Flooded Mississippi drives mass rescue of refugees
In Batesville and Clarksdale areas on December 26, floodwaters from the Tallahatchie and nearby bayous forced hundreds from their homes. Two drowned near Mimms, and a search continued for Mr Pope Whitten and his four children. Red Cross reports 1,000 refugees across Tallahatchie, Panola and Quitman counties with boats and roofs as relief efforts focus on food and shelter.
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Henderson
Mimms
Tallahatchie
Pope Whitten
Stone
Clarksdale
Tallahatchie River
Nelson Discusses Session During Extra Arizona Legislature
Senator G. W. Nelson of Navajo county leaves Winslow for Phoenix to join lawmakers in the Tenth Legislature extra session. He urges careful study of pending issues and opposes wage cuts for state employees or legislators in a letter to the Daily Mail.
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Phoenix
G. W. Nelson
Navajo County
The
Daily Mail
Nelson
Land Bank Aid Increased to Support Farm Mortgages
A Senate banking subcommittee increased the capitalization of Federal Land Banks from 100 million to 125 million dollars. The added funds will be earmarked to grant postponements on farm mortgage installments. Chairman Carey said the committee will report the measure favorably. Senate passage is seen as certain. President Hoover had recommended the measure to strengthen banks and ease farmer credit.
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Washington
House
Senate Banking Subcommittee
Carey
Republican
Wyoming
Senate
Hoover
Red Shirts Firefight Kills Eight in Kohat Cantonment Riot
Eight men described as Red Shirts were fatally hurt and fifty others wounded when soldiers fired on a riotous crowd of five hundred near Kohat Cantonment in Peshawar India. Police had charged the crowd with sticks before the shooting.
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Psehawar
India
Red Shirts
Kohat Cantonment
Here
Weather Outlook for Arizona Ends With Fair Weekend
Arizona forecast calls for generally fair conditions tonight and Sunday. Colder in the northeast with frost expected in south central and southeast portions tonight.
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Arizona
Moose hunter faces amputation after frozen march
Rudolph Baada wandered days through snowstorms during a moose hunt near St Walburg Saskatchewan. He reached a lumber camp 40 miles northeast of town with both feet severely frostbitten and his last two matches used. He had eaten a porcupine to survive.
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ST. Walburg, Sask
Rudolph Baada
Baada
Here
Seven Arizona women to sit in House at start of special session
Nellie T. Bush of Parker leads an eight member Democratic and Republican women delegation set to occupy seven seats in the Arizona House when the special session opens at noon Monday. New appointees include Mrs. Mary Francis and Mrs. Rose F. Godfrey, with Mrs. Harriet Sprague replacing Gertrude Bryan Leeper, and existing members Mrs. Cavness and Annie Campbell Jones among others.
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Phoenix
House of Representatives
Nellie T. Bush
Parker Ariz
House Judiciary Committee
Maricopa County
Francis
M. J. Francis
Godfrey
Rent L. Jennings
Sprague
Gertrude Bryan Leeper
State Health Board
Impeachment Move Aims at Secretary Mellon
Representative Patman of Texas said he would introduce a resolution to impeach Secretary Mellon within 72 hours after Congress reconvenes. He argues Mellon’s actions violate the 1789 statute forbidding a Treasury secretary from engaging in commerce.
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Washington
Patman
Texas
Mellon
Congress
Texan
Proud Mother Dies Watching Son at Midnight Mass
Mrs. Mary Green aged 65 a welfare worker from Whipple Barracks died of heart disease in Sacred Heart church Prescott while watching her son a seminary student assist in the midnight Christmas Mass. Known to soldier patients as Mother Green she was 65 and well known locally.
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Prescott, Ariz
Mary Green
Whipple Barracks
Sacred Heart Church
Mother Green
Chicago Notified Of Highest Tax Rate
Chicago and Cook County officials announced the 1930 tax rate, payable January 1, 1932, with a 9 to 9 1/2 percent rise over 1929 and about 30 percent over 1928. The city and county governments have borrowed their limit on 1930 taxes, and the funds remain to be collected.
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Chicago
Cook County
Robert Sweitzer
Warm Weather Continues Across United States
A December 26 report notes unusual warmth across North America with springlike conditions in Minnesota and the Midwest. Specific incidents include a snowslide near Andover California covering tracks and delaying Pacific Limited service at Truckee and Norden.
