Hoover to convene industry leaders for business plan
President Hoover will invite leaders from industry labor and agriculture to a conference next week to outline plans for economic expansion and coordinated action. The talks aim to boost construction exports and cross sector growth with officials from the treasury agriculture commerce labor and farm board participating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hoover
Mellon
Hyde
Lamont
Davis
Treasury, Agriculture, Commerce and Labor Departments
Legge
Farm Board
United States Fixes January 21 London Naval Conference Date
The U S informs Britain of acceptance of January 21 for the London naval conference opening. The American delegation will arrive in London a few days early. Arthur Wilson Page, son of the late ambassador Walter Hines Page, is chosen as personal aide to Secretary Stimson for the conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Great Britain
Japan
France
Italy
London
White House
Arthur Wilson Page
Walter Hines
Tremendous Cost of Crime Studied
Washington analysis by the national law enforcement commission reviews the overall cost of crime to federal state and local governments including police courts prisons racketeering fraud and bank defalcations. Committee members Wickersham Mackintosh and Anderson attended with Golthwaite Dorr. another meeting with Paul McCormick scheduled for December.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Law Enforcement Commission
Wickersham
Kenneth Mackintosh
Seattle
Henry W. Anderson
Richmond
Golthwaite Dorr
New York
Paul J. McCormick
Los Angeles
Cal
Government Agen
Two Gunmen Kidnap Motorcycle Officer in Missouri
Kansas City officers report two gunmen kidnapped motorcycle officer M. E. Willcut after stopping their car. They forced him to accompany them to Hickman Mill and Leeds, robbing a bank for 500 dollars, then a store. Willcutt escaped unharmed in Kansas City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Mkigar E. Willcut
Wilcutt
Hickman Millie
Leeds
Woman Found Guilty of Manslaughter in Oroville
Oroville California November 15 Mrs Pearl Baldwin was found guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of her husband William Baldwin son of the city mayor after a quarrel upon his return from a hunting trip The jury recommended leniency and sentence is set for Tuesday.
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Oroville
Cal
Pearl Baldwin
William Baldwin
Baldwin
Anti-Fascist Protest Arrests In New York
In New York on November 15, sixteen anti fascist demonstrators were arrested in front of the Hungarian consulate for disorderly conduct. The group, ten men and six women, sang the Internationale and carried placards accusing Fasclem of involvement in a textile strike in Ionla North Carolina. Police dispersed the crowd after they became abusive. detainees were released to their attorney until tomorrow.
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New York
Fasclem
Ionla
N. C
Lower Broadway
Farm price decline linked to stock market swings
Washington reports the agriculture department ties the drop in farm prices since September to the unsettled stock market. October 15 farm prices stood at 140 percent of pre war levels, a small fall from September 15 but still above 1928 levels.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Break plan uncovered as Colorado Pen guards thwart escape
Canon City Colorado guards unearth a ten foot tunnel reaching the west wall of the state penitentiary. Sledges drills and crowbars found in the passage suggest a planned breakout. Five convicts placed in solitary confinement amid fears of wider involvement. Thirteen inmates died in the October riot.
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Canon City
Colo
State Penitentiary
Clyde Smith
Smith
Francis BE. Crawford
Crawford
Adams
Storm drenches throng at shrine in Malden Mass
In Malden on November 15 a heavy downpour drenched over 10,000 people who crowded Holy Cross cemetery to visit the grave of Rev. Patrick J. Power, famed for reputed cures. Many visitors, including crippled relatives, endured hours of rain kneeling at the grave and in the cemetery chapel.
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Holy Cross Cemetery
Patrick J. Power
Malden
Mass
Police Prevent Indian Sacrifice in Puebla Village
A Puebla dispatch says police halted a tribal ritual in Zozotla, saving a seven year old Indian girl from being killed as a water god sacrifice. Drought prompted tribesmen to plan the offering before officers intervened and took the child into protection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
el Universal
Puebla
Zozongotla
Hoover Rushes To Bedside Of Stricken War Secretary
President Hoover hurried to Walter Reed hospital after a bulletin said War Secretary Good’s condition had worsened. He spoke briefly to his friend before leaving, as doctors prepared John Hopkins specialist Dr Finney and other surgeons to treat complications after surgery.
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Hoover
War
Walter Reed Hospital
Washington
Good
White House
Keller
Boone
Jervis
Marblehead and Evansville Collision in Fog Near Nantucket
The Marblehead light cruiser under Captain Ralph A. Koch collided with the steam freighter Evansville in fog twenty five miles off Nantucket. Neither ship was seriously damaged and both crews avoided injuries. Marblehead headed to Boston naval yard. Evansville continued to New York.
