Norwich City wreck survivors marooned on Gardner Island
Rescue ships continue rough seas to aid 21 marooned sailors after the Norwich City struck a coral reef 700 miles north of Pago Pago. Eleven crewmen drowned. three survivors were aboard the Trongate with hopes to transfer others ashore today. Water and provisions are scarce as rockets reach the island.
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Pago Pago
Samoa
Norwich City
Gardner Island
Here
Messae
Proposal to abolish Papago Saguaro Monument Arizona
A bill by Rep Lewis W Douglas would abolish Papago Saguaro National Monument in Arizona and reallocate land for park recreation and other uses. Part of the land would be reserved for the Arizona National Guard and a large portion sold to Arizona for recreation and park purposes at 1.25 per acre within two years. Tempe would receive land under same terms and Salt River Valley Water Users Association could purchase 85 acres for a canal flume right of way.
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Washitiington
Papago Saguaro National Monument
Arizona
Congress
Lewis W. Douglas
Arizona National Guard
Tempe
Salt River Valley Water Users Association
Legion Denies Sing Sing Inmates Post Request
The Westchester County American Legion executive committee rejected a request from 207 World War II veterans incarcerated at Sing Sing to form an American Legion post inside the prison. The decision followed a close voting session and reflects policy on inmate veteran groups.
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Evonkiers
N. Y
Inan
iMews
Westchester County American Legion
Sing Sing Prison
American Legion
Hoover Seeks 8 346 000 For Reclamation Projects
President Hoover asked Congress for 8 346 000 in appropriations to fund interior department reclamation work in the new budget. The request covers major projects like Yuma Arizona California Boise Idaho Owyhee Oregon and the Yakima Wittita divisions with specific grant amounts and operating costs including Colorado River front work. Other listed items include Carlsbad New Mexico Rio Grande Salt Lake Basin and Indian reservation irrigation needs with allocations outlined and continued 1929 balances.
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Washington
Hoover
Congress
Department of the Interior
Yuma
Arizona-California
Boise, Ida
Owyhee
Oregon
Wittita
Yakima
Colorado River
Yuma Federal
Arizona
California
Salt Lake Basin
Utah
Wun
Echo ‘Reservoir
Weber-Provo Canal
Colville
Walker River
Nevada
Western Shoshone
Idaho
Chin
Chin Chin
Perennial Bride Collects Names Through Marriages
Muscatine Iowa reports on Elsie Hesse who has married seven times by age 33. Formerly Miss Elsie Hesse, she became Mrs. Elsie Hesse Larsen Smith Crossley Seeman Metzger Lord Ficsher after her latest wedding to James Flesher. Two prior husbands died and others divorced.
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Muscatinne
Elsie Hesse
Elsie Hesse-Larsen - Smith - Crossley-Seeman - Metzger - Lord- Ficsher
James Flesher
Hoover to name new secretary of war by Christmas
Washington reports indicate President Hoover will appoint a new secretary of war before Christmas with acting head Patrick J. Hurley likely to be promoted. Southern leaders push for representation in the cabinet and view Hurley’s promotion as fulfillment of that aim.
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Washington
Hoover
Patrick J. Hurley
James W. Good
Hurley
South
Jalincke
Navy
Carranza Air Prize Awarded To Aviator
Colonel Roberto Fierro receives the Emilio Carranza medal for 1928 for nonstop flights from Mexicali to Mexico City and from Mexico to Cuba, a top annual honor in aviation.
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Carranza Air Prize
Mexico City
National Association of Aeronautics
Roberto Fierro
Air Ace
Iemilio Carranza
Mexicali
Mexico
Cuba
Air Heroes
War Veteran Returns Home After 13 Lost Years
Patrick Toohill walked into his Dunedin home after 13 years away. He had been denied enlistment as a youth, later joined in 1916 with a Canterbury unit under an assumed name. Wounded, gassed, shell shocked, and memory impaired, he wandered the world aimlessly before returning to New Zealand.
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Wellington
N. Z
Patrick Toohill
Dunedin
Toohill
Canterbury
Ile
Whale Salesman Aims To Pack Chicago World’s Fair
BiL Rice of Los Angeles proclaims himself the world’s only whale salesman and suggests a stuffed whale could help launch the Chicago World's Fair in 1935. He seeks support from George F. Getz, coal magnate and zoo owner, a known hunter of wild beasts and friend to exotic exhibits.
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Chicago
Bil Rice
Los Angeles
Rice
George F. Getz
Getz
Finoa
Indians To Get Better Deal in U S
President Hoover's budget message boosts Indian affairs funding by 3.1 million to 19.8 million. Increases fund Indian schools by 893 thousand and health programs by 692 thousand to improve education and health. Emphasis shifts to employment with 315 thousand for agriculture and stock training and 60 thousand for scabies eradication in Indian herds.
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Washington
Wilbur
Hoover
Indian Service
Mrs Nellie Tayloe Ross May Seek Senate Seat
Patrick J Sullivan of Casper named to fill Wyoming's U S Senate seat temporarily after the death of Francis E Warren. Sullivan will serve until a special election next month. Nellie Tayloe Ross may run in that election. Governor Frank C Jimerson announced the appointment at a Central Republican meeting.
