Finland France seek to gonneg t alleged spy rings
Police in Helsinki and Paris probed alleged spy rings with links to Russia. Two American couples faced espionage charges in each capital. In Paris, Mr and Mrs Robert Gordon Switz of New Jersey were detained, while Russian born Mme Lidia Tchekaloff Stahl appeared as the brains of the Paris cell. Finnish agents said spies poisoned four army technicians last spring, killing one. Arvid Jacobson and another former Michigan teacher were arrested in Helsinki with twentyeight others for selling secrets.
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Paris
Helsingfors
Finland
Secret Service
Robert Gordon Switz
New Jersey
Mme
Lidia Tchekaloff Stahl
Switz
Arvid Jacobson
Michigan
Russia
Finnish official links poison plot to spy ring in espionage case
Helsinki authorities tie alleged poison conspiracy at state munitions works to a broader spy ring. Lieut Col Fritz Asplund's death is being treated as murder after an exhumation order. Engineers Mantias Tera and Ax among targets. Americans arrested last fall connected to the case.
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Helsingfors
Finland
Fritz Walter Asplund
A. A. Oksala
National Defense
Asplund
Engineer Mantias
Tera
Arvid Jacobson
Northville
Monroe
Mich
Orators Battle Over Money Plan in Philadelphia
Economists and government officials clashed over Roosevelt monetary and recovery programs as 17 finance authorities urged abandoning monetary experimentation and returning to the gold standard. Harvard's Sprague and Princeton's Kemmerer led signatories calling to stop dollar depreciation and ease inflation fears, while Cornell’s Warren warned a fixed gold standard is impossible and would hinder prosperity.
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Philadelphia
Roosevelt
U. S
Economists’ National Committee On Monetary Policy
C. M. W. Sprague
Harvard
Edwin W. Kemmerer
Princeton
Rax B. Westerfield
Yale
American Economic Association
George F. Warren
Cornell
America
Guns Guard Columbia Jail After Death of Harris Junior
Machine guns were mounted on the Columbia jail to guard Robert H. Wiles, 49, a jobless mechanic, as he is questioned following the discovery of Herbert H. Harris Jr., 15, in an abandoned farmhouse. The boy’s skull was crushed.
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Columbia, S. C
Robert H. Wiles
Herbert H. Harris Jr
Women Pilots Set New Endurance Flight Record
Frances Marsalis and Helen Richey broke the world women’s endurance flight record near Miami Florida after flying through the night. They surpassed the previous 196 hours 5 minutes mark with a 196 hour 5 minute effort, then extended to 196 hours 5 minutes and more, as crowds watched and refueling planes assisted under the Flying Boudoir banner.
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Frances Marsalis
Helen Richey
Miami
Fla
Louise Thaden
Valley Stream
Long Island
Marsalis
Miss Richey
Frances
Public Works Allocates Funds for Tygart River Reservoir Project
Washington reports the Public Works Administration allotted 3,000,000 dollars to the Army Engineers for a reservoir on the Tygart River near Grafton West Virginia, estimated to sustain one year of work. Additional grants totaled 27,534,000 for railroad loans and 22,590,000 to aid building fourteen reservoirs in the Ree Valley region, with Muskingum watershed district pledging 22,715,000 for rights of way.
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Washington
Public Works Administration
Army Engineers
Tygart River
Grafton
W. Va
Baltimore and Ohio
Interstate Railroad Company
Rero Valley
East Central
Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District
Reed Gees Teal of Strength on Money Question
Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania argues Congress may fail to curb inflation and urges reducing presidential currency powers. He warns of grave inflation risk, favors a gold standard and a balanced budget, noting debt trends from 1919 to 1933 and predicting peacetime deficits rise. He calls for sound money and restraint on spending.
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Reed Gees
Congress
France
Russia
Germany
Pocahontas Tug River output rises in late December
Coal production in the Pocahontas Tug River field rose to 370,681 net tons for the week ending December 23, up 9,098 tons from the prior week. For the year to date the district reached 19,718,115 net tons, with a projected annual total around 20,000,000 tons, about 3.5 million more than 1932.
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Pocahontas- Tug River
Pocahontas
Paraguay Refuses Extend Truce in Chaco War
Montevideo December 29 Paraguay formally refused to extend the truce with Bolivia in the Chaco hornet warfare. The armistice ends at midnight Saturday after League of Nations and Pan American conference mediation.
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Montevideo
Paraguay
Bolivia
League of Nations
Baltimore Beauty Found Dead in Gas-Filled Basement
Baltimore police re-examine the mysterious death of Mrs. Joseph Ranft a well known Baltimore beauty whose body was found in the gas filled basement of her home She is the daughter of the late Francis P Curtis former Speaker of the Maryland house of delegates.
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Baltimore, Md
Joseph Ranft
Baltimore
Francis P. Curtis
Maryland House of Delegates
Missing witness claims kidnaping in Wynekoop case
John Van Pelt a 69 year old witness in the Wynekoop murder mystery reappeared at the Fillmore police station claiming he was kidnapped by two men whom he believed were physicians. He said he was kept in lake front hotels and questioned about Rheta Wynnekoop's death and whether he killed her. The tale, told in vague terms, was noted as possibly unreliable by Capt. John Ryan. The landlady reported Van Pelt left December 17 with a man claiming to be from headquarters.
