Soviet Slaughters Army Officers in Wave of Arrests
A News Service dispatch reports that 1,200 Soviet Army officers and their associates were arrested, with about 300 executed in the last days. The claims cite private messages via Voelkischer Beobachter, the Nazi party newspaper in Munich, and refer to alleged plots and foreign aid pledges.
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Berlin
Voelkischer Beobacster
German National Socialists
Munich
Reagan
Conyright
N. Y
World News Service
Ya 2 Press Publishing Co
New York
World Or Service
Anti-Soviet Plotter Claims French Intervention Promised
In Moscow on November 30, Prof. Leonid Ramin on trial with six others testified that two officers of the French naval staff promised intervention in the USSR. He said plans included armies from Poland and the Baltic and aid from the English fleet with a likely date in the summer of 1934. He named Raymond Poincare in cross examination and described meetings in Paris with French General Staff officers.
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Russia
Moscow
Leonid Ramin
Ant - Soviet Union
Ramsin
Poland
Baltic
Poincare
Krilenko
Raymond Poincare
France
Alexander Fefan
Pama
Janville
Janin
Denisov
Lukomsky
Paris
Ramgin
Tarry Thiegn
Aved
Eer
Kritsnko
Tietor Larichev
Ramsit
Col. Richards
Richards
Storm Warning Issued By Weather Bureau
The Weather Bureau issued a storm warning from Cape Hatteras to Massachusetts noting a disturbance centered over Indiana moving northeastward. Anticipated effects include increasing southerly winds and possibly gale force by late tonight.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Washington
Mov
Cape Hatteras
Mass
Indiana
Four Men Held After Emerson High Girl Dies
Ilene Draves, 18, Emerson High School graduate, died after an apparent attack at a party early Sunday. Four men—Virgil Kirkland 20, Horace Barton 21, Leon Stanford, and Harry Shirk—were arrested following Kirkland's statement to police. The death prompted a stoke inquest and the suspects were detained as investigators awaited the coroner's report.
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Emerson High
Ilene Draves
Chester A. Ow
Kirkland
Lastar
Horace
Leon Stanford
Emerson High Grid
al Barton
Harry A. Shirk
Gary
Draves
Babe
Thompson
Kirad
Dr .O. Wharton
Mi. Jares
Nye to Challenge Davis for Senate Credentials
Senate committee chair Nye plans to ask Senator-elect Davis to stand aside tomorrow when presenting credentials while probing reports of about 520000 in expenditures for the Davis Brown ticket in Pennsylvania. Davis silent on the move as party leaders weigh seating amid inquiry and rumors of opposition.
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Washington
Nye
Senate Campaign Funds Investigating Committee
Davis
Rep
Senate
Pennsylvania
Davis-Brown
Francis Shunk Brown
Hoover
Nyer
Davi
Pennsyyvania
Gifford Pinchot
Brown
Senator Grundy
Senator Nye
Select Drear Cheerless Sunday Ends Three Lives in Cincinnati
A dreary Sunday rain marked the suicides of three men. John Kuntz, 74, police veteran, shot himself at Bank Street and Winchell Avenue. Emil Herbrick, 50, a bookkeeper, asphyxiated himself at 1135 Regent Avenue. Edwin Bann, 45, of Valley Builder Supply, shot himself at 1749 North Bend Road. Neighbors alerted police after a gunshot at Kuntz’s home. he was pronounced dead at General Hospital. Police note his despondency over his wife’s illness. Kuntz left a note naming his brother-in-law. The report continues on Page Three.
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John Kuntz
Bank Street
Winchell Avenue
Emil Herbrick
Regent Avenue
Bond Hill
East Thirteenth Street
Edwin Bann
Valley Builder Supply Company
Harrison Avenue
Baltimore& Ohio Railroad
North Bend
Kuntz
General Hospital
Cincinnati
Cincinnati Police Department
John Seebohm
Knox and Wheberg
Martha Kuntz
Deaconess Hospital
Mary Houston
Two Men Jailed in Kidnap Plot With Dummy Packages
New York City police hold John Rhodes of Irvington New York and John Brady of Harrison New Jersey on attempted blackmail charges in a kidnapping plot targeting Richard C Clemson a wealthy tool manufacturer of Middletown New York and his family. The scheme involved four letters demanding ten thousand dollars and dummy packages as police traced the plan from Hotel Astor to the Wood Agency at Hudson Tube Station and Broadway Forty sixth street.
