Senate Democrats Re elect Party Leaders in Conference
Senate Democrats re elected their party leaders and reaffirmed seating for Bailey of North Carolina and Bankhead of Alabama. Majority action followed debate over the Bankhead case with Robinson saying there was no basis to delay seating Bailey or Bankhead. Southern leaders in Congress.
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Washington
Senate
Democrats
Robinson
Arkansas
Josiah W. Bailey
North Carolina
Bankhead
Alabama
Bailey
Senator Bankhead
Senator Bailey
Japan rejects third party aid in Manchuria talks
Tokyo says Ambassador Yoshizawa will not consider neutral observers in Sino-Japanese talks over Manchuria zone limits and policing. A foreign office spokesman notes the council acted without Japan, and demands all of Marshall Chang Hsueh-liang influence in the Chinchow region be removed as local politics shift to Mukden under Yuan Shikai.
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Tokyo
Japanese Foreign Office
Kenkichi Yoshizawa
Japan
League of Nations Council
Manchuria
Foreign Office
Yoshizawa
Alfred Sze
Marshall Chang Hsueh- Liang
Chinchow
Shall Chang
Chow
Mukden
Yuan Chin-Kai
Marshall Chang
Trial Starts for Slayer of Wife's Alleged Paramour
Nashville North Carolina December report says D W Coleman railroad detective began murder trial in superior court for the death of Tom C Chappell Florence DC. Coleman testified he received an anonymous letter claiming his wife was running around with a man named McPheil and visiting hotels.
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Nashville
N. C
D. W. Coleman
Tom C. Chappell
Florence
D. C
Coleman
Chappell
S. C
McPheil
Hoover to Submit Formula for New Credit Corporation
President Hoover has developed a plan for a large credit corporation modeled after the War Finance Corp and will present it to Congress. The project aims to supplement the bank pool created after the October 6 talks, expanding beyond its current scope to address broader credit needs.
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Congress
Frozen ”Assets Corporation
Washington
War Finance Corporation
Hoover
Bernard Baruch
War Industries Board
Julius Barnes
Grain Stabilization Corporation
W C T U Renew Old Battle As Revote On Prohibition Looms
Mrs Ella A Boole president of the Women s Christian Temperance Union opens a four day regional conference in Washington urging real friends of prohibition to vote against resubmission of the eighteenth amendment. She warns ratification would delay repeal and leave enforcement uncertain as congress considers a prohibition vote.
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Washington
Friends of Prohibition
Ella A. Boole
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Congress
Sympathy Grows For Danish Woman Who Killed Her Mother
Else Bang, a young Danish woman who confessed to killing her mother Baroness von Dueben to end the latter's agony from an incurable disease, drew broad sympathy from the press, public, and officials. Justice Minister Zahle said there is no criminal temperament, noting the new penal code would lessen punishment only after 1933.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Else Bang
Baroness von Dueben
T. H. Zahle
Santa Claus Indiana Flooded With Christmas Letters
Santa Claus Indiana posts its yearly flood of letters to Santa Claus as postmaster Jim Martin and assistants process millions of pieces daily. Letters from Austria to the United States pour in to the piney town, which relies on new cancelling machines to manage the volume. Martin hopes organizations will answer the children’s pleas for toys to preserve their Christmas faith.
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Santa Claus
Ind
Jota
Jim Martin
Mtre
Mall
Austria
France
England
Germany
United States
Santa Claus Town
Indiana
Martin
War tale aboard the Empress of Russia ship
Aboard the Empress of Russia a Chinaman worker and a radio man trade barbs about the war. The radio man jokes that Chinese losses are 500 then 600 then 700 while Japan suffers few casualties, as recounted by WILL ERS ROS.
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Russia
China
Escapes From Jail One Day Before He Was To Be Paroled
Clay Fogleman, a Spray resident convicted in 1929 of bootlegging and automobile stealing, escaped from a federal prison camp near Fayetteville days before a parole date set for December 1 1932. He faces fugitive status after his six and a half year sentence.
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Fayetteville
Clay Fogleman
J. J. Hayes
Fogleman
E. L. Gavin
North Carolina
New York Couple and Chauffeur Die in Car Wreck near Camden
The bodies of Mr and Mrs Hugh A Murray and their chauffeur Charles W Vickers were recovered after the Murray automobile overturned on a wet highway eight miles from Camden Camdem C C The Murray maid Lottie Nurburg and Mrs Murray's dog escaped.
