Japan approves largest national budget in 1933-34
Tokyo cabinet approves a 2,239,000,000 yen budget for 1933-34, led by Manchurian demands. The plan calls for 897,000,000 yen in bonds and projects a revenue of 1,342,000,000 yen, with experts predicting total bond issues over one billion yen and a rising national debt. Baron Seinosuke Goh warns such borrowing risks inflation and yen decline. Korekiyo Takahashi sticks to borrowing over tax increases.
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Glenn Babb
Associated Press
Tokyo
Japan
Manchuria
Seinosuke Goh
Japan Chamber of Commerce
Germany
Korekiyo Takahashi
Durham Editor Keener Dies Suddenly at 52
Wal ter N Keener 52 editor of The Durham Herald and The Durham Sun died of a heart attack in a downtown office. A veteran newspaperman, he previously worked in Charlotte Raleigh High Point and Wilmington before becoming editor of both papers after the merge. He had heart trouble but was at his desk daily until a fatal collapse. Keener was a Lincoln county native who studied law at Wake Forest college and began practice in Lincolnton.
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Durham
Walter N. Keener
Durham Herald
Durham Sun
Keener
Charlotte
Raleigh
High Point
Wilmington
Herald
Afternoon Sun
Business Associates
Lincoln County
Mr. Keener
Wake Forest College
Lincolnton
Roosevelt Rests At Warm Springs Home
President elect Franklin D. Roosevelt spent a day at his Warm Springs cottage taking rest before meeting Democratic congressional leaders. He prepared to outline a program balancing the budget with government economy and farm relief, following talks with Democratic members in Washington. Senator Robinson of Arkansas was expected to visit early to discuss plans for the 73rd Congress. Roosevelt planned a hospital swim and no appointments were scheduled for the day.
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W. B. Ragsdale
Warm Springs
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Washington
Roosevelt
Robinson
Arkansas
Hyde Park
Hoover
White House
Europe
New York
Massacre Claims Spur Chinese Protest From Shanghai to Manchuria
A Chinese foreign office dispatch accuses Japanese troops of mass murder in Northern Manchuria, detailing a ditch execution near Ping Ting San where villagers were shot with machine guns. The communique alleges 60 to 70 died, 160 escaped wounded, and bodies burned after piling corpses in a fuel-soaked mass grave.
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Shanghai
Chinese Foreign Office
Manchuria
Ping Ting-San
Chien Chin-Pae
Litsekou
Fughen
Denmark To Draw Soviets Dislike
Denmark faces Soviet displeasure after Social Demokraten reports Moscow warned that allowing Leon Trotzky to settle in Denmark would be unfriendly. Trotzky recently arrived from exile on Prinkipo Island to lecture on the history of the October Revolution.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Social Demokraten
Moscow
Russia
Leon Trotzky
Trotzky
Prinkipo Island
Sea of Marmara
Mother to Die for Slaying Son in South Africa
Mrs Daisy Louise De Melliér was convicted of murdering her son by poisoning and sentenced to death in Johannesburg. She was acquitted of murdering two former husbands. The trial began October 17 with accusations that husbands died after wills favored her and after insurance policies totaling 100 pounds were assigned to her.
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Johannesburg
Union of South Africa
Daisy Louise de Melliér
Newspaperman Gunnison Dies in Brooklyn Home
Herbert F. Gunnison, former president and publisher of The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, died at his Brooklyn home at 2 a m after a lingering illness. He was 74. Gunnison helped found the Newspaper Publishers association and served two years as vice president of the Associated Press.
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New York
Herbert F. Gunnison
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brooklyn
Gunnison
Newspaper Publishers Association
Associated Press
Prohibition Urged by Methodists at North Carolina Conference
Bishop Edwin D. Mouzon told the North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South that the church remains committed to prohibition and will oppose any change in liquor laws. The report of the prohibition and public morals board was to be presented tomorrow at 11 a.m. Dr. A J Barton and Duke University figures spoke on prohibition and lay activities. Duke founder James B Duke’s plan for a great university was first mentioned in 1916 and delayed by World War I.
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Rocky Mount
Edwin D. Mouton
North Carolina
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Mouzon
Board of Prohibition and Public Morals
A. J. Barton
Wilmington
Doctor Barton
W. P. Few
Duke University
G. L. Morelock
Nashville
M. T. Plyler
Greensboro
Duke Fund Commission
R. F. Taylor
G. H. Biggs
F. M. Shamburger
Doctor Few
James B. Duke
Durham
Few
Marchers Aim to Meet Police at Congress Start
Washington authorities thwarted hunger marchers at the White House grounds and plan to counter new groups announcing arrival when Congress convenes. Police said every effort would be used to discourage marches from scattered states as the capital prepares for the session.
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Washington
White House
Congress
Garner Expects Beer Bill Passage By Jan 1
Washington reports Speaker Garner expects the House to pass a beer bill by January 1 with Ways and Means hearings starting December 7 and five days of review. Chairman Collier will introduce the measure on December 5 for immediate floor action amid bipartisan hopes. Senator Hastings backs national repeal with enforcement withdrawal but opposes wine and beer legislation.
