Moratorium Clinched by Senate Finance Committee Action
The Senate finance committee approved the Hoover moratorium on debt payments amid warnings of German unrest if reparations are enforced. Charles E. Mitchell testified that National City Bank profited nearly 25 million dollars since 1919 from selling foreign bonds. Ratification moves to the Senate with ongoing opposition and procedural delays as debates loom into Monday.
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Washington, D. C
Hoover
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Germany
Charles E.mitchell
National City Bank of New York
America
Congress
Johnson
California
Smoot
Connally
Texas
House
Mitchell
Finance Committee
Woman On Trial For Killing Mother To End Misery
In Copenhagen on December 19 Mrs. Elsie Bang faced trial for allegedly giving her mother an overdose to end suffering from an incurable illness. She had confessed to the act. An inquest showed the mother was not in an advanced disease stage. The first witness said Bang sacrificed personal pleasures to stay at home for her mother.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Elsie Bang
Alfalfa Bill Reform Motions Defeated in Oklahoma
Oklahoma City December reports show Governor Murray’s four initiative measures lagging by about 30 000 votes in the unofficial count. The measures included income tax revision free textbooks escheat of certain corporation lands and revised budget methods a result Murray says rural voters disappointed but the income bill may still have a chance.
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Oklahoma City
Murray
Crisis Eases for Film Star Pola Negri
Santa Monica physician bulletin reports Pola Negri has passed the crisis of her dangerous illness and recovery appears likely after an early week operation for intestinal obstruction caused by ptomaine poisoning and an appendix disturbance.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Santa Monica Hospital
Pola Negri
England Shrouded by Thick Fog Disrupts Events
England and surrounding waters were blanketed by dense fog causing widespread transport disruption. Many Saturday sports events were postponed or abandoned and a railway wreck at Dangeham Essex left two dead and 72 injured.
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London
England
Dangeham
Essex
McFadden Attacks Mellon and Treasury Over Unpaid Taxes
Pennsylvania's McFadden broadens war on his own party by blaming Secretary Mellon and the Treasury for lax tax collection in a radio broadcast. He cites a letter suggesting nearly one billion dollars in unpaid taxes and accuses the administration of selling out to Germany over a moratorium. Rankin and Democrats press for investigation while Republicans show little appetite for probes.
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Washington
Treasury
McFadden
Pennsylvania
Mellon
Germany
House
Rankin
Mississippi
Congressional Record
Representative Free
California
Hoover
Seabury’s Plan to Outline Removal Proceedings
Samuel Seabury said he is compiling testimony from the Hofstadter committee on New York City affairs for Governor Roosevelt. He will analyze evidence on Sheriff Thomas Farley Borough President John Lynch and others and may send a letter to Albany next week outlining testimony for possible action.
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New York
Samuel Seabury
Roosevelt
Seabury
Hofstadter
New York City
Thomas M. Farley
New York County
John A. Lynch
Richmond
Albany
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John J.raskob
Raskob
National Committee
Washington
E.m
J I
South
Floods Intensify in Lower Mississippi Region
Flood conditions drove residents from homes and disrupted highway and rail traffic across the south. In Farmerville Louisiana water surrounds the town while the Ludre river rises rapidly threatening rail traffic and forcing high water road closures. Batesville Mississippi becomes a shelter area as levee breaks flood lowlands and hundreds of plantation workers evacuate.
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Atlanta
Farmerville
Louisiana
Ludre River
Monroe-Farmerville
State Highway Department
Bernice
Ruston
Monroe
Batesville
Mississippi
Tallahatchie
Mims
Curtis
Panola County
Crowder, Stone and
Japanese Ultimatum Demanded On China Evacuation
A Tokyo source predicted a Japanese ultimatum demanding China evacuate Chinchow Manchuria within a week. China will be warned drastic measures would follow if not obeyed. Chinese minister and Japan's new premier met in Tokyo the first direct talks in two months as clashes continue at Mukden. Chiang Kai-shek may be replaced by a figurehead as Canton faction moves to reshuffle leadership.
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China
Chinchow
Manchuria
Tokyo
Nanking
Mukden
Hsinminturn
Paris
Kenkichi Yoshizawa
Japan
Canton
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chiang
Skull Found In Arizona Likely Of Disappeared Prospector
In Phoenix a skull found in the Superstition Mountains is believed by experts to belong to an aged white man. The National Museum anthropologist says it likely resulted from a gun death. Investigators tie the find to the 66 year old prospector A Ruth who vanished last June while seeking the lost Dutchman mine.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Phoenix Archaeological Commission
Ales Hrdlicka
National Museum
Washington, D. C
Superstition Mountains
A. Ruth
Dutchman
Ruth
Kidnapping of Girl in Cincinnati Echoes Hickman Case
Cincinnati police widen search for Marian McLean six, abducted by a tall dark man. Investigators comb subway tunnels gypsy camps and freight cars, fearing foul play akin to the Marian Parker case. Marian, ill and living in poverty, vanished after strolling with a stranger, with police fearing she is dead.
