Herriot Sees England Likely to Pay U S Debts
Paris reports Premier Herriot, after meeting with Prime Minister MacDonald, expected England to pay 95 550 000 dollars due the United States on December 15. He also favored paying 20 000 000 dollars in interest on that date with a halt on further payments until negotiations. Herriot will consult parliament before a firm stance.
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Paris
Herriot
MacDonald
Great Britain
England
United States
America
M. Herriot
Railroads Present Seven Point Plan to Commission
The railroads deliver a bulky document to Calvin Coolidge and associates outlining a seven point program to revive the industry. Alfred P. Thom leads the presentation to the National Transportation committee, seeking loans, repeal of 15 A recapture provisions, and broader regulation and operation rights for rail and barge transport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Calvin Coolidge and Associates
Alfred P. Thom
Association of Railway Executives
Nationa Transportation Committee
Coolidge
Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act
Interstate Commerce Commission
Sharp rise in building contracts boosts southern output
Sharp rise in November industrial construction contracts pushes the South's building and engineering total to 29.227 million, with new industrial plants at 2.247 million. The Manufacturers Record notes firms use low material prices for rehab, while few large new plants appear. The report cites a $500,000 steel mill project at Follansbee West Virginia and expansions for Fredericksburg Virginia paper mill and various textile mills.
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Baltimore
Follansbee
W. Va
Fredericksburg
Reynolds Widow Weds Lawyer in Floyd Virginia
S. W. Tompkins, attorney, married Mrs. Annie Dobyns Reynolds yesterday at her parents home near Stuart in Patrick county. Mrs Reynolds was the widow of Hardin Reynolds, brother of R. J. Reynolds. Tompkins has practiced law in Floyd and Missouri and is well known in Southwest Virginia.
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Floyd
S. W. Tompkins
Annie Dobyns Reynolds
Critz
Sam Dobyns
Stuart
Patrick County
Blood Stained Shirt Found in Abandoned Farmhouse
Greensboro reports police investigating a blood stained shirt an empty pistol cartridge and multiple stains at an abandoned farmhouse near Sedgefield. Officers say the house had been used as a club house and recently visited by anonymous merrymakers, with no death suspected.
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Greensboro
Dec
Sedgefield
Poland Peasants Attribute Cattle Speech at Christ Birth
In rural Poland peasants believe cattle can speak during the hour of Christ’s birth. They avoid the stables at that moment and before midnight mass visit the animals with courteous greetings and promise extra grain beets and straw for the morrow.
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Poland
Christ
Congress tackles farm relief and veterans economy plans
Washington dispatch reports Congress in a brisk session organizing, realigning Republican posts, and preparing quick action on farm relief and veterans economy. Debates focus on a 3.2 beer bill, immediate veterans bonuses, and a one week study of Democratic farm aid with bills to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Ways and Means
Joint Veterans Committee
Patman
Tex
House Agriculture Committee
Winter Storms Sweep North America Across Wide Regions
A massive cold wave from the Canadian northwest shifts through the Pacific Northwest, West, Midwest, and into the Southwest. Subzero readings and blizzard conditions hit many areas as cities report plummeting temperatures, with Georgetown Lake showing 30 below and Thief Falls at 22 below.
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Canadian Northwest
Pacific Northwest
West
Middlewest
Southwest
Weather Bureau
Georgetown Lake
Anaconda
Mont
Thief Falls
Minn
Wallace
Idaho
Baltimore
Washington
Pittsburgh
Cotton crop forecast rises to 12 727 000 bales in 1932
The Agriculture Department estimates the 1932 U S cotton crop at 12 727 000 bales on December 1, up 780 000 from the November 1 forecast due to better yields and higher planted acreage reports. Last year’s crop reached 17 096 000 bales with an average yield of 162.1 pounds per acre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Department of Agriculture
Suspect Arrested in Death of Ship Captain
William James Guy, 24, English adventurer, was arrested near Los Angeles on suspicion of murdering Captain Walter Wanderwell. He had been sought nationwide after Wanderwell was shot aboard the yacht Arma last Monday night. Guy, called the man in gray by Wanderwell's party, denied the slaying and claimed illegal entry to the United States and a recent vote in the presidential election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
William James Guy
Walter Vanderwell
Los Angeles Times
Guy
Cardiff
Wales
Vanderwell
Yarht “Arma
Globe-Trotter
Wanderwell
Edmund Zeranski
Hollywood
United States
Oung Guy
Caugh
South America
Slobe-Trotter
United States Debt Extension Note Reaches UK Leaders
The U S government replied to Britain's second appeal for debt extension due next week. The contents were sent to Prime Minister MacDonald in Paris and other cabinet members for early publication.
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London
United States
Britain
MacDonald
Paris
Child Killed While Welcoming St Nick at Fair
A crowd of children at the Orlando fair grounds rushed to greet a Santa Claus by air. Nine year old Mary Seley was crushed by a toy truck delivering gifts and died at the hospital. The incident occurred as a truck loaded with toys moved to a distribution clearing.
