Japan digs in on Manchukuo as League talks stall
Japan told the League of Nations it will preserve the Manchukuo government in Manchuria, signaling an end to conciliation. Chinese reports say Chinese forces resist a Japanese offensive near Chaoyang in Jehol as about seven thousand Japanese troops mass on the eastern Jehol front. A Japanese official warned of abandoning the League and threatened to close doors on the region if powers move to outlaw Japan, claiming self sufficiency without aid.
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Japan
League of Nations
Manchukuo
Manchuria
League
Na‘tions
Jehol
Chaoyang
Trent
Foreign Office
China
Peiping
Gravel inquiry pressed by McKittrick in state contract debate
McKittrick grilled Fierke over gravel contracts tied to state pits including the O’Dell tract. Fierke said prices were initially low and the purchase aimed to prevent future shortages, not to punish competitors. Testimony covered checks for stock, a 500 bond, and checks from the Missouri Gravel Co through the Moline Consumers Co. to Reagel and Ellis, with further questions about highway funding and contributions.
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Fierke
Moline
O'Dell
Rengel
Markin
Reigel
Serke
Treasury
Robert F. Campbell
Highway Department
Reagel
The
Consumers Co
Ellis
Quincy
Pair breaks jail in Ava with brick wall aid
James Gardner and Mace Johnson escaped from the Douglas County jail in Ava Missouri by digging through a brick wall and receiving help from a second story of a blanket. Six other prisoners remained at large or broke restraint.
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Ava
James Gardner
Mace Johnson
Douglas County
Boettcher Kidnap Plot Unfolds in Denver Ransom Case
Denver financier Boettcher and family figure in a long running Colorado crime case. A typed note urged pay of sixty thousand dollars and warned of returning the Lindbergh baby if paid. Boettcher and spouse describe masked assailants threatening after a car lights revealed the scene on the driveway.
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Laude Boettcher
Mabel
Lindbergh
Boettcher
Bolivian Forces Repel Paragua n Drive at Nanawa Front
In the Gran Chaco, Bolivian general staff announced that Paraguayan forces opened a major attack on all sectors of the Nanawa front at 9 a.m. Saturday. Bolivian artillery repelled the assault, maintaining Bolivian control in the disputed region.
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Gran Chaco
Lapaz
Bolivia
Oklahoma Supreme Court Sustains County Oil Tax
Washington February 13 AP Tulsa and Payne counties Oklahoma taxed all of the Indian Territory Illuminating OW Company, and the Supreme Court sustained the taxes today.
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Washington
Tulsa
Payne Counties
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Supreme Court
Railroad Frowns On 18.0 Request
Union Pacific asks the Interstate Commerce Commission to strike a condition requiring it to take over short line railroads as part of unifying the Union Pacific system. The carrier cites decades of cost cutting including wage and staff reductions, dividend cuts, and capex under one million annually since 1929, arguing the requirement is burdensome.
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Washington
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Union Pacific
Laramie, North Park and
Postmaster General Warns of Postal Service Cuts
In a letter to Representative Wood Postmaster General Brown warned that a five percent department trim could force immediate rural route consolidations, layoffs of surplus carriers, end village and small city delivery, cut schedules, and curb railway mail service, slowing transfers nationwide. He noted $500 million of the $698 million budget funds salaries and wages.
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Washington
Brown
Wood
Ind
Senate
Lindbergh Plot Hearing Delayed in Virginia
Preliminary hearings for the Roanoke trio charged with conspiring to extort $50,000 from Colonel Lindbergh by threatening his infant son were postponed to 2 p.m. Saturday. Bonds set: Norman Harvey 7,500, Wisie Harvey 9,000, Joel Bryant 3,000. Handwriting and fingerprint examinations by Washington experts were requested.
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Roahnoke
Charles A. Lindbergh
United States
Charles D. Fox, Jr
Joseph Shaffer
T. X. Parsons
Bureau of Standards
Washington
Fox
Norman Harvey
Wisie
Joel Bryant
QUTLINES RECOVERY PLAN TO 0. 5. SENATE
Baruch calls for bound ties on production and highlights two upcoming world councils on economics and disarmament. He laments commerce decline, saying unsound money stems from nations overspending. He argues economic barriers arms debts hinder daily bread and growth.
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Baruch
Veteran Marine Reporter Ed Duffy Dies at 78
Baltimore February 13 AP Ed ward Paul Duffy known as Admiral to seafarers for decades as a Baltimore Sun ship news reporter died at his home aged 78 He was among the oldest active reporters in the country having celebrated his 50 years with the paper on January 1 1932 He was at his desk last month for the final time.
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Baltimore
Edward Paul Duffy
Baltimore Sun
Duffy
Texas Senate Voters to Probe Highway Fund Loss Charge
The Texas senate voted to form a committee to investigate Governor Miriam Ferguson's claim that 1 660 000 in highway funds was lost due to bond depreciation in an Austin bank escrow. The move followed heated debate after Ferguson's message to the legislature. The panel may extend to other highway commission charges, with political opponents pressing broader inquiry.
