Tornado Toll in Alabama Mississippi and Storms Across South
A powerful tornado dipped through five counties in West central Alabama and central Mississippi last night killing 11 people, injuring 150+, and razing over 40 homes. The peak loss occurred at Moundville, where nine victims were Black. Torrential rains followed the wind, with Pensacola's eight inch cloudburst and additional totals in Vicksburg and Montgomery. Meanwhile storms extended from Texas to the Northwest with blizzards, ice jams, and widespread damage and travel disruption.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Mississippi
Moundville
Pensacola
Fla
United States Weather Bureau
Vicksburg
Miss
Montgomery
Texas
Chicago
Rocky Mountain
Mississippi River
San Juan
Navajo Indian Agency
Shiprock
N. M
New York
Tucson
Ariz
Alice Hilliard
Columbus
Lisgar ‘Taylor
Glen Ellen
Great Falls
Mont
Wyoming
Pacific
Boulder Canyon
Boulder City
Hoover Dam
Denver
Middle West
Dakotas
North Dakota
Minot
South Dakota
Winnipeg
Man
Canada
Call Board of Plymouth Hit By Law Edict
Madison report to the state department of agriculture and markets finds the Plymouth farmers call board non farmer and engaged in unfair trade practices. It says price fixing and auction claims are false and that the board acts as a dealers organization with base cheese prices, violating fair competition. The opinion urges the commissioner to decide on possible discontinuation to curb unfair practices amid a yearlong investigation.
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Madison
State Department of Agriculture and Markets Today
Fred M. Wyllie
Farmers’ Call Board
Plymouth
Charles Hill
Farmers' Call Board
Main legislative work of Congress remains as program
Washington reports say Congress continues to press main business of aid to business. Mellon and Mills outline a tax increase plan for the new revenue law as the house committee prepares to originate it. Senate debates bulwarking the federal land banks and Mellon faces impeachment inquiry in Patman hearings.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
Mellon
Mills
Democratic House Committee
House
Reconstruction Corporation
Senate
Green
American Federation of Labor
Patman
Treasury
Farm and Shipping Boards
Navy
Lumber dealer shoots wife in downtown Warren
Archer F Knisely, prominent clubman and lumber dealer, shot and killed his wife as she walked into a downtown Warren building lobby. She died within two hours from a brain injury. Police launched a manhunt amid belief of domestic troubles.
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Warren
Archer F Knisely
Knisely
Child Clings to Cable Found in Milwaukee River
Milwaukee witnesses hear a cry under a bridge as Sam Crivello rescues six year old Gloria Brown clinging to a cable in the Milwaukee river. She had disappeared earlier in the evening a half mile away. She received hospital treatment for shock and exposure.
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Milwaukee
Milwaukee River
Sam Crivello
Crivello
Gloria Brown
Racket of La Follette Is Dangerous
Milwaukee editor John B. Chapple told 409 Third Ward Republican supporters last night that Gov. La Follette and his party sow a disintegrating poisonous doctrine aiming at communism. He urged Republicans to build Crusader clubs and voiced support for Sen. Bernhard Gettelman over the tax bill. He condemned anonymous threats against dissenting Wisconsin senators and called La Follette’s gag bill a step toward political control and recall abuse. The speech warned outsiders are paid to cause unrest while Wisconsin workers seek jobs.
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Milwaukee
Johnb. Chapple
Ashland
Third Ward
Republican Club
Philip la Follette
Wisconsin
Chapple
la Follette
Russia
Bernhard Gettelman
la Foliette
Figures For Taxpayer Under Mellon Proposal
The Mellon tax plan aims to raise $390 million this year and $920 million next year via higher corporation taxes, a graduated estate tax, higher personal rates up to 40 percent, larger personal exemptions, and new or revived levies on tobacco, stock sales, admissions, auto sales, realty stamps, and communications. It projects 3.6 million federal tax payers paying $83 million more this half year and $185 million in 1933, with miscellaneous taxes yielding $205 million in six months of 1932 and $514 million in 1933. Postal rates would rise to cover a deficit, though specific rates were not set.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Mellon
Patman charges Mellon with fraud and corruption in office
Representative Patman told the House Judiciary Committee he intends to impeach Secretary Mellon alleging direct and indirect involvement in business. He argued the charges rest on a federal statute forbidding such conduct. Few spectators attended as the impeachment effort opened before the panel.
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Patman
House Judiciary Committee
Secretary of Treasury
Washington, D. C
Texas
Mellon
Treasury
Alexander W. Gregg
Treasury Internal Revenue Bureau
D. D. Shepard
Pittsburgh
Gregg
Dyer
Missouri
Sumners
Sennator Reed
Pennsylvania
Senate Judiciary Committee
Warrants Issued for Mrs Corcoran and Fay Hammersley
Madison police today issued warrants for Mrs Mary Corcoran and Fay Hammersley both charged with first degree murder in the poison liquor death of James Corcoran The coroner's jury found murder and probable cause to charge the two named suspects The death occurred Nov 27 after he drank liquor from a bottle found on the Corcoran farm with testimony of threats of divorce and a drug clerk identifying a poison similar to that used to kill him
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Madison
Fred Risser
Mary Corcoran
Fay Hammersley
James Corcoran
Corcoran
Mary
Hammersley
Much colder with snow likely across Lake Michigan region
The weather summary reports a much colder pattern for tonight and Thursday across Wisconsin and the Lake Michigan area with rain turning to snow, strong northwest winds, and advisory storm warnings for Lakes Michigan and Erie. Upper Michigan expects snow in the west, rain to snow in the east, and fresher winds.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Lake Michigan
Lakes Michigan
Erie
Upper Michigan
Milwaukee
New Orleans
Miami
Fla
Helena
Mont
Stone National Park
Northwestern
Buckstaff Observatory
Mellon Plans Tax Increase to Reach 1934 Budget
Secretary Mellon outlined a fiscal year 1934 budget plan to raise revenue via a selective sales tax, income and corporate tax hikes, a super estate tax, and higher surtaxes. He warned deficits will persist into 1933 despite added revenue and urged Congress to act to prevent swelling public debt.
