Laval Seeks Delay in Lausanne Reparations Conference
Paris January 19 Premier Laval presented his new cabinet to the chamber and reiterated France will not give up reparations from Germany. He argued for a just balance of production and debts and urged measures to aid industry and employment. A plan to postpone Lausanne talks and extend the German moratorium was discussed with U S Ambassador Edge.
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Paris
Laval
Chamber of Deputies
France
Germany
United States
Pierre Laval
Walter E. Edge
Edge
Hoover
Cops Accused of Brutal Treatment in Miner Case
Joe Weber and Bill Duncan, National Miners Union organizers, tell of arrest by Harlan county officers in Cumberland Gap Tennessee and kidnapping to Lynch Kentucky. They say they were beaten with clubs and sand bags after transport by four to six men in leather coats with two pistols apiece.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Joe Weber
Bill Duncan
National Miners Union
Appalachia
Cumberland Gap
Harlan County
Lynch
Weber
Wilkesbarre
Duncan
Bell County
Hugh Ryder
Claiborne County
Tennessee
Harlan
Frank Borich
South marks 125th Lee anniversary with nationwide observances
Virginia leads the 125th anniversary of Robert E. Lee with a statue dedication in Richmond and Founders Day events at Washington and Lee University. Across the South, banks close in Georgia, celebrations occur in Lexington and Nashville, and chapters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy stage ceremonies and school programs honoring Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
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Richmond
New South
Old South
Robert Edward Lee
Virginia
Lee
Plains of
Texas
Capitol
Washington
Bull Run
Appomattox
Virginia House of Delegates
General Lee
Lexington
Washington and Lee University
Washington City
Confederacy
Virgil Chapman
Kentucky
Georgia
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Daughters of the Confederacy
Jacksonville
Florida
Carolinas
South
Business runs smoothly as Hammond uses curb currency exchange
In Hammond Indiana a currency exchange operated from a bank window handles merchant change and check collection. Edward Groth, a former teller from a closed bank, runs the service with police oversight, charging 10 cents per five dollars and collecting by merchants as needed. Plans to reorganize one closed bank are underway.
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Hammond
Ind
First Trust and Savings Bank
Edward Groth
Groth
Jeffress Seeks Federal Help to End Unemployment in NC
Charlotte January 19 E B Jeffress told the State Municipal association that if the federal government provides North Carolina its share of a proposed unemployment dole as highway funds the state highway commission will guarantee to eliminate unemployment within the state He also asserted that any gubernatorial candidate this year must pledge to eliminate the ad valorem tax for funding the six month school system.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
State Highway Commission
E. B. Jeffress
Huey P Long's Friends and Enemies Vie in Louisiana Primary
New Orleans January 19. The Democratic primary pits O. K. Allen and a Long slate against rivals George Seth Guion Dudley J LeBlanc and others. Earl Long runs for lieutenant governor on an anti administration platform amid criticism of his brother.
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New Orleans
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
United States Senate
Leng
O. K. Allen
State Highway Commission
Long-Allen
William C. Boone
William L. Clark, Jr
Lst
Earl Long
Arizona Murderess Is Fighting For Her Life
Phoenix begins trial of Winnie Ruth Judd for the deaths of two former girlfriends, Agnes Anne Leroi and Hedvig Samuelson, amid claims of insanity and possible accomplices. Prosecutors seek the death penalty as judges prepare to empanel a jury in the high profile case.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Maricopa County
Winnie Ruth Judd
Los Angeles
Howard Speakman
Lloyd J. Andrews
Arizona
Howard C. Speakman
Reform measures to clean islands move fast
Honolulu January 19. Hawaii legislature pushes a five point reform program to reorganize Honolulu police and strengthen criminal laws. Lawmakers add state proposals to Judd plan amid national critique of Oahu crime. Representative Edeth Low asks US attorney general and naval committees if Hawaii could be reduced to a possession or naval station.
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Honolulu
Oahu
Lawrence M. Judd
Edeth Low
Attorney General
United States
Naval Affairs Committees
National Senate
House
Hawaii
Judiciary Committee
Escaped Convict Captured at Liquor Still Site
Carl Lewis, an escapee who served two years of a seven year sentence for storebreaking, was captured today by Sheriff O F Adkins at the scene of a liquor still he allegedly operated. Lewis had escaped from the state prison about a month earlier.
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Marion
Carl Lewis
O. F. Adkins
Lewis
Dawes resigns as ambassador to Britain effective immediately
Charles G. Dawes announced his resignation as ambassador to Great Britain takes effect immediately as he becomes head of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. In Washington the Senate also sent to conference a $126,000,000 deficiency appropriation bill.
