Norris Norris Spikes Rumors Of Third Party Plan
Nebraska Senator Norris declares he will not run in 1932 and urges abolition of the electoral college to allow independent candidacy. He argues two party control hinges on special interests and predicts Hoover's renomination, noting the difficulty of forming a third party under the current system.
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Norris
Washington
Nebraska Republican Independent
United States
John Dewey
League For Independent Political Action
Nebraskan
Iowa
Pinchot
Pennsylvania
West
Hoover
Kin Hubbard Dies in Indiana Home
Indianapolis editor and humorist Kin Hubbard died at his home of heart disease at sixty two. He created Abe Martin for the Indianapolis News and his cartoon appeared in over 300 newspapers. He left a widow a son Tom a daughter Virginia and siblings Ada and Horace Hubbard. Funeral plans were put on hold awaiting word from relatives.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Frank McKinney Hubbard
Abe Martin
Bellefontaine
Ohio
Indianapolis News
Brown County
Indiana
Hubbard
Tom
Virginia
Horace K. Hubbard
Miss Ada Hubbard
The
Daily Examiner
Bellfontaine
Florida
Hardy Man Dies Of Shot Wounds In Oakvale Area
Harry Aliff 23 died of gunshot wounds after a late Friday affray near Hardy. William R. Foster 58 former Oakvale officer was arrested after admitting to firing about a dozen shots. Elmer Perry and Cecil McClanahan were held as witnesses. Foster claimed self defense while family claims Foster fired first.
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Hardy
Oakvale
Harry Aliff
William R. Foster
Aliff
Princeton
Elmer Perry
Cecil McClanahan
Foster
Perry
McClanahan
Mans Aliff
Elain
Cliff
J. Otis Bowling
L. J. Bailey
Leslie Gadd
Prosecuting Attorney's Office
F. C. Crawford
G. F. Parsons
Los Angeles Will Ship to Panama for Reconnaissance
The Los Angeles dirigible will fly to Panama on the first clear day after February 10 to serve as a scouting vessel during the fleet concentration in Panama waters from February 12 to March 24. Admiral Pratt approved its use as a military asset, with no bombs or armor, accompanied by the U.S.S. Patoka as base.
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Washington
Los Angeles
Panama
William V. Pratt
Naval Operations
Great Britain
France
Italy
Japan
United States
Germany
Davids. Ingalls
Lakehurst
New Jersey
U.S. S
Liberal Leader in New Onslaught on Labour Government
London reports David Lloyd George accuses Ramsay MacDonald of spending too much time on the London naval conference. He cites the prime minister’s focus on naval deals, contrasts with unemployment relief issues, and targets Hartshorn over statistics in a dispute about relief programs.
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MacDonald
London
Naval Negotiations
David Lloyd George
Ramsey MacDonald
Lloyd George
Vernon Hartshorn
Privy Seal
Washington
Coast Guard Boat Wins Death Race
New York December 26 A speedy coast guard cutter raced through fog to reach the four master Ze bedee E Cliff where Captain C M Look lay critically ill aboard. The patrol boat brought him to U S Naval Hospital 41 Stapleton Staten Island within an hour and a half and doctors said he had a fighting chance.
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New York
Coast Guard
Ambrose
C. M. Look
Zebedee E. Cliff
Look
U. S. Naval Hospital
Stapleton
Staten Island
Slayer of Invalid Wife Held in Jail
Williamson West Virginia December 26 Prosecuting Attorney J Walter Copley announced a murder charge against Daniel B Hall 58 of War Eagle in the slaying of his wife Elizabeth Hall 38 at their home Tuesday night The body was found beaten and stabbed as daughter in law Annie Hall 20 testified Hall killed his wife after she refused to give him money Hall his stepson Tilton Hall 24 and Tilton wife Annie were held for questioning and it was expected he would be arraigned tomorrow
Christmas Holidays Quiet at Danville Mills Strike
In Danville Virginia on December 26 Union textile strikers resumed routines after a quiet Christmas. National guardsmen and police remained on patrol around mills closed until Monday as eviction proceedings loom for about 47 families from Riverside and Dan River mills. Union officials say evictions will not be contested and other strikers will shelter displaced families. National union leaders plan to return next week to direct the three month old strike against mill management.
