J P System Targets Justice of the Peace Abuses
State tax department proposes limiting justice of the peace fees in garnish ment actions to 4.50 if uncontested and 5 if contested and sets constable fees at 1.50. The bill unifies criminal fees as one case, with separate trials permitted if counts are split. Delegate Bickel endorses a 20 year grade crossing elimination plan funded mainly by railroads. Page 3. Col. 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Tax Department
Sen
Paull
D-Brooke
Tax Department
Bickel
D. Wood
State Road Commission
Paul
D. Brooke
Road Commission
Palm Beach Beauty Vote Chooses Cobina Wright Jr
The Palm Beach beauty contest results list Cobina Wright Jr a New York society girl as the prettiest among finalists. Members of the Artists and Writers' club who voted affirmed the decision with ease.
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Cobina Wright, Jr
Palm Beach
Southern Resort
Artists and Writers’ Club
Sunday Beer Ban Favored in Legislature Vote
The legislature moved toward banning Sunday beer sales as the House, with a 47 to 39 vote, placed the Sunday closing bill on the calendar after a fierce floor fight led by anti prohibition forces. Several anti saloon league measures were sent back from the judiciary committee with a do not pass recommendation.
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House
Judiciary Committee
Liquor Control Commission
Cut in Attaches Pay Proposed To Trim Legislature
Senator Sweeney of Ohio proposes a law to cut the number of legislative attaches by about half and cap pay to the maximum wage for similar state work. The bill would set Senate at 40 attaches and the House at 65, with current totals far higher. It would also bar any other allowances to members for postage, stationery, or other costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sen
Sweeney
Ohio
Senate
House of Delegates
House
Daladier Wins Confidence Vote Over Franco Recognition
Paris reports Premier Edouard Daladier secured a 323 to 261 confidence vote to back recognizing Franco’s regime in France’s interests of defense. He cited close ties with Britain and noted an accord with Nationalist foreign minister Gomez Jordana, with a Paris Burgos statement planned for Monday.
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Paris
Edouard Daladier
Chamber of Deputies
France
Daladier
Britain
Leon Berard
Burgos
Francisco Gomez Jordana
Georges Izard
Chamber
Spain
Francisco Franco
England
Gen. Franco
Debt limit rise urged as House passes Treasury Post Office bill
The House approved a 1.700 billion dollar appropriation for the Treasury and Post Office departments and urged raising the public debt limit to 50.9 billion dollars. Secretary Morgenthau advised the debt increase, noting the current 45 billion cap must be expanded. The bill totals 1.700 billion, 197 million more than the prior year, yet falls 28 million short of the president's recommendation.
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Washington
House
Treasury and
Post Office Departments
Morgenthau
House Appropriations Committee
Treasury Department
Post Office Department
Budget Bureau
Appropriations Committee
Roosevelt
Chinese Build Bomb Shelters
Foreigners in Chungking report a massive tunnel project to carve mountain shelters for 300000 people as cities structures are razed to reduce air raid damage. Japanese claims of destroying about 50 Chinese planes are noted as a blow to rebuilding air strength.
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Shanghai
Chungking
China
Lanchow
Nazis Boost Taxes on Bachelors and Childless Couples
Berlin reports new Nazi income tax rules target singles and childless married couples, raising unmarried rates by 12.5 percent and creating a group for childless couples after five years of marriage. The plan, claimed to fund population and political aims, takes effect April 1 with a 55 percent income cap for extreme cases.
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Berlin
Nazi Germany
Senate OKs War Materials Storage Program
The senate military committee unanimously approved a plan to store up to 100 million dollars worth of raw materials for wartime use over four years. Aluminum rubber silk tin wool tungsten manganese sugar iron and steel copper and chlorine are among items listed for possible purchase.
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Washington
Senate Military Committee
Sen
Thomas
Utah
Walsh
Mass
Senate Naval Committee
Guam
Senate
Pacific
House
Andrews D
Fla
U. S
Philippine Islands
Hungary bans Hungarist party as anti communist pact signed
Budapest reports Premier Count Teleky bans the Hungarist party as a danger to public safety and orders raids arresting over 500. Meanwhile Foreign Minister Count Osaky signs an anti comintern pact pledging Hungary to aid Germany Italy and Japan against communism. Police seize documents and target leaders amid martial law in effect since February 3.
