Roosevelt plan aims private business to ease jobless
Washington dispatch reports the Roosevelt administration plans three major moves to fight unemployment. By February 1, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration aims to return unemployables to state care. Hopkins says about 20 percent of relief receivers fall into this group, possibly up to 4 million with dependents. The plan seeks to shift reliance from direct cash grants to work relief and expand private hiring through an elastic relief budget. Officials expect federal relief rolls to shrink while state-funded care continues. Hopkins notes the transition could reduce federal outlays but not necessarily number on relief, as states may pick up costs. The review also backs low-cost housing and subsistence homestead programs, with the Public Works Administration pushing a multibillion-dollar rapid-start plan.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Harry L. Hopkins
Washington Post
Hopkins
White House
Ickes
Public Works Administration
Actvey
Insurance payed for Atlantique fire loss ordered by court
French court of appeals ordered American, British and German insurers to pay the full 174,200,000 francs about 11.5 million dollars for the S S Atlantique as it burned and sank last year.
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Paris
French Court of Appeals
S. S. Atlantique
Water Rogers Says
Water Rogers makes a statement framed as a public appeal. The report notes his position on a local issue and the context in which he speaks, including any invited responses from officials or community groups. The piece emphasizes the stance taken and potential implications for residents.
State Repealists Draw Lines Behind J. Sanford Mullins
Nelson Rounsevell, publisher of the Panama American, campaigns for canal defense before U S officials. His demonstration with reporters showed how easily the Panama Canal could be destroyed, claiming 20 men could inflict damage tying up the canal for months.
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J. Sanford Mullins
Nelson Rounsevell
The
Panama American
Panama Canal
United States
New York
Vandenberg seeks civil service for post office
Senator Vandenberg introduces a bill to remove politics from the post office by creating a permanent career service. It would place all postmasters and postal officials except the postmaster general under civil service with job preference for postal workers. The postmaster general would be barred from holding political office while head of the service. The plan aims to end cabinet or party chair influence and could advance letter carriers to senior posts.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Vandenberg
Michigan
Civil Service
Democratic National Committee
Civil Service Commission
Thousands forced to leave France over work permit failures
Paris December 28 AP reports thousands of foreigners including many refugee German Jews are being compelled to depart France due to inability to obtain working permits. Poles and Italians are also affected. hundreds of Germans have been told since November 1 to depart unless self supporting. About 25,000 German refugees arrived in France, with around 11,000 reaching Paris and many moving on to other countries.
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Paris
France
Religion Pays Accused Bandit Joins Church Group
Richard W. Halley, accused Booneville bank robber, joined a visiting religious group at Fort Smith jail and walked free past Jailer Jim Harwell. Recaptured a week earlier in Oklahoma City after a January escape, Halley blended with the group during singing and slipped away as they departed, with Harwell noting the deception was complete while Halley had been kept for safekeeping.
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Fort Smith
Ark
Richard W. Halley
Booneville
Jim Harwell
Halley
Oklahoma City
Harwell
Prohibition Repeal Drive Gains Alabama Support
Alabama voters may face a state referendum next year on prohibition. Senator J Stanford Mullins of Alexander City is named repeal campaign chairman for the Alabama League for Prohibition Repeal. Plans include county campaign committees as dry forces mobilize with Governor-elect Bibb Graves backing the issue and the legislature to act in January.
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Birmingham
Alabama
Alabama League For Prohibition
J. Stanford Mullins
Alexander City
Mullins
Eeletion
Bibb Graves
Montgomery
B. M. Miller
Audit urged junking warrants and cash salaries in Dothan
The delayed 1933 34 city audit for Dothan recommends discontinuing payroll warrants and financing salaries in cash. It also calls for more space in the city clerk’s office, proposing use of the second floor or space between the clerk and police headquarters for clerk use.
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City of Dothan
C. C. Covington
Birmingham
Benefits of gasoline price cut fail to affect Dothan locals
A Montgomery price war lowers early by two cents a gallon but Dothan residents see no change. Local refinery agents say the cut will not affect Dothan, with rural and urban stations already at 22 cents per gallon after a recent 1 cent rural boost.
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Dothan
Montgomery
German Girl Rebuffs Austrian Triggers Border Riot
A Bavarian girl's refusal to dance with an Austrian sparked deadly border rioting near Furth. About 500 people clashed as Bavarian farmers fought Austrian storm troopers exiled to Germany. One person died, nine were seriously injured, and 26 were hurt. 300 Schutzstaffel guards from Dachau were brought in to restore order and arrest many participants.
