Congress Opens Short Session With Hoover Budget Demands
President Hoover urged deep economy and a general sales tax as Congress begins the short session. Lawmakers debate pay cuts, veterans' payments, and budget reductions while Burns moves to table supply bills. Senate Democrats work on a program after talks with Roosevelt.
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Hoover
Congress
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House
Burns
House Committee
Treasury Post Office
Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Belgium seeks extension on war debt moratorium
Paul May, Belgian ambassador, delivered a new note to Secretary Stimson requesting an extension of the war debt payment moratorium. The note elaborates Belgium’s November 15 request to suspend December 15 oilers. Belgium owes £2,125,000 due December 15. it is entirely interest and non postponable. The funded US debt totals $400,680,000 with $52 in doubt.
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Paul May
Stimson
Belgium
United States
Brewers testify for higher beer alcohol content in Collier bill
Washington witnesses for the United States Brewers Association argued for a four percent alcohol by volume beer. Levi Cooke and R. A. Huber estimated a five dollar per barrel tax would raise about 300 million dollars yearly in revenue. They contended legalization would spur 360 million dollars in brewery rehabilitation and employ 300 thousand workers. They urged expanding brew capacity and supported a 3.2 percent by weight beer as better.
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Federal Treasury
House
Ways and Means
Levi Cooke
R. A. Huber
St. Louis—o
United States Brewers Association
Treasury
Huber
Cooke
Collier
Hoover proposes deep budget cuts and new taxes to reduce deficit
President Hoover asks Congress for a sharply reduced budget and new excise taxes on manufacturers while preserving the gasoline tax. He urges sweeping economies including an 11 percent salary cut and large veterans benefits reductions to offset a substantial deficit cited in the latest Treasury report.
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Hoover
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
Borah Pushes Bill to Repeal Home Loan Bank Act
Senator Borah introduces a bill to repeal the home loan bank act and dismantle the system created to liberalize mortgage terms. He says the act is wholly unsatisfactory and fails to aid homeowners in need, proposing to keep only the currency expansion rider.
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Senator Borah
Idaho
Senate
Congress
Hoover
Franklin Fort
New Jersey
Bohemian Christmas Eve Fish Prepared Like Turkey
In Bohemia the carp dis dained in America distinguishes the Christmas Eve dinner. Chosen as carefully as an American housewife selects a turkey, the fish is kept alive in a tub until it is cleaned cooked and eaten. Children crowd in to watch and learn.
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Bohemia
America
Bailey Farm Man Turns Meat From Nine Hogs For Under Five
Bailey North Carolina dec 7 A H Glover reports no low mood and describes processing 3410 pounds of meat from nine hogs spending under 5 dollars. He says he grows almost all his farm’s food for family help and stock and pays cash for purchases. He owns a bank balance and has not had a profitless year.
Four men set for early death in North Carolina pen
Raleigh dispatch reports four inmates under sentence of electrocution will die on December 16 at the state prison while Jake Jones is to be executed December 9 for the murder of J H Pool. Jones, who has not denied guilt, awaits clemency from Gov Gardner to stay execution. A 19 year old black youth expressed a wish to die rather than remain on death row. The inmates are Ed Deaver Columbus county Joe Stafford Wayne county Harvey Wallace Lee county and Aleck Grier Gaston county.
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Raleigh
State's Prison
Jake Jones
Jones
J. H. Pool
Max Gardner
Ed Deaver
Columbus County
Joe Stafford
Wayne County
Harvey Wallace
Lee County
Aleck Grier
Gaston County
Unemployment Relief Demonstrators Leave Washington
Truck convoys carry the final demonstrators from a three day encampment in Washington. Police remain weary but vigilant as demonstrators march to the capitol grounds and back while relief demands are presented to Vice President Curtis and Speaker Garner. Five marchers are hospitalised with pneumonia.
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Capitol Grounds
Curtis
Garner
Steps Taken To Guard Unborn Childs Rights
New York on December 7 1932 legal moves aim to protect the inheritance rights of Libby Holman Reynolds and the late Smith Reynolds. Counsel seek delay or objection to probating the will in New York while estate settlement proceeds in Winston-Salem. Charges against the widow and Albert Walker were dropped for lack of evidence.
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New York
Libby Holman Reynolds
Smith Reynolds
Winston- Salem
North Carolina
Albert Walker
Forsyth County
Reynolds
James A. Foley
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Hoover Warns on Pensions Cut and Tax Revenue Decline
Washington reports Secretary Mills explained the 1930 31 income tax collapse eroded the government's main revenue. He cited Sharp declines in high income groups from 1928 to 1931 with the $100000 plus class dropping from 237 716 000 to 107 896 000 and total taxpayers paying 233 933 000.
