Hoover Offers Tax Plan To Balance Budget
France faces a crisis over the December 20 million war debt installment to the United States as Italy and Britain show willingness to pay. Premier Herriot says no definite decision yet after cabinet and ministers council meeting. He will brief the finance and foreign affairs committees and seek a cabinet decision to be announced in Parliament Friday.
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United Press
Paris
United States
Italy
Great Britain
Edoward Herriot
Council of Ministers
MacDonald
Chamberlain
Amis
Geneva
Chicinberlain
London
Chicago gang warfare claims two more victims
In a northwest Chicago incident tied to the liquor trade, Nicholas Maggio aged 26 and Anthony Persigo aged 29 were found slain on a highway after a suspected gang ride. Milner and Leonard Gage, who encountered the scene, reported seeing armed men near two cars as shots rang out. Police link the killings to ongoing battles for control of illegal liquor traffic.
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United Press
Chicago
Nicholas Maggio
Anthony Persigo
Milner
Leonard Gage
Gages
Andy
Red
Maggio
Persigo
Open Hearings On Dry Law Modification In Congress
Washington December 7 The House Ways and Means Committee opened formal hearings on modifying the Volstead act in a packed committee room. Levi Guoke, a Washington lawyer for the United States brewers, testified first as Chairman Collier said the beer and wine bill before the committee is only preliminary. The measure would tax beer at 2 78 percent and naturally fermented wines at 20 cents per gallon with altered alcohol contents. Rep Sabath a veteran anti prohibitionist spoke briefly praising the committee’s task of amending prohibition laws.
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United Press
Washington
House Ways and Means Committee
Levi Guoke
United States Brewers
Collier
Bem
Heer
Darvel
Cooke
Sabath
Dem. UL
Congress Today Senate Budget Hearings Continue
Senate committee continues hearings on economy and appropriations with focus on economy and federal budget. House subcommittee convenes to review war, interior, state and justice annual supply needs amid ongoing funding debates. Rivers harbors panel discusses Wisconsin Michigan California Washington projects. Ways and means panel reviews beer legislation.
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Budgat
House
Appropriations
Rivers
Wisconsin
Michigan
California
Washington
Third Concord Farm Raided 23 Chickens Stolen
Farmers near Concord township vow vigilance after 23 chickens are stolen from Clayton McCray’s farm south of Rigi. Police note recent Tuesday night thefts near the city and suspect an organized gang, with state police and local officers joining the investigation.
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Iis
Clayton McCray
Rigi
Concord Township
Casey
Corry
McCray
Ts Concord
Colegrove
Flrm
Viciiy
Elton Darrow
Phinigan
Dollar rises on French exchange amid gold flow
The dollar opened at 26 francs, a peak not seen in over two years, as France began its first major gold shipment to the United States. European anti-dollar campaigns from last November were noted, while Paris finanical circles reported a $15,000,000 gold gain to New York.
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United Press
France
United States
Lafayette
Berengeria
Doak vows to fight labor racketeers after leaving office
Secretary of Labor Doak said he will continue to battle racketeers after resigning as cabinet member on March 4. He claimed threats to his life came from racketeers backing unions and called for action against those who press unseen tributes on consumers. Upon leaving, he will return as national legislative representative for the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and editor of its magazine to direct the fight.
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United Press
Washington
Doak
United Priseo
Hays
Ote
West Virginia
Ife 1
Tabor
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainen
Inbor
Cold Wave Grips Northwest Amid Near Blizzard Threat
A cold wave from Canada drives temperatures below zero across Minnesota North Dakota and Wisconsin with potential blizzard conditions by night. Temperatures fall to seven below in Twin Cities as Minnesota highway crews distribute sand to crossings and more snow is forecast across Wisconsin Iowa Missouri Indiana Michigan and the Dakotas.
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United Press
St, Paul
Minn
Northwest
Canada
Midwest
Wisconsin
Iowa
Missouri
Timbis
Indiana
Michigan
Minnesota
Dakotas
Pas
Manitoba
Weather Bureau
Minnesotta
Bute
Prospect
Minnesota Highway Department
Attorney General urges rapid changes to national prohibition laws
Washington December 7 Attorney General Mitchell urged Congress to act quickly to change national prohibition laws or risk increasing public disrespect for the law. He recommended amendments rather than letting statutes sit unenforced and noted changes in antitrust and bankruptcy laws as essential to economic recovery.
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United Press
Washington
Mitchell
Congress
Mitchell Als
Long
Hoover
Garner Ready to Accept Any Farm Requests
Speaker John Garner received a roughly dressed delegation of farmers in Washington and said he would be happy to accept any petition they present to Congress. He pledged to refer proposals to the appropriate committee, noting his own limited farming experience. The group, from the Farmers National Relief Conference, planned to draft a farm proposal before visiting Vice President Curtis.
