Roosevelt coinage push lifts silver price scheme
President Roosevelt launched a sudden extension of monetary plans to boost silver coinage and raise market value. The proclamation approves domestic silver production acceptance through 1997, with minting changes and massive gold purchase efforts. Global agreements ratified set absorption targets to stabilize prices and support foreign trade amid inflation fears.
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Chicago Police Snipe Gang Nest Slay Trio in Raid
In a high-tension Roger Park operation, Chicago police killed three men during a raid aimed at Dillinger’s gang. Prints later identified the dead as Louis Katzewitz, Charles Tuttlebaum, and Sam Ginsburg, not Dillinger or his lieutenants. A bank robbery netted about 520,000 last May. two suspects had escaped jail in Ottawa, Illinois, last June.
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Long Faces Loss Poetic Power in New Orleans
In New Orleans on December 22, 1, reports swirl over Louisianas political war between Long supporters and anti Long factions. Rumors of mayoral candidacy shifts, resignations, and mass district meetings declare war on Long influence. Police actions against distribution of political propaganda spur tension as Walmsley and others clash with Long aligned factions.
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Weather Outlook Tennessee Virginia Mostly Cloudy
Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with little temperature change in Tennessee. Virginia shows partly cloudy to night and Saturday with minimal temperature variation.
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Drive on Bombers Begins in Havana
In Havana a relentless drive on bombers was launched as soldiers and sailors searched streets. Vehicles and pedestrians were halted and examined amid continued violence and four explosions. No casualties reported though damage occurred near the American Club and the Spanish Casino. President Ramon Grau San Martin’s official family faced resignations.
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Convicts face death or long terms after prison break
In Nashville Tennessee on December 23 a five man group was convicted for the September 15 prison break. Lewis Williams 26 of Chattanooga received the death penalty for shooting Ed Lowery a 65 year old guard. Lonnie Taylor 89 of Knoxville got 122 year total after a 9 year addition. Ernest Casillas Bernard Tussin and William ODay each drew 21 year terms. The escape briefly freed Taylor and Edgar McChriston. The break occurred after Lowery was fatally wounded and led to recapture of Taylor in New Orleans.
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Girl Faces Reform School in Ouija Board Shooting
Dee 2 Ariz Miss Dee Turley a 15 year old girl pleaded guilty to attempted murder for shooting her father at the urging of her mother via an ouija board. County Attorney J Gibbons recommended six years in the state industrial school as punishment while the mother seeks a habeas corpus hearing and denial of the ouija board influence. The victim E J Parley, a chief gunners mate in the naval reserve, was undergoing exams at a San Diego navy hospital.
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Long Missing Bonuses Show Signs Return
Weil street once a lavish Santa Claus at Christmas. Slim profits in brokerage and banking means Wall Street cannot revive its year end bonus custom. Largest present is Redmond and Company offering bonuses equal to twenty percent of each employee’s yearly wage. Continued on page five.
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Liquor Control Plan Aims at Virginia Legislature
A state liquor plan proposes a central board with monopoly over wine and liquor sales, authority to buy import and set prices, and licensing for on premise outlets while off premise sales stay in sealed packages. It envisions dispensaries run by the board and aims to curb illicit liquor traffic.
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How They Will Celebrate The Yale Holidays
How they will celebrate Christ mas at the White House with four generations of the Roosevelt family. The president will read Dickens A Christmas Carol. In New York Pitty avenue the Roosevelt family will share gifts from the tree. General Charles Dawes and Alfred E. Smith are noted figures in other households. James B. Gonant hosts a Christmas reception at Harvard. Frank Kellogg plans quiet stay in St Paul.
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Grand jury probe into conspiracy reopening barred
Nashville, Tenn. on December 22 a central judge refused to reopen a grand jury probe into a conspired fraud case. Four men including Paul M. Davis and Vance Alexander were cleared by a no true bill, and motions to purge the grand jury were denied. The court said the no ton lacked charges of dishonesty, fraud or corruption. An appeal to the state supreme court was announced by Max Goldschein.
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American Spies Claim Innocence Before French Judge
An American couple, Mrs. Robert Switz of Bas Orange New Jersey and her husband, faced a French judge after asserting innocence in a case linked to alleged espionage. Their lawyer outlined defenses as French investigators dig through vast documents in pursuit of supposed masterminds behind a network accused of transferring military secrets to foreign powers.
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Issues of Importance to Confront Congress at 1st Regular Meet
Washington reports the seventy third congress will convene January 3 with hopes for a harmonious session to push President Roosevelt's program. Democratic leaders expect smoother passage, while Republicans plan targeted criticism. liquor tax proposals and broad revenue measures top the calendar amid budget balancing efforts and potential amendments to recovery laws.
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Democrats study tax bill on liquor and tax reshuffle
Democratic members of the house ways and means committee met to approve a tax bill secretly agreed upon by them. The measure imposes a $2 tax on each gallon of legalized hard liquor and overrides presidential recommendations to return 20 percent to the states.
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English court follows Reno in divorce for Inverclyde
Edinburgh reports that Lord Inverclyde, shipping magnate, won a divorce from Lady Inverclyde actress Jane Tripp by default in Reno. The petition named Mathew Bartholomew Anthony Paanakker alleging adultery. The couple wed in 1929 after a public courtship concerning affairs in 1982.
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