Four Nations Seek Debt Revision From United States
Czechoslovakia joins Britain France and Belgium in asking suspension of the December 15 payment of 1.5 million dollars. The total Czechoslovakian debt to the U S is 167,071,023 with 18,304,178 already paid. Britain France and Belgium had previously requested moratoriums within the war debt discussions led by Hoover and Roosevelt.
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Washington
Czechoslovakia
Great Britain
France
Belgium
Hoover
Roosevelt
White House
Ferdinant Veverka
State Department
United States
Ronald Lindsay
Stimson
AFL Opens 52nd Convention Pushes Unemployment Insurance
At Cincinnati the American Federation of Labor outlines its goals for universal unemployment insurance and a five day week with a six hour day. William Green calls on states to enact the proposed program while the federation favors a federal framework supplementing state laws.
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Cincinnati
American Federation of Labor
William Green
Green
Federation
Employers of Labor
Executive Council
Britten backs beer bill after conference with Hoover
Representative Britten Republican Illinois after meeting with President Hoover said he was confident Hoover would not veto a beer bill He supported a 2 75 beer by weight plan aimed at preventing saloons while allowing dry states to stay as they are He urged leaders Beck and LaGuardia of the Republican wet bloc to convene a meeting before Congress reconvenes and projected a tax yielding about 35 million dollars monthly.
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Washington
Britten
Illinois
Hoover
Capitol
Beck
LaGuardia
N. Y
House
Hindenburg assigns Hitler task with conditions on cabinet
President Von Hindenburg commissions Adolf Hitler to form a cabinet and a program to meet Germany's crisis with limits. He may submit a slate backed by a majority or near majority of the Reichstag, but strings are attached and major parties may not back Nazi domination.
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Louis P. Lochner
A. P
Berlin
von Hindenburg
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Hindenburg
Reichstag
Hitler
Crime wave in city continues in Atlanta
Police and armed civilians arrested about 200 people over the weekend as burglaries and hold ups persisted. Seventy five were held for questioning. seven bandits were identified. A grocery clerk was shot in the jaw during a holdup near the theater district. a plainclothes officer was held up but the suspects fled after a chase.
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Atlanta
Hoover Shifts Scene of Meet With Roosevelt
President Hoover moved the tomorrow meeting with President-elect Roosevelt from the executive office to the Lincoln study in the White House. Roosevelt will likely arrive by car and use an elevator to reach the second floor study where past talks with world leaders occurred.
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Washington
Hoover
Roosevelt
White House
Richmond
Virginia
Mr. Hoover
Ramsay MacDonald
Great Britain
Pierre Laval
France
Dino Grandi
Italy
Charles Johnson Sworn In As State Treasurer
Charles M. Johnson was sworn in as North Carolina state treasurer before a large crowd in Raleigh. Chief Justice W. P. Stacy administered the oath, Johnson succeeds John P. Stedman who resigned for government work. Johnson will serve until the 1934 election.
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Raleigh
Gardner
Capitol
Charles M. Johnson
State of
North Carolina
W. P. Stacy
Supreme Court
Council of State
Johnson
Local Government Commission
John P. Stedman
Federal Agricultural Credit Corporation
Stedman
Nathan O’berry
W. E. Easterling
Easterling
Youth Confesses to Multiple Crimes in Chicago
A 17-year-old, James Varecha, told police he killed three people and was behind robberies and a kidnapping involving Lillian Henry, niece of Deputy Police Commissioner John Alcock. He claimed insanity, cited escapes from Dixon state facility, and described targeting Mexicans in several shootings. Witnesses identified him as the attacker and he signed confessions for three killings.
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Chicago
Lillian Henry
John Alcock
James Varecha
Dixon
Frank Jordan
Miss Henry
James F. McElliot
Varecha
Reynolds Opens Capital Offices in Washington
Senator-elect Robert R. Reynolds of North Carolina and his wife have made the Wardman Park hotel their temporary home in Northwest Washington. Reynolds, a 47 year old lawyer and former UNC football player, will take office after the short session and is expected to receive Morrison's former chair and a 226 Senate office suite pending leadership arrival.
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Washington
Robert R. Reynolds
North Carolina
Cameron Morrison
Lees. Overman
Senate
Reynolds
Morrison
Robinson
Arkansas
Painter Confesses To Starting Blaze In Maryland Home
Maryland authorities report painter Lyle C. Rolland confessed to starting a fire at his Capitol Heights home. The blaze killed his wife Margaret Hurley Rolland after a quarrel, with charges not yet filed as investigators continue.
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Washington
Maryland
Lyle C. Rolland
Painter
Capitol Heights
Margaret Hurley Rolland
Rolland
Settlement Made In Anti-Trust Suit
In Wilmington Delaware a federal court settlement ended the government anti trust suit against the Radio Corporation of America and others. The case against General Motors Corp General Motors Radio Corp American Telephone and Telegraph Co and Western Electric Co was dismissed by government request and an injunction decree was issued against the remaining defendants.
