Daniels May Head Bureau of Transport in Roosevelt Plan
Washington March 9 Josephus Daniels of North Carolina, former Secretary of the Navy, is reported as the likely chairman of a proposed government transport bureau uniting the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Shipping Board and the aviation office. If formed, Daniels would chair the Shipping Board amid expected agency consolidations. In North Carolina, C Leroy Shuping of Greensboro seeks the post of commissioner of internal revenue as the state delegation backs him. Also rep Cullen of New York vows immediate action on a beer tax bill to legalize 3 2 percent beer.
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Washington
Josephus Daniels
North Carolina
Navy
Interstate Commerce Commission
The
Shipping Board
Aeronautics Branch
Commerce Department
Daniels
Raleigh News and Observer
Franklin D. Roosevelt
C. Leroy Shuping
Greensboro
House of Representatives
Cullen
New York
Senate
Ways and Means
Colier
Rainey
Snell
Kvale
Farmer Labor
Minnesota
Hoarded Gold May Be Freed by New Plan
The Federal Reserve expands orders to banks to compile lists of gold hoarders including withdrawals over the past two years. Officials estimate about $750,000,000 in private hoarding exists, with additional gold in financial institution vaults. Lists of withdrawals will aid the plan.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Reserve Banks
Reserve Board
OpenSound Banks Plea for Immediate Currency Expansion
President Beers submits a 500 word message urging Congress to reopen all sound banks and grant executive power to control banks and issue additional currency. He calls for amendments to the Federal Reserve Act and a sweeping public works program to reduce expenditures and provide employment.
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Beers
Toongress Oday
Congress
Capitol
Senate
House of Representatives
United States
Executive Branch
Roosevelt seeks rapid banking and currency expansion plan
President Roosevelt asks Congress for immediate reopening of sound banks and rapid expansion of government money backed by sound securities. Emergency legislation drafted to enact the plan at once, with Rainey elected House Speaker as Congress convenes.
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Congress
Roosevelt
Senate
Robinson
Manchukuo Pressure Grows Along Great Wall Front
Reports from Chin Chow describe Kwantung Army plans for a general attack to destroy remaining Chinese forces in Jehol province. Manchukuoan officials consolidate control as villages are deserted, while propaganda accompanies the advance. An attempt by Chinese troops to retake Kupeikow Pass failed before Major General Tadashi Kawara’s infantry brigade.
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Chinchow
Manchuria
Kwantung
Great Wall
Jehol
Associated Press
China
Kupeikow Pass
Tadashi Kawaara
Jimmy Walker Is Sued for Divorce in Miami
Mrs James J Walker wife of former New York mayor sues for divorce in circuit court Miami Beach on grounds of wilful desertion filed by attorney A Frank Katzentine.
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Miami, Fla
U.P
James J. Walker
New York
A. Frank Katzentine
Miami Beach
Bank moratorium rules waive demurrage for bank holidays
Austin March 9. The state railroad commission notified railroads that days banks are closed during a moratorium count as bank holidays and no demurrage or storage charges may be assessed to shippers for those days.
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Austin
U.P
State Railroad Commission
Weather Report for Amarillo and New Mexico Vicinities
Fair and slightly colder tonight with Friday mostly fair. Far West Texas partly cloudy and cooler tonight and Friday. southeast portion colder. New Mexico generally fair with light winds and Friday colder east and central parts. extreme southeast also colder. Today’s high low readings reached 56 and 32 degrees by 1 PM.
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Amarillo
Vicinnm
Texas
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
Mayor Cermak Dies After Assassination Attempt
Arthur Brisbane notes in The Globe that Chicago Mayor Cermak died after being shot by an assassin. He endured pneumonia, gangrene, colitis and other complications before passing. The piece reflects on Roosevelt and the nation’s banking holiday mood following the event.
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Los Angeles
Cermak
Roosevelt
Ironclad Case On Kidnapers in Denver
Denver police label the kidnaping case of Charles Boettcher II ironclad and say six suspects face federal charges. Two men, Verne Sankey and Gordon Elkhorn, flee toward Canada as officers sweep the Missouri River foothills and monitor Sankey's ranch and a Minneapolis hotel linked to the case.
