Hoover Roosevelt conference at the White House noted
The Tuesday night AP dispatch covers Hoover Roosevelt talks at the White House with Moley present as aides smoke-filled rooms and Roosevelt’s late evening conversations. Governors supporters say Hoover listens on war debt while others push for action before March 4, with calls to pay or default. Officials warn of potential beer-gang activity if prohibition ends, and a state wide real estate assessment cut prompts tax shifts. Henry Wallace urged for Roosevelt cabinet service. Mussolini and Herriot planned a friendly conference to ease tensions, while a county in Davis County, Ta., votes shift party balance for the first time in fifty years. Col Raymond Robins amnesia report, tied to the Chicago platform, is noted.
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Henry Wallace
Harding
Roosevelt
House Set Beer Hearings For Dec. 7 In New Revenue Push
Democratic leaders moved quickly after talks with President-elect Roosevelt to announce hearings on beer legalization will begin immediately after Congress convenes. The Ways and Means Committee, chaired by Collier and led by Rainey, set Wednesday December 7 as the first hearing date, focusing on alcohol content, taxation, and distribution, with Republicans Hawley and others supporting revenue measures including a potential sales tax.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
Congress
Ways and Means Committee
Rep. Rainey
Collier
Garner
Rainey
Roceerstt
Pee
Acme
Rep. Hawley
Oregon
California
Judiciary Committee
Mississippian
Rainey Doughton
North Carolina
Ragan
Arkansas
Vinson
Kentucky
Hawley
Treadway
Massachusetts
Bacharach
New Jersey
Ape Watson
Pennsylvania
Repulicans
Brewers Fear Gangsters Targeting Legal Beer
Washington AP report notes large brewers fear a well organized gangster would muscle into the beer business if prohibition ends. Ruppert’s and Anheuser Busch leaders discussed with Dr. James Doran seeking strict permit enforcement to curb illegal competition. Some brewers counter ads claim 10 cent beer price to secure profits while Congress debates revenues.
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Washington
James M. Doran
Industrial Alcohol
Ruppert’s
New York
Anheuser- Busch
St. Louis
Doran
Will Rogers Reflects on Writers and Politics in America
In Los Angeles Will Rogers remarks on Walter Lippmann as a great writer and the thrill of disagreement with him over debts and politics. He notes Brisbane predicting eight Republican states and observes a shift in American attitudes toward comedians and politicians.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Walter Lippman
Brisbane
Ned McClain
America
Council Bans Walkathons In New Emergency Ordinance
Cedar Safide News reports an emergency ordinance prohibiting dance marathons walking marathons and walkathons with immediate effect. Mayor W H Stepanek issued the measure as promoters planned a Thanksgiving walkathon despite license rescission. Public safety chief Dan Kruidenier ordered patrols to stop the opening and promised prosecution. The ordinance imposes 100 fine or 30 days per violation, with each day of marathon activity constituting a separate offense.
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Cedar Safide News
W. H. Stepanek
Dan Kruidenier
Public Safety
W. C. Benesh
Kruldenjer
Lytton Commission to Meet Again Over Manchuria Rift
At the League of Nations council meeting in Geneva an invitation was extended for the Lytton Commission to revisit its Manchuria report. Yosuke Matsuoka protested the move, while Earl of Lytton and colleagues prepared to explain or amend findings. Dr Welling ton Koo and Matsuoka clashed over implications of Japan’s actions and the boycott.
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Geneva
Japan
Council of the
League of Nations
Lytton Commission
China
Eamon de Valera
Irish Free State
Yosuke Matsuoka
Earl of Lytton
Matsuoka
Wellington Koo
Asia
Dr. Koo
Lenchu Islands
Formosa
Korea
Manchuria
Mongolia
Jehol
Koo
Hitler rejects cabinet offer and proposes new plan
Adolf Hitler declined President von Hindenburgs conditional offer of the chancellorship after more than a day of consideration. He urged an authoritarian presidial cabinet responsible to Hindenburg and proposed a plan to solve the crisis within the shortest time while preserving army, foreign policy, and economic programs.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
National Socialist Party
von Hindenburg
Hitler
National Socialist
Reich
Reichstag
Eight Arrested in Ritzie Cigar Store Raid Downtown
In Cedar Rapids downtown Ritzie Cigar Store at 406 Third Avenue SE eight men were arrested at 4 30 p m after federal and state agents staged a raid battering doors and seizing evidence. Those charged included Joe Shulista and W A Williams with liquor nuisance, others cited for disorderly house. Tony Paula left in charge during the raid.
