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Newspaper
Bowie Booster
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1936
Page
2
The Supreme Court invalidates the Agricultural Adjustment Act as unconstitutional, striking down processing taxes and farm benefit contracts. Roosevelt aides and Congress rush to craft new measures while the budget and New Deal programs face upheaval. Lindberghs relocate to Wales amid heightened security and international rumor.
Federal Judge John P. Barnes of Chicago issues a temporary injunction against federal tax collection under the Guffey coal act. The order blocks part of the law pending Supreme Court rulings on similar cases from Carter Coal in Washington and Tway Coal in Louisville.
As PWA administrator Ickes spoke in Brooklyn at the groundbreaking for the $12,783,000 Williamsburg slum clearance project. He denounced opponents of the New Deal as coupon clipping gentry and reactionists. He cited 47 active PWA demonstration projects and 11,000 people already benefiting from federal housing, with first developments to be occupied in spring.
Britain will extend sanctions against Italy to oil coal iron and steel as Eden heads to Geneva for the League of Nations council meeting on January 20. The cabinet meanwhile strengthens Africa defenses and seizes Mediterranean troop liners with the Scythia already sailing with troops for Alexandria. Haile Selassie formally protests Italian use of poison gas and the bombing of a Red Cross ambulance. Sweden considers action after a Red Cross meeting in Stockholm. The Rome government defends the air raids citing beheaded Italian aviators and Ethiopian sheltering under Red Cross symbols.
EW tax levies exceeding 350 million dollars a year began New Year’s Day after delayed rates from a late congressional session. The unemployment insurance and old age pensions act is expected to raise about 240 million on industrial payrolls. Other increases include 50 million on individual returns, 40 million corporate tax, 25 million gift tax, and 30 million intercorporate levy. Twelve people die in British airliner crash off Alexandria Egypt. Pilot Vernon G Wilson the sole survivor. One American victim is James C Luke of Philadelphia.
The piece argues budget balance is near if Congress and the Supreme Court don’t block it. It cites 1936–37 figures: outlay about 5.06 billion, receipts about 5.654 billion, with relief costs pushing deficits toward a billion. It credits Roosevelt policy for stabilizing banks, boosting national income, and expanding mail and air service, while critiquing opposition from Republicans including Alf Landon, who is portrayed as fluctuating on New Deal measures.
Quilt patterns titled Nursery Rhymes feature four 9inch blocks on bleached quilting material of good quality. Embroidery is outline stitch with color options. outfit No. 491 offered for 10 cents. Send stamped self addressed envelope to Home Craft Co Dept A Nineteenth and St Louis Ave St Louis MO for info.
Government records show 1865 native population on reservations at 204574 rising to 320454 by 1938 after a low. overall Indigenous population in United States and Canada now 443365, over half of prehistoric estimates.
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