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Boston
Marblehead
Ralph A. Koch
Evansville
Nantucket
Navy Yard
New York
Seaton
Will Draft Amendment to Change Tax Method
Charleston residents hear Wheeling business leaders outline plans to form a committee representing all industries to draft a constitutional tax method amendment and sell it to the public and legislature. The proposal has Charleston and Parkersburg chambers endorsing it, with visits to Huntington planned.
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Charleston
W. Va
Charleston Chamber of Commerce
Wheeling
D. A. Burt
Charleston Chamber
Albert Snedeker
Parkersburg
Clarksburg
Belgian cabinet in crisis over Ghent university plan
Premier Jaspar faces possible resignation as Liberal and Catholic factions clash over Ghent university curricula. Flemish extremists push for a purely Flemish university while other groups favor keeping some courses in French. King Albert may mediate to resolve the rift before Tuesday vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brussels
Belgium
Jaspar
Albert
Ghent
Commerce reports mixed week as exports rise and output falls
Washington reports that exports approached 10 percent of national gross business in the week ending November 9, indicating solid underlying activity. Steel plant output dipped versus prior weeks, crude output remained above year-ago levels, wholesale prices fell further, and business failures edged up from the 1928 level.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of Commerce
de T
Nurse testifies in strike trial in Marion North Carolina
Miss Margaret Goforth from Asheville testified that Alfred Hoffman United Textile Workers organizer urged strikers at the Clinchfield mill to “knock them down and drag them out” if they entered the mill. She heard Hoffman speak to maintain agitation and keep workers awake to disrupt sleep.
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Marion
N. C
Margaret Goforth
Asheville
Clinchfield
Alfred Hoffman
United Textile Workers of America
Hoffman
J. Hugh Hall
Wee Fowler
del Lewis
W. Hogan
Goforth
Russians May Launch Drive Toward Harbin
Shanghai reports the Kuomintang news agency said Gov. Chang Hsueh-Liang of Manchuria received a telegram stating Russians are concentrating troops and supplies near the Manchurian border and are expected to push toward Harbin and Tsitsihar on the Chinese Eastern Railway.
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Shanghai
Kuomin Newe Agency
Foreign Office
Chang Heueh-Liang
Manchuria
Harbin
Tsitsihar
Holungkiang
Chang Hsueh-Liang
Mukden
Kuomin
Tsiteihar
Cotton Investigation Opens. Senate Panel Seeks Fair Inquiry
A senate agriculture sub committee began an inquiry into the New York Chicago and New Orleans cotton exchanges. Senator Townsend of Delaware was elected chairman and promised the investigation would not hinder the cotton industry. A second meeting will set witness lists and procedures, with a report due to the Senate by December 20.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture
Opeum
New York
Chicago
New Orleans
Townsend
Delaware
Senate
Lieutenant of Al Capone Placed Under Big Bond
Phillip Callendar, reputed chief lieutenant in Capone's Calumet district, was brought from Chicago to Hammond Indiana and placed under a $100000 bond on charges tied to vice and liquor conspiracies. He was arrested in Burnham Illinois three weeks earlier and held in Chicago. He is arraigned soon.
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Hammond
Ind
Phillip Callendar
Calumet
al “Scarface
Capone
Chicago
Callendar
Burnham
Byrd Plane Sold At Auction In Buffalo
An airplane tow in the Antarctic that belonged to Commander Richard E. Byrd and was loaned for his expedition will be sold at a bank rupt auction in Buffalo to satisfy creditors of the General Air plane corporation.
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Byrd
Buffalo
N. Y
Antarctic
Richard EB. Byrd
General Airplane Corporation of Buffalo
Sugar Lobbyist Hints Cuba Interference Fears Seen
Edwin P. Shattuck, attorney for the United States Sugar Association, testified before the Ways and Means and Senate finance committees that Cuban sugar interests fear possible U.S. intervention in Cuba. He said his fees could total $25,000 or more for tariff work, and described his Washington stay since January with about three days weekly here.
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Washington
Senate Lobby Committee
Edwin P. Shattuck
United States Sugar Association
Shattuck
United States
Cuba
Ways and
Senate Finance Committee
Smoot
Utah
Watson
Indiana
Edge
New Jersey
Hawes
Missouri
Royal D. Mead
Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association
Cress
Mead
Senator Caraway
Caraway
Carnikon Rionda Company of
New York
Tariff Commission
Jane Addams Hurt In Fall At Hull House
Miss Jane Addams head of Hull House, hospitalised with a broken left wrist after slipping and falling at Hull House after dinner. Doctors describe her condition as not serious.
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Chicago
Jane Addams
Hull House
Leaders Eye One Percent Tax Cut Action in December
Washington reports party leaders in Congress back a one percent cut in normal taxes for individuals and corporations to take effect in December. Representative Tilson said the House would move necessary legislation before Christmas, with no Senate objections. Hawley prepared a joint resolution for December 2, to secure approval from Secretary Mellon and ensure a one year reduction with potential follow up if revenues permit.