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Furth
Germany
Schutz Staffel
Dachau
Judge Halstead Opens First Court Term Sanctioned
Circuit Judge D. C. Halstead began his first court term since taking over after the late Judge Pearce. A clean up session runs January 14 through January 17 with sixty four trials set and twenty two defendants slated for hearing after court agreements. No witnesses are to be summoned for the latter group. All cases have long been on the docket and exclude recent named defendants.
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D. C. Halstead
H. A. Pearce
Kingfish Targets New Orleans Foes in End of Year Hearing
Huey Long convened a legislative committee in New Orleans to hear more testimony on Mayor T Semmes Walmsley s administration as the 1934 confrontation escalates. Rep William J Hammon of Jackson parish dies in a LaPlace car crash en route to the session. The probe followed Long s September primary victory that brought heavy militia presence and a tense election that some called fair.
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New Orleans
Huey Long
Louisiana
White House
Long
T. Semmes Walmsley
Kingfish
William J. Hammon
Jackson Parish
LaPlace
Walmsley
Christmas Mails Mirror Improved Dothan Business
In 1934 Dothan post office officials report a 20 to 25 percent rise in Christmas mail as packages cards and letters flood in the days before the holiday Insured packages rise indicating higher quality gifts The post office ran with one extra worker to deliver 2 500 packages Damage to parcels will be under 1 with only three damaged and none lost Merchants share the gain noting inventory runs low as shoppers flood stores with strong year over year business and brisk stock turnover
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Dothan
A. Y. Malone
Lst
Publishers Hear Call to Discuss Continuing Code
New York December 28 AP plans moved forward for a convention of 1200 newspapers to review the dispute between the San Francisco Call Bulletin and the National Labor Relations Board and its effect on continuance under the daily newspaper code. Howard Davis, head of the Publishers National Code Committee, said the NRA action to strip the Call Bulletin of its Blue Eagle over the reinstatement of Dean Jennings signals an attempt to usurp code authority. A 1200 newspaper convention will be held immediately to discuss the code’s future, time and place not announced.
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New York
San Francisco
Dail- Buletin
National Labor Relations Board
Howard Davis
Publishers’ National Code Committee
Labor Relations Board
NRA
Call Bulletin
Blue Eagle
Dean S. Jennings
Davis
Call-Bulletin
Hearst
Jennings
American Newspaper Guild
Newspaper Industrial Board
Child Waging Fight Against Potash Burns
Little 17 month old Robert Granger of Pansey was brought to Dothan hospital after knocking a can of potash from a shelf and swallowing part of it. His mother described a valiant battle as his mouth and throat burned. Doctors reported he faced a grim prognosis with brief moments of hope as he fought for life.
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Robert Granger
Pansey
Hfe
On Dothan Hospital
C. A. Granger
Robert
Woman Robbed by Black Thugs in Home
Mrs Arthur Crawford was forced by two Black suspects at gunpoint to hand over $15 at her Adama Street home Wednesday night. Police arrested six suspects held for identification by Crawford. The masked pair entered through an unlocked door threatening harm to Mrs Crawford and her children.
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John Crawford
Widow of Japanese naval hero succumbs
Countess Tetsuko Togo, 73, widow of the famed admiral of the Sea of Japan battle, died in Tokyo of pneumonia. Admiral Togo, a premier figure in the empire, had died May 30.
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Tokyo
Tetsuko Togo
Sea of Japan
Russia
Togo
Baroness and Companion Believed Slain on Charles Island
Captain William Borthen, who found two other colonists' bodies, believes Baroness Eloise Bousquet de Wagner and Robert Phillipson were murdered by Alfred Rudolph Lorenz on Charles Island in the Galapagos. Lorenz and his companion reportedly died of thirst. Ecuador surveyors found no vessel could have taken the baroness and Phillipson away.
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Walter B. Claudsen
Associated Press
San Diego
Calif
Eloise Bousquet de Wagner
Robert Phillipson
Killa
Charies
Galapagos
Willam Borthen
Marchenha Island
Alfred Rudolph Lorenz
Lorenz
Isle of Charles
Pacific
Ecuador
Convict Island
Santa Amaro
Phillipson
Borthen
Baroness
Charles Island
Charies Island
Paris
Japan Moves to Seek Last Naval Talk With U S Britain
London reports that Japan asked Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto to join Admiral William H. Standley for a final discussion on the naval relationship among Japan the United States and Great Britain before the U S delegation heads home The move may aim to show willingness to discuss further steps toward a compromise while a 1935 conference seems unlikely and a 1936 denunciation deadline provides time for a new plan.
