Railroads Seek Loans to Repair Rolling Stock
Secretary Ickes faces a broadening of the Public Works Administration policy as Frank C. Wright urges loans for repair of locomotives and freight cars. Wright notes railroads cut repair budgets and shops run short, offering immediate job creation possibilities. Ickes also creates a new Public Works inspection division to guarantee value and code compliance for every borrowed dollar.
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Washington
Public Works Administration
Ickes
Public Works
Frank C. Wright
Transportation Loan Division
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York
Wright
William M. Steele
New York City
National Recovery Administration
New Federal Home Loan Bank System Formed With 20 Charters
Washington reports the creation of the federal home loan bank system with 20 charters granted to federal savings and loan associations in seven states. Preliminary approval was given to 86 more in 26 states. Leo R. Horstman named organizer for banks in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Delaware. Fahey notes banks will supply long term loans as insurance companies and commercial banks retreat from home financing. The system aims to mobilize hundreds of millions for housing.
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Federal Savings and Loan Associations
John H. Fahey
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
Leo R. Horstman
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Delaware
Home Loan Board
Federal Reserve System
Savings and Loan Associations
Reserve
Fahey
Federal Home Loan Bank
Willie Willis by Robert Quillen ironies of Santa Claus
A humorous column by Robert Quillen explores the idea of truth and deception through a social quip about Santa Claus and a window. It weighs how explanations can blur lines between harmless myth and real consequence, reflecting on childhood beliefs and adult honesty.
Favorable Business Reports of the Day
Houston reports W L Clayton predicts Russia recognition will help southern cotton growers sell 400 000 to 500 000 bales. Chicago says retailers see November turnover about double that of last year. Washington notes Panama Canal tolls for October reach 2 037 909 dollars, the highest since January 1931.
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Houston
Texas
W. L. Clayton
Russia
Chicago
the Association of Commerce
Washington
Market Value Of 50 Stocks Rises 4.85 This Week
New York reports that the market value of 50 representative stocks on the exchange closed yesterday at 12 620 236 875 dollars, up 4.85 percent from last week and 31.03 percent from the prior year, according to Paul H. Davis and Company.
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New York
Paul H. Davis and Company
New York Exchange
Congress Will Study Liquor
WASHINGTON November 19 The seventy third congress will convene in six weeks for its first regular session with Democrats and Republicans signaling Roosevelt cannot expect the same support as in the emergency legislation last spring. Republicans aim to recapture the House and many Senate seats in 1934 while some Democrats privately voice dissatisfaction with recovery measures and patronage. The session opens January 3 under the 20th amendment and may run to mid summer with new liquor taxes and regulation on the agenda. Roosevelt also faces the St Lawrence waterway treaty with Canada and hundreds of recess appointments including William C Bullitt as ambassador to the Soviet Union amid domestic and international crises.
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House
Senate
St. Lawrence Waterway
Canada
William C. Bullitt
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Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky
Japan
Russia
United States
State Department
Maxim Litvinoff
Boris Shvirsky
Information Bureau
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Moscow
Tokio
Far East
Harry F. Pager
Smith W. Brookhart
Agriculture Department
Amtorg Corporation of
New York
Litvino
fourteen killed in english coal mine blast near Chesterfield
In Chesterfield England a coal mine explosion trapped workers 1000 feet underground killing fourteen men and injuring four. Seventeen escaped as roof collapse blocked exits while Prince George visited the pit head to express condolences amid a brief memorial scene. An official investigation is pending into the gas explosion cause.
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Eng
Prince George
Chatsworth
King George
Ambassador Welles Reports Cuban Situation to Roosevelt
Ambassador Sumner Welles briefed President Roosevelt on Cuba and was sent to Washington to relay conditions before returning to Havana. The White House stated Welles would confer with state department staff and head back to Havana after delivering his report. Traffic near Kanawha Street caused a jam as rescue crews aided a bridge jumper, Charlies Stalnaker, who survived a 60 foot plunge into the river and was treated for injuries.
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Charlies Stalnaker
Stalnaker
Stalmaker
Aubrey Ray
Warm Springs
Sumner Welles
Cuba
Roosevelt
Washington
State Department
Havana
Welles
Phillips
White House
Ambassador Welles
Dutton Frames Spiritual Forces as Electricity in Talk
Dean C. Dutton of Cincinnati told Charleston’s First Presbyterian Church that electricity mirrors spiritual forces shaping the inner life. He noted Youthweek sponsorship and outlined humanity as the universe’s citizen, discussing galaxies, cosmic elements, and the earth’s development.
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Dean C. Dutton
Cincinnati
First Presbyterian Church
Dutton
Charleston
Boy Scouts
The
Presbyterian Church
Solar System
Milky Way
Earth
Luther Birthday Rally Marked By Nazi Regime
In Berlin a 450 year celebration of Martin Luther's birth, backed by Hitler's regime, featured political overtones as non Nazi Protestant pastors received unexpected Catholic solidarity. Germania the Catholic daily urged unity among Catholics and Protestants against Nazi radical Christianity. Catholic editors warned belief in Christ is at stake and Catholics may respond if Protestantism is destroyed.
