Byrd aide 13 found alive at Omaha newspaper desk
Richard Gale Brophy, once Byrd Antarctic expedition business manager, who vanished after a supposed death note and a mental health test, was located alive and working on the copy desk at the Omaha Bee-News. He admitted identity, planned to return to New York to settle affairs, and cited rest and nerves as motives.
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Omaha
Nebr
Richard Gale Brophy
New Zealand
New York
Omaha Bee-News
The
Bee-News
Brophy
Richard Byrd
C. Manning Mitchell
Coney Island
Byrd
Eleanor Bolling
Dunedin
N. Z
United States
Bellevue
Canada
Hoover outlines goals in Congress message on taxes and welfare
The text quotes President Hoover stressing government duties to finance and enforce public welfare while seeking tax relief. He asserts no fundamental clash between farmers and workers or regional interests and says government should not run power or manufacturing except as needed for a major public aim.
Hoover Set Out Broad Program for Domestic and World Issues
President Hoover outlined his views on income and corporate tax cuts, a flexible tariff with executive rate changes, and transferring major prohibition enforcement to the Justice Department. He urged a model District of Columbia, naval limits or a six year build program, and cautious defense spending relief. The message covers domestic and international policy across many areas.
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Treasury
Justice Department
District of Columbia
Amere
London
Tie
Congress
Hoover
Senate
House
World Court
Ford Workers Given 20 Million Pay Raise Across Ford Plants
Ford Motor Company announces a third wage rise raising the minimum from six to seven dollars a day effective Monday. About 144,990 employees across all U S plants gain higher wages with 24,320 moved from six to seven and 112,643 others receiving increases in daily pay. the total annual payroll rise exceeds 19.5 million dollars.
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Ford
Ford Motor Company
United States
Legislative program outlines new federal power scope and reforms
Delegation of power to the president to reorganize departments. Early public works for an extended buildings program nationwide. Increase from 30 million to 35 million for flood control and river harbor projects. Plans to consolidate railroads and explore regional chain banking. Proposes a three member Federal Power Commission and a permanent Federal Radio Commission. A special commission to negotiate Muscle Shoals contracts. Immigration study and higher diplomacy funding. Return of seized alien property within a year.
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Congress of Power
Federal Power Commission
Federal Radio Commission
Muscle Shoals
Congressional Study of Immigration
Joseph City P. T. A. December Meeting Set
The Joseph City Parent Teachers Association will hold its regular December meeting on December 5 at the school house. Mrs. Addie Pace of Woodruff will speak on progressive ideals and public speaking. Musical numbers will accompany the program, and visitors are welcome.
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Joseph City
Parent Teachers Association
Addie Pace
Woodruff
Arizona Woman Must HOT COFFEE LURES MAN Slayings Case
A Washington police officer used hot coffee to coax a Negro youth from icy canal waters after a chase. Clifton Carter, cited for untagged car and lack of permit, surrendered after the offer of warmth and a bed, receiving three traffic charges. Mrs. Dugan faces execution on February 21 in a separate Tucson case involving murder and appeals.
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Carter
Chesapeake and Potomac Canal
Wyckoff
Princeton student Kermit Roosevelt pursues book collecting
Kermit Roosevelt tells the Daily Princetonian that he often prowls around old book stores instead of eating lunch. He buys a volume occasionally and treats first editions as his avocation, urging the value of a hobby.
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Princeton, N. 3
Kermit Roosevelt
Princetonian
Arizona grants Richfield Oil license to operate
The Phoenix Corporation Commission issues a foreign corporation license allowing Richfield Oil Company of California to do business in Arizona. The action authorizes the company to operate within the state under its existing corporate name and filings.
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Phoenix — Corporation Commission
Richfield Oil Company of
California
Arizona
Bernice Rush Denies Suicide Attempt in Prison
Bernice Rush of Louisville Kentucky denies reports she attempted suicide by drinking poison while held in Belen prison awaiting a higher court review of a murder verdict. Jenaro Denavente was the man she was tried for killing and the majority verdict was not guilty.
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Mexico City
Bernice “Rush
Louisville
Belen
Jenaro Denavente
Bride’s Mother Confounds Usher in Wedding Scene
An usher asks if she is a friend of the groom. The dignified reply reveals she is the bride’s mother, crafting a humorous wartime era moment in the church.
Arizona Doctor Named Montana School Superintendent
Helena Mont Dec 3 The Montana Board of Education named Dr Howard Griffin of Tucson Ariz as superintendent of the state school for deaf blind and feeble minded at Boulder Griffin who is now superintendent of the Arizona school for deaf and blind succeeds Dr H J Menzemer who resigned months ago
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Helena
Mont
Montana Board of Education
Howard Grif
Fin
Tucson, Ariz
State School For Deaf
Boulder, Mont
Griffin
School For Deaf and Blind
H. J. Menzemer
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Eseseoe
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Kraberdasher
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Los Angeles
Marion Parker
Washington
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Rialto
Moran
Mack
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Southwest Reduction Co
Gallup
New Mexico
Montana
Turpen & Wheeler
Winslow, Arizona
Manhattan - Hendon
Grayco
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