Governor Denounces Navy Claims Over Honolulu Safety
Hawaii Governor Lawrence Judd called Navy assertions that white women are unsafe in Honolulu malicious and exaggerated. Navy officials refuse to surrender Lieut Thomas Massie to civil authorities without departmental permission as prosecutors prepare charges against Massie and two enlisted Navy men. A grand jury is to meet Friday and a trial jury will be drawn Thursday.
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Honolulu
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Adams
Thomas Massie
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Lawrence M. Judd
Yates Stirling
Thomas H. Massie
U. 8S. N
Granville Fortescue
Massie
Credit Bill Passed and Land Banks Considered in Senate
The reconstruction measure cleared the Senate 63 to 8 and moves toward a House vote as Hoover seeks to expand federal land banks by adding 100 million dollars. Additional economic bills advance, including a plan for a 150 million dollar bank deposit relief corporation and a 50 million dollar farmer loan rider.
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Hoover
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Agriculture Department
Smith
South Carolina
French Cabinet Resigns Under Briand Example
Paris report says the entire French cabinet followed Aristide Briand in resigning portfolios to allow Premier Laval freedom to reconstruct the ministry after Briand’s ill health and the death of War Minister Andr Maginot. Three cabinet options loom as Herriot’s radical group may join. Police guard against a communist demonstration.
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Aristide Briand
Laval
M. Briand
Andre Maginot
Edouard Herrit
National Union
Great Britain
M. Herriot
Japan to Reply to Stimson Note in Few Days on Manchuria
Tokyo reports Japan will answer Secretary Stimson on Manchuria within days. The reply will argue independence movements in Manchuria and Mongolia should not be interfered with and that Japan’s military actions did not breach the Nine-Power Treaty or Kellogg-Briand Pact. The aim is peace and an open door policy. In related dispatches, four Japanese officers and over 30 soldiers were killed in a clash with 5,000 Chinese irregulars at Hsinmin, including an armored train derailment.
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Japan
Stimson
Manchuria
Rengo
Mongolia
Hsinmin
Tahushan
Beer employment figures fall short of prewar levels
Senator Bingham of Connecticut criticized the commerce department report on beer production employment. The data show malt beverage jobs at 75,404 in 1914, 42,689 in 1919, and 66,725 in 1909, not counting distribution. Prohibition era figures for spirits and other beverages show sharper declines. beer production peaked in 1914 at 66 million barrels, down to nine million in 1920.
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Bingham
Connecticut
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Commerce Department
New England Republican
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Bandit Trio Take Sum of 14300 In Magnolia Bank Holdup
Three white men robbed the Magnolia Bank at 11:50 a m slugging assistant cashier Alton Gaynor and locking him in a vault. They fled south in an automobile with an estimated 14300. Police statewide alerted as Magnolia, population 802, reported a large money on hand.
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Early North Dakota primary draws ten hopefuls
North Dakota opens its political season with a January 12 entry point for presidential candidates for the March 15 primary. Roosevelt is seen as the likely Democratic front runner, with county reports boosting his chances and a possible open declaration from New York Governor Roosevelt. Republican prospects center on Hoover supporters and U S Johnson pressure, while Oklahoma's Murray and Maryland's Ritchie hover as possible second choices.
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Hoover
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North Dakota
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
M. H. Perry
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William “Alfalfa
Bill” Murray
Oklahoma
Ritchie
Maryland
Hiram Johnson
California
Coolidge
Harding
Senate asks radio commission survey of commercial advertising use
Washington bulletin dated January 12 reports the senate called upon the radio commission to conduct a survey of how radio facilities are used for commercial advertising.
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Radio Commission
Judge Wilkerson Elevated to Circuit Bench by Hoover
President Hoover advanced Judge James H. Wilkerson of Chicago from district to circuit court in recognition of his work breaking up gangster activities in Chicago after his role in sentencing Al Capone.
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James H. Wilkerson
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Hoover Path To renomination Cleared By Dawes
Dawes pledges allegiance clearing Hoover’s path to renomination says close allies. Postmaster General Brown to handle entry of Hoover name in state primaries and organize opposition if needed. Potential rivals include Hiram Johnson, Joseph W. France, and Gifford Pinchot with Dawes as main challenger in several states. Brown to oversee Ohio primary and select trusted supporters in other states.
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Charles G. Dawes
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California
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Frazier
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Maryland
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Pennsylvania
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Lower Tariffs Could Help Germany Pay Debts
Berlin reports Finance Minister Hermann Dietrich says widespread tariff reductions could expand Germanys foreign trade by several billion marks and improve its capacity to pay reparations and private debts. He links this to Lausanne talks and warns of a fierce contest if moderates lose in any future election.
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Germany
Hermann Dietrich
United Press Today
Dietrich
Young Plan
Basle
Dawes
Young Plans
Heinrich Bruening
Paul von Hindenburg
von Hindenburg
Adolph Hitler
Congress debates land bank capital and recon bill
Senate begins debate on a bill to boost land banks capital while Finance studies foreign securities. Manufacturers subcommittee advances beer legislation. House continues reconstruction bill debate as Judiciary weighs Mellon impeachment and Muscle Shoals and Vinson hearings proceed. Farm leaders advise on agricultural proposals.
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Judiciary Committee
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Muscle Shoals
Naval
Vinson Construction
Agriculture Committee
Racketeers War Turns Fatal for Dry Cleaning Manager
Benjamin Rosenberg, 46, manager of a Chicago dry cleaning concern and anti racketeering campaigner, was killed in Maywood after being slugged and shot by three assassins. Police link the murder to ongoing racketeering conflicts in the cleaning industry tied to extortion claims Rosenberg had made in a pamphlet. His widow said he faced death threats for resisting a trade association and forced price and union practices.
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Justice Holmes
Chicago
Benjamin Rosenberg
Rosenberg
Maywood
al Capone
George “Bugs"’ Moran
Try This Next Time You Write a Letter
Indiana optometrists favor pea soup shade paper and pale ink for love letters said at the annual meeting. They claim yellow green tones are easy on the eyes and yield a pleasant reading reaction. The same color scheme was recommended to speed overdue account collections.
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Indiana Association of Optometrists
Second Session of General Assembly Convenes in S C
Columbia South Carolina January 13 The second session of the 79th general assembly opens with focus on cutting appropriations. The ways and means committee prepared a bill reducing government operation funding from over 19 million to 8.3 million.
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S. C
Columbia
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South Carolina
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Ways and Means Committee
House
Britain Ready to Grant Burma Self Government Offer
London January 12 Prime Minister MacDonald stated Britain will grant Burma a constitution with initial steps toward self government. The crown reserves wide powers and Burma must decide if it wishes to separate from India, a key issue in the forthcoming general election.
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