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Washington
John N. Garner
House
Ways and Means Committee
Collier
Congress
Hastings
Delaware
Long
Prohibition
Wine bloc forms in Congress to push light wine legalization
In Washington on November 25 a wine bloc forms in Congress to demand legalizing light wines in any Volstead act revision. The group, aligned with Democratic goals for swift repeal, includes lawmakers from New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Ohio Michigan and Missouri. They seek parity hearings alongside beer advocates.
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Washington
Congress
Pertatite Hawley
Oregon
House
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Michigan
Missouri
Couple Wed in New York at St. Bartholomew's Church
James R. Shepherd and Mrs. William Vaught wed shortly after noon at St Bartholomew's on Park Avenue. Shepherd, an art dealer, and Mrs. Vaught, a widow, had attended the Reynolds party linked to the death of Smith Reynolds and later faced related inquest and indictments that were quashed.
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New York
James R. Shepherd
William Vaught
Smith Reynolds
Winston-Salem
N. C
St. Bartholomew’s Church
Park Avenue
Shepherd
Vaught
Libby Holman Reynolds
Albert Walker
Reynolds
Samuel Robert Collier
Charles Norflett
Clifton Macon
Linville K. Martin
W. F. Medaris
K. N. Smith
J. 8. Gorrell
P. A. Gorrell
Mary Shepherd
Ellen K. Sheperd
Youth Indicted In Death of Woman in Chicago Case
Sixteen year old Bert Arnold was indicted for the murder of his step grandmother Mrs Ellen Saxe 60 in Chicago. Only his step mother and three policemen testified while five other witnesses waited in an ante room. Arnold remained in the county jail with officials saying he would likely be kept there until trial.
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Chicago
Bert Arnold
Ellen Saxe
Arnold
Famous Criminal Now Jailed On Petty Theft
Raleigh reports the state advisory budget commission has called budgets officers and department heads to submit briefs and appear for oral hearings on appropriation requests next week. Hearings run Monday afternoon through Thursday morning with public access. Each institution must answer 12 questions in writing and state independent of appropriation needs.
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Raleigh
State Advisory Budget Commission
Budget Bureau
International crook Guerin jailed for purse snatching in London
Eddie Guerin once famed as a master thief and escape artist was sentenced to a year in a London jail for snatching a purse containing 15 dollars. Now 72, health failing, he collapsed from years of crime that started in Chicago and spanned two continents.
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New York
Eddie Guerin
Devil's Island
London
Guerin
Continents
Racket Doom
Chicago
May’ Churchill
Europe
Flu prompts Boulder City school closure near Hoover Dam
Influenza spreads in Boulder City prompting the temporary closing of the local school as a precaution. Government officials report several cases but say construction at Hoover Dam remains ongoing and not seriously affected.
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Las Vegas
Boulder City
Hoover Dam
Rampage Killer Julian Marcelino Kills Six in Seattle
A 30 year old Filipino, Julian Marcelino, armed with two 77 inch knives, runs a two hour spree in Seattle's Oriental district on Thanksgiving day. He killed six men and wounded eleven others before police overpowered him. He cited losing money from robberies as motive and claimed he felt funny in the head.
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Seattle
Morobolo
Julian Marcelino
Marcelino
Oriental District
Hans Sjogren
Tam ‘Takoff
Tajita Maca
Midway Hotel
Pito Gualto
Cou
Robins Arrives at Hernando County Florida Estate
Colonel Raymond Robins, missing since September 3, arrives with Mrs. Robins and relatives at a Hernando county estate near Brooksville after a move from Whit tier North Carolina. They traveled from Asheville to an unknown southern stop before reaching Florida.
China Rejects Lytton Plans in Manchuria Dispute
Nanking declares direct negotiations with Japan unacceptable after Lytton commission proposes an advisory conference and four instruments including autonomous admin in Manchuria and separate Japanese–China treaties. C. T. Wang warns failure by the League risks a new world war and foreign-backed police in Manchuria.
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Nanking
China
Lytton Commission
Japan
League of Nations
C. T. Wang
Manchuria
Tragedy Ends in Woodbury double shooting and suicide
In Woodbury Tennessee Orville Conley 20 shot and killed his former roommate Brown Ramsey Smoot 20 then killed himself in courthouse square. Miss Frances Bramer attempted to stop the attack and was wounded along with another companion. Both men had been roommates at State Teachers College Murfreesboro and Smoot was a Cumberland University law student.
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Woodbury
Tenn
Orville Conley
Brown Ramsey Smoot
Conley
Smoot
Frances Bramer
Cumberland University
Charlotte Youth Dies of Injuries From Grid Game
Howard Sutton former Charlotte Tech high school football star died from neck and head injuries from a sandlot game between Fidelis club and North Charlotte All-Stars. He was hurt yesterday and died in hospital less than 20 hours later. Sutton had starred for Tech high last season and recently returned to Charlotte after work in New York. He was the son of Mr and Mrs J W Sutton.
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Charlotte
Howard Sutton
Charlotte Tech
Sutton
Fidelis Club
North Charlotte All-Stars
Tech
New York
J. W. Sutton
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