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Denver
Charles Boettcher II
Albert T. Clark
Verne Sankey
Gordon Elkhorn
Clark
Canada
Arthur Youngberg
Sankey
Chamberlain
Youngberg
Sankey Ranch
Dakota
N. D
Missouri River
Here
Charles Buettcher II
Gordon Best
Minneapolis
Elkhorn
Dead Amid Flames Near Wellsville Farmhouse
Two men were found shot to death in a burning farmhouse near Genessee Pennsylvania just south of Wellsville this morning authorities reported.
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Wellsville
N. Y
Genessee
Penn
Here
Phillips Buys Pride of Baby Steer Entries
Phillips 66 Petroleum paid 66 cents a pound for the 950 pound Grand Champion baby steer at the Amarillo Fat Stock Show auction opening at the Tri State Fair sales arena. Nelson Ainsworth, 4 H Club member from Milnesand New Mexico, expressed regret at the sale.
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Phillips 66 Petroleum Company
Amarillo
Tri-State Fair
Nelson Ainsworth
Milnesand
N. M
Champion steer at Houston Fat Stock Show sells for 50 cents a pound
The 815-pound Hereford Repeater Lad tops the Houston Fat Stock Show auction at 50 cents a pound, 10 cents higher than last year. Eleven-year-old Hazel Hoerster of Art, Mason County, led the steer to George Kelly, restaurant owner, the winning bidder. Breaker, the champion shorthorn from Single ton farm, sold for 16 cents a pound to William Strauss, an insurance man.
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Houston
U.P
Hazel Hoerster
Art
Mason County
George Kelly
Singleton
Midlothian
William Strauss
Auction closes Amarillo Fat Stock Show cattle sale
The Phillips Company bought eight calves with no opposition. Latrice Messick of Plainview earned the Reserve Champion calf at 870 pounds for 25 cents a pound. Lurch Bennett of Amarillo claimed Senior Champion at 1 000 pounds, selling for 10.5 cents per pound. R. R. Pinkney's Amarillo firm bought the Junior Champion at 8.5 cents, and Troy Whatley’s 1,000-pound calf placed fifth at 8 cents. Grover B. Hill returned from Washington and spoke of Amarillo’s status.
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A. M. Hughes
Phillips Company
Bartlesville
Okla
John M. Gist
Odessa
Latrice Messick
Plainview
Lurch Bennett
W. E. Bennett
Amarillo
R. R. Pinkney
Pinkney Packing Company
Pinkney
Melton Sharp
Tulsa
Troy Whatley
Groom
Grover B. Hill
Federal Agricultural Credit Corporation
Washington
Mr. Hill
Three Panhandle Riders Jog Home From Amarillo Horse Show
A trio of Panhandle horse show participants rode home after the Amarillo event. Local riding master Jimmy Hamilton estimates the 30 mile journey took about five hours on horseback, while motorists covered the same distance in about thirty minutes on the highway.
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Panhandle
Amarillo
Jimmy Hamilton
Texas Senate Repeals Headlight Test Certificate Law
The Texas Senate passed a bill by 27 to 2 repealing the headlight test certificate requirement for auto licenses. The measure leaves existing lighting regulations intact and heads to the governor for signature. Other actions included referrals and hearings on foreclosure moratoria, a two platoon fire department plan for cities over 50,000, and a request to Congress to fund Rio Grande water storage to return 400,000 acre feet to the river. Dr. J. H. Brady was confirmed to the State Board of Health.
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Austin
Senate
House
Fire Department
Walter Woodul
Houston
Texas House of Representatives
Congress
Rio Grande
Colorado
Texas
New Mexico
Republic of Mexico
Endorce
L. A. Robinson
Galveston
Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Eddie Cantor
J. H. Brady
el Paso
State Board of Health
Brady
Miriam A. Ferguson
Ralph A. Erickson
Zangara Pleads Guilty In Cermak Assassination Case
In Miami on March 9 Giuseppe Zangara pleaded guilty to murder charges connected to the attempted assassination of President Roosevelt on February 15 and the killing of Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak. The plea was offered with conditions regarding counts as prosecutor Louis Twyman and Judge Thompson presided.