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Danville
Riverside
Dan River
National
Soldiers pursue marauding bands in Burma jungle chase
British soldiers in Rangoon Burma maneuver through Tharawaddy district jungle dragging machine guns in pursuit of natives who killed a forest ranger and at least four policemen in two days. Rebels terrorize villages amid rice crop failure as Royal Artillery and two battalions move in to deter further depredations.
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Rangoon
Burma
Tharawaddy
Royal Artillery
Carlisle banker sues his sorrow with final act
Abram Bosler 45, president of Carlisle Deposit and Trust Co, shot himself at home. Coroner cites stock market losses as motive. Bosler was a Dickinson College trustee.
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Carlisle
Abram Bosler
Carlisle Deposit and Trust Company
Bosler
Dickinson College
Trial opens in Tyler County for Henry 15 murder case
In Middlebourne West Virginia on December 26 Ray Pat Henry faces a second Tyler County trial for the slaying of 8 year old Garlan Bayless during a Grandview island drinking party. Eva Bailey mother of the slain child testified she was at the party and saw the child carried from the boat. Autopsy witnesses testified the boy was strangled. Jury members listed include H M Elder and F D Robinson among others. Dunn was previously convicted of voluntary manslaughter. Charles Henry and McBee hold postponed trials to March.
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Middlebourne
W. Va
Tyler County
Ray Pat Henry
Garlan Bayless
Grandview Island
Ohio River
Eva Bailey
Henry
Charles
James Dunn
Clyde McBee
Dunn
McBee
Henrys
W. H. West
H. P. West
Perae
Lloyd Arnold
Moundsville
C. B. Conaway
H. M. Elder
Frew
F. D. Robinson
Meadville
Ross Vancamp
L. H. Hess
Friendly
Leroy McCoy
Alvy
E. M. Mayfield
Gmners
L. H. Talbott
Sistersite
R. A. Berry
Alvy Spencer
Bix Moses
Tommy Booker
New Martinsville
Clarence Reid
Deep Valley
Ben Davis
Charles Henry
Tracks deer for miles and kills two with one shot
Henniker New Hampshire December 26. George A Wood tracked a buck for miles then fired. The first two attempts jammed and misfired before a third shot struck twice, killing two deer as the bullets pierced one heart and lodged in the other.
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Henniker
N. H
George A. Wood
Wood
Electric device to heat Roosevelt field for air show
New York December 26. General Electric will demonstrate a heating device at Mineola Roosevelt field to raise area to an average 70 degrees for the January 24 25 air show. The system aims to create an even balmy climate regardless of cold weather for the unemployed benefit event.
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New York
Roosevelt Field
Mineola
N. Y
General Electric Company
William Kniffin
Christmas turkey may start gold rush at Lakehead district
Fort William Ontario December 26 A Christmas turkey may start a gold rush to the Lakehead district. The bird yielded two gold nuggets one pea sized and another slightly smaller to J C Fregeau who bought it from W Kilson Kilson is tracing shipments of birds likely grazing on a gravelly farm. Small gold fragments were found in turkeys last year as well.
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Fort William
Ont
Lakehead
J. C. Fregeau
W. Kilson
Kilson
Fire in Baltimore factory injures firefighters and kills engineer
In south Baltimore a slight blaze in a three story manufacturing building forced 60 employees to flee. The engineer Paul Gross was found dead in the basement near a window after entering the cellar to reach boxes. Several firemen were overcome or injured as dense smoke blocked rescue efforts.
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Baltimore
Paul Gross
Reward Claims Swamp Pennsylvania Officials
Lawrence county commissioners face an avalanche of claims for the 3200 dollar reward for the capture of Irene Schroeder and W Glenn Dague the Wheeling West Virginia couple. Phoenix and Maricopa County officers and residents join Pennsylvania bidders with a public hearing set for January 12 to review bids. Schroeder and Dague are slated for electrocution next month for the slaying of Corporal Brady Paul after a Butler store holdup.
