Peanut crop control plan gains farmer support move
Kenneth Treanor leads a Southeast and Northwest Florida meeting with 65 farmers and county agents at the Houston Hotel to endorse a peanut acreage reduction plan for 1934. The plan offers 2 sales permits and about 97 percent of the market price to signers, while non signers receive 60 percent.
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Ermers
Asetima
Florida
Kenneth Treanor
Agriculture Listment Administration
Houston Hotel
Stanor
Treanor
Virginia
Carolinas
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Texas
Virginias
Secfons
C. E. Stapp
Houston
M. M. Woodham
Geneva
F. C Clapp
Bullock
C. S. Keller
Henry
W. D. Thomason
Dele
H. D. Sexton
Coffee
W. T. Cheney
Covington
J. A. McLeod
Crenshaw
W. A. Ruffin
Pike County
Roosevelt Reveals Plan to Replace Civil Works With National Relief
President Roosevelt unveiled a reorganized national relief program to substitute for the Civil Works Administration as it demobilizes. The plan targets three groups: distressed rural families, stranded urban populations such to miners in abandoned fields, and the urban unemployed, with $950 million already appropriated.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Capitol
White House
Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
Kennamer Dismisses Depositors Complaint Against Andalusia Banks
U S District Judge Charles B Kennamer dismissed for lack of jurisdiction a depositor committee suit seeking to impound sets of the defunct Andalusia National Bank and the First National Bank of Andalusia. The filing claimed the merger was illegal and asked to replace the bank receiver Thomas A Dixon.
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Annamer
Nialusiational Bank
National Bank
Unexplained shooting of 16 year old girl shocks Alabama town
CADSDEN Ala Feb 28 AP A De Kalb County girl 16 identified as Euday Filmore was shot in the breast by a pistol after claiming she aimed to test the gun. She said she wanted to see if it would work and fired once then killed herself with the same shot. Father P Filmore reported the incident at their home with the girl in critical condition.
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Cadsden
Ala
Euday Filmore
de Kalb
Filmore
Weather forecast fragment notes mixed precipitation
Fragmentary forecast indicates cloudy with possible rain or snow. North region may see pain or snow with slightly warmer tonight, west likely rain, and east portion possibly rain or snow later tonight.
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North
Por
Fires Destroy Theatres In Geneva And Offices In Cambria
Fire in Geneva Alabama destroyed the Arcade Theatre and Alabama Power Company offices. In Cambria Oklahoma a mine explosion injured six men, none seriously, as gas and causation remain under investigation. In Washington Ernest W Smoot testified he worked for Western Air Express in 1930 while earning 3525 dollars yearly as a Senate finance committee clerk.
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Geneva
Ala
Arcade Theatre
Alabama Power Company
Washington
Ernest W. Smoot
Smoot
Utah
Senate Air Mail
Western Air Express
Senate Finance Committee
Six Movie Stars Named For Best Performance Awards
The Academy named three actresses May Robson Katharine Hepburn and Diana Wynward as best actress nominees for 1933 with Robson for Lady For A Day Wynward for Cavalcade and Hepburn for Morning Glory The best actor nominees are Leslie Howard Paul Muni and Charles Laughton for Berkeley Square I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang and Henry VIII respectively.
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Hollywood
May Robson
Katharine Hepburn
Diana Wynward
Leslie Howard
Paul Muni
Charles Laughton
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Miss Robson
Miss Wynward
Miss Hepburn
Muni
Howard
Berkeley Square
and Laughton
Henry the VIII
Negro Shot Tuesday Assailant Arrested
Police report a man named Ben Clark shot Lewis Jones in the thigh following an argument. Clark was turned over to county officials and jailed on a charge of assault with intent to murder after the incident.
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Lewis Jones
Ben Clark
Jones
Clark
Last Chance to Qualify for Local and State Offices
Probate Judge H. K. Martin presides as candidates rush to qualify by tonight at twelve o clock. Rollie Dawsey becomes the last entrant for county commissioner district 1. Nearby listings include K. P. Holland state representative and S. R. Kelly and D. A. Walden senators from district 35, plus several district and committee seats across the Democratic slate.
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H. K. Martin
Rollie Dawsey
K. P. Holland
A. O. Walker
S. R. Kelly
W. F. Covington
W. A. Deese
C. C. Hall
Keener Baxley
D. A. Walden
Robert Malone
Dr. B. W. Both
Four Naish family members die in Georgia fire
In Rome Georgia a fire that likely began while thawing frozen water pipes killed four members of the Naish family of six. J W Naish a cotton mill worker and three children Helen 18 Louise 14 and George 12 died. Mrs Naish and daughter Iona 22 survived.
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Rome
J. W. Naish
Helen
Louise
George
Naish
Birmingham
Aln
Prisoner Tells of Massive Crime Ring In Boston Confession
Massachusetts police say Abraham M. Faber, MIT graduate and radio expert, confessed to a vast crime spree including four slayings, theatre and bank robberies, and thefts from a state police exhibit. He named Irving and Morton Millen as accomplices inNeedham officer slayings and other crimes. The Millens were detained in New York pending extradition. Morton’s wife Norma was paroled to her father.