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New York World News Service
New York
Richard C. Clemson
Middletown
N. Y
John Rhodes
Irvington
John Brady
Harrison
Clemson
Hotel Astor
Mr. Clemson
Tives
Rhodes
Brady
Broadway
Forty Sixth Street
Wood Agency
Hudson
Thirty-third Street
Sixth Avenue
Howard
Pinehurst
N. C
Ice Box Bandit Captured After Police Traps
Police nabbed Alex Ace Johnson 19, and James Reginald 27, in Latonia Kentucky, ending a spree of grocery store robberies. Johnson, known as the Ice Box Bandit, was caught after headlights at 750 Hopkins Street, following a $7.50 hold up on milk wagon driver Gerald Brogan. Detectives Scudder and McShane prevented further crimes during the arrest.
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Alex “Ace” Johnson
Hopkins Street
James Reginald
Wes T Eighth Street
Johnson
Frank Scudder
James McShane
Gerald Brogan
West Thirty-sixth Street
Latonia
Brogan
Central
City Hall
Mother Jones dies at age 100 in Maryland
Mary Jones known as Mother Jones dies at age 100 in Silver Springs Maryland after a long illness. The labor leader had been bedridden for a year and had recently teetered between life and death as doctors awaited her fate.
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Mother Jones
Washington
Mary
Mother’) Jones
Maryland
Silver Springs
Soviet Five Year Plan Seen Surpassing Goals in Two Years
The Soviet Union reports it has exceeded targets in the first two years of the Piatiletka, with Valerian Kuibyshev asserting fulfillment ahead of schedule and the goal now shifted to completing the plan in four years. He notes world debate on the plan and presents comparative data showing progress across key industries.
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Soviet Union
Union
Associated Press
Russia
Valerian V. Kuibyshev
Council of People’s Commissars
State Planning Commission
Moscow
M. Kuibyshev
Ohio praised for measures to stagger employment plan
The Department of Commerce commends Ohio for its coordinated state county and municipal efforts to fight unemployment. A public works surge and staggered private employment kept incomes spread across many families, with road and bridge projects sped up statewide and a county network expediting local improvements.
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Washington
Ohio
Department of Commerce
Department
Cooper
Labor, Agriculture and Commerce
State Organization
Commerce Department
Verse Bindings: Justice Weds Livsey and Sutcliffe in Rhyme
In Aurora Illinois Justice Galvin replaced forms with verse to join David Livsey and Faye E Sutcliffe in marriage. The ceremony included playful questions about duty and affection, culminating in a kiss and a lawful union under Illinois law.
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Aurora
Ill
Illinois
David Livsey
Faye E. Sutcliffe
Einstein's Theories Not All Practical, Frau Reports
Berlin dispatch reports Albert Einstein leaving for Antwerp with Frau Einstein and aides to sail to the United States. The anecdote describes Frau Einstein seeking a raincoat fitting for his measurements and the shopkeeper noting the impracticality of persuading him to come in for a proper fit.
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Einstein
Berlin
Albert Einstein
Frau Einstein
Antwerp
Bergenland
United States
Veterans Charity Show Halted By Blue Law Collision
In Philadelphia on Sunday November 30 a Veterans of Foreign Wars charity film at the Kent Theater was stopped under the 1794 blue laws banning Sunday amusements. Police canceled the permit after minister protests. A crowd swelled to about 1,000. three arrested for disorderly conduct as sponsors canceled the event.
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Philadelphia
Felice
Kent Theater
Menhihers
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Schofield
American Legion
Oscar Wilde Teeth Hidden With Hotel Keeper Relic
Paris reports that Jean Poirier, longtime hotel keeper at Hotel D Alase, preserved Wilde’s gold false teeth for thirty years. Wilde died in Poirier’s arms on November 30, 1900, after staying incognito as Sebastian Malmotto. Poirier aided him with morphine and nights beside him with nuns.
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Paris
Jean Poirier
Oscar Wilde
Poirier
D’ Alecase
Latin Quarter
Sebastian Malmotto
D’alase
Wilde
N. Y. World News Service
N. Y. World) Press Publishing Co
Monkey Aids Chicago Burglar In Loot Heist
Police report a trained monkey used to pass parcels from a back porch into a kitchen to unlock a back door. Detectives found tiny footprints on the floor and wall near the opening after jewelry worth 12000 dollars vanished from Mr and Mrs Ralph Shorr.
