Byrd Smith Meet in Gotham Courtesy Calls Stir 1932 Race
Former Virginia governor Harry F. Byrd met New York attorney Alfred E. Smith in Smiths sky scraper office and then visited John J. Raskob as Byrd eyed a possible presidential bid. Byrd called his visits courtesy calls while supporters push for a broader move beyond Virginias state. Meanwhile Illinois senator James Hamilton Lewis entered the race and internal Democratic splits surfaced over Roosevelt backing.
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New York
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
Alfred E. Smith
Smith
John J. Raskob
Democratic National Committee
Byrd
General Assembly
Virginian
Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Kentucky
Springfield
Ill
James Hamilton Lewis
Illinois
WJ. 8
Joseph Sr France
Maryland
Republicam
Democratic State Committee
John R. Collins
Foward B. Zimmerman
Warren van Dyke
State Revenue Survey Outlines Deficit Reduction Options
Charleston Feb 11 The survey on state finances outlines ways to close a projected 2 049 103 19 deficit on June 30 1932 through economy revenue and business revival. Economies so far save 400 000 yearly. further cuts require closing institutions or halting activities.
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Charleston
W. Va
Conley
BE. A. Dover
Dover
Senate and House consider looser discount rules and relief bill passage
Measures to loosen Federal Reserve discount restrictions and broaden credit law were introduced in both chambers. Senate approval sought for a Lafollette-Costigan plan of $375,000,000 for roads and a postposed vote on the unemployment relief bill. State Department said Japan apologized for dropping a bomb in Shanghai, and McAdoo urged a 100 percent income tax on bootleggers. Secretary Hurley clashed with Hawke cutting opposition. Hoover appointed Ogden L Mille as secretary of the treasury.
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Senate
House
Federal Reserve System
Hurley
Hoover
Ogden L. Mille
Treasury
New Money Bills Start on Journey
Washington reports emergency legislation to expand national credit by opening treasury and Federal Reserve vaults. Senate debate begins with Senator Glass affirming inflation safety, while House committee delays action. Hoover anti hoarding drive sees money in circulation rise by 5 million in a week, totaling 5.626 billion. The bill would relax rediscount rules, require five banks to back new notes, and allow collateral up to 18 billion in direct U S obligations for one year.
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Washington
Treasury
Federal Reserve Banks
Congress
Senate
House
Glass
Virginia
Stagall
Democratic House Committee
Senate Banking Committee
Hoover
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Reserve System
United States
Federal Reserve
McAdoo Urges Tax on Bootleggers to End Fiscal Woes
Former Treasury Secretary William G. McAdoo proposed taxing bootleggers and drug peddlers to their full incomes. In a letter to Senator Walsh of Montana he argued that if reports were accurate bootleggers earn about a million and a half dollars yearly and should be fully taxed.
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Washington
William G. McAdoo
Treasury
Walsh
Montana
McAdoo
Roosevelt decries non political inquiry in state investigation
Albany February 11. Governor Roosevelt a Democrat for president called the Republican plan to probe all state departments insincere while Republicans insist the inquiry will cut costs. The Senate authorized it and the Assembly will act Monday. Roosevelt warned political investigations heighten tension. Five Republicans will conduct the probe across all departments.
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Albany
N. Y
Roosevelt
Senate
Assembly
New York Writers Claim Beating and Deportation in Pineville
Waldo Frank and Allan Taub said they were slugged near Cumberland Gap after leaving Pineville where Pineville officials denied knowledge of the assault. Pineville Mayor J M Brooks urged the writers not to return, while Bell County officials saw no need for an investigation and suggested the party left of their own accord.
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Knoxville
Tenn
New York
Kentucky
Pine Ville
Waldo Frank
E. R. Zemyp
Allan Tau
Cumberland Gap
Tennessee
Pineville
J. M. Brooks
Taub
Frank
Pinevile
International Labor Defence
Brooks
Walter B. Smith
Bell County
Malcolm
Litvinoff submits radical disarmament plan at arms conference
Geneva Feb 11 Maxim Litvinoff Russia’s foreign minister submits radical disarmament proposals to the arms conference while offering cooperation to capitalist states. He favors progressive proportional reduction yet backs alternatives that mirror his own plan. He asserts Soviet non interference and calls for socialism, criticizing the League and Sino-Japanese hostilities.