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Washington
Mellon
House
Ways and Means
United States
Melton
Treasury
Anonymous Tip Leads Waushara Sheriff to Moose Inn Robbers
Anonymous tip directs Sheriff Frank Schultz to Berlin where five men suspected of robbing Moose Inn at Silver Lake are tracked down. Albert Trampf confesses and names four others, including H. M. Younglove, roadhouse owner, as gang members. The burglars fled with over $200 in cash, checks, cigars and candy.
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Wautoma
Wis
Frank Schultz
Moose Inn
Silver Lake
Berlin
Adam Czinski
Albert Trampf
Harry Kosmoski
Trampf
Kosmoski
Waushara County
H. M. Younglove
Highway 21
Daughter of Prison Physician Is Killed
Betty Hickok an 18 year old daughter of Dr Asa Hickok was killed in her home on Rockview prison grounds. A Negro convict from the psychopathic ward stabbed her. Deputy Warden MacFarland quieted about 900 prisoners as news spread while Warden Ashe and Parole Officer Coulter rushed from Pittsburgh to investigate. Details were withheld pending arrival of officials.
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Bellifonte
Pa U.2
Betty Hickok
Asa Hickok
Rockview
Dr. Hickok
MacFarland
Stanley Ashe
James Coulter
Pittsburgh
Railroad Wage Cut Agreed In Unprecedented Parley
A United Press report cites a temporary 10 percent wage cut agreed by 1.9 million railroad workers to save the railroads, in exchange for restored employment for up to 500,000 idle workers. The story quotes a high railroad official speaking openly about negotiations between unions led by David Robertson and rail executives including Daniel Willard.
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Frederick OC. Othman
United Press
Chicago
Lake Michigan
David Robertson
Locomotive Engineers
Daniel Willard
Sisley Widow Slain In Manor House Mystery
Madison reports a treacherous case as the Sisley widow is found slain in her manor house. The capital area debates unemployment relief, with Senate discussions dragging on over two rival bills, including Goodland Polakowski plans and a Fond du Lac measure, each proposing income surtaxes and inheritance tax changes to fund relief efforts.
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Sisley
Kenneth Hopping
Associated Press
Madison
State Senate
George Blanchard
Edgerton
Senate
Walter S. Goodland
Racine
Walter Polakowski
Milwaukee
Assembly Passes Carow Reapportionment Bill
The Wisconsin Assembly approved the Carow reapportionment measure by 52 to 23, keeping current assembly and senatorial districts. Milwaukee county and other populous areas faced shifts, while Peculiar changes affected Brown Dane Kenosha Marathon and Waukesha counties. A Grobschmidt substitute proposed five two member congressional districts, and actions on the unemployment insurance bill and a logging industry exclusion tie were noted as postponed.
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Madison
Assembly
Carow
Milwaukee County
J. W. Carew
Ladysmith
Brown County
Dane County
Fawn
Somewonl Pils
Rutland
Kenosha County
Marathon County
Bevent
Elderon
Franzen
Guenther
Knowlton
Kronenwetter
Waukesha Country
Lannon
la Belle
John Grobschmidt
Milwaukee
Middleburg Murders Tie Wealthy Widow to Secret Past
Mrs Ilsley, 42, widow of Milwaukee banker Spencer Ilsley, and her maid Anne Buckner, 65, were found beaten to death at Ilsley’s Middleburg estate. The women wore nightdress. a bloody iron bootjack lay nearby. Police and Washington experts investigated as neighbors spoke of a threatened Black servant and a missing car.
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Middleburg
Spencer Asley
Milwaukee
Ilsley
Paul Boeing
Middleburz
Asley
Washington Police
Fred Sandberg
John H. Fowler
Ballistics
Dennis J. Murphy
Agnes Isey
Spencer Usley
Spencer Isley
James E. Usley
Marshall & Usley Bank
Spencer Tisley
Iisley
Agnes Boeing
New York
Isley
Mrs. Issley
Legion Called Upon To Picture Value Of R O T C Work
At the midwinter conference closing session the American Legion was urged to show ROTC value to university students. Major Tom Fox of Wisconsin pointed out declines in ROTC enrollment while overall university enrollment rose. Col Roy Farrand warned Wisconsin resorts overrating scenery harming tourism. The group praised Sullivan post Green Bay for aiding unemployment and mourned Mrs. Thomas Spence Milwaukee, president of American War Mothers.
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Madison
American Legion
Tom Fox
University of Wisconsin R. 0. T. C
Roy F. Farrand
Delafield
Wisconsin
Legionnaires
Sullivan Post
Green Bay
Thomas Spence
Milwaukee
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Rockies
Call Board of
Edward Young Clarke
Ku Klux Klan
Klan
Esskaye
Clarke
Imperial Kleagle
Cleveland
U. S. Secretary of Treasury
Dawes
Boston
Sen
William Butler
Massachusetts
Great Britain
Charles G. Dawes
Butler
Coolidge
Republican National Committee
White House
Senator Blanchard
Walter 5
Goodland
Polaxowski
Blanchard
L. J. Fellenz
Fond du Lac
Virginia
Ruth Hanna McCormick
McCormick
Legion
U.W. R
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