Japan defends Manchuria policy at League Council
Yosuke Matsuoka told the League of Nations council that Japan has violated no major pacts and urged patience from the West while asserting Tokyo’s aim is peace in the Far East. He cited the 1916 Mexican expedition as precedent for Japan’s actions in Mukden and noted shifts since the Washington Conference.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Japan
Manchuria
League of Nations Council
Yosuke Matsuoka
Lytton Commission
Far East
China
Mexico
Mukden
League
Frank R. McCoy
United States
Wellington Koo
M. Matsuoka
Washington
Outer Mongolia
Thibet
Turkestan
Desperate Gunman Ends Rampage During Capture
James Burris 35 dies by self amid siege as deputy sheriffs and detectives close in on a Mount Crab Ohio house. He earlier killed Sheriff Roy Compaton of Rush County Indiana and is said to have committed three murders. Captain Lynn Black is critically wounded during the assault.
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Cincinnati
James Burris
Mount Crab
Here
Burris
Ohio
Indianapolis
Lynn Black
Hamilton County
Webster
Walker
Indiana
Kentucky
Roy Compaton
Rush County
Monroe tale and town notices mix of sport and misadventure
The piece blends profiles of A F Flournoy a Monroe area native now practicing patent law in Washington and a string of local anecdotes. A fishing duck hunter misreads decoys as live birds. a ditch project worker loses an artificial leg to a pipe while hope remains. A central Louisiana town weekly carries a wildcat eradicator ad and a banded duck with a Biological Survey tag is noted.
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Dick Williams
Morehouse Parish
Louisiana
Roosevelt
Huey P. Long
John Doe
Reese Flalley
Delhi
Mr. Halley
Monroe
Washington, D. C
Edgar Florsheim
Obsolete Southern Laws Highlight Tennessee and Louisiana Oddities
A Memphis report recalls quirky old statutes no longer enforced in Tennessee and nearby Louisiana. It notes a rock throwing ban at steamboats and quirky rules about millers, cotton hauling after dark, and poll tax payment in animal scalps, with a tease of continued details on page five.
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Memphis
Tenn
Tennessee
South
Louisiana
Anti-Trust Suit Ends In Wilmington With Divestiture Order
Federal court settlement dissolves the anti trust action against Radio Corporation of America. General Electric and Westinghouse must divest roughly half of their Radio stock holdings within three months, distributing shares to GE and Westinghouse stockholders. The suit against General Motors and AT&T was dismissed. injunction issued against remaining defendants.
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Wilmington
Del
Federal District Court of
Radio Corporation of America
General Motors Corporation
General Motors Radio Corporation
American Telephone & Telegraph Company
Western Electric Company, Inc
General Electric Company
Westinghouse Company
Radio Corporation
Richland Parish Man Arrested in Connection with Assaults
J. H. Brown, 53, of Richland Parish, was jailed after a warrant charged him with assault to murder against F. B. Crews and his wife, and with intent to murder Lillie B. Nelson. The arrest followed a Saturday night fight at Crews’s home in Monroe. Brown claimed he sought a marriage license with Grace Reed but was told a health certificate was needed.
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J. H. Brown
Richland Parish
Brown
F. B. Crews
Crews
Lillie B. Nelson
Nelson
Adams Street
Grace Reed
Monroe
Reed
Youth Confesses Triple Slayings in Chicago Case
A 17 year old boy, James Varecha, confessed to three slayings and a string of crimes including the kidnapping of Lillian Henry, niece of Deputy Police Commissioner John Alcock. He said he would plead insanity and claimed escapes from Dixon on record.
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Chicago
Lillian Henry
John Alcock
James Varecha
Dixon
Ill
Frank Jordan
Miss Henry
James F. McElligot
Varecha
Ginning totals released by Census Bureau today
Census Bureau reports total cotton ginned this year up to November 14 reach 10,532,745 running bales including 474,442 round bales and 5,073 American-Egyptian bales. State figures show Texas leads with 3,448,736 running bales, followed by Alabama, Georgia, and Arkansas, among others.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansa
California
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
New Mexico
North Carolina
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
States
Robins' Condition Unchanged after Illness
Col Raymond Robins dry crusader and social worker rests in Asheville sanitarium with no apparent change in condition. Dr Mark A Griffin, his physician and Appalachian Hall owner, reports he slept normally but his status remains the same since arrival.
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Asheville
N. C
Raymond Robins
Mark A. Griffin
Griffin
Appalachian Hall
Robins
Col. Robins
Franklin murder trial opens in Winnsboro
In Franklin parish district court three men Floyd Fulbright Walter Bearden and John V Thomas face trial for alleged bank banditry. Jury selection began after 9 am with 50 additional talismen summoned to handle potential juror shortages.
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Franklin Parish
Winnsboro
Floyd Fulbright
Walter Bearden
John V. Thomas
Ouachita Parish
W. W. Curtis
Prisoners to be sentenced here next Wednesday
Two men who pleaded guilty to manslaughter face sentence in district court before Judge J. T. Shell. Others from the jury term, including Carlton brothers, Orville Short, and Mike Zaliski, convicted of breaking and entering and embezzlement, await sentencing at the 10:00 a.m. motion hour.
