Rebels retire from Foochow as violence feared
United States sailors land in Foochow to guard American lives during the evacuation of the rebel capital as nationalist forces advance. British and Japanese forces reinforce, while Chinese factions clash and flee, leaving Foochow without established authority and Americans seeking safety.
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United States
China
Foochow
19Th Route
Gordon Burke
Tulsa
Min River
Pukien
Adm
Chen Shao-Kwan
Berwick
Hong Kong
Tsai Ting-Kai
19Th Route Army
Admiral Chen
Tsai
Indian tremor claims twenty one lives in India
A protracted earthquake across India kills at least 21 people and injures many. Jamalpur railways station collapse claims residents including the wife and children of G W Brown and a district medical officer. Eight killed in Patna, nine in Gaya, Calcutta buildings damaged as Willingdon visit continues.
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Calcutta
All India
G. W. Brown
Jamalpur
Patna
Gaya
Insull Jailed as Extradition to Illinois Ordered
Martin J. Insull, former Chicago utilities operator, was jailed after Justice Garrow denied his bid for freedom. Previously on $10,000 bail, he now faces extradition to Cook County for larceny and embezzlement tied to the Mid-West Utilities collapse. a further appeal against return to Chicago is expected.
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Toronto
Martin J. Insull
Chicago
Charles Garrow
Chambers
Insull
Cook County
Illinois
Boise Detective Chief Denies Charge in Bribe Case
Boise Jan. 15 AP Joe Nichols former detective pleaded guilty to conspiracy to accept a bribe from a rooming house operator and will be sentenced later. H. H. Murray captain of detectives pleaded not guilty and awaits trial Feb 19. Four Boise Chinese charged with murder of Louie Gar Lan remained in jail awaiting hearing on evidence sufficiency. Local audit questions tied to Hopper shortages prompted city council to meet as mayor J J McCue called for review.
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Boise
Joe Nichols
Boise Police Department
H. H. Murray
Murray
Louie Gar Lan
Nichols
Grand Jury
Hopper
J. J. McCue
Angela Hopper
Clarence van Deusen
Oregon
van Deusen
Senate Banking Committee Approves Farm Mortgage Guarantee
The senate banking committee voted 9 to 3 for the administration bill to guarantee both principal and interest on farm mortgage loans. The measure would back $2,000,000,000 of farm mortgage bonds authorized by the last congress with government guarantees.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Will Rogers Wires The Tribune
A column by Will Rogers from Beverly Hills comments on taxes on liquor, wartime predictions, and public sentiment. He jokes about historical liquor taxes, Death Valley as lonely, a Japanese admiral’s war publicity, and nations claiming readiness without actual war, ending with a light sign-off.
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Beverly Hills
Cal
Death Valley
America
Cuba Without President As Grau Resigns
Cuba faced a political crisis as President Ramon Grau San Martin resigned and his designate refused office. The revolutionary junta named Carlos Hevia, a US Naval Academy graduate, as president but Hevia later withdrew. Troops massed at Camp Columbia and crowds gathered outside the palace amid rising coup rumors.
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Ramon Grau San Martin
Cuba
Carlos Hevia
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis
Hevin
Grau
Camp Columbia
Presidential Palace
Naval Headquarters
Gerardo Machado
Gibara
Oriente
Machado
United States
Hevia
New York
Carlos Manuel de Cesnedes
Ross moves to weed out CWA chiselers in Idaho
Governor C Ben Ross summoned heads of CWA branches in Idaho to crack down on workers not needing aid. He cited complaints of double dipping and a Canyon County family living in a cold room with little food, urging officials Parker Carver John Foreman and others to devise a system to remove those with other funds from winter relief.
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Boise
C. Ben Ross
CWA
Idaho
Canyon County
Parker Carver
John Foreman
Idaho Boy Drowns While Ice Skating
In Boise on January 15 an 11 year old named Billy Wasson drowned after breaking thin ice on a creek near Kuna, about 20 miles from Boise. His body was recovered 45 minutes later.
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Boise
Billy Wasson
Kuna
Ore
Grain Leader Optimistic as Chicago Board of Trade Meets
Peter B. Carey, president of the Chicago Board of Trade, told the annual meeting that the grain trade expects better times for farmers if extremist views do not prevail. He warned that further market restrictions would disturb the economy and harm producers, consumers, and distribution. New officers and directors were installed, marking Carey’s third consecutive term. Carey urged continued federal cooperation to resolve trade issues.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade Today
Peter B. Carey
Exchange
Carey
Washington
Subway Plan Endorsed By Local Government Leaders
Chamber of commerce board members highway committee county commissioners mayor city engineer and state highway officials endorsed the Bannock county road program and a new subway linking the Yellowstone highway and the Old Oregon Trail. They protested a proposed cut in the U S biological survey appropriation and urged Malad road approval as a 1934 project.
