Hoover denies audience to nine women hunger march petitioners
A group of nine women including social register members failed to meet President Hoover at the White House. Theodore Joslin said the president would not receive them in person after their petition from the Women independent Committee of the Constitutional Rights of the Hunger Marchers. They planned to seek meetings with Vice President Curtis Speaker Garner and congressional leaders, while police prepared to block their DC congregation.
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Washington
Hoover
White House
Women's Independent Committee of the Constitutional Rights
William B. Osgood Field Jr
New York
Theodore Joslin
Field
Curtis
Garner
Congress
Joslin
Mrs. Field
District of Columbia
Judiciary Committee Deliberates on Prohibition Repeal
Washington December 2 The House Judiciary Committee could not finalize its plan on the Democratic repeal resolution and will reconvene. Chairman Sumners said the session was informal but efforts aim to reach an agreement. The panel split over whether to designate state conventions or legislatures to pass the repeal. A majority appears favored some repeal form with various substitutes under consideration.
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Washington
House Judiciary Committee
Sumners
Michener
Michigan
House
Garner
Carter Glass
McKeown
Okla
Congress
U.S. Fiscal Year 1933 Ends With Heavy Deficit and Rising Debt
The government closes five months of its 1933 fiscal year with a deficit of 751 million dollars and a gross public debt of 20.806 billion. Debt has risen by over 3 billion since 1931, while revenue falls short of expenditures despite tax gains. The treasury notes issuing 3.854 billion in securities and retiring 2.535 billion reflect net financing activity.
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Washington
Treasury
Von Schleicher Asked To Form Cabinet For President
Berlin Dec 2 President Hindenburg asked General Kurt Von Schleicher to form a presidial cabinet for the republic. The defense minister was summoned to the president's study and given a mandate to form a government with potential to become chancellor. If successful he would assume the post, replacing his defense ministry role under Von Papen.
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Berlin
Kurt von Schleicher
Republic
General von Schleicher
Fritz von Papen
Junker
Ouf
Defense Ministry
von Papen
von Schleicher
Textile Chemists In Meet At Greensboro
Greensboro hosts the 12th annual convention of the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists with over 300 delegates expected. Technical papers will drive the sessions while a banquet features remarks by Ibra Blackwood governor Frank Graham UNC president and W S Lee Duke Power.
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Greensboro
American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists
Ibra C. Blackwood
South Carolina
Frank P. Graham
University of North Carolina
W.S. Lee
Charlotte
Duke Power Company
Hunger marchers elude officers on way to Washington
A small group of hunger marchers near Charlotte evaded a reception committee of officers yesterday and arrived in the city by another route to continue toward Washington today.
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Charlotte
Washington
Capitol
Stiff fights in Manchuria amid sub-zero clashes
In northwest Manchuria three hard fought battles occurred within 48 hours in Chlantun area near the railway town of Chalan tun. Japanese advances report about 200 Chinese corpses with no Japanese casualties in bitter winter combat.
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Tsitsihar
Manchuria
Chalantun
Khingan
Shedyn Pass
Manchuli
Su Ping- Wen
Receiver Named For Investment Company
Oscar G. Barker was named temporary receiver for the Durham Building and Investment Company by Judge M. W. Barnhill in Alamance County. The action stems from a suit by Mrs. B. E. Lumpkin claiming the firm failed to pay $3,000 in matured stock and seeking $1,509 plus interest from June 13.
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Durham
Oscar G. Barker
Durham Building and Investment Company
M. W. Barnhill
Alamance Court
BE. D. Lumpkin
Roosevelt to Attend New York Legislative Session
Roosevelt plans to leave Warm Springs for Albany to attend the December 9 special session of the New York legislature. The session will consider salary cuts for state employees after the city board of estimate urged measures. The president elect is expected to reach Atlanta Saturday afternoon and then travel by rail toward New York.
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Warm Springs
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Albany
New York
Roosevelt
New York City Board of Estimate
Atlanta
Southern Railroad
Washington
New York Moves to Aide City in Financial Crisis
Acting Governor Lehman announced an extraordinary legislative session to restore state control of city salaries to permit pay cuts. The move aims to shrink the 1933 budget by about 20 million dollars for New York City's 148000 employees as bankers press for retrenchment to sustain borrowing power.
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Albany
N. Y
New York City
Herbert H. Lehman
Charles E. Mitchell
National City Bank
Winthrop W. Aldrich
Chase National
Joseph V. McKee
Charles W. Berry
Mr. Lehman
Crusaders Cancel March On Roosevelt In Columbus
Crusaders for Economic Liberty halt their planned march to Warm Springs to avoid embarrassment for President-Elect Roosevelt. George W. Christians of Chattanooga led a Columbus meeting followed by a peaceful street parade with several hundred participants.
