Dry groups reorganize for 1932 presidential campaigns
Washington AP reports a new combined committee of twelve leaders from 35 prohibition groups will steer unified strategy for the 1932 campaign. Ella A Bool of the WCTU heads the panel as groups oppose a national prohibition referendum and endorse funding for enforcement and court relief measures.
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Washington
National Association of Organizations
Ella A. Bool
Prohibition
Woodcock
Association
Wickersham
James M. Doran
Weather Sat upon Channel as Fogs Partly Clear
London and southern England lifted fog to bring heavy rain and a gale. Flooding hit Swansea districts, Worcester horse racing halted, Channel sleet storm persisted. Belgian steamer Prince Leopold damaged at Dover breakwater, Aquitania delayed at Southampton, Hull port closed, trawlers waited, trains and air services disrupted, two bus crashes reported.
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London
England
Channel
Swansea
Worcester
George
Windsor
Dover
Southampton
Hull
Iowa Briefs highlight tax shift and local incidents
A Des Moines folder lists three proposals to lower municipal levies including diverting auto license fees for street work and replacing library taxes with a higher cigarette tax if approved. Other notices cover a fatal gas inhalation in Creston, a man found on a highway near Crescent, and a bank notes sale in Mount Pleasant.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Parker L. Crouch
Steeg Asked to Form Cabinet in France Crisis
President Doumergue asked Theodore Steeg radical socialist senator and former resident general of French Morocco to form a new government replacing Andre Ardieu’s resigned administration. Steeg expected to answer this afternoon as the fourth call in the ministerial crisis.
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Paris
Doumergue
Theodore Steeg
French
Morocco
Andreardieu
Senate
M. Steeg
M. Poincare
Bandits Rob Frankston Bank in Broad Daylight Heist
Four suspected bandits robbed the Frankston State Bank of 11236 at noon. Citizens pursued, a mud stalled car halted near Athens, and a truck linked to the robbers was recovered. Deputy Emmerson was wounded, constable Slaughter hurt, as gunfire erupted. two robbers believed wounded fled with masked partners.
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Frankston
Tex
Texas
Frankston State
Atheng
Charles Emmerson
Charles Slaughter
Athens
Fourteen Arrested in Chilean Plot
Santiago de Chile AP dispatch reports 14 people including professors students lawyers and merchants were detained over an abortive plot to bomb the presidential train as it neared Santiago. Government bulletin says the plan was developed with high persons and anarchists with inside knowledge. agents intervened after dyamite was placed under a Rio Maipo bridge.
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Santiago de Chile
Carlos Ibanez
Santiago
Rio Maipo
Quote exchange on bias and gender in Hamburg
In Hamburg Hummel notes a girl bias theme. The witty exchange suggests frustration with bias in everyday interactions and possible financial strain from biased judgments.
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Hummel
Hamburg
Duty to make one person happy each day
A teacher asks James if he has made someone happy today. James replies that he visited his aunt and she was happy when he returned home.
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James
Ill health halts French leaders return plans
The report notes that due to ill health and the failures of M. Barthou and Pierre Laval, the leaders forfeited their intended dates and had to return their men.
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M. Barthou
Pierre Laval
Death claims Army General at Fort Bliss
Gen. George C. Barnhardt 62 commanding officer at Fort Bliss died of blood poisoning in a El Paso hospital. A golf related toe infection worsened, his physician sent him to hospital. Sgt. Robert W. Wheaton donated blood for transfusions. Daughter Mrs. Wilson Saville arrived from Houston as efforts continued.
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George C. Barnhardt
Fort Bliss
el Paso
Tex
Robert W. Wheaton
Wilson Saville
Houston
Easton Cigar Haunts Train Crash Survivor Tale
Easton Md The cigar Lee Stewart was smoking when a train crashed into his auto recently must have been dramatic as a signal of the narrow escape in the wreck While Stewart suffered injuries details of the collision were limited in the report and authorities investigated the incident further
Train drags car occupants amid wreckage rescue
Spectators freed Stewart from the wreckage after the train dragged the car for more than half a block. He was uninjured and his cigar remained smokable. The article notes about 24,000 miles of railway track in the British Isles and $6,000,000,000 spent on laying and equipment.
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Stewart
British Isles
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