Britain and US Near Reciprocal Trade Agreement
United States and Britain indicate plans to begin formal negotiations on a reciprocal trade pact. Hull and Walter Runciman, at the White House, say talks could start soon, aiming to lower tariffs and reduce trade barriers for broader international commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Great Britain
Hull
Walter Runciman
British Board of Trade
Runciman
White House
Roosevelt
Senate
Britain
Relatives Safe Amid Flood Vicinity Narratives Reach Louisville
Continued report on flood conditions in Louisville area and surrounding cities. Miss Marjorie Walters seeks news of sister Mrs O Frisbie and family in evacuated zones while relief workers aid victims. News contacts with Magnolia and Shawnee exchanges fail as flood waters rise.
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Marjorie Walters
Harrison School
O. Frisbie
Louisville
Frisbie
John Frisbie
Cypress Street
Walter Frisbie
Tenny Avenue
Miss Walters
Magnolia
Fay Kelley
Linn County Relief Department
Eleanore Kelley
Polk School
Ormsby Village
Kentucky
Ohio
Eleanore Kelly
Frankfort
Fred Luberger
Cincinnati
Clifton
Charles
Mr. Luberger
University of Cincinnati
Balcom Luberger
Second Avenue SE
Flood Refugees Mobilize as Ohio River Crisis Expands
Families in Ohio and Kentucky await word as flood conditions strand relatives across Louisville Paducah Cincinnati and Middletown. Sisters brothers and sons in Pinney Drummey Growther and Long families are among those seeking news while refugees fill homes and roads close.
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R. P. Lehman
Fifth Avenue SE
J. B. Brown
Louisville
Brown
Mr. Brown
Paducah
James Waery
Bethany Congregational Church
C. M. Westerfield
Bever Avenue
W. S. McConnell
O. P. Westerfield
Ross Long
Second Street
Arch
Homer Long
Cincinnati
GM to Distribute Cash to Employees Despite Strike
General Motors will distribute 10.7 million dollars from the employee savings and investment plan to employees despite strike disruption. Alfred P. Sloan Jr. said the fund will aid workers out of work, with 4.2 million contributed by employees and the rest by the company. Part will be cash, part GM stock, and four more plan classes remain to mature.
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New York
INS
General Motors Corporation
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr
Sloan
General Motors
Fourteen Drowned Group Rescued From Mississippi Flood
Ripley Tenn. AP report states fourteen people officially listed as drowned when their house sank into floodwaters near Ripley, but J W Hedgepeth says they were rescued twelve miles west of town moments before the collapse.
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Ripley, Tenn
J. W. Hedgepeth
Ripley
Mississippi
Hedgepeth
Ohio River Fears Rise as Flood Worsens Across Eleven States
The flood zone from Pittsburgh to Cairo tightens as the Ohio River climbs past records. Evacuations surge in Cincinnati and Louisville with 500,000 and 330,000 residents under rationing and martial law discussions. Thousands homeless. 14 refugees drown in Paducah. disease fears prompt immunizations and relief efforts amid 35,000 homeless in Portsmouth and widespread destruction.
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Cincinnati
Health Department
Dykstra
Charles A. Wilson
Indiana Wpa
Hoosier
Portsmouth
Ohio
Pittsburgh
Cairo
Evansville
Indiana
John S. Fishback
National Guard
Lawrenceburg
Ind
New Albany
Jeffersonville
Madison
Aurora
Frankfort
Kentucky
Boone Hamilton
Franklin County
Mississippi
Memphis
Huntington
AAA Rules Outlaws Unadapted Clover Or Alfalfa Seed
A new clause in AAA regulations for 1937 bans un adapted clover or alfalfa seed imported from outside Canada. Rex B. Conn, Linn county soil conservation secretary, reports that using such seed disqualifies the land from any diversion conversion or soil building payments and marks it as soil depleting.