Man Dies in Phoenix From Hit by Car
A man, possibly John McNeil, died in a Phoenix hospital from injuries after being struck by a car near Cashion, Ariz., late last night. Frean Webb of Phoenix drove the vehicle and was not held. Authorities seek the victim's relatives.
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Phoenix
Ariz
John McNeil
Cashion
Frean Webb
Communist Riot Claims Three In Peru Trujillo
Lima Dec. 26 Three persons were killed and six wounded in a Communist riot at Trujillo on Christmas Eve, El Comercio reports. Trouble started when small groups of Communists paraded in violation of a police order.
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Lima Petru
Trujillo
el Comercio
Lumber Shipments Exceeding Output
Portland report shows western pine mills produced 12,926,000 feet for the week ending December 19 while shipments reached 26,831,000 feet and unfilled orders stood at 5,404,000 feet. 121 mills reported. 99 were idle. The Western Pine association covers Arizona California Montana New Mexico Oregon and Washington.
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Western Pine Territory
Western Pine Association
The
Arizona
California
Montana
New Mexico
Oregon
Washington
State Legislators See Need To Cut Expenses
Phoenix ARIZONA December 26 Special session opened with retrenchment of governmental expenditures. Speaker M J Hannon warned cuts will hit schools hardest, noting Arizona schools consume nearly 60 percent of tax dollars. He cited mines farmers and business as strained and urged economy in education and other programs.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Arizona
M. J. Hannon
Hannon
Christmas Encyclical Calls for Catholic Protestant Unity
Pope Pius XI issued Lux Veritatis on Christmas urging worldwide union of Protestants and Catholics. The encyclical marks the fifteenth hundredth anniversary of the Council of Ephesus and argues Mary a mediator and Mother of God. He appeals especially to eastern churches to venerate Mary as Catholics do.
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City
Pius XI
Ephesus
Nestorius
Constantinople
Jesus Christ
God
Mary
Nine Killed When Train Hits Auto Near Charlotte
A Christmas party of nine was returning home when their light touring car with side curtains up was struck by a northbound Southern passenger train at a grade crossing in the southwestern outskirts of Charlotte. Five men two children and a woman were instantly killed. Mrs Loma Cox died at a hospital about two hours later. Fragments of the car were scattered over two blocks.
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Charlotte
N. C
Loma Cox
Andrews Plans 20 Witness Interviews for Judd Trial
County Attorney Lloyd J. Andrews will travel to Los Angeles to interview about 20 potential witnesses for Winnie Ruth Judd’s murder trial. The case, accusing Judd of killing Mrs. Anne Leroi and Miss Hedvig Samuelson, is set to begin January 19 before Superior Judge Howard C. Speakman.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Lloyd J. Andrews
Los Angeles
Winnie Ruth Judd
Anne Leroi
Hedvig Samuelson
Andrews
Convicts Wounded In Attempted Escape At McAlester Penitentiary
McAlester Oklahoma December 26 two convicts were shot and recaptured after lowering from the front wall of the state penitentiary. J L Haynes thirty serving a life murder sentence and W E Collingsworth thirty one imprisoned for ten years for robbery were wounded by tower guard Ed Owens. The pair had escaped twice before and reached the roof by cutting through the ceiling with smuggled tools.
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Mcallester
Okla
J. L. Haynes
W. E. Collingsworth
Ed Owens
Woman named Fort Pierce city manager succeeds Gustafson
Mrs May J Priestley has been named city manager of Fort Pierce Florida replacing E G Gustafson for whom she worked as secretary.
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Fort Pierce, Fla
May J. Priestley
Fort Pierce
E. G. Gustafson
The Turkey Was A Bit Too Large
Laurensburg North Carolina December 26 A poultry man W T Roper was attacked by a turkey while demonstrating the right way to kill one The bird swallowed the knife and then walked away while Roper and physician F P Jones tended to the injured man
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Laurensburg
N. C
W. T. Roper
F. P. Jones
Roper
Railroad earnings show declines in November reports
New York December 26 November net railway operating income from roads reported includes Pa 1931 1930 B and O 1 740 572 2 379 285 New Haven 1 548 275 2 232 749 Tex and Pac 466 835 500 658 Boston and Maine 449 442 863 485.
