FDR to Ask Added Cash For Relief
President Roosevelt plans to request an additional 250 million dollars for relief to be directed mainly to hard hit industrial centers including Detroit. The move aims to address winter layoffs in mass production sectors while work relief eligibility remains under review. The plan adds to current year allocations as nearly two million names remain on the rolls and 497 million is available through June.
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Detroit
Washington
Roosevelt
WPA
Sen
Barkley
D-Ky
Rep
Rayburn
D-Tex
Rep. Taylor
D-Cale
Appropriations Committee
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau
Daniel Bell
Aubrey Willams
Alderson Names Appraisal Group for WV UW Survey
Alderson announces a three man West Virginia advisory committee for the unemployment program appraisal. Members include Arthur B. Koontz John A Kennedy Colonel P D B Shingleton and Holt Geta. An invitation was extended to Gov Hall and state officials to join. The aim is to compile results and assess methods of unemployment handling with the WPA acting only as a clearing house.
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West Virginia
UW. 8
J.N. Alderson
Works Progress Administration
Arthur B. Koontz
Charleston
John A. Kennedy
Clarksburg
Uther
Col. P. DB. Shingleton
Atlantic Greyhound Iines
Holt Geta
Alderson
Gov. Hall
State Department
Ade Celebrates 72nd Birthday Quietly in Miami Beach
Hoosier humorist Ade marked his 72nd birthday in Miami Beach saying he does not feel a day over 30. He joked about aging and delaying any public appearances until he is wheeled in. Once ill last year, he now appears in good health though doctors deny him golf, his main pastime in films.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Fie Gieorge Ade
Ade
Japan Faces Anarchy as Japanese Expand in Central China
Shanghai dispatches report grave anarchy in North China as Japanese forces contest the Lung River rail corridor. After expelling Chinese officials, authorities say banditry and civic disorder spread. Peasants suffer hunger while marauding bands terrorize rural areas.
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Shanghai
China
Lungant
Tientsin
North China
House Approves Farm Control Measure
The administration’s crop control plan won House approval by 263 to 135 and sent the bill to the Senate. It aims to smooth farm output for cotton, tobacco, rice, wheat, and corn through production limits, loan incentives, and two thirds referendum marketing controls, plus a proposed $100 million farm management corporation.
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Washington
House
Senate
Senate House Conference Committee
Pere Chambers
Congress
Hage Corporation
U S Steel Extends CIO Contract with Wage Cut Door Open
NEW YORK Feb 9 IAP The vast U S Steel Corp granted the CIO an indefinite extension of its working contract but left a door ajar to possible wage reductions. The pact preserves the present $5 daily minimum while allowing either side to seek revisions within 20 days. failure to agree would end the agreement.
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New York
U. S. Steel Corporation
CIO
Slayer of Sister Freed on Bond
Princeton reports Joseph Greenberg, a 16 year old, released on $5,000 bail after being charged with murder in the fatal shooting of his cousin Dorothy Louise Lavender. Foster parents posted the bond. Greenberg claims the gun was unloaded when the incident occurred. He is to be arraigned in April.
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Princeton
McGrath
Joseph Greenberg
Todey
Tenter
Joseph A. Greenberg
G. H. Crumpecker
Louise Lavender
Pteaneurn
Slur on FDR Triggers House Turmoil in Congress
In Washington on February 8 AP reports a heated scene in the House after Rep Wolcott quoted Carl Sandburg describing Lincoln as a bewildered man, implying the remark applied to President Roosevelt. Democratic Leader Garner Stayburn denounced the attack, while Rep Green defended the president amid the uproar.
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Washington
Congress
Abraham Lincoln
House
Rep. Wolcott
R. Mich
Carl Sandburg
Lincoln
Polk
Palk
Michigan
White House
Wolcott
Stayburn
Rep
Green D.flat
Walcott
Roosevel
State Lashes Wright Plea in Murder Trial
Los Angeles Feb 9 Prosecutor J M Leavy argued to the jury deciding Paul A Wright’s fate that murder in some degree was committed. He challenged Wrights unconsciousness defense and asserted the defendant had specific intent to kill Mrs Wright and John Kimmel. The trial recessed with the defense foreseen to continue on Page 16 Col 6.
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U. S. Steel
Carnegie
Lower Tay
Los Angeles
Calif
J. Miller Leavy
Paul A. Wright
Wright
John Kimmel
Busie ‘Ness
Leavy
Eight Die in Marseille Airliner Crash
In Marseille a trans Mediterranean Air France flying boat rammed the breakwater, exploded, and sank. Six survivors escaped from a trapdoor and were hospitalized with shock and burns. Investigators recovered wreckage and towed it to a landing base. fog and mist were blamed for the crash.
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Marseille
France
Air France
Beautiful Red Head Is Given Her Freedom
PULILADELPNA Feb 90h A charge of being a mutipi ciouz character was dismised today against red-haired Hope Dare Broadway showgirl friend of J Richard Dixie Davis. The girl held in 2500 bail since custody a week ago when Davis and 2 companion George Wein berg were captured in her west Philadelphia apartment. Davis reputed mouthpiece of the late Dutch Schultz and Weinhere failed in default of 300000 baitax fugitives from New Yorks ratchet-busting drive.
