Peanuts Promise Relief and Electric Dollar Proposals
The Georgetown Del area reports some farmers growing peanuts with potential profit. Economist Dr. John Pease Norton suggests an electric dollar based on electrical energy as value, with shock incentives to keep money circulating. The piece also notes campaign finance, tax talk, and Nicaragua rebel activity with U S Marines set to depart.
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Georgetown
Del
Washington
Dela‘ware
Slane CMI
EAN
John Pease
Norton
American ‘Association For the Advancement of Science
Roosevelt Opposed to General Manufacturers Sales Tax
President elect Roosevelt is vigorously opposed to a general manufacturers sales tax in Congress. Governors and advisers say he is horrified by reports endorsing such a tax to balance the federal budget. The topic will be discussed in Hyde Park with Garner expected to visit within days.
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Albany
N. Y
Roosevelt
Congress
Washington
Capitol Hill
Garner
Hyde Park
Robert J. Bulkley
Ohio
Manufacturers and the Banking and Currency Committees
Raymond S. Moley
Moley
Norman H. Davis
Geneva
Davis
New York City
Roosevelt Opposed Sales Tax Shrinks Revival Effort
President elect Roosevelt opposes the manufacturers sales tax, dampening plans to revive it in Congress. Speaker Garner says he favors the tax if needed to balance the budget, while Collier urges it as the only balance method. Budget measures and possible vetoes color the fiscal fight.
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Roosevelt
Garner
James W. Collier
House
Ways and Means Committee
Albany
Ways and Means
Treasury
Collier
Hoover
Senators Block Prohibition Testimony On Beer Bill
In Washington a Senate judiciary panel faced a push to bar prohibition groups from testifying on beer legislation delaying Volstead act changes. Dinwiddie urged access, but Chairman Norris and Sen. Ashurst offered only a courteous refusal as the committee weighs a 3.2 percent beer bill and braces to draft a substitute.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Edwin C. Dinwiddie
Norris
Ashurst
Arizona
Dinwiddie
Blaine
Al Jolson Ill With Influenza Reports Say
New York IN S reported stage and screen star Al Jolson seriously ill with influenza. Jolson reportedly left his sick bed Friday night to do a radio broadcast against medical advice. His condition worsened over the weekend with a high fever.
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New York
INS
al Jolson
Jolson
Lewis Denies He May Become Judge
Miami Florida United States Senator James Hamilton Lewis on vacation calls reports he would resign to accept a federal judgeship false He says Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago would not be appointed to the Senate by Governor-elect Henry Horner.
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Miami
Fla
United States
James Hamilton Lewis
Anton Cermak
Chicago
Henry Horner
Senate
Resolution Calls RF C Reports on Early Loans
A resolution introduced by Representative Howard requests the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to report all loans made during the first five months of its existence to the House. The Democratic Nebraska congressman introduced the measure on Tuesday.
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Washington
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Howard
Dem
Neb
French Deputies Urge Austrian Loan Approval
France faces its December war debt default to the United States but the finance committee of the chamber of deputies approved a loan to Austria of 100 million shillings about 14 million dollars. The chamber would take up the measure on Wednesday and Thursday. Finance minister Henri Cheron urged approval, saying France must honor its Lausanne pledge to participate in a 40 million dollar international loan to Austria.
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Paris
INS
France
United States
Finance Committee
Chamber of Deputies
Austria
Chamber
Henri Cheron
Lausanne
South Africa imposes embargo on gold exports
The cabinet in Johannesburg at a special meeting decided to prohibit the export of gold from the Union of South Africa. Opposition forces led by Tielman Roos press devaluation of currency as a counterpoint.
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Johannesburg
Union of South Africa
Tielman Roos
Seabury Pushes New Charter To Clean City Government
Samuel Seabury advances a proposed New York City charter as the culmination of the Hofstadter investigation. The report targets graft at Tam many Hall, exposes department and judiciary scandals, and led to Mayor James J. Walker’s resignation. Seabury ends his task and notes obstruction by minority committee members.
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New York
City of
Samuel Seabury
Hofstadter Investigaon
Tammany Hall
James J. Walker
Tammany
Seabury
Canada Russia plan trade treaty eyed by Ottawa
Ottawa reports deliberate talks on a Canada Russia trade pact. Canada would import Russian crude oil in large quantities in exchange for Canadian products, notably dairy cattle, with a plan to set up an exporting company and supply oil to a major refinery.
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Ottawa
Ont
Robert Weir
Canada
Russia
United States
Two $30,000 Auto Collision Suits Filed in Ft Dodge
In Hamilton county district court two damage suits totaling $30,037 were filed after a June automobile collision near Ft Dodge that killed Arthur Weigler of Council Bluffs and seriously injured his wife. Mrs Weigler sues Selby Poultry Co of Webster City and driver Sam Nelson.
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Fort Dodge
Hamilton County
Here
Arthur Weigler
Council Bluffs
Ends His Life When Woman For Whom He Killed Leaves
Sid ney Hawks a former salesman left a 15 page note detailing a murder plot. He and a paramour killed his wife Mrs Hawks by substituting poison for medicine. He spent a $1500 life insurance and proceeds from two fake holdups on the lover until she left him after the money ran out. The Christmas silence of his family drove him to suicide.
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Kansas City
Sidney J. Hawks
Hawks
Leaps 80 Feet As Crowds Look On
Milwaukee officers saved Harvey Krause after he climbed the Capitol drive bridge railing eighty feet above a shallow stream and leaped. He was carried from the water to a hospital with two knee bruises, while bystanders watched in horror.