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Wilmington
Del
Federal District Court
Radio Corporation of America
General Motors Corp
General Motors Radio Corp
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Western Electric Co., Inc
Youth Rider Dies From Fall After Horse Incident
Hertford reports 18 year old Tilson H. Copeland died in a hospital after a horse threw him near town. He struck his head on a house corner in the fall and succumbed to injuries.
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Hertford
Roosevelt Begins Journey Today For Hoover Confab
Roosevelt, holiday rest over, leaves Hyde Park for Washington to hold a war debt conference with Hoover and to meet congressional leaders. Indpendent Republicans who backed him may join, with many Democratic leaders in town for discussions on incoming policies and December Congress agenda.
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Walter T. Brown
Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Washington
Hoover
White House
Mr. Roosevelt
Congress
Stranger Sacrificed On Altar By King Of Cult
In Detroit a self styled king of a cult confessed to luring James J. Smith into his home and killing him on an altar. Police quote Robert Harris as saying the ninth hour of the twentieth day fulfilled a 1500 year prophecy. Harris, 44, said he crushed Smith’s head with an axle and stabbed him through the heart, the altar bearing an eight inch knife. Harris’s home contained a magazine with mystic desert references and he claimed about 100 local Negroes as cult members. Police aim to connect him with the 1929 Benny Evangelista killings nearby.
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Detroit
Robert Harris
Order of Islam
James J. Smith
Harris
Smith
Benny Evangelista
Evangelista
Japan and China Renew Manchuria Clash at League Bar
At Geneva on November 21, Japan and China resumed their dispute over Manchuria at the League of Nations. Yousuke Matsuoka defended Japan against the Lytton Report while Dr. Wellington Koo charged that Japan’s Kellogg Pact reading undermines world faith. W. W. Yen also spoke for China.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Japan
China
League of Nations
Manchuria
League Council
Yousuke Matsuuka
Lytton
League
Wellington Koo
W. W. Yen
Whittier Boy To Get Reward
The World telegram said Carl Byrd Fisher, a 12 year old from Whittier North Carolina, who led authorities to Colonel Raymond Robins location, will receive a substantial reward from the Robins family. Attorney Salmon Levinson of Chicago said he would confer with the Robins family to set the award amount.
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Great Smoky Mountains
North Carolina
Raymond Robins
Hoover
Raymond Rogers
Robins
Whittier
Asheville
New York
World ‘Telegram
Salmon Levinson
Chicago
Carl Byrd Fisher
N. C
Colonel Raymond Robins
Fisher
Colonel Robins
Levinson
Writer Fabrizio Shot While Targeting Underworld Exposé
Brooklyn author and former gangster Francis Anthony Fabrizio was killed in his flat as detectives raided him to seize notes for a planned expose on the underworld. Fabrizio had argued the underworld’s Four Hundred controlled crime finances, including a proposed 27 million dollar fund.
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New York
Francis Anthony Fabrizio
Underworld
Fabrizio
Brooklyn
Ten Die In Southern Week End Accidents
Ten people were killed in week end accidents across the south with seven by cars, two by guns, and one by scalding water. Florida reported three fatalities, Alabama two, and Arkansas Georgia Louisiana North Carolina and Tennessee one each.
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Atlanta
Florida
Alabama
Arkansas
Georgia
Louisiana
North Carolina
Tennessee
Award Contracts To Dredge River
War department awards river and harbor improvement contracts including Standard Dredging of New York City for 326 699 dollars dredging the south end of Little River to Winyah Bay and intracoastal waterway from Cape Fear River to Winyah Bay within the Charleston district.
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Washington
War Department
Standard Dredging Company
New York City
Little River
Winyah Bay
Cape Fear River
Charleston
Herriot Party Arrives in Paris After Bomb Blast
Premier Edouard Herriot and his party reached Paris safely after an attack on a Brittany railroad line near Ingrandes 15 miles from Nantes. The blast occurred before the special train arrived, allowing section workers to stop the train. Herriot blamed Breton autonomists for the explosion.
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Paris
Edouard Herriot
Brittany
Ingrandes
Nantes
Robins To Meet Sister May Awaken Crusader
Ashe ville report says Col. Raymond Robins a noted dry crusader and social worker remains in a sanitarium with no change in condition his physician Dr Mark A Griffin notes restful sleep and steady status Mrs Robins plans to visit as daughter Elizabeth Robins London author arrives in New York en route to Asheville to meet her brother and spark recognition in the city leader.
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Asheville
Raymond Robins
Mark A. Griffin
Griffin
Appalachian Hall
Robins
Dr. Griffin
John Dreier
New York
Whittier
Elizabeth Robins
Miss Robins
Dreier
Glenn McHan
Joe
Robin
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