House Passes Massive World War II Cash Bonus Bill
The House approved the Vinson-Patman-McCormack cash bonus bill by 355 to 58, backing immediate payment of veterans certificates totaling about 3.46 million veterans and 3.5 billion dollars. Proponents argue a $1 billion net cash outlay, with currency expansion opposed by inflationists led by Rep. Patman. The measure now goes to the Senate for a vote before next week’s end.
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House
Senate
Roosevelt
Allen T. Treadway
Massachusetts
Vinson-Patman-McCormack
Wright Patman
Texas
United Front
Patman
Morgan Denies He Upset Exchange During Wartime
John Pierpont Morgan testified before the Senate munitions inquiry denying his firm manipulated the foreign exchange market in 1915 to push the Wilson administration to alter neutrality policy. He rejected claims that Afting of an American embargo on loans to the Allies was driven by his bank and insisted no such manipulation occurred.
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Ronald G. van Tine
Washington
John Pierpont Morgan
Senate
Wilson
House of Morgan
United States
Morgan
Exchange
the Treasury
William G. McAdoo
J. P. Morgan & Co
J. P. Morgan
IT MORE TO JOIN PARLEY IF JAPS QUIT
London reports indicate if Japan withdraws from the naval conference the talks will not collapse but expand to a six power parley including Germany and Soviet Russia. Britain and the United States are said to have agreed to revisit Japan's demand for equality, with Eden hosting a luncheon for William Phillips as talks proceed.
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Lloyd Lehreas
Associated Press
London
Japan
Germany
Soviet Russia
Great Britain
United States
Anthony Eden
William Phillips
United States Department of State
Egypt Joins In Protests Over Italian Bombings
Egypt announced it would protest Italy over bombing of Red Crescent ambulance units near Daggah Bur and at Dolally on the East African front. Prince Ismail Daoud, head of Red Crescent, reported another ambulance detachment attacked by eight Italian planes. Ethiopia also protested to the League of Nations demanding a survey of Fascist actions.
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Roy P. Porter
Associated Press
Egypt
Ethiopia
Sweden
King Puad
Cairo
Italy
Egyptian Red Crescent
Daggah Bur
Ismail Daoud
Dolally
Daoud
Red Crescent Organization
American Red Cross
League of Nations
Secretary Hull allows deletion from neutrality bill
Secretary of State Cordell Hull consented to delete a phrase from the administration neutrality bill that some senators feared would enable the United States to ally with the League of Nations. He told the Senate committee he would not object to removing the phrase if it might empower the President to align the country with the League in sanctions against belligerents.
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Washington
U.P
Cordell Hull
United States
League of Nations
Hull
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Representative Wesley Lloyd Dies at Home in Washington
Washington, Jan. 10 Representative Wesley Lloyd of Tacoma died early today at his home from a heart attack. Secretary Dorothy Kellogg said Lloyd’s sister and his daughter Mary Jane, recently entered high school, were with him. His wife and two young children were in the West. Lloyd was a Democrat who had served in both the present and seventy third Congress and was assistant to the Democratic whip for the fifteenth regional district.
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Washington
Wesley Lloyd
Tacoma
Wash
Dorothy Kellogg
Lloyd
Mary Jane
Oregon
California
GRID PLAYER AT STANFORD IN HOSPITAL
Dale Beedle Stanford football tackle who helped win the Rose Bowl on New Year’s Day is confined at Agnew State Hospital. An insanity warrant was issued after he was removed from a northbound train in California. Beedle’s condition, said to stem from overwork and worry, is not linked to football injuries.
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San Jose
Calif
Dale Beedle
Stanford University
Agnew State Hospital
Miami
Ariz
Beedle
E. C. Mullins
Agnew
Arizona
Stanford
Ethel Barrymore Confined to Bed in New York
Miss Ethel Barrymore, noted actress, is confined to bed in Mamaroneck New York after a knee injury suffered three weeks ago in Ohio. She has refused visitors and carried on with a Baltimore performance while her leg was in a cast after a fall or collision on a train between Chicago and Cleveland.
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Mamaroneck
N. Y
Ethel Barrymore
Ohio
Baltimore
Miss Barrymore
Chicago
Cleveland
Joint federal and state plan to regulate gas industry
The Federal Trade Commission urged Congress to form a broad joint plan to regulate the $2.5 billion natural gas and pipeline sector. It calls for coordinated federal and state action to conserve gas, curb monopolistic practices, and separate gas from electric utilities while respecting state prerogatives.
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Washington
Congress
Federal Trade Commission
Commission
Bryan would have saved ten million in war loans says Brisbane
Arthur Brisbane notes in The Globe that had William J Bryan been elected instead of Woodrow Wilson as president the US might have avoided financing loans abroad. Morgan and partners show Bryan opposed shipping American funds overseas. Overruled by Wilson, bankers profited from lending with commissions on every loan.
