Hopkins Outlines Plan For Recovery In Economic Dinner
Secretary of Commerce Harry L. Hopkins outlined a federal business program to foster private investment, urging tax stability and broader capital access. He called for labor cooperation, balanced budgets, and a faster path to recovery, stressing a constructive approach to unions and utilities amid a Tennessee Valley dispute.
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Des Moines
Secretary of Commerce
Harry L. Hopkins
B. F. Kauffman
Des Moines Bank
W. Harriman
N. Y
Union Pacific Railroad Board of Directors
WPA
Hopkins
A. F. L and Co. I. O
Tennessee Valley
Hopkins-See Page 12 Kills Youth and Self in Romance Ruin
In Sutton West Virginia Morgan Blake 27 shot a youth named Bill McNeal about 21 on a Bear Garden road 12 miles from town then killed himself before six witnesses. Sheriff R W Brossious said a note in Blakes pocket read Love is what canned it all.
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Sutton
W. Va
Morgan Blake
R. W. Brossious
Blake
Blade
Bill McNeal
Bear Garden
Cities 10 PREG FIGHT FOR FUNDS
Governor Holt opposes a tax on liquor for city funds as the West Virginia League of Municipalities pushes a joint committee hearing in Charleston. Mayor Snyder and leaders urge statewide participation with Bluefield delegation expected and Holt signaling opposition to redistributing revenue to cities.
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Holt
West Virginia League of Municipalities
William C. Snyer
Charleston
P. G. Meador
League
Snyder
Bluefield
Menany
Eddie Steele
Steele
Senate approves $100 million war materials storage program
The Senate military committee unanimously approved a plan to buy and store up to 100 million dollars in raw war materials over four years. A government board will decide items, with aluminum rubber silk tin wool and other supplies on a long list. Separately Senator Walsh forecast revived Guam base talks but opposition in the Senate remains likely.
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Washington
Senate Military Committee
Thomas
Utah
Walsh D. Mass
Senate Naval Committee
Island of Guam
Senate
Capitol
Walsh
Pacific
House
Andwers Ont Fila
Guam
United States
Philippine Islands
Clark D., Mo
Clark
Woodring
Norweigian sealers reported sinking in icy seas
A 4:45 PM message said two Norwegian sealers, the Nuken and Saltdalingen, were still afloat 300 miles east of Cape Farewell, Greenland. The Scannpenn, Scantpenn rescue ships, and two others rush to aid amid gale and heavy snow, weather delaying rescue.
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New York
Nuken
Saltdalingen
Cape Farewell
Greenland
Scannpenn
Mormacsun
Cairnross
Hungary cracks down on Hungarist party amid anti Red pact
Budapest reports premier Teleky outlawed the Hungarist party as a threat to public safety and ordered mass raids. Police seized hundreds of leaders and documents while Foreign Minister Csaky signed an anti Comintern pact aligning Hungary with Germany Italy and Japan to combat communism.
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Budapest
Hungary
Germany
Paul Teleky
Stephen Csaky
Italy
Japan
Manchoukuo
Nicholas Horthy
Franz Keresztes - Fischer
Teleky
Berlin
West Virginia considers numbers bill amid beer control debate
State Senate passed the governor's numbers bill by 27 to 2, aiming prison terms and fines for the numbers racket. House rejected four beer control changes while a separate measure to impose Sunday and night-time marriage license prohibitions advanced. Senator Smith urged fairness for the poor and a decent bill.
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State
Senate
House
Charleston
W. Va
Holt
Smith
Marion
Hagg Nem & Judiciary Commit
Sate Retail Beer Dealers Association
Anti-Saloon League
Opao
Neal
Nicholas
Rairden
Mason
Apel House
Liquor Commission
Dewey Denounces Hines Trial Tactics in Policy Case
New York February 24 District Attorney Thomas E Dewey attacked defense witnesses as corrupt and accused them of aiding a powerful politician tied to the Schultz gambling mob. He said ninety percent of the People s case stands like a rock and urged a verdict to expose political corruption. Judge Nott to charge tomorrow. jury likely by noon.
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New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Tammany
James J. Hines
Dewey
Dutch Schultz
Numbers
Havas
Hulon Capshaw
Capshaw
William C. Dodge
Hines
Schultz Lottery
Dewy
Schultz
New
Alance
Nott
Debonair Cleveland Gunmen Sent Up in Paired Robbery Case
Cleveland judge sentences Pey ton and Quentin Cleveland Wilson to 10 to 25 years after they halted their trial by pleading guilty to a robbery. Biloxi aviators posed as wealthy sportsmen while mingling with air race officials and were linked to the January 13 theft of a diamond ring and car from Isabella Bontis. Police tie the Debonair pair to the hold up of a hostess and house guests of a retired British air corps captain.
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Cleveland
Wilson Brothers
Peyton
Quentin
Biloxi
National Air Race
Isabella Bontis
Enna Rang Oe
Lander
Ware
British Air Corps
Daladier Wins Confidence Vote Over Franco Recognition
Paris reporters note Premier Daladier secured a 323 to 261 confidence vote in favor of recognizing the Franco regime as France defends national security. A Burgos accord with the nationalist foreign minister was announced, with details to be released Monday, while Daladier urged quick ambassadorial moves to counter German and Italian influence.
