Gold Price Soars as RFC Purchases Domestically
The US administration set the price for newly mined gold at 32.84 dollars an ounce, a new high, with RFC buyers accounting for one sale. Jesse H. Jones said large quantities traded in world markets but withheld exact amounts. The dollar slid to a new low while authorities kept silent on links to foreign gold purchases and exchange rates.
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Washington
Jesse H. Jones
Reconstruction Corporation
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Jones
Deposit Liquidation Board
London Dispatches
London
Return to Work Ends Coal Strike in Western Pennsylvania
Western Pennsylvania coal miners resume work after a three month strike, about 10 000 men returning to pits amid a national recovery push. Eleven H C Frick Coke mines reopen in Fayette County, with 5 000 to 7 000 workers back and other mines to follow as conditions warrant.
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Marren Graham
Uniontown
Pennsylvania
H. C. Frick Coke Company
Fayette County
Hawley placed on probation after plea for sentence change
Judge I M Meekins in Raleigh today placed Hugh Hawley a former Wilson mail truck driver on five years probation replacing a prior five year federal penitentiary sentence. The action came in a U S district court proceeding.
Kidnapper from Kansas City given life in prison
George McGee was sentenced to life in prison after a jury convicted him of kidnapping Miss McElroy daughter of Kansas City's city manager. His brother Walter had earlier been sentenced to death for the same crime. The jury balked at the death penalty during deliberations.
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Kansas City
George McGee
Miss McElroy
Walter
Criminal Court
Albert Brewer
Roosevelt Delays as Others Push Plans
In Beverly Hills a letter writer mocks Roosevelt for not acting on farmers delegates plans, Swope and England debt talks, and Wall Street pressure. The tone suggests he merely replies Yeah to all demands while Congress looms eight weeks away. The writer signs as Will.
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Beverly Hills
Cal
Congress
Three Die in West Love Triangle Tragedy
Los Angeles police report a fatal love triangle claim leaving three dead. William Patrick Leyden aged 39, his 16 year old son, and Mrs Effie M Wright 35 widow were killed. Leyden had married Della Berden previously and had renewed ties with the widow after the wedding. He telephoned to the Wright home and shot Mrs Wright, then killed his son and fatally shot himself.
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Los Angeles
William Patrick Leyden
William
Effie M. Wright
Leyden
Della Berden
Birmingham
Ala
Mussolini Named Dual Posts in Navy and Air
Rome reports Premier Mussolini assumed the ministries of both the navy and the air force after accepting resignations. Air and naval undersecretaries were appointed, Balbo named governor of Libya. The decree bans combining the services at present though may change later with Mussolini as defense chief.
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Rome
Vichy Emmanuel
Mussolini
Air
Italo Balbo
Giuseppe Sirianni
Valle
Cavagnari
Balbo
Libya
Marchal Badoglio
Sirianni
Jusso
Riccardi
Soviet official Litvinov to travel by special train
Maxim Litvinoff Soviet foreign affairs commissioner will disembark at Quarantine from the liner Berengaria and proceed to Jersey City where a special train will take him to Washington. James Dunn will greet him aboard and accompany him to the capital as two coast guard cutters transport the party.
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New York
Maxim Litvinoff
Jersey City
N. J
Washington
Litvinoff
James Dunn
Protocol Division
State Department
Coast Guard
Allen R. Burr
Enterprise To Announce State Returns Tomorrow Night
The Enterprise will furnish returns on the repeal vote from this and other states and local precinct returns Tuesday night. Amplifiers will enable the crowd to hear the AP leased wire updates at the office on North Main Street. Local and statewide counts will be broadcast as quickly as possible.
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Enterprise
North Main Street
Associated Press
Crash Inquiry Probes Plane Wreck in Shrewsbury
A National Guard plane crashed into a bungalow in Shrewsbury New Jersey killing Lt. George R. Johnson and at least four residents including four Negro victims. Investigations by state and local authorities, the Guard and the Commerce Department begin as police search for a possible seventh victim.
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Shrewsbury
N. J
National Guard
Department of Commerce
George R. Johnson
Alfred Poole
June King
Patricia King
Edward Wilson
Cora Ragland
Margaret King
Red Bank
King Bungalow
United States to Cancel Extradition Treaty with Greece
The United States plans to denounce and terminate the extradition treaty with Greece after the Samuel Insull case. Lincoln MacVeach, the American minister at Athens, delivered formal notice to the Greek foreign affairs minister detailing the denunciation with termination to occur one year after notice. Athens reports the move as a response to the Insull verdict and calls the treaty worthless.
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Washington
United States
Greece
Samuel Insull
America
Lincoln MacVeach
Athens
Foreign Ministry
Salonica
Insull
Tsaldaris
Ministry of Justice
Prohibition repeal drives six states voting Tuesday
Six states Pennsylvania Ohio North Carolina South Carolina Utah and Kentucky vote on repealing Prohibition as November closes. Roosevelt aides predict victory while activists urge turnout to stop repeal and preserve anti alcohol delegates at state conventions.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Walter Murphy
Repeal Forces
Tar Heelin
Cale K. Burgess
United Dty Forces
Reynolds and
Bailey
Gardner
Farley
Murphy
Ehringhaus
Elizabeth City
Robert R. Reynolds
Asheville
United Forces For Repeal
Salisbury
WBT
Charlotte
A. J. Barton
Wilmington
Barton
Goldsboro
Senator Reynolds
James A. Farley
Dennis G. Brummitt
Democratic Party
New York City
Joseph V. McKee
Brummitt
Associated Press
Roosevelt
New York
Henry W. Peabody
Woman's National Committee For Law Enforcement
Pennsylvania
Ohio
North
South Carolina
Utah
Kentucky
New Jersey
Virginia
United States
Boston
Cleveland
Actor Kayos Cartoonist At Embassy Club Hollywood
Peter Arno New York cartoonist was knocked out in an Embassy club fracas in Hollywood with actor Drexel Biddle Steele and business manager Gordon Butler amid witness reports by Sally ONeill Joan Crawford Franchot Tone Clark Gable and Doris Duke. ONeill said Arno acted after a prior exchange and then struck Steele sudden. Arno unavailable for comment.
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Hollywood
Peter Arno
New York
Embassy Club
Drexel Biddle Steele
Philadelphia
Steele
Gordon Butler
Sally O'Neill
Arno
Miss O'Neill
Mr. Arno
Curtis
Curtis Arno Peters
Joan Crawford
Franchot Tone
Clark Gable
Mr. Steele
Four Million Back at Posts in Labor Survey
The American Federation of Labor reports four million people back to work in its November survey. Over 1.7 million reemployed July to September as industry declined yet buying power rose. Unemployment fell in October with 21.9 percent of workers idle. Public works funding contributed to more than one million jobs.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor
Farmers Charge Betrayal by President and Wallace
Milo Reno president of the National Farmers Holiday Association accuses President Roosevelt and Secretary Wallace of betraying farmers. He blasts the administration and predicts a long struggle, rallying support for a potential third party. He says Roosevelt has broken pre election pledges and aligned with Wallace.
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Des Moines
Milo Reno
Strriking National Farmers Holiday Association
Wallace
Reno
Middle West
United States
Farmers Union
Farmers Holiday Association
Roosevelt
Henry Wallace
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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RFC
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NRA
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Pits
U.S.A
Supreme Court
Antoine M. Trudeau
New Orleans
Will
West
Italy
Turkey Gobbler
Darby Turkey Farm
Boyds
U. 8
Kayoes
Drexel Steele
Drexel
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