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Washington
Congress
House
Representative Tilson
Connecticut
Hoover
White House
Senate
Smoot
Financial Committee
Hawley
Ways and Means Committee
Mellon
Volcano Santa Maria Remains Active After Lethal Eruption
Guatemala City reports Santa Maria volcano continuing to show signs of activity after a deadly eruption that killed between 300 and 500 people. Observers note rising ash and possible further explosions as the region braces for renewed danger.
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Guatemala City
Santa Maria
National Grange Sponsors Project at Sixty Third Convention
Seattle, Nov. 15 The National Grange meeting here in its sixty third convention will sponsor a major cooperative farming project described as one of the greatest of its kind. Louis J. Taber national master of Columbus Ohio told delegates and visitors today. Four resolutions on national subjects were tabled to be taken up next week before adjournment. One by Harry A Caton Ohio state grange master urged raising tariff and farm rates. Jesse Newson state grange master said federal farm board will aid farmers only if export debenture plan is used.
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Seattle
Wash
Louis J. Taber
Columbus
Ohio
Harry A. Caton
French Debt Agreement Faces Early House Action
Washington officials expect ratification of the French debt agreement as the first major business in December. The pact calls for France to pay the United States 4 billion dollars, including 400 million for surplus war supplies, and has already been ratified by France.
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Washington
Cons House Ways and Means
Congress
Hawley
House
Representative Tilson
Connecticut
United States
France
Dismiss Contempt Charges Against Theatre Owner
Los Angeles moves to dismiss contempt counts against Alexander Pantages theater magnate after he supplied the required deposition in the civil case brought by EB F Gunn alleging breach of contract. Pantages remains jailed awaiting an appeal from a sentence for anal assault on Eunice Pringle, 17.
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Los Angeles
Alexander Pantages
Pantages
EB. F P. Gunn
Pantages Theater Corporation
Eunice Pringle
People’s Army Gains Ground Along Han River
Reports from Northwest Hupeh indicate the Kuominchan rebel forces achieved a decisive advantage along the Han river, driving Nationalist troops backward. Censorship hid battle results in Northern Henan where a major clash was reported yesterday as among the year's fiercest engagements.
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Hankow
Hupeh
Kuominchan
People's Army
Han River
Henan
Daughter of Banker Found Dead in New York Apartment
Miss Elinor Bell, 25, daughter of a San Antonio banker, was found dead in her Morningside Heights gas-filled apartment. Police ruled as death by own action. Miss Jean Douglas, her roommate, discovered the body and a note expressing despondency.
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New York
Elinor Bell
San Antonio, Tex
Morningside Heights
Jean Douglas
Mexican court acquits Louisville girl in murder case
Mexico City report says Bernice Rush of Louisville Kentucky was acquitted by a Mexican court jury by a 6 to 3 vote on charges of murdering her common law husband Genaro Genavente. Since the verdict was non unanimous the magistrate sent the case to a superior court and remanded the American woman into custody.
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Mexico City
Bernice Rush
Louisville
Genaro Genavente
Senate Raises Farm Tariffs Across Fruit and Vegetable Classes
The Senate approved broad increases in farm import levies to shield domestic producers. Duties rise on fresh vegetables fruits nuts seeds bulbs and fish with notable hikes for flaxseed cherries onions lemons limes grapefruit mushrooms and other items. Debate featured Edges protest of reliance on anticipation and Borah’s counterpoint about domestic market control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Italy
Mexico
Argentina
Edge
New Jersey
Borah
Republican Independent
Idaho
Senate Tonight
House
Republican Regulars Offer Tariff Bill Action Promise
A bloc of Republican regulars, mainly newer members, proposed concessions to accelerate Senate action on the tariff bill after bolting party leadership and blocking adjournment of the special session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Looting at Union Industrial Bank Sparks Warrants
Flint, Michigan, November 15. Executive VP H H Wilkin described a gambler’s craze driving executives to move over 3.5 million of bank funds into speculative stock purchases over years. Six former officers face warrants. notes were forged to hide trades while directors met to protect the bank and its loan. None profited. most involved faced total asset losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flint, Mich
Union Industrial Bank
H. H. Wilkin
John H. DeCamp
Elton D. Graham
Milton Pollock
Ivan P. Christensen
Mark H. Kelley
Russell A. Runyon
Wilkins
Charles S. Mott
Soran
Slohon Seah
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Labor and Agriculture
AX Mason
University of Chicago
Rockefeller Foundation
Law Enforcement Committee
Colorado Pen
Penal Institution
Col
Gruiser
U. S. S. Marblehead
Natucket
North Carolina
AL Capone
Big Bond
Ways and Means
Edwin P. Shattuck, Attorney
Leaders
Illiam Phillips
Canada
Phillips
New England
Tin
National Grange
Peoples Army
Louisville, KY
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