Dispute over Norris flares anew in party fight
Washington news wires report a fresh Republican clash over Senator Norris of Nebraska defending party loyalty against President Hoover. Norris accuses Wood and Lucas of betraying GOP unity while arguing issues like farm reform and conservation drive his stance. Senator Borah and other independents weigh in as Wood denounces Norris as a demagogue.
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WASHINGTON
Norris
Nebraska
Great Britain
Hoover
Representative Wood
Indiana
Borah
Idaho
Wood
Robert H. Lucas
Republicanational committee
Lucas
Republican congressional campaign committee
Robert M. Incas
Republican national committee
congress
BROOKHART
senate
Republican independent
Iowa
Mellon
voice of the people
Andrew W. Mellon
Lone bandit robs Warfield Theatre
In San Francisco a young man robbed the Warfield Theatre safe of 6000 on Saturday and Sunday receipts. Unmasked, he followed advertising man Paul Spier to the mezzanine floor where treasurer Emerson Hancock and other employees were ordered to lie on the floor while the safe was opened. He obtained only currency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SAN FRANCISCO
Warfield theatre
motion picture house
Paul Spier
Emerson Hcksom
New Fire Engine Fails to Aid at River Forest Blaze
In Chicago Det. 23 AP report the River Forest fire marshal explains the town’s new $16,000 pumper could not respond to a home fire after pavement in front of the firehouse was torn up to bear its weight. The old Betsy machine arrived but the new engine could not leave.
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CHICAGO
Det
Williams. Callaghan
River Forest
Oak Park
Explosion at Virginia gas plant rocks Newport News
A massive acetylene gas plant blast in Newport News causes beds to be hurled, furniture to fly, and glass to shatter citywide. No fatalities reported. injuries minor from glass. Debris damages the plant building and nearby offices. quake-like tremors felt up to Yorktown and Williamsburg. Cause under police investigation with no immediate trigger identified.
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NEWPORT NEWS
Viginia Gas and Products Company
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Yorktown
Williamsburo
Bandit suspects appear in court at Clinton bank robbery
Clinton Ind December 23 William Long alias John S Clark of Moberly Mo and Walter Dietrich of Chicago pleaded not guilty at arraignment on charges of robbing Citizens Bank here last week Bonds set at 100000 each January 2 fixed for trials They survived a five man band that held up the bank The other three died in a field near Lidell Ill two taking their own lives to avoid capture a posse member was killed during the chase
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CLINTON
Ind
William Long
John S. Clark
Moberly
Walter Dietrich
Chicago
Citizens Bank
Lidell
Ill
New Senator Appointed in Vermont
Montpelier Vermont December 23 Vermont Governor Weeks appointed Frank C Partridge of Proctor as United States senator to fill the Greene vacancy. Partridge 71 will serve until a successor is elected March 1 with a special primary set for March 8. He is a Republican and heads the Vermont Marble Company with prior service as secretary to the secretary of war and as solicitor in the state department.
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MONTPELIER
Vermont
Frank C. Partridge
Proctor
Ej Weeks
United States
Frank L. Greene
Partridge
department of state
Venezuela
Vermont Marble Company
Beese mys faces long term prison for thefts
Los Angeles. December 23. Gil bert H. Beese mer forty five former Hollywood financier and clubman faced a possible maximum sentence of 140 years for the theft of eight million dollars from the Guaranty Building and Loan Association. He pleaded guilty to ten counts of grand theft after previously entering not guilty. The judge reserved sentence pending further investigation and set Friday for verdict.
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LOS ANGELES
Gilbert H. Bersemyer
Hollywood
Guaranty Building and Loan Association of
Guaranty
Beesemyer
Walton J Wood
San Quentin penitentiary
not gulity
adauos
grand jury
Gambling scheme exposed as New York bars daily figures
The New York Clearing House Association will stop publishing daily exchanges and balances after December 31 to curb a nationwide gambling scheme. Banks in the association will withhold published statistics, and officials report multiple bribe attempts to alter figures. A former Associated Press clerk faced arrest after a bribery trap, showing enforcement follow through.
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NEW YORK
New York Clearing House Association
asociation
Cedar Street
cing
Creek's Wedding Plot Aims to Seize Wealth in Tulsa
Peter John, a wealthy Creek Freedman of Werwoka Oklahoma, faced an alleged kidnapping plot to force him into marriage with a woman to gain his wealth. Two Black men and a Black woman sought to compel the union. belief his recent marriage foiled the plan. Johnson, once penniless, held oil land allotments as a Creek descendant.
