Rival Japanese leaders face showdown over North China policy
Tokyo sources say civilian foreign minister Koki Hirota and war minister Yoshiyuki Kawashima prepare to debate the North China issue as military plan to retain substantial Chinese autonomy in five northern provinces is framed. Akira Ariyoshi urged a compromise while Chiang Kai Shek pressures postponement of autonomy declaration. Military propaganda persists to justify possible intervention.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
North China
Koki Hirota
Yoshiyuki Kawashima
Hirota
Akira Ariyoshi
China
Chiang Kei-Shek
Nanking
Chiang Kai-Shek
Rengo
Tientsin
Sung Cheh-Yuan
Pieping-Tientsin
Peiping
Tcl
Asahi
Equpram
Ian
Ariyoshi
Japanese turn over North China reform problem to Chinese government
Shanghai reports Japanese officers handed the reform issue in North China to the Chinese National government. Officials fear the independent movement may still proceed and that Japan’s demand for tonnage parity could be affected by the London naval conference.
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Shanghai
China
Japan
United States
Great Briain
Acquitted Ruby Shaffer in Wood County poisoning case
Parkersburg W Va Nov 21 A jury acquitted Mrs Ruby Shaffer 36 of murdering her husband after 30 minutes deliberation The trial noted she sought a change of venue to Wood County and faced charges of giving poison to Pat Shaffer to collect insurance while she planned to marry Clifford Cauley 30 a boarder Cauley already serving a life sentence for a Putnam county conviction Defense contended no poison traces were found in the body and convulsions could stem from a brain disorder She testified Cauley admitted to illicit relations and had bought poison for her before Pat Shaffer died
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Ruby Shaffer
Cauley
Putnam County
Alvin J. Barnhart
Shaffer
J. L Dunilan
B. T. Clayton
Transpacific Air Mail Starts Operating Today
Alameda California November 21 the transpacific air mail will start operating tomorrow The inaugural 000 mile flight of the China clipper is prepared with last minute mail from eastern cities and about 85000 pieces accumulated Postmaster General James A Farley will deliver a Roosevelt message during ceremonies Captain BE Musick commands the eight crew on the 25 ton plane capable of 42 hours aloft at 108 miles per hour with a 3600 mile range The route proceeds overnight from Honolulu to Midway Wake Guam and Manila with daily hops
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Alameda
Calif
Transpacific Air Mail
William H. McCarthy
San Francisco
James A. Farley
Roosevelt
BE. C. Musick
Ocean
Honolulu
Midway
Wake
Guam
Manila
Defiance of AAA rules spreads to utility groups in court
Eastern utilities led by Consolidated Gas and United Gas Improvement challenge the AAA tax and registration provisions in federal court. Delaware Electric Power and Philadelphia based groups join, signaling a potential wave of cases as Washington officials weigh stronger enforcement and defendants seek injunctions against regulatory burdens.
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New York
Consolidated Gas Company
Metropolitan
Delaware Electric Power Company
Wilmington
United Gas Improvement Company of
Philadelphia
Oephia
Commission
Washington
New York and Queens Electric Light and Power Company
Securities Commission
Consolidated
Supreme Court
New Deal
J. John W Davis
American Liberty League
Hoosa@c mills
Massachusetts
AAA
Vernon
Vrooman
Des Moines
League For Economic Equality
Farmers and Friends
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
South Dakota
Louisiaa
Davis
Nathan L. Miller
Will R. Perkine
Hygrade Food Products Corporation
National Biscuit Company
P. Lorillard Company
NRA
Alexander Hamilton
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
Marshall
Storey
Hughes
Jackson
Pierce
Polk
Tyler
Buchanan
Cleveland Wilson
Coolidge
Farmers
United State
Roosevelt Grandson Held on Assault Charges in Boston
Cornelius Van Schaak Roosevelt and MIT student Peter de Florez, both 20, are free on $500 bail each after pleading not guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon. Police say they fired pellets from air pistols at vehicles on Memorial Drive, from their room in Technology's Number 6 club. They face up to two and a half years in jail if convicted. Roosevelt is the son of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and hails from Oyster Bay New York. De Florez from Pomfret Connecticut.
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Cambridge
Mass
Cornelius van Schaak Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Liberty
Roosevelt
Peter de Florez
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Memorial Drive
Charles’ River
Room 2 Technology
John Barry
Boston
Hugh J. O'Neill
William P. Crowe
Metropolitan District Police Force
de Florez
House of Correction
Young Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
N. Y
Pomfret
Conn
Tidal Wave Damages Hilo Waterfront Inquake Hit
A tidal wave and earthquakes damaged Hilo Hawaii waterfront. Boats and debris piled above water line as boulders rolled ashore wrecking two small yachts and injuring no one. Power boat damaged while wharf railroad track sustained damage. Volcanologist notes shocks originated in nearby mountains. Kilauea remains quiet nearby.
