Draft Voluntary Allotment Plan Moves for Farm Relief
Washington December 13 A tentative domestic allotment plan for wheat cotton tobacco and hogs and repeal of farm board act provisions was released as the basis for farm relief hearings by the House Agriculture Committee. Chairman Jones distributed the emergency bill draft after an hour long executive session. The measure would require the secretary of agriculture within 30 days to estimate domestic consumption for 1933 production and issue adjustment certificates at 42 cents a bushel for wheat 5 cents a pound for cotton 4 cents a pound for tobacco and 2 cents a pound for hogs after expenses.
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Washington
House Agriculture Committee
Jones
Secretary of Agriculture
Nation Endures Severe Winter Storm Across U S
Unrelenting cold grips the nation with snow in the Midwest and California. Chicago records 2.4 above zero in December’s cold spell, while Sacramento sees natural ice skating for the first time and Yuma reports snowfall. Oklahoma deaths rise as seven people die in the cold. In Lyons Colorado, 76 year old Ellen Dwyer is found frozen in bed with her pet chicken.
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Mason and Dixon Line
Midwest
Chicago
Sacramento
Cal
Brawley
Yuma
Arizona
Rocky Mountain States
Oklahoma
Lyons
Col
Ellen Dwyer
Eden
French Committees Reject Herriot Debt Payment Plan
In Paris on December 13 the foreign affairs and finance committees opposed Premier Herriot's plan to pay the December installment to the United States with reservations. A sub-committee echoed the stance that payment should wait for an American international debt conference. Louis Marin urged France to refuse payment, arguing postwar burdens should be shared. Outside, hundreds of Republican guards kept order.
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Paris
Herriot
Chamber of Deputies
United States
Foreign Affairs and Finance
Chamber
France
America
Louis Marin
Britain signals debt payments while seeking revision
London reports a new note to Washington affirming continued debt payments under protest until Britain achieves a drastic debt revision. Critics say the note lacks explicit word that the $95.65 million due this week will be the last under the current funding plan. Prime Minister MacDonald led a cabinet session as disarmament talks at Geneva gain renewed momentum.
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Washington
United States
Great Britain
No. 10
Downing Street
MacDonald
Geneva
Stimson Hoover Briefly Discuss Third British Debt Note
Secretary Stimson and President Hoover met after Britain's third note on December 15 debt payments. Officials said Britain's stance would not alter the US position on accepting the money as a clean payment. The White House cabinet discussed the debt issue with no conclusions announced.
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Washington
Great Britain
United States
Stimeon
Hoover
Stimson
White House
Japs Reject British Plan on Manchuria Crisis
Japan told its Gen Eva delegation to refuse an international conciliation commission to settle the Sino Japanese dispute over Manchuria. The British approach to diplomacy was criticized as a reversal, and stock markets fell on news of resumed relations between China and Russia, described by a government spokesman as threatening world peace.
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Great Britain
Japan
Geneva
Manchuria
League
China
Russia
McFadden Impeachment Bid Defeated in House Vote
The House rejected McFadden of Pennsylvania by 361 to 8 a resolution to impeach President Hoover for alleged war debt violations. The measure accused Hoover of failing to uphold laws on debt cancellations and seeking to nullify U S contracts with foreign debtors.
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House of Representatives
McFadden
Pennsylvania
Hoover
Congress
United States
House
North Carolina
Blanton
Tez
Gri@e
N. Y
Patman
D. Texas
Romiue
Sweeney
Ohio
Black
Herbert Hoover
Men Only Policy At Chicago Store Sparks Chortle
In Chicago a women's store forced all female customers to leave except for female clerks. The rule aimed to let men buy unmentionables for their wives without female shoppers peeking and laughing. The incident sparked amused headlines as staff enforced the ban.