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Austin
Tex
Senate
Miriam A. Ferguson
Ferguson
Highway Commission
Mig. Ferguson
Will Martin
Hillsboro
Grady Woodruff
Defeatur
Senate Woodruff
Writ Granted for Luke Lea and Luke Lea Jr in Habeas Case
Crossville Tenn February 14 AP County Judge E G Tollett granted a writ of habeas corpus for Colonel Luke Lea and Luke Lea Jr hearing set for February 28 at 1 p m Bond fixed at 10000 for Colonel Lea and 5000 for Lea Jr Writ directed to Sheriff J M Peavy in Jamestown after extradition to North Carolina for bank law violations conviction there
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Crossville
Tenn
E. G. Tollett
Luke Tea
Luke Lea, Jr
Tollett
Lea
Lea, Jr
J. M. Peavyhouse
Jamestown
Leas
Hill McAlister
North Carolina
Cannon Rearing 15 Set for March 1
The Supreme Court set March 13 for oral arguments in the anti-Smith campaign money reporting case against Bishop James Cannon Jr and his secretary Ada Burroughs. Indicted by a federal grand jury for feloniously failing to report money from Jameson of New York City, the DC Supreme Court quashed the indictment as defective. The government appealed to the DC Circuit, which asked the US Supreme Court to resolve whether the appeal was properly taken or should have gone directly to the high court.
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Washington
Supreme Court
James Cannon, Jr
Ada L. Burroughs
C. Jameson
New York City
Bishop Cannon
Federal
Jameson
District of Columbia Supreme Court
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
United States Supreme Court
Cannon
Plan to reopen old murder mystery in 1929 deaths
Philadelphia reports the Moorestown double deaths of Horace Roberts Jr and Ruth Mowdray Wilson may be re investigated at the request of Horace Roberts Sr. He links the pair to Bradway Brown, a 28 year old Philadelphia printing firm executive found shot in Palm Beach, a former Roberts Wilson inquest witness. The coroner's verdict labeled Roberts as the killer then suicide.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Bulletin
Horace Roberts, Jr
Ruth Mowdray Wilson
Moorestown
Nad
Horace Roberts
Roberts
Miss Wilson
Bradway Brown
Brown
Palmyea
N. J
Roberts-Wilson
Social
Tramp Slain When Bread Is Grasped in Kentucky
In Barbourville Kentucky a twelve year old girl, Martha France, says a tramp was shot by Ed Hubbard, a storekeeper, when the man grabbed a loaf after being refused food. The body was wrapped in a carpet and moved in Hubbard's car. Hubbard is free on bond as investigation continues. Officers found no blood and could not verify the man’s presence, though some Flat Lick residents reported a stranger matching the description. The examining hearing is scheduled for Monday in county court.
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Barbourville
Martha France
Ed Hubbard
Hubbard
Flat Lick
Los Angeles parachute duel ends in fatal plunge
Two stunt parachutists tried to outdo each other from 16000 feet at Los Angeles Eastside Airport. Spud Manning opened his chute at about 1600 feet and landed safely, while Bud Bradon failed to open in time and was killed on impact.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles Eastside
Spud
Manning
Harold
Bud) Bradon
Bradon
Postal Holdup Loot Partially Recovered in Illinois
Federal investigators pursue leads in a daylight Chicago mail robbery that yielded 211000 to five gunmen last December. A man, William Golden, 44, of Chicago, and a woman, Jean Edna Slenger, 25, were arrested while attempting to sell a 1000 dollar bond for 80 dollars. Golden had prior arrests under different names in Pittsburgh and St. Louis.
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Springfield
Ill
Chicago
Uroker
William Golden
Jean Edna Slenger
J. A. Thompson
Golden
Pittsburgh
Walter Gimbal
St. Louis
William Grossman
Bartlesville
Okla
Fasteeth Powder Sold to Stabilize False Teeth
An advertisement promotes Fasteeth powder from G. A. Fischer Drug Co to hold false teeth firm and comfortable all day. It claims no gooey taste or sticky residue and promises ease of eating, laughing, and talking with comfort.
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G. A. Fischer Drug Ca
Scientific research forging ahead despite economy
Dr William Spara told the American Ceramic Society at its 35th annual convention that efforts and expenditures by industry are advancing for tomorrow. He noted 70 leading trade associations finance such work with annual expenditures ranging from a few thousand dollars to over $100 thousand.
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Pittsburgh
Fed
American Ceramic Society
William Spara
New York
Division of Engineers and
Economic talks set for war debt parley in Washington
London Feb 13 AP Prime Minister MacDonald told the House of Commons that the Washington debts conference will cover the whole program outlined for the world economic conference. He said the British delegation will head negotiations but stop short of definite decisions. Economists outlined six topics: monetary policy prices capital movement trade restrictions tariff policy and production organization for discussion.
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London
MacDonald
House [of Commons
Washington
House
United States
Organization of Production and Trade
Governor Bryant orders suspension of all foreclosures
Lincoln Nebraska February 13 ap Governor Charles W Bryan issues an emergency proclamation calling upon farmers and mortgage lenders to suspend all foreclosures until the state hears from conciliation the legislature and congress can act
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Lincoln
Neb
Charles W. Bryan
Congress
Coroner Rules Peterman Death a Self Inflicted Wound
A coroner's jury in Charlotte North Carolina ruled Roy J Peterman vice president of several public utilities companies killed himself with a gunshot at his home on Saturday night The verdict notes Mrs Peterman was under guard at the time and that eight others were killed in a 1931 England train accident context.
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Charlotte
N. C
Roy J. Peterman
Peterman
England
Food for Health and Beauty One Cent a Day Policy
The Postal Life and Casualty Insurance offers a new accident policy paying up to 100 dollars monthly for disability for four months and 1,000 dollars for death at a cost under 13.00 a year. Over 150,000 have bought this policy. Open to men women and children. Send name address age beneficiary details for free inspection with no exam. Limited offer, write today.
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Postal Life & Casualty Insurance
Dlerks
Kansas City
Simty
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