New Japanese Cabinet Faces War Proposals
Tokyo reports a Sei yukai led cabinet to be formed with Kenichi Yoshizawa as foreign minister Korekiyo Takashashi as finance minister and General Sadao Araki as war minister. Japan weighs sending 15000 more troops to Manchuria to pressure Chang Hsueh Liangs Chinese forces while existing troops near Chinchow seek to deter conflict.
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Tokyo
Tsuyoshi Inukai
Imperial Palace
Seiyukai Party
Kenichi Yoshizawa
League of Nations
League Council
France
Korekiyo Takashashi
Sadao Araki
Jiro Minami
Manchuria
Chinchow
Wakatsuki
Junnosuke Inouye
Chang Hsueh-Liang
Hoover Faces Fight to Pass Prohibition Enforcement Figures
November prohibition arrests fell to 5 355 from October, with 38 920 federal arrests in state courts and 1 023 in federal courts. Fines totaled 110 317 in state cases and 796 510 in federal cases. Jail sentences rose, and large quantities of beer, spirits, and wine were seized. Hoover seeks support for a European debt moratorium amid party and cross‑party opposition as he presses for war debt relief.
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Washington
Prohibition
Amos W. W. Woodcock
Woodcock
Administration
Senate
Mills
The
Treasury
Stimson
Rainey
House
Hoover
Congress
Europe
Mellon
Georgia minister found guilty of murdering his son
J M Williams a former Rochelle Georgia minister was found guilty of murdering his 19 year old sailor son Raford Grady Williams in a mill near Augusta The jury recommended mercy meaning a life sentence The state said Williams lured his son home on furlough from the navy to collect life insurance He claimed alibi but ballistics and tire track evidence tied him to the scene
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Augusta
J. M. Williams
Rochelle
Raford Grady Williams
Navy
Young Williams
Williams
Weather Forecast For Week Opens With Rain Monday
South Atlantic states see rain on Monday and again Thursday. Tuesday turns colder, Thursday warms, and the end of the week finishes colder.
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South Atlantic States
President Hoover Calls For Nonpartisan Recovery Program
President Hoover urged nationwide cooperation in a centralized domestic program aimed at economic recovery. He outlined a dozen measures including tax relief, unemployment relief, bank reforms, credit support for homeowners, rail aid, and stronger depositor protections, urging nonpartisan action to turn the deflation tide.
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Washington
Hoover
Congress
America
United Local
Federal Reserve
Emergency Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Claims Honolulu Unsafe for Women
Rear Admiral Pettengill warned Admiral Leigh that Honolulu is unsafe for the wives of fleet officers. The alarm follows a mistrial in a case where five men were charged with assaulting a naval officer’s wife. Pettengill leads fleet maneuvers near Hilo. shore patrols in Honolulu have been increased to protect officers’ homes.
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Honolulu
George T. Pettengill
Pearl Harbor
Richard H. Leigh
Battle Force United States Fleet
Pettengill
Fourteenth Naval District
Maneuvers
Hilo
Yeates Stirling, Jr
Dice Battle of the Century unfolds in Grinnell Iowa
In Grinnell Iowa two barber players Ed Jansen and John Ditzler duel in a ten day high point dice match inspired by the Lenz Culbertson contest Al Hamilton serves as judge The match features Jansen with the African twist and Ditzler using the cotton roll Ditzler logged seventeen passes on the first day as results are posted hourly in a storefront barber shop window.
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Grinnell
Ed Jansen
John Ditzler
al Hamilton
Jantzen
Ditzler
Hamilton
Mukden Dispatch From War Zone
A preserved personal dispatch from Mukden in Manchuria reports Chinese troops evacuated the city and American reporters, long in place, note the lack of war news that day. The writer mentions General Ma Garner leading 220 Democrats to Washington and closes with a cold weather sign-off.
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Mukden
Japan
Manchuria
Ma Garner
Washington
Kane murder trial may end tonight in Kane case
In Hampton Virginia the Kane murder trial moved to final phase as both sides finished presenting evidence. Rebuttal testimony for the Commonwealth was expected to finish within two hours, with defense time then to follow depending on developments.
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Hampton
Elisha Kent Kane
Commonwealth
Gandhi At Vatican But No Papal Meeting During Visit
Gandhi arrived in Rome from London and spent an hour at the Vatican with Miss Madeline Slade and a Scotland Yard detective. He toured Vatican galleries and visited the Monesorri school. General Mario Moris arranged a conference with Mussolini for him that evening.
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Rome
Mahatma Gandhi
India
London
Capper Predicts Congress Probe Into Market Practices
Senator Capper predicts a congressional inquiry into short selling and bear raiding on stock and commodity exchanges. He plans to sponsor a resolution for investigation and push hearings to regulate short selling through the federal trade commission and impose a heavy tax on such operations. He also aims to extend similar measures to commodity exchanges.
