Roosevelt urges advance against New Deal critics in joint session
President Roosevelt calls Congress for an advance against critics he says would gang up on liberties. He urges a neutral stance and adequate defense while noting a balanced budget and rising revenues. He challenges critics to specify their demands and repeal New Deal laws if desired.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
House
New Deal
American Liberty League
Burns
Senate
Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
Garner
Senator Carter Glass Reaches 78th Birthday Milestone
In Washington on January 3 senators Robinson Borah and others paid tribute to Senator Carter Glass of Virginia on the eve of his seventy eighth birthday. They praised his long service and vigor of mind and body.
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Washington
Carter Glass
Virginia
Senate
Robinson
Arkansas
Borah
Idaho
Aims Outlined for State Tax Survey by WPA Official
R B Dewitt of the State Tax Board led a school for 41 county officials and project managers on a WPA funded tax survey. He outlined aims to tax every acre, help counties equalize values, aid tax collectors, and inform the Legislature. He said 80 percent will pay 10 to 20 percent less taxes and 10 to 15 percent will begin paying taxes who never did before.
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WPA
R. B. Dewitt
Dallas
State Tax Board
Weather Summary for West Texas and New Mexico
Regional forecast notes indicate fair conditions in West Texas west of the 100th meridian and New Mexico with fair Saturday and colder conditions in the east. Temperature readings from Amarillo show daytime highs around 40s and 50s with morning lows near the upper 30s to lower 40s across reported hours and dates in 1934 and 1984.
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West Texas
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
Amarillo
Lindberghs Plan Brief Wales Visit After Hauptmann Case
A Morgan family spokesman says the Lindberghs will return to the United States with their child in about three months after the Hauptmann case. They will stay six weeks in Wales then travel to London and on to the South of France and Sweden before returning. A Welsh nurse is engaged for three year old Jon during the stay.
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Llandaff
Wales
Morgan
Charles A. Lindberghs
United States
Hauptmann
London
France
Sweden
Lindberghs
England
Jon
Liverpool
Aubrey Niel Morgan
U S Wins Delay In Touhy Hearing
The government won a delay in the Touhy mail robbery case against gangster Terrible Tommy Touhy. Touhy, trembling, sat as his lawyer pleaded not guilty and identified him. The removal hearing was postponed to January 10 to allow witnesses to be brought in, with bond fixed at $50,000 Touhy said he could not raise.
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Chicago
Tommy” Touhy
Minneapolis
Touhy
U. S
Edwin K. Walker
Joseph Roach
Raymond Drymalski
Oklahoma to Ask Oil Lease Bids
Oklahoma state board plans to solicit bids for oil and gas leases on state owned lands near the Capitol, the governor's mansion, and the university hospital. Chairman L M Nichols said the board will advertise 21 days for bids and act to protect state interests.
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Oklahoma City
State Board of Affairs
Capitol
Governor's Mansion
University Hospital
L. M. Nichols
Nichols
Claims Peril for Gas Field in Federal Court Testimony
W E Cottingham director of production and head of the Texas Railroad Commission's engineering department testified in federal court that an active water head in the Panhandle gas field threatens the field if disproportionate withdrawals of gas continue. His testimony contrasted with Texoma Natural Gas Utilities experts who questioned the rateable action.
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Houston
W. E. Cottingham
Texas Railroad Commission
Panhandle
Cottingham
Texoma Natural Gas Utilities Corporation
Bodes of four taken from sea
Four of the twelve who perished in the Imperial Airways City of Khartoum disaster were recovered by divers who cut through the sunken flying boat’s cabin near Alexandria, Egypt, on January 3.
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Alexandri
Egypt
Mediterranean
Imperial Airways
Khartoum
Tobacco Juice Mystery Thickens In Wrestling Rumpus
Grand jurors questioned Danny McShain promoter Dutch Mantell and referee Jack Van Bebber after a Dutch Mantell bout where Bob Castle vanished amid a near riot. Spectators accuse McShain of tobacco juice and a lighted cigar incident aimed at Castle as authorities probe attempts to maim.
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Bob Castle
Kansas City
Danny McShain
Dutch Mantell
Castle
MecShain
McShain
Mantell
van Bebber
Veterans bonus pill revives push in Congress as quick vote eyed
Washington January 3 A new immediate cash payment bonus backed by three major veterans groups reaches Congress at opening session with advocates predicting swift passage. Business groups oppose urging higher debt or taxes. Ways and Means may act Monday as leadership signals urgency amid parliamentary jockeying.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Chamber
Doughton
North Carolina
Ways and Means
Capitol Hill
Plane radio aid in quest of two thugs
Police pursue two kidnappers who abducted Officer R. J. Luther near Sherman Texas. More than 200 officers from Dallas and surrounding counties join the hunt aided by a Stinson airplane piloted by Bill Decker as authorities sweep a 100 mile zone toward the Oklahoma line. The officer was released unharmed at a schoolhouse southwest of Sherman.