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Nellie Tayloe Ross
Wyoming
United States Senate
Warren
Patrick J. Sullivan
Casper
Senate
Cheyenne
Wyo
Republican National Committee
Francis E. Warren
Frank C. Jimerson
Sullivan
Central Republican Committee
Washington, D. C
Tennessee Fails To Get Holbrook Man
Governor John Phillips returned requisition papers to Tennessee for extradition of J. C. Crane to Memphis to face embezzlement charges after no agent arrived to receive him. Crane allegedly took about $400 in goods and money from a Memphis electrical firm and was arrested by Navajo County officers.
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Phoenix, Ariz
John ©. Phillips
Tennessee
J. C. Crane
Memphis
Crane
Navajo County
Wolbrook
Santa Cruz County to get flying sheriff
Nogales Arizona December 4 AP Santa Cruz county will have the only flying sheriff in the state Sheriff I F J Patterson has been taking flying lessons for several weeks and will soon complete his first solo flight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nogales
Ariz
Santa Cruz County
Arizona
If. J. Patterson
Prince of Wales hosts German general at London dinner
The Prince of Wales met General Von Lettow Vorbeck in London today. Von Lettow Vorbeck, leader of German forces in East Africa during WWI, arrived to dine with General Suruts, the British commander.
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London
Prince of Wales
von Lettow Vorbeck
East Africa
von Vorbeck
Suruts
AICI Ordered EAS By Air Line Moved Managers
Co W McGill, Winslow T A airport manager for six months, is transferred to Clovis NM to run the T A T airport there and will take new duties next Monday. J F Reynolds of Barstow CA will replace McGill as Winslow port manager. Brad ley, former manager, is transferred east. Traffic on the T A P T shows a rise with two westbound planes needed today. A film crew traveling the route will ride the late arriving ship.
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W. McGill
Winslow T. A. To
Clovis
N. M
Defending Herself Exonerated in Fatal Jaramillo Shooting
Miss Mersfelder 12 was exonerated on grounds of justifiable homicide after a preliminary hearing in Justice Court. County Attorney McCauley led the murder charges, and Jaramillo’s death followed her testimony about warning him off on the night of November 22.
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Miss Mayfield Mersfelder
Winslow
Ernesto Jaramillo
Justice Court
C. D. McCauley
J. B. Drumm
Jaramillo
Miss Mersfelder
Sheriff's
Hattie Seeger
Mersfelders
CW. Harp
Fight On Seating Of Ware Resumed
Senator Norris of Nebraska resumed arguments in the Senate in support of a resolution to bar William S. Vare of Pennsylvania from a Senate seat. He asserted that a lowest election in Philadelphia is unknown in memory.
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Wasteington
CAB
William S. Vare
Pennsylvania
Norris
Nebraska
Senate
Philadelphia
Lindbergh Offers Help in Nelson Air Mail Search
Col Charles A Lindbergh offered to aid in locating Thomas P Nelson missing on a flight from Bellefonte Pa to Cleveland. Lindbergh phoned from Englewood N J to W L Smith National Air Transport official, who said the offer was appreciated but futile to join immediately. Smith said Lindbergh might fly to Cleveland later if the search continued.
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Clarion
Charles A. Lindbergh
Thomas P. Nelson
Plainfield
N. J
New York
Cleveland
Bellefonte
Lindbergh
Dwight W. Morrow
Englewood
W. L. Smith
National Air Transport Company
Nelson
St. Louis
Smith
Tombstone loses status as county seat to Bisbee
Bisbee Arizona December 4 The Cochise County Board of Supervisors after canvassing special election returns unanimously declared Bisbee the county seat ending Tombstones nearly fifty year claim. The board planned to meet in Bisbee to select temporary quarters for the superior court and its chief clerk.
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Bisbee
Ariz
Tombstone
Cochise County
Board of Supervisors
Superior Court
Thanksgiving burglar dies after turkey attempt
John Janis died from bullet wounds after trying to supply his wife and seven children with a Thanksgiving turkey. He was wounded when a watchman spotted him fleeing a butcher shop with the bird. Janis later died of blood poisoning in jail hospital.
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Chicago
John Janis
Soviet Replies to U S Note on Kellogg Pact
The Soviet government informs the United States through a memorandum to the French ambassador that it will not accept as a friendly act the U S reminder to the Soviet and Chinese governments of their Kellogg pact obligations. It rejects any single state or group acting as protector of the Paris pact and says it will pursue its defence policy independently of the pact.
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Moscow
Socret
United States
Maurice Herbette
Maxim Litvinoff
Washington
Union
Great Britain
France
Gillett to retire from Senate after 1934 term
Massachusetts agitation over Senator Frederick H. Gillett's retirement decision abates with praise for his 39 years of service. Gillett, 78, announced plans to retire at end of his six year term begun in 1924, ending a long career that included six years as speaker of the House and earlier state and federal posts. Speculation about Alvan T. Fuller as a potential successor continues amid party tensions. Former President Coolidge states he has no desire to join the Senate.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Frederick H. Gillett
Washington
Gillett
Warren
Wyoming
House of Representatives
Alvan T. Fuller
Fuller
Coolidge
Senate
Rubio Crosses Border Into United States
Pascual Ortiz Rubio president elect of Mexico crossed the border from Matamoros into the United States at L&N today.
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Rubio
Brownsville
Texas
Pascual Ortiz Rubio
Mexico
United States
Matamoros
Ll & mi
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