Mellon and Hurley King clash in Philippine debate
Washington February 13 An exchange between Secretary Hurley and Senator King dominated congressional activity as the House quickly approved the dismissal of former Secretary Mellon’s impeachment charges. The Senate territories committee resumed with a Philippine independence hearing where Hurley walked out and King later brokered peace. A Capitol fire was contained without major damage.
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Hurley
King
D. Utah
House
Andrew W. Mellon
Congress
Judiciary Committee
Secretary of the Treasury
Hurley-King
Senate
Territories
War Department
Utah
Senate Civil Service Committee
Borah
Idaho
House Expenditures Committee
Representative McSwain
South Carolina
Military
War
Navy Department
Rayburn
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Snowbound Fugitive Johnson Still At Large In Yukon
Albert Johnson, pursued in one of the RCMP’s greatest man hunts, reportedly crossed the mountain divide into Yukon territory after killing a mountie and wounding another near Akalvik. A patrol including Staff Sergeant Hersey and trappers pressed the chase as Johnson backtracked to mislead trackers.
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Aklavik
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Albert Johnson
Here
Yukon Territory
Hersey
Northwest Territories
Yukon
Johnson
Seven Eskimo Villages Reported Flooded With Heavy Loss of Life
Delayed reports from Nome Alaska say seven Eskimo villages were wiped out by floods just before Christmas. Many lives were lost as tides and high water inundated the coast west of Nelson Island. With no communications, news traveled by land to Hamilton and then to Nome. Many victims were found in ice, and the flood extended from Nelson Island to Cape Romanoff along Norton Sound.
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Alaska
Nelson Island
Hamilton
Yukon River
Yukon
Kuskikwim Bay
Nelson Bay
Baird
Cape Romanoff
Seward Peninsula
Norton Sound
Bering Sea
Roosevelt Says Democratic Rank and File Should Decide Nomination
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt rejected a no pledge plan for delegates saying it would nullify the party’s principle of voter choice. He defended pledged groups and noted James A. Farley as liaison while criticizing unpledged delegations urged by Jouett Shouse.
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Roosevelt
Albany
N. Y
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Shouse
Jouett Shouse
Democratic National Executive
James A. Farley
Jowett Shouse
Washington
Democratic
Arrest of Judge Harwood Ends Daughter Embezzlement Probe
Raleigh dispatch reports Superior Court Judge John H. Harwood of Bryson City was arrested on charges of tampering with official records and being an accessory after the fact in connection with his daughter Lola Harwood's embezzlement case. The probe links to Revenue Commissioner A J Maxwell records. preliminary hearing set for Tuesday in Raleigh city court.
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Raleigh
Superior Court
John H. Harwood
Bryson City
Lola Harwood
Harwood
Revenue
A. J. Maxwell
Ment
Dennis G. Brummitt
Rockingham
O. Max Gardner
M. L. Shipman
Angus W. M
Civil War veteran Sanford Kirkpatrick dies after truck collision
Col. Sanford Kirkpatrick 90 of Greensboro died in a local hospital after being struck by a motor truck earlier in the day. Driver D Y Wilkerson posted a $1000 bond for manslaughter. Kirkpatrick served in the Civil War and represented Iowa's sixth district in Congress from 1913 to 1915.
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Greensboro
Sanford Kirkpatrck
Oakland Avenue
Iowa
House of Representatives
D. Y. Wilkerson
Highland Avenue
Congress
Porto Rican Vagrant Held In Slaying Probe In New York
An unemployed Porto Rican dishwasher, Serafin Rodriguez, is held on a vagrancy charg e while police probe his possible link to the murder of 13 year old Mario Rosales. Investigators traced a laundry mark on a shirt found in the victim’s building basement and noted handwriting similarities to papers he carried. He says he slept in a vacant apartment there for three months and knew the slain girl’s uncle and stepfather.
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New York
Mario Rosales
Serafin Rodriguez
Rosales
Acquittal Motion Fails in Foster Trial
Judge Hayes denies a directed verdict of not guilty on 25 counts in the Foster case charging solicitation of funds from federal officeholders. The trial may end Monday as defense may renew a request for acquittal on 26 counts, with J B Fagg as key witness detailing an alleged 5 percent salary contribution and a $100 pledge.
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Greensboro
N. C
Johnson J. Hayes
United States District Court
W. H. Foster
Republican State Executive Committee
EB. L. Gavin
Sanford
J.B. Fagg
Leaksville
Hayes
Fagg
Monoplane Crash Claims Ex-Birmingham Southern Star
Dr. O. S. Gandy 35, a former Birmingham Southern football standout, was killed when a monoplane he piloted crashed after takeoff near a Birmingham landing field. Student pilot Ted Reynolds sustained serious injuries in the same incident.
