US and Allies face Saar plebiscite and naval talks
Roosevelt meets with Robinson at Warm Springs about New Deal tax plans and relief spending. Saar plebiscite looms as Germany and France seek accord on mining properties and League of Nations issues. Vinson warns Japan to accept no naval equality and pledges ships if needed.
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Robinson
Saar
Vinson
Japan
Hitler
Germany
Pierre Laval
France
League of Nations
Hungary
League
Little Entente
Czechoslovakia
Rumania
Italy
Ante Pavelich
Alexander
Court of Appeals
Turin
Balkan murder and Hungary blamed in League jolt
Western observers fear a wider European conflict if Balkans tensions flare after the Marseilles assassinations. Yugoslav delegates in the League of Nations accuse Hungary of harboring Balkan terrorists and seek council action to avert threats to world peace. Hungary pushes for inclusion on the council agenda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander
Louis Barthou
Marseilles
Jugoslavia
League of Nations
Hungary
League
Council
Paraguayan War Turmoil Forces Resignation and Shifts in Power
President Daniel Salamanca faced blame as Chaco fighting intensified. He visited the front and was arrested by General Enrico Penaranda and forced to resign. Vice President Jose Sorzano assumed presidential powers by decree and formed a new cabinet. Penaranda appeared to act as de facto ruler while seeking peace with Paraguay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rouvins
Chaco
Daniel Salamanca
Enrique Penaranda
Jose Sorzano
Penaranda
Paraguay
Mexico's Lazaro Cardenas Installed as President
EN LAZARO CARDENAS, though just thirty nine, veteran of the Mexican revolution, was installed as president of Mexico on November 30. He is of Spanish and Tarascan stock, a fine soldier and statesman, and has served under the revolutionary government for five years. A brief trial awarded Lord Ashley a divorce from Sylvia Hawke, with costs about 10 000 dollars to be paid by Douglas Fairbanks who is co respondent.
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Sfatches
Germany
Reich
Reichswehr
Schutzstaffel
Baron Werner von Fritsch
Hitler
Lazaro Cardenas
Mexico
Lord Ashley
Sylvia Hawke
Douglas Fairbanks
Lady Ashley
George Edwards
Fairbanks
Boyd Merriman
Roosevelt
American Bankers Bankers’ Association
M. §. Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Eccles
Washington
Treasury
Federal Reserve Bank
Carter Glass
Virginia
Federal Reserve System
House
Senate
Congress
Morgenthau
Senate Committee On
Ferdinand Pecora
Pecora
The
Securities Commission
Senate Committee
Gun battle ends in death of FBI agents and gang leader
Inspector Samuel P. Cowley and Agent Herman Hollis are killed near Barrington Illinois during a gunfight with Lester Gillis known as Baby Face Nelson and a companion. Nelson dies from nine bullet wounds, his body found near Niles Center. Nelson's clothes, the bandits’ car, and the agents’ car are located in the area. Cowley previously killed Dillinger and led the posse that killed Pretty Boy Floyd.
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Samuel P. Cowley
Herman B. Hollis
Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Lester Gillis
George
Baby Face
Niles Center
Nelson
Cowley
John Dillinger
Pretty Boy
Floyd
Indiana
Thanksgiving royal wedding blends nobility and America
Thanksgiving day in America and a royal wedding in London highlight a holiday season marked by luxury spending and charitable giving. The Duke of Kent wed Princess Marina of Greece at Westminster Abbey with rare U.S. attendance, while commerce notes a rise in luxury goods and gift lines, and farm income in October totals reach 736 million dollars.
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America
London
Duke of Kent
England
Marina
Greece
Westminster Abbey
United States
Robert W. Bingham
Buckingham Palace
Germanos
Insull acquitted in mail fraud trial amid stalled prosecutions
Samuel Insull and sixteen aides are acquitted on all counts in Chicago after a costly federal case. Jurors on the third ballot signaled no clear intent to defraud. Other charges remain undecided, with possible return to La Salle Street and utilities work. The St Lawrence waterway treaty faces renewed Senate debate as Mississippi Valley Association meets in St. Louis and vows continued opposition.