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Washington
Senator Capper
Capper
Kansas
Investigation into NC GOP leaders over alleged monthly contributions
United States District Attorney E. L. Gavin opened a probe into allegations that James S. Duncan and W. H. Foster solicited monthly contributions from federal officeholders in North Carolina in violation of federal law. Subpoenas seized Republican committee records at Greensboro.
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Greensboro
United States
E. L. Gavin
Sanford
James S. Duncan
Republican State Executive Committee
W. H. Foster
North Carolina
Gavin
Republican Committee
Johnson J. Hayes
Duncan
Paul Hansen
Charlotte
Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Murder Trial Promises Reno Life Behind Gay Colony
Reno Nev December reports that Dr Carl Pierre Andres will stand trial for the murder of Martha Hutchinson a 22 year old former Marion county West Virginia deputy clerk The defense aims to show Reno nightlife influenced the death prosecutors seek to prove Andres killed Hutchinson to end the affair and staged an accidental death The case involves a Cor nelius Vanderbilt Jr Lazy McDade ranch party and a speeding car ride ending with Hutchinsons death
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Reno
Nev
Carl Pierre Andres
Martha Hutchinson
Marion County
West Virginia
Hutchinson
Andres
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr
Lazy Mc Dade Ranch
Lawrence Tibbett
Culbertson Falls Behind In Bridge Match
Ely Culbertson trails 5650 points to Sidney Lenz and Oswald Jacoby nearing the fifth session of their Culbertson Lenz match. Lenz and Jacoby won seven of twelve rubbers and even teased a $250 wager while Culbertson rejected the odds.
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H. Allen Smith
New York
Ely Culbertson
Culbertson-Lenz
Culbertson
Sidney
Lenz
Oswald Jacoby
Culbertsons
Jacoby
Leng
Winkler Freed In Lincoln Bank Robbery Case
Chicago gangster Gus Winkler, associate of Al Capone, was freed on a bank charge tied to the $2.5 million Lincoln National Bank robbery dated September 17, 1920. The case crosses Chicago crime into a Nebraska incident and outlines a major historical finance crime.
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Lincoln, Neb
Gus” Winkler
Chicago
Sieatone
al Capone
Lincoln National Bank and Trust Company
Jury Deadlocked in Dual Slaying Trial
The case of Willie Peterson, alleged slayer of two Birmingham society girls, shows a hung jury after three days of deliberation with six votes for acquittal and six for the death penalty. The incident occurred on Shades Mountain on August 4 and involved Miss Augusta Williams and Miss Jennie Wood. Nell Williams survived and testified.
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Birmingham
Ala
Willie Peterson
Augusta Williams
Jennie Wood
Nell Williams
Augusta
Shades Mountain
Peterson
Train Crash Kills Fireman and Injures Passengers
A northbound Sea board Air Line New York Florida Limited collided with a freight train at Scott twenty miles north of West Palm Beach Florida. A negro fireman named Joe King died and engineer Sam Eubanks plus several passengers were injured. Scott communications were disrupted and wrecking crews were dispatched from Miggi.
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West Palm Beach
Fla
New York-Florida Limited
Seaboard Air Line
Scott
Here
Sam Eubanks
Joe King
Miggi
Mather Will May Give $3 Million to Charities
Cleveland dispatch reports that education religious and charitable groups will receive about 3 million from the Samuel Mather estate. Western Reserve University gets 2 million as the largest single beneficiary while heirs include two sons S Livingston and Philip R Mather and two daughters Constance Mather Bishop and Katharine Hoyt Mather. Livingston College Salisbury NC receives 150,000 among other bequests.
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Cleveland
Samuel Mather
Mather
Western Reserve University
S. Livingston
Philip R. Mather
Constance Mather Bishop
Katherine Hoyt Mather
Livingston College
Salisbury
N. C
Bluebeard to Die by Gallows Next March at Moundsville
Harry F. Powers was sentenced to death for the first degree murder of Mrs. Dorothy Pressler Lemke. Judge John C. Southern set the execution for March 18 at the state's penitentiary in Moundsville after denying defense motions for a new trial.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Harry F. Powers
Moundsville
John C. Southern
Powers
Dorothy Pressler Lemke
Northboro
Mass
Tibbett Swoons Crowd at Baltimore Relief Ball
Lawrence Tibbett sang at a relief ball in Baltimore drawing a 4,500 strong crowd. Six women fainted as 200 fans rushed forward to reach him, scrambling over chairs and tables before police escorted the star to safety.
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Baltimore
Lawrence Tibbett
Tibbett
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Dr. Butler
Elihu Root
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Hampton, Va
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