Bankers Oppose Further Radical Changes in Laws
A cross section of bankers economists and finance students oppose further radical federal banking law changes while the Senate committee plans hearings on all new monetary proposals including a central bank. Senator Thomas pursues a plan to devalue the dollar and revert toward 100 cents, arguing broad benefits to taxpayers and the public.
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Washington
Fletcher
Senate Banking Committee
Thomas
Oklahoma
Etcher
T. J. Anderson Jr
New York University School of Commerce
Congress
Dr. Anderson
Portland Waterfront Fire Destroys Two Wharves in Maine
Fire swept a 300 yard waterfront stretch destroying two wharves and damaging several vessels with total losses estimated at 200000 dollars. A schooner yacht Coronet carrying seven aboard was set afire and its crew of five rescued after leaping into the harbor. Rescuees suffered injuries and heat exhaustion but refused medical aid. The blaze started at the New England Grain plant on Hobson's Wharf and spread to nearby wharves and a tugboat.
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Portland
Coronet
Holy Ghost and
Us Society
Shilo Temple
Lisbon
Charles Peabbles
Arthur Fox
Robert I. Page
John Shaw
New England Grai Company
Hobson’s Wharf
Brown Company
H. S. Nichols
General Literage Company
Hobson's Wharf
Atlas
Boston and Maine Railroad
Holyoke
Noted Polish maestro resigns as director of Phil a Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski resigns as music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra effective December 26 after twenty two years. He cites board delays in selecting a successor to Arthur Judson and deep differences with the board. He and his family plan a study trip to the Orient to study Japanese and Chinese music and guest conduct several Japanese orchestras.
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Philadelphia
Leopold Stokowski
Philadelphia Orchestra
Stokowski
Arthur Judson
E le
Empress Key in Charles Island Mystery Deepens
Los Angeles dispatch reports Captain G Allan Hancock leads a Smithsonian expedition to the Galapagos area where four deaths tie to the missing Baroness Eloise Bousquet de Wagener and her associate Robert Philipson. Bodies of Alfred Lorenz and Trygve Nuggrud found. a third victim, a Negro boy, not recovered. widowed rumors surround Dr Friedrich Ritter. Swett, navigator, notes Lorenz and Philipson came from the baroness’s gown shop. Page Two follows.
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Los Angeles
Charles Island
Stidl
Galapagos Archipelago
G. Allan Hancock
Smithsonian Institution
Eden
Marchena Islands
Charles
Hancock
Ritter
Eloise Bousquet de Wagener
Vienna
Paris
Robert Philipson
Lorenz
Philipson
W. Charles Swett
Velcro
Swett
Philipgon
Huey Long Ousts Political Enemy as Party Leader
In Baton Rouge Huey P. Long ousted New Orleans Mayor T Semmes Walmsley from chairmanship of the Democratic state committee and took over. The legislature strengthened Long’s rule with new bills. In New Orleans, State Senator Jules Fisher and Rep Joseph Fisher were indicted by a federal grand jury for tax evasion efforts. Walmsley challenged the selection, calling it untrue to voters.
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Baton Rouge
Huey P. Long
T. Semmes Walmsley
New Orleans
Democratic State Committee
Long
Jules G. Fisher
Joseph Fisher
Fisher
Jefferson Parish
Louisiana
State Committee
Walmsley
King
Democratic Party
Roosevelt Shapes Plan to Provide Work Relief
President Roosevelt outlined a plan to put millions on relief to work and coordinate emergency spending into a central fund likely exceeding four billion dollars. The approach includes land and water conservation, public works, roads, and rural rehabilitation with a possible single agency directing expenditures. Officials anticipate a public display of the plan after Congress opens, with Hopkins stressing work relief areas like slum clearance and rural redevelopment.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Congress
White House
Harry L. Hopkins
Emergency Relief Administration
Hopkins
Explosion rocks Pittsburgh downtown injuring three. pets killed
An explosion in downtown Pittsburgh shattered the American Bird store at 210 Seventh Avenue, starting a fire and injuring three men. Clerks were knocked down as glass showered the area near the Stanley theater. a fireman and two civilians suffered injuries while pets in the shop were killed. The blast was blamed on gas and three fire companies fought to control the flames.