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Milwaukee
Harvey Krause
Capitol Drive
Krause
County Offices Face Pay Cuts and Staff Reductions
The board of supervisors proposes a personnel and salary plan to cut about ten percent in county offices starting January 3. It calls for eliminating one deputy in most offices and lowering clerks salaries above 900, with deputies and clerks reassigned per statute. The plan affects sheriff, clerk of district court, treasurer, county auditor, and other offices while keeping some staffing unchanged.
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Board of Supervisors
Iowa
Woman Ends Life By Inhaling Gas In Cedar Rapids Home
Despondent over ill health, 60 year old Emma Rigel of 1808 Hamilton Street SW Cedar Rapids opened gas burners and inhaled illuminating gas Tuesday afternoon. Her husband William found her body at 3:45 pm. An ambulance and inhalator failed to revive her. Acting Coroner C H Stark ruled death by own action with no inquest.
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Cedar Rapids
Emma Rigel
Hamilton Street
William Rigel
C. H. Stark
Paul-Boncour Wins Confidence Vote In Paris Chamber
In Paris the chamber of deputies backed Premier Joseph Paul Boncour's cabinet on a financial issue. The vote was 400 to 190 after rejecting Louis Marin's bid to cut the proposed bond issue from 5 billion to 2 billion francs.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Joseph Paul Bencoue
Chamber
Louis Marin
Controversy Opens Over Technocracy Explains Debate
A six part series begins with Howard Scott promoting technocracy as a new social model. Critics question machine displacement of workers and the reliability of data while presenting counter figures from the Census and industry statistics.
Traveling Bump On Earth's Face Stretches Oceans And May Upset Star Measurements
An earth science report describes a perpetual traveling bump on Earth caused by the moon’s gravity. It reportedly stretches the Atlantic Ocean up to 63 feet and alters distances between points like New York and London. The effect may affect star time measurements used by observatories.
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Earth
Atlantic City
N. J
Atlantic Ocean
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Alfred L. Loomis
Tuxedo Park
N. Y
Harlan Stetson
Ohio Wesleyan University
New York
London
Greenwich Observatory
England
U. S. Naval Observatory
Will Rogers praises kindness from the air over Escalante
Will Rogers recounts a Christmas charity act in the Escalante Desert between Los Angeles and Salt Lake City. Pilots from the western air wing raised eighty dollars to buy clothes and toys for a family with many children and delivered them by plane on Christmas Day. The note highlights the plane and radio as life saving in remote areas.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Escalante
Los Angeles
Salt Lake
Western Air Tun
Miners Feared Dead as Rescue Efforts Continue
In Moweaqua Illinois rescue teams reopen the 2000 foot cross tunnel to reach fourteen entombed miners after an explosion. Authorities hope barricades against flames held. Thomas Jackson, 48, identified among the charred remains. Funeral services proceed for local victims as the town mourns.
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Moweaqua, Ill
Moweaqua
Methodist Episcopal
James A. Griffin
Springfield
Thomas Jackson
Santa Claus
Expert predicts farm price rise in 1933
H W Mumford dean of the University of Illinois College of Agriculture says farmers expect better prices in 1933 to help recover part of 1932 farm income losses. He cites 1932 readjustments, potential employment gains, and a bottoming of farm prices with a sideways then upward trend.
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Urbana, II
America
Colleges of Agriculture
H. W. Mumford
College of Agriculture
University of Illinall
Dean Mumford
House Passes 43.6 Million Interior Dept. Bill
Washington AP The second appropriation bill of the session carrying 43 632 000 for the interior department next year was passed by the House and sent to the Senate The De Priest proposal to add 460 000 for a power and heating plant at Howard University carried 138 to 105 The school appropriation will be contained in the bill that goes to the Senate
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Washington
Interior Department
House
Senate
de Priest
Howard University
Cedar Rapids Auto Toll This Year
Local report lists traffic toll in Cedar Rapids with counts of accidents injuries and fatalities. Data details appear incomplete in the fragment but indicate a yearly toll and safety concerns for drivers.
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Cedar Rapids
Insull Wins Extradition Appeal in Greek Court
In Athens the appeals court refused to extradite Samuel Insull to Chicago. The court ruled his acts were civil matters benefiting his companies, not criminal, and he was released. Chicago officials argued political persecution and demanded his return despite Greek law.
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Athens
Greece
Samut
Insull
America
Middle West
Chicago
McCormick
Samuel Insull
Paris
John A Swanson
Swanson
Illinois
Insull Extradition Battle Continues After Greek Ruling
Chicago authorities reported that despite a Greek court decision Samuel Insull will pursue extradition to the United States. State's Attorney Courtney said he would seek an appeal if possible and that the ruling does not affect Samuel Insull Jr or his brother Martin J Insull who faces a separate case in Toronto set for February 7.
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United States
Charas
Bellows
Jana
Andrew A
Vattaches
Chicago
Samuel Insull
Thomas J. Courtney
Athens
Courtney
Samuel
Martin J. Insull
Toronto
Commoneealth Edison
Samuel Insall, Jr
United Press Dispatch
Greek extradition question clouds Insull case
Officials said Insull may be beyond American courts as long as he stays in Greece. Extradition chances depend on whether Greek law allows reopening a ruled case to admit new evidence. The State Department is studying this angle.
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Washington
Samuel Insull
Greece
Insull
State Department
Insull probe to continue after Greek court ruling
Melvin H. Pars vis, chief of the U S bureau of investigation in Chicago, said Greek court actions freeing Samuel Insull will not hinder the federal inquiry into Insull Company affairs. Officials anticipate a governor's case completion in days with grand jury action likely in January.
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Insull
Chicago
Melvin H. Pars Vis
U. S. Bureau of Investigation
Samuel Insull
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South Africa
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Associated Press
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Cedar Rapids News
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Copsright
Howard Scott
American Statistical Association
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