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Berlin
Germany
Martin Luther
Reinhold Krause
Germania
Bankers Back Temporary Insurance Amid Debate Over Permanent Plan
The Association of Reserve City Bankers urges cooperation with the government temporary deposit insurance and the RFC proposal to strengthen the banking system with new capital. It opposes the permanent plan set for July 1 1934 as unAmerican and unsound, favoring a sound reform of the overall banking structure to prevent losses. John H. Hogan notes certainty about temporary measures and RFC ideas could aid depositors.
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Chicago
Association of Reserve City Bankers
Association
John H. Hogan
Glass-Steagall
Hogan
Spain Elections Cost Eight Lives
In Madrid on November 19 the republic held its first federal election under the new constitution. Violence erupted in Seville Bilbao and other cities as radicals and conservatives clashed before polls closed. Eight deaths were reported with many wounded as both rightist and radical groups sought to shape the first congress.
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Madrid
Spain
Seville
Juan Alonso
Bilbao
Baby found strangled in Huntington shop area
Police discovered an eight pound baby boy’s body in the Huntington business section. The infant was strangled with an electric light cord and wrapped in gingham cloth and a newspaper, according to authorities.
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Huntington
Business Week reports strongest week since summer gains
New York AP dispatch notes distinct weekly advance in business statistics, with output and power sectors improving. Analysts cite expanded consumer buying power from employment, inventory buildup, and inflationary dollar movement as factors, while cautioning about unresolved slack in industrial output and speculative elements.
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New York
Federal Relief Administration
Labor Board Chief Welcomes Shift to Arbitration
Washington November 19 Senator Wagner chairman of NRA labor board reports success in moving labor psychology from strikes toward arbitration. He notes regional boards now handle disputes affecting 300000 workers and that requests for more boards rise. He cites upcoming elections among workers at H C Frick coal mines for bargaining representatives and a public hearing on building trades unions.
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Wagner
NRA
Labor Board
Pennsylvania
H. C. Frick Coal and Coke Company
U. S. Steel
Death of T J Robson a Kanawha County delegate
Thomas Jefferson Robson 51, former Kanawha county house of delegates member in 1929, died in a local hospital after a week of illness. He was vice president and sales manager of Wyatt Coal Sales, directed several banks, and survived by a widow, daughter, six sisters, and a brother. Born April 7 1862 on Campbell's Creek, educated at Handley, he began work in mills at age 14 and rose to executive posts in coal firms.
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House of Delegates
Kanawha County
Wyatt Coal Sales Company
Mr. Robson
Campbell's Creek
Handley
O. J. Cox
Hattie Yates
Charleston
E. E. Dearien
Hat found in bay tied to Brooke Hart kidnap case
Police recovered a hat identified as Brooke Hart's on the Alameda Bay mud flats near San Mateo bridge as investigators press a search for the missing 22 year old in a $40,000 kidnap plot. Thurmond and Holmes reportedly confessed to throwing Hart from the San Mateo bridge after stunning him, with his body weighted by concrete blocks. Authorities drag the bay with grappling hooks seeking the victim.
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Calif
Brooke Hart
Alameda County
San Francisco Bay
John Moore
San Mateo Bridge
Thomas H. Thurmond
Jack Holmes
Young Hart
Thurmond
Holmes
Hart
Sligo Slasher's Saga Seep South Amid Mocking crowds
New York novelty tale profiles Anthony Jerry McGowan of Sligo Ireland, known as the Sligo Slasher. A tenement raconteur outside Madison Square Garden, he spins world conquests and brave feats while facing skeptical onlookers. He boasts of breaking a mustang with a barbed wire halter and claims a right hand capable of knocking down horses.
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Munchausen
Manhattan
John Henry
Paul Bunyan
Tin Pan Alley
Anthony Jerry McGowan
Erin’s County
Sligo
Madison Square Garden
English Channel
Tony
Orses
Ireland
New Ambassador Bullitt Praised by Soviet Publicist
Karl Radek, leading Soviet publicist, lauded newly appointed Ambassador William C. Bullitt in Pravda, attacking Harding Coolidge Hoover Colby and Hughes for attempting to rule world policy, as U S recognition of the Soviet Union reached Russian readers.
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Karl Radek
Soviet Russia
William C. Bullitt
Pravda Today
Radek
Hardings
Coolidges
Hoovers
Colbys
Hughes
Pravda
Communist Party
United States
Soviet Union
Warm Weather Leaves Californians Jobless
A humorous note from Santa Monica reports warm weather reducing work, with locals joking about unemployment and weather as a convenient excuse. The piece riffs on democracy, foreign blame, J. P. Morgan’s White House tea, and changing times, ending with a casual sign-off.
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