General Orellana who led a coup that toppled Baudilio Palma. Andrade plans elections soon while Orellana faces nonrecognition by the United States amid a deadly brief revolt that killed or wounded 57.
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San Salvador
Republic of Salvador
Reina Andrade
Guatemala
National Congress
Chacon
Orellana
Sale
Manuel Orellana
United States
Baudilio Palma
Rescue of Crew From Sinking Ship Reported
London December 31 The British steamer Viceroy of India notified Lloyds that she had rescued the crew of a sinking vessel. The report details and names are incomplete from the damaged text but indicate a naval or merchant maritime rescue occurred near year end.
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London
Viceroy of India
Lloyds
Aldo Tellsy
Bruen Plans Third Battle of the Palms in Miami
Miami boxing promoter Frank J. Bruen announces plans for a winter bout in Miami featuring Young Stribling and Primo Carnera with talks to Pa Stribling about arrival. Local sportsmen await Madison Square Garden word as New York boxing commission weighs Schmeling Sharkey talks and potential winter bout implications.
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Miami
Fla
Frank J. Bruen
Miami Jockey Club
Madison Square Garden
Young Stribling
Primo Carnera
Bruen
Pa Stribling
Macon
Satter
New York Boxing Commission
Max Schmeling
Jack Sharkey
Boston
Garden
Bombing damages River Grove police lieutenant home
A dynamite bomb was thrown at the suburban home of Lieutenant Samuel G. Otto of River Grove police. It shattered the front porch and all front windows, waking Mrs. Otto and her 10 year old son Warren. Otto was away. He valued damages at 200 dollars and blamed operators of alcohol stills he had raided recently.
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Chicago
Samuel G. Otto
River Grove
Legs Diamond Leaves Hospital for Home
New York December 31 with two bullets in him Jack Legs Diamond the racketeer prepared to leave Welfare Island hospital today for Acra New York. A police guard will escort him to his train. Diamond was shot October 12 when four men invaded his room at the Hotel Monticello. His left arm remains partially paralyzed and he is at liberty on a 15000 dollar bail as a material witness in the shooting.
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New York
Jack
Diamond
Welfare Island
Acra
N. Y
Monticello
Liberty
Town to be sold at auction for Nitro mortgage
Federal Judge George W. McClintic ordered Nitro to be auctioned as part of the government foreclosure on Charleston Industrial Corporation. The town near Charleston was built during World War II as a munition center at about 70 million dollars, with the mortgage totaling nearly 1 million. A sale date is expected within a week.
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Charleston
W. Va
George W. McClintic
Nitro
Charleston Industrial Corporation
Actress Inherits British Fortune From Dirigible Victim
Auriol Les, actress and producer, inherits the estate valued around 35000 dollars from air vice marshal Sir William Sefton Bancker director of civil aviation who died in the B 101 dirigible wreck. The will filed for probate makes no mention of Sir William s wife and son. Miss Lee a supposed descendant of General Robert E Lee was born in the United States and debuted on the London stage in 1900.
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London
Auriol Les
United States
William Sefton Bancker
Civil Aviation
William
Miss Lee
Robert ©. Lee
Hoover Plan to Consolidate Eastern Railroads Moves Forward
President Hoover announced an agreement among eastern railroads to form four systems led by the Pennsylvania, New York Central, Baltimore and Ohio, and Nickel Plate. The Inter State Commerce Commission will review the plan with hearings and months of examination, while critics call the move unethical and praise potential stabilizing effects for weak lines and employment.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Hoover
New England
Pennsylvania
New York
Interstate Commission
Couzens
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Michigan Republican
Daniel Willard
Baltimore and Ohio Road
Willard
Commission
Baltimore and Ohio
New York Central
Wabash
Seaboard Air Line
Legge Critics Stir Farm Protest Over Wheat Price Claims
Des Moines reports senator McNary will review Alexander Legge's remarks accusing John Simpson of harsh language. Milo Reno condemns Legge as insulting farmers and urges action. Reno cites Oklahoma City speech where Simpson accused Legge of claiming power to swing wheat or cotton prices.