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Puiladelpna
New Yorth
Eden May Seek Foreign Troops Evacuation From Spain
London reports say Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden planned a new approach to withdraw foreign volunteers in Spain and win Italian goodwill in a diplomatic sweep. Britain and France weighed reducing volunteers before belligerency rights, while Russia and Britain disagreed on how many should depart. If Mussolini gains a political victory, withdrawal of volunteers could still save Spain from Bolshevism and limit Italian footholds, aiming at a broader accord with Italy.
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London
Anthony Eden
Spain
Italy
Russia
Mary
Mussolini
Morcan
Taly
Spanish
Soviet Union
Barcelona
Eden
House of Commons
Gangland Gunmen Fire in Chicago Heights Bakery
In a bloody foray linked to gambling strife three gunmen killed Sam Costello, 44, and wounded his brother Nick Castello and two others in a Chicago Heights bakery. A fourth victim, costello’s brother, died later. investigators recount the attempted massacre as a staged greeting.
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Chicago
Chicago Heights
Sam Costelo
Sam
Costello
Nick Castello
Nello Bagliat
Joseph Giovanni
Chris Giordano
iPlease
Col
Mother of Gan Girl Slaying Case Heads to Death Penalty
Newark prosecutors prepare to seek first degree murder in a holdup slaying of bus driver William Barhorst by two teens, Ethel Sohl and Genevieve Owens. Sohl, 20, is the daughter of a Newark policeman. McLaughlin cites marihuana cigarettes as motive. Both defendants plead not guilty.
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Gan
Aguinst
Fis Driver
Newark
N. J
William A. Wachenfeld
Ethel “Aunny” Sohl
Genevieve Owens
William Barhorst
Dee
Genevieve
Edward Owens Ishown
Newark, N. J
Ethel Sohl
Loretta
Lett
Doctors Watch Over Capone in Prison Hospital
In San Francisco on February 9 Al Capone, former Chicago gang chief, was under observation by a psychiatrist and two doctors at Alcatraz prison. Reports denied a strait jacket. officials said his condition was unchanged and no restraint was used. The Oakland Tribune claimed Capone lashed out at orderlies and required six men to restrain him. Washington said no attorney hearing or move to a federal institution was planned.
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San
Francisco
T— al Capone
Chicago Bang
Alestraz Prizon
Justice Department
Washington
Oakland Tribune
Cadone
Chicago
Capone
Twins Inside One: Deaths After Prenatal Surgery
Ramsey County Medical Society reports the birth of internal twins in St. Paul. The fully developed infant was removed about two months ago to free the included twin, but neither survived. The smaller twin was attached to the spinal column behind the stomach and organs. Page 16.
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ST. Paul
Ramsey County Medical Society
Horn
Minnesota
Young Man Defies Odds in Fatal Blood Disease Struggle
William Cartledge a 19 year old airplane mechanic in Drexel Hill faces a rare blood infection alaphylococcus aureus. Doctors say the disease is 100 percent fatal with no known recovery yet Cartledge vows to live and fight on after his 24th transfusion and four donor supports including his parents.
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Drexel Hill
William Cartledge
Delaware County
L. W. Broadbelt
Iss
Guid
Slayer Bowers Sentenced to Death in Montgomery County
Wendell Forrest Bowers, 20, Ambler, pled guilty to the December 13 murder in a Montgomery County bedroom and molestation of a companion. In a packed courtroom Judge Harold G. Knight imposed the death penalty, with Gov. George H. Earle to set the execution date at Rockview penitentiary where condemned Pennsylvanians die in the electric chair.
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Norristown
Wendell Forrest’ Bowers
Wilma V. Carpenter
Mary Griffin
Montgomery County
Harold G. Knight
George C. Corson
Wiliam ¥. Dannehower
Bowers
George H. Earle
Rockview Penitentiary
Pennsylvania
Full 9 Month Term Assured by Governor Action
Gov Holt ordered the Budget Director to assist 34 secondary aided counties in raising about 260000 to complete a nine month school term. Letters to county boards and superintendents outline plans to finish the year with no early closing. The action follows a board meeting and a report that a state education official declined county budget revision help.
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Holt
Board of Public Works
Hi Isaiah Smith
Boards of Education
Bia
Saili
Wi N. Trent
State Department of Education
Scientists Sight Greenland Coast
Oslo dispatch reports Soviet four North Pole scientists led by Dr Papanin aboard a drifting ice floe have sighted Greenland's east coast. Weather improving, hope rises for swift rescue as the floe drifts more than 1,000 miles from the pole, endangering their research gear after eight months at sea.
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Oslo
INS
Russia
Greenland
Ivan Patepanin
Norewegian
Papanin
Artic Wastes
Floco
North Pole
Speeder Pleads Love of Mother-in-Law in Court
In New York a Bronx clerk James Knight, 38, argued his speeding was to help his sick mother-in-law sell her home. The magistrate accepted the defense and awarded a suspended sentence after the mother-in-law testified of their mutual affection.
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New York
James Knight
Bronx
Hight
Spain
Kight
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