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Chicago
John van Pelt
Wynekoop
Fillmore
Rheta Wynnekoop
Alice Lindsay Wynekoop
John Ryan
Lake Front
Captain Ryan
Vin Pelt
Rheta
van Pelt
Ryan
Wyenkoop
Fillmore Station
Henry Berger
Corinne Mines Near Mullens to Reopen
Pineville West Virginia December 28 Purchase of coal properties of the Corinne Fuel company near Mullens with a change of name to the Blue Eagle Smokeless Coal company to start operations after January 1 was announced by John W Smith of Beckley vice president and general manager of the new concern Smith and his father J O Smith of Princeton head the new company They plan to open a new seam of coal in the old Corinne properties idle for several years It was estimated 15 men will get jobs.
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Pineville
W. Va
Corinne Fuel Company
Mullens
Blue Eagle Smokeless Coal Company
John W. Smith
Beckley
Smith
J. O. Smith
Princeton
Corinne
Justice to Face 12 Year Term in Mingo Murder Case
Matt Justice, jailed in McDowell county, will be moved to Moundsville to serve a 12-year West Virginia sentence for the 1926 murder of Jim Daniels in Mingo county. Authorities seek to surrender him to Buchanan County, Virginia, in a triple slaying case, but his transfer is delayed by his condition and prior federal prison sentence.
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Jim Daniels
Mingo County
Mail Justice
McDowell County
Buchanan County
Virginia
Moundsville
Justice
C. A. Marshall
Welch
Charleston
Mershall
MacDowell
State Police
Welch Hospital
Princeton
WV. Va
West Virginia
Liberty
Lindsey
United States Court
Atlanta
State Supreme Court
Justice Appeal
Mingo
Daniels
Ishmael Hall
Roosevelt Proposes Three Point World Peace Plan
President Roosevelt outlines a three point universal peace program rejecting U S League of Nations membership while urging elimination of offensive weapons, border defenses, and international inspection. He calls for no cross border armed forces and non aggression pacts to curb wars amid praise for the League's non aggression efforts.
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Washington
Roosevelt
League of Nations
United States
Woodrow Wilson
League
Navy
Groom Left Waiting At Altar In Transocean Phone Wedding
Benjamin Lebowitz, waiting in El Dorado Ark for a transatlantic wedding to Hermina Weisz in Prague, faced legal hurdles. Prague would not accept the call without proof of U S citizenship, delaying the ceremony until Lebowitz could show naturalization in Chicago. The couple, childhood sweethearts, planned to wed soon after.
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el Dorado
Ark
Benjamin Lebowitz
Hermina Weisz
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Lebowitz
L. 8
Britt
Judge Britt
United States
Chicago
Miss Weisz
Munkac
State Banks To Be On Deposit Plan
West Virginia will place all eighty four state banks under the federal deposit guarantee when the program begins. Clem Shaver and W C Given worked to bring banks up to requirements. thirty eight banks needed RF C aid. A capital loan backed by bank earnings was devised to bypass state law limits on preferred stock, totaling over 1.5 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
West Virginia
Clem Shaver
Fairmont
Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
W. C. Given
Shaver
Trammell Babe Heads To Baltimore For Critical Brain Operation
Five month old Sue Trammel flown from Houston to Johns Hopkins Hospital for a brain operation described as very dangerous. Dr Walter E Dandy will perform the hydrocephalus treatment tomorrow morning in hopes of saving the baby's brain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Sue Trammel
Houston
Tex
Walter E. Dandy
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Congress to Open With Short Business Session Says Rainey
Speaker Rainey announced a short harmonious session focusing on budget measures and predicted passage of supply, tax, and liquor bills with early May adjournment. The plan excludes railroad regulation and stock exchange reforms, while banking and silver aid draw strong interest amid a favorable federal outlook.
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Washington
Rosevelt
Roosevelt
Rainey
White House
Senator Connally
Texas
Finance Committee
First WV case under high alcohol beer law
Charleston. Dec. 28. John Pauley, owner of a South Ruffner Charleston restaurant, faces Kanawha county court action on charges of selling beer containing 4.5 percent alcohol. The case marks West Virginia’s first prosecution under the 3.2 beer law, as tax officials arrest Pauley on a warrant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Tax Commissioner's Office
John Pauley
Kanawha County Intermediate Court
Justice of the Peace Edwn
Watson
Pauley
Fox
Treasury orders gold turned in to protect currency system
Acting Secretary Morgenthau with President Roosevelt approved a rigid order demanding payment into the treasury of gold coins bullion and certificates to shore up the currency. The move tightens the ban on hoarding with a penalty equal to twice the value held. Exceptions include gold held by federal banks rare coins unmelted scrap and certain industrial uses.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Roosevelt
Treasury
Federal Reserve Banks
Reconstruction Corporation
United States
Congress
Possessions
Territories
Bitter cold grips northern states amid fatalities and drifting roads
Bitter cold and heavy snow enveloped sections from Maine to Montana with subzero readings in multiple towns. Three workers died after a snow plow broke through ice on St Louis Bay near Duluth, and fishing vessels suffered losses off Maine and Boston areas. Several ships and crews remained missing or were rescued as weather raged. New York City logged its coldest in three years at nine above as forecasters expected a slow warmup across the Midwest and Northeast.
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Maine
Montana
Midwest
Bolsters Mills
Cook, Minn
Duluth
Pembina
N. D
Lake Superior
St. Louis Bay
Superior
Wis
Benjamin Thompson
Atlantic
Booth Bay Harbor
Portland
Coast Guard
Lake Michigan
Chicago
Great Lakes
Adirondacks
New England
New York City
St. Minn
Albany
N. Montpelier
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Norfolk
Rheta Wynekoop
Corinne Mines
Matt Justice
Mercer
Wilson
Arkansas
Prommat Short
Gnappy
Winthrop Aldrich
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