FDR Parley on War Materials Sales Dominates Capital Talk
A Senate military committee member said Roosevelt signaled U S readiness to sell war materials to England France and other independent states opposing dictatorship. Reports differ on whether he stated U S frontiers could be in France in a world war. Berlin and Italian papers react with skepticism and alarm.
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Washington
Senate Military Committee
Roosevelt
United States
England
France
Europe
Democratic
Germany
Italy
London
Paris
Berlin
Expansion debated as Congress takes up social security plan
Washington hearings opened with Arthur J. Altmeyer detailing administration proposals to liberalize and speed old age payments expand coverage to more workers and provide disability and widows and orphans aid. Other items include government reorganization talks and a Florida canal project amid Senate committee sessions and a WPA graft trial in Albuquerque with witnesses linking dance tickets to campaign funds.
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Washington
Congress
Arthur J. Altmeyer
Social Security Board
House
Ways and Means Committee
Doughton
D. NC
Francis E. Townsend
General Welfare Association
Rep. Warren
Rules Committee
Senate
Florida Ship Canal
Passamaquoddy
Senate Judiciary Committee
Floyd Roberts
Virginia
Albuquerque
N. M
New Mexico
Democratic Party
United States
WPA
Rio Grande Social Club
Mariano Vargas
A. J. Daniels
Dennis Chavez
U. S
Chavez
Vargas
Daniels
Ralph Gallegos
Pete Martinez
Gallegos
Arthur Campbell
Rio Grande
Charter League
Campbell
Alberto Lovato
B. W. Means
Stanley W. P. Miller
Senator Chavez
Ward Anderson
Barfoot Services Held Thursday for J W Barfoot
Final rites for J W Barfoot 58 who died Tuesday at home 924 Sherman Street will be at 10 30 Thursday morning at Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church Rev C L Dobbs will officiate with Drinkard Howell in charge of burial at Tanner Cemetery Pallbearers are Johnny Sims Leonard Strickland Early Price Jesse Sims S L Lovelace and Lloyd Strickland Surviving are his widow three sons J W Jr Howell and Bryant Barfoot a daughter Mrs H C Green Macon Ga and a brother B E Barfoot
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J. W. Barfoot
Sherman Street
Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church
C. L. Dobbs
Drinkard-Howell
Tanner Cemetery
Johnny Sims
Leonard Strickland
Early Price
Jesse Sims
S. L. Lovelace
Lloyd Strickland
Mr. Barfoot
Funeral Rites Held for Florence Gordon 77
Funeral services were held at 2 pm at the Leesdale residence of her granddaughter Mrs J O Compton for Mrs Florence Gordon 77 who died Tuesday afternoon of pneumonia. Rev R N Moore conducted the service and burial followed at Whenezer cemetery under Drinkard Howell. Surviving relatives include her brother D K Sams Speigler Oklahoma three other grandchildren Arnold Evans Mrs Hobart Harvey Jack Evans and a daughter in law Mrs C H Barnett. Pallbearers were Leslie Dennis Luther Edgbert Ran and Albert Meister. Great granddaughters arranged the flowers.
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Florence Gordon
J. O. Compton
Leesdale
Gordon
R. N. Moore
Whenezer Cemetery
Drinkard-Howell
Relief fund for Chileans sought after earthquake disaster
President Pedro Aguirre Cerda asked Chilean Congress to create a 2.5 billion peso relief and rehabilitation fund for the earthquake zone. Deadly quake estimates reach as high as 30,000. Congress expected to approve without hesitation, with funds raised by special taxes.
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Santiago
Chile
Pedro Aguirre Cerda
Congress
Chil
Rival Chiefs Speech Readings Mark West European Ties
Britain and Germany scan each other’s leaders for clues to avoid war. Berlin welcomed Chamberlain’s peace stance while pressing for German colonies and exports. A German rep heads to Moscow as trade hints surface. British and German industrialists set talks for February. Senate panel notes Roosevelt’s warplane purchases show support for European rearmament and world peace through democracy.
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Associated Press
Britain
Germany
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Moscow
Duesseldorf
London
Robert Spear Madson
Overseas Trade Department
Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
United States
White House
Winter Storm Looms Across Central United States
The storm moves from the Rockies across the western plains toward the Atlantic seaboard with blizzard conditions in Nebraska Wyoming and the Dakotas. Snow and freezing temperatures expected from New England to the District of Columbia with disruption and deaths reported in several states.
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Associated Press
Middle- West
United States
Rockies
Plains States
Weather Bureau
Atlantic Seaboard
Nebraska
Wyoming
Dakotas
New England
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
West Virginia
Virginia
Delaware
Maryland
District of Columbia
Massachusetts
New York City
LaGuardia
Chicago
Detroit
Indiana
Customs Collector Lyons Clarifies Boat Equipment Rules
Joseph H. Lyons Mobile collector states boats with outboard motors must follow government regulations. The ruling, in a letter to R C Nungester, aims to clear up questions raised after Prentice Clark was arrested for operating a boat without full equipment. Lyons warns penalties are severe and notes TVA areas previously outside federal jurisdiction.
