Transportation committee hears 10 pleas on highway and rail link
New York December hearings before the Coolidge led national transportation committee gathered viewpoints from the Lake Carriers Association the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks the Railroad Security Owners Association the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce and the National Aeronautic Association. A. J. Brosseau spoke for truck and auto makers arguing that rail restrictions should not crush highway transport while noting trucks carry only about six percent of total traffic and that heavier taxes on trucks are rising.
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New York
National Transportation Committee
Calvin Coolidge
Lake Carriers Association
National Association of Mutual Savings Banks
Railroad Security Owners Association
National Automobile Chamber of Commerce
National Aeronautic Association
A. J. Brosseau
Brosseau
City detective stabbed to death in West Philadelphia
Philadelphia December 7 police report City Detective Michael G Croskey was killed in his private garage after uncovering a hot tip on the Bechtel knife murder. The Bechtel case remains unsolved with strange wounds reported on Bechtel and witnesses noting two men arguing with Croskey prior to the attack. An ice wagon found abandoned near the scene spurred a city wide search for a Negro ice peddler with a two decades long record. Croskey had been working undercover on the Bechtel case and told colleagues the clue was growing hotter before his death.
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Philadelphia
Norman R. Bechtel
Michael G. Croskey
Croskey
Bechtel
Germantown
Mike
Millard Tydings Encourages Speaker Garner After Repeal Defeat
In the House of Representatives Senator Millard Tydings offers quiet encouragement to Speaker Garner after the prohibition repeal resolution fails. Representative Carl Bachmann of West Virginia also adds a consolation remark.
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T Wee
Millard Tydings
Garner
House of Representatives
Carl Bachmann
West Virginia
Bankers decline attack on tax law in West Virginia
West Virginia Bankers Association decided not to sponsor a court challenge to the property classification amendment in the state constitution. The decision followed input from association counsel and T Brooke Price, with the Charleston Clearing House association blocking action. The group also discussed a proposed unified commission from various professions to monitor business conditions, with unpaid commissioners. Del Roy Richards was named chair of the branch banking committee, to report at White Sulphur Springs in June. Other topics included depository act amendments and a uniform fiduciary act adoption efforts.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia Bankers’ Association
Association
Executive Council
Charleston Clearing House Association
Fred O. Blue
Counsil
T. Brooke Price
Bankers’ Association
Blue
West Virginia Bankers Association
del Roy Richards
Morgantown
White Sulphur Springs
W. S&s. Johnson
Senator Davis Spends Short Time in Senate
Washington December news reports Senator Davis a Republican from Pennsylvania entered the senate chamber for about an hour then left without signaling any disruption. He avoided comment on his whereabouts since the Army Navy game while denying a decision to delay his trial. He promised to provide receipts for expenditures over ten dollars to Secretary Beamish, saying they were for senate files. Rumors of party leaders advising delay remained unconfirmed.
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Washington
Davis
Pennsylvania
Senate
Army-Navy
Philadelphia
Battle Creek
Michigan
Richard J. Beamish
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Beamish
Icy blast sweeps Great Lakes region from Canada
An Associated Press report describes a powerful cold front sweeping into the Great Lakes area from the Canadian northwest. Temperatures plunged with readings as low as 28 degrees below zero at The Pas Manitoba and 26 below at Sioux Lookout Ontario, while Duluth, Havre, Helena, Williston, Yellowstone Park, Devil's Lake and St Paul also reported double digit to sub zero readings. Snow covered parts of the West and Midwest, with Texas and the Southwest spared but braced for cold. Relief agencies and railroads prepared to handle emergencies as cities set up crews to clear roads and keep traffic moving.