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Cedar Rapids
Third Avenue SE
Joe Shulista
Second Street
W. A. Williams
C Avenue NE
Shulista
Williams
Claude Hubler
First Avenue
M. E. Jones
Fourteenth Street
George Wilson
Pete Konesler
Twenty-second Avenue
Martin Hansen
D Avenue NE
Bob Wright
Tony Paula
Ritzie
Miller
Fry
Tony Jerabek
Paul
Jerabek
Son Of Norwegian Author Held As Communist Leader
Halvard Lange Bojer, 27, son of Norwegian novelist Johann Bojer, is in Detroit immigration custody awaiting a deportation hearing after being arrested in Fort Wayne Indiana where he worked as a GE engineer. Held in county jail on a 2,000 bond. Bojer, a Norwegian citizen, leads the Lovestone faction of the communist party and is charged with attempting to form an organization calling for overthrow of the U S government.
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Detroit
Halvard Lange Bojer
Johann Bojer
L. A. Denny
Fort Wayne
Ind
General Electric Company
Bojer
Lovestone
Communist Party
Denny
United States
Burglary Report Baffles Dallas Radio Officer
Dallas police radio squad officer L I Perry raced to 1915 Lattimer Street after a dispatch about a burglary. He found three shirts a suit and an overcoat missing from the residence, indicating a daylight break in.
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Dallas
Tex
L. I. Perry
Perry
Lattimer Street
Roosevelt and Brandeis In Conference In Georgia Visit
President elect Franklin D Roosevelt left Washington for Georgia to pursue closer executive and judicial branch cooperation. Brandeis, liberal Supreme Court member, called on Roosevelt at his hotel. Olson and Hull echoed Roosevelt's push for immediate progressive farm legislation and fast action on other goals.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Georgia
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Louis D. Brandeis
Brandeis
Tthe Court
Justice Brandeis
Frederick Delano
Warren Delano Robbins
Rep
Douglas
Arizona
Sen
Cordell Hull
Tenn
Davis
Floyd B. Olson
Minnesota
Floydb. Olson
Farmer
Roosevelt Aims For Simple Inauguration March Fourth
President elect Franklin D. Roosevelt said he desires the inauguration to be of utmost simplicity and declined an inaugural ball. He approved a parade along Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House but warned against making it too large.
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Washington
INS
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Pennsylvania Avenue
Capitol
White House
Prince of Wales Visits Lancashire Unemployed Areas
The Prince of Wales arrived in Bolton to begin a two day tour among about 150000 unemployed in Lancashire including Liverpool St Helens and Wigan. He met cheering crowds despite rain and wind and aims to spotlight Lancashire’s plight amid the global downturn.
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Bolton
Eng
Prince of Wales
Lancashire
Liverpool
St. Helens
Wigan
England
Democrats Seek Farm Relief Bill in Short Session
Washington AP report says Democratic leaders plan to push a farm relief bill in the upcoming short session. Rainey and Jones will organize the measure based on a prior Senate-passed, then killed, bill. They aim to confer with farm leaders before December 5 and begin hearings in the first week. The bill would create an adjustment fund under the Agriculture Department to compensate domestic buyers via certificates tied to hogs, wheat, and cotton usage.