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Cincinnati
Hickman
Marian Parker
Marian McLean
McLean
Parker
Los Angeles
California
Marian
Julius Zervizzi
Zervizzi
Arrests Hinted in $75,000 Mrs Donnelly Kidnaping Case
Kansas City detectives predicted the arrest within 24 hours of two of the men who kidnapped Mrs Nell Quinlan Donnelly wife of a garment company manufacturer. Six or seven men took part in the Wednesday night abduction and two suspects lived in Kansas City. Ransom of 75000 was demanded but not paid.
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Kansas City
Nell Quinlan Donnelly
Lewis M. Siegfried
Tennessee Assembly Balances Budget With Tax Increases
In an extraordinary session the Tennessee legislature balanced the state budget by enacting a seven cent gasoline tax authorizing a 5 million dollar bond issue diverting 1.2 million from highway funds and passing a graduated income tax bill.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
General Treasury
Finnish Prohibition Referendum Sees Bootlegger Vote Ban Proposed
Helsinki finland December 19 disruptive vote protest groups urge government to bar bootleggers from the December 29 30 prohibition referendum. Helsinki university faculty records a strong repeal majority in a straw poll signaling campaign intensity on both sides.
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Helsingfors
Finland
Faculty of
Helsinki University
Millionaire Fatally Shot While Hunting
Robert R. Penn a 41 year old Dallas oil man and former newspaper executive was fatally wounded near Bledsoe Texas when a shotgun he carried on a hunting trip accidentally discharged Penn who had served as vice president of the American Petroleum Institute and was known in oil circles lived in Dallas Texas
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Dallas
Tex
Robert R. Penn
Bledsoe
Penn
American Petroleum Institute
Mysterious Mummy Link Sparks Lincoln Conspiracy Talk
Dr. Orlando F. Scott of Chicago holds a mummy that fuels debate over whether it is John Wilkes Booth the Lincoln assassin or a different figure. The tale claims Booth escaped to 1903 as John St. Helen and died by suicide in Oklahoma, a story many view as a tall tale.
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John Wilkes Booth
Lincoln
John St. Helen
Oklahoma
Orlando F. Scott
Chicago
Lyons Defeats Labor in Australia General Election
Australia votes decisively against Labor rule and chooses Joseph Lyons of the United Australia Party to form the new government. Lyons, once a Labor minister, led a campaign for “sound and sane government” and emerged as a top opposition figure amid party splits and electoral shifts. The tabulation shows Labor, the Comeroy Party, Left Wing Labor, and Independents in a reorganized lineup.
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Melbourne
Australia
Labor
Joseph A. Lyons
United Austria Party
Mr. Lyons
James Scullin
Labor Party
Tien i Ion Oan Six
Aieseis Bss Om
Scullin
Comeroy Party
Sk Kas Ts Cole
Rat
Mitchell and State Corporation Members Are Released From Bond
Raleigh December 19 Three members of the state corporation commission and John Mitchell former chief state bank examiner were discharged from their bonds after Buncombe county indictments were quashed by Wake Superior Court Judge Walter L Small. The ruling followed appeals and possible new indictments, as officials argued the Buncombe charges lacked crime and abatement pleas voided the case.
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Raleigh
State Corporation Commission
John Mitchell
State Bank
Buncombe County
Walter L. Small
Wake Superior Court
Buncombe
Cameron McRae
Buncombe Superior Court
Wake County
J. C. Little
State Supreme Court
Small
Mitchell
W. T. Lee
George P. Pell
Stanley Winbourne
Corporation Commissioners
Examiner
Broughton
Biggs
New Hanover
Wake
Central Bank and Trust Company
Senate weighs Hoover credit plan amid Christmas recess
The Senate banking committee examined Hoover’s 500 million reconstruction plan as an insurance tool to shore up credit after Christmas. Mills called the measure a useful instrument while critics questioned its details and compared it to the existing National Credit Corporation.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Hoover
Reconstruction Corporation
Mills
The
Treasury
Capitol
House
Senate
Walcott
Connecticut
George Harrison
New York Federal Reserve Bank
Glass
Virginia
National Credit Corporation
Bulkley
Ohio
Stevens Urges Defense Strength For Nation
Mobile Alabama December 19 Henry L Stevens Jr national commander of the American Legion urged adequate national defense anchored by an ample navy and an preserved national guard as the first line of defense He said the legion seeks no big navy but emphasizes a strong guard and adequate forces The Army he warned is reduced to a pool of highly trained technicians who would be guided by high commanders and professors in war timing
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Mobile
Ala
National Guard
Henry L. Stevens, Jr
American Legion
Legion
Stevens
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Arizona
M. Y
Marian McClean
Tennessee Assembly
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United Australian Party
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