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Pittsburgh
American Bird
Seventh Avenue
Stanley
Henry Suttor
John Terleski
Danny Rose
Kump Grants Reprieve for Matewan Slayer
Governor H G Kump granted a reprieve to January 7 1935 for Greeley Blankenship of Peter Creek Ky who is to be hanged for the killing of relief worker John Christofone near Matewan He denied commutation but allowed time to seek a Supreme Court review and to arrange an appeal.
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Charleston
W. Va
H. G. Kump
Greeley Blankenship
Peter Creek
State Penitentiary
Blankenship
Mingo County
John Christofone
Matewan
Chiristofone
Supreme Court
Prisoner Greeley Blankenship Receives Reprieve
Moundsville West Virginia prison officials said Greeley Blankenship 29 learned of a one month reprieve from Governor H G Kump on the eve of his execution and took the news calmly Earlier in the week he said he did not expect clemency and was prepared to die Jailers noted his ready smile and that he was moved from the death house tonight after the governor acted.
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Moundsville
W. Va
Greeley Blankenship
H. G. Kump
C. & C. Denies Reported Change of Staff Officers
Richmond dispatch notes The News Leader denied reports that a large portion of the Chesapeake and Ohio general headquarters staff would be moved to Huntington West Virginia. The paper says no such plan exists and that Huntington offices may move into the Coal Exchange building from rented quarters.
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Richmond
the News-Leader
Chesapeake & Ohio General
Huntington
W. Va
Coal Exchange
Ickes Reveals Finances Considered During Georgia Visit
Secretary Ickes said both public and personal finances were reviewed while visiting President Roosevelt in Georgia. He conceded his own finances fared poorly. he admitted playing a little poker and noted Harry Hopkins can finance his relief program himself.
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Washington
Ickes
Roosevelt
Georgia
Harry Hopkins
Red Terror Runs Riot In Russia Dispatches Reveal
A Warsaw dispatch to the Express reports a Red Terror raid across Russia with more than 200 executed in hours. Leonid Nicolaieff and family members died, along with 14 Moscow Ozpu officials. Stalin purges, arrests, and battles at Leningrad confront Ogpu chiefs as Red Army patrols are deployed.
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Russia
Stalin
Red Army
London
Warsaw
the Express
Leonid Nicolaieff
Sergei Kiroff
Nicolaieff
Moscow
Ozpu
Union
Joseph Stalin
Kiroff
Ogpu
Yagoda
Lenin
Grad Ogpu
Leningrad
Klementi Voroshiloff
Yugoslavia Orders Hungarians To Leave Kingdom
Tunnelton West Virginia reports a local curfew during weekly movie showtimes. Children under 12 must return home when the film begins to ensure parents can watch.
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Tunnelton
W. Va
Notorious bank robber Thompson slain in Amarillo gunfight
Amarillo Texas officers fatally shot Irvin Blackie Thompson after a high speed chase ending in a three angle gun battle. Thompson a known robber killer and death house escapee faced three discharging officers with shotguns rifles and pistols.
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Irvin ‘Blackie’ Thompson
Amarillo
Tex
Irvin “Blackie” Thompson
Texas
Thompson
Oklahoma
Ray Hamilton
Joe Palmer
Whitey Walker
Palmer
Hamilton
West Virginia Senator Urges Reform of Workmen's Comp
Senator Earl H. Smith of Fairmont proposes liberalizing the state workmen's compensation law as the legislature convenes. He backs a living, constant wage for permanently injured citizens in West Virginia industry and criticizes the compensation department as bound by red tape and ineffective. He cites hundreds of former miners unable to support their families due to disability and deductions from pay for a fund intended to aid them.