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Washington
House
Congress
Jones
House Agriculture Committee
Rainey
Illinois
Senate
Earl Smith
Illinois Farm Bureau Federation
Edward O'Neil
American, Agricultural Association
Agriculture Committee
Agriculture Department
Vargas bans coffee planting in Brazil for three years
President Getulio Vargas issued a decree prohibiting all coffee planting in Brazil for a period of three years. The measure covers the entire country and aims to curb overproduction and control supply. No penalties or exceptions are detailed in the decree.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Getulio Vargas
Electric Knife Advances In Surgery With Vacuum Tubes
Describes a new electro surgical knife using vacuum tubes to deliver a high frequency current, enabling nearly wire free incisions. Inventor Paul C. Rawls demonstrates a cutting action viewed as spectacular, with medical men optimistic about intrathermy and reduced tissue damage. Page 5 continuation noted.
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Gene Gillette
United Press
Des Moines
Paul C. Rawls
Orion Rawls
Rawls
Roosevelt outlines direct debt dealings policy
President elect Roosevelt sets forth a policy of direct action in debt settlements with debtor nations through diplomatic channels, avoiding recourse to Congress and treating each nation individually. He agrees with Hoover on four points: loans repayable, separate dealings per country, consider capacity to pay, and no link to reparations.
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Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Congress
Hoover
Secretary of the Treasury
Ogden L. Mills
Washington
Principle of debtor access to creditor outlined in remarks
The speaker defends a debt policy that grants debtors free access to creditors, urging courteous consideration of facts and representations. The text argues the principle applies to nations as a basic civil obligation, with individual cases to be examined on their conditions. (Continued on Page 9, Column 8.)
GE Officials Praise Beam of Light Talk Experiment
General Electric officials welcomed a long-distance narrow casting test using a 200000 watt searchlight beam to transmit voices to a Lake Desolation hilltop. Scientist Heywood Broun interviewed John Bellamy Taylor from Schenectady as a 30 inch mirror captured the beam.
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Echenectady
N. Y
General Electric Company
Heywood Broun
Columist
Lake Desolation
Adirondack Mountains
Broun
John Bellamy Taylor
Schenectady
Taylor
Mars
Smuggling Bibles Into Russia Sparks Religious Mission
The Rev. William Fetler founder of the Russian Missionary Society in Pittsburgh on a lecture tour said his group is smuggling thousands of Bibles into Russia by night. He claimed the Russian people are adopting religion more rapidly than any other nation.
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Pittsburgh
William Fetler
The
Russian Missionary Society
Russia
Debt Moratorium Replies Sent To Britain And France
Secretary Stimson delivered to British ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay the US reply to a moratorium extension request on debts due next month. He also handed Ambassador Claudel of France a note on reconsideration of war debts. Belgium Poland and Czechoslovakia requests were not sent at the same time.
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Washington
Stimson
Ronald Lindsay
Claudel
France
Belgium
Poland
Czechoslovakia
State Department
Hoover Opposes Debt Cancellation and Debates Commission
A White House meeting drew mixed reaction as President Hoover declared against debt cancellation while suggesting other tangible compensation. Congress leaders questioned the need for a commission to review debts, with many opposing a delay and differing on presidential power to negotiate. Roosevelt’s exact stance remained unclear as he left for Warm Springs after talks with Mills.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
White House
Hoover
Congress
Capitol Hill
Garner
Roosevelt
Proposes 19 Years Then Weds Another Woman Sues
Pearl Norris filed a breach of promise suit in Chicago against Albert Felton. The 53 year old man allegedly proposed every year from 1911 to 1930, when he married another woman. Norris seeks $50,000 in damages as recompense for the long courtship and eventual marriage change.
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Chicago
Pearl Norris
Albert Felton
Slayer To Be Gassed In Nevada Monday
Everett Mull alias John Hall a former North Carolina contractor will be executed in the gas chamber at 6 15 am Monday in Carson City Nevada for the murder of bootlegging partner John O’Brien in Las Vegas a year ago. Warden Matt Penrose announced the information.
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Carson City
Nev
INS
Nevada
Everett Mull
John Hall
North Carolina
John O'Brien
Las Vegas
Matt Penrose
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