Debated export bank scheme fuels foreign trade debate
Washington reports a proposed expansion of the export bank into a general credit financing agency to back foreign purchases of American goods. Critics warn it would make the US a larger creditor nation and delay repayment while boosting imports may undermine domestic manufacturers.
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Jashington
D. C
CREME
Ruseta
White House
Roosevelt
Europe
South America
Weather Update For Regions In Alabama Tennessee And Florida
Weather report shows cloudy skies across Alabama with snow in the north and rain in the south. Temperatures range from 20s to 40s, with a cold wave in north and central areas. Saturday brings partial cloudiness and southeast rain, with colder conditions in the south. Northwest Florida expects cloudy skies with probable rain tonight and Saturday and colder temperatures on Saturday. Tennessee forecast calls for fair, very cold tonight, a cold wave in the east, and continued cold air Saturday.
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Alabama
Florida
Tennessee
Associated Press
Ground Hog
North
Central
Doumergue Names Experienced Cabinet in Crisis France
Gaston Doumergue, 71, selected a cabinet of veteran leaders to face France’s crisis. Former premiers Andre Tardieu and Edouard Herriot join as Ministers of State with no portfolios and will be Vice Premier. The group excludes only the Communists and Leon Blum’s Socialist faction amid mounting street protests and a general strike threat.
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Stuart Moroney
Associated Press
Paris
Gaston Doumergue
France
Doumergue
Lebrun
Andre Tardieu
Ouard Herriot
Leon Blum
GOP Committee Charges Scandals in CWA Program
Washington February 9 AP Republican National Committee assails corruption and political favoritism in the four million dollar Civil Works Administration as Congress moves to add 450 million to nearly empty CWA accounts. House questions Hopkins on fund distribution while GOP Independents resist raising total relief to 2.5 billion dollars.
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Washington
Republican National Committee
Congress
House
Senate
House Expenditures Committee
Harry L. Hopkins
Republican Committee
CWA
Army probe cites plane deal with Consolidated Aircraft
The House military affairs committee heard that Consolidated Aircraft of Buffalo profited 46.1 percent on army contracts and agreed to sell 50 more airplanes to the government for $1 each after an audit. Brigadier General H Conger Pratt said the base price was about 96,000 and the contractor netted roughly 300,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Military Affairs Committee
Army
Consolidated Aircraft Company
Buffalo
New York
H. Conger Pratt
Consolidated
Pratt
Verne Sankey Ends Flight From Law in South Dakota Cell
Verne Sankey, once dubbed Americas public enemy number one, hanged himself in a South Dakota penitentiary cell using neckties. He had planned to plead guilty in the Boettcher kidnapping case and evaded Chicago authorities before his death, leaving questions about possible links to the Lindbergh baby case.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Verne Sankey
South Dakota Penitentiary
Chicago
Charles Boettcher
Denver
America
Touhy
Willie Sharkey
St. Paul
Minn
Hamm
Sankey
Boettcher
Boetcher
Haskell Bohn
Desper
South Dakota
Lindbergh
Child chained by parents placed in Arkansas home
Lola Logston, thirteen, chained by leg to a cot for years to stop running away, is placed in Arkansas Children's Home and Hospital after her father and stepmother Roy and are fined $50 each. Lola testified the chain was applied by the stepmother with the father's acquiescence during a Bentonville hearing before Judge Floyd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Ark
Lola Logston
Weiger
Arkansas Children’s Home
F. F. Floyd
Bentonville
Roy Logston
Floyd
Logstons
Lola
Louisiana sugar leaders reject proposed federal plan
Louisiana sugar interests voiced displeasure with the President's sugar program. Representative Montet, who oversees the Louisiana sugar district, offered no comment but signaled dissatisfaction. He and others plan an executive meeting of western and southern sugar region delegates to discuss the plan, with a possible statement after the session.
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Washington
Louisiana
Montet
Cummings
Colorado
Boxer's Mother Illness Forces Walker to Cancel Bouts
Mickey Walker leaves for Rumson New Jersey due to his mother's serious illness. The Rumson Bulldog cancels three scheduled bouts in New Orleans on February 11 and two in California on later dates.
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Boxer
West Palm Beach
Fls
Mickey Walker
Rumson, N. J
Rumson
New Orleans
California
Fire Hazard Hit Tinolenum Plant In Sandura TH
A blaze destroyed five buildings at the Tinolenum plant in Sandura TH plus two small apartment houses and three bungalows. Loss estimated at 1.1 million dollars with 200 workers to be laid off. Seven families homeless, two firemen injured, several frostbitten. Cause undetermined though workers suspect spontaneous origin. The plant superintendent Robert Stewart notes 800000 for buildings and machinery and 300000 for stock.
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Paulsburog
N. J
Fira
Tinolenum
Sandura
Sveral
Robert Stewart
Stewart
Earthquake Jolts Modesto at 1:20 AM
An earthquake rattled windows in Modesto California at 1 20 a m today no damage was reported by officials or residents. The event is listed by local observers as a minor quake with no aftershocks reported.