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Great Lakes
Canadian Northwest
Pas
Man
Sioux Lookout
Ont
Duluth
Mann
Havre
Helena Mont
Williston
N. D
Yellowstone Park
Wyo
Devil's Lake
St. Paul
Colorado
New Mexico
Texas
Midwest
Education Board to be Reinstated in West Virginia
Charleston officials report Attorney General Howard B. Lee holds that abolition of the state board of education by a special session was not effective The supreme court ruling on the advisory council supports reinstating the board The board is expected to resume duties transferred to the board of public works with a mid month meeting planned The case of W F Boggess deputy insurance official remains unresolved awaiting further action
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Charleston
W. Va
State Board of Education
Howard B. Lee
W. C. Cook
Supreme Court
Lee
Advisory Council
Board of Education
Cook
Board of Public Works
W. F. Boggess
Auditor’s Office
Boggess
Fourteen New Mexico miners die in Morgan Jones mine explosion
Madrid New Mexico December 7 fourteen Mexican descent miners died in an underground explosion at the Morgan Jones mine about a mile deep. About one hundred workers were at work when the blast occurred and rescue squads with oxygen masks worked to recover bodies as relatives waited at the surface. Authorities said gas ignition likely caused the disaster and that safety curtains may have slowed deadly gas flow.
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Madrid
N. M
Juan Ecosta
Albuquerque
Santa Fe
Jimmy Taylor
H. L. Taylor
Fiest
Electric Company Plans Big Building Program
Philadelphia reports that William H. Taylor, president of Philadelphia Electric, announced a major building program for Chicago. The bulletin notes industry activity across several cities, including Walgreens sales trends, power production increases, and bank suspensions comparisons with 1931.
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Electric Company
Philadelphia
William H. Taylor
Philadelphia Electric Company
Charleston Youth Dies in Car Crash After Theft
Charleston, December 7. Edward Meadows, 20, of Charleston, was killed when a car stolen earlier in the evening crashed into a hillside near town. Four other youths in the automobile were arrested as accessories. none were injured.
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Charleston
W. Va
Edward Meadows
Here
Mysterious death ends Walter Wanderwell voyage
Walter Wanderwell, famed wanderer, was found shot dead aboard his carma at Long Beach California. Justice Department agents identified him as Valerian Johannes Pieczynski, once accused of German espionage. The event closes a life lived as a professional traveler and map collector.
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Walter Wanderwell
Long Beach
Calif
Wanderwell
Justice Department
Valerian Johannes Pieczynski
Detectives hunt Australian sailor in Wanderwell murder
Long Beach California December 7 detectives traced an Australian sailor named Curley Guy as the principal suspect in the killing of Walter Wanderwell aboard the Carma on the Long Beach waterfront. Cuthbert Wills identified the suspect from a photo and Mrs Wanderwell cited past mutiny and a Hollywood assault as possible motives.
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Long Beach
Calif
Walter Vanderwell
Wanderwell
Cuthbert Wills
Carma
Wills
Curley
Traylor and Young Declined Cabinet Posts
New York December 7 The Evening Post reports it learned that both Owen D Young and Melvin A Traylor were offered Roosevelt cabinet posts and declined Young was offered Secretary of State and Traylor was asked to be Secretary of the Treasury The report cites men high in Democratic circles and notes the offers were made during the Roosevelt administration.
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New York
The
Evening Post
Owen D. Young
Melvin A. Traylor
Roosevelt
Young
Chicago
Treasury
Borah moves to repeal home loan bank act
Washington December 7 An unexpected move by Senator Borah to abolish the home loan bank system draws prompt support in the senate with Senator Copeland defending the law. Borah says the act is wholly unsatisfactory while Copeland argues proper administration would save many homes and faults chairman Fort as too active in other ventures. Glass and other senators note weak subscriptions failing to establish banks.
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Washington
Borah
Idaho
Senate
Copeland
New York
Congress
Hoover
Couzens
Michigan
Glaes
Virginia
Fletcher
Florida
Bill
Franklin W. Fort
Glass
Hoover Budget Message Seeks Taxes and Spending Cuts
President Hoover submitted a final budget plan to Congress urging a 2 percent general sales tax, a 11 percent cut in government salaries, reduced veteran benefits, and continuation of the gasoline tax to avert a 1934 deficit. The administration projects a deficit of over 1.14 billion dollars this year, with $397.6 million saved through department cuts and $492 million in new revenue needed. The proposal also calls for pension and allowance reforms for veterans and a blanket excise tax on manufacturers, excluding food.
