Spanish Premier Berenguer Escapes Assassination Attempt
A reporter for El Sol fired at Premier Berenguer in Madrid as he entered a government office. The shot jammed, the reporter Joaquin Lugo was overpowered and detained. Berenguer remained unharmed and later presided over a cabinet meeting. The attacker, described as deranged, was not regularly assigned and claimed a bloodless protest.
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MADRID
Berenguer
SOT FUNCRED Berenguer
Joaquin Lugo
EL Sol
Lugo
Ligo
Sligo
goverment toacca
D. Berenguer
Spain
Primo de Rivera
De Rivera
Alfonso
National Parks Ask For Money For 1932 Budget
President Hoover recommended appropriations totaling 8,187,780 for the national parks service for the 1932 fiscal year, a decrease of 1,911,568. Yellowstone would receive 564,580 and Yosemite 425,040, with 5,000,000 to be spent on roads and trails and 150,008 for forest and fire protection. Lassen, California, would get 41,560. An additional 5,000,000 for roads and trails was urged.
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WASHINGTON
national parks service
congress
Hoover
Yellowstone park
Yosemite
Lassen
California
Colton Seeks Funds for Highway Construction
Washington December 3. Chairman Colton of the house public lands committee asks for authority to appropriate 5 000 0 in each of the next three years for road construction in public land states. The proposal targets highway work and aims to secure ongoing funding.
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WASHINGTON
Colton
house public lands committee
UY SBA vert a CH i y ce
The readable fragments describe a local event involving the UY SBA group and a CH institution. Details are limited but indicate organizational activity, with no clear dates or outcomes available in the surviving text.
Flying housewife forced down in attempt at record
Mrs Martha Begins, a twenty year old flying housewife, tried to set a women's transcontinental air record. She started from the west and was forced down at Jacksonville, Pennsylvania, forty miles from Heston, with no confirmed danger reported.
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NEW YORK
Martha Begims
Jacksonville
Heston
North Beach
Begins
Pache coast
Ruth Nichols
Pennsylvania
ALLENTOWN
Marthe Bevins
Lehigh county
Bevins
Senator Davis Opens Measure to Standardize Wages
Senator Davis of Pennsylvania introduced his first bill to empower the government to fix wages for laborers and mechanics on public buildings. He said the move would preserve local wage scales and boost local employment, arguing that shifting workers from other communities often left them as public charges away from home.
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WASHINGTON
Davis
Pennsylvania
Twenty Eight Die In Wreck In Leningrad
In Leningrad on December 8, twenty eight people died and nineteen were injured when a street car was crushed by a railway locomotive. The tram motormen apparently failed to hear a train signal and drove onto the tracks.
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LENINGRAD
Russia
Hearings Open on Framed Arrests in New York Inquiry
Informer Chile Acuna testified as open hearings resume in an appellate court probing New York magistrates courts. He implicated police officers, lawyers, and bondsmen in fabricating immorality charges and charging women for release, with scores named and evidence shown of alleged bribery and falsified arrests. Betty Smith and Mary Palmer described financial pressures and wrongful charges, while Acuna walked the court through names of officers connected to the cases.
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NEW YORK
falee
Chile
Acuna
Kiesel
Thomas T. Ryan
P. J Phieffer
Actina
Ryan
Betty Smith
World Court bill delayed as Senate awaits protocol
Washington December 3 Senate leaders see no chance to dispose of the world court issue this session while awaiting the president's protocol. Negotiations favor postponing the question until next year as foreign relations committee members work toward a delay. Senator Borah opposes placing the world court in this session. Senator Watson reiterates opposition.
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WASHINGTON
Senate
Hoover
foreign relations committee
Borah
Ground Glass Evidence Touts O Laughlin Case
In Denver on December 3 17 testimony in the Pearl O Loughlin case described ground glass in Leona O Loughlin s viscera. A projection machine and microscopic photos from the autopsy were shown to the jury by Dr Frances McConnell city toxicologist as part of the prosecution s scientific evidence alleging a plot against Leona and her father Leo a city detective.
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DENVER
Leona O'Loughllhn
Pearl O'Loughlin
Frances McConnell
McConnell
Leona O'Loughlin
Leo
Diary of Death by Brighton Doctor After Poisoning
In Brighton on December 3 a coroner's inquest revealed a diary by Dr. Hugh Hands, a local physic ian, detailing his dying sensations after taking poison. He treated two patients within an hour, willed his body to a hospital for research, and cited health and financial worries as motives.
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BRIGHTON
England
Hugh Hands
Bhends
Hands
Magazine owner dies in home fire in Kansas City case
In Kansas City Missouri Maj Claris A Shepard asserts innocence in a murder case linked to his wife Grace Shepard who died in 1929 from an antiseptic poison. He describes their troubled marriage and his relationship with Grace Brandon the San Antonio stenographer who testified for the government.
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KANSAS CITY
Kas
Claris A. Shepard
San Antonio
tekl
vox
Miss Brandon
Shepard
Sierra Madre
Cal
army
callea
Campaign Cost Report Reveals Pennsylvania Expenditures
Washington December 3 Campaign cost report cites a total of 3641 274 in expenditures for the Devis Brown primary ticket in Pennsylvania, surpassing the 368 962 reported last May. Senator Nye’s committee details 19 500 funds claimed by county treasurers as received from Samuel Vauclain’s Davis Brown committee with no accounting filed.
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WASHINGTON
Nye
senate
compaien funds committee
Devis-Brown
Pennsylvania
Davis
Francis Shunk Brown
Davis-Brown
Samuel Vauclain
secretary of state for
Military Costs Prove Heavy in Hoover Budget Message
Washington budget figures show military functions consuming about 41.11 percent of next year’s outlays. President Hoover estimates military costs at $1,616,387,115, with law enforcement rising to $453,507,182. Civil functions total $963,055,587 and non functional activities amount to $1,105,963,605.
