Chinese Open Offensive in Tahsing Area Reports From Manchuria
The League of Nations meets briefly with Dawes absent as private talks proceed. Chinese commander Mah Chan-Shan allegedly launches attack at Tehsing with 30 000 troops while Mukden reports Japanese troops digging in for winter. A note from Tokyo accuses China of destabilizing Manchuria and links no peace to Ching policy changes.
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Associated Press
League of Nations Council
Charles G. Dawes
Harbin
Manchuria
Tokyo
Mah Chan-Shan
Tehsing
Mah
Mukden
Henry Pu-Yi
Dairen
Nanking
Ching
Manchurian Crisis Deepens as Japan Demands
Chinese circles fear broader hostilities after General Mah Chan-Shan rejects a Japanese ultimatum to withdraw north of the Chinese Eastern Railway. Japan requires moving troops, forbidding southward advance, and halting railway interference within ten days. League of Nations council meets privately to seek arbitration while Briand, Simon, and Dawes comment on the crisis.
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Associated Press
China
Mah Chan-Shan
Mah
Honjo
Tsitsihar
Taonan-Anganchi
Paris
Council of the
League of Nations
Manchuria
Aristide Briand
John Simon
Great Britain
League
Gerhard von Buelow
Charles G. Dawes
Prentiss B. Gilbert
Slayer of School Boy Is Sentenced to Life In Penn
MEMPHIS TENN NOV 16 Se ville Holland 18 a plasterer sentenced to life in the state penitentiary at Nashville after pleading guilty to the slaying of Marion Smith 12 the boy who was walking with his father H S Smith and a friend Emmett Bigchfield when a shotgun discharge intended for the father wounded the boy near here August 15.
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Memphis
Tenn
Seville Holland
Nashville
Marion Smith
Marion
Here
Holland
H. S. Smith
Emmett Bigchfield
Rambling notes from Mer Rouge feature town quirks and events
Local column recounts Mer Rouge idiosyncrasies from PARKING CURB SERV ICE to a fox terrier delivering a sack of groceries. Residents discuss Pecan Week and Pumpkin Week while reporting a minor fire misadventure and schoolyard quips.
Dreiser and Co-Workers Indicted for Criminal Syndicalism
Theodore Dreiser and John Dos Passos among 12 indicted by a Bell County Grand Jury in Kentucky on criminal syndicalism charges tied to coal field labor probe in Harlan and Bell Counties. Prosecutor Brock will seek immediate extradition and trial in Bell County. Names include Marie Pergain Samuel Ornitz Adelaide Walker Charles Rumford Walker M Maurer M Levy and A Gohns or A Gannes.
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Middleboro
Theodore Dreiser
John Dos Passos
New York
Marie Pergain
Bell County
Dreiser
National Committee For the Defense of
Harlan
Bell Counties
Commonwealth
W. A. Brock
Bell
Harlan Counties
Charles Rumford Walker
Adelaide Walker
Samuel Ornitz
Celia Kuhn
George Maurer
International Labor Defense
M. P. Levy
A. Gohns
A. Gannes
East Texas Well May Expand Oil Field Northward
Oil scouts and major Texas operators converge on Cranfill Reynolds No 1 in Upshur County as 11 feet of oil saturated sand and a 27 four barrel oil test in 11 minutes raise hopes of a new pay zone 66 feet below expected salt water level. The 3729 foot well lies 12 miles north of Longview with pay sand from 3718 to 3729 feet.
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Longview
Tex
Texas
Cranfill-Reynolds
Eubanks
Upshur
East Texas
Wildcat
Gregg
Rusky
Duck Season Opens Amid Warm Weather Delays
The opening of the duck and goose hunting season was delayed by two factors. Federal law allowed shooting only from noon, and unseasonably warm weather kept most birds away from bayous and lakes. A number of hunters still ventured out hoping to bag ducks.
Federal agents break up alien smuggling ring in Chicago
Federal agents announce they have dismantled a well established ring linked to Al Capone's organization. About 250 aliens are listed for deportation and over 200 were arrested in a single raid night as investigations continue into the smugglers' methods and coercion.
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Chicago
Tony Volpe
James Belcastro
Lawrence Mangano
al Capone
Capone Syndicate
Murray W. Garsson
United States Department of Labor
Canada
Toronto student in peace march not Gandhi shocker
A man dressed in a white mantle with a placard reading peace for India caused a stir on a main street, but witnesses soon learned he was not Mahatma Gandhi. He was another University of Toronto student involved in a fraternity initiation.
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Toronto
India
Mahatma Gandhi
University of Toronto
Flood Act Changes Sought by Arkansas Levee District Attorney
W G Streett of Eudora Arkansas, attorney for the Southeast Arkansas Levee District, prepared a bill amending the flood control act of May 15 1926 to widen protections and provide compensation. The Mississippi River Flood Control Association plans a December 10 meeting in Washington to discuss the measure at Hotel Raleigh. Robert R Rice, secretary, notes copies have been sent to members for review.
