Senate Suspends Sergeant at Arms Over Article
The Senate suspended David S. Barry, its sergeant at arms, for writing an article implying lawmakers sold their votes. A judiciary committee will handle the case as Walsh and others propose sending the matter to district attorneys for review. Barry admitted writing the piece and said he would have received 250 for it.
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Washington
Senate
David
Barry
Judiciary Committee
Walsh
Mont
District of Columbia
District of
New York
Watson
Norris
Neb
LaGuardia
Frank Tichenor
New Outlook
Reed
David S. Barry
The
Tichenor
Fort Worth Police Seek Hardy Thief After Dog Nabbing
Fort Worth Texas police hunt a bold thief who grabbed Mrs Dan Smiths Boston bull during a wrestling clash with the snarling dog and escaped with the animal under his arm.
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Fort Worth. Tex
Dan Smith
Boston
Nine Die Asylum Fire At Wickliffe SantaRium
A suburban Wickliffe sanitarium dormitory fire killed nine women patients and injured others. Authorities probed arson after finding kerosene and kindling near the cottage, while eight bodies were identified and a ninth remained missing.
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Cleveland
INS
Ridgecliff
Wickliffe
Lottie Roback
Helen Kovack
Agnes Dorrington
Loraine Dean
Fannie Laundon
Ethel R. Zipp
Mary Bennett
Isabel McBride
New Castle
Gladys Fraser
Huston Heads Iowa Inaugural Delegates
Washington AP Rear Admiral C. T. Grayson announced Iowa inaugural committee members including Charles D. Huston John H. Kelly Edward G. Dunn Mrs E T Meredith General Mat tinley John T Sullivan E H Pollard Daniel F Steck William O Keefe and Justice R F Mitchell from Fort Dodge Cedar Rapids Des Moines Sioux City Ottumwa Clinton Fort Madison Waterloo and Fort Dodge.
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Washington
C. T. Grayson
Iowa
Charles D. Huston
Cedar Rapids
John H. Kelly
Sioux City
Edward G. Dunn
Mason City
E. T. Meredith
Des Moines
Mat Tinley
Council Bluffs
John T. Sullivan
Waterloo
E. H Pollard
Fort Madison
Daniel F. Steck
Ottumwa
William O
Destruction of Good Luck Tokens Aims to End Slump
In Chicago the thirteen members of an anti superstition society began a campaign to destroy all good luck charms amulets and talismans to help lift the current depression.
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Chicago
Anti-Superstition Society
Senate Votes for Repeal of Annual Audit
In Des Moines the Senate approved a repeal bill 33 to 10 to end the mandatory outside audit of state institutions. The measure, opposed earlier, followed hours of debate after House action. Senate leaders cited cost savings and increased efficiency as key aims.
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Senate
La Guardia Urges Lower Interest to Save Homes
Rep. La Guardia of New York told the House that lowering interest could save homes and farms after Iowa farmers resisted foreclosures. Franklin Fort warned state legislatures against tampering with mortgage terms, saying excessive interference could halt new lending.
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Washington
la Guardia
New York
House
Iowa
Boston
Franklin W. Fort
Federal Home Loan Board
Fort
Nebraskan Named to Radio Board by Hoover
Washington AP President Hoover named John Jensen of Nebraska to the radio commission and reappointed Eugene Sykes of Mississippi to continue as radio commissioner Jensen is a professor at Nebraska Wesleyan University
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Washington
Hoover
John ©. Jensen
Nebraska
Radio Commission
Eugene Sykes
Mississippi
Jensen
Nebraska Wesleyan University
Seek Maniac Or Slave Gang In Brutal Murder Of School Girl
Mary Helen O Connor 15-year-old high school student and beauty contest winner is found murdered near Mineola. Police pursue two ransom notes skin fragments a scarred fingerprint and a scratched face clue amid fears of a maniac or white slave ring involvement. Investigators and the bereaved father press for leads as a large search covers two miles around the crime scene and East New York questioning a woman seen with the victim.
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Mineola
N. Y
Mary Helen ‘O'Connor
Long Island
Collings
Starr Faithfull
James J. O'Connor
Rockaway Park
Floral Park
East New York
Hitler owed rise to bluff that led to papen chancellorship
Berlin dispatch reports that Adolf Hitler's rise to chancellor was aided by a bluff circulated by General Kurt von Schleicher. Schleicher denied plans for a coup, but a confederate said friends spread rumors to pressure Hindenburg's circle not to name Franz von Papen. The scheme aimed only to influence, not arrest or seize power.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Kurt von Schleicher
United Press
von Schleicher
von’ Schleicher
Paul von Hindenburg
Franz von Papen
von Papen
von Hindenburg
Col
Oskar von Hindenburg
Hoover Extends Bank Credit Act
President Hoover signed an extension to March 3, 1934 of a credit act allowing Federal Reserve banks to advance funds to member banks with $5,000,000 capital or less on demand or promissory notes. The measure originally would expire in 1933 to improve Federal Reserve facilities during exceptional circumstances.
Senate Votes Restriction On Imports
The Senate voted 41 to 12 to require government departments to buy American made materials and supplies where possible. Foreign materials may be used if U S production is not sufficiently available in quantity or quality. The Johnson amendment, attached to a Treasury post office bill, awaits House acceptance.
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Washington
Senate
United States
Johnson
Calif
Treasury-Post Office
House
Reed
Rep
King Carol Acts 10 Halt Oil Dispute
King Carol of Roumania signs decrees placing Bucharest and the Ploesti oil district under a military state of emergency after widespread labor unrest and strikes. Parliament backed the move after a late night debate, empowering the crown to declare emergency countrywide if needed.