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Orlando
Fia
City Fair Grounds
Santa Claus
Mary Seley
Santa
Mary
North Carolina budget panel to draft next biennium bills
RALEIGH December 8 The advisory budget commission will begin drafting North Carolina's appropriations bills for the next biennium on December 14. The meeting intended for today was postponed at the request of several members.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Advisory Budget Commission
Canada warns U S over seizures 12 mile limit
Canada states it will not recognize U S seizures of rum runners beyond the three mile limit unless under treaty rules. Minister Herridge conveyed to Secretary Stimson that continued U S action would undermine anti smuggling cooperation. He cited the Mazel Toy seizure eleven and a half miles off Massachusetts as a protested case.
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Washington
United States
Canada
Herridge
State Department
Stimson
Supreme Court
Massachusetts
Bank Robbery In Bohcan Arkansas Nets Cash
Four men robbed the Bohcan Bank in Ark early today. One man waited at the wheel while the others entered. Officials estimate the haul between 3099 and 4000 dollars.
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Stamps
Ark
Dec
Bohcan Bank
Chinese Generals Said To Be Prisoners Of Japanese
Su Ping Wen and possibly Ma Chan Shan, Chinese generals who blocked Japanese advance in Manchuria, are reported prisoners of the Japanese army. Russian authorities handed them to Japan at the border near Manchurian frontier. Su fled to Siberia and was interned, with 40 followers. Military circles expect court martial for rebel leaders.
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Tokyo
Su Ping Wen
Ma Chan Shan
Manchuria
Rengo
Tsitsihar
Manchurian
Siberia
General Ma
Tsissihar
Juy
Foreign Office
Kengo
Manchuli
Louisiana Dry Law Repealed Amid Conflicting Opinions
Baton Rouge Louisiana December 8 AP The noon hour signaled the repeal of Louisiana's dry law following the November 8 referendum but legality of the election was disputed by officers including the New Orleans police superintendent. Attorney General Gaston L Porterie urged clarity while local option remained the preferred answer pending a final court ruling.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
New Orleans
Gaston L. Porterie
Begin Investigation In Drunken Riots In Durham Prison
Durham county investigators opened a probe into a riot at the county workhouse sparked by whiskey distribution. The clash left one convict dead, another seriously wounded. Suspects Jim Tucker and Lee Johnson, both described as Black, are charged in Brooks death and Stephens stabbing, respectively.
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Durham
Durham County
Grand Jury
Board of County Commissioners
E. P. Brooks
Burlington
Harvey Stephens
Jim Tucker
Brooks
Lee Johnson
Stephens
House Agriculture Committee Advances Farm Aid Hearings
The committee agreed to open hearings next Tuesday on a Democratic farm aid program with aim to conclude in the same week. Chairman Jones plans to introduce the bill Monday after a conference with leaders of the farm bureau federation, national grange and farmers national union. The bill would likely adopt a domestic allotment plan to be administered by the agriculture department as an emergency two to three year measure.
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Washington
House Agriculture Committee
Jones
Tex
Farm Bureau Federation
National Grange
Farmers National Union
Representative Rainey
Agriculture Department
Farm Board
Accident Leaves Clyde Kendrick Seriously Hurt in Gastonia
In Gastonia a 16 year old named Clyde Kendrick lost his left leg above the ankle when a shotgun in the hands of a companion accidentally discharged.
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Gastonia
Clyde Kendrick
Modern Equipped Schooner With Liquor Is Captured
Morehead City reports federal authorities seized the schooner Yadadish from Nassau flying the British flag after 700 plus cases of bonded liquor were found aboard. Coast Guard 222 captured nine men amid clues of rum running involving a New York gang. The vessel, with dual motors and a smoke screen, was towed toward Wilmington for liquor storage.
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Morehead City
Yadadish
Nassau
Portsmouth
N. C
Cape Lookout
Coast Guard
Boatewain
CC. H. Barker
Laurence Cristensen
Cristensen
New York
Coast General Quarters
Porgy
Wilmington
Fannie 5. Faison
North Carolina
New Bern
H.S. Barbrey
Prohibition
Barbrey
Yale Professor Tests Beer as Healthful Drink
In Washington on December 8 anti prohibitionist members of the house praised 3.2 per cent beer as non intox icating and healthful in testimony to the Ways and Means Committee. Yale professor Yandell Henderson argued that beer around four per cent is not much more intoxicating than coffee and that dilution reduces alcohol impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Stafford
Wisconsin
Dyer
Missouri
Boland
Yandell Henderson
Yale University
Henderson
Soldiers on leave in hospital after fatal wreck
Three Fort Bragg soldiers visiting Greenville were hospitalized after a crash that killed 11 year old Harold Nodine. J W Vickery of Anderson faces murder charges as the driver. E E Kay Honea Path owner of the car. F L Porter Elberton injured. Nodines’ wife critically hurt. An inquest set for Saturday.
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Greenville
N. C
Fort Bragg
F. L. Porterfield
Elberton
E. E. Kay
Honea Path
Harold Nadine
J. W. Vickery
Anderson
Nodine
Abernethy Expected Back From Sanatorium Soon
Representative Abernethy of North Carolina has been absent in the early days of the new Congress. Friends expect his return to active duty after a breakdown. He is in Takoma Park sanitarium, with physicians predicting restoration to health in a few weeks.
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Washington
Abernethy
North Carolina
Takoma Park
Editorial policy note from Beverly Hills paper
The Beverly Hills publication states it disclaims responsibility for editorials or political policy. It allows reader opinions within lawful bounds and notes its policy may differ from the paper's. Editorials may be humorous or filler and should not be construed as the publisher's stance.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Dec. T
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