Approval for Reed Wins Unanimous Senate Panel Nod
A Senate judiciary sub committee unanimously approved Stanley F. Reed to be a Supreme Court justice after a brief hearing attended by Reed and Atty. General Cummings. Logan praised Reed as a fine Kentucky lawyer amid a single protest from a New York caller. Final Senate confirmation expected early next week.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary
Stanley F. Reed
Supreme Court
Reed
Logan
D-Ky
Cummings
Judiciary
Senate
Dky
E. Logan
New York
Kentucky
Tobacco Growers’ Cooperative Association
Era Farm Board
Me Bre
Justice Department
Stanley Reed
Roosevelt to invite small business men for regularizing commerce
White House aide says President Roosevelt will convene small business leaders to discuss methods for regularizing business and employment. The move expands ongoing conferences beyond top industrial and labor figures as hundreds of letters from small firms request White House audiences.
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Washington
Jan
White House
Roosevelt
Federation
A. F. of L
Lewis
Stephen T. Early
Ultimatum Mistake Seen in Tokyo Report Amid World Events
The dispatch ties the seizure of the American tanker Nantucket Chief by Spanish insurgents to a widening panorama including Egypts Farouk marrying Farida Zulficar, and a British victory at Tientsin. Tokyo disputes claims of a Japanese ultimatum while noting fighting in Yangtze and on the Tientsin Pukow railway.
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Associated Press
Egypt
Tientsin
Japan
China
Vaquelin
Palma
Mediterranean
Barcelona
Paris
Henry F. Lackey
United States
Washington
Farouk
Farida Zulficar
Sudan
Pn Oe
Shanghai
Tokyo
Kiyoshi Noda
Naval Office
Far West
Yangtze River
Tientsin-Pukow
Spain
Teruel
Simpson to Speak on Government Reform in Decatur
State Senator Jim Simpson of Jefferson county will speak next Tuesday night January 25 at 7 30 at Riverside high school. Sponsored by business leaders of Morgan Lawrence and Limestone counties the talk aims to explain Alabama state government reform to cut taxation and fund full school terms. The event is open to the general public.
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Jim Simpson
Jefferson County
Riverside High School
Morgan
Lawrence
Limestone
Simpson
Decatur
Alabama
Pneumonia Fatal to Mrs Dawson in Birmingham
Mrs L O Dawson dies of pneumonia at her home in Birmingham following her husband’s death last Friday. Funeral services set for Tuscaloosa at 2 30 PM with ministers Powhatan Ones H W Williams and Dr D I Purser officiating. Burial in Evergreen Cemetery Tuscaloosa.
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Birmingham
Ala
L. O. Dawson
Ptuscaloosa
Tuscaloosa Baptist Church
FHA Sets Average Rent At Smithfield Court
The Federal Housing Administration announced an average monthly rent of 4.50 per room at Smithfield Court, a low rent housing development in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Washington, Jan
Federal Housing Administration
Smithfield Court
Birmingham
Ala
A Case For Three Detectives Opens in The Daily
The Daily begins a mystery titled A Case For Three Detectives by Leo Bruce. The story promises an unusually bizarre plot that will challenge three premier investigators as it unfolds.
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Leo Bruce
Six Children Hit By Auto in Waterbury Tragedy
A car struck six children at a night coasting party in Waterbury Connecticut killing Edmund Boulanger eight and Virginia Roberts fourteen and Robert Roberts eleven. Edmund’s sister Claire Boulanger thirteen and Arthur Boulanger eleven survived injuries. Driver Frank Degnan twenty seven and Miss Ester Breane twenty seven were injured and Degnan remained in danger.
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Waterbury
Conn
Edmund Boulanger
Wolcott
Robert Roberts
St. Mary's Hospital
Virginia Roberts
Claire Boulanger
Edmund
Arthur Boulanger
Mary McKenna
Frank Degnan
Ester Breane
Naugatuck
Degnan
Miss Boulanger
FBI Seals Secrets as Anders Case Advances
In St Paul FBI agents pressed a covert effort to close the Peter Anders kidnap slay case. Anders confessed to abducting and killing Charles Ross and the accomplice J Atwood Gray, with Hoover absent from public view amid heavy guard and secretive FBI activity.
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ST. Paul
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Peter Anders
Los Angeles
Charles S. Ross
Chicago
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Anders
Ross
J. Atwood Gray
Hoover
Gray
Charles Mattson
Tacoma
Wash
William
Muriel
Mattson
W. W. Mattson
San Francisco
Morgan Feeling Improved Today
Chicago January 20 Dr A E Morgan chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority was reported feeling better today at his hotel suite where he has been confined by an influenza attack since last week.
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Chicago
A. E. Morgan
The
Tennessee Valley Authority
Roosevelt year in review amid court clashes and recession
On the first anniversary of his second term President Roosevelt faced a deepening recession and mounting court clashes over court expansion. Historians note industrial decline, a bitter fight over the court bill, and pivotal supreme court rulings on state wage laws and the Wagner act shaping his agenda.
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Nathan Robertson Washington
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Congress
Wakefield Death Report After Operation
Flake M. Wakefield age 56 died after an appendicitis operation at the Tennessee Valley Hotel and Benevolent Hospital. He developed peritonitis, was moved to Brown's, and will be sent tonight to Anniston for funeral services and interment. Wakefield was a supervisor in North Alabama for Ward Baking Co.