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Modesto
Calif
MacCracken Arrested By Senate Order In Contempt Case
The Senate ordered the arrest of William P. MacCracken after he refused to appear in contempt proceedings over air mail contract investigations. Only three of four defendants attended trial and the move sparked questions about Senate authority amid other Capitol actions.
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Washington
Senate
Amack
William P. MacCracken
Hoover
Air
Frank J. Hogan
MacCracken
Supreme Court
New York
Houge
Harry H. Woodring
House of Representatives
Roosevelt
Pennsylvanian Avenue
District of Columbia Grand Jury
PWA
CWA
Willian P. MacCracken
Joe S McLane Gives Park To His New Home Town
Marianna magnate Joe S McLane, once a poor Marianna boy who rose to head waiter in New Jersey hotels, donates three lots in the Brooklyn section to Marianna for a public park named Joe McLane Park. Trustees Edward Livingstone R T Gilmore and Arthur Graham named. city accepts amid thanks from Mayor John W Burton.
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Emmett G. Sheppard
Marianna
Fla
Mariannan
McLane
Jacksonville
Joe S. McLane
Florida
Joe
John W. Burton
Brooklyn
Joe McLane
Edward Livingstone
R. T. Gilmore
Arthur Graham
M Property
Robert Pierce
Pierce
Burton
Distilling outfit with 4261 gallon capacity seized in Henry
Abbeville February report says county officers confiscated a distilling plant with a 4261 gallon capacity and a potential 760 gallons daily output. No whiskey recovered. a large quantity of filler used for moonshine was found nearby. No arrests. officers called it the biggest seizure in years in the area.
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Henry
Abbeville
Henry County
Just Walked Streets Explanation Of Five Day Absence
Eleanor Darnell a 15 year old niece of Capt and Mrs Perffect who had been missing from Fort Lewis since Sunday afternoon returned last night Major Victor L Taylor adjutant at Fort Lewis announced The 1660 officers and men of the fort spent yesterday in an intensive search of the 70000 acre army post State and federal officers hunted for her in Tacoma and Seattle She said she had gone to Seattle and walked the streets all the time while away She was questioned at length in the presence of her uncle but no further details were announced.
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Tacoma
Wash
Eleanor Darnell
Charles Perfect
Fort Lewis
Victor L. Taylor
Helief
Tucomma
Seattle
Waying
Alabama Utilities Ordered To File Full Holding Company Information
The Alabama Public Service Commission ordered all utilities under holding company control to file complete details of their relationships by March 1. In Washington, President Roosevelt seeks congressional action on exchange regulation to be sent after 4 p.m. EST. In Cleveland, Alvanley Johnston and C Stirling Smith were found guilty of misapplying 450000 dollars from the Standard Trust Bank. A legal challenge to gold orders proceeds at the Supreme Court. A 235 million revenue bill was introduced by House Ways and Means chairman Caoughton.
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Montgomery
Alabama — Public Service Commission
Alabama
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
White House
Senate
House
Leveland, O
Alvanley Johnston
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
C. Stirling Smith
Standard Trust Bank
Supreme Court
Frederick B. Campbell
New York City
Caoughton
Ways and Means Committee
Continentwide icy weather brings record lows
The icy grip across Europe and North America brings multiple record low temperatures. Germany, Scandinavia, and U S seaboards endure storms with ships sheltering in harbors as temperatures plunge to historic lows.
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Weather Bureau
Europe
Germany
Scaninavia
Baltic
Fingland
North Atlantic Seaboard
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Buffalo
Schenectady
Seaboard
Judson
Fant
Weedsport
Sardinia
Erie County
Lake Erie
Pennsylvania
Lake Hopatcong
N. J
Two Suspects Questioned In Bremer Case
Milwaukee detectives questioned two men suspected of bootlegging who were arrested speeding in a car with a Minnesota license and cash. Edward Bremer, abducted in St Paul, was released for a $200000 ransom. authorities pursue multiple leads and a gang believed to number ten to twelve members.
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Bremer
Milwaukee
Minnesota
Edward G. Bremer
St. Paul
Five Negroes Die in Electric Chair at Kilby Prison
At Kilby Prison in Montgomery on February 9 five sentenced black men were executed for killing four men and a woman. Bennie Foster and John Thompson Liberty were among the deceased. witnesses included officials and ministers.
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Montgomery
Bennie Foster
Selma
Kilby
Foster
Hardie White
Clarence MecCain
Joe Partin
McCain
John Thompson
Mobile
Henry Bloom
White
Luther Willams
Ernest Waller
Shere
Waller
Joe
Solomon Roper
Page Brazier
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North American Newspaper Alliance
Mr. Roosevelt
Pennsylvania Avenue
Treasury Department
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C.W.A
Self
New Jersey
Probe Committee On Constitutional Rights
Marianna Negro
Edouard Daladier
Bulletins
East
State
D. R. MacKenzie
Edward Bremer
Department of Justice
Rochester
Commercial State Bank
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