Mills Beer Bill Not To Produce Sufficient Revenue
Secretary Mills told the House Ways and Means Committee that the Collier beer bill would yield only 125 to 150 million dollars in the 1934 fiscal year and would not balance the budget by itself. He endorsed a general manufacturers tax and continuation of the one cent per gallon gasoline tax while noting the beer and wine provisions are faulty in many respects.
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Washington
Mills
Treasury
House
Ways and Means
Department
Hoover
The
Ways and Means Committee
Marion de Vries
Edmund A. Rossi
San Francisco
Veterans petitioners press censure of Hoover as eviction plan sparks clash
Radical veterans group linked to the Bonus Army delivers petitions to Vice President Curtis and Speaker Garner calling for Hoover’s censure and bonus payments. Curtis rejects the censure paragraph after a tense exchange, while Garner remains neutral. James W. Ford leads the petitioners. Police separate the crowd as the McKellar resolution for eviction inquiry moves to senate military committee.
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Washington
Curtis
Hoover
Samuel J. Stember
Stember
Curts
Garner
James W. Ford
Legislators Clash Over French Debt Payment
Washington reports resentment in Congress as France refuses to pay a 1923 debt installment of 19,261,432 dollars. Senator McKellar decries the move as ungrateful, while President Hoover and officials at the state department remain silent and cautious on possible responses.
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Washington
Congress
White House
State Department
McKellar
Tennessee
Germany
Hoover
Paris
Too Proud To Ask Charity Aged Man Sent To Jail
New York December story follows 73 year old Jacob Schmidt living in a shack in Brooklyn. He is proud and refuses charity while facing hunger and cold after job loss and medical expenses. Policeman George Meyers arrests him to prevent further suffering.
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New York
Jacob Schmidt
George Meyers
Schmidt
Johnson Avenue
Bogart Street
Brooklyn
Meyers
Mr. Schmidt
Flood Threat Reaches Three States As Rivers Rise
Rivers threatened lowlands in Alabama Georgia and Mississippi driving hundreds from homes. In Rome Georgia more than 300 people evacuated as the Tallapoosa and Coldwater rose. Pearl River loomed near South Jackson Mississippi. Roads closed and 20 percent of Rome flooded from an inch to three feet.
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Montgomery
Ala
Rome
Georgia
Jackson
Miss
Highway Department
T. B. Owen
City Commission
Robbers Hold Up Apex Bank and Detain Cashier in Vault
Two hooded men robbed the Page Trust Apex branch of about 2000 to 3000 dollars and left cashier T M Herndon imprisoned in the vault for two hours. He described the thieves as tall white men in checkery brown robes with face coverings. An old model touring car was seen near the bank that morning.
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APEX
Page Trust Company
T. M. Herndon
Herndon
Cook Cooks Chick Rogues Rifle Roast Cops Chase Culprits
In Fayetteville on December 14 AP reports Bessie Cook faced a theft as thieves entered her home and stole a chicken along with syrup and meat. Police sought to devise a plan to recover the stolen goods and catch the culprits.
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Fayetteville
Bessie Cook
Cookstreet
Chicago Mayor orders jail or morgue for bootleggers
Chicago police raided two Capone liquor syndicate headquarters after Mayor Anton J. Cermak demanded a crackdown on speak easies and gambling joints. The raids led to 13 arrests including public enemies Joseph Red Belton and Michael Lippy Nucccio, following the killing of a police officer. A downtown hotel gambling raid disrupted machines tied to the syndicate.
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Chicago
Anton J. Cermak
Joseph
Red) Belton
Michael
Lippy) Nucccio
Capone Liquor Syndicate
al Capone
Atlanta
Capone Syndicate
Mayor Mashburn of Marshall Dies in Influenza Fight
Charlies B. Mashburn mayor of Marshall and former state representative died today from influenza that led to pneumonia and a hemorrhage. He was an attorney for thirty years and active in promoting scientific farming. Funeral plans were not yet arranged.
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Marshall
Charlies B. Mashburn
State General Assembly
Mashburn
Kneels To Pray and Finds Lost Diamond
Miss Charlotte Zynot, a maid in a Grosse Pointe home, kneeling before work glimpsed a glitter in her shoe heel. She found a $500 diamond ring lost two weeks earlier by her employer Mrs G V Saylor. The gem was recovered with scissors.
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Detroit
Charlotte Zynot
Grosse Pointe
G. V. Saylor
Budget Commission Begins Task Of Balancing Budget
A unanimous accord on farm relief principles was presented to the House Agriculture Committee. Frederick T. Lee outlined three core aims: administration by the Department of Agriculture, coverage of four commodities wheat cotton tobacco and hogs, and restoring prewar parity for agricultural goods.
