Grand London Round Table Opens India's Future Talks
The vast gathering in the Lords features Oriental splendor as King George opens the conference with Prime Minister MacDonald, Indian princes, and Gandhi followers divided by independence demands. The tone stresses gravity while observers note Gandhi supporters boycott the talks.
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George V
House of Lords
London
India
George
MacDonald
British India
East
Subbarayan
Begum Sha Mamaj
Great Britain
Prince of Wales pilots large DC-X seaplane over English coast
Calshot, England November 12 The Prince of Wales flew the DC-X seaplane for ten minutes then half an hour aloft with a 12 meter craft over the Isle of Wight. German officers praised his piloting while he toasted Dornier builders and wished them success on a flight to New York. He later rode an amphibian plane back to London as Dr Dornier planned Bordeaux leg toward New York.
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Calshot
England
Prince of Wales
Isle of Wight
Dornier Associates
New York
Bordeaux
France
Dornier Arrives in Lisbon to Plan Seaplane Flight
Maurice Dornier brother of DC-X builder arrives in Lisbon to arrange details for the seaplane’s flight to New York. He travels from Portugal to advance the project and coordinate the schedule and maneuvers for the transatlantic plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lisbon
Portugal
Maurice Dornier
New York
Aimee Sails For Cuba Under Fictitious Name
Havana reports evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson barred from landing after Cuban authorities demand admission that she arrived from Panama under the alias Betty Adams. Immigration says Betty Adams is listed on the ship Tolao as an English woman. McPherson stays aboard and weighs options to depart for New York or New Orleans.
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Havana
Aimee Semple McPherson
Panama
Betty Adams
S.S. Toloa
New York
New Orleans
Wind Up Chao Testimony in Lake Coal Rate Case
Interstate Commerce Commission hearing reviewed the lake cargo coal rate differential dispute between Ohio Pennsylvania mine operators seeking a 35 cent rise and southern producers. A. B. McElvany urged higher rates citing 1929 coal markets while southern attorneys cross examined. Northern operators planned further testimony from C. B. Ackerman as the case moves toward final briefs and a ruling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Kentucky
West Virginia
A. B. McElvany
Western Pennsylvania Coal Traffic Bureau
Barefoot Mountaineer Denies Prohibition Knowledge
John Schexnayder an 82 year old backwoodsman from Louisiana pleaded guilty through an interpreter in federal court to manufacturing intoxicating liquors. Judge Wayne Borah placed him on five years probation and noted he spoke only French and had not heard prohibition law. He said he had been making whiskey for fifty years and did not know the War Between the States had ended.
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Baton Rouge
John Schexnayder
Wayne Borah
Schexnayder
Delegates Debate Plans to Limit Land and Air Arms
Geneva November 12 delegates to the League of Nations preparatory disarmament commission remained deadlocked over a plan to limit land and air weapons. American representative Hugh S. Gideon opposed a fixed budget while allowing a treaty based on budget limits. others pushed for direct limits or a combination of both with careful supervision. France’s Massigli favored budgetary limits though imperfect. Japan, France, Romania, Czecho Slovakia, Belgium and Yugoslavia objected to direct limits as inexact and hard to supervise. The United States Russia Canada Sweden and Holland backed direct limits, while Italy Great Britain Russia and Sweden supported both methods if no agreement on either plan.
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Geneva
Switzerland
League of Nations’ Preparatory Disarmament Commission
Hugh S. Gideon
United States
Massigli
Japan
France
Rumania
Czecho-Slovakia
Belgium
Jugo-Slavia
Russia
Canada
Sweden
Holland
Gibson
Italy
Great Britain
Wets and Drys Prepare For 1932 Prohibition Showdown
Wets and drys unite to push a showdown on prohibition in the 1932 campaign as party rifts deepen. Senator Fess defends speaking personally on dry mobilization while Wadsworth and Britten demand his resignation as party chairman. Law enforcement commission resumes hearings with promises of a firm report, amid calls for sentiment on enacting a ten year trial and possible repeal moves shaping Congress in 1933.