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Chicago
Business Recovery Tied to New Washington Policies
Col. Leonard P. Ayres of the Cleveland Trust predicts 1933 recovery hinges on Washington’s forthcoming administration. He warns the current depression won’t self cure and notes policy choices will largely shape business outcomes, with possible lower wages, higher failures, reduced dividends, and a truck and car output of 1.25 to 2.0 million.
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Cleveland
Washington
Leonard P. Ayres
Cleveland Trust Company
Col
Ayres
Chamber of Commerce
United States
Canada
Famous Zoologist Dr. W. J. Holland Dies in Pittsburgh
Dr. W. J. Holland 84 internationally known zoologist and Carnegie Museum director emeritus died at home after a stroke. Born in Jamaica August 16 1848 he received decorations from Germany France Italy Russia Spain and Austria. Survived by widow Carrie T. M. Holland and two sons Moorhead B. Holland Pittsburgh and Francis Raymond Holland New York.
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W. J. Holland
Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh
Holland
Moravian College
Amherst College
Princeton Theological Seminary
Bethany
Mandeville
Jamaica
Francis Raymond Holland
Salem
N. C
Germany
France
Italy
Russia
Spain
Austria
Carrie T. M. Holland
Moorhead B. Holland
New York
Famous Teacher Visits Ellis Island With Pupil Group
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt led 24 young women through Ellis Island in New York on December 13. The group, including private school students and Junior League members, toured a balcony over the immigration hall and a deportation room where detained aliens await decisions, meeting inmates who once served long sentences and now knit sweaters for display.
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New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ellis Island
House panel approves relief cotton for Red Cross funds
Washington December 12 AP reports the house agriculture committee approved legislation to allot the remaining 329000 bales of stabilization cotton to the Red Cross for relief distribution. Later December 13 another AP item notes Representative Garrett of Texas died today, but details were not released.
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Washington
Red Cross
House Agriculture Committee
Garrett
Texas
Tod
Belgium Cabinet Refuses Debt Installment and Resigns
The Belgian cabinet refused to pay a $2,125,000 debt installment due to the United States this week and then submitted its resignation.
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Brussels
Belgium
United States
Hoover Nominates Frank Clark to Federal Power Commission
Washington on December 12 reports President Hoover named Frank Clark of Florida to the Federal Power Commission to succeed Commissioner Garsaud. The nomination adds a new member to the federal agency overseeing power regulation.
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Washington
Frank Clark
Florida
Hoover
Federal Power Commission
Garsaud
NC Democrat Hancock Joins McFadden in Hoover Impeachment Vote
Representative Hancock of North Carolina was among seven Democrats who joined Representative McFadden of Pennsylvania to cast eight votes in favor of McFadden's resolution to impeach President Hoover.
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Washington
Representative Hancock
North Carolina
Representative McFadden
Pennsylvania
McFadden
Hoover
Pennsylvania Republicans Demand McFadden Resignation
Washington December 13. Pennsylvania Republicans in the house today urged the resignation of Representative McFadden as secretary of their delegation after his impeachment resolution aimed at President Hoover.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
House
Representative McFadden
Hoover
British youth to face murder charge in Wanderwell case
Los Angeles December 13. District Attorney Bar on Fitts announced a murder complaint would be filed against William James Guy, 24, Britisher, in the death of Captain Walter Wanderwell aboard the carma. Fitts sought to keep Edward De Larm and Ralph Dunlap in custody as witnesses and questioned whether the slaying was a one man job. De Larm and friends dispute Guy’s alibi at Glendale on December 5.
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Los Angeles
Baron Fitts
Walter Wanderwell
Fitts
William James Guy
Edward de Larm
Ralph Dunlap
Vanderwell
Carma
de Larm
Guy
Glendale
Long Beach
John Seastrom
Tom Bridgeford
Murderess plans to fight death penalty in Arizona
Florence December 13 Mrs Winnig Ruth Judd known as Arizona trunk murderess calls husband and lawyers to prison for plans to delay execution set for February. Attorney Arthur C Verge says rehearing will be filed immediately while other escape routes include state pardons board sanitay hearing or U S Supreme Court appeal.