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Flake M. Wakefield
Tennessee Valley Hotel
Benevolent Hospital
Brown's
Anniston
Wakefield
North Alabama
Ward Baking Co
Clash Averted in Shanghai Over British Concession Threat
Shanghai reports that Japanese forces in Tientsin described their threat to invade the British concession as a mis understanding threatening an armed clash with British troops. The first Lancashire Fusiliers were present during the tense incident.
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Shanghai
Tientsin
Death of 3 Month Old Martha Jane Black
Little Martha Jane Black aged 3 months died Wednesday afternoon at her parents home 705th street south. Funeral services were held at the residence at two o'clock with Rev Homer Britton officiating. Interment at city cemetery Brown directing. She is survived by parents Mr and Mrs L M Black five brothers and two sisters.
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Martha Jane Black
Citizenship Refuses Beating And A Town Is Saved Thru Sheer Courage
Manchester New Hampshire faced bankruptcy after Amoskeag Manufacturing closed on Christmas Eve 1935 leaving 17000 jobless. Citizens rallied to buy the plants creating thirty industries and earning a 125 percent return to investors. The March of Time film at Princess Theatre presents this community overcoming ruin.
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Manchester
New Hampshire
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
Princess Theatre
Decatur
Arnold Enters Democratic Governor Race in Alabama
James H. Arnold of Birmingham qualified for the May 3 Democratic primary for governor. He joins Chauncey Sparks and H. A. Thompson among others. Sheriff A H May of Houston also filed as a candidate amid debate over eligibility rules. Additional filings included state senate and house contenders from multiple counties.
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Montgomery
Ala
James HH. Arnold
Birmingham
Arnold
North Twentieth Street
Homewood
Howell Turner
Chauncey Sparks
Barbour ‘County
H. A
Gus) Thompson
State House of Represenatives
Butler County
George W. Cameron
Tuscaloosa
John Brandon
Dothan
Alabama
Houston County
Democratic Executive Committee
A. H. May
Houston
W. A Wells
May
Wells
Thompson
Secretary of State
State Senate
J. M. Rowe
Elba
Coffee
Pike and Crenshaw
Preston C. Clayton
Clayton
Barbour County
S. Faulk
Geneva
Dale
W. E. James
Cullman
Blount
Winston
F. Hi
Businessman Arnold Qualifies for Alabama Governor Race
James H. Arnold a Birmingham clothing merchant qualified as a candidate for governor. He says he is a businessman not a politician and would not run except for the sales tax, believing the people deserve a business man in Montgomery.
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Birmingham
Ala
James H. Arnold
Montgomery
Snag Hits Conferees Over Grain Benefit Earmarks
Washington January 20 A joint congressional committee drafting a single ever normal granary bill faced a snag over earmarking benefit funds for five major crops Cotton wheat corn rice and tobacco. Some conferees favored definite percentage allocations others opposed any fixed crop quotas. They said a possible agreement might come later today.
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Washington
Jan
Congressional
Smith
House
Senate
Three Men Taken After Torrid Hunt
A six hour pursuit in Birmingham involved over 20 officers. Three men, William Hallmark William Weaver and Bill Pirkle, were captured after a light sedan they drove reached 115 mph. Officers fired on the fleeing cars before arrest on Southside and Mountain Brook routes.
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Birmingham
Ala
William Hallmark
William Weaver
Bill Pirkle
Southside
Mountain Brook
Southole
Hallmark
H.C. Early
Clergyman Noe Removed by Bishop at Memphis Cathedral
Bishop James M. Maxon ordered the removal of Dean Israel Harding Noe at once. The action comes as Noe continues his abstinence program and his wife remains ill. The bishop retains Noe’s six month stipend and allows him to occupy the deanery during that period.
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Memphis
Tenn
James M. Maxon
Israel Harding Noe
Maxon
Knoxville
Episcopal Church
St. Mary's Cathedral
Noe
Dean Noe
Two Men Fire On Girl's Car After Stop Try
In Altoona Alabama two white men in coveralls fired on an automobile carrying five young women near Walnut Grove Western Etowah County. Police and residents scoured the woods overnight and again today but found no trace of the assailants.
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Altoona
Ala
Walnut Grove
Etowah County
W. H. Walden
Kelley Morgan
State Highway Patrol
Gadsden
Morgan
Walden
Eight Charged in Police Court On Various Offenses
Eight persons appeared in police court today. Six faced harboring offenses, one charged with drunkenness and one with speeding.
Court Rules Voting Machines Unconstitutional In Alabama
Alabama Supreme Court rules 1935 act permitting use of voting machines unconstitutional citing lack of uniform election system across counties. The decision reverses a Mobile circuit court ruling, with Chief Justice Anderson leading the majority and Justices Knight, Gardner and Foster dissenting.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Supreme Court
John C. Anderson
Thomas, Bouldin
Brown
Knight, Gardner
Foster
Mobile Circuit
Mobile
City Commission
Alabama
Supreme Court
Tennessee River rises to 16.4 feet as temperatures range
Weather notes show the Tennessee River at 16.4 feet with a 62 degree high and 46 degree low and no rainfall. Alabama forecasts cloudy skies with late rain and warmer conditions, while coastal winds are moderate to fresh from the south. Tennessee is in a rain zone with warmer tonight and cooler conditions by Friday.
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Tennesse
Alabama
Tennessee
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