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Reedy
Maine
James W. Wadsworth
New York
Fess
Ohio
Republican National Committee
Wadsworth
Britten
Illinois
The
Law Enforcement Commission
Hoover Administration
Amos W. W. Woodcock
Prohibition
Pacific Coast
Mitchell
Woodcock
Representative Linticum
Maryland
House
Washington
Bandits Trapped in Marland Bank Robbery Face Firefight
Two young Pawhuska men robbed the Marland State Bank of 2000 dollars then fled in a brown coupe. Police under Chief Art Redman opened fire, fatally wounding Jimmie Jackson and wounding Carter Camp as the car was riddled with bullets. A police trap had been set days earlier by A B Cooper of the state bureau. The car had been stolen from Blackwell. Jackson died at the bank doorway. Camp pleaded not to be killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Muskrat
The
Ponca City News
Marland
Okla
Ponca City
Associated Press
Marland State Bank
Jimmie Jackson
Pawhuska
Carter Camp
A. B. Cooper
State Bureau of Criminal Identification
Art Redman
J. W. Elking
Blackel
City eyes police telephone system with signal lights
Bluefield officials consider a municipally owned police telephone network to speed officer contact and emergencies. Director J M McCue urges study and cost estimates, proposing city employees under supervision to limit expense. The plan includes signal lights at phone boxes controlled from police HQ to summon officers.
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Bluefield
J. M. McCue
McCue
Elmer C. Barton
Green Refuses Cabinet Post From Davis Prospect
Scranton reports William Green president of the American Federation of Labor declines any cabinet offer if made after being named as a potential successor to Secretary James J. Davis. Green states in a letter to the Scranton Republican that he would not accept the post. The letter follows an editorial that urged drafting him into the Hoover administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scranton
W.william Green
American Federation of Labor
James J. Davis
Davis
Senate
Scranton Republican Today
Green
Hoover
House committee Eyes Leaner Spending With Public Works
Washington November 12 The house appropriations committee chaired by Wood outlined a plan to cut government expenses while preserving public building programs to curb unemployment. Total current year appropriations near 4.872 billion with 840 million for the postal service. Potential use of short term bonds to fund projects without tax hikes. one percent tax cut likely to continue based on treasury data and higher customs revenue from the new tariff act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Wood
Postal Service
Woods
Treasury
Two Americans Die in Riots At Mal Paso Copper Mine
Rioters killed two American workers at the Cerro de Pasco area copper mine near Mal Paso, northeast of Lima. Ambassadors and officials met to secure protection as foreigners evacuated. 12 Peruvian workers also died and a hotel manager was killed.
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Lima
Peru
Mal Paso
John W. Chapman
Chicago
E. L. Tripary
Fred M. Dearing
United States
Foreign Office
Ernesto Montagne
Americana
Cerro de Pasco
Cerro
Chapman
Tripary
Lone Survivor Plans to Return to Sea After Brooklyn Sinking
Eureka California reports Jorgen M Greve first mate of the Brooklyn plans to sail again after a three day ordeal and a miraculous rescue. He survived the sinking off Humboldt bar that killed 17 aboard and was found by the trawler Two Sisters. Greve awaits word from his wife in San Francisco as a radio links his room to her.
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Eureka
Cal
Jorgen M Greve
Brooklyn
Greve
Humboldt Bar
Greeve
Coroner to rule on Sunday Creek mine blast
Coroner L J Jones planned a verdict within days on the Sunday Creek coal mine explosion that killed 82. Witnesses largely blamed gas ignition but differed on exact cause. Deputy Mine Inspector Andrew Ginnan suggested a gas deposit exploded by an open carbide lamp. Other miners denied powder ignition.
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Millfield
Ohio
Navy
Sunday Creek Coal Company
L. J. Jones
Andrew Ginnan
Clyde Crabtree
Bomb Injures Purdue Instructor in Car in Lafayette
In Lafayette Indiana a bomb hidden in a car exploded when an automobile door opened injuring 55 year old Purdue University instructor William F Heidergott. The blast wrecked the car damaged the garage and shattered nearby windows. Heidergott has taught at Purdue since 1919 in practical mechanics. Two Marion Indiana bombings of the prior year remain unsolved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lafayette
Ind
William F. Heidergott
Purdue University
Heidergott
Purdue
Department of Practical Mechanics
Marion
Regional work advisor tours nine states for EMP plan
Fred Croxtom of Ohio regional adviser for the presidents emergency employment committee returned from a air rail swing through nine states Ohio Tillmois Indiana Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa Kentucky and West Virginia He said states are organized or ready to organize to meet conditions He heads to New York to meet Governor Roosevelt and discuss funds for unemployment relief met with limited support from committee headquarters Porter Lee warned federal funds could cripple local efforts
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Fred Croxtom
Ohio
Emergency Employment Committee
Tillmois
Indiana
Michigan
Wiscomsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Kentucky
West Virginia
Croxton
New York
Roosevelt
Porter Lee
Bears Are Caught Swift Rebound
New York shares rallied after a morning sell off as copper prices rose from 9 1 2 to 10 cents a pound. Market leaders rebounded with gains of 1 to 5 dollars, Kennecott and Anaconda posted solid climbs, and the price index for 90 leading shares rose about 2.8 points.