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Crusaders For
Warm Springs
George W. Christians
Chattanooga
Tenn
Crusaders
Roosevelt
New York Comptroller Berry Releases Revenue Figures
Comptroller Charles W. Berry issued a statement declaring his figures on the state finances for December. He emphasized the latest data and outlined preliminary revenue trends observed in the current fiscal period.
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New York
Charles W. Berry
North Carolina Seeks Additional federal relief funding
Raleigh December 2 The state will file a second formal request for federal relief funds with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in Washington next week. Dr Fred Morrison says the December need is undetermined after an $815000 loan approved in October has been distributed for October and November.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Washington
Fred Morrison
Fireman Killed in Railroad Engine Wreck near Norton
Frank Moneyhan, a fireman, was burned to death and engineer John Henry Jervis was badly scalded when an interstate railroad mallet engine wrecked in the Josephine yards four miles from Norton Virginia last night.
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Norton
Frank Moneyhan
John Henry Jervis
Josephine Yards
Longview Pupils Explain Tariff In Simple Terms
Seventh grade pupils at Longview school grasp tariff basics with ease as Hiram Batch explains the topic in class. Students offer colorful definitions such as tar they put on foreign goods and cement for roads, with some venturing misleading ideas like gunpowder or cloth.
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Longview
Hiram Batch
Gas Tank Tragedy Kills Two at Continental Oil Plant
Two boilermakers Arthur Warnick and Joseph Auberger died after being trapped in a cracking tank at the Continental Oil plant in Baltimore. A third worker, Joseph Sampson, was badly burned and not expected to live. A fourth man escaped as steam scalded the chamber.
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Baltimore
Continental Oil Company
Arthur L. Warnick
Joseph Auberger
Joseph Sampson
Joseph Scandora
Warnick
Auberger
Sampson
Former Alabama Senator Convicted of Bribery
Former state senator EB. D. Jordan of Attalla Ala was sentenced by Montgomery circuit court judge Walter B. Jones to two to two and a half years in the state penitentiary for agreeing to accept or demanding a bribe during the 1932 Alabama legislature special session.
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Montgomery
Ala
Walter B. Jones
EB. D. Jordan
Attalla
Alabama
Struggle for air supremacy opens with Pan American plans
In New York on December 2 Pan American and Col Charles Lindbergh announced contracts for two giant trans ocean airliners for routes between America and Europe and America and Asia. Secretive development followed a lengthy contest among six manufacturers with two remaining. details remain tightly guarded as the United States pursues leadership in the kingdom of the air.
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New York
Ameéerican
Juan T. Trippe
Pan American
Charles A. Lindbergh
America
Europe
Col. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Sikorsky Company
Bridge
Martin Company
Baltimore
One Killed When Car Is Wrecked
J P Farr 30 of Rock Hill died in a wreck near Pineville early today. Buck Gordon and another Rock Hill man were injured and released. a small amount of liquor was found. No inquest scheduled. Farr died from a broken neck after being pinned under the steering wheel as the car, running on a rear rim, apparently veered out of control.
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Pineville
J. P. Farr
Rock Hill
W. F. Wendell
Buck Gordon
Smith
South Carolina
Wendell
Furr
Chief Wendell
William Jones Sentenced for Second Degree Murder
William Jones was sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to second degree murder in the shooting death of grocer A. Willis last spring in Fayetteville.
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Fayetteville
William Jones
A. ©. Willis
British debt relief debate dominates Capitol discussions
Washington lawmakers clash with Smoot and Harrison over the British note urging relief from wartime payments. They warn increased tariffs could hurt both nations, while the United States resists leniency and cautions against further disruption to exchange and trade.
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Washington
Capitol
Hoover
France
Smoot
Utah
Harrison
Mississippi
Senate Finance Committee
United States
Great Britain
Gastonia Theater Gutted by Fire
Fire destroyed the Ideal Theater in Gastonia with damage estimates between 85 000 and 100 000. The Rankin Armstrong Furniture store and Merit Shoe company also suffered heavy losses, with combined damage around 5 000 to 30 000. The theater was owned by the estate of the late W E Henderson Long and losses were insured.
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Gastonia
Rankin-Armstrong Furniture Company
Merit Shoe Company
Merit Company
Total Ss
W. E. and Henderson Long
Will Gers Rok Plans Five Day Week and Six Hour Day
The speaker notes a shift toward shorter workdays and weeks due to lack of work, citing support from the Federation of Labor and others after years of hardship. He warns sales tax is coming and criticizes the recent lame duck Congress for failing to acknowledge it.
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Cal
Dee. i
Federation of Labor
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