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Birmingham
Ala
O. S. Gandy
Birmingham Southern
Ted Reynolds
Snow slide buries miners in Kellogg cabin
Carl Arcander and Henry Lund, both miners, were buried when a snowslide crushed their Kellogg cabin. Rescue parties said they believed both men perished.
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Kellogg
Idaho
Carl Arcander
Henry Lund
Goodyear blimp crash kills man and injures bystander
The Goodyear blimp Columbia crashed during landing at Holmes airport Long Island. Pilot Prescott Dixon survived. John Blair 32 from Rockyford Illinois died after being ejected near Flushing. bystander Edward Craig 63 injured. The craft damaged houses, poles, and a railroad yard.
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New York
Goodyear
Columbia
John Blair
Rockyford
Holmes
Long Island
Flushing
Prescott Dixon
Blair
Edward Craig
Dixon
North Carolina Dems Set March 1 Meeting On Convention Site
Odue M Mull of Shelby announces North Carolina Democratic Executive Committee will meet in Raleigh March 1 to pick a time and place for the state convention. Raleigh Sanford and Charlotte bid to host with Charlotte favored to offer better facilities. The gathering will shape whether delegates are instructed at the national convention and how NC lines up for Chicago.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Odue M. Mull
Shelby
Democratic Executive Committee
House of Representatives
Charlotte
Sanford
Mull
Jouette Shouse
Chicago
Gardner To Address Kentucky Solons On N C Administration
Governor O Max Gardner announced he will speak to the Kentucky legislature at Frankfort on February 19 with the topic New Conditions Demand New Remedies. He will outline NC governmental changes during his administration and also address the University of Kentucky student body the same day as the university studies reforms in state government.
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Raleigh
O. Max Gardner
Kentucky
Frankfort
North Carolina
Gardner
University of Kentucky
Credit Firm Begins Making Its Loans To Speed Business
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation announced approval of a loan to the receivers of the Wabash Railway to cover overdue equipment trust certificates and interest maturing before June 1, 1932. It also disclosed loans to banks in various regions were made or authorized, aimed at accelerating business activity.
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Washington
Reconstruction Finance Corporation Tonight
Wabash Railway Company
The
Wabash
Jenkins shoots unidentified man at father’s home near Rocky Mount
Tom Jenkins, 20, shot and killed an unidentified Black man who entered the yard and began shooting. Jenkins surrendered to police and an inquest was set for later.
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Rocky Mount
Tom Jenkins
Jenkins
House Pensions Committee Approves War Widow Pensions Measure
The house pensions committee approved a bill to grant uniform pensions to widows and children of veterans from all U S wars. Estimated first year cost is 35 million dollars, rising to about 280 million in five years. Widows to 40 get 20 dollars monthly, increasing with age, and each child under 16 receives 6 dollars monthly.
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Washington
House Pensions Committee
Fresh Japanese troops land as Shanghai hostilities escalate
Fresh Japanese soldiers moved into Shanghai as the war widens with 20 000 reported landed by seven transports on the Whangpoo river. Naval headquarters denied crossing Woosung Creek assertions while observers note troop, tank, and mule trains arriving for Chapai trenches as fighting intensified.
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Shanghai
Chapel
China
Japan
Woosung Creek
Whangpoo River
Woosung
International Settlement
Chapei
Senate Probe Into Kentucky Mines Faces Jurisdiction Doubt
Senator Costigan prepared a resolution to probe mining counties Harlan and Bell Kentucky after New York writers alleged a reign of terror. Senator Borah doubted Senate jurisdiction and called it a federal grand jury matter. Representative Black filed a similar House resolution.
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Washington
Harlan and
Bell
Kentucky
Costigan
Colo
Borah
Idaho
Senate
New York
Black
N. Y
Cutting
N. M
Brookhart
Frazier
N. D
Federal Grand Jury
Federal Court
Bizarre death mystery follows fake wire to Boston
Miss Elizabeth Barrett Cook 21 dies aboard a steamer near the Mediterranean after receiving a hoax telegram claiming her fiance St George Arnold 29 is dead. relatives unveil more hoax telegrams signed Helen James while investigations probe the cause of death and unknown sender.
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Boston
Elizabeth Barrett Cook
Gibraltar
Miss Cook
Mediterranean
St. George Arnold
Arnold
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Francis E. Carroll
Albert E. Carroll
Paris
Naples
Cook
State Department
Ridge
Virginia
Ra Arnold
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E. Roland Harriman
Harriman
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Thomas Blagden, Jr
New Yorker
Iola Harwood
Sanford Kirkpatrick
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