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Paris
Guard Daladier
Secenes
France
Daladier
Britain
Burgos
Leon Berard
Francisco Gomez Jordana
Chamber
Spain
Francisco Franco
Shaw Insults Award Yet Accepts It From Academy
Hollywood reports George Bernard Shaw sniffs at the Academy Award for Pygmalion calling it an insult yet he appears amused by the gesture. Officials note the first Oscar to be engraved was returned to the academy with his name missing before the engraving was redone.
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Hollywood
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
George Bernard Shaw
London
Poer
Academy
George Barnard
German airliner missing with six aboard and four crew
London reports a missing German airliner bound from the Balearic islands to Istanbul after a wireless message from an Italian station. The craft carried six passengers and a four member crew. The discovery came from Land's End radio to Italian controls in the Mediterranean theater.
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London
Land's End
Mediterranean
Balearic Islands
Treasury to boost limits of debt and cut waste
The House approved a 1.700471354 billion appropriation bill for the treasury and post office, with Morgenthau saying the public debt limit may rise to 50 billion dollars. Rep Ludlow hailed the cut as a tonic for business, trimming social security funds and bureaucratic offices as he blamed costly political plums and port surveys for inefficiency.
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Washington
House
Treasury and
Post Office Departments
Morgenthau
Recreens Committee
Treasury Department
Post Office Department
By Bureau
Opations Committee
United States
Ludlow D
Treasury
Congress
Social Security Reserve Fund
Ludlow
Menral
Philadelphia
Baltimore
New Orleans
San Francisco
Chicago
New York
Royal Pair Plan American Visit
King George and Queen Elizabeth plan a U S visit in June with stays at the White House Hyde Park and New York They will travel with about a dozen attendants and servants and be hosted by the president during the trip The tentative schedule includes arrival in Washington June 8 and a visit to the World’s Fair in New York June 10 11 Hyde Park before returning to Canada
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Washington
George
Queen Elizabeth
Hyde Park
New York
United States
White House
Canada
Niagara
Cana
Six Die Nine Hurt in Mexico City Train Crash
Mexico City February 24 Six persons were killed and nine injured in a head on collision of two Mexico City Laredo passenger trains near Vanegas San Luis Potosi.
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Mexico City
Mexico City-Laredo
Vanegas
San Luis Potosi
McCall Dies in Florida Electric Chair in Kidnapping Case
Raiford Fla February 24 Frank Lin Pierce McCall died in Florida's electric chair for the kidnapping and slaying of 5 year old Jimmy Cash. He confessed the $10,000 ransom plot, pleaded guilty in Miami, and declined to admit guilt at execution. He likened himself to Christ while noting his death served no cause.
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Raiford
Fla
Franklin Pierce McCall
Florida
Jimmy Cash
Princeton
McCall
Miami
Christ
Judas Iscariot
Jesus Christ
Jasper
L. F. Chapman
United States Supremé Court
Black
Frankfurter
Chinese Tunnel Chungking Mountain to Escape Bombs
Reported tonight a massive project to tunnel surrounding mountains to shelter 300000 residents of Chungking from Japanese air raids. Officials ordered a quarter of the city razed to reduce fire risk as Lanchow remains a primary target for Japanese raids amid bombing claims.
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Chungking Mountain
Shanghai
Chungking
China
Lanchow
Kansu Province
Four Hurt in Bland County Car Crash Near Hicksville
Mrs. Lester Horton of Coalwood was killed in a head on collision near Hicksville Bland county. Horton husband and two children plus Garnett Lawson and his wife were wounded. Driver Charles A Shaffer of Detroit was jailed as investigators reviewed the crash.
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Lester Horton
Coalwood
Hicksville
Bland County
Bluefield
Jean Horton
Pay Horton
Bluefield Sanitarium
St. Luke's Hospital
U Ted
Garnett Lawson
Lawson
Harry Mabe
Charles A. Shaffer
Detroit
Virginia
A. T. Mayo
A. E. Andes
Shaffer
Philadelphia
Mabe
Roosevelt at Sea Keeps Houston In War Zone Mystery
President Roosevelt spent his sixth day at sea near the South Atlantic fleet maneuvers and kept the Houston, his flagship cruiser, position secret. No word from the Houston suggested it remained in the Atlantic war zone as Armadas tested defenses.
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Miami
Fla
Roosevelt
Houston
Truckman Dead From Carbon Monoxide Gas
Williamson West Virginia February 24 A minor mechanical difficulty that John Lawson 25 of Williamson had with the truck he drove led to his death near there Lawson was found dead in the cab of the parked truck and Sheriff Patton Ratliff of Buchanan County Virginia said he had been asphyxiated by carbon monoxide gas
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Lawson
Patton Ratliff
Buchanan County
Virginia
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America
Harry Hopkins
Hussion
Taylor
Sweeney
Ohio
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R. Preston
Franco
Georges Izard
Shaw
Post Office
Rep. Ludlow
Royal
Stockholm
Sweden
Madeleine Astrid Ingeborg Elsa Elsa
Princess Ingeborg
Enn Charles Bernadotte
McAll
Ghair
H. E
Marie
Big Stone
Wolf Creek
M. T. Jeter
W. M. Albergatti
North Carolina
Bastian
Lf Luke's Hospital
Horton
B . Va
Carter Coal Company
Hillsville
Hortons
Short Creek
Lawsons
Max Meadows, A
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