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New York
Stock Exchange
North
South America
Kennecott
Anaconda
Eastman Kodak
J. T. Case
Allied Chemical
American Telephone
Clos
American Can
American Water Works
Atchison, Consolidated Gas
International Harvester
Lambert
National Biscuit
New Haven
Fox Film
U.S. Steel
Westinghouse Electric
Woolworth
Hoover seeks quick action on legislative program in short session
Washington reports President Hoover opening talks with congressional leaders to speed through unemployment measures public works and inland waterways funding and seed loans. McNary visits as administration weighs farm relief and government operation of the Muscle Shoals plant while resisting major farm policy changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hoover
Congress
Mississippi River
McNary
Oregon
White House
Senate
House
Farm Board
Butler predicts major political shift on repeal in 1930s
Dr. Nicho las Murray Butler president of Columbia University predicts the November 1930 elections will bring the biggest political smash-up in U S history. He argues Republicans must stand for repeal of the eighteenth amendment or face a political defeat. He cites former delegates who supported repeal and says the elections are the handwriting on the wall.
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Butler
New York
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Kansas City
Simeon D. Fess
National Republican
Fess
Boston School Girl Beaten and Kicked
An eight year old Boston girl allegedly beaten and kicked in a Roxbury school cloak room died four days later. The case, brought by George Carson through counsel, names two boys as offenders and cites an eyewitness account by Elizabeth, Dorothea’s sister, who said the attack followed the girl reporting talk during the teacher’s absence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Roxbury
Joseph J. Hurley
Hurley
George Carson
Dorothea
Carson
Elizabeth
Detroit Clubman Dies of Wounds
Bart H. Manning a 47 year old Detroit clubman and financier died at Cottage hospital after shooting himself early today Financial reverses were blamed as he reportedly lost 2 000 000 in the stock market He left a delivery letter to Edgar Marshall an undertaker who alerted police and led them to the body with a bullet wound near his ear at Lochmoor Farms Grosse Pointe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Bart H. Manning
Cottage Hospital
Grosse Pointe
Manning
Edgar ©. Marshall
Marshall
Grosse Pointe Farms
Lochmoor
Lear
Transatlantic Fliers Forced to Land Near Walsall
AIRMEN HALT London November 12 The transatlantic fliers Harry Connor and Er roll Boyd were forced to land near Walsall today due to poor visibility. They landed safely in a ploughed field while en route from Croydon to Liverpool where their plane the Columbia is to be dismantled for shipment to Canada.
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London
Harry Connor
Erroll Boyd
Walsallon
Croydon
Liverpool
Canada
Rail unions start secret conclave to seek six hour day
The leaders of five major American Railway Brotherhoods meet in Chicago beginning a secret weeklong conference to push for a six hour workday. About 800 general chairmen attend as committees draft a program behind closed doors. Railroads are already expected to oppose any formal petition.
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Chicago
American Railway Brotherhoods
Brotherhoods
United States
Canada
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
Order of Railroad Conductors
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Switchmen’s Union of North America
Three on trial in death of girl in West Virginia
In Charleston three defendants Fred Oliver Mrs Bonnie Oliver and Tom Jordan 17 face trial on a joint indictment over Mary Ferrell a 24 year old nurse from Ironton Ohio who died from injuries after a fall from a moving car last April Prosecution claims she was thrown from the car while defense says she leaped Jordan admits he drove the car but denies Mrs Oliver was in it Witnesses testified to seeing Ferrell leave her rooming house and enter a car with evidence also presented of threats against Ferrell by Mrs Oliver
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Charleston
W. Va
Mary Ferrell
Ironton, O
Fred Oliver
Bonnie Oliver
Tom Jordan
Miss Ferrell
Jordan
Oliver
Kurt
O Police
Wartime Pilot Begins Endurance Flight Record Attempt
Cap John S. Donaldson and Edward Weimer, wartime pilots, launched from Jamaica sea airport at 2 05 pm to chase a world refueling endurance record. Donaldson hopes for a thousand hour flight as Dale Jackson and Forest O Brit of St Louis previously set 647 hours 28 minutes 80 seconds last July.
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New York
John S. Donaldson
Edwar Weimer
Jamaica Sea
Donaldson
Dale Jackson
Forest O'’Brit
St. Louis
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Aimee
Cuba
Chao
Wickersham Group
N. Dan Dillon
Clarence E. Ridley
B E. W. Rutherford
City Electrician
House Group
Lone Survivor
Sunday Creek
By Claude A. Jagger
Self
Act
Brotherhood
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