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Charleston
W. Va
Earl H. Smith
Fairmont
West Virginia
Smith
Governor Kump Proclaims Holt Senate Win and House Reelects
Governor H G Kump signed formal proclamations recognizing Rush D Holt as U S senator and six Democratic incumbents reelected to the house. He also proclaimed Francis P Moats elected judge of the fourth judicial circuit to fill the late J W Martins term.
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Charleston
W. Va
Rush D. Holt
U. S
House of Representatives
H G. Kump
Holt
Senate
Representatives
House
Francis P. Moats
Fourth Judicial Circuit
Wood
Wirt
J. W. Martin
Dudley Acquitted In Attack Case By Jury
Edward Dudley former district attorney's investigator was acquitted by a 12 member jury of charges he attacked Mrs. Ramona Winegar Alexander 16 formerly of Charleston West Virginia The jury deliberated one hour in Los Angeles on December 6.
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Dudley
Los Angeles
Edward Dudley
Ramona Winegar Alexander
Charleston
W. Va
Diplomatic Tensions Grow Over Yugoslavia Hungary Row
Report from Szeged describes Serbian border clashes and mass Hungarian exodus amid Yugoslav accusations of complicity in King Alexander murder. Belgrade promises to eject 27000 Hungarians while denying diplomatic break with Hungary. Geneva appeal to the League of Nations pending.
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Yugoslavia
Hungary
Alexander
Associated Press
Szeged
Belgrade
Foreign Office
Marseille
League of Nations
Geneva
League
Mining Institute Protests Government Hydroelectric Power Push
The American Coal Mining Institute adopted a resolution to President Roosevelt opposing further hydroelectric development. It argued coal can generate cheaper power and warned the St Lawrence waterway plan could idle 100000 mines. Dean Holbrook warned the TVA project was impractical and C A Herbert described advances in air and liquid carbon dioxide mining methods.
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Pittsburgh
Roosevelt
American Coal Mining Institute
E. A. Holbrook
Schools of Engineering and Mines
University of Pittsburgh
St. Lawrence Waterway
Army Enginees
Tennessee Valley
C. A. Herbert
Bureau of Mines
Vincennes
Ind
Herbert
Industry pledges cooperation with recovery program
The Congress of American Industry pledged cooperation with the government to craft a national prosperity program. C. L. Bardo of the National Association of Manufacturers named a committee to work with the United States Chamber of Commerce on a super program. Daniel C. Roper outlined six points promoting relief, public works, unemployment reserves, open foreign markets, and private revival risks.
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Congress of American Industry
Roper
New York
C. L. Bardo
National Association of Manufactur Era
Congress
Congress of Americandustry
Roosevelt
Cooperattion
Daniel C. Roper
Commerce
National Recovery Administration
Miner Burns to Death in Home
Parsons West Virginia December 6 John Petratus aged 45 a coal miner burned to death when his home at Thomas in the mountains near Parsons was destroyed by fire. Authorities believe the blaze started from a stove he heaped with coal before retiring. Petratus lived alone and worked for Davis Coal and Coke company.
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Parsons
W. Va
John Petratus
Thomas
Petratus
Davis Coal & Coke Pany
Lawmakers to Visit Concord for Inspection Tour
Members-elect of the legislature from nearby counties will be guests at Concord State Teachers College on Saturday December 15. They were invited to tour the campus and meet members of the state board of control and the state board of education.
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Athens
W. Va
Concord State Teachers
The
Col
State Board of Trol
State Board of Educa
Hunter Dies in Camp Near Webster Springs
Webster Springs West Virginia December 6 A hunter named Darius Diana of Diana Maryland died at a camp at Rocks after being in the woods for more than 24 hours His hunting companion Baker from Diana reported Diana died from acute illness while at camp near Rocks Tuesday and Collins death by acute illness is noted in the report
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Hunter
Camp Webster Springs
W. Va
Baker
Diana
Winter Springs
Darius
Rocks
Collins
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