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Hilo
Hawaii
Econe
T. A. Jaggay
Honolulu
Kilauea
Bureau confirms high flight mark
Washington reports Captains Albert W. Stevens and Orvil A. Anderson officially set a record near 14 miles for an Armistice Day flight. The National Aeronautics Association certified 72,395 feet atop the National Geographic Society Army Air Corps balloon expedition, surpassing prior marks and Russian attempts. They foresee limited higher flights but expect to reuse the same Explorer balloon to attempt their own record again.
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Washington
Albert W. Stevens
Orvil A. Anderson
National Aeronautics Association
National Geographic Society
Army Air Corps
Bureau of Standards
Navy
T. G. W. Settle
Chester Fordney
Federation Aeronautique Internationale
Paris
France
National Aeronautics Use
Cristian
Stevene and
Anderson
Hull Defends Canadian Trade Pact Amid Tariff Critics
Secretary Hull declared the Canada United States trade agreement sound and beneficial to both agriculture and industry. He dismissed protests as partisan and urged patience, while Senator Dill urged lumber interests to challenge the reciprocal tariff law. Hoover and Moley figures are cited in the debate.
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Dill
Washington
Hull
State Department
Wallace
Clarence C. Dill
House
Senate
Capitol
Congress
Herbert Hoover
Bes
Raymond Moley
Dionne Quintuplets Create Production Problem for Movies
Hollywood reports the Dionne quintuplets will debut in a feature film but their involvement creates an unprecedented production challenge. After staging battles in The Crusades and large aerials for Hell's Angels, a crew of thirty technicians will travel to Canada to film. Only three non technical staff join the squad, while Zanuck oversees the plan and a Canadian government rule limits the sisters to about three minutes of work daily under eye protection and medical supervision by Dr Allan Dafoe.
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Hollywood
Dionne Quintuplets
Dionnes
Thirty
Zanuck
Arthur Miller
Camerman
Shirley Temple
Allan Dafoe
Coal Size Standards Discussed At Hearing
Washington November 21 soft coal size standards for price fixing were debated before the bituminous coal commission. Charles ONeill of New York proposed four size groupings for the eastern industrial area and eight for other regions, noting east has largely shifted to anthracite and fuel oil. Commission chairman Charles Hosford Jr urged operators to stabilize the industry and forget past sectional differences.
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Washington
Bituminous Coal Commission
Charles O'Neill
New York
Pennsylvania
O'Neill
Charles Hosford Jr
Commission
Young Hill Woman Convicted of Father's Murder in Wise County
Edith Maxwell, 21, is sentenced to twenty five years in prison by a Wise Virginia jury. The panel upheld local mountain law rejecting her claim she killed her father Trigg Maxwell with a shoe after he punished her for her alleged sin.
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Wenty
Edith Maxwell
Wise
Trigg Maxwell
Rioting in Cairo on anti-British day ends with arrests
In Cairo on November 21 fifty rioters were arrested and seven native policemen injured during three hours of disorder in the anti British day of mourning. Tram windows street lamps and shops were damaged while paving stones were tossed. Order was restored by nightfall but a general strike failed as Egyptian nationalists stayed away.
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Cairo
Egypt
Riot at Funeral Sparks Arab Demonstrations in Haifa
In Haifa mourners clashed with police after three alleged gangsters were killed in a daylight battle with officers. Arabs stoned traffic police and smashed windows, while police dispersed the rioters with truncheons amid reports of a secret armed group inciting against British rule.
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Jerusalem
Haifa
Palestine
Anti-Czech Demonstrations Rampage in Warsaw Schools
In Warsaw on November 21 anti Czech demonstrators smashed eleven windows in the Czechoslovak legation area as authorities seek to curb student excesses directed at Jews. Education Minister Chrysinski vows immediate measures to restore peace in schools and universities in Warsaw and Lwow. A Polish co ed and a Jewish student faced social coercion while others used anti Jewish slurs.
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Warsaw
Legation
Chrysinski
Jewish Telegraph Agency
Lwow
Rioting Spreads From Budapest Conservatory Clash
Anti Jewish rioting spread from Budapest after police swung sabres to break up a demonstration at the Budapest conservatory of music wounding several rioters. Students later attacked the conservatory after a march through the Jewish district. Police regained control.
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Budapest
Budapest Conservatory of Music
University of
Conservatory
Borah May Speak in Huntington December Address
Residente of this section may hear Senator William B. Borah in Huntington on December 7. The Idaho Republican, a possible presidential aspirant, has tentatively accepted the invitation to speak here.
