Pennsylvania Republican Group Leads Movement to End Prohibition
A GOP faction in Washington selects a committee to work with a Democratic anti prohibition bloc led by Linthicum of Maryland. Representative Beck of Pennsylvania heads the effort with LaGuardia named secretary and Britten of Illinois to chair the conference. The aim is a unified push for action to reform the Volstead law.
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Washington
Ixty-Four
Beck
Pennsylvania
Representative Linthicum
Maryland
House Net
Joint Executive Committee
Britten
Illinois
Florence Kahn
California
Clancy
Michigan
Linthicum
Congress
LaGuardia
New York
Special Conference Committee
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Republican National Committee
Simeon Fess
Ciry
National Committee
Hoover Moratorium Under Fire as Debates Climb
Washington reports the house ways and means committee hears Rep McFadden charges that President Hoover sold out the country in the debt moratorium debate. Treadway seeks to bar McFadden from future sessions, Crisp opposes, while Stimson testifies on the moratorium and related debt revision efforts.
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Washington
Rep
McFadden
Hoover
House
Ways and Means
Stimson
Treadway
Mass
McFadden Ba
Crisp
Dem
Ogden Mills
Treasury
Mills
Senate
Finance Committee
Johnson
California
Congress
North Carolina Declares Wine Bricks Illegal Under Law
Assistant Attorney General A A Seawell ruled that sale or possession of wine bricks is illegal in North Carolina. The opinion, sent to Winston-Salem attorney Phin Horton Jr, notes state prohibitions are broader than federal laws and does not address malt extract. The bricks are pressed grape pulp from California with anti fermentation directions.
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Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina
A. A. ¥. Seawell
Phin Horton, Jr
Winston-Salem
California
Jane Addams Doing Well After Abdominal Operation
Jane Addams, noted Chicago social settlement worker, is reported doing very well at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore after an abdominal operation last Saturday.
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Jane Addams
Baltimore
Chicago
Wedell Halts Transcontinental Flight in Pueblo
J R Wedell landed in Pueblo Colorado at 11 03 a m MST and called off his attempt to fly coast to coast in ten hours due to slow progress and strong winds He planned to refuel with his brother W W Wedell and resume toward New Orleans then aim for another record next spring from Los Angeles to Newark New Jersey
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BR. Wedell
New Orleans
Mexico
Canada
Pueblo
Colo
Los Angeles
New York
Colorado
Puebla
J. R. Wedell
W. W. Wedell
Wedell
Newark
N. J
Bloomington
Polish actress Pola Negri in serious condition
Santa Monica California December 16 Doctors keep Pola Negri under careful observation at a Santa Monica hospital. Physicians say her condition is not critical but serious and she will remain in strict seclusion for a time while uncertain whether poisoning or a recurrence of appendicitis is at fault.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Pola Negri
Santa Monica Hospital
Miss Negri
Harley Raps Dems In Pro Hoover Talk Before G O P Meet
Secretary Hurley attacks Democrats in a Republican committee session praising President Hoover. He touts Hoover as the world’s leader in recovery and cheers the administration’s program, while Chicago is set as the GOP convention site for June 14 with Hoover likely to be renominated.
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Washington
Harley
Republican National Committee
Hoover
World Recovery
Chicago
Byrns predicts vet appropriations bill passage in Congress
Chairman Byrns of the appropriations committee forecast House passage tomorrow of a emergency 200 million dollar appropriation to meet payments on veterans bonus certificates. He said other deficiency funding requested by President Hoover will come later. Hearings on items including 60 million for federal state road program 20 million for public buildings and 46 million for military and naval disability allowances will start immediately.
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Washington
Byrns
Appropriations Committee
House
Hoover
November Deaths By Violence In State Report
Seventy two persons were killed in automobile mishaps in North Carolina during November according to the State Bureau of Vital Statistics. Other deaths from violence included personal crisis reports homicide 24 accidental shootings 19 burns 17 railroad accidents 9 drowning 9 lightning 2 airplanes 1.
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Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina
State Bureau of Vital Statistics
Hitler Predicts Nazi Victory and Legal Status
Berlin dispatch reports Adolf Hitler releasing a 40 page open letter to Chancellor Bruening. He accuses the government of illusion, maintains the Nazi movement legal, and predicts ultimate NSDAP triumph while pledging to pledge opposition rights to be ended if the regime succeeds.
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Berlin
Adolph Hitler
Bruening
Germany
Hitler
Spain's New Cabinet Seeks Church Decrees and Economic Reform
Madrid report says Premier Azana's cabinet favors expelling certain religious orders and nationalizing their property as the new republic shapes its policy. Indalecio Prieto notes Spain rejects the Russian model and will pursue an independent reconstruction strategy while balancing a large deficit. The provisional government trims the civil service and scales the army, with 12,000 officers to guide a 100,000-man force.
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Madrid
Republic of
Spain
Manuel Azana
National Assembly
Indalecio Prieto
Alcala Zamora
Azana
the Republic
Akron Dirigible Tours the Southland
The Navy Dirigible Akron circled Augusta and continued toward New Orleans on a training flight. From Lakehurst it will pass Macon Atlanta Montgomery Mobile and New Orleans with weather-dependent changes possible. Commander Rosen dahl led the crew of 12 officers and 61 enlisted men under Rear Admiral Moffett aboard.