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London
Japan
United States
Great Britain
Isoroku Yamamoto
William H. Standley
Washington
Tokyo
Alabama asks 25 percent phone rate cuts in petition
The Alabama Rate Association urged the Alabama Public Service Commission to force Southern Bell to show cause for not reducing rates by at least 25 percent. The group asked federal and state bodies to cooperate and seek federal aid for the rate investigation. It argued Bell's parent AT&T economies should lower Alabama basic rates and expand service.
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Montgomery
Alabama Rate Association Today
Alabama Public Service Commission
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
Rate Association
H. J. Anderton
Birmingham
Public Service Commission
Federal Communications Commission
Alabama
Public Service E Commission
Southern Bell
APSC
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Bell
Spanish War Veterans to Hear Judge McCord Address
Judge Leon McCord of Montgomery national commander will be principal speaker at the Spanish War Veterans meeting of Colonel W. L. Grayson Camp U S W V at Dothan city auditorium Sunday at 2:00 pm. State Commander Adams of Birmingham will attend. the gathering will elect and install officers.
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Leon McCord
Montgomery
W. L. Grayson
U.S.W.V
Dothan City
Adams
Birmingham
C. L. Doggerell
McGord
Pastor Hart in Wreck Seeks Damages
The Rev Haley Lisenby pastor of Demopolis Methodist Church was injured Christmas Day in a Montgomery highway collision and has filed suit for 3000 dollars against Ross Jordan driver of the other car. Mrs Lisenby also injured remained in hospital.
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Haley Lisenby
Demopolis Methodist Church
Montgomery
Ross Jordan
Lisenby
Anne Lindbergh Expected To Testify In Lindbergh Baby Case
Mrs. Lindbergh may take the stand in the Bruno Hauptmann trial for the murder of the Lindbergh baby. She conferred with prosecutors with her husband in Alpine, and her appearance hinges on her own wishes as prosecutors pursue not to compel testimony. She has actively participated in the case from the search onward.
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Lindbergh
Lindbersth
State to press Hauptmann with hidden gold link
The state will claim Hauptmann possessed about 44 600 dollars beyond sworn income, part of the 50 000 ransom paid by John F Crandon for the Lindbergh baby. Auditors and investigators traced the money, and witnesses from banking and federal agencies are reportedly off the state's list.
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James J. Lawrence
Associated Press
Flemington
N. J
Dea
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Die Losedt
Lindbergh
John F. Crandon
Bronx
Network Theater
Efforta Toe
Dinoptmannet
Hauptmann
New York Banking
Heavy rains halt two county highway projects
Intermittent downpours over the past three days stopped progress on two major highway projects in Houston County. Seven miles of the Dothan Webb road were nearing hard surfacing and a short cut on the Dothan Cottonwood road was being brought to state highway specifications when rain forced a stop to work.
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Houston County
Dothan-Webb
Dothan - Cottonwood Road
Stratosphere Explorer Plans Flight 20 Miles Higher
Pittsburgh AP reports Professor Jean Plecard, noted Belgian baboonist, states he will ascend 20 miles higher on the next flight if backers fund it. He promises purely scientific aims and says he will not undertake stunt flying. No financiers have offered yet.
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Pittsburgh
Der
Jean Plecard
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Piccard
Bonus Accord Studied by Chieftains in Congress
A tentative study on a compensation bargain for veterans' bonus is underway among administration leaders in Congress. Proposals range from limited payments to fully issuing new currency, with an estimated cost of 2.2 billion dollars. Debate centers on middle ground bills and potential rules to curb amendments as lawmakers seek an early resolution.
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Clarence M. Wright
Associated Press
Washington
Congress
White House
House
Ways and Means
Wall
Jeaders
Dionne quintuplets reach seven months at hospital
The Dionne quintuplets in Callander Ontario mark seven months old at their private hospital near home. Yvonne weighs 13 pounds, others range from 10 pounds 10 ounces to 12 pounds 14 1/2 ounces, with birth weights cited for context.
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Miles Stone
Callander
Ont
Dionne
Yvonne
Annette
Emile
Cecile
Marie
Turks Gauge Cost of Iznik Lake Hydro Plant
Turkish engineers estimate the cost of a hydro electric plant at Iznik Lake near Ankara as a first step to electrifying Asia Minor. Iznik Lake sits about 1,000 feet above sea level.
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Ankara
Dec
Asia Minor
Iznik Lake
Nearoussa
Weather Outlook for Regions Tonight and Saturday
North and east portions to see cloudy skies with likely rain tonight and Saturday. Interior remains slightly warmer tonight. Florida and Tennessee forecasts show cloudy conditions with rain possible tonight. Saturday remains unsettled with more clouds and possible showers.
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Tennessee
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