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W. G. Streett
Eudora
Ark
Southeast
Arkansas
Mississippi River Flood Control Association
Washington
W. H. Dick
Memphis
Raleigh
Robert R. Rice
Red Cross Parishes Near 9000 Member Goal
Red Cross workers in Monroe West Monroe and Ouachita Parish report the parish quota of 5000 members will be reached by week’s end. A B Clarkson parish Roll Call chairman and ward captains noted optimistic reports and issued additional buttons and cards. Residents missed Saturday Roll Call visited 316 Grammont Street for buttons and memberships.
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Red Cross
Monroe
West Monroe
Ouachita Parish
A. B. Clarkson
Clarkson
Red Cross Chapter
Ray Sisson
Brownville
Grammont Street
Monroe Day Trade Day to Draw Big Crowds in Twin Cities
Merchants of Monroe and West Monroe designate Wednesday November 18 as Monroe Day shaping a record shopping event. Lower prices and special rail and bus rates attract thousands from the region to the Twin Cities with bargains and a festive shopping atmosphere expected.
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Twin Cities
Monroe
Chamber of Commerce
West Monroe
East
Grandi Arrives in U S for Talk With President Hoover
Italian foreign minister Dino Grandi arrives in Washington aboard the Conte Grande after weather delays air transfer plans. The party is misdirected to a shore transfer by train or cutter as Stimson plans immediate talks on international issues.
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U. S
President Hoover
Washington
Atlantic Seaboard
New York
State Department
Dino Grandi
Italy
Conte Grande
Pan-American Airways
Col. Lindbergh
South
Miami
Pan-American
New Jersey Shore
Bay
North Beach Air
Connecticut
Roger Q. Williams
Atlantic
Rome
Mrs. Grandi
America
Stimson
Bishop Dobbs Arrives to Open Louisiana Methodist Conference
Bishop Hoyt M. Dobbs of Shreveport will arrive tonight to preside over the four day Louisiana Methodist Conference in Monroe. Delegates from across the state and more than 300 guests are expected with ministers educators and churchmen among them. The conference opens Wednesday with communion and a business session followed by sermons from Dr C C Selectman and Rev A M Serex.
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Hoyt M. Dobbs
Shreveport
W. W. Drake
Bishop Dobbs
Monroe
Southern Methodist
C. C. Selectman
Southern Methodist University
Dallas
First Methodist Church
Conference Church
Dobbs
A. M. Serex
New Iberia
New federal education department urged by Hoover advisers
The national advisory committee on education urged President Hoover to reverse 65 years of federal policy and create a new Department of Education. It would have a secretary in the cabinet to streamline federal schooling while respecting state control and decentralization.
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Washington
Hoover
National Advisory Committee On Education
Department of Education
Walmsley Trial Movements Highlight New Orleans Indictments
Arguments opened in criminal district court in New Orleans over two grand jury indictments against Mayor T Semmes Walmsley. He seeks to quash the charges alleging improper investment of city trust funds. Walmsley, seated on a bench, challenges the legality of the indictments while his lawyers present records related to city funds.
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New Orleans
Criminal District Court
T. Semmes Walmsley
Walmsley
A. C. O'Donnell
Eugene Stanley
McDonagh and Sickles School and Benevolent Funds
Michel Provosty
Wheat prices rise again on Chicago Trade Board
Wheat prices surged on the Chicago Trade Board as speculative interest revived. Opening prices showed gains up to 2 1/4 cents from Saturday's close amid stronger demand and higher Liverpool prices, with less favorable conditions abroad.
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Chicago Trade Board
Chicago
Liverpool
Watson and Smoot back tax hike plan eyed
Congressional Republicans endorse tax increases this session after a White House meeting with Hoover. Watson shifts stance and supports a sales tax though uncertain on form, Smoot calls for further taxation while Treasury fears a near 2 billion dollar deficit. both expect higher rates on large incomes and possible borrowing.
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Watson
Smoot
Senate Finance Committee
Capitol
Hoover
Mellon
Congress
White House
Capitol Hill
Treasury
Sales tax favored in Congress to offset deficits
Chairman Smoot backs a general sales tax as Congress and the administration study tax plans. Belief grows that revision is needed next session to address a widening treasury deficit, with Republicans and Democrats debating options like higher income taxes and an inheritance or gift tax.
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Washington
Smoot
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
Utah
Reed
Pennsylvania
Treasury
Bacharach
New Jersey
House
Ways and Means Committee
Big British Dirigible to Be Sold As Scrap Metal
The air ministry announced that the dirigible R-100, which flew a round trip to Canada last fall, will be dismantled and sold as scrap metal. Only the engines and fabric will be retained.
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London
Canada
Air Ministry
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