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TULSA
Okla
Peter Johnson
Werwoka Okla
ALLEASE Johnson
C. C Harvey
Johnson
Sugar Prices Fall in Denver as Markets Dip
Sugar prices dropped ten cents per hundred pounds in Denver amid renewed weakness in refined and raw markets. Denver beet sugar priced at 522 per hundredweight and cane at 542, while jobbers listed 347 for beet and 567 for cane. In Topeka six Kansas farm groups reaffirmed support for the Agricultural Marketing Act and the Federal Farm Board at a meeting chaired by Ralph Snyder of the Kansas Farm Bureau. delegates from Farmers Union Grange Farmers Cooperative Grain Dealers Association Farmers Commission Company and the Southwest Wheat Marketing Association attended.
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DENVER
TOPEKA
Kas
Kansas farm
agricultural marketing act
federal farm board
Ralph Snyder
Kansas farm bureau
Farmers’ Union
Grange
Farmers’ Cooperative Grain Dealers’ Association
Farmers’ Commission Company
Futhwest Wheat Marketing Association
Teacher Shot In Classroom At Hutchins Intermediate School
Detroit December 24 a Hutchins Intermediate School teacher Mrs Fan nie Brown forty four was shot at her desk by a man who fled before other teachers could reach the room. She said in a statement to assistant prosecutor Duncan McCrea that she accused Charles Christopher of firing the shot after refusing his attentions. Christopher surrendered two hours later saying he shot accidentally while trying to borrow five dollars. Brown was shot twice near the heart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DETROIT
Fannie Brown
Hutchins
receiving hospital
Duncan C. McCrea
Charles Christopher
automobile company
McCrea
Christopher
Christmas presents missing but husband not worried
In Evanston Illinois a husband tells police of thefts by Bergmann including a leather bag, golf clubs, handkerchiefs, clothing, multiple ties and other items tied to Christmas gifts for his wife. The couple recounted the missing presents in a police statement, listing the stolen articles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EVANSTON
Ill
Bergmann
Child Killed by Automobile in El Paso District
Two people died in district accidents last night. Guadalupe Rivas, six, was struck by a car driven by Leona Bundy while crossing near her Trenb home and died from a fractured skull. Aurelio Alvidrez died after a ranch shooting incident earlier near Mesquite.
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EL PASO
Tex
Paso
Aurelio Alvidrez
Mesquite
Guadalupe Rivas
Trenb
Leona Bundy
St Louis Sees Minor Earthquake Shake City
An earthquake shock lasting one minute rattled homes in the southern part of St. Louis today. The tremor, centered near St. Louis, was recorded by the St Louis University seismograph at 6.26 am, alarming residents and prompting warnings.
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ST. LOUIS
St. Loui University
Federal Government Public Works Costs In 1931
Washington December 1933 report totals federal public works spending for 1931 at 8724 938 000. Hoover cites wage policies preserving pre depression scales and notes adjustments with minor contractors. Estimated 1931 federal aid spending includes highways 219 922 509 public buildings 173 860 080 harbors and rivers 15 985 357 060 ship canal 120 927 000 aircraft and navigation 30 882 060 miscellany 97 607 000. Total plus acceleration of appropriations and drought relief yields a calendar year 1931 figure around 160 000 000 after fiscal-year adjustments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WASHINGTON
Hoover
congress
Plans to keep Chicago dry on New Year's Eve
Chicago authorities announce nationwide enforcement for New Year’s Eve. Deputy prohibition administrator Arthur Hamilton says every official will be on duty to curb violations in hotels and clubs and arrests will follow any flagrantly served setups or open drinking.
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CHICAGO
Arthur Hamilton
prohibition
Poison fog returns to Meuse valley amid new deaths
Belgiums Libre Belgique reports reappearance of toxic fog in Meuse valley with one death in Tilleur and serious injuries in Fremelle Hermalle-Sous Huy cases rise. Madrid reports premier Berenguer ill but not seriously. San Francisco obituary notes Boutwell Dunlap historian lawyer and genealogist dies at 53.
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BRUSSELS
Belgium
Libre Belgique
Meuse valley
Tilleur
Fremelle
Hermalle-Sous Huy
SAN FRANCISCO
London Battles Dense Fog Halts Trains and Traffic
In London a historic dense fog paralyzed transport as trains buses and ships halted. Four men drowned entering canals, and hundreds faced delays with flares used to guide vehicles through the mist. The postal service struggled under the Christmas rush amid widespread disruption.