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Washington
Dec
John Garner
Congress
Karl Dahlsten
Newman Grave
Neb
George Keith
Buhl
Idaho
Farmer's National Relief Conference
Garner
Curtis
Eight Die as Mine Blast Traps Workers in New Mexico
Eight or nine miners were killed instantly and many more feared trapped after a blast at the Tejone soft coal mine of the Albuquerque and Kerillon Mining Company in Madrid, New Mexico, about 45 miles northeast of Albuquerque.
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United Press
Albuquerque
N. M
Tejone
Albuquerque and Kerillon Mining Company
Madridh
Reich Company Sues Insurance Company Over Erie Blaze
Receivers for H M Reich Co seek $50,000 in a suit against Sluyvestant Insurance Co arising from a fire that gutted the Reich Pal store in Erie last June. Mayville court heard motions to stay, decision deferred to Friday. Plaintiffs George B Blackmon and Harry M Reich listed. case tied to four Reich stores in Jamestown Corey Bradford and Warren.
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H. M. Reich Co
Pal
Sluyvestant Insurance Company
Erie
Reich Company
Mayville
Tris
Supreme Court
George B. Blackmon
Harry M. Reich
Vic Joss
John Knight
Buffalo
Blackmon
Reich Equity
Insusance Company
Jamestown
N.Y
Corey
Bradford
Warren
Twa Equity
Dahmentne-Bronstran
Gleon Ws Woodin
Dunkirk
World News Briefs From Across The Nation
Bulletin items report a Seattle earthquake recorded by the UW seismograph and clashes in Berlin between Communists and Nazis. Havana youths near death after a gun battle with Major Arsenio Ortiz’s bodyguard. Senator Davis reappears on the Senate floor amid New York lottery indictments. Railway workers discuss wage cuts in Chicago. Archie Woodrum, 83, dies in Cumberland after arriving with hunger marchers. A U S steamship Sand Beach is lost at sea with 25 aboard. Catharine Hradskry of Clairton is jailed for thirty days for liquor-law violations.
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Havana
Arsenio. Ortiz
Hoover Budget Highlights From Hoover Message
President Hoover outlines a budget totaling 4.218 billion dollars with a proposed 585 million dollar reduction from the current year. He calls for a general 24 percent manufacturers’ excise tax on consumer goods, maintains a federal gasoline tax, and warns of a minimum deficit of about 1.146 billion by June 30, stressing financial disaster if continued.
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United Press
Washington
J Hoover
St. Ed
Herbert Hoover
Hoover Proposes Broad Reorganization Of Federal Departments
President Hoover outlines a plan to consolidate or absorb about 50 executive and administrative agencies. He notes current fragmentation across Interior, Agriculture, Treasury, War, and other departments. The proposal aims to streamline public works, health services, and shipping regulation.
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Washington
Dev
Alexander Hamilton
Hoover
Hoover Long
Congress
Interior
Agricultural
Treasury, War, Agriculture and Interior Departments
Veteran's
Treasury
Agriculture Departments
IWO HELD FOR NORTH EAST INCENDIARISM IN ERIE PA
Henry Barton aged 74 and Clyde Curtis aged 22 were held in the Erie County jail on arson charges after a warehouse fire destroyed a structure in North West Pa. Police linked the blaze to three prior fires at the same Harton warehouse over the last three years.
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IWO
North East
United Press Erie
Henry Barton
Clyde Curtis
North West
Ice County
Harton
Hoover Budget Plan Seeks Excise Tax and Economy Boosts
President Hoover proposed a 24 percent general manufacturers excise tax and continuation of the federal gas tax for another year, plus economies in government operations to balance the 1934 budget. Food would be exempt, with potential revenue from an excise levy and substantial cuts in salaries, public works, and veterans’ appropriations. The plan aims to avoid new obligations and protect federal finances, affecting the first year of Franklin D Roosevelt’s presidency.
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Henry F. Misselwitz
United Press
Washington
Hoover
Don Breas
Balancins
Agriculture Department
Mr. Hoover
Rebersal
Youghly
Freuklin D R Roosevelt
Erie Police Seek Alleged Slayer Eric
Erie police sought Roy Bobo 45 formerly of Girard and wanted by Indiana authorities in connection with the killings of two women. A letter mailed from Girard was received in Marion last night suggesting Bobo’s presence near Erie. A separate Lebanon farm barn fire destroyed a horse stable and damaged livestock and crops, with losses over 3000 dollars.
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Roy Bobo
Girard
Marion
Ind
Indiana
Bobo
Lebanon
Michael Hablechal
Hraulchak
Shenandoni
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