Witness testifies short selling could depress market
Matthew C. Brush veteran Wall Street trader tells Senate Banking Committee that under certain conditions short selling can depress the market though he denies bear raids in recent months. He discusses trading up to 125000 shares both sides and says short sales may exceed demand creating a supply glut. He avoids revealing current short holdings as senators question the conduct of the inquiry.
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Wall Street
Matthew C. Brush
Senate Banking Committee
Brush
New York
Senate Fa
Brookhart
Iowa
Couzen
William A.ray
Bohsh
Matthew Brush
Capone Seeks Supreme Court Review of Conviction
Al Capone filed in the supreme court a petition seeking review of the Seventh Circuit ruling affirming his federal evasion conviction and prison term. He argues the indictment lacked proper specificity and that counts cited did not state a tax violation, potentially overturning his ten year Leavenworth sentence. He is jailed in Cook County awaiting federal transfer.
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Cook County
Washington
al Capone
Supreme Court
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Capone
United States
Leavenworth
Farm Board Backs McNary Plan to Market Wheat Abroad
The Farm Board recommended enacting the McNary resolution to use 100 million dollars of Reconstruction Finance funds for marketing wheat and cotton abroad, signaling a push to aid farmers through international sales.
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Farm Board
Washington
McNary
Reconstruction Corporation
iWILL ROGERS SAYS POLITICAL SPEAKERS DESERT THE TRUTH
Hollywood April 21. iWill Rogers comments on radio announcers and political speakers. He jokes about the difficulty of funding government and recalls Charley Schwab’s troubles. He notes the daily air traffic from Los Angeles airport.
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Hollywood
Calif
Charley Schwab
Los Angeles
Congress
Wilk
Robinson favors U S Russia trade and diplomacy
Senator Joe T. Robinson of Arkansas urged prompt consideration of establishing diplomatic and trade relations with Russia. He spoke in Atlanta after attending Georgia senator William J. Harris's funeral, saying such ties would apply international law and boost export trade to ease unemployment.
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Atlanta
Joe T. Robinson
Arkansas
United States
Russia
Washington
William J. Harris
Georgia
Cedartown
Middle Aged Woman Blinds Husband With Lye in California
Rebecca Greenberg, 60, blinded Morris Greenberg, 57, with lye as he slept in Venice California. She called police to report the act and was jailed on assault with a caustic charges. Morris was hospitalized with probable loss of sight and possible danger to life.
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Venice
Calif
Rebecca Greenberg
Morris
J Warren Keifer Died at 96 One of Last Union Generals
Springfield Ohio April 22 One of the last Union generals of the Civil War J Warren Keifer 96 died at his home after a long illness He fought in 27 battles was wounded four times and rose from major to brigadier general for Cedar Creek service He later served as congressman speaker of the House and commanded forces in the Spanish American War Veterans
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Tates
J. Warren Keifer
Keifer
National House of Repreentatives
Lincoin
Third
Ohio Infantry
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
Georgia
110Th O. V. I
Cedar Creek
Sixth Army
Phil Sheridan
McKinley
Ohioan
Seventh Army Corps
Miami
Fla
Ohio
Grand Army of the Republic
Japan vows to retain hold on Manchuria and colonize it
Tokyo warns the League of Nations and Soviet Russia to keep hands off Manchuria. General Sadao Araki declares Japan will resist the nine power treaty and expand Manchuria into a paradise for all, citing Russian troop buildup on the border.
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Siberia
Manchurian
Debuchi says Reds Japan not hostile over Manchuria
Japanese ambassador Debuchi told the Associated Press that relations between Soviet Russia and Japan are not as strained as some reports suggest. He said troop numbers in Siberia are exaggerated and that neither side desires war. The Chinese Eastern Railway operates normally and trains between Vladivostok and Moscow run as usual. He noted Russia remains uneasy about Manchuria but less alarmed than before.
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Debuchi
Japan
Russia
Near East
Siberia
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Associated Press
Manchuria
Chinese Eastern Railway
Vladivostok
Moscow
Soviet Russia
Drunken Spree Man Terrorizes Children in Negro Schoolhouse
Fayetteville April 22 James Cope Cumberland county man jailed charged with terrorizing a negro school during a drunken rampage. Police say he entered a 71st township school with a pistol and mask, took charge of a class, demanded students sit, and wrote math problems on the blackboard before three deputies arrested him.
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Fayetteville
James Cope
Cumberland County
Cope
Bennie Griffin Granted 15 Day Reprieve by Governor
In Raleigh on April 22 Governor O Max Gardner granted Bennie Griffin a 15 day reprieve from scheduled execution for the murder of Mclver Trice in Orange County. The stay followed a last minute letter from Judge J Paul Frizelle received just before the planned 10 30 a m electrocution. Griffin, once described as Durham s toughest gangster, claimed innocence while acknowledging involvement in the killing and declined a final breakfast before the delay.
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Raleigh
Max Gardner
Bennie Griffin
State's Prison
J. Paul Frizelle
Frizzelle
Griffin
Orange County
Gardner
Mclver Trice
Durham
Trice
Warren H. Honeycutt
Hoodlums torture victim to extract robbery loot in Miami
Three assailants bound and gagged 19 year old Charles Phillip as he delivered washing for his mother near a canal. They burned his legs with red hot wires and robbed him in an effort to locate stolen property then left him on the highway before a passing driver found him.