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Bucharest
Roumania
Carol
Ploesti
Senate
Wallace Again Mentioned for Job in Cabinet
President elect Roosevelt nears end of Warm Springs cabinet talks as he plans a Jacksonville departure and a ten day southern cruise. Rumors link Henry Wallace of Iowa to agriculture while Hull as secretary of state and Glass as treasury appear likely, with others fringe names and gaps left for March announcements.
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Warm Springs
INS
Roosevelt
Jacksonville
Fla
Vincent Astor
Henry Wallace
Iowa
Farm Paper
Warren G. Harding
Wallace
Cordell Hull
Tennessee
Carter Glass
Virginia
Treasury
Thomas J.walsh
Montana
James A. Farley
New York
Eneral
Bronson Cutting
New Mexico
Frances Perkins
Labor
Tate
War
Navy
Commerce
Nourmahal
Swager Shirley
Guarded Bandit Suspect In Hospital
Coffeyville Kansas police reported J. E. Coleman, linked to four banks robbers, being treated under guard in a local hospital after injuries from a posse clash in Holt Missouri and the Knoxville kidnapping of two officers. Chief Noel confirmed the identification and police ties to Earl Doyle.
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Coffeyville
Kan
Kansas City
Holt
Knoxville
G. W. Noel
J. E. Coleman
Earl Doyle
Plane crash kills three officers near Villahermosa Tabasco
A military transport went down twenty five miles north of Villahermosa Tabasco reporting the deaths of Colonel Manuel Jiminez Mendoza Major Andres Soto Bermudez the pilot and Major Ismael Aduana.
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Mexico City
INS
Villahermosa
Tabasco
Manuel Jiminez Mendoza
Andres Soto Bermudez
Ismael Aduana
Sandino Seeks Peace Then Returns To Nicaragua Palace
General Augusto Sandino, after promising peace, flies to Managua and sleeps in the National Palace before meeting President Juan Bautista Sacasa. He vows peace as U.S. Marines withdraw, leaving terms undisclosed and a new era to begin.
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Sandino
Nicaragua
National Palace
Managua
Augusto Sandino
Juan Bautista Sacasa
United States
Sacasa
Will Rogers on debts and national worries
Will Rogers argues that debts are paid and lawmakers focus on myths. He contends unemployment and hunger matter more than debts, yet the public remains fixated on debt as the dominant issue. He asserts temporary debt settlement softens urgency and urges prioritizing real hardships.
MacDonald to Head Britain's War Debt Negotiations
London report says the cabinet formed a five man committee led by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald to handle talks with the United States on war debt revision. Members include Neville Chamberlain Sir John Simon Walter Runciman and Branley Baldwin to advise the government on the Baldwin settlement and the world economic conference. The cabinet tied discussions to not altering reparations or delaying debt payments and expected no meeting before mid-summer at the earliest.
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London
United States
J. Ramsay’ MacDonald
Neville Chamberlain
Branley Baldwin
America
John Simon
Walter Runciman
Board of Trade
Baldwin
Ees
MacDonald
Geneva
Express
Farm Aid Co op Leader Urges Mortgage Moratorium
Former North Carolina Governor Angus W. McLean and William H. Settle of Indianapolis testified before senate committees. McLean urged a two year moratorium on farm mortgage foreclosures financed by a 1.0 billion dollar Reconstruction Finance Corporation loan to farmers to pay taxes and installments. He warned schools risk closure and a breakdown in rural areas. Settle pressed for a domestic allotment farm price raising bill amid rural apathy and distress.
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Senate
Angus W. McLean
North Carolina
William’ H. Settle
Indianapolis
Farmers’ National Grain Corporation
McLean
Daladier Government Wins Confidence Vote In Parliament
In Paris the new Daladier cabinet secured a confidence vote 370 to 200 in the chamber of deputies. Socialists backed the ministry to observe the budget program before risking a move to overthrow.
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Paris
Edouard Daladier
Chamber of Deputies
Daladier
Pickets Fire On Milk Truck In Sioux City Violence
Four men were wounded in a Sioux City milk war flare up when pickets fired on a truck carrying 1,000 gallons of milk. R D Markell 68 Elk Point and his sons Keats 32 and another, and Niel Cochran 39 Moville were hurt. the elder in serious condition. Sheriff Collins said about 100 pickets blocked the road with poles and logs across the Sioux River crossing. the truck was escorted by Elk Point officials who pleaded to pass.
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Sioux City
R. D. Markell
Elk Point
D. Harry ‘Markell
Keats Markell
Niel Cochran
Moville
Markell
Cocheran
Sioux River
South Dakota
Markells
Collins
Cires
Cervenet
Snarkell
North
Harry
Iowa Farm Foreclosure Relief Bill In Conference
Des Moines AP reports the Iowa legislature works through a conference committee to reach a compromise on farm foreclosure relief. A proposed amendment would require district court approval of arbitration decisions, while the original house plan would suspend foreclosures during arbitration without court approval. Both chambers previously failed to agree, prompting Saturday session to settle the measure.
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Des Moines
Senate
General Assembly
House
State Highway Commission
Conference
Byers
Iowa
Farmer's voice heard six miles across Kentucky hills
Danville reports farmer Lee Christman, 30, stood atop a summit and yelled. Neighbors six and a half miles away heard his cry, faint but clear, as he tested his vocal power during a quiet night. He notes his cattle waking at dawn to the sound.
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Danville
Lee Christman
Christman
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