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Amuel Insull
Chicago
Insull
la Salle Street
Senate
St. Lawrence
Lake Michigan
Chicago Drainage Canal
Mississippi Valley Association
St. Louis
American Nature Association
United States Weather Bureau
Gir
United States
Far West
Lake Superior
Lake Erie
Gulf Coast
Mobile
Ala
Vicksburg
Miss
Washington, D. C
Ottawa
Can
Western
Unica
Wallace Faces Battle Over Agricultural Act Revisions
Henry A. Wallace, secretary of agriculture, braces for a congressional battle over the Agricultural Adjustment Act. He advocates time for current controls and warns against unrestricted production, while recognizing possible changes. Banking policy and inflation fears also loom with the Federal Reserve and Morgenthau era legislation under discussion.
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Washington
Henry A. Wallace
Wallace
National Grange
Mr. Wallace
Congress
Undertaker Stranger Sparks Odd Recovery Tale
Prague Joseph Potok, 55, was dying when a stranger entered his room and began measurements. Potok asked who he was and the man replied I am the undertaker. Potok told him to leave and then began to recover, defying doctors’ grim prognosis.
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Prague
Joseph Potok
Potok
Stran
Slim City Girl Conquers Peaks
New York climber Georgia Engelhard, famed for endurance, ascends Mt. Assiniboine in the Canadian Rockies for her hundredth ascent in Banff Lake Louise. She also new routes on Mt. Sturdee and Mt. Magog, and summits Mt. Towers amid perilous ice and rock, praising climbing as fun and demanding.
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New York
Georgia Engelhard
New York City
Mt. Assiniboine
Canadian Rockies
Banff-Lake Louise
Banff
Lake Louise
Selkirks
Assiniboine
Assiniboine District Miss Engelhard Also Climbed Mt. Sturdee
Mt. Magog
Mt. Towers
Beauty Doctors Repair Ear for 600 Pound Bear
Buttercup the 600 pound San Diego Zoo grizzly bear had a cauliflower ear repaired by Dr. C. R. Schroeder. The operation lasted about three hours and used anesthesia to render her asleep. The ear damage came from repeated cuffings by her parents Toots and Casper.
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San Diego
Cali
Buttercup
San Diego Zoo
C. R. Schroeder
Schroeder
Toots
Casper
Passengers Unhurt After Deer Strikes on Route 6
Harry Hahn of Pittsburgh and two Beaver Falls men were driving on the Roosevelt highway near Coudersport when a buck deer leaped into the road. The auto struck the animal, killing it and injuring no one. The car was damaged and the deer weighed about 165 pounds before the game warden was called.
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Palestine
Ohio
Harry Hahn
Hahn
Roosevelt Highway
Coudersport
Pants Search Prevents Bigamy in New Bedford
Mrs. Alphone Fortin, after fourteen years of marriage, found her husband had altered his name and applied for a marriage license to wed Louise Dubrueil. City Clerk R. A. Swan halted the bigamous plan by examining the husband’s pockets and uncovering the scheme.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Bedford
Mass
Alphone Fortin
Louise Dubrueil
Gerk R. A. Swan
Fortin
Trout Caught Through Sidewalk Grating Stuns Shepherdstown
Bob Davis drops line through a sidewalk grate in Shepherdstown West Virginia and hooks a trout. A mountain stream runs beneath the town, coursing under a viaduct and into the street area.
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Shepherdstown
W. Va
Bob Davis
Thieves Steal Old Family Bible in Valparaiso Home
Thieves entered the Watt residence in Valparaiso Indiana while the family was away and took the old family Bible. No injuries reported and no other items mentioned. Local police investigating the burglary and seeking information about the missing Bible.
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Valparaiso
Ind
Thomas Watt
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Mississippi
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Daniel C. Roper
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Jean
Great Britain
Carl Vinson
Georgia
Tokyo
House Naval Affairs Committee
Col
Jean Fabry
Bon Archimbaud
Chamber of Deputies
Russia
Maxim Litvinov
Archimbaud
Europe
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Daniel
Department of Agriculture
Samuel Insull
William Bruckart
New Consumer Congress
Bankhead
Alabama
Capitol
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