France Seeks War Debt Revision By Budget Committee
The House appropriations committee reports its first annual supply bill, trimming the budget by about 32.9 million and setting Treasury and Post Office funding for next year at 961.4 million. It preserves the 8 1 2 percent federal pay cut and omits Hoover’s proposed 11 percent salary cut while slashing public building funds and reducing regular construction to 50 million.
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Washington
Budget Bureau
House Appropriations Committee
Treasury and
Post Office
Economy Law
Hoover
Appropriations Committee
Treasury
Einstein Leaves for California on research trip
Berlin reports Professor Albert Einstein begins his only trip to the United States destination California. He recalls the consulate hearings over communism and pacifism and jokes about chairs with pins. He will work at Mount Wilson Observatory before visiting Princeton University.
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Berlin
Albert Einstein
California
United States
Cable
George Messersmith
Messersmith
Einstein
Mount Wilson Observatory
Panama Canal
Princeton University
Grape Growers Endorse Fermented Wine in Collier Bill
Spokesmen for grape interests testified before the House Ways and Means Committee endorsing naturally fermented wines in the Collier bill. Marion DeVries of Washington, representing 25,000 producers, said wine served with meals should not be considered intoxicating and proposed an amendment limiting consumption to substantial meals.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Collier
Treasury
Mills
Marion DeVries
Grape Growers League of
California
Representative Treadway
Massachusetts
France presses for debt talks before December payment
Paris reports a joint sub committee drafts a resolution to pay the December installment of 20 million dollars only if the debt is reconsidered and an international conference is arranged. France insists on arbitration and wants conditions attached to the U S payment amid Britain’s cautious stance.
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Paris
Finance and Foreign Affairs Committee
Chamber of Deputies
France
American Congress
Great Britain
United States
England
Washington
Another Witness In Reynolds Case Will Be Married
Mrs Ella Hill Hogan of Winston Salem N C sister of C D Hill a Reynolds inquest witness was to wed Emery Flinn in a mid morning ceremony at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York Marriage follows another Reynolds inquest witness James K Shepherd and Mrs William Vaught. Libby Holman Reynolds and Albert Walker faced murder charges later dropped.
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New York
Ella Hill Hogan
Winston- Salem
N. C
C. D. Hill
Smith Reynolds
Emery Flinn
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
James K. Shepherd
William Vaught
Greensboro
Reynolds
Winston-Salem
Libby Holman Reynolds
Albert Walker
Basketball Title To Be Decided At Raleigh This Year
The Southern Conference chose Raleigh North Carolina for next season’s basketball tournament set for the last Friday and Saturday in February. Boxing championships will be held in Charlottesville Virginia on the same dates.
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Raleigh
Knoxville
President Hoover Aims at Government Reorganization Face Opposition
Washington December 10 opposition grows around President Hoover’s plan to regroup 58 federal agencies and cut 15 more. The Senate economy committee will summon department heads to assess economies and efficiency gains while House support varies and river and harbor work faces transfer to Interior. Representative Schafer vows to try blocking the move unless halted.
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Washington
House
Hoover
Senate
Bingham
Congress
Mr. Hoover
Schafer
Wis
War Department
Interior Department
Coast Guard records 5214 saves in year ending June 30
Washington reports the United States coast guard saved or rescued 5214 persons during the year ended June 30. Rear Admiral H G Hamlet praised the crew for bravery from Alaska gales to North Atlantic iceberg danger and for duties in yacht races. He also noted law enforcement against liquor smuggling remained steady with slight reductions in volume.
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Washington
United States Coast Guard
H. G. Hamlet
Alaska
North Atlantic
Coast Guard
Hamlet
United States
Carloadings Rise Week to Week Amid Thanksgiving Shift
The American Railway Association reports car loadings for the week ending December 3 reached 547,641 cars, up 53,579 from the prior week but down 88,905 from last year and 239,611 from two years ago. The gain reflects a rebound after Thanksgiving holiday effects.
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Washington
American Railway Association
One Killed and Three Hurt In Morning Accident
Charlotte December 16 AP Clyde Plyler of Charlotte was severely injured and three others hurt when their auto wrecked near the city early today. A woman identified as Annie Smith is in hospital with a crushed skull. Dr H Stallings who police say was driving has a broken hip and CC Downs was lightly lacerated. Officers say a homicide charge will be lodged against Stallings and that the party had been drinking.
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Charlotte
Clyde Plyler
Here
Annie Smith
Pr. H. Stallings
CC. V. Downs
Stallings
This Man Will Have New Boarding House and Must Pay Board
Laurinburg North Carolina dispatch says Woodrow Gibson, convicted of manslaughter after a car struck a woman, must serve four months in jail, pay court costs, and cover jail board charges.
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Laurinburg
N. C
Woodrow Gibson
Gibson
Robbery Foiled as Watchman Fends Off Bank Aiders
In Cleveland on December 10 a Central United National bank watchman Edward Classen, 44, was chloroformed by two gunmen and pushed down an elevator shaft while defending the west 25th street branch. He suffered a broken wrist and possible rib fractures but the robbers escaped. police found no other trace of the pair.