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Washington
Congress
Hoover
Treasury
Democratic
Ways and Means Committee
Millis
The
Page Hight
Roosevelt to consult experts on government budget plan
New York dispatch reports Franklin D. Roosevelt returning to New York to resume governorship duties and study governmental structure. He will discuss reforms to departments and the national budget system with invited experts during a Warm Springs visit slated for January.
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New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York City
Warm Springs
Former Virginia House Speaker proposes economy plan
Thomms W. Ozlin, ex speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, tells a state senate committee that Virginia should cut counties to sixty, trim estate legislators and courts, reduce state colleges and appropriations, and prune nonessential departments to save funds. He argues residents seek economy even if it requires sentiment be set aside.
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Richmond
Thomms W. Ozlin
House of Delegates
State Senate
Virginia
Ozlin
Lunenburg
Marchers Turn Backs On Capital
Washington dispatch reports the return of about 84 of roughly 100 war veterans from the hunger march to the District line in Maryland after no lodging could be found. Police escorted them to trucks, beginning homeward途中 while the remainder may submit their petition to Congress.
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Washington
West
District of Columbia
Maryland
Ernest Brown
Congress
Capitol
Virginia
West Virginia
State Line
Sunay
Western marchers pass through Winchester without cheer or crowd
Winchester Va Dec 7 marchers from western states en route home after petitions for relief to congress passed through Winchester quietly. They were escorted by state police and motor vehicle commissioner T McCall Frazier with about thirty officers. Police estimated the crowd at 1500 as the band planned to camp tonight in Hampshire County West Virginia.
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Winchester
Congress
T. McCall Frazier
Virginia
Mampshire County
West Virginia
Pilot faces involuntary manslaughter charge in jumper death
Monessen Pennsylvania December 7 4 Robert Eskin owner of the airplane from which 18 year old Ralph Marshall fell to his death during an exhibition parachute leap faces trial for involuntary manslaughter. The mother Mrs Mary Marshall pursued the action at an alderman's hearing. Marshall was killed July 1 at the Monessen airport where Eskin was manager. Elmer Bamford piloted the jump and testified he protested the leap but was instructed to take him up. James Slew said the parachute had been inspected by an unlicensed packer. Eskin held for trial. his home is in Fayette County Pennsylvania.
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Monessen
Robert Eskin
Ralph Marshall
Mary Marshall
Marshall
Nekin
Elmer Bamford
Joseph McChnaly
James Slew
McClnaly
Eskin
Fayett County
Pennsylvania
French debt dispute clouds Franco British talks
Paris officials and former premier Laval joined Premier Herriot in a high level finance meeting to study the Hoover Laval communique as France weighs reparations and new debt accords with the United States. The session focused on European debt policy ahead of the Franco British conference tomorrow.
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United States
Paris
Brame
France
Edouard Herriot
Pierre Laval
Washington
Pat
Presiden Hoover
Hoover
Louis J. Maloy
Finance Committee
Chamber
M. Berenger
M. Caillaux
United States Debt Commission
Hoover-Laval
Nazi Communist clash rocks Berlin Reichstag session
In Berlin on December 7 the Nazi and Communist delegations clashed as the Reichstag debated a bill on presidential succession after Hindenburg. Chairs, spittoons and telephones were used as weapons in a brawl that forced a session pause, with rough exchanges elsewhere in the chamber.
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Truck Builders
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Great Lakes Area
Associated Press
Morgan-Jones Mine
Walgreen Company
Ite
Bradstreet
Weekly Review of Chicago Commerce Today
National Electric Light Association
Rand McNally & Company
Globe-Trotter
Traylor
HOUSE
LAVAL
Herriot
Great Britain
Ronald Lindsay
Stimson
Woodley
Berlin
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Reichstag
Paul von Hindenburg
Reich
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Kurt von Schreicher
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