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New Castle
Lawrence County
Irene Schroeder
W. Glenn Dague
Wheeling
W. Va
Brady Paul
Maricopa County
Arizona
Phoenix
Pennsylvania
Youth Extortion Attempt Leads to Missouri Penitentiary
Kansas City reports Charles L. Duncan 23 admits attempted extortion of 25000 dollars from lumberman R A Long. Judge Ralph Latshaw sentences him to two and a half years for third degree robbery, the maximum under Missouri law. Duncan confessed after police matched misspelled words in threatening letters.
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Kansas City
R. A. Long
Charles L. Duncan
Missouri Penitentiary
Duncan
Ralph S. Latshaw
Long
Thaddeus S. Wilson
Latshaw
Missouri
Rabies Quarantine Enforced in Wheeling City Area
A six mile diameter quarantine circle was drawn around Wheeling after a dog that bit four children tested rabid. The dog was destroyed and the four children are reported recovering as Ohio County health officials acted on orders from Dr. H M Newton.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Ohio County Health Commissioner
H. M. Newton
U. S. Imports More Iron Products in November
The commerce department said iron and steel imports rose 4,751 gross tons to 43,095 in November while exports fell from 131,850 to 11,968 tons. Pig iron led imports at 18,292 tons with India as top importer, Canada receiving 49,826 tons, and shipments also going to Belgium Germany Great Britain and others. Tin plate accounted for most exports.
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Washington
United States
Commerce Department
India
Belgium
Germany
Great Britain
Canada
Philippine Islands
Chile
Argentina
Japan
Major Ramon Franco Heads to Antwerp for Unknown Plans
Lisbon dispatch says Major Ramon Franco, accompanied by mechanic Pablo Rada, left for Antwerp as a steerage passenger. The pair, recent escapees from Spain after a failed revolutionary bid, planned to rest in Brussels and then Paris, avoiding ports in Spain.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Ramon Franco
South America
Antwerp
Pablo Rada
Franco
Spain
Brussels
Paris
Mafra
Beggar's Bank Book Leads to Workhouse
New York December 26 rich man poor man beggar man Joe Daniels jailed for six months after admitting he begged 53 dollars on Christmas day. A bank book showed 245 dollars in December deposits and the court sentenced him to winter in the workhouse.
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New York
Joe Daniels
Joe
California
Earthquake Devastates La Poma in Argentina Loss of Life and Wreckage
In La Poma Argentina an earthquake killed at least thirty three residents and seriously injured sixty more. Survivors fear landslides as debris over a village of heavy adobe huts is turned over by rescuer teams. An American engineer J N Stone surveys the wreckage and notes villagers’ reluctance to return to their homes in the danger prone area.
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Salta
Argentina
la Poma
Andes
Eixty
J. N. Stone
Gas explosion believed to wreck Braddock home
Police expressed belief that an exploding gas line rather than a bomb caused the Braddock home of James Manardo to be wrecked. The blast fired through the house, the dwelling next door was damaged, and Manardo wife and five children were away at the time.
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Pittsburgh
James Manardo
Braddock
Manardo
Major Cannon Faces Trial On Check Charges
Major Richard M. Cannon son of Bishop James Cannon was bound over for trial in superior court on three charges of issuing worthless checks after a preliminary hearing before Justice F G Wilson. One check was dismissed. The first trial is set for January 8.
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Fe! Monte
Cal
Richard M. Cannon
James Cannon
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Superior Court
Justice of the Peace
F. G. Wilson
Cannon
George H. Myers
Calvert
Wilson
Rose Burwell
Indictment Reveals Fake Stock Sale Scheme
New York December 26 A federal indictment charges seventeen people with mail fraud in a stock promotion tied to Automotive Royalties Corp The scheme allegedly swindled elderly investors nationwide of about 1 25 million over four years Clergymen losses reach 150 000 with Parker and his son Wyatt Parker named as scheme heads The promoters used Dr Eugene Christian's reputation to recruit buyers and circulated circulars to prospective elderly investors across the western United States Canada and Central America.