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WASHINGTON
Hoover
Proposal to use public works for parks and forests
Representative Leavitt of Montana urged President Hoover to widen the federal construction program to include road building in national parks, forests, and Indian reservations. He said existing laws already authorize public construction and that $5.9 to $10 million could be redirected to road projects on public lands immediately.
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WASHINGTON
Hoover
Leavitt
Republican
Montana
pubdie lands
77 Are Nabbed by Mussolini
Rome reports Mrs J De Bosis an American widow and Lauro De Bosis secretary of the Italian American Society of New York were among twenty anti-Fascists arrested in the past three days. She is charged with spreading calumnous anti-Fascist libels and the government says the group planned crimes for October 28, the eighth anniversary of the march on Rome.
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ROME
J. De Bosis
Italy
Lauro De Bosis
Beer prices rise in Juarez after wholesale increase
In Juarez Mexico and El Paso Texas on December 3 the beer market shifted as a ten dollar per barrel wholesale rise led breweries to raise prices. Saloons followed with higher prices for seven, twelve, and eighteen ounce glasses, marking a notable jump for local drinkers.
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EL PASO
Tex
Juarez
Mexico
Economy efforts reflected in supply bill for 1932
The public buildings fund faces a rise to aid jobless relief as the annual supply bill moves through Congress. The Treasury and Post Office bill totals 1,083,533,943, down 286,906,095 from current year expenditures and 20,725,410 below budget estimates, driven by reduced tax refunds. The bill cuts city law enforcement funds, shifts Prohibition units, and adds money for public buildings, industrial alcohol, and narcotics bureaus. Domestic air mail and foreign mail transport see increases, while treasury operating expenses rise modestly.
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WASHINGTON
Dec
house
treasury and post office
tee
prohibition bureau
justice department
industrial alcohol bureau
narcotic bureau
appropriations commantes
narcotics bureau
post office department
treasury
Latin America
INSES
emking
Reichstag Starts Debate on Grim German Budget Plan
Berlin December 3 The Reichstag opened after a hiatus to hear Finance Minister outline reforms expected to cut expenditures by 745 million dollars annually. Hermann Taetrich described a Spartan three year effort, with salaries slashed and agencies reorganized to enforce nationwide economy.
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BERLIN
Reichstag
finance minster
Hermann Taetrich
Bruenings
Germany
Dietrich
Hoover nominates Doak and 200 others for Senate action
President Hoover sent more than two hundred nominations to the Senate led by William M. Doak of Virginia for secretary of labor. Envo ys named include J Reuben Clark ambassador to Mexico and Nicholas Roosevelt minister to Hungary. Lomen named district judge for Alaska, Meyer for Federal Reserve, Winslow reappointed to mediation board, Mahaffie to Interstate Commerce Commission, McManamy reap pointed, Harrison to Federal Farm Loan Board, Burnet as Internal Revenue Commissioner, and Anslinger as Narcotics Commissioner.
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WASHINGTON
William M. Doak
Virginia
Hoover
senate
J. Reuben Clark
Utah
Mexico
Hoffman Philip
New York
United States
Nicholas Roosevelt
minster
Hungary
d. Butler Wright
Wyoming
Uruguay
D. J. Lo
commission
Fl R Harrison
federal farm loan board
David Burnet
Ohio
internal revenue
Harry J Anslinger
Pennsylvania
Reindeer Sought to Pull Santa in Salt Lake City
Santa Claus will arrive in Salt Lake City with reindeer from a city park. W R Evans offered to harness and drive the animals for a Christmas Day parade but the tame process proved tough as the reindeer kicked and bucked. Evans was bruised but not seriously hurt.
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SALT LAKE CITY
Santa Claue
W. R. Evans
Evans
Germany raids mansion arrests 200 fascists near Breslau
Police raided a country mansion at Jaeschkowitz near Breslau and arrested about two hundred fully uniformed fascists. A large quantity of arms and munitions was seized in the operation conducted on December 3 7.
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BRESLAU
Germany
Jaeschkowitz
Keeper Raises Voice Too High When He Tells Yarn To Friend
In Orville Cal on December 3 the board of supervisors agreed to probe complaints against Hen Turner keeper of the Feather River Bridge. Neighbors complain Turner who is slightly deaf raises his voice while telling a traveling salesman tale, and the stories allegedly go too far.
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Keeper
Yarn
OROVILLE
Cal
board of supervisors
Hen” Turner
Feather viver
Turner
Treasury deficit predicted this year by Hoover executive
President Hoover urged Congress to adopt a 1932 budget with a predicted $180 million deficit. He warned that further unemployment relief and drought aid could widen the shortfall, while opposing debt redemption cuts and urging cautious spending to preserve a balanced year. House begins work on the treasury post office supply bill with detailed 1932 estimates showing increases for veterans and roads and cuts for refunds and defense.
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WASHINGTON
Hoover
congress
house
treasury-post office
the
shipping board
treasury
Tax on millers plan of Selvig tax on millers plan of Selvig
Washington dispatch reports Representative Selvig Republican Minnesota introduced a plan to levy one cent per pound on flour. Revenue would be refunded to wheat growers based on their total wheat sales. The proposal aims to shift costs onto millers with compensation to growers.
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WASHINGTON
Representative Selvig
Minnesota
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MARTHA
SENATOR DAVIS
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Senator Watson
Jeader
C. H. Young
P—Courte lend H. Young
West Fifty-ifth street
Mr. Young
New Orleans
Paterson
Dorothea R Campbell
Young
sne
Young s
PARK
MUSSOLINI
WILLIAM X. DOAK
GHEE
SELVIG
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