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Washington
Jones
House Agriculture Committee
National Farm
Frederick T. Lee
State Expenditures Must Be Greatly Reduced In Order To Balance Budget
Raleigh Dec 14 The state advisory budget commission met in private to frame an appropriations bill for balancing a deficit running into millions. Four years earlier NC had a $2 million surplus. now the deficit for 1933-34 is projected at 10 to 15 million. The commission’s report goes to the 1933 general assembly.
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Raleigh
State Advisory Budget Commission
North Carolina
General Assembly
Budget Bureau
Civic clubs rally to fund Empty Stocking drive
Civic clubs gathered to boost the Empty Stocking Fund which trails last year’s totals. Donations listed include the American Business Club and Monarch Club each giving 50 dollars along with numerous individuals and groups contributing to push the year’s appeal toward its needed goal. The drive emphasizes aid for disadvantaged children this Christmas season.
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American Business Club
Monarch Club
High Point
Chicago Fisherman Held On Job By Ice
Chicago story reports Andrew Dancho, 33, went out on Lake Michigan to fish. His wife notified authorities after hours with no return. Coast guards found the boat icebound about a mile from shore and believe he may reach home later today.
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Chicago
Andrew Dancho
Lake Michigan
Herriot May Again Be Premier Despite Deputies Refusal
Paris reports Premier Herriot told Ambassador Claudel he no longer can negotiate debt payments after the chamber of deputies rejected funds for the due installment. Washington notes French insistence on a conference while the US maintains its war debt stance. London reports Neville Chamberlain promising to settle England's 95.35 million debt in gold in New York or via bank arrangements tomorrow.
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Paris
Herriot
Claudel
Washington
Chamber of Deputies
Europe
United States
Congress
London
Neville Chamberlain
House of Commons
England
New York
Federal Reserve Bank
Bank of England
Chamberlain
Law proposed to bar defaulted foreign government securities
Representative Kautson of Minnesota introduced a bill to forbid entry of securities from foreign governments that have defaulted on debt payments. The measure would also ban advertising their sale and carrying such obligations through the mails.
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Washington
Dec
Kautson
Minn
United States
Senate vote backs Philippine independence plan
Washington action approves a proposal to grant independence to the Philippines in eight years. The Senate vote tally was 40 in favor and 88 against.
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Washington
Senate
Philippines
Browns and Senators swap players for Walter Stewart deal
The St. Louis Browns and Washington Senators completed a major player exchange. Browns receive left handed pitcher Lloyd Brown, outfielders Sam West and Carl Reynolds and cash for ace southpaw Walter Stewart, outfielder Goose Goslin and Fred Schulte.
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New York
St. Louis Browns
Washington Senators
American Baseball League
Browns
Lloyd Brown
Sam West
Carl Reynolds
Walter Stewart
First home loan bank district issues 865000 loan
In Winston Salem the fourth district made the first loan under the home loan bank system at 2 45 pm today. The loan amount was 865000 to a member institution.
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Winston-Salem
Airport to remain open after meeting with businessmen
Charlotte receiver John D. Shaw said after a conference with businessmen that for the present the Charlotte airport will not be discontinued despite earlier threats to close the field Monday over finances.
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Charlotte
N. C
John D. Shaw
Cotton Holiday Again Proposed by Blackwood to Aid King Cotton
Governor Ibra C. Blackwood of South Carolina urged a regional cotton holiday to raise prices. He proposed a 1933 planting moratorium, a south wideorganization to hold cotton until it reaches 10 cents per pound plus a living price, and meetings on January 5 and a state convention January 10. He noted a prior 1932 planting misdemeanor and a Senate bill for purchasing 10,000,000 bales for resale to farmers.
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Columbia
D. C
Southern Agriculture
Ibra C. Blackwood
South Carolina
Blackwood
General Assembly
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
Smith
Congress
Rail executives propose six month wage extension for rail workers
Chicago December 14. Railway executives propose extending the current ten percent wage reductions for six months beyond January 31. Any future wage changes would go to the railway labor board, with a July 1 deadline before no further temporary cuts occur. The plan avoids repeated conferences and instead uses mediation agencies. Labor had rejected the prior proposal to erase the January 31 deadline.
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Chicago
Brotherhoods
W. F. Thiehoff
Railway Labor Board
Railway Labor Act
Monay
Inauguration of Coast to Coast Air Express Mail
A Beverly Hills writer predicts a new coast to coast air express mail service tomorrow. He notes air mail costs rising three cents and argues the network will deliver letters by tomorrow, urging readers to mail now and implying faster delivery justifies the price.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Air Express
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James W. Poole
American Business’ Club
John R. Pocs
el Bane
Garden Club
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