Belgium Note and Political Jabs Spark Debate in Press
A Brussels note urges delay on wartime debts to Britain and France, while American readers weigh honor and relief on their bonds. Illinois lawmakers face a booing mob of jobless, and a blind South Dakota ward becomes county attorney. Indiana passes a law capping local tax at 1.50 per hundred, with boards of adjustment under scrutiny.
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Belgium
American State Department
Washington
England
France
Brussels
Illinois House of Representatives
Springfield
Chicago
Indiana
Iowa
State Board of Tax Commissioners
Court To Rule Later On Capone Plea
Al Capone faced a federal court hearing in Atlanta over his habeas corpus petition challenging his Chicago tax-evasion conviction. Judge Underwood considered the government's motion to dismiss and gave both sides a week to file briefs, while Capone sat with minimal contact and a guarded courtroom setup surrounded by tight security and a small crowd.
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al Capone
Chicago
Public Enemy No. 1
E. Marvin Underwood
Capone
Dwight Green
U. S
John Capone
Underwood
Farm Union Supports Holiday Movement For Consideration
Omaha AP delegates at the National Farmers Union convention passed a resolution urging careful consideration of the Farmers Holiday movement. The group also backed remonetization of silver, tax changes to aid small farms, dealer licensing, debt moratoriums, and government refinancing of farm mortgages, reflecting broad support with no major controversy.
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Omaha
Farmers’ Holiday Association
National Farmers Union
Resolutions Committee
Swank
Britain France Germany Form Economic Tripartite Pact
Paris reports a three nation economic consortium led by Raymond Patenotre to rehab Europe. The first project is a 17 billion franc loan for railway electrification in Poland Romania Iraq and Portugal. France and Britain provide 40 percent each and Germany 20 percent.
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France
Germany
Great Britain
Europe
Raymond Patenotre
Poland
Roumania
Irak
Portugal
New York Herald-Tribune
England
M. Patenotte
Berlin
Pierre Laval
Aristide Briand
Edouard Herriot
Franz von Papen
M. Patenotre
Pennsylvania election irregularities probe set in Philadelphia
The House special campaign fund committee will open hearings Thursday in the federal building Philadelphia. Witnesses include Joseph W. Hazlett and John J. McKinley of the Republican party committee and Edward Martin and Blakely D. McCaugh of the state committee. Complaints of irregularities in Philadelphia prompted the inquiry. evidence may be referred to Senator Howell's Senate campaign committee. Additional hearings may be held in Wilmington Delaware with possible action on Tennessee district irregularities.
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Nwashington
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
House ‘Special Campaign Fund Committee
Federal
Joseph W. Hazlett
John J. McKinley
Republican Party Committee
Edward Martin
Blakely D. McCaugh
State Committee
Ragan
House Committee
Davis
Rep
Lawrence H. Rupp
Ragon
Howell
Senate Campaign Committee
Wilmington
Del
First
Tennessee
Iowan rail misinfo charges stir at Congress hearing
Chicago AP reports Clinton Iowa resident Halleck W. Seaman accused railroads of spreading misinformation and cleverly phrased misstatements about federal barge lines and waterways before a congressional committee. He alleged the Western Railway association funds propaganda via publicity staff and speeches, and newspapers are paid to publish them, prompting questions from Rep. Stafford.
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Chicago
Halleck W. Seaman
Clinton
Iowa
Seaman
Railway Age
Traffic World
Chicago Journal of Commerce
William J. Stafford
Western Railway Association
C. D. Morris
Congress firm against new debts delay
Hoover returns from California to a Congress resolute against any further moratoriums on European debts. Senator Reed, a key Republican on the finance panel, led the consensus as Hoover prepared for Roosevelt’s looming transition. Public display of support and Cabinet backing followed at the White House.
