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Newspaper
Bowie Booster
Location
Bowie, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1936
Page
2
Howard R. Tolley and other farm leaders urged a Washington push to replace the AAA with a new farm program based on production control and subsidized soil conservation. Proposals include cash grants for acreage transfers, land adjustments, and financing through restored processing taxes as excises.
A unanimous Supreme Court ruling requires refunding $200 million in taxes impounded by courts to the taxpayers. The decision clears the Bankhead cotton net case review but avoids ruling on whether processors must prove absorption of the tax before recovery. Louisiana rice millers filed the suit. district court likely first to address. Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia and a Roosevelt-era fee face a separate challenge.
WPA AdministratorARRY L. HOPKINS issues rules to state officials to guard WPA workers from dishonest private employers. He outlines policy on private or contract work under other federal departments, requiring full time hours standard wages alignment with unions and a return option to WPA after temporary jobs.
The government charged OHN J. RASKOB and Pierre S. duPont with arranging fictitious losses through mutual security sales in 1929 to reduce taxable income. Raskob called the filing tyranny and cheap politics and suggested the brief timed to precede the American Liberty League dinner on January 25 where Alfred ...
The 1936 Democratic National Convention was awarded to Philadelphia by the national committee for 200000 plus prizes. Chicago and San Francisco bid with 150000 and 202500 respectively before Philadelphia won. Opening day was set for June 23.
Rano Hauptmann, slated for the electric chair January 17 for the Lindbergh kidnapping and murder, continues his fight through counsel to stave off death. The New Jersey Governor Hoffman and the state court of pardons refused clemency after new evidence was reviewed. Defense plans to seek U S Supreme Court action. Hauptmann insists he told the truth and denies involvement by Isador Fisch, the German furrier linked to the ransom money.
The Vinson-Patman-McCormack bill moves through the House to accelerate immediate veteran bonus payments with 8 percent interest until 1945 and loan interest relief, while the Senate offer by Pat Harrison proposes a $50 bond payment cashable on demand.
Miguel Mariano Gomez won the Cuban presidency defeating Gen. Mario Menocal by a slender margin. Gomez aged forty five, former mayor of Havana, secured army support as women voted for the first time in Cuba. The election was noted for its unusually tranquil conduct.
Ethiopian rains stop Italian operations for weeks as heavy downpours wash out roads and trigger landslides. Observers say fighting may pause, with the big rainy season due in May. Mussolini pushes fresh troops while a League oil embargo decision looms. Red Cross delegates warn they may withdraw if Italy bombs them. Nye probes Morgan and Lamont over World War I loans in a tense Senate hearing with bank officials responding to charges.
Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois opposes the administration's neutrality bill, arguing it would shut Middle Western markets from world commerce. He proposes alternative rules giving the President power to embargo shipments but requires Senate input, and he urged local business groups to back his stance.
London talks near collapse as Japan demands parity in total tonnage before any accord. Admiral Na gano presses for equality, stalling info sharing on shipbuilding while Eden engages. Delegates fight over core issue amid broader naval limits debate.
The States line freighter Iowa with a crew of thirty four perished after breaking up on Peacock spit at the river mouth. Coast guard vessels from Astoria and Cape Disappointment could not reach the steamer in time amid high seas. Captain Edgar L. Yates of Portland commanded the vessel on its New York voyage.
Howard Hughes set a cross country air record from Los Angeles to Newark in 9 hours 27 minutes 10 seconds, surpassing Col Roscoe Turner. Hughes flew 2450 miles at 260 mph aided by oxygen and a supercharged engine.
Earl Godwin argues the Supreme Court’s AAA ruling endangers farm welfare and national policy. He warns six justices misjudge agriculture as local and cites Roosevelt’s New Deal gains, urging a strong central government to counter concentrated wealth and restore public protections.
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