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Miami
Fla
Giuseppe Zangara
Anton J. Cermak
Chicago
Roosevelt
Zangara
Louis F. Twyman
N. Vernon Hawthorne
Twyman
Mayor Cermak
Cermak
Tom Armour
Thompson
Florida
Armour
Bay Front Park
Circulation of Money Rises in February in U S
Money in circulation rose by 906,000,006 to 6,545,716,139 in February. Gold in circulation increased to 571,337,850, per capita circulation jumped to 52.23, highest since 1920. Total money rose from 9,694,125,276 at January end to 10,275,195,545 at February end. Gold holdings fell to 4,379,268,999, with treasury gold at 3,291,684,172.
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Washington
United States
Banks of the Reserve System Compile Hoarding Details
Government lists are being gathered showing exact amounts of gold hoarded and identifying individuals who withdrew it from reserves. The effort aims to quantify access to gold and trace withdrawals by specific persons.
Presses Pour Out New Currency
The government money factory operated at top speed as three shifts of engravers and skilled workers produced hundreds of millions in new federal reserve notes. The notes would be stored in impregnable vaults at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing before distribution via Federal Reserve banks. Another item notes a $35,000 gold coin deposit into a downtown bank vault, the largest single personal gold deposit since the suspension of gold payments.
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Washington
U.P
Federal Reserve
Roosevelt
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
United States
Federal Reserve Banks
New York
Empire Trust Company
Broadway
Roosevelt and Congress agree on new currency plan to restore normalcy
President Roosevelt and congressional leaders reached an accord after midnight aiming to end currency scarcity. The plan issues new money backed by government obligations with safeguards including federal gold checks, a balanced budget, retirement of inherited deficits, a gold hoard release drive by March 13, and redeemable bonds. Senator Carter Glass backed the effort as sound money. The report notes a Wall Street reaction to the czar idea spreading in financial circles.
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Washington
Roosevelt
New
Congress
Carter Glass
Virginia
Banks to Open Here on Friday
Amarillo banks will open Friday at 9 a.m. to render public services allowed by regulations. Clearing House members studied the Roosevelt banking bill and discussed with Federal Reserve officials. Banks may change, receive deposits, cash checks, permit access to safety boxes, and handle checks for food shipments under existing rules.
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Amarillo
Clearing House Association
Congress
Roosevelt
Federal Reserve
Dallas
Treasury
Ferguson
C. E. Oakes Pioneer of Panhandle Dies
C E Oakes a pioneer of the Panhandle and former banker of Dalhart and Channing died at Wichita Falls at 9 am on Thursday. He had lived in Amarillo 35 years and is survived by son Charles E Oakes Jr and three daughters all of Amarillo. Funeral arrangements to be announced by Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home.
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Cc. E. Oakes
Panhandle
Dalhart and Channing
Wichita Falls
Oakes
Amarillo
Charles E. Oakes, Jr
Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home
School teacher and former admirer found slain in Kansas
Miss Beulah Halpain a 25 year old school teacher from Pittsburg Kansas and Zack Collins 27 were killed in a double shooting at Pleasanton Kansas last night. The coroner said the evidence shows Halpain shot Collins then killed herself.
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Fort Scott
Kas
Beulah Halpain
Pittsburg
Worland
Zack Collins
Pleasanton
H. L. Clark
Lacygne
Linn County
Collins
Roosevelt outlines emergency bank bill provisions
President Roosevelt proposes validating existing decrees and re-enacting key powers under the trading with the enemy act. The plan would empower gold reserve controls, bank supervision, quick bank reorganizations, direct loans under Federal Reserve, expanded collateral rules, and Fed note issuance backed by government or private obligations.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United Press
Treasury
United States
Federal Reserve Act
Federal Reserve Banks
Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Bank
France Fears German Rearmament Plans in Talks
Paris reports that France Britain and Germany discuss disarmament and a possible five power conference in Geneva. Daladier meets with McDonald and Simon as fears grow over a German rearmament move. In Berlin Frick appoints NS federal police commissioners tightening Hitler’s control.
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Paris
Germany
McDonald
John Simon
England
Daladier
France
Geneva
Berlin
Hitler
Free States
Wilhelm Frick
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Aviation
Raymond Clapper
Jimmy Walker
Arthur Brisbane
America
Globe
Brisbane
International News Service
Phillips
Hill
Zangeare
Wall Street
FREED
C. E. Oakes
Mewes Erill
M. Daladier
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