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Des Moines
Alexander Legge
Federal Farm Board
John Simpson
National Farmers Union
Senate Agriculture Committee
McNary
Oregon
Milo Reno
Iowa Farmers Union
Reno
Legge
Oklahoma City
Simpson
Senate Agricultural Committee
Farmere Union
Senate Committee On Agriculture
Weather forecast for southeast states with rain likely
South Carolina remains cloudy with possible rain in the south tonight or Thursday and temperatures rising slowly in the interior. Georgia sees rain Thursday after cloudy spells with northeast winds. Florida stays cloudy with rain late tonight or Thursday and warming east, central and south areas. Alabama unsettled with probable rain in south and east tonight and Thursday. Northwest Florida mostly cloudy with occasional rain overnight.
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South Carolina
South
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Dwight Davis May Quit Philippine Job
Dwight F. Davis was reported in official quarters to be contemplating an early resignation as governor general of the Philippines. Ill health of Mrs Davis, who is secretary of war, was said to be a factor in the consideration of stepping down.
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Washington
Dwight F. Davis
Filippines
Mrz. Davis
White House naval aide Bruce Settle dies amid poison reports
Washington reports a special board investigates the death of Lieut Bruce Settle a White House aide. Authorities consider poison possible as traces are found while police probe a prior car incident and safety zone breach. The inquest continues at the navy yard with officials awaiting results.
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Washington
Bruce Settle
White House
Rogers
Settle
Navy Yard
Naval Board of Inquest
One Man Killed in New Orleans Bank Robbery
In New Orleans on December 31 a bank robbery at the Whitney Trust and Savings Bank left Pierre N. Rizan dead and Albert Brownson and Dietrich wounded. Three bandits wearing white hoods escaped after looting the teller cage while a fourth waited outside. The city launched a wide manhunt as robberies continued in the area.
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New Orleans
Third District
Whitney Trust and Savings Bank
Pierre N. Rizan
Albert Brownson
Dietrich
Fitzgerald Refused Comment on Green Plans for Workers
Danville Virginia December 31 P R Fitzgerald president of Riverside and Dan River Cotton Mills declined to comment on William Greens AFL plan for strikers to return to work. He said he had nothing to say to newspapermen through his secretary C K Gaver.
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Fitzgerald
Danville
P. R. Fitzgerald
Riverside
Dan River
William Green
American Federation of Labor
M Pitegerald
C. KE. Gaver
Einstein Theory Understandable 10 Alt Ts Proponed
Albert Einstein arrived in California on December 31 with a theory he believes all may understand He says youth is always the same and finds joy watching schoolchildren sing He discusses religion relativity and the possibility of life elsewhere while aboard the steamer.
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Walter B. Clausen
Associated Press
San Diego
Cal
Albert Einstein
California
Nein
Germany
Elsa
Europe
Short Wave Radio Shines Light On Diphtheria Toxin
Cambridge Mass December 31 science reveals a new use for short wave radio. Waclaw Szymanowski and Robert A Hicks report that potent diphtheria toxin loses strength under short electric waves at 1.9 and 3.76 meters and frequencies around 158 million and 80 million cycles per second. The Pittsburgh team suggests this could lead to immunization methods rather than treating patients.
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Cambridge
Mass
Society of American Bacteriologist
Waclaw T. Szymanowski
Robert Alan Hicks
Western Pennsylvania Hospital
Pittsburgh
Boston
Worry Kills Woman in Atlanta Hospital Dramatizes Cure
Mrs. Nannie Clower aged 64 died in a hospital here from a cerebral hemorrhage doctors linked to worry. Earlier she sought medical help for a rumored rabbit bone stuck in her throat and was found unconscious at home. Surviving are two sons J. T. Clower and Claude Clower and a daughter Mrs. Charles Johnson.
