02 Dec 1930
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1930
Page
1
National lawmakers engage on repealing the Volstead Act and Eighteenth Amendment as party leaders debate drought relief. Senator Robinson calls for 60 million dollars for seed loans amid a national referendum proposal and five attacks against Prohibition measures emerge.
Several hundred Communists staged a noisy protest on the Capitol plaza as tear gas, police clubs, and staggered dispersal followed. Police patrolled with rifles. some demonstrators fled toward New York while a few remained jailed or hospitalized.
Jim Davis, newly elected Republican from Pennsylvania, faces Senate credential delays amid questions over campaign spending. William N. Doak, sworn as Labor Secretary in limbo, has unclear status as Davis resigns from the Labor Department effective tomorrow. Nye Committee probes $625,000 in expenditures as Davis defers his oath and job status remains unsettled.
In Hamilton Ohio the Big Miami River yielded a haul of narcotics valued at about 80 000 dollars after local boys on the riverbank found tins and vials they tried to sell to drugstores and doctors. Police recovered the stash and will hand it to federal inspectors as investigators seek its origin.
Paris dispatch reports Gen Erich von Ludendorff releasing a booklet titled World War Threatens claiming Germany would be defeated in five weeks and predicting a global conflict beginning May 1 1932. He criticizes prewar militarism and shifts to pacifism while outlining a proposed wartime scenario involving Germany Italy Hungary later joined by England and Russia.
Ruth Nichols, society figure from Rye New York, lands in Burbank after a New York to Burbank flight in 16 hours 59 minutes. She lowers the prior Keith-Miller record by 8 hours 44 minutes and nears Frank Hawks speed mark on the route.
Francis M. Stephenson reports from Washington on a fractured House and Senate as they begin a brief session. Drought relief dominates the agenda while debates over Prohibition repeal and World Court protocol create intensifying pressure to finish legislation by March.
The California Supreme Court again refused to recommend a pardon for Warren K. Billings, 1916 parade bombing convict, and also affected Thomas J. Mooney. Billings, serving life at Folsom, was deemed not to have shown new merit since the prior ruling. Gov Young receives the decision with an explanatory letter noting no new trial occurred. Justice Langdon dissented, urging clemency.
A vintage weather narrative describes General Cold assembling forces to rout the warm, with observers at Abbe Observatory noting the shift from 80 to 33 degrees as the cold front advanced. Chief Rain-in-the-Face previously aided warmer claims before Old Gen. Cold resumed the campaign, pushing temps lower.
Three bandits hijacked a Cincinnati Street Railway Company truck carrying about 14250 in cash. A maroon Ford coupe used in the getaway was last seen east of Hamilton on Princeton pike. Two guards and two employees were involved, with about 7000 dollars in silver left behind. Police describe the suspects and broadcast details to WLW and WCKY.
Judge Ben Lindsey spoke to the New York Churchmen Association on marriage as Bishop Manning objected and did not attend. Seventy clergymen dined, debated, and prepared a press statement backing clergy access to vital topics while voting to hear the speaker.
Berlin December 1 Paul von Hindenburg signed an emergency decree enacting Chancellor Bruening s financial reform program to cut public expenditures reduce salaries and block tax increases. The decree gives effect to 26 laws while other measures for agriculture and minor changes to July decrees are included. The Reichstag convenes Wednesday with opposition by fascists and communists a future clash to decide revocation.
Detroit December 1 police and Wayne County Grand Jury probe an alleged mob plot to poison actress Marjorie Owen a Woodward Ave soubrette and rumored Diamond Bill Dellabonta ally. She collapsed after drinking given by an unidentified man and is in Receiving Hospital in serious condition. Prosecutor Harry S. Toy asked the case be presented to the grand jury.
Washington dispatch reports Secretary Stimson’s retinue parrot The Old Soak gains a rival nicknamed The New Doak. The piece sketches Polly Doak’s charm in the Doak household and notes her ascent into Mr. Doak’s heart after a shopping trip.
London report quotes Elliott O'Donnell of an old Irish family who has spent a lifetime studying ghosts. He says he has seen hundreds, heard others, and describes banshees as sometimes beautiful women with red gold hair, guiding impending deaths.
In Fort Morgan Colorado December 1 search efforts for Wig gins schoolteacher Enid Marriott who disappeared November 16 yielded no clues. A reported sighting in Independence Kansas turned out to be Bobby Lee Richmond a Tulsa Oklahoma resident. Crews expanded work east of Week and found a suitcase matching items linked to Marriott but no discovery of the teacher.
A fire swept the John Robinson Circus winter quarters at Peru Indiana, destroying a large barn and two ring barns. Estimated loss is 140000 dollars. No injuries. eighty horses and several trained dogs were moved to safety as wind helped contain the blaze. Fire started from spontaneous combustion in 300 tons of hay.
Ottawa reports Col. T. L. Kennedy states George Henry, Ontario Highways Minister, will become Premier succeeding G. H. Ferguson, who is named Canadian High Commissioner to London.
Rev H G Wilks of Upperthong introduces a weekly cabaret style act in church using Parisian inspired chorus girls and jazz numbers. He says the aim is to reconcile theater with religion and modern entertainment, rejecting traditional church socials as mere bazaars.
Mrs J M Keith Miller an Australian air woman landed safely on Andros Island last Friday after losing course on a Havana Miami flight. Nassau agent of PanelAmerican Airways requested twenty gallons of gasoline and oil to continue to Miami. Capt W N Lancaster planned a dawn departure with a mechanic and fuel to retrieve the plane and pilot. He may not allow her to fly back, preferring to bring the aircraft himself.
Aviation observers question why Mrs. Keith-Miller aborted her flight in the Bahamas leaving many unanswered details.
The report covers temperatures across Ohio Kentucky Tennessee Indiana and West Virginia with fair or warmer conditions in most areas Tuesday and Wednesday. It lists highs and lows for major cities including Louisville Nashville Cleveland New York Chicago and St Louis and notes scattered precipitation figures and a December record ending at 8 pm.
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