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Washington
Charles G. Dawes
Great Britain
Honover
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Senate
House directs I C C inquiry into utility holding firms
The house directed its Interstate Commerce Committee to investigate public utility holding and investment trust companies to determine their ownership and control.
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Washington
House Today
Interstate Commerce Committee
Longest Aeroplane Route From Java to Amsterdam Highlighted
Athens reports the world’s longest flight path ten thousand miles with the same pilot crew and plane. Holand line plans Athens to Rome service in eleven hours tomorrow. Premier Venizelos praised during a chat with the writer.
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Athens
Greece
Java
Amsterdam
Holand
Rome
Plato
Caesar
Venizelos
Oklahoma Governor Suggests Tighter Liquor Control Alternative
In a surprise at the anti saloon league meeting Governor Murray of Oklahoma floated a state compact idea to allow similar beverages to be legalized among states with aligned laws, while blocking shipments to those with prohibition or differing rules. He did not bind himself to any change in the dry law and stressed possible interstate commerce safeguards.
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Washington
Murray
Oklahoma
James Cannon, Jr
Oklahoman
League
A. J. Barton
Wilmington
N. C
W. D. Upshaw
Georgia
Wilmington man to face hearing on stolen bonds case
David N. Chadwick Jr. of Wilmington is to have a preliminary hearing in Richmond Virginia on charges of possession and negotiation of stolen bonds part of a $91 000 theft from a Philadelphia bank. He is free on a $50 000 bond.
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Wilmington
David N. Chadwick, Jr
Richmond
Philadelphia
Severance of Sino Japanese Diplomatic Relations Imminent
Nanking China January 19 The official Chinese news agency Kuomin announced that severance of diplomatic relations with Japan was imminent due to the Manchurian controversy Foreign Minister Eugene Chen has joined the stance and Feng Yu Hsiang the so called Christian General is now rallying to the viewpoint.
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Nanking
China
Kuomin
Japan
Eugene Chen
Feng Yu-Hsiang
Delta flood widens as relief hopes rise in Mississippi
Mid winter flood expands across thousands of acres in the Mississippi delta. A 75 foot break on the Yazoo river dyke at Honey Island released waters into Le Flore Holmes Yazoo and Humphreys counties, flooding Thule Kerfin Mileston and Bee Lake. 7 000 to 8 000 residents affected as convicts and plantation workers race to plug the leak and avert deeper inundation.
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Glendora
Miss
Mississippi Delta
Tallahatchie
Tippo Basin
Tallahatchie County
Yazoo
Honey Island
Leflore
Holmes
Humphreys
Thule
Kerfin
Mileston
Bee Lake
Chinese Pirates Seize American Barge Captain on Yangtze
River pirates on the Yangtze reportedly captured American barge captain Charles Baker west of Hankow and held six Chinese crewmen for ransom while shelling the American steamer Chita, killing one Chinese sailor and wounding another as U.S. gunboats, including the Oahu, responded to rescue efforts amid rising river traffic dangers.
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Peiping
Yangtze
Charles Baker
Hankow
Oahu
Six Miners Die in Virginia Coal Mine Blast
A Pulaski County coal mine explosion trapped six miners who were found dead as rescue teams battled gases and debris. Names listed include Frank Seffered Dewey Seffered Harvey Seffered Ernest Snead Foster Boyd and Artie Boyd. Remaining 14 workers escaped unharmed though dazed. The cause of the blast remains unknown.
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United Press
C. H. Howell
Parrott
Frank Seffered
Dewey Seffered
Harvey Seffered
Ernest Snead
Boyd
Seffereds
Sudden changes speed up start of corporation
President Hoover announced Ambassador Dawes would retire as chairman of the American relief finance agency and Eugene Meyer would lead the proposed 2 billion dollar finance corporation. Stimson will not sail to Geneva. Huck Gibson will chair the delegation open sessions. The move aims to begin operations swiftly with Senate-House reconciliation needed.
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Washington
Hoover
Dawes
Ameri
Eugene Meyer
Federal Reserve Board
Finance Corporation
Stimson
Geneva
Huck Gibson
United States
Senate
House
Prohibition Ruined American Farmers Says Missouri Rep
Representative Cochran of Missouri tells the House that prohibition ruined farmers. He cites agriculture and census data showing land values dropping over a decade of prohibition and a surge in taxes relative to 1913. He argues for beer legalization and notes grain used for beverages in 1916 and beer in 1916.
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Washington
House
Cochran
Missouri
Department of Agriculture
Census Bureau
Secretary of Agriculture
Senate Committee
Prohibition Conservation Committee
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