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Augusta
Akron
Lakehurst
N. J
New Orleans
Macon
Atlanta
Montgomery
Ala
Mobile
C. E. Rosendahl
William A. Moffett
Navy Bureau of Aeronautics
Culbertsons Forge Steadily Ahead In Bridge Tournament
New York December 16 Culbertson Lenz match narrows to a neck and neck race with Culbertsons Ely and Jo leading by 410 points after eight rubbers. Sidney Lenz Oswald Jacoby started with a 15 point edge as the session ends. The press corps remains skeptical calling the event a racket yet continues coverage.
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New York
Culbertsons
Ely
Lenz
Culbertson
Death sentence sought for NC burglary suspect
Winston Salem report states John Moore, a Black man, was convicted of first degree burglary after stealing shoes from Mitchell Keyes. Although his lawyers argued insanity, the jury urged mercy. the automatic NC death sentence prompts Judge John H. Harwood in Forsyth Superior Court to issue the sentence today.
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Mitchell Keyes
North Carolina
John H. Harwood
Forsyth Superior Court
No Sailors Linked to Honolulu Rioting Probe
Captain Ward K. Wortman of Pearl Harbor said an investigation found no navy men at liberty Saturday night connected with the attack on Horace Ida island born Japanese. Ida was among five defendants in a mistrial over an attack on a naval officer's wife and was kidnapped by twenty men. The city remained quiet under heavy police guard as shore patrol numbers rose after six incidents involving civilians harassing naval personnel and officers wives.
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Honolulu
Ward K. Wortman
Pearl Harbor
Navy
Liberty
Horace Ida
Ida
Wortman
Japan Moves to Rule Manchuria Amid New Governments
Japan appoints Tsang Shih-Yi as governor of Feng tientsu province with capital at Mukden, signaling a push for autonomous Manchuria while China and Japan form new governments. Fighting continues against bandits as rail investments loom large. Chiang Kai Shek out in China in a Cantonese led coalition, Tokyo refrains from sending a new division into Manchuria as Chang Hsueh-Liang appears ready to withdraw from Chin Chow.
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Fengtien
Mukden
Manchuria
Tokyo
Nanking
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Chang Hsueh-Liang
Chinchow
Senate Finance Committee to probe foreign flotations
The Senate Finance committee will open its investigation into the flotation of foreigners in the United States. The Senate adjourned after the nineteenth ballot of the session failed to break deadlock over re election of George Moses of New Hampshire as president pro tem. The Johnson resolution to compel Stimson to produce all notes with foreign governments on the Manchurian dispute passed the foreign relations committee after a sharp debate.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
United States
Senate
George Moses
New Hampsire
Johnson
Stimson
Foreign Relations Committee
Seven Die as Ship Breaks Free in Baltic Blizzard
Seven men drowned when a sailing ship broke from moorings in Libau Roads and wrecked in a Baltic blizzard. The storm caused extensive damage to shipping and watering places along the coast.
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Riga
Latvia
Libau
Baltic Sea
Senate Postpones World Court Protocol Action
The Senate foreign relations committee set aside the protocol for adherence to the world court, delaying consideration until domestic problems ease. Chairman Borah indicated the pause is temporary and action could resume once pressing matters are resolved, with June 1 described as a possible resumption date by Senator Watson.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Congress
Borah
Watson
Indiana
Witnesses From All Over State To Testify In Probe
Greensboro report outlines grand jury session as District Attorney Gavin pursues campaign fund violation investigations. Fifty seven witnesses subpoenaed from towns across North Carolina to testify about Republican committee funding and records seizure.
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State
Greensboro
North Carolina Republican Executive Committee
E. L. Gavin
Gavin
Johnson J. Hayes
Hayes
James S. Duncan
State Committee
Duncan
W. H. Foster
Grand
Grand Jury
Gibsonville
M. FP. Hinshaw
Randleman
Robert E. Hodgin
Guilford College
Walter Hogan
Ellerbe
J. Matt Joyce
Madison
Bertie L. Matthews
Vass
Bettie Martin
Biscoe
J. S. Mitchell
Draper
H. W. Parker
Carrboro
Mary F. Ross
New London
E. B. Hatterwhite
Sanatorium
Charles F. Scarborough
Mount Gilead
Thomas W. Sparrow
Hillsboro
W. K. Stonestreet
Landis
Lurline Turner
Milton
C. L. Walters
C. R. Yost
Granite Quarry
R. C. Barker
Badin
L. J. Butler
Hoffman
Bessie Caudill
Roaring River
J. E. Carroll
China Grove
W. F. Colvard
Robbinsville
G. W. Cox
Raeford
Ivey Crutchfield
Efland
R. H. Dixon
Siler City
J. F. Deaton
Aberdeen
Julia Greer
Moravian Falls
J. R. Guth
Shouse Claims GOP Fractured Amid Defeat in Washington
Jouett Shouse, Democratic National Executive Committee chairman, warned in Birmingham that Republican forces in Washington are split and scattered. He said senators oppose the president and discipline is weak in retreat, urging harmony and a clear course for the 1932 campaign.
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Birmingham
Ala
Jouett Shouse
Democratic National Executive Committee
Washington
Alabama
Democratic Executive Committee
Senate
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