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Washington
Hoover
California
David A. Reed
Finance Committee
Reed
Mr. Hoover
Roosevelt
White House
Mrs. Hoover
Commerce Chapin
Warm Springs
World War Debt Funding Commission
Northwestern Co-Eds Take Up The Pipe
Northwestern university co-eds have taken up pipe smoking after winning the right to smoke in sorority houses. The practice has spread widely, prompting merchants to greatly increase stocks of pipes of all kinds including corn cob pipes.
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Evanston
Ijc
Northwestern University
Rainey Announces Candidacy for House Speakership
Representative Rainey of Illinois, Democratic floor leader, formally announced his candidacy for the next House speakership in Washington. He seeks to lead the chamber as it begins its next session.
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Washington
Rainey
Ilinois
Royalty Among Dogs Seen At Local Show
The Personality Pups opened a two day engagement at Memorial auditorium in Cedar Rapids as part of the Cedar Rapids Kennel association all breed show benefiting the Day Nursery. Nearly 250 performers include top dogs like English bulldogs belonging to P E Belting and Des Moines and Moline handlers. Notable entries include Besseusanna Mollie and two Tony puppies, with German Sieger Marko Von Bentenburg leading a royal canine cast from the Marienhof kennels as families travel and compete.
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Memorial Auditorium
United States
Cedar Rapids Kennel Association
Junior Service League
Cedar Rapids
P. E. Belting
Besseuesanna
Des Moines
Mandalay
Mollie
Des Hio
Victoria
B.C. A
M. O.dannell
Moline
Jack Croy
Mr. Croy
Croy
Tony
Marko
Priscilla
Amy Johnson Flies Across The Sahara
Amy Johnson, Britain's daring flyer aiming to beat her husband's London to Cape Town record, crossed the Sahara by landing at Gao on the upper Niger Tuesday and taking off toward Douala on the Gulf of Guinea.
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Dakar
Senegal
French West Africa
Amy
Johnson
Britain
London
Cape Town
Sahara Desert
Gao
Niger
Douala
Gulf of Guinea
Chapin Sees Roosevelt Debt Pact Move as Boost to Business
Secretary Roy D. Chapin said Roosevelt's pledge to confer with the President over international debts is a hopeful omen for business. He noted private Commerce Department statistics show business holding its own, with October showing a third straight month of rising employment.
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Washington (Ap
Commerce
Roy D. Chapin
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Commerce Department
Roosevelt Works On New York Budget Amid Illness Recovery
President elect Roosevelt, nearly recovered from influenza, began work as New York governor from his Albany mansion bed chamber. He summoned secretaries to begin shaping a state budget for his successor, while described as feeling fine.
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Albany
N. Y
Roosevelt
New York
Prince of Wales parade in Belfast marked by rail sabotage
In Belfast the Prince of Wales attended a five mile dedication of the Northern Ireland Parliament buildings, flanked by 12,000 guards as rioting fans ripped up tracks from Kells to Belfast and mined roads, with telegraph wires cut and anti Irish banners along the routes.
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Northern Ireland
Stormont
Kells
County Meath
Free State
Cavan
Ireland
Northern
Independent
Ulster
Holidays Close Stores On Christmas And New Year
Cedar Rapids merchants decide to close stores on Monday December 26 and Monday January 2 to observe holidays that fall on Sundays this year. They will remain open the prior week on Wednesday through Saturday evenings. John Carey elected bureau chairman and a 29 member executive committee named with Morris Sanford as vice chairman and many officials listed.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercantile Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
John Carey
Bureau
Morris Sanford
Harry S. Abar
Mark Anderson
M. G. Bellas
Charles Bode
Adolph Boyson
Marshall Brebner
A. J. Cassel
C. E. Collins
J. F. Currell
Ted Emerson
J. W. Enzler
Carl N. Ettinger
C. C. Kaldenberg
Frank Katterjohn
E. J. Ke
Lunar Day Promises Quiet Year With Hidden Intrigue
The stars foretell a routine period that may yield curious events centered on investigation and secret matters. Caution at work, with a mediocre year possible unless one pursues research or adventurous paths. A mysterious child may excel in business via strategy and diplomacy, and notable nativity includes naturalist C. E. Akeley.