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Canada
AAA
Rex B. Conn
Linn County Soil Conservation Committee
Young rider injured in coast ing accident at country club
Henry Ristedt a 13 year old of 2662 Country Club Parkway SE was internally injured when his sled struck a tree while coasting Monday at 5 30 pm He was taken by ambulance to St Luke s hospital where he remains confined Also noted is the 1935 net premium paid by US motorists for car insurance totaling 446 439 132
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E. M. Pinney
Ridgeway Drive
Charlotte Pinney
Sinclair Avenue
Ethel Pinney Ristedt
Country Club Parkway
Ellen Drummey
Third Street
John Drummey
Ludlow
Cincinnati
Huntington
W. Va
Charles E. Roberts
B Avenue
Dwight Mound
Henry Ristedt
Country Club Parkway SE
Young Ristedt
St. Luke’s Hospital
United States
Linn residents aid flood relief with donations and events
Linn county residents gathered funds for flood relief via a Feb 3 benefit dance at Bill Scanlon's Silver Palace with music by Guy Clark's orchestra and Cathy Hughes. Police and local groups contributed, cash donations reached 60 dollars from the Cedar Rapids force, and a 1500 dollar pledge was sent to the Red Cross. The Marion Red Cross reported 110 dollars as the first installment, and Central City sent 50 dollars to Mrs. Burd.
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Armory
Bill Scanlon
Silver Palace
Red Cross
Guy Clark
Catherine Hughes
Cedar Rapids
Burd
Carpenter’s Local Union
Rotary Club
Pictorial and
Sign Painters’ Union
Townsend Club
Star of the West Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Iowa Mutual Liability Insurance Company
Welch-Cook-Bears Company
Country Club
Jewish Young People’s League
Standard Brands, Inc
Office
Penick and Ford, Ltd
Lincoln School
Jerry Kirchner
American Red Cross
Linn County
Marion
The
Central City
Miserable train evacuation as flood buries refugees
A train carrying refugees fled a floodbound city near Jeffersonville on Monday night. Rescue workers fear hundreds drowned while survivors, including women and children, endured hunger, cold, and fear as waters rose three feet in the yards and boats ferried stranded people toward safety.
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Paducah
Louisville
Jeffersonville
Doings of Congress by the Associated Press
Tuesday Senate meets for routine business Wheeler committee resumes railroad financing inquiry La Follette committee continues labor espionage study House begins consideration of deficiency relief appropriation bill Military committee opens hearings on proposal to take profits out of war Banking committee opens hearings on extending housing modernization act Ways and Means committee continues hearings on reciprocal trade agreement extension Monday Senate in recess House es $50,000,000 crop production loan b
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Senate
Wheeler Committee
la Follette Committee
HOUSE
Banking
Ways and Means
Convicts Huddle In Garage Under Guardsmen's Guns
In Frankfort 800 prisoners from the flood-ravaged state penitentiary huddle inside a 100 by 100 foot garage guarded by National Guardsmen. A tent city is being built nearby to house all 3,005 inmates until cells are habitable again. Several rioters were moved to Eddyville and Lexington facilities. none are confirmed killed. Governor Chandler audits the evacuation.
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Louisville
United States Army
A. B. Chandler
Chandler
Kentucky National Guardsmen
Frankfort
Frankfort State Penitentiary
National Guard
Camp Knox
Eddyville
Federal Narcotics Prison
Reformatory
Lexington
Troop A Cavalry
Kentucky River Valley
J. T. Talbott
House Passes Seed and Crop Loan Fund
The House approved a 50 million seed and crop production loan fund for 1937 and sent it to the Senate without opposition. Farm-area members argued the fund would prevent thousands of farm families from needing relief. Loans up to 400 dollars at four percent interest cover seed purchases crop production and livestock feed.
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Washington
House
Senate
Cincinnati claims bath tub origin amid floodwater woes
In Cincinnati Ohio the flood zone is described with water aplenty yet scarce drinking and bathing water. The tale playfully notes the city’s supposed origin of the bath tub reflecting local humor about the flood's impact.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Trial reveals alleged plot to kill Molotoff in Georgia led by Mdivani
Moscow testimony links Budum Mdivani to a Georgian terrorist group allied with Trotzky followers and planned to crash a truck into an automobile carrying Premier Molotoff. Nikolai Muratoff, a former agriculture commissioner, claims involvement in the 1933 assassination scheme.
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Moscow
V. M. Molotoff
Josef Stalin
Budum Mdivani
Georgia
New York
Prince David Mdivani
Prince David
Mdivani
Tiflis
Karl Radek
L. Serebriakoff
Serebriakoff
Leon Trotzky
Stalin
Morotoff
Nikolai Ivanovitch Muratoff
Red Army
Sween
Muratoff
Molotoff
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