Alley cat wins big at New York’s premier show
Fuczy a Brooklyn alley cat sits on a salt plank among 185 blueblood felines as hundreds admire the event. Cats from New Jersey Oklahoma Michigan Ohio North Carolina and Tennessee attend New York City’s historic two day exhibition sponsored by Empire Cat club Silver Persian Fanciers Solid Color Cat Society and Siamese Cat Society. Fuery earns second prize as a household pet while owner softens with a word of return home. Pusty owned by Mrs George Hamilton of Brooklyn and Sherman Connecticut is eight years old and a first show entrant. Lavender Whirlwind led the solid color class.
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Fuczy
Brooklyn
New Jersey
Oklahoma
Michigan
Ohio
North Carolina
Tennessee
Fuery
Empire Cat Club
Silver Persian Fanciers
Solid Color Cat Society
Pusty
George 5. Hamilton
Brooklin
Sher- Man
Conn
Elie Hydon
Bogota
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Winners of Film Crown to Be Picked
Hollywood reports the academy will name the outstanding actress of 1932 at the annual banquet with Helen Hayes Lyon Fontanne or Marie Dressler as candidates. Alfred Lunt Wallace Beery and Frederic March vie for leading actor honors. Lionel Barrymore serves as castmaster.
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Hollywood
Helen Hayes
Lyon Fontanne
Marie Dressler
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Miss Fontanne
Alred Lant
Wallace Beery
Frederic March
Lionel Barrymore
Hindenburg Faces German Crisis in Solo Bid for Unity
Berlin reports the aged President von Hindenburg venturing to form a national concentration government alone after the resignation of Franz von Papen’s Junker cabinet. Two elections failed to give the Working Party control of the Reichstag, increasing national tension.
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Berlin
Germany
von Hindenburg
Crops in Laredo Damaged by Overnight Freeze
Laredo reports an overnight freeze that damaged ripe and green bean crops in the area, with frost already striking twice this week. Temperature this morning fell to 31 degrees, while other vegetables escaped damage. In Longview, Texas, a marriage license was issued to J B Stever, 76, and Mrs. Mary Ellen Barton, 72, who will wed at Mrs. Barton's Gladewater home.
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Patr
Longview
Texas
J B. Stever
Mary Ellen Barton
Stever
Springfield
Pays for Cremation Before Death by Own Action
New York, November 18. Harry W. Holly, a Brooklyn manufacturer, arranged for his cremation before death at a Queens crematory and paid the $35 fee. He then shot himself in a men’s room. The body was found yesterday with no motive announced.
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Harry W. Holly
Brooklyn
United States
Queens
Credit authority Dead in Dallas at 48
Vernor Hall, 48, head of the North Texas Adjustment and Credit Interchange bureau and secretary of the Dallas Wholesale Credit Men's Association, a nationally recognized authority on credits and bankruptcy, died of pneumonia in Dallas hospital. Treasury receipts for November were 78,559,026.77 with expenditures 88,569,458.29 and a balance of 652,640,781. Customs duties for 16 days of November totaled 14,317,674.01.
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Dallas Wholesale Credit Men's Association
Treasury
Washington, D. C
Memorial Follies Planned For Ziegfeld Emoril
Billie Burke widow of Florenz Ziegfeld announces plans for a Memorial Follies in tribute to the late showman. The proposed revue would feature Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers, W C Fields, Marilyn Miller and other Ziegfeld alums. Burke, appearing in Noel Coward’s The Marquise, says a large revival is desired next spring to honor Ziegfeld’s memory.
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Floreng Ziegfeld
Eddie Center
Will Rogers
W. C. Fields
Marilynn Miller
Ziegfeld
Billie Burke
Miss Burke
Hollywood
Noel Coward
A.C. Blumenthal
British Raise Slave Raid Fine to 20 Cows Per Person
Washington November 18 news reports Abyssinian and British authorities agreed to raise the compensation for slave raids in British Africa to 20 head of cattle per person stolen, up from 15, with no killings or enslavements cited in a recent raid on the Kenya colony. The accord, tied to raids in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in March, sets 20 cows as the acceptance price for a highly desirable young wife.
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Washington, D. C
British Africa
Kenye
Follies stars plan memorial revue for late performer
A group of bars members and colleagues intend a memorial revue in honor of the late performer. Eddie Cantor hinted in Hollywood that such a show would be fitting for all the Follies stars. Miss Burke may return to New York in spring to meet Blumenthal and partners, while staying on the Pacific coast for possible stage or film work.
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Eddie Cantor
Hollywood
Oklahoma Man's Sentence Upheld by Court of Appeals
Nathan Rightsell, convicted of murdering J. V. Buchanan, a railroad special officer at Hugo, had his death sentence upheld by the state criminal court of appeals in an advisory opinion to Governor Murray. The execution date remains January 27. Rightsell, who escaped from the Louisiana penitentiary, shot Buchanan during a search, then fled to Muskogee where he wounded another officer attempting arrest.
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Oklahoma City
Nathan Rightsell
J. V. Buchanan
Hugo
State Criminal Court of Appeals
Murray
Hightsell
Louisiana
Knoxville Woman Slain In Quiet Residential Walk
In Knoxville Tennessee on November 18 an elderly widow, Mrs. James G Crumbliss 60, was shot by an unidentified man while walking to her daughter's apartment in an upscale neighborhood. She died four hours later after declaring the assailant shot her deliberately but could not name him.
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Knoxville
Tenn
James G. Crimbliss
Crumbliss
Joe Duncan Jr
BROKEN THOLS FOUND IN MONTE ALBAN TOMBS
Mexico City November 8. Archaeologist Alfonso Caso in charge of the excavations announced the discovery of broken thols resembling those of ancient Egypt among the Monte Alban tombs. The fragile relics were described as striking and significant in the ongoing dig.
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Mexico City
Egypt
Monte Alban
Alfonso Caso
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