Small Business Conference Signals Anti-New Deal Demands
Washington reports a group of administration small business men presenting to President Roosevelt a report of anti-New Deal resolutions from two sessions. The 11-member committee will submit the proceedings, highlighting divides with big and little business on wage hours, housing, anti trust, labor relations, social security, capital plans, and financial policy.
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Washington
U.P
Small Business Men's Conference
Roosevelt
Daniel C. Roper
Snow White
Fred Roth
Cleveland
Ohio
Big Business
Little Business
Associated Press
NRA
Georgia Passes County Option Liquor Bill
Governor E D Rivers signed a county option liquor bill ending Georgia prohibition. The measure, approved in a special session, leaves four states still dry Kansas Oklahoma Mississippi and Tennessee. Rivers said Georgians will gain respect for law while prohibition foe W W Gaines lamented the change.
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Atlanta
E. D. Rivers
Georgia
Kansas
Oklahoma
Mississippi
Tennessee
Rivers
W. W. Gaines
Consolidated Forces For Prohibition
Singleton Awarded Rock Masonry House Contract
Neil Singerton builder receives the contract for a solid rock masonry house at 3311 Harrison Street. Owner is Howard C. Bennett of 3402 Washington Street. The structure will be one and a half stories with rock facing. J. C. Berry of Amarillo is the architect.
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Neil Singerton
Harrison Street
Howard C. Bennett
Washington Street
J. C. Berry
Amraillo
Bull and horse battle ends in killing at Elizabeth
A half hour brawl between a bull and a horse in Elizabeth Illinois left the horse with broken ribs and extensive wounds that forced its destruction.
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Elizabeth, Ill
U.P
Oil Workers Strike in Manila Amid Gasoline Shortage
About a thousand employees at four major oil firms in the Philippines walked out defying President Quezon. The boycott halted distribution and threatened a Manila gasoline famine as talks over wage increases continue and police and army readiness is announced.
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Manila
P. I
U.P
Commonwealth
Manuel L. Quezon
Standard Oil Company
Texas Oil Company
Associated Oil Company
Asiatic Petroleum Company
Quezon
Philippine Army
Cat Receives Medal for Saving Two Women
In Chicago on February 4 a black and white tomcat named Skippy earned a bronze medal for saving two women from gas asphyxiation. The cat alerted sleeping Mrs. Anna Augustine and Mrs. Mary Luppert, who later revived after the rescue with help. The award was given by Dr W A Young of the anti cruelty society under the American Humane Association.
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Chicago
Skippy
Anna Augustine
Mary Luppert
Traveling tax inspector logs long Nevada duty voyage
Carson City Nevada reports that Liquor Tax Inspector William Kelly Klaus has spent 81 000 miles traveling in the line of duty over two and a half years in office, a distance more than three times around the world.
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Carson City
Nev
U.P
Nevada
William Kelly Klaus
New Safety Feature From Plane Crash Hints at Reform
In San Diego a board of inquiry investigates a collision of two bombing planes during a night maneuver in a squall. Eleven sailors died as one aircraft burst into flames and sank after the planes locked wings. Four crew leaped to parachutes and were rescued.
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San Diego
Calif
U.P
Navy
Charles A Blakely
Boy Is Given to Mother But He Keeps Running Away
A 12 year old boy repeatedly fled his Brookyn home despite a court order awarding custody to his mother Rose Frankel. He was found on the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge by a newspaper employee as he again escaped from his father Julius Frankel of Linden New Jersey. A special detective is assigned to searches and the boy has threatened to kill himself.
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New York
Howard Frankel
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Brooklyn Bridge
Tion
New Jersey
Hudson
Julius Frankel
Linden
N. J
Chancery
Rose Frankel
WPA Officials Propose $1.1 Billion Relief Request
WPA leaders inform FDR and congressional chiefs they seek 1.1 billion dollars for the next fiscal year starting July 1. Administration aides advise trimming to 1.0 billion from 1.5 billion the current year. Legislators expect a spring reply and note 45 million remains with five months to go. Secretary Morgenthau says no extra WPA funds before July, but a separate farmers aid appropriation could be needed.
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Capitol
WPA
Morgenthau
Rustic Island School for Navy Kids on Yerba Buena Island
A single room school on Yerba Buena Island near the Bay Bridge Tunnel serves 14 children of navy personnel with Mrs Ursula McLaren as the only teacher. The rustic schoolhouse sits amid trees and brush along a mountainous road as naval families rotate through the post.
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San Francisco
UPA
Yerba Buena Island
Oakland
Bay Bridge
San Francisco Bay
Yerba Buera Island
Oakland Bay Bridge
Navy
Ursula McLaren
Mclaren
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Doherty
Marwin Ator
American Airlines
Ney. Krocers
Juviory
Singleton
Rock Masonry
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Philippines
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Works Progress Administration
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Texas
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U. S. No
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Scott Tissue
SWAN
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Miracle
Doren
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Young Beef T
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Cambridge
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