Mind Blank 24 Hours Livermore Returns Home
New York financier Jesse Livermore reappeared at his Park Avenue residence after a 24 hour period with no memory. Detectives said he woke in a Pennsylvania Hotel room to find a newspaper about his disappearance pushed under the door. Police and federal investigators pursued leads tied to his market dealings and the Atlas Tack stock pool.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Jesse L. Livermore
Wall Street
Park Avenue
Livermore
Louie Hyans
Pennsylvania Hotel
Pennsylvania
U. S
State Attorney General's Office
Atlas Tack Corporation
Department of Justice
Shooting Of Cop By Alderman Endangers Chicago Home Rule
In Chicago a tavern shooting wounded Policeman John Ahearn and Chief Deputy Sheriff Frank Wright during a pistol fight outside Alderman Paddy Baylers saloon. Bayler faced assault with intent to murder charges, bond set at 5000. The incident sparked a debate on home rule liquor control in Springfield.
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Chicago
John Ahearn
Frank Wright
Mathias
Paddy) Bayler
Forty-third Ward
Bayler
State Capitol
Springfield
State Senate
Senate
Sergeor Earl B. Searcy
Prohibition
James P. Allman
Edward J. Kelly
Trapper Killed as Pike Triggers Rifle Fire
In Manitoba, Joe Benoit a French Canadian trapper was killed when a large northern pike he placed in his canoe triggered the trigger of his loaded rifle. The incident occurred on the Matta wiskiwa river where the fish threshed and touched the trigger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Benoit
Mattawiskiwa
Benoit
Sudden Change and Courage in an Unexpected World
A 1933 meditation on the power of the unforeseen in life. A London sermon by Joseph Parker is recalled, stressing that sudden events can transform life and demand radical readjustments. Courage, resilience, and readiness define how one faces the unexpected, whether tragedy or fortune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Joseph Parker
City Temple
Edwin Booth
Lincoln
Nazis to Sterilize 400 000 Under New Laws in Germany
Berlin reports medical authorities announce a plan to sterilize about 400000 people under a Nazi prevention of diseased progeny law. Half are men and half women with about half of the group feeble minded. Costs total 14000000 marks with estimates of large future state savings on care of the mentally afflicted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Berlin
Lenz
Burgdorfer
Indictment of Insull Jr and six other NIPSCO officials
Samuel Insull Jr and six former NIPSCO officials and directors were indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit a felony embezzlement and larceny. Bond set at 18000 for each. Grand jury alleged illegal manipulations to benefit Insull holdings and affiliates and overcharging ratepayers, including a 10 million bookkeeping error to secure high service rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crown Point
Ind
INS
Samuel Insull, Jr
Northern Indiana Public Service Company
W. J. Murray
Lake County Criminal Court
Grand Jury
Insull
John M. Gullick
Edward W. Lloyd
Charles W. Chase
Indianapolis Street Railway
Morse Dell Pinin
Thomas G Hamilton
Gary, Ind
Bernard P. Shearon
Hammond
Insul
Indiana Public Service Commission
Wallace terminates Chicago milk marketing pact
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace on Wednesday ended the Chicago milk marketing agreement effective January 1 at the request of the Chicago Pure Milk association led by Don N. Geyer. The pact, approved July 28, covered 75 percent of Chicago producers and distributors and set prices including 1.75 per hundredweight for class 1 milk, later raised to 2.10, with a one cent per quart retail pass through.
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Washington
Wallace
Chicago
Chicago Pure Milk Association
Don N. Geyer
Pure Milk Association
AAA
Conteed
Chicago Milk Marketing Agreement Ends After 18 000 Farmers Vote
Don N. Geyer secretary of the Pure Milk association denounced the Chicago area marketing agreement to end it amid a projected price war. He sent a telegram to Secretary Wallace saying enforcement failures led to market collapse and requesting termination effective Jan. 1. The move targets roadside milk stations selling for 6 to 8 cents a quart, threatening higher costs for producers and distributors.
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Chicago
Don N. Geyer
Pure Milk Association
Henry A. Wallace
Geyer
Washington
Wallace
Congress Gears for New Taxes Despite Business Opposition
Chairman Doughton of the Ways and Means Committee said industry witnesses refuse to offer revenue solutions while criticizing proposed tax revisions. He backed moving to require corporations to file individual returns, though administration opposition may remove this from the bill. H. B. Fernald warned depreciation and depletion cuts tax capital as well as income.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Doughton
House
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Coughton
Ways and Means
H. B. Fernald
American Mining Congress
Winter Wheat Crop Condition Estimated At 74.3 Per Cent
The U S Department of Agriculture places winter wheat condition on December 1 at 74 3 percent down from 68 9 percent a year ago and below the 1921 30 average of 83 2 percent Sowing this fall reached 41 002 million acres about 96 percent of last year with 33 4 percent abandoned due to winter kill and drought The rye condition is 69 9 percent versus 76 3 percent last year and a 10 year average of 85 7 percent with sowings of rye at 5 091 million acres 114 7 percent of 4 439 million acres sown in 1932
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Washington
Agriculture Department
AAA
Iowa House Backs Probe Into Guthrie Gravel Pit Deal
The Iowa House approved a resolution to have the attorney general and a select committee further investigate the Guthrie County gravel pit purchase and related cement bids under anti trust concerns. The party line split 60 to 43 with four Republicans voting yes and thirteen Democrats joining against. Rep Bonstetter said he would seek adoption of the measure at the next session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DES Moines
Iowa House of Representatives
Guthrie County
Brady
Pottawattamie
Koch
Bremer
Fletcher
Goods
Gray
Hanson
Lyon
Hopp
Laughlin
Rees
Wiese
Bonstetter
Kossuth
Indian Tornado Kills Hundreds Across 106 Miles
A Daily Express dispatch from Madras reports 350 people feared dead in the worst tornado in southern India. The storm devastated the 106 mile stretch of countryside between Pondicherry and Negapatam, leaving widespread ruin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
India
Daily Express
Madras
Pondicherry