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Florence, Ariz
Winnig Ruth Judd
Arizona
Priso
5 Supreme Court of the United States
Vorge
State Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court
Brummitt Seeks Dismissal of Lands Appeal in Bribery Case
The North Carolina Supreme Court took under advisement Attorney General Brummitt's motion to docket and dismiss Wiley B. No land's appeal for bribery of a juror in the Lake Leaf Wallade Davis bank trial. Noland was convicted of attempting to bribe Hurst Justice. a postponement was debated to allow filing affidavits. The court's ruling was expected soon.
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State Supreme Court
Dennis G. Brummitt
Wiley B. Noland
Buncombe County
Lake Leaf -Wallace B. Davis Bank
Mr. Brummitt
Noland
Hurst
Felix Alley
Brummitt
Al“O
United States Will Not Reply To Britain War Debt Note
Washington dispatches report that after talks among President Hoover and Secretaries Stimson and Mills, the United States plans no reply to Britain on war debts. Officials say both nations understand each other’s position and no reason to reject expected payments.
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TON
Washington
United States
Great Britain
Hoover
Stimson
Mills
Brotherhood vetoes plan to extend wage cut deadline indefinitely
Chicago December 13 delegates of railway brotherhoods reject prolonging the January 31 deadline for the temporary ten cent wage cut for rail workers. Alexander F. Whitney, head of the employees at the wage scale conference, stated labor will not accept an indefinite extension but would be willing to negotiate.
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Chicago
Railway Brotherhood
Alexander F. Whitney
Escaped Man From 1922 Murder Return Ordered
J L Peak of Winston-Salem imprisoned for second degree murder in 1922 was recaptured in Haughton Michigan after escaping on October 29 1928. An officer will bring Peak back to Raleigh to resume his 80 year sentence.
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Raleigh
J. L. Peak
Winston-Shalem
State’s
Haughton
Michigan
Minister-turned-informant jailed for bribery tied to bootleg raids
Williamston December 13 A former minister and U S Commissioner Thomas E Beaman was remanded in 5000 bond on bribery charges related to passing raid information to bootleggers. Officials testified Beaman supplied tips to over twenty bootleggers and planned raids during a sting in Greenville and Pitt County. He faces federal trial before Judge I M Meekins in Washington in April.
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Williamston
U. S
Thomas E. Beaman
Beaman
Greenville
Pitt County
I. M. Meekins
Washington
Eight Dead Reported In Windy City Crime Wave
Metropolitan Chicago reported eight violent deaths in a single day amid freezing weather. The victims included two detectives, a Berwyn officer, a police officer, a robber, an auto thief, and a former boxer, with deaths from gunfire suffocation and stabbing during rapid incidents. Police pursuit and a hotel or tailor shop context are noted.
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Windy City
Chicago
Anton J. Cermak
Bridewell Hospital
Joseph Seidel
Frankie Schaeffer
Prohibition leaders press constitutional limits on beer
Prohibition leaders led by Bishop James Cannon Sr argued before the house ways and means committee that Congress cannot fix alcoholic content of beverages. The opposition pressed doors as speakers warned that beer needs a kick to sell. Speaker Garner said Collier beer bill could be brought up next Tuesday as the committee works through the weekend.
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Washington
James Cannon
House
Ways and Means
Congress
Southern Methodist
Nero
Rome
Garner
Springfield claims largest mayor in the nation
Springfield, D C, declares its mayor the largest in the nation. M. E. Black weighs in at over 300 pounds as the town’s chief official.
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Springfield
D. C
M. E. Black
Just Meet
Rain Promise Delivers for Desert Democrats in Beverly Hills
In Beverly Hills on December 12 a letter from a reader praises Roosevelt for delivering rain, claiming the desert region thrives on irrigation symbols like a hose under the orange trees while others debate prohibition and war loans. The author signs as Will.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Roosevelt
Goily
Will
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