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Millen Brothers
Irving
Morton
Boston
Greater
Bellsef
New York
Massachusetts
Norma Millen
Faber Confession
Faber
Needham
Needham Trust Company
Fitchburg
Fred Sumner
Bill Poster
Paramount Theater
Lynn
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States Army
Alabama Faces Steep CWA Quota Cuts for March
The state CWA director Thad Holt reports Washington orders Alabama to cut the CWA job quota from 74 000 to 43 000 for March 9 and further to 16 000 by March 30 with weekly 9 000 reductions until the target is met. The tapering plan shifts team and truck hire costs into labor and directs local county directors to enforce the reductions, with actual worker numbers likely lower than stated.
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Montgomery
Alia
Thad Holt
CWA
Washington Today
Alabama
Harry l. Hopkins
Washington
Hopkins
Holt
Ray Crow
Crow Maid
Impeachment Sought for Morgan County Officials
The Morgan County grand jury asked for the impeachment of Justice of the Peace J. P. Lipscomb in Precinct 20 for corruption in office and Constable W. J. Sparkman in Precinct 10 for negligence and intoxication in office after a regular session. Allegations include extorting fines from a man deemed not guilty of public drunkenness.
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Decatur
Ala
Lipscomb
County Teachers Aid Applications To Be Presented Today
County School Superintendent Solomon Baxter was to depart for Montgomery with the formal Feder al Aid applications for teachers in the county section. The request covers about 171 teachers for roughly four months and seeks about 46 thousand dollars from the Federal Government.
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Solomon Baxter
Montgomery
Feder
Vienna Quiet After Habicht Ultimatum Expiry
Vienna remained calm as the Habicht ultimatum expired at midday. No demonstrations occurred in the capital or provinces, and border incidents with Germany were not reported. University of Vienna students did not assemble, and no unusual street activity was seen.
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Vienna
Habicht
Theodore Habicht
University of Vienna
Officials Begin Probe of Railway Accident
Pittsburgh, Feb 28. Federal and state investigations into the Pennsylvania Railroad wreck that killed nine and injured 29 begin today. Railroad officials and Coroner W. J. McGregor say they have not determined the cause of the catastrophe after the No 1638 train plunged over an embankment Monday night.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Ives
W. J. McGregor
Japan protest over Soviet flights over Manchuria and Korea
Japan lodged a formal protest with Moscow demanding an end to Soviet flights over Manchuria and Korea after reports of Russians firing on Japanese planes. Foreign Minister Koki Hirota sent the note, citing dangerous incidents and seeking compensation for future incursions.
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Glenn Babe
Tokyo
Moscow
Manchuria
Korea
Koki Hirota
Ota
Foreign Office
Manchukuo
Amur
Heilung
Khabarovenir
War Office
Amur Frontier
Japan
Farmer Sylvester Harris Hopes via White House Call
Columbus Miss February 28 AP Sylvester Harris a Negro man in Mississippi telephoned President Roosevelt about a man preparing to take his land. The White House caller promised an investigation and Morton extension talks followed the Feb 19 call. Harris grows 24 bales of cotton on 30 acres and involvement from George Hamilton of the New Orleans Federal Bank is noted.
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Columbus, Misn
Sylvester Harris
Mississippi
Roosevelt
Sylvester
White House
Saya
George Hamilton
New Orleans
Strike of coal miners continues in Cahaba fields
In eight Cahaba area villages mine whistles called workers off duty as 2090 miners stay idle while UMWA seeks settlement. Judge Acuff proposed delaying returns to aid negotiations after a complaint over not using the check off dues system against Little Cahaba and Blount coal firms at Piper and Colonel.
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West Blocton
Ala
Cahaba
United Mine Workers of America
J.D. Acuff
Jasper
Division Labor Board
William Mitch
Little Cahaba
Biocton Cahaha
Piper and
Coleanor
Shelby
Bibb
New Scheme for News Broadcasting Begins Tomorrow
A new system for radio news consolidates daily events into two five minute broadcasts at 9 30 a m and 2 p m local time to protect newspapers from unauthorized use. It uses edited summaries from AP UP and INS.
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New York
United States
Associated Press
United Press
The
International News Service
Sleet and Snow Hit Three Southern States
Snow and sleet covered parts of three Southern states today while warm regions thawed. North Louisiana saw snow last night in Monroe, snow began after midnight. Little Rock 26 degrees reported snow, Jackson Mississippi saw sleet, and temperatures across the region ranged from zero in Richmond to 48 in Jacksonville.
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Associated Press
Louisiana
Monroe
Little Rock
Jackson
Miss
South
New Orleans
Jacksonville
Atlanta
Nashville
Memphis
Birmingham
Charleston
Charlotte
Richmond
Major Dixon Draws Alabama Voters To New Deal Plan
Maj. Frank M. Dixon, candidate for Governor, urged Coffee County voters to overthrow old line politicians and back a New Deal style reorganization of state government. He outlined a short ballot plan with elected governor and appointed other offices, arguing it would reduce debt and place power in the people while offering recall if he fails.
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Eagle
Enterprise
Alabama
Maj
Frank M. Dixon
Coffee County
Maj. Dixon
Col
Bibb Graves
Leon McCord
Ail Tunstall
Alabama House
Franklin DD. Roosevelt
New York State
Harry Fie Byrd
Virginia
Gardner
North Carolina
McNutt
Indiana
House
Senate
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Cambria
Okla
Kali Inla
Roger
Touhy
Roger Touhy
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Ike
Auto
Gus Schafer
Albert Kater
Joliet
John F. Stokes
Abraham M. Faber
Morgan County
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Changchun
Manchkuo
Honchun
Keigen
Keiko
Yuki
Rashin
Russia
Amr
Sungari
Negro
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North Alabama
Major Dixon
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