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Chamber of Commerce
Chamber Highway Committee
R. T. Hale
J. J. Facer
Brow City
R.F. Hamilton
H. R. Flint
State Highway Department
Bannock County
U. S. Biological Survey
Joe Stemmer
Downey
Biological Survey
Gov
Stocks and grains rise on monetary policy news
New York dispatch reports broad gains as Washington signals policy moves. Stocks advance up to six dollars a share while wheat gains about four cents a bushel and cotton climbs roughly two fifty per bale. Bonds rally and foreign currencies strengthen on Roosevelt recommendations.
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New York
Washington
U. S
Roosevelt
Congress
Treasury
Stock Exchange
U. S. Steel
New York Central
American Telephone
General Motors
Consolidated Gas
Case
Santa Fe
Nash Motors
Allied Chemical
du Pont
American Can
General Electric
Bethlehem Steel
Senator Sheppard to Continue Talk on Prohibition Anniversary
Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas plans to address the Senate on the eighteenth amendment anniversary. He will urge re enactment and repeat a yearly speech critiquing the wet propaganda, saying the promises are empty.
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Washington
Morris Sheppard
Senate
Sheppard
Prosecutor Shows Murder Scene in Wynekoop Case
In Chicago, Jan 15, prosecutor Dougherty outlined how Rheta Wynekoop may have died on an operating table at her mother-in-law Dr Alice Wynekoop's home. He claimed she obtained a double indemnity policy on Rheta weeks before her death and that a chloroform sleep preceded a gunshot.
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Associated Press
Criminal Courts Building
Chicago
Rheta Gardner Wynekoop
Alice Lindsay Wynekoop
Rheta
Charles 8. Dougherty
Dougherty
Tak Rheta
Wynekoop
Aglee
Earle
W. W. Smith
Cour
Son of Former President Has Ready Answer
Herbert Hoover Jr., son of the former president, told a U S Senate committee he anticipated talks about his air mail contract ties. The engineer, employed since 1929 by Western Air Express, offered to resign to avoid discussion, later returned on a $400 monthly salary after a year’s leave.
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Herbert Hoover, Jr
Pasadena
United States Senate
Hoover
Western Air Express
Transcontinental Air Transport
Haliburton
Washington
Gifford Reports on Number of Phones
Walter S. Gifford president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co told stockholders the Bell system posted a net loss of 630 000 telephones in 1933 after a 1 650 000 loss in 1932. He noted a 715 000 loss in the first eight months and an 86 000 gain in the last four months leaving about 13 160 000 telephones in service at year end, 16 percent below 1930 peak.
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New York
Walter S. Gifford
American Telephone & Telesreph Co
Bell System
Gifford
House passes bill to extend Reconstruction corp life
The House approved the Senate bill continuing the Reconstruction corporation for one year and boosting its borrowing authority to 850 million dollars. The measure advances to the White House for action.
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Washington
House
Senate
Reconstruction Corporation
White House
Roosevelt Proposes Range to 60 Percent Gold Cut
President Roosevelt asks Congress for authority to regulate a flexible deal with a maximum 60 percent cut in gold content, proposes a $2 billion fund from devaluation profits to stabilize foreign exchange, and seeks to take over $3.5 billion in gold from Federal Reserve banks paid in gold certificates. delays silver use pending London and other monetary results.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
Federal Reserve Banks
Roosevelt plans dollar devaluation under gold standard plan
President Roosevelt asks Congress to back a dollar value range of 50 to 60 percent of gold, with silver urged as a monetary medium and a new mechanism to manage foreign exchange. Morgenthau would lead program after enactment as Treasury details unfold, while gold deliveries and penalties for illegal holdings are outlined.
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Henry C. Morgenthau
the Treasury
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
House
Washington
Jan
Morgenthau
Treasury
Equalization Fund
RFC
White House
Fletcher
Senate Banking Committee
Idaho group to vote on remonetizing silver at 16 to 1
The Idaho Mining association will meet in Boise to vote on endorsing remonetization of silver at 16 to 1. About 300 mining representatives are expected to vote on a Wallace board of trade resolution favoring bimetallism and opposing a return to the single gold standard.
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Boise
Idaho Mining Association
J. W. Gwinn
Wallace Board of Trade
Congress
United States
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CWA Chiselers
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Maurice E. Collins
Treasury Chief
Dan. Lo
London
Mining Association
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