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C. E. Akeley
Will Rogers on debts and blame in Europe
Will Rogers argues that Europe would repay debts if the United States loaned money for that purpose. He asserts Germany’s failure to pay stems from American loans to Germany, blaming domestic policy and Republican stances for the collapse, and insisting Europe would resume payments if funded by us.
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Corona
Cailf
Germany
Europe
States Young Helped Delay Insull Crash
A Chicago banker testified that Owen D. Young influenced New York bankers to sign a standstill agreement aiding Samuel Insull’s firms. He described Young as a mediator who kept bankers in line while Insull’s empire neared collapse. Insull Jr testified about high salaries drawn from the family corporations amid receivership of Middle West Utilities.
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Chicago
Owen D. Young
New York
Samuel Insll
Young
DOW
Insull
Louis Jacobson
Brown
Samuel Insull, Jr
Insulls
Middlewest Utilities Company
Young Insull
Jacobson
Typhoon Claims 58 Japanese Seamen in Two Disasters
Far East dispatches reported by Lloyd's Agency indicate that fifty eight Japanese sailors died in two separate maritime disasters caused by Monday's typhoon.
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London
Far East
Lloyd's Agency
Wets Seek to Stop Enforcement Funds
Washington (INS) extreme wets demand end of federal appropriations for enforcement of prohibition. Letters to Rep. John J. O’Connor reveal direct 43 million dollars yearly for law enforcement through the prohibition unit coast guard treasury and others. Repeal of Volstead and fund cut would leave the Eighteenth Amendment with no federal enforcement law.
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Washington
INS
John J. O'Connor
Dem
New York
Prohibition Bureau
Coast Guard
Treasury
O'Connor
Congress set to vote on sales tax and beer before history
Washington expects final Congress to act on a manufacturers sales tax as deficits mount and new taxes underperform. A vote on modifying the Volstead act to legalize beer for revenue is anticipated amid strong anti prohibition sentiment and party unity.
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Washington
Congress
Treasury
German leader crisis grows as Schnee seen for chancellor
Berlin reports a German political crisis nears with Dr. Heinrich Schnee, former governor of German East Africa and Lytton commission member, as a leading successor to Franz von Papen. Centrists and Bavarians refuse cabinet cooperation, Hitlerites demand direct talks with President Hindenburg, and Von Papen plans a Thursday meeting amid anticipated resignation.
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Franz von Papen
Heinrich Schnee
German East Asia
Dr. Schnee
Lytton Commission
von Papen
Adolf Hitler
National Socialist Party
Paul von Hindenburg
Bavariams
Vossiche Zeitung
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Export bounty proposed on wheat and corn by Farm Aid
Washington claims a 20 cent per bushel export bounty on wheat and corn would boost farmers purchasing power by about 1 billion dollars. Nisbet Grammer argues the St Lawrence waterway hurts farmers, favoring export via Gulf ports and Canadian grain. Samuel Botsford disputes the project’s economic value and cost.
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Senate
Nisbet
Grammer
Buffalo
N. Yo
St. Lawrence Waterway
Congress
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Grammers
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Head of
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Canada
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Great Lakes
Europe
Samuel
Ruth Elder to testify in Reno assault case
Ruth Elder the aviatrix and recent divorcee from Walter Camp Jr is to appear as principal witness in a Reno police court assault case. Kendrick Johnson Reno attorney tied to the incident was arrested after a confrontation with M J Holland who accused him of striking him while attempting to stop the beating of Elder at a party. Elder said Johnson did not beat her and she ducked as the fight began. Both Johnson and Holland have black eyes while Elder shows no marks.
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Nev
Ruth Elder
Walter Camp, Jr
Kendrick Johnson
Miss Elder
M. J. Holland
Johnson
Holland
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