Negapatam
Dispatch
French Arrest 2 Americans In Spy Ring Case
A young American named Rob ert Switze and his wife were held in separate prisons in Paris amid raids on a wide spy network linked to Soviet Russia. Police say Switze, 29, was charged with espionage and the couple faced complicity charges as investigators recovered radios, documents, money, and communist books. Authorities believe the group aided Soviet Russia, with two Russians as alleged leaders fleeing France. The arrests ended a two year spy hunt that intersected with border fortifications debate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Robert Switze
East Orange
N. J
Switz
Marjorie Tilley
New York
Ministry of Marine
NRA cuts cleaners minimum rates under protest
The National Recovery Administration ordered a 20 percent reduction of minimum cleaning rates after nationwide protests by cleaners and dyers. A special board was formed to study the price situation as the industry had argued current minimums were ruinously high.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
NRA
Sec Up
RFC Eyes Six Billion Budget Boost for 1934
Congress faces a January clash as the Reconstruction Finance Corp seeks a longer life and additional funds amid Roosevelt gold purchase plans. The proposed year extension and a ban on RFC funds for gold buys signal a contested budget fight with both parties weighing the impact on the economy and monetary policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Reconstruction Corporation
Roosevelt
Capitol Hill
RFC
Congress
Six Billion Dollar Congress Set to Fund New Deal
Washington dispatch reports Congress elected two weeks hence will face a roughly six billion dollar appropriation for the federal government next fiscal year. The package would cover running expenses of about two and a half billion and continue recovery programs into 1935 with renewed funding for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the Public Works administration.
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Washington
INS
Congress
White ‘House
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Public Works
Cross Bill Filed By Evangelist Aimee McPherson Hutton
Los Angeles AP report states evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton filed a nine page cross bill for divorce against David L. Hutton after mental cruelty and marital shortcomings. The action followed a Pasadena nurse judgment in a breach of promise case and alleged threats over a property settlement.
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Los Angeles
Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton
David L. Hutton
E. A Adams
Adams
Hutton
Cleveland
Myrtle St. Pierre
Pasadena
Iowa Hog Price Control Bill urged by Kraschel
Des Moines Iowa Lieut Gov N G Kraschel urged public support for a bill to regulate hog purchases by packers representatives He said the measure would require official weighers and graders at stockyards and buying points in Iowa and curb what he called a packers monopoly He claimed packers had driven buyers from the market and reduced open competition to fix hog prices
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DES Moines
Packers
N. G. Kraschel
Towa
Kraschel
Dillinger Gang Member Shot as Officer Dies in Trap
Indiana state policeman Eugene Teague, 24, died after bullet wounds from a chase with Edward Shouse, a Dillinger gang member, during a trap in Paris, Illinois. Shouse and two women were captured. one suspect escaped as Teague’s death followed another officer’s prior losses to the gang.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Eugene Teague
Indiana
Edward Shouse
Teague
Paris
Shouse
Chicago
Lima
Michigan City
Ruth Spencer
San Diego
Calif
California
Frances Colin
Fort Wayne
John Dillinger
Matt Leach
Farm meeting invites Wallace Herring Bryan in Omaha
Invitations extended to Governor Clyde Herring of Iowa and Governor Charles W. Bryan of Nebraska to attend a Friday gathering of Iowa and Nebraska farmers. The event aims to protest current agricultural conditions, especially livestock prices, with 10 000 to 15 000 expected attendees. Leaders say the meeting will be non militant and seek to urge action to boost livestock prices and inform Secretary Wallace.
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Omaha
Clyde Herring
Iowan
Charles W. Bryan
Nebraska
Iowa
Wallace
Alburnett Farmer Injured After Fall From Hay Load
Alburnett farmer K. G. Schcmickle was seriously hurt Tuesday afternoon at home when he fell from a hay load. He sustained multiple fractured ribs and a punctured lung and was in St Luke's hospital Wednesday.
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Alburnett
K. G. Sschmickle
St. Luke's Hospital
Roosevelt Extends Jobs Code to May
President Roosevelt announced a four month extension of the blanket re employment code after January 1 continuing the general code. He said that about 70 percent of workers will eventually be covered by codes and stressed the need to sustain recovery in trades and industries not yet under approved codes.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Subistence Homestead Concept Comes to Cedar Rapids
Local leaders in Cedar Rapids consider a $100,000 subsistence homestead for industrial workers as Ames experts study an experimental town unit. Fifty families would form a community to grow food on two to three acres per tract, financed by government amortization and supported by a national program awaiting approval and further sites.
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Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Homstead
Ray Wakeley
Department of Economics and Sociology
Ames
Paul Taff
Ames‘extension Service
Wake
Arthur Poe
Chamber of Commerce
H. H. Kildee
Iowa State College
Indus
Department of Interior
Waterloo
Mason City
United States
Wakeley
Dayton
Ohio
Readsville
W. Va
Naturalization Hearing Held in Chicago Federal Building
Charles A. Rain of Chicago led preliminary hearings on naturalization for twenty-one persons at the federal building on Wednesday. Rain is an examiner for the Bureau of Naturalization.
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Charles A. Rain
Chicago
Federal
Mr. Rain
Bureau of Naturalization
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New York Hotel
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Pure Milk Association of
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Iowa House
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Metz
Lauter
Particu
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Aimee
Dave
Nab
Herring
Bryan
The
Ray F. Anderson
Gazette Farm
Ickes
M. L. Wilson
Department of the Inerior
Harold L. Ickes
Taff
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