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New York
United States Attorney's Office
Automotive Royalties Corporation
United States
Tomas
Clark W. Parker
Church of the Stranger
Wyoman
Eugene Christian
Tomkins
Dr. Christian
Parker
Canada
Central America
Los Angeles Embezzler Sentenced to San Quentin
Gil bert H. Beesemyer, 45, tied to 8 million dollars in defalcations at the Guaranty Building and Loan in Los Angeles, was sentenced to ten to one hundred years in San Quentin. He pleaded guilty to ten counts of grand theft and faces consecutive terms totaling up to a century before parole.
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Los Angeles
Gilbert H. Beasemyer
Guaranty Building and Loan Association of
San Quentin Penitentiary
Hollywood
Walton J. Wood
Beesemyer
San Quentin
Guaranty Association
North American Bond and Mortgage Company
Stand By Legion On Cash Payments
Washington reports opposition to Rep Garner's plan for optional cash payments on veterans' compensation certificates. Chairman Hawley backs the American Legion stance from Boston, noting the Legion declined action. No hearings are planned as Fish seeks Legion support for paying one fourth of certificate value.
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Boston
Washington
Garner
Texas
Hawley
House
Wage and Means Committee
American Legion
Legion
Oregonian
Fish
Republican
New York
O'Neil
Kansas
Botanist Charles J. Chamberlain Struck by Car Near Death
Charles J. Chamberlain 67 a renowned botanist and former University of Chicago professor lay near death after being struck by an automobile while crossing a street in Chicago. He remained unconscious for hours as doctors feared a fractured skull. The native of Sullivan Iowa had recently retired from the university.
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Chicago
Charles J. Chamberlain
University of Chicago
Campaign report on Senator James J. Davis expenditures
Washington reports that Senator Gerald P. Nye's senate campaign funds committee will finish its inquiry into the Davis campaign and submit a final report by January 12. The panel will also examine Samuel M. Vauclain and add county expenditure figures, with a subpoena to compel Vauclain's appearance.
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Washington
James J. Davis
Gerald P. Nye
Senate Campaign Funds Committee
Davis
Senate
Congress
Nye
Samuel M. Vauclain
Davis-Brown
Pennsylvania
Vauclain
Pocahontas Man Found Dead on Doorstep Near New Home
James Childress 29 was found dead near the doorsteps of John Deaton’s near complete Denton home after a Christmas quarrel with relatives. A 22 caliber rifle lay nearby and coroners ruled death self inflicted. Surviving are parents Hezekiah and Mrs. Childress and siblings. Funerals set for Pocahontas.
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James Childress
John Deaton
Pocahontas
Coronner
Tazewell
Childrens
Childress
Deaton
Denton
Hezekiah Childress
Albert Chester
Arlie Yates
Maybeury
New Cold Wave Hits Virginia and Nearby States
The South endures a sharp cold spell with freezing temperatures forecast across Virginia North Carolina and surrounding areas. Threatening skies bring dangerous highway conditions in Virginia as weather turns from rain to sleet in parts of the region.
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Atlanta
Dee
Virginia
Central
Kentucky
Ark
Mississippi
Louisiana
Alabama
North Carolina
South
Peanut saves life after race on snowbound roads
In Warren Ohio a two year old boy James Green of Windham barely escaped death after a peanut became lodged in his throat. Doctors at a hospital treated him while a 20 mile auto race over snow covered roads ended. The hospital had been alerted and awaited the child’s arrival.
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Warren
Ohio
James Green
Windham
Prince Louis dissolves Monaco councils in coup d etat
Monte Carlo Dec 26 Prince Louis of Monaco dissolved both national and municipal councils ending political squabbles and establishing a de facto dictatorship. Riots preceded the move and Paris was thought to have influenced the decision while fears of abdication faded after talks with French statesmen. The 100 man army is mobilized to keep order and no new elections are planned yet.
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Monte Carlo
Monaco
Prince Louis of
Louis
Paris
Prince Louis
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