France's Gold Reserve Policy Seen Shaping 1930 Finances
William R. Knkas reports financier Benjamin M. Anderson of Chase National Bank outlines France's growing influence on global gold flows. He notes France's aim to hold and move gold to stabilize the franc, the large foreign exchange holdings, and how Paris will draw gold when easy money exists while resisting when liquidity tightens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willam R. Knkas
Associated Presa Feature Service
New York
France
Benjamin M. Anderson
Chase National Bank
United States
Bank of France
Warm Christmas Brightens Hurons and Rapid City
Huron residents enjoyed a warm Christmas with forecasts calling for fair skies and mild temperatures. Rapid City reported one of the warmest Christmases on record at 57 degrees, with 68 previously reached in 1955, and ice and snow potential for the opening winter carnival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rapid City
Government Weather Bureau
Harley N. Johnson
Government Observer
The
Mercury
Sylvan Lake
Christmas Alcoholism Cases Reported in City Hospitals
Bellevue hospital admitted three cases of alcoholism yesterday and the day before Christmas. Other city hospitals treated only a few cases. The source notes 72 cases in December 1928 with 40 linked to holidays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bellevue Hospital
Mascagni Proposes Pay Reform for Italian Opera
Rome reports that Pietro Mascagni, tasked by the Royal Academy to assess the opera crisis, finds 15 of about 190 Italian houses financially able to mount a winter season. He blames inflated artist valuations and notes a tenor demanding 500 dollars per night versus 100 dollars for others. He advocates a nationwide artists’ union to stabilize pay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mascagni
Rome
Pietro Mascagni
Italy
Aietiens
Cavalleria “Rusticana
Royal Academy
Lyric Theater
Ohe
Mexico in air mail mileage second only to Germany
The Department of Aeronautics reports that Mexico, by population and territory, ranks high in air mail and passenger route mileage. On a comparative basis, Mexico leads the United States in air development with 22,593 miles of air lines in operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Mexico City
Department of Aeronautics
Germany
United States
Mexico builds vast air routes after revolution
The text notes rapid airline expansion across Mexico after the Escobar Revolution. By end of the revolt, civil lines connect major cities, with Mexico City linked to Brownsville, El Paso, and Nogales through multiple hubs. Government lines previously limited to Veracruz to Merida expanded to include several intercity routes in under two days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Escobar
Vera Cruz
Merida
Eig
Mazatlan
Guaymas
Hermosillo
Brownsville
Monterrey
Torrenn
Durango
Mexico City
Guatemala
Pueblo
Oaxaca
Tapachula
San Geronimo
Minatitlan
Villahermosa
Sen Luis Potosi
Torreon
Guadalajara
Permission Granted to Abandon Hills Railway Line
The Interstate Commerce Commission approved abandoning 41 miles of the Black Hills Hills railway from Inglevwood to Calcite in South Dakota. Built to serve Home Stake Mining properties, the line was unprofitable and no longer needed, per the commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oeates
Hills Railway
Washington
Inglewood
Calcite
Black Hills
South Dakota
Buington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Inew
Home Stake Mining Company
Commission
Philadelphia Fighter Lew Massey Knocks Out Opponents
Philadelphia's Lew Massey defeats Johnny Datto of Cleveland ten rounds and Baby Joe Gans of Los Angeles defeats Harry Brown of Philadelphia in ten rounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Lew Massey
Johnny Datto
Cleveland
Baby Joe Gans
Los Angeles
Harry Brown
Gasoline Fire Kills Two Brookings Children
In Brookings on December 26 Milford and Clifford Barton aged 10 and 3 died from burns after a gasoline fire in a stove. A gallon container exploded spreading flames that trapped the boys as neighbors pulled them from the blaze. They died shortly after hospital arrival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brookings
Milford
Clifford Barton
E. F Barton
South Brookings
Hoover Uses Historic Study in Memories of Presidents
The narrative recalls a room once crowded with memories of American presidents and figures like Lincoln. It notes the Emancipation signing in that room and describes the cabinet table and damaged offices from Hoover era, with the president's desk among the few items saved for transfer to a government building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Lincoln
Hoover
George Akerson
Walter Newton
Lawrence Richey
State, War and Navy
New Planes Join Hunt for Fliers in Arctic Ice
Strenuous efforts to locate Biel gen and Borland amid icebound regions of the Arctic. Open cockpit planes limited by fuel and exposure, until three new aircraft arrive. Pilots Crosson and Gil lam reach the fur trading ship Nanuk and scout with borrowed fuel from the Russian Stavropol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bielgen
Borland
Joe Crosson
Harold Gillam
North Cane
Siberia
Elelson
Bhut
Fasoline
Teller
Stavropol
Nanuk
Search intensifies for missing airmen over Alaska
Nome dispatches report Crossan heard from traders and natives that the plane circled long seeking land. An intensive search will cover the area with two more airlanes sent to aid the missing crew. Soviet air chief Seluron Shestakov to lead the rescue, plans to use a Land of the Soviets type aircraft, routes traced from Siberia to Alaska to New York. Two Soviet planes lie at Providence Bay, near the Bering Strait, as Cape Northe is noted near the relief efforts west of Seward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wielson
Nome
Crossan
Crasgan
Elelson
George Hubert Wilkins
Seluron Shestakov
National Air
Erg
Soviet Russia
Moscow
New York
Land of the Soviets
Siceria
Alaska
Eielson
Bérland
Providence Bay
Voribe
Siberia
Bering Strait
Stakey
Cape Northert
North Cape
Cape
Seward
Waka
Soviet aid sought for missing American aviators
Senator Borah and the U S Interior Department appealed to Moscow for help in locating Carl Bensielson and Earl Borland who disappeared six weeks ago after attempting a rescue flight to aid a drifting ship. The Soviet foreign office said an airplane was sent Wednesday to search the area near North Cape where they are believed to have crashed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Senator Borah
Idaho
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States Department of the Interior
Carl Bensielson
Earl Borland
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Envoy Jones
Verna Raynor
Merlyn Jackson
Irene Barrett -Soto
John Sallee
Lowell B. Ard
Ruth Peterson
Ernest Jones
Tory of Jesus
Lila Williamson
Leonard Jackson
Selma Nigreen
Herald Angels
Sybil R
Ellen
Mabel Nigreen
Pal Jackson
Werdell Tulger
Leo Jensen
Edwin Lynn
Yankton
White House
Akerson
Goodyear
Pat’s
Eilers
Uriers
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