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Washington
Congress
Mills
Farm Bid Asks Congress Raise Agriculture Prices
The Farm Board urged Congress to raise farm incomes by increasing agricultural prices to match other commodities. It proposed a self sustaining system, regulatory controls on supplies, debt compromises for cooperative associations, and potential new funding or bond borrowing to support these aims. Net assets of the revolving fund were quoted at 140 million against a 500 million capacity.
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Farm Board
Congress
One Is Killed When Autos Meet Head On
R M Powell of Clinton was killed and R L Woodward of Goldsboro was seriously injured when their cars crashed head on on highway 45 near Goldsboro. Powell drove to Clinton Lumber in Goldsboro, Woodward a Virginia native, ran a veneer plant at Mt Olive. The collision occurred on a curve south of here.
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Clinton
R. L. Woodward
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Woodard
Virginia
Mt. Olive
Here
Captain of Ship Dies in New York
Nicolaus Johnson skipper of the North German Lloyd liner Europa died in New York from complications after an appendicitis attack.
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New York
Nicolaus Johnson
Lloyd Line
Europa
France and England To Talk War Debts
Paris reports Premier Herriot will decide France policy on money owed to the United States after talks with Prime Minister MacDonald. They will wait for Neville Chamberlain to arrive before proceedings. MacDonald said the talks aim to clarify France toward England and the United States, discuss the debt France owes England, and consider Lausanne accord.
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Herriot
United States
MacDonald
Great Britain
Neville Chamberlain
M. Herriot
France
England
Columbia Minister Named President of Seminary
Dr. C. A. Frede, a Columbia minister, has accepted the presidency of the Southern Lutheran seminary in Columbia. The new post combines dean and executive secretary duties, with Dr. Voight remaining on the faculty after resigning as dean.
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C. A. Frede
Southern Lutheran Seminary
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A. G. Voight
Voight
Republican Karl C. Schuyler Takes Senate Seat
Karl C. Schuyler was sworn in as Colorado senator today, replacing Walter Walker who served by appointment for two days. The ceremony marks a party switch as Schuyler is a Republican succeeding the Democrat Walker.
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Washington
Karl C. Schuyler
Colorado
Walter Walker
Hoover proposes new bill cutting veterans pensions
President Hoover told Congress he would attach a draft bill to the budget message to slash pensions, compensation, and allowances to ex soldiers by 127 million dollars a year. He urged a balance budget and proposed lowering total veterans outlay to 931,077,000 dollars as major veterans groups pressed for renewed bonus payments.
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Hoover
Congress
Story Of How Machines And Men Guard Millions
In New York a report describes bankers and security methods guarding large fortunes. Five Liberty bonds vanished from the Continental Bank and Trust cage, with two Boston men arrested. The piece notes night protection, vault work, waste paper sorting, and long preservation of discarded items, highlighting industry interest in improved safeguards.
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New York
Continental Bank and Trust Company
Boston
Wall Street
Beaven Elected President of Federal Council in Indianapolis
Dr. Wilbert W. Beaven of Rochester New York former Northern Baptist head was elected president of the federal council of churches of Christ in America at its quadrennial meeting in Indianapolis. J M Seymoure Mudge of Philadelphia was named vice president as the council shifts to biennial meetings for two year terms.
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Wilbert W. Beaven
Rochester
N. Y
Northern Baptist Convention
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
J. M. Lewis Seymoure Mudge
Philadelphia
General Assembly
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Beaven
Northern Baptist
Colgate- Rochester Divinity School
Trotzky Plans Train Journey From France To Turkey
In Marseille on December 7, Leon Trotsky, returning from Copenhagen, refused to sail to Istanbul by boat due to Mme. Trotsky's illness. French police guarded him after passages across France with his party. He sought permission to travel by train to Turkey, with authorities consulting Paris.
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France
Leon Trotzky
Turkey
Copenhagen
Mme. Trotzky
Istanbul
Paris
Trotzky
Denmark
Campidoglio
Nation urged to buy American made goods
Beverly Hills dispatch says America is hungry and urges readers to check if items like baby rattles toothbrushes boots are made in America. It criticizes reliance on foreign goods and calls for patriotism through domestic manufacture.
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Saturday Evening Post
Sam Blythe
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