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Camden,&. C
Hugh A. Murray
New York
Charles W. Vickers
Murray
Lottie Nurburg
Armament Truce Seen Receding From Hope in 1932
Paris reports from December 4 describe observers fearing the disarmament goal for 1932 fading as Manchurian tensions loom. Despite invitation notes from Britain Germany and France leaders the atmosphere remains hostile to arms cuts while Tokyo signals Japan will not agree under current conditions.
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Paris
League of Nations Council
Europe
Geneva
Ramsay MacDonald
Great Britain
Heinrich Bruening
Germany
Pierre
France
Manchuria
League
Tokyo
Japan
Touching Welfare Appeal Highlights Empty Stocking Fund
A hungry High Point family gains aid after a reluctant father sought welfare help. The mother, ill and four children under ten, wait at windows for food and warmth as a welfare worker assists. The Empty Stocking fund gains momentum with donations from Shirley Marie Redding, Wilber Jones, and W F Pleming.
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Board of Public Welfare
W. C. Hammond
High Point
Shirley Marie Redding
J. L. Redding
Wilber Jones
W. F. Pleming
Clara Bow Weds Cowboy Rex Bell in Las Vegas Ceremony
Clara Bow and Rex Bell were secretly married in Las Vegas with only a deputy county clerk present to issue the license. Bow, 26, and Bell, 28, reside in Searchlight, Nevada, near Bell's ranch, after Bow left Hollywood months ago.
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Las Vegas
Clara Bow
Rex Bell
William Schuyler
Miss Bow
Bell
Searchlight
Nev
Hollywood
Independents Boycott Senate Pro Tem Vote Fight
Senate Republicans and Democrats form their party machines while Republican independents opposing George Moses of New Hampshire abstain from the conference. Watson of Indiana leads Republicans and Robinson of Arkansas leads Democrats as the two chambers prepare to convene with the same organizations. The Moses dispute over a potential shift in Senate control will play out on the floor with several Republican independents opposed to Moses’s re-election.
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Washington
Senate
George Moses
New Hampshire
Watson
Indiana
Robinson
Arkansas
Moses
Ulrich B Phillips To Defend Slavery At Literary Meet
New officers of the State Literary and Historical association were to be elected in Raleigh as the group continued its annual session. The North Carolina Folk-Lore society held its session in the afternoon. Dr Ulrich B Phillips of Yale was to deliver a defense of negro slavery at the closing historical meeting.
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Raleigh
State Literary and Historical Association
North Carolina Folk-Lore Society
Ulrich B. Phillips
Georgia
Yale University
Mayflower Society of
North Carolina
State ready for murder trial of Dr E K Kane
Hampton Virginia December fourth AP reports the state is ready for the murder trial of Dr Elisha Kent Kane III a University of Tennessee romance languages professor charged with murdering his wife Jennie Graham Kane by holding her underwater at Grand View Beach near Elizabeth City County on September eleven The arrest followed her burial on September thirteen with Kane denying the act and claiming accidental drowning
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Hampton
Elisha Kent Kane Ill
University of Tennessee
Elizabeth City
Dr. Kane
Jennie Graham Kane
W. C.graham
Hilton Village
Lonely Grand View Beach
Here
Kane
Laughs Self To Death At Comedy In Theater
Mrs. Mary Armisted a 53 year old widow collapsed in an aisle during a theater showing and was pronounced dead by a police surgeon. The physician attributed death to heart disease brought to a crisis by laughter.
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Los Angeles
Mary Armisted
San Salvador Junta Seizes Power After Short Uprising
In San Salvador the military junta took control after a brief revolt that drove President Arturo Araujo from the country. Elections are to be held soon with congress ratified under Salvadorean law, while Araujo reportedly barricaded himself in the palace as loyal troops defended the capital.
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San Salvador
Republic of Salvador
Republic of
Arturo Araujo
Congress
Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Araujo
Chicago Judge In Disguise Targets West Side Gang
Chicago judge Francis Borrelli donned shabby clothes to infiltrate the 42nd Street gang in Halstead Street area. Police raids net 93 arrests, with 68 taken over two days. several earlier detainees were fined, and the judge says he aims to end depredations by the gang, largely Italian in lineage.
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Chicago
Harowg Al-Rashid
West Side
Bagdad
Francis Borrelli
Valley
Borrelli
Halstead Street
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Conference of Women
Willers Ros
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Montgomery
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Farmville
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