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Geneva
Maxim Litvinoff
Russia
Moscow
Soviet Union
Litvinoff
World Peace Organization
League of Nations
Furn
Woman sought on charge of poisoning in divorce case
The estranged wife of Dr. Arnold H. Kegel a former Chicago health commissioner was sought on charges of poisoning a former maid to stifle her testimony in the divorce suit Dr. Kegel faced a claim that his wife fed him ground glass Mrs Ryan the former domestic lay dangerously ill as doctors fought to halt the poison effects A true bill naming Mrs Kegel as the principal in the attempted murder of Mrs Ryan was reported by the grand jury Gerald Lee a grocer’s clerk was named as her confederate and in custody while Mrs Kegel was at large
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Chicago
Arnold H. Kegel
Mussolini Visits Pope in Vatican Pact of Peace
Italian Premier Benito Mussolini knelt to Pope Pius XIII and met in private at the Vatican marking a renewed accord between fascist Italy and the Catholic Church. A formal greeting followed a parade to the Vatican and a prayer visit at St. Peter's.
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Vatican City
Benito Manesolini
Pius
Italy
Vatican
Musesolin
Duce
Vielt
Holy Father
St. Peter's
Mussolini
Palazzo Venezia
Cardinal Pacelli
Will Rogers Joins Hoover Commission Ranks
Washington reports Will Rogers the cowboy humorist has been appointed to a Hoover Commission after a light hearted conference with President Hoover. Rogers joked about creating sub committees and discussed the Lafollette-Costigan relief bill while noting governors had not sought federal aid.
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Washington
Will Rogers
Hoover
Rogers
al Smith
Patrick Hurley
Will
Hoover Commission
Congress
Pennsylvania Avenue
Weather Bags Tricks in Panhandle Windstorm
A West Virginia and western Pennsylvania windstorm spiked temperatures to 75 in parts of the Panhandle. The tremulous day saw windows smashed, electric signs damaged, and a roof torn from an apartment building. No injuries beyond a cut from flying glass were reported.
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Pittsburgh
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Charleston
W. Va
Allegheny Observatory
Frick
Grant Street
Panhandle
Baltimore & Ohio
Wheeling
George A. Stoltz
North Wheeling
Wind Storm Unroofs Dozens of Cincinnati Homes
A wind and rain storm swept Cincinnati causing about fifty houses to lose roofs, uprooted trees, and disrupted traffic. Telegraph poles and trolley wires fell, garages and porches were damaged, and several cars rolled on the streets but no injuries were reported. The temperature fell to 68 after yesterday’s record high.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Three Lives Lost In Ohio Wind Storm
A deadly wind storm in Ohio caused three drownings near Ashtabula harbor as a metal boat capsized while fishing. Coast guards searched for the bodies as widespread damage from toppled trees and wrecked small buildings disrupted travel and injured schoolchildren during a stretch of record February heat.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Lake Erie
John Kivimake
Elmer
Enoch Arklander
Ashtabula
Wind Storm Kills Five Across Great Lakes Region
Winter gale across central states left at least five dead and millions in damage. Victims included John Kivimake 43 his son Elmer 21 Enoch Arklander 55 drowned near Ashtabula Ohio and George Carpenter 42 crushed by a crane in Indianapolis.
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Chicago
Great Lakes
Comenes
John Kivimake
Elmer
Enoch Arklander
Ashtabula Harbor
Ohio
Indianapolis
George Carpenter
William Clark
Illinois
Wisconsin
Indiana
Michigan
West Virginia
Maryland
Peoria
Ill
Lake Michigan
Weather Bureau
Canada
Helen Clubhouse Damaged by Fire in Beckley Area
Fire of undetermined origin destroyed the 40 room club house of the C. C. B. Smoke less Coal company at Helen near Beckley West Virginia. Fire likely started in a pool room. Heavy rain stopped spread to nearby buildings. damage estimate unavailable.
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Beckley
W. Va
C. C. B. Smokeless Coal Company
Helen
Bildings
Jap Warships Bombard Woosung amid Refugee Rescue
In Woosung and the Chapel area near Shanghai fighting renewed between Chinese and Japanese forces. Japanese ships and artillery bombarded Woosung as machine gunners clashed across Woosung creek while a four hour truce enabled relief workers to evacuate about 3000 refugees including women and children to safety. Father Jacquinot and Colonel Hayley Bell aided the relief effort.