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B. & Ohio
New Haven
Tex. & Pac
Boston & Me
Japan to Answer Three Nations on Chinchow
Tokyo will deliver an answer to the United States Great Britain and France regarding Chinchow tomorrow. The statement, approved by Premier Inukai and War Minister Araki, stresses Japan’s aim to avoid hostilities while hoping lawless elements are removed without force.
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Japan
Chinchow
Manchuria
United States
Great Britain
France
Stimson
Inukai
Araki
French Convict Dies on the Guillotine at Dawn
Paris reports 25 year old George Gachet executed for the murder of an elderly jeweler. He refused clemency and sacraments but attended Mass before the guillotine. A crowd pressed past police lines twice attempting to witness the death.
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Paris
George Gachet
Woman Is Sentenced For Court Contempt
Mrs Genevieve A Clark the sole woman juror in the Foshay trial was found in contempt of court for perjury in juror service. Ramsey county jail six months was imposed by Judges Gunnar H Nordbye and John B Sanborn of the federal district court. The judge noted she gave false and disarming responses concealing that she formerly worked for a Foshay firm.
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Minneapolis
Genevieve A. Clark
Clark
Ramsey County
St. Paul
Gunnar H. Nordbye
John B. Sanborn
Federal District Court
Foshay
Government negotiates big loan for public works jobs
Brussels reports the government is negotiating a substantial loan to fund a public works program aimed at providing jobs for the unemployed.
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Brussels
Five Die in Springfield Hotel Fire
Five persons were killed when a blaze swept the five story Court hotel in Springfield Mass. Authorities fear more victims as 31 of 48 occupants were accounted for. Knight and his wife and infant among the dead. others injured or missing. Hull of the building caused by smoke and flames.
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Springfield
Mass
New Court Hotel
Senate Panel Forms to Study Drg Law repeal
A Senate judiciary subcommittee was created to hold hearings on repeal and modification of prohibition. Chairman Norris named five members led by Senator Blaine to hear various prohibition bills after Christmas. members include Republican Senators Boh, Hebert. and Democrat colleagues Ashurst and Walsh from Arizona and Montana.
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Washington
Senate
Norris
Blaine Republican
Wisconsin
Senator Borah
Idaho
Hebert
Rhode Island
Ashurst
Arizona
Walsh
Montana
Auto Death Near Tucson Police Investigate
Mrs. Elsia Rodriguez of Tucson died en route to a hospital after an automobile driven by her husband overturned on the Florence highway about 25 miles north of Tucson yesterday.
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Tucson
Ariz
Elsia Rodriguez
Florence Highway
Bar Silver Quiet and Unchanged at 30 5-8
New York reports bar silver trading calmly at 30 5-8 per ounce with little price movement in quiet market conditions. The steady tone reflects a lack of fresh catalysts or significant demand changes as trading remains subdued.
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New York
Drowning Families Animate Christmas Coast on Baby Lake
Three Leyba sisters Rebecca 13 Olinda 12 Fierda 10 and cousin drown when ice on Baby Lake cracks during Christmas sled ride. Olinda escapes then drowns saving others. In Gallup James Hidkers is jailed for murder after shooting Ed Gutierrez at a Christmas Eve gathering. A second unidentified man dies by self inflicted gunshot north of Gallup. inquest due today.
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Olinda Leyba
Fierda Leyba
Baby
Gallup
Olinda
James Hidkers
Blue Water
Ed Gutierrez
Services Of Slain Child Held Today
Funeral services were held at St. Patrick's Catholic church Covington Kentucky for Marian Mc Lean age 6 kidnapped and slain several days ago by a degenerate. The crime remains unsolved as house to house searches and suspect questioning continue. Parents Joseph and Mrs McLean attended after a year and a half apart.
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Cincinnati
Covington
Marian McLean
Yvere
Joseph McLean
Marian
Arizona
Polite
Mexican Fatally Shot in Tucson After Quarrel
In Tucson Arizona Santiago Padilla 26 was shot and killed by Frank Cortez 25 who is jailed facing murder charges. Investigators say the men had quarreled for weeks and Cortez previously signed a complaint accusing Padilla of assault with a deadly weapon.
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Ariz
Santiago Padilla
Frank Cortez
Pima County
Padilla
Cortez
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