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Miami
Fla
Charles Phillip
Lindbergh Returns to Hopewell Amid Kidnap Plot Activity
Col Charles A Lindbergh returned to his Sourland Hill home in Hopewell New Jersey after a secretive trip. Intermediaries including Edmund Bruce of Elmira and John H Curtis of Norfolk met him as police noted renewed contact with the kidnapers. A man using the name H Pearson believed to be Dean H Dobson Peacock arrived from Newark by plane to continue liaison with Curtis and Rear Admiral Guy Burrage.
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N. J
Charles A. Lindbergh
Sourland Hill
Edmund Bruce
Elmira
John H. Curtis
Norfolk
Bruce
Curtis
Lindbergh
H. Pearson
Dean H. Dobson- Peacock
Newark
Washington
New York
Guy H. Burrage
Cigarette and Cigar Production Figures For March
PAG PRODUCTION DROPS NEW YORK April 22 Production of cigarettes in March reached 8 466 897 851 units versus 9 802 400 017 in March 1931. Large cigars totaled 355 282 130 compared with 440 472 410 in the same month last year.
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New York
Harvard Undergraduates Riot At Radcliffe In Street Clash
In Cambridge on April 22 a riot by Harvard undergraduates and associates led to arrests of eight students and four residents, with two officers injured. The mobs invaded Radcliffe dorms, overturned a car, stormed Brattle Square police, and built bonfires as hundreds fought to free detainees.
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Radcliffe College
Brattle Square
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Harvard Square
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Moving Picture House
Bertram Hall
Briggs
Bernard
British tariff raised as import duties double to twenty percent
London officials announce a tariff increase effective April 25 raising most manufactured imports to 20 percent with a few at 15 25 or 30 percent including semi finished steel goods at 33 1 2 percent for three months. Old 50 percent ad valorem orders will be revoked.
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London
Margaret Brooks Pleads Guilty in Foster-Death Case
Mrs. Margaret Brooks pleads guilty to manslaughter in the death of her 3 year old foster daughter Willie Mae Mashburn and prepares to serve 18 months to three years in state prison. Her husband Morris Brooks is freed after the judge ruled the state's evidence did not connect him to the cruelty and beatings prior to the March 16 death in Asheville.
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Asheville
Margaret Brooke
Morris Brooks
H. Hoyle Sink
Willie Mae Mashburn
Dry forces back resubmission plan for constitutional referendum
Washington April 22 Anti Ballon League superintendent F McBride announced the drys will back a constitutional referendum allowing future amendments by popular vote in the states. The plan would let two thirds of states initiate amendments with ratification by three fourths, challenging wets to respond.
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Washington
Py F. Scott McBride
Anti-Baloon League
McBride
Congress
Byrd
Virginia
Aliens Deported Exceed Arrivals In March
Secretary of Labor Doak announced that in March 2,112 aliens were deported under formal warrants while 2,000 immigrants were admitted, marking the first time deportations surpassed entries in the history of the immigration service.
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Washington
Doak
Immigration Service
Urges Bond Issue Defeat In House Tussle
New York representative argues the Horus bond plan is an unnecessary hindrance to helpful legislation and urges the House to hurry the measure out of the way, declaring it defeated.
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New York
House
Fish attacks Ways and Means over bonus funding strategy
Representative Fish criticizes the house Ways and Means Committee for not proposing a plan to address the economic crisis. He advocates a two year Dillon bond issue to keep people employed, opposing payment of two billion dollars in bonus certificates and arguing against gold standard risks. He urges an adverse report to bring a floor vote.
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Washington
Fish
House
Ways and Means Committee
Patman
Russia
Edenton Street Methodist Church Selected For 1938 Meeting
The closing session of the Women's Missionary Society conference in Raleigh announced Edenton Street Methodist Church, Raleigh, as the site for the 1938 gathering. Pinehurst reports D. H. Metollough of Charlotte capturing the North Carolina state amateur trapshooting title with 193 of 200 at 16 yards, followed by T. G. Proctor of Greensboro with 187.
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Wilson
Edenton Street Methodist Church
Women's Missionary Society of the
North Carolina Methodist Conference
Pinehurst
N. C
D. H. Metollough
Charlotte
North Carolina
T. G. Proctor
Greensboro
Former RNC Chairman Proposes Physician Regulation of Liquor
Claudius H. Huston, former chairman of the Republican National Committee, declares that liquor conditions are deplorable and proposes transferring regulation to doctors in a statement from Washington on April 22.
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Washington
Claudius H. Huston
Republican National Committee
Explorer Thomas Walsh Jr Dies in Ecuadorian Jungle
A letter from Harold Foard, from Munzon Peru, reveals the death of 26 year old Thomas Walsh Jr a University of Illinois trained chemist pursuing data for his PhD in the Paute river headwaters of southern Ecuador Walsh died after six days of jungle march and a river voyage with supplies lost to a wreck He perished in the arms of his companion after fever starvation and exhaustion pleading for help for his mother and asking for aid for Clarissa in Lima Peru.
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Walsh
Clarissa
Lima
Peru
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Illinois
Oroya
Cerro de Pasco Copper Corporation
Foard
Huannco
Paute
Ecuador
Maramon
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