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January 4, 1933

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DOLLAR VALUE CUT SOUGHT BY BORAH; Measure to Expand Currency as Aid to Farmer Is Being Framed by Idahoan. SEVERAL SENATORS FOR IT Bankhead Urges Boosting the Value of Silver, Wheeler Its Remonetization. DOLLAR VALUE CUT SOUGHT BY BORAH

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Sen Borah plans to introduce legis to expand currency and cut value of dollar; Sen Bankhead endorses his views; Sen Wheeler presses for action on his bill for remonetization of silver

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SHANHAIKWAN CITY A SMOLDERING RUIN AS JAPANESE ENTER; Chinese Battalion Wiped Out and City Is Bombarded by Air, Land and Sea. DRIVE TO JEHOL EXPECTED Tientsin Hears Major Campaign Is Planned -- Japan Orders Her Civilians Home. WASHINGTON CONCERNED Watches Our Treaty Rights -- Pogranichnaya Is Reported Occupied.

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Official communique repts Chinese troops resisted attack of Japanese on Shanhaikwan, and entire battalion was wiped out; Japanese officials admit occupation of Shanhaikwan is beginning of Jehol offensive; Chang Hsiao-liang expected to resist invasion; map

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Our Ambassador Protests Dinner Precedence in Spain

By Special Cable to The Chicago Tribune

Declines invitation to Pres Alcala Zamora's dinner for Diplomatic Corps as protest against order of precedence placing Speaker of Cortes above Ambs

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STATE PATRONAGE WORRIES TAMMANY; Machine Awaits Appointment of Surrogate as First Test of Lehman's Attitude. CURRY TO BACK VALENTE But Rosenman, Sidetracked for Hofstadter on Bench Ticket, Also Is Candidate. STATE PATRONAGE WORRIES TAMMANY

By Unknown Author

Apptmt to replace Mayor O'Brien worries Tammany; reptd to back Justice L A Valente; R Cummins and S I Rosenman prominent candidates

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Woman Is Speaker of North Dakota House; May Be First in Such Office in Country

By the Associated Press

BISMARCK, N.D., Jan. 3 -- A small-town banker's wife, interested in music and flowers as well as politics, became the first woman Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives today.

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