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Huntington
W. Va
William B. Borah
Idaho
Ickes Urges Oil Halt to Warring Nations
Secretary Ickes asked oil firms to observe Roosevelt era neutrality by stopping shipments to Italy and Ethiopia. He said lack of federal power to curb trade should not push prices down, noting October oil exports fell slightly from September while a ten month total rose versus 1934.
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Washington
Ickes
Roosevelt
Italy
Ethiopia
Supreme Court
NRA
Commerce Department
United States Nears Sanctions on Italy Over Oil Shipments
Rome sources say Washington hints US may join Italy in sanction list as oil shipments to Italy face possible halt. Officials withhold details but expect sanctions could limit Italy’s fuel for Africa campaigns. Between January and September Italy bought 467,299 quintales of oil from abroad with US supplying about 404,347. In gasoline, 1,149,433 quintales imported, only 59,574 from the United States, marking US as a major supplier outside sanctioning nations. Gulf Oil official E C Bothwell noted in Pittsburgh.
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Rome
United States
Italy
Washington
Rckes
Irauce
Africa
America
Rumania
Russia
Barbara Hutton's Fortune Dwindles Reported Sale
Reports say the sale of 24 mortgages owned by Countess Von Haugwitz-Reventlow, once Barbara Hutton, reduces her rumored inheritance from 40 million to about 5 million or less. Mortgages with a face value of 352,700 were sold by her attorneys to Gay. She was dropped from the 1936 social register issued yesterday.
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New York
Countess von Haugwitz-Reventlow
Barbara Hutton
Brooklyn Eagle
Gay
Social Register
Commission airs local water rate in Bluefield case
Charleston reports the public service commission heard four engineers present data on rates charged by 1st Virginia Water Service in Bluefield and suburbs. Hearings continue tomorrow as Mayor Light pushes for lower rates and the city submits several rate schedules.
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Charleston
W. Va
Public Service Commission
1St Virginia Water Service Company
Bluefield
W A. Light
H. V. Wyckoff
Commission
Earle H. Morris
WPA appoints Abe Forsythe as trouble shooter in Charleston
The new WPA trouble shooter in Charleston is Abe Forsythe, formerly Huntington public safety director. The state administrator F Witcher McClough said Forsythe will expedite projects and oversee WPA efforts.
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PWA
Charleston
W. Va
WPA
Abe Forsythe
Huntington Public Safety
F. Witcher McCluough
Forsythe
Mussolini Orders Three Month Troop Furloughs In Italy
Premier Mussolini ordered three month furloughs for about 100000 of Italy's home troops. The move aims to boost farm and industrial output amid sanctions and requires readiness to return at an instant's notice. Troops range from classes 1901 to 1914 with reexamination for fit status.
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Rome
Mussolini
Italy
Il Duce
George
Greece
Athens
Emmanuel
Paris
Ethiopia
Hale Selassie
Britain
League
Ickes renews attack on four steel companies
Secretary Ickes alleges collusion among four steel firms that bid on two PWA projects. He cites identical bids and higher costs than German offers, referencing the Morehead City ocean terminal and Triborough Bridge contracts. He notes cement bid patterns and possible subletting to recoup freight costs.
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Washington
PWA
Ickes
Roosevelt
Morehead City
N. C
Triborough Bridge
New York City
Jones and Laughlin
Carnegie
Inland
Kalman
Bethlehem
Triborough
F. O. B. New York
Triborough Bridge Authority
Moulten iron blast injures many at Mesta Plant
Thirteen tons of molten iron sprayed over a crowded machine shop at the Mesta Machine plant in West Homestead after an overhead ladle exploded. One man died and twenty four were injured, ten critically. John Eve of West Homestead died hours later. E F Harris cited a possible gas-pocket in a mould as the cause.
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Pittsburgh
Mesta Machine Company
West Homestead
John Eve
E. F. Harris
Wilbur Allums Finds Old Knob Snuff Bottle Wealth
Hall Summit Louisiana November 21 Wilbur Allums struck gold in an old oak tree while cutting wood on Gordie hill. He found an old fashioned snuff bottle embedded in a block of oak containing between 500 and 600 dollars in gold coins.
Emperor Haile Selassie Returns From Battle Front Visit
Emperor Haile Selassie arrived back from his first inspection of the battle front near Addis Ababa. An official communique said his airplane may have been chased by two Italian planes during the two day trip. Page Eleven copy notes further details.
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Addis Ababa
Haile Selassie
Cooking School to Close Today in Bluefield
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph and Sunset News hosted a highly attended cooking school at Ramsey auditorium. Final session begins at 2 PM with prizes donated by local merchants. Mrs. Ruth Campbell will depart for holidays near Baltimore after today’s session.
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Bluefield
Ruth Campbell
Baltimore
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Selassie
Ttaly
Seyoum
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