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Joseph H. Lyons
Mobile
R. C. Nungester
Tennessee River
Prentice Clark
TVA
Nungester
Alabama
Seeing Justice For Our Lottie At Rockland Court
A 100 strong crowd from Rampo Mountain cabin life gathered at the Rockland county courthouse to watch the trial of Albert Allen of Mahwah New Jersey on a first degree assault charge linked to an incident involving Mrs. Lottie Conklin. District Attorney George W Dorsey noted Allen was captured after Mrs. Conklin accused him of gun point assault two months prior in a log cabin near Suffern New York.
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New York
Lottie
Rockland County
Albert Allen
Mahwah
Ned
Lottie Conklin
George W Dorsey
Allen
Oconklin
Suffern
N. Y
Eugene
Manhattan
Times Square
Fred Conklin
Klin
Athen Ligne Opera
J B Collum Hurt in Crane Accident at Railroad Yards
J B Collum bridge carpenter for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company remains in Benevolent hospital after being struck by a crane in the local railroad yards. The former Decatur resident, now of Lacon, suffered a broken jaw and other injuries. his wife is at his bedside. After an operation last night his condition was described as good as could be expected.
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J. B. Collum
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
Mr. Collum
Decatur
Lacon
Poll Taxes Taken In Record Numbers On Final Day
Payments of poll taxes pressed ahead at a lively rate on the last day for payment. Tuesday saw many residents settle their polls, announced by H R Summer the tax collector. All funds received go to the school fund.
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H. R. Summer
Milk tax exemption proposal opens Senate debate in Alabama
Senator James A. Simpson proposed exempting milk from Alabama's two percent sales tax as the senate finance and taxation committee opened hearings. The House bill would remove all exemptions for staples including milk meat flour sugar salt and coffee. Other agenda items included a bill to appropriate funds to match federal money for cattle disease indemnity and ongoing opposition to the reenactment.
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A. F. Maha Montgomery
Ala
James A. Simpson
Jefferson
Senate Finance and Taxation Committee
House
Oliver B. -Young
Lamar
Dixon
Simpson
Hayse Tucker
Tuscaloosa
Senate
Supreme Court
Miller
Frank M. Dixon
Emmett Hildreth
Greene County
Constitutional
Public School Fund
General Fund
Hildreth
Highway Commission
Department of Commerce Ae Ao
Alabama Senate Fails To Clear Tax Reenactment Hurdle
In Montgomery on February 1 the senate finance and taxation committee held hearings as it weighed the sales tax reenactment bill after house approval. A milk control law reenactment faced hearings before joint agriculture committees as lawmakers consider surplus revenue use for schools and public funds.
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Montgomery
Ala
House
Senate Finance and Taxation Committee
Senate
Combined Agriculture Committees
House Committee
Milk Control Board
State Farm Bureau
Alabama Jersey Cattle Club
Morgan County approves new jail building plan
Morgan county residents voted by about 2 to 1 to authorize a new jail replacing the 50 year old structure. 1851 in favor 779 against with full county turnout and a $75 000 bond plan funded by a $45 000 federal grant, 16 year maturities, and a one mill tax cap.
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Morgan County
Decatur
Carnegie Library
Lacey's Spring
Lacey's Springs
Falkville
Hartselle
Florette
Danville
Somerville
Preseville
Shady Grove
Oak Ridge
Morgan County Board of Revenue
Inquiry Called Over Suicide Gun Fingerprints Questioned
Nassau County lawyer urges Gov. Lehman to investigate reports that the fingerprints of George Mulry and other witnesses are missing from the gun allegedly used in a suicide by suspect Dewey Hireling. Mulry sent a telegram asking to confiscate and verify the revolver. The weapon had been taken from a detective's coat at a White Plains retreat.
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New York
Herbert H. Lehman
Nassau County
George Eee
James J. Hines
George E. Mulry
Mineola
Long Island
Weinberg
Dewey
Thomas E. Dewey
J. Richard Davis
Harry Schoenhaus
White Plains
N. Y
Four Die in West Side Cleveland Rooming House Fire
Fire on the second floor of a frame rooming house on Cleveland's west side killed four people and seriously burned two others. Victims include Mrs Elizabeth Smith 23 a WPA seamstress and her two sons Clare 2 and Everett 5 plus an unidentified 17 year old youth.
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Cleveland
Elizabeth Smith
WPA
Clare
Everett
Tennessee River Gauge and Alabama Weather Outlook
The Tennessee river stood at 18 feet this morning. Maximum temperature reached 45 with a low around 39 and no rainfall reported. Alabama forecasts mostly cloudy skies tonight and Thursday with occasional rain, a warming trend tonight and cooler conditions in the northwest on Thursday.
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Tennessee
Alabama
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Jos. H. Lyons
Morgan
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