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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1933
Page
6
Henry Morgenthau Jr. becomes acting secretary of the treasury during William Woodin's leave of absence. Dean Acheson resigns as undersecretary, a move tied to internal disputes over money practices amid a push for current inflationary policy.
Heads Island Prison veteran W. T. Fenton, 21 years warden of Nebraska state penitentiary at Lincoln, appointed warden of the new federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. His record handling difficult cases reportedly won federal trust for the post titled Devil's Island head.
President Roosevelt denounces reactionary elements during a Savannah ceremony marking Georgia colony’s 200th anniversary. He spoke at the stadium before continuing to Warm Springs for a vacation en route.
Professor George F. Warren of Cornell University is credited with devising the currency program the Roosevelt administration is studying. Henry Morgenthau Jr acting secretary of the treasury and William L. Myers head of the Farm Credit association studied under him and advocate the Warren commodity dollar plan.
William G. Bullitt of Philadelphia named ambassador to Russia after Roosevelt acknowledges the Soviet republic. Reports name G I Sokolnikoff and Valerian Mezhlauk as other potential Russian ambassadors in unofficial circles.
Thomas H. Thurmond and J. M. Holmes faced murder and kidnapping charges after their San Francisco arrest in the Brooke Hart case. The suspects allegedly confessed to killing 22 year old Brooke Hart, weighing down his body with cement and wire, and dumping it in the bay while demanding 40 000 dollars from his father for safe return.
Eleven year old Dorothy Taylor of Oklahoma City has been returned to school under state commission of charities care after her marriage to 67 year old tenant farmer T. J. Halsell was annulled. The union arose from a daughter trade in which Dorothy’s father J. T. Taylor married Halsell’s 15 year old daughter. Taylor died soon after the marriage.
A photo shows a dogie a calf whose mother died fed by a bottle with aid of a cowboy. The dogie, about 10 months old but not developed beyond a three month range calf, has long hair and a drooped ear.
The Brooke Hart kidnapping and murder case haunts Joyce Holmes and her brother David, children of San Jose department store owner J. M. Hart, as the sensational crime reverberates through the community.
The New York Supreme Court is asked to determine Sylvia Sidney status after Victor Kosow filed to set aside her adoption by Dr. Sigmund Sidney. Kosow allegedly demanded 18000 dollars for silence about the adoption. Sidney fights her father's action amid claims Dr. Sidney is not her real father.
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