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Shanghai
Wooéung
China
Japan
Woosung
Forte
Woosung Creek
Fach
Chapel
Father Jacquinot
Jacquinot
Hayley Bell
Verdun
Hurley and Senators Clash Over Philippine Independence Bills
Washington reports a heated Senate hearing on independence measures for the Philippines. Secretary Patrick Hurley stated the bills are cowardly and aimed at destroying efforts built up over years, while Senators Hawes Cutting and Hare pressed for action amid sharp exchanges with Hurley and Senator King.
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Washington
Hoover
Senate
Islands
Patrick Hurley
Hawes
Missouri
Cutting
New Mexico
Hare
South Carolina
King
Utah
War Department
Hurley
Senator Cutting
Filipino National Bank
Mayor Bowen's Proctorville Home Hit by Dynamite Charge
A dynamite charge from an automobile damaged John A. Bowen's home in Proctorville, injuring no one. Three neighboring houses were also hit. Bowen, 86, and his wife, Mrs. Bowen, were shaken but safe. Bowen, long known as the fighting mayor for enforcing prohibition, vows to continue in office.
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Proctorville
Ohio
John A. Bowen
Bowen
Mystery of Lincoln Cabin Decline Is Revealed
Mattoon Illinois February 11 only one living person claims to know what happened to Abraham Lincoln’s log cabin built for his father and stepmother. Eleanor Gridley of Chicago won’t say more, saying she preserves the tale for a book. The cabin vanished after 1893 exhibition, amid rumors of removal and foul play by Lincoln kin.
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Abraham Lincoln
Mattoon
Eleanor Gridley
Chicago
Farmington
Here
Lincoln Society
Chicago, of Which Mrs. Gridley
Gridley
Clarence W. Bell
Matt
Lincoln
Robert Lincoln
Coles County
Bell
Tony
Lincoln tribute sparks party talk at Mid Day club
Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania challenged Lincoln's platform as a presidential candidate saying the nation is not free today. He spoke at the Mid-Day club's Civil War anniversary observance near Harrisburg noting Lincoln's ideals and asking if Mellon or Hoover share them.
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Springfield
Abraham Lincoln
Gifford Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Chicago
Mid-Day Club
Lincoln
Mellon
Hoover
Pinchot
Mammoth State Arsenal
Arsenal
State Capitol
Man Arrested Near Landwick Sentenced to Life
Judge Jake Fisher in Clay West Virginia sentenced George Crowder 38 to life in the state penitentiary after he pled guilty to criminally assaulting a 16 year old girl near Clay. Crowder arrested at a Sand Lick road farmhouse near Bluefield by Deputy Sheriff Bowling and two Charleston detectives. The victim was struck with a rock and injured. Crowder had previously served a prison term for a similar offense.
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Jake Fisher
Clay
W. Va
George Crowder
State
Crowder
West Virginia
Sand Lick
Bluefield
F. Bowling
Charleston
Battles flare as Japan bombs Chinese forts near Shanghai
In Shanghai the China Japanese clash resumes on the Chapei front after a four hour mercy truce. Japanese forces plan a major assault with heavy aerial bombs on Woo-Gung while a relief party evacuates refugees amid sniper fire.
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Associated Press
China
Japan
Woosung
Shanghai
Chapei
Woo- Gung
Yangtze
Japs Apologize for Bomb Threat in Shanghai
Japan apologized to Consul General Cunningham in Shanghai for dropping a bomb in the American sector and agreed to orders to cease flight over the settlement. Shipping in Shanghai suffers amid fighting. Woosung lighthouse is damaged, several buoys destroyed, and night entries restricted.
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Washington
Japan
Cunningham
Shanghai
International Settlement
State Department
M. M. Taylor
Asiatic
Woosung
Claudel
France
de Martino
Italy
Stimson
Navy Minister Regrets Shanghai Bombing Error
Admiral Minea Osumi, Japan’s minister of the navy, said the bombing of a Shanghai cotton mill where U S Marines were billeted was a grave error. He expressed profound regret and pledged consideration as the incident unfolds.
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Tokyo
Minea Osumi
Shanghai
United States
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