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Dallas
R. J. Luther
Sherman
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Line
Bill Decker
Dallas County
Stinson
Luther
Wylie
Here
Decker
Judge Rules Guffey Coal Act Unconstitutional
Federal Judge John P. Barnes declared the Guffey coal act unconstitutional, calling it penalties rather than taxes. He granted a temporary injunction stopping enforcement against the Truax-Traer Company.
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Chicago
Guffey
John P. Barnes
NRA
Barnes
Truax-Traer Company
North Is Hit By Cold Wave
A new cold wave spread across the nation with snow sleet rain and floods. The Dakotas Minnesota Wisconsin Iowa and parts of the Great Lakes saw frigid air and near zero temperatures. A sleet storm hit the Northeast with ice on eastern highways and driving hazards.
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Chicago
Dakotas
Minnesota
Portins
Wisconsin
Iowa
Missippi
Ohio
Great Lakes
Middlewest
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
New York
New England
Man in Tenth Year of Semi Coma in Springfield
William H. Lord, 64, living in a prolonged semi coma for ten years defies most doctors questions. He responds to his wife’s care by taking food and drink, smoking a pipe, and rising from bed daily with help dressing.
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Springfield
Mass
William H. Lord
Lord
Two men charged in death of boy struck by car
In Corpus Christi on January 3, Charles Johnson and Jack Williams were charged with failure to stop and render aid in the fatal hit and run that killed 11 year old Raymond Sykes yesterday.
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Corpus Christi
Charles Johnson
Jack Williams
Raymond Sykes
Mussolini Readies Message With Iron Hand Across Italy
Mussolini’s regime ordered fascist chiefs nationwide to read his 1925 “I am boss” speech a decade after parliament debate. L Oeuvre claimed mutiny near Lugo di Romagna. fascists deny, calling it a periodic mental bracer for public morale amid war risks.
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Rome
Mussolini
Boss
Il Duce
Paris
L’oeuvre
Africa
Lugo di Romagna
Manu Arresia
L Oeuvre
Italian mutiny reported amid African troop movements
The French paper Oeuvre cited an Italian dispatch claiming mutiny and killing of a Fascist militiaman as troops were to be sent to Africa, a claim officially denied in Rome. Meanwhile Ethiopia feared a revolt in northwest Gojjam with 5000 troops sent, Italians accused by Addis Ababa officials.
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Associated Press
Italy
Ethiopia
J Oeuvre
Africa
Rome
Gojjam
Addis Ababa
Mussolini
Four men nabbed in AAA fraud case in Missouri
Springfield Mo Jan 3 AP four of ten men indicted for defrauding the government of more than ten thousand dollars in AAA funds through cattle frauds were arrested on capias warrants. Those taken into custody were Don Clayton federal cattle appraiser Len Wilson L R Noel and P B E Mitchell.
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Springfield
U.P
Don Clayton
Len Wilson
Ll. R. Noel
P. BE. Mitchell
Doctor found slain in auto on Chicago’s North Side
Chicago January 3 Summerdale police announced that Dr. Silber Peacock a prominent pediatrician who disappeared after answering a telephone call was found shot to death in his own sedan on the North Side. A cruising squad found the body in the doctor’s car left from his office at 10 PM Thursday.
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Chicago
Summerdale
Dr. Silber
Peacock
Frank Tlamsa
Dr. Peacock
Ochiltree County votes dry by large margin
Perryton Texas January election results show Ochiltree County voting against liquor sales by more than two to one. With 10 of 12 boxes reporting 139 yes 324 no the dry majority stands, and Perryton also rails against legalization with a single wet lead in one box as voter turnout remains just over 25 percent.
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Perryton
Ochiltree County
Jackson Day Banquet Seats on Sale Today
Tickets for the Jackson Day banquet to be held next Wednesday night go on sale today. A special committee, named yesterday, will handle reservations for Amarillo and Panhandle party leaders. All Democrats in the region are invited with women voters among those extended invitations. Speakers include Senator Clint Small, Gene Howe, H. L. Adkins, Riley Strickland, and Judge R. E. Underwood as toastmaster. Music by the Melody Maids orchestra.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
The
Clint Small
Gene Howe
H. L. Adkins
Riley Strickland
R. E. Underwood
Melody Maids Orchestra
Jay Taylor
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