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Arthur Brisbane
America
Globe
Brisbane
J. Pierpont .Morgan
William J. Bryan
Woodrow Wilson
Bryan
Sooner Singer Joins Metropolitan Opera Debuts Des Grieux
A Oklahoma born tenor Joseph Benton wins a Metropolitan Opera contract after a midweek illness of Richard Crooks opened a Des Grieux role. Benton, who declined a Rhodes scholarship 13 years earlier, debuts tonight in Manon amid sudden feature billing. Louis Hasselmans calls his voice marvelous and says fate helped him progress.
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New York
Metropolitan Opera
Joseph Benton
Benton
University of Oklahoma
Metropolitan
Apex of
Opera
Des Grieux
Massenet
Manon
Louis Hasselmans
Chance
Richard Crooks
Edward Johnson
Johnson
Charles Kullman
Crooks
Hasselman
Pickford and Fairbanks End Long Marriage
Hollywood January 10 The decree ending the 15 year marriage of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks was due to be finalized today after a year of interlocutory status. With the year lapsed no legal barriers remained to new romances for the former couple as speculation swirls over Pickford marrying Buddy Rogers and other possible matches.
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Hollywood
Calif
Mary Pickford
Douglas Fairbanks
Filmland
Miss Pickford
Charles
Buddy) Rogers
Weather Forecast for Amarillo and West Texas
Amarillo and vicinity forecast fair tonight with Saturday partly cloudy and a low around 36 degrees. West Texas partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with colder air in the east central area. New Mexico fair tonight and Saturday with cooler conditions in the northeast and extreme south central. Temperature extremes today from 38 to 52. FHA Loans. Long-Bell Lbr, Co.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
FDR Extends Gold Act Fund for One Year
President Roosevelt signs a proclamation to extend the $2 billion stabilization fund under the Gold Reserve Act for another year. He cites ongoing international monetary instability and unsettled conditions in commerce and finance as the reason for renewal.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Morgenthau
Roosevelt outlines farm program base on production control and soil
President Roosevelt named production control and soil conservation as foundation stones for a new farm program amid Supreme Court action on the AAA. He dismissed export subsidies and urged a domestic allotment with soil conservation, while Wallace led farm leaders in formulating a plan. Delegates urged a program resembling AAA, with five major agricultural groups coordinating to guide policy.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
AAA
NRA
Callawry
Wallace
New Deal
American Farm Bureau Federation
The
National Grange
American Agricultural Editors’ Association
Farmers National Grain Corporation
National Co-Operative
Bombs injure dozen Cubans in Santiago attacks
A dozen people were wounded in a series of bomb blasts in Santiago, Cuba, on election day. Several devices exploded before polls opened, damaging a party leader's office and wounding a political agent. Police seized four bombs in a cafe as security forces deployed island wide on continuous duty.
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Edmund A. Chester
Havana
Santiago
Cuba
Cesar Camacho Cocani
Marianista
Baula
Pina del Rio
Oil Surge Boosts Mid-Continent Crude Prices Across Regions
Crude prices jump in the Mid-Continent as Sun Oil raises Texas crude. Seven states see direct premium payouts from 5 to 20 cents per barrel and producers gain about 228000 dollars in premiums on the first day of proration. California faces indirect effects as activity lifts.
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Tulsa
Okla
U.P
Sun Oil Company
Texas
Mid-Continent
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Kansas
Louisiana
Arkansas
Wyoming
Pettus
United States
California
Three Directors Appointed to Texas Safety Campaign
Governor Allred designated the Texas safety council as the cooperative agency for a nationwide highway safety drive and named three directors. Gus F. Taylor of Tyler Freeman Burford of Dallas and Mrs Janes Mc Callum of Austin join ex officio chairman Captain J D Moffett of the highway patrol. The council will work with the national safety council to cut traffic fatalities in Texas this year.
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Austin
Allred
Texas Safety Council
A. C. Baldwin
Gus F. Taylor
Tyler
Freeman Burford
Dallas
Janes. McCallum
J. D. Moffett
Highway Patrol
National Safety Council
Texas
Potter County WPA Projects To Begin Monday
Two highway construction jobs in Potter County will start Monday providing work for about 500 men. One 11 mile eastward reconstrucion on Highway runs from Williams Street to Washburn. the other widens No 5 from the gas plant to seven miles north. Contracts total 179000 and 66000 dollars. Cocke Braden Amarillo will manage both. WPA labor preferred with wage scales from 30 to 75 cents per hour. Projects run to June with priority over other WPA work in the county. Trucks and materials ready for start. Old paving will be removed and a wider surface laid.
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Potter County
Williams Street
Santa Fe
Tenth Avenue
Washburn
No. 5
Cocke & Braden
Amarillo
W. W. Braden
Braden
A. A. Meredith
WPA
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Parks Board
Temple
D. E. Colp
Texas Parks Board
San Antonio
Colp
Robert H. Parham
Directors For Safety Campaign
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