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Atlanta
Nannie Clower
J. T
Claude Clower
Charles Johnson
Hoke Smith Jr Dies From Bedroom Fire Burns
Atlanta reports the death of Hoke Smith Jr aged child of Mr and Mrs Hoke Smith from burns suffered on December 20 when his clothing caught fire from an open grate as he made a fire in his bedroom. His mother smothered the flames with a quilt. The child’s parents are not related to the former Senator Hoke Smith.
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Atlanta
Hoke Smith, Jr
Hoke Smith
Show Boats Return To Popularity On The Rivers
Chicago theater agent A Milo Bennett notes a revival of river show boats along the Ohio and Mississippi. Edna Ferber’s Shaw Boat spurred renewed interest as audiences called the “swells” to luxury boat shows with acts like Lena Rivers and Ten Nights In A Barroom thriving in Louisville and Mound City.
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Leo J. Ryan
Chicago
America
Ohio River
French
Mound City
A. Milo Bennett
Louisville
J. K. Menke
Hollywood
Menke
Augustus B. French
Mississippi
Edna Ferber
Shaw Boat
Bennett
Darkies
Lena Rivers
Ford Seeks Purchase of Pemigewasset Bridge
Henry Ford, the auto magnate and collector, asked about buying the century old Pemigwasset river wooden bridge in Franklin New Hampshire. City officials received a letter from Ford's representative W W Taylor asking the price and history of the span as they plan a modern replacement. Ford intends to reconstruct the bridge at his Dearborn Michigan museum.
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FORD
Frankling
N. H
Henry Ford
Pemigwasset River
W. W. Taylor
Dearborn
Mich
Banks in Georgia to reopen soon after closings
A. B. Mobley announced that stockholders from Union Banking Company of Douglas and Cochran Banking Company of Cochran hope to resume operations soon. Union Banking, with branches in Broxton and Nichols, closed December 20, while Cochran Banking suspended on November 14.
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Atlanta
A. B. Mobley
Union Banking Company of
Douglas
Cochran Banking Company
Cochran
Union Banking Company
Broxton and Nichols
Joffre Lying At Death Door Amid Rally
Paris Dec 31 Marshal Joffre, 78, lay near death after a rally dazzled doctors. His left leg amputation wound shows signs of healing but his pulse quickens and blood pressure falls. A Vatican message asked Cardinal Pacelli to transmit the pope's special benediction for him.
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Paris
Marshal Joffre
St. Jean de Dieu
Vatican City
Joffre
Holy Father
Cardinal Pacelli
Bold Bluff Works on Atlanta Negro Robber
Atlanta December 31. A bold bluff by Jack Phillips head of a jewelry firm captured a negro who robbed his house the night before. Unarmed Phillips faced the intruder armed with a knife and held him at bay for ten minutes until neighbor Lewis Gregg arrived with a shotgun.
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Atlanta
Jack Phillips
Phillips
Pants Burglar Sought by Baltimore Police
Baltimore detectives scour the city after a whimsical pants burglar snatches money from trouser pockets left on bedroom chairs. For six weeks he targets first floor doors with a jimmy, then empties pockets in hallways or lawns, triggering widespread plain clothes patrols and near miss shootings before Christmas.
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Baltimore
Jimmy
Former Tide Star Uses Assumed Name at USC
Jeff Clay, ineligible this season, was revealed as Davis Brassfield an Alabama player who previously used an assumed name to try out for the USC Trojans. Alabama teammates in Pasadena for the New Year’s Day game with Washington State disclosed the alias.
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Los Angeles
University of Southern California
Trojan
Jeff Clay
Alabama
Pasadena
Washington State
Davis Brassfield
Governor Green To Give Salary For Four Years To Daughter
Governor Fred W. Green, retiring as Michigan's chief executive, plans to hand over four years of salary checks totaling about 20 000 to his daughter Mrs Norvall Tyrell. The governor, a furniture dealer, has not cashed any pay checks or filed expense accounts, instead using about 35 000 of his own funds.
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Green
Lansing
Mich
Fred W. Green
Michigan
Norvall Tyrell
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