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J. T. Shell
Louis Aaron
Willie Wright
Aaron
Percy Sandel
Wright
Mike Zaliski
Peniion
Fourteen Bid for Bastrop Post Office Site
Fourteen properties priced from five thousand to twenty five thousand dollars were offered to the government in bids opened at the treasury for Bastrop's new eighty thousand dollar post office.
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Washington
The
Treasury
Bastrop
Arkansas lieutenant governor faced with summons demand
Lieutenant Governor Lawrence E. Wilson faces a summons after State Comptroller Griffin Smith orders him to appear for questioning regarding alleged irregularities in state departments. The comptroller acts on a letter Wilson claims to have written, asking about hogs fed at state expense, public funds in private accounts, and cashed salary warrants at a department head's private bank.
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Little Rock
Ark
Lawrence E. Wilson
Griffin Smith
Comptroller
LSU Glee Club Presents Two Burlesque Operas in Monroe
Louisiana State University glee club brings two burlesque operas to Ouachita Parish Junior College auditorium Monroe today. Romeo and Juliet played at 2:30 pm Cleopatra to follow at 8 pm with student cast led by J D Caldwell Alden Slattengren Jimmy Love Wallace Stopher and others in a playful spoof featuring ghosts and campus heroes amid popular songs and numbers from Samson and Delilah and Il Trovatore.
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Glee Club
Louisiana State University
Ouachita Parish
Cleopatra
Caesar
Anthony
Pompey
William
Tutankhamen
J. D. Caldwell
Alden Slattengren
Ghost of King Tut
Jimmy Love
Labor Federation Committee Proposes Nationwide Unemployment Insurance
The American Federation of Labor executive committee proposed compulsory unemployment insurance to be adopted by every state and funded by employers. Benefits would apply despite labor disputes or non-membership, with a federal law to supplement state plans. The plan is in the AFL 52nd annual convention report.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
American Federation of Labor
Executive Council
Federation
Britten Sees Hoover Open to Beer Legislation
Representative Britten after a conference with President Hoover said he was convinced Hoover would not veto a beer bill. Britten pressed for a reform of the Volstead Act proposing 2.75 beer by weight while safeguarding dry states and planning a meeting of the Republican wet bloc before Congress convenes on December 5.
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Washington
Britten
Illinois
Hoover
Capitol
Beck
Pennsylvania
LaGuardia
New York
Hitler Granted Power to Form German Cabinet
Berlin reports Adolf Hitler received a mandate to form a German cabinet after nine years of campaigning. President Hindenburg attached conditions requiring a majority or near majority in the Reichstag, while Hitler sought advisers and prepared a response by day’s end.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
von Hindenburg
Hitler
Reichstag
Czechoslovakia seeks suspension of December debt payment
Czechoslovakia joins Britain France and Belgium in asking to suspend the December 15 payment of 1.5 million dollars on the US war debt. The total US obligation of Czechoslovakia is 167.07 million dollars with 18.30 million already paid.
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Washington
Czechoslovakia
Great Britain
France
Belgium
Hoover
Roosevelt
White House
Ferdinand Veverka
State Department
United States
Ronald Lindsay
Stimson
Norman H. Davis
Ramsey MacDonald
Evidence links German agents to Black Tom blast in 1917
In Washington the German American mixed claims commission heard American agent Robert W. Bonynge present evidence of an invisible ink message tying German agents to the destruction of the Black Tom Terminal and Kingsland munitions plant in New Jersey. The message, from Frederick L. Herrmann in Mexico City to Paul Hilken in the United States, dated April 1917, discussed Herrmann’s trouble convincing the Mexican minister he acted for the German imperial staff.
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Washington
United States
Black Tom Terminal
Kingsland
New Jersey
Mixed Claims Commission
Robert W. Bonynge
Frederick L. Herrmann
Mexico City
Paul Hilken
Bonynge
Herrmann
Hilken
Episcopal Minister Dies At Shreveport Hospital
Rev. Richard M. Douglas age 33 rector of St. John's Minden and supply at Homer and Ruston died at a Shreveport sanitarium from pneumonia after traveling from Washington D C with his wife following the college of bishops meeting. He was previously assistant rector at St. Mark's Shreveport and was born in Morgan City Louisiana.
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Shreveport
Richard M. Douglas
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Minden
Homer and
Ruston
St. Mark's Church
Washington, D. C
College of Bishops
Doris Brueggerhoff
Louis N. Brueggerhoff
Douglas
Fordyce
Ark
Morgan City
George Herbert Douglas
Kirtland Douglas
President Hoover Focuses on War Debts Conference
President Hoover, after securing a large budget cut, concentrates on tomorrow's war debts conference with President-elect Roosevelt. The meeting at the White House aims to shape U.S. policy on moratoria and international obligations, seeking continuity into the next administration despite Democratic control of Congress and rising opposition to debt extensions.
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Washington
Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
White House
America
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