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Chicago
Ralph Shorr
Sixty Five Injured in Bombay Police Clashes
Sixty five people were injured in clashes between demonstrators and police in Bombay. The violence erupted when police charged a crowd with bamboo staves after a ceremony saluting the national flag on the esplanade in front of the police station.
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Bombay
Congress to debate national referendum on repeal of Prohibition
Representative Andrew of Massachusetts proposes a House resolution for a national referendum on repealing the Eighteenth Amendment. The plan, supported by Dr. Clarence True Wilson, envisions seven years for states to ratify repeal via conventions.
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Washington
Navy
Andrew
Rep
Mass
Clarence True Wilson
Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals
Wilson
Diry
Congress
United States
Methodist Board of Temperance and Morals
Party veterans weigh inevitable extra session
Party veterans in both chambers expect an extra session to occur as a supreme test of the president's leadership. Formal meetings of the House and Senate are held today to chart the next steps and pressure on policy issues.
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Senate
Billion-Dollar Bond Issue To Create Jobs
New York reports a plan to form the Emergency Committee for Federals' Public Works to urge Congress to float a billion dollar federal employment loan modeled on wartime Liberty Bonds. The program would fund vast public works to employ hundreds of thousands, with supporters including James H. Post and Amos Pinchot.
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New York
Congress
Harold S. Buttenheim
American City Magazine
Federals
Col
Arthur Woods
James H. Post
Frank C. Munson
Amos Pinchot
Daniel J. Meserole
Richard S58. Childs
Paul U. Kellogg
Helium export ban proposed by Rep Arentz
Washington November 30. Representative Arentz a House Mines Committee member and one of two engineers drafts a bill to lift the ban on helium exports. He aims to aid Great Britain and Graf Zeppelin commander Dr Hugo Seckener by allowing the gas to be sent abroad, noting the United States holds a monopoly.
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Washington
Arentz
House Mines Committee
Great Britain
Hugo Seckener
Two Police Killed In Canton Shootout
In Macomb Illinois a gunman shot two police officers dead and wounded two others before he was slain. Edward Whitlsey 60 and Ernest Bowman 36 died. Officer Al Links died later. Luther Jackson injured. The gunman identified as Edwin Zerell 28 of Canton. initial name Oliver Harding considered. Police sought identity and motive as details emerged.
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Canton
Ill
Edwin Zerell
Macomb
Edward Whitlesly
Ernest Bowman
al Links
Luther Jackson
Jimmy
Whitlessy
Bowman
Links
Jackson
Peoria
Oliver Harding
Chicago
Bertillon
John Norton
Fred Burke
British Miners Continue Work Despite Scots Strike
A strike of 92,000 Scottish coal miners began in Scotland on Friday while Britain avoids a national stoppage as talks continue over the new mines act. Government messages urged temporary pacts as miners and owners negotiate day by day to keep pits open. Optimists expect a return to work by tomorrow night amid fears of wider trouble.
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London
Scotland
Great Britain
E. Shinwell
Hoover and Robinson Hold White House Talks on New Congress
President Hoover meets Senator Robinson at the White House for an eight hour session on the Seventy first Congress agenda starting tomorrow. Democratic leaders pledge non obstruction while backing emergency relief and public works measures, amid internal party splits and Republican cooperation.
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Mr. Hoover
Robinson
Democratic
Hoover
White House
Congress
Senate
Senator Bulkley Leaves Home for Senate Inauguration
Robert J. Bulkley departed Cleveland for Washington to be sworn in as Ohio's junior senator at the opening session of Congress. A farewell group, including Crusaders members, saw him off as he promised to take time to decide his maiden Senate speech topic.
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Cleveland
Robert J. Bulkley
Washington
Ohio
Congress
The
Crusaders
Senate
Temperatures across states show cold spell with snow flurries
A weather summary reports colder, partly cloudy conditions across Ohio Indiana and Tennessee with snow flurries in northern areas and generally fair, colder conditions elsewhere. A table lists current and high temperatures with precipitation amounts for cities including Boston Nashville Cleveland New York Chicago Atlanta St Louis Galveston and others.
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Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
Indiana
West Virginia
Eastport
Louisville
Boston
Nashville
Albany
Cleveland
New York
Detroit
Atl
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Blue Law
Dr. Wilson
House Wet
Elliott Thurston
Senator Bulkley
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