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Cleveland
Central United National Bank
West 25Th Street
Edward Clasen
Classen
New Evidence Ties Guy to Vanderwell Murder aboard Carma
Long Beach detectives report a forged link in circumstantial evidence to connect William James Curley Guy to the Vanderwell murder. Marion Smith identif ies Guy as the mysterious stranger aboard the Carma who inquired for Wanderwell before the body was found. Coroner's jury had ruled the death a gunshot homicide aboard the ship.
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Los Angeles
William James Guy
Walter Wanderwell
Wanderwell
Alpha
Guy
World Traveler
International Police
Long Beach
Cal
William James
Curley) Guy
Marion Smith
Rockhart
Gray
Vanderwell
Miss Smith
District Attorney's Office
Clarence Hunt
Cuthbert Wills
Snowy Baltimore Forecast for North South Game
A wet sticky snow began falling in Baltimore this morning with the ground covered by midmorning and temperatures near freezing, signaling unpleasant weather for the north south football game this afternoon.
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Baltimore
Dog Alarm Foils Abduction Plot At Suburban Nursery
Police credited a German shepherd guarding the nursery door with thwarting an apparent Lindbergh style kidnap attempt on two year old John Master of Wayne. A ladder was found under the nursery window, a window pried, and the garage rifled as footprints and tire marks showed the fleeing abductors escaped by car.
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Philadelphia
Lindbergh
John R. C. Master
Main Line
Mrs. Master
Wayne
John Master
Florence Lanwehr
Miss Lanwehr
Cold on California Weather Grips State As Freeze Hits 1888 Record
San Francisco reports rare Arctic cold as a Canadian Alaska air mass sweeps in. Sacramento sinks to 28 degrees above zero, the coldest since 1888, with snow and ice affecting daily life including long delays for telephone exchanges. Major Bowie cites peculiar wind current as cause.
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San Francisco
California
Alaska
Sacramento
Point Barrow
Arctic Circle
Canada
EF. H. Bowie
Weather Bureau
Two Towns Reject New Federal Aid Highway Plan
Southern Pines and Aberdeen voters refuse a proposed federal aid highway citing wasteful public spending. A mass meeting in Southern Pines echoed the stance, choosing to keep using their old road and blocking the project.
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Southern Pines
N. C
Aberdeen
Three Students Compete for Rhodes Scholarships at Duke
Three North Carolina students entered a rigorous Rhodes contest with two spots for Rhodes scholarships. The finalists, aiming to study at Oxford, faced interviews by the Rhodes committee. They and committee members attended a dinner last night at Duke University in Durham.
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Chapel Hill
North Carolina
Rhodes
Oxford
Duke University
Durham
Fire damages department store elevator shaft blaze
Fire swept the elevator shaft at the Charles Department store in Charlotte causing several thousand dollars in damage. The blaze spread to storage rooms on the third floor and was reported early today.
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Charlotte
Charles Department
Good Trap But It Failed To Work
In Omaha Nebraska on December 10 AP reports a bootlegging sting where agents asked for five oranges, a term used for whiskey. A man delivered a package. agents seized five oranges but released him.
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Omaha
Neb
Dee
State agency orders bond for C O D carriers in Raleigh
The North Carolina state corporation commission requires all motor vehicle property carriers handling C O D shipments under state franchises to post a 1000 bond to insure proper accounting of collections. The order takes effect with 1933 licenses and calls a December 16 conference on tariff supplements and license filing. The measure notes prior failures to remit funds and cites embezzlement risks while acknowledging many carriers correctly account for and remit collections.
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Co. C. D
Raleigh
N. C
State Corporation Commission
R. O. Self
Commission
Motor Vehicle Transportation
Commissioner Ralph W. Williamson Dies of Heart Attack
Washington dispatch reports Commissioner Ralph B. Williamson, age 62, died of a heart attack in his hotel apartment. Williamson, from Yakima, Washington, had served on the federal power commission since December 23, 1930 and was vice chairman at his death, leaving a widow, two children, and a sister.
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Washington
Ralph B. Williamson
Federal Power Commission
Williamson
Yakina
Commission
Missing bank receiver Earl W. Jones in Statesville
Nothing is learned about Earl W. Jones the bank receiver who disappeared in Statesville Monday. Jones served two years as receiver of the Commercial National Bank of Statesville and was to brief his successor W. H. Spradlin. The comptroller general at Washington says Spradlin became receiver as an economy measure. Spradlin also holds receiverships in Winston-Salem and Elkin.
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Statesville
N. C
Earl W. Jones
Jones
Commercial National Bank of
W. H. Spradlin
Comptroller General
Washington
Spradlin
Two Of Four Scheduled To Die Friday In North Carolina
Tyre Taylor executive counsel disclosed recommendations to Gov. Gardner on two of four inmates set for execution next Friday at the state prison. He urged commuting Joe Stafford’s death to life and granting Ed Deaver a temporary reprieve for further review. Stafford killed his wife in Wayne County. Deaver killed Isaiah Hester in a cutting argument. Harvey Wallace and Aleck Grier were not addressed.
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Raleigh
State's
Tyre Taylor
Joe Stafford
Ed Deaver
Taylor
Max Gardner
Stafford
Deaver
Harvey Wallace
Aleck Grier
Wayne County
Supreme Court
Isaiah Hester
Hester
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