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Budapest
Hungary
Paul Teleky
Stephen Osaky
Germany
Italy
Japan
Manchoukuo
Dewey Attacks Hines Defense in Policy Racket Trial
New York, Feb 24. Dist Atty Thomas E. Dewey sums up for the state in the policy racket case against Tammany leader James J. Hines. He brands the defense attempt as a “filthy” bid to betray democracy and accuses Capshaw and Dodge of being bribed or influenced for a powerful politician. Judge Nott to charge tomorrow. jury expected by noon.
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New York
Thomas FE
Dewey
Tammany
James J. Hines
Dutch Schultz
Numbers Dicate
Pee
Hulan Capshaw
Capshaw
Dist. Atty
William C. Dodge
Hines
Schultz Lottery
Nott
Sea Burial Basis For 30000 Suit
Mrs Susan Mulryan sues the Cunard White Star line for 30000 claiming her husband Thomas was buried at sea against her wishes. The suit rests on the right of sepulchre the widow and children may determine burial place. The husband died aboard the Cunard liner Laconia in 1934 and was buried at sea the next day. Judge Fisher denied the motion to strike and the case is set for trial.
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Chicago
INS
Thomas
Susan Mulryan
Cunard
White Star Line
Edward Arkema
Mulryan
Harry M. Fisher
Released prisoner faces further traffic summonses
Vincent Russo is released from Welfare Island after 125 days for over 40 traffic violations. He is promptly taken to traffic court for seven more tickets, one dismissed and $12 paid, then to family court on a domestic trouble charge. Tomorrow he heads to Washington Heights court for another batch of summonses.
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New York
INS
Vincent Russo
Welfare Island
John Donahue
Edward O'Rourke
Family Court
Washington Heights
Kidnap-Killer McCall Dies in Florida Electric Chair
Franklin Pierce McCall, 22, convicted in the kidnapping and death of 5-year-old Jimmy Cash, was executed in Florida’s electric chair in Raiford after pleading guilty in Miami. He maintained his innocence, quoted Judas Iscariot, and said he died for nothing.
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McCall
Jimmy Cash
Florida
Raiford
Fla
Franklin Pierce McCall
Princeton
Miami
Judas Iscariot
Jesus Christ
Jasper
L. F. Chapman
McCall’s
U. S. Supreme Court
Black
Frankfurter
Katz Kidnaper Under Arrest
New York police arrested one of the four year old Michael Katz kidnappers and expect to arrest the second suspect and a woman shortly. The boy was snatched last Monday and ransomed for 250 dollars. Both abductors are ex convicts identified by a maid, a taxi driver witness and others. The suspects had been living in the tenement bureau where the boy was held.
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New York
INS
Michael Katz
Moll
Katz
Lillian Beckitt
Hopkins Asks All to Assist In Recovery
The J army recruit ea 9ing officers call Albert Owen Rowe 19 who answered correctly all questions in an intelligence test and won a 97.25 physical rating. He applied at Louisville and is to go Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indiana.
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J Army
Albert Owen Rowe
Louisville
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Indiana
Hitler Warns Democarcy Powers on War Risk
Munich crowd of 3,300 district leaders hears Adolf Hitler pledge Germany would not capitulate if drawn into another world war and warn against foreign war agitation. In Des Moines Hopkins outlines no general tax rise, urges tax shifts, rail and utility reforms, and support for small business and labor harmony.
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Munich
Germany
INS
Adolf Hitler
U. S
Reich
Des Moines
Secretary of Commerce
Harry L. Hopkins
Economic Club
Hopkins
WPA
America
Labor
Pius XI Leaves Goods to Holy See
VATICAN CITY February 24 L Osservatore Romano disclosed the late Pope Pius XI left all possessions to the Holy See except for personal items of little pecuniary value. Several artistic and sacred objects were given to the Vatican library the Christian museum and related institutions.
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Vatican City
L’osservatore Romano
Pius XI
Holy See
Vatican Library
Christian Museum
Refugees Seek Shelter as Jewish Exodus Grows Worldwide
London reports mass Jewish migration from Germany with 215,000 leaving since 1933 and 100,000 since November. Refugee groups target 400,000 out of Germany with a $150 million plan. Britain, the U S, France, and the Americas take in tens of thousands as new shelter options open in Shanghai Cuba and other regions.
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London
Europe
Holy Land
Palestine
Furoane
Tokyo
Shanghai
Berlin
U. S
Japan
Cuba
Germany
Inter-Governmental Refugee Committee
Austria
Great Britain
France
South America
Kenya
New Zealand
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Willie Willis
Robert Quillen
Momma
Premier
Solons
Post Office
Treasury
Brands Tammany
Steamship Line
Judas
Christ
Hitler
Fuehrer
Pius
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