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LONDON
Lonnon
England
THAPFIC
sularhan
Hide Park corner
Gravesend
Salem man escapes after death sentence is handed down
Charles Fithian, 22, condemned for killing a paymaster, escaped Salem county jail less than eight hours after sentencing by filing his cell bars and squeezing through ventilator shafts. Police suspect a smuggled file and pistol and say friends awaited in a car outside the prison.
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SALEM N J
Charles Fithian
Salem
Fithian
Bank depositors receive help as banks reopen in New York
York clearing house banks continued to render relief to depositors of closed United States banks. Hundreds lined up before frozen branches as loans totaling about 2 million dollars were expected by day’s end. Depositors may borrow up to half their deposits. Yesterday 5,500 depositors borrowed 220,000 dollars. today 8,000 were expected to obtain loans.
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York clearing house
united States
NEW YORK
Dec
Angelo Rossi Named San Francisco Mayor-Elect
Chief Magistrate of San Francisco To Be A. J. Rossi SAN FRANCISCO December 23 The mayor after January 6 will be Angelo Rossi currently on the board of supervisors He will succeed James Rolph Jr who will retire as mayor after nineteen years to become governor Rossi was elected by fourteen votes to two to serve the remainder of Rolphs unexpired term He has chaired the board finance committee for the last year.
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ANGUO J. ROSSI
San Francisco
James Rolph, Jr
Angelo Rossi
board of supervisors
James Rolph
California
Rossi
Ralphs
Opposition to Borah calls for extra congressional session
Washington December 23 Opposition to the extra session of Congress urged by Senator Borah was voiced by Chatman Wood of the House Appropriations Committee after a conference with President Hoover. Wood said no extra session was needed and that the House could pass necessary appropriation bills in the short session. Senator Caraway supported Borah’s push for an extra session to debate farm relief, Muscle Shoals disposition, and labor injunction regulation.
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WASHINGTON
congress
Senator Boral
Chatman Wood
house appropriations committee
Hoover
Woon
Capitol Hill
Borah
Wood
house
CARAWAY
Senator Caraway
Arkansas
Ship Alcohol In Tank Cars Across Nation
The Interstate Commerce Commission granted a transcontinental freight rate based on value for shippers of pure alcohol in tank cars. Examiner George M. Curtis recommended dismissing Cloverdale Spring Co’s complaint against ginger ale rates from Newville, Pennsylvania to New York. The alcohol ruling targeted only pure alcohol and did not single out any road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WASHINGTON
interstate commerce commission
George M. Curtis
Cloverdale Spring Company
Newville
New York
Cloverdale Spring
Atlantic Coast Line
Chorus Girls Lose Stockings As Burglary Strikes Fox Theatre
In San Francisco on December 23 a Fox Theatre burglary robbed chorus girls of their stockings and $137 in cash from dressing rooms. Police described the incident as a bold theft shortly before Santa was due to arrive and noted the loss of cash affected the performers.
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Santa
SAN FRANCISCO
Fox theatre
Santa Claus
Reconsideration Sought Of New Power Commission Board
Washington reports a reshuffle of the federal power commission as three officers Russell King and Bonner were removed in an executive order amid claims of internal strife. The action follows an attorney general opinion and prompted debate in the Senate over possible reconsideration of the nominees.
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WASHINGTON
Charlies , Russell and
Clief
William V. King
federal power commission
Smith
ACT
water power act
Frank E. Bonner
commission
storm ceunter
power commission
Brookhart
Towa
Bonner
Russell
King
senate
Smith Frank R McNinch
Marcel Garsaud
Garsaud
McNinch
Dill
Russel
AYE TARES
Nye
North Dakota
Rescue of 36 From Baltic Shipwreck Near Denmark
In Copenhagen the Baltic Sea rescue report states 36 people were saved from the Finnish steamship Wirl after it ran aground near Osel island. Five crewmen drowned and a storm broke up the wreck as salvage efforts continued. 14 sought the salvage ship but their boat capsized, claiming one woman and four men.
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COPENHAGEN
Denmark
Baltic Sea
Fitlands
Osel island
Smokes in Bed Cause Fatal Fire in Kansas City
Mrs Barbara Stamp aged eighty four died after lighting a corn cob pipe in bed. A burning match fell and ignited her clothing, causing fatal burns. Dee 23.7 Kansas City reported the tragedy.
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KANSAS CITY
Dee
Barbara Stamp
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CREEK
KANSAS
FARIERS
ROME
council of ministers
Bank of Italy
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Fremier Berenguer
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A. J. Rossi
BORA
Brookhart, Dill, King
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