Farm Bills Again Face Lawmakers In Senate Fight
In Washington on April 12 the Senate moved to a decision on the administration farm relief bill with debate focusing on the Simpson amendment guaranteeing farmer income. Meanwhile muscle Shoals operation and Tennessee river basin development were approved by the Senate agricultural committee.
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Washington
Senate
Simpson
Secretary of Agriculture
House
War Department
House Military Committee
Johnson Hagood
Labor Committee
Frances Perkins
Bankruptcy Plea For A. Sherrod
A. Sherrod, a High Point real estate man, filed in federal court Greensboro a petition of bankruptcy asking that R. H. Wheeler be named receiver. The petition seeks an assistant to prepare schedules, citing creditor interests due to notes mortgages and other claims against the bankrupt. No order has been issued yet.
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Greensboro
A. Sherrod
High Point Real Estate
R. H. Wheeler
Woolworth Declares 60 Cents Quarterly Dividend
Directors of F. W. Woolworth Co. declare a regular quarterly dividend of 60 cents a share. Payment is set for June 1 to stockholders of record April 24.
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New York
F. W. Woolworth Co
Nomination of Frank Murphy as Philippines governor general approved
The senate territories committee unanimously approved the nomination of Frank Murphy former Detroit mayor to be governor general of the Philippines and ordered it reported to the full senate.
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Washington
Frank Murphy
Detroit
The
Philippines
Senate Territories Committee
Senate
President Condemns Existing Warfare in American Republics
A Beverly Hills desk column critiques party newspapers for loyalty to the administration while noting beer ads enlivened by attractive campaigns. The piece laments persistent party lines and celebrates a shift toward ad variety and public discourse.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Postage Reforms and Gasoline Tax Plan Unveiled
Washington April 12 The Ways and Means Committee plans to introduce a bill Monday to reenact a cent a gallon gasoline tax and reduce first class postage from three to two cents. Doughton indicated repeal of the bank check tax will wait for a broader tax study. The gasoline tax is projected to raise 140 to 150 million dollars. the check tax about 46 million. A conference settled local letters delivery postage, and action aims for early House passage next week.
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Senate
Tennesese
Senate Territories Committee
Frank Murphy
Detroit
Philippines
Doughton
House
Ways and Means
Washington
Ways and Means Committee
Coughton
Congress
Post Office Department
Farley
Harrison
Miss
Senate Finance Committee
Britisher And 11 Russians Plead Guilty To Espionage
W. T. MacDonald a British employee of Metropolitan-Vickers and 11 Russian workers pleaded guilty to espionage sabotage and bribery in October Hall. Five other British employees including Allan Monkhouse and Charles Nordwell pleaded not guilty as trial began amid heavy security with bayoneted guards and a crowded courtroom.
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Moscow
W. T. MacDonald
Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company
Allan Monkhouse
Metropolitan-Vickers Company
Charles Nordwell
L. C. Thornton
A. W. Gregory
John Cusling
Roosevelt Sees South American War as Backward Step
President Roosevelt condemns ongoing South American warfare as a backward step during Pan American Day remarks. He urges immediate unilateral moves to remove trade barriers and promote unity among American republics while noting tensions between Bolivia and Paraguay over the Chaco and Peru Colombia clashes over Leticia.
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Washington
South America
Roosevelt
The
Pan-American Union
White House
Pan American Union
Chaco
Bolivia
Paraguay
Peru
Colombia
Amazon
Leticia
United States
League of Nations
30 Hour Week Bill Probed By Roosevelt Aides
President Roosevelt backs the 30 hour week principle but seeks elasticity to spread work and avoid long single shifts. Frances Perkins and Secretary Hoover endorse changes to make the Black bill workable as the House Labor Committee studies it.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Hil
Frances Perkins
House Labor Committee
Miss Perkins
Roper
Miss Perkin
Ala
House hits snag on revenue bill and tax bases
In Raleigh on April 12 the House, acting as a committee of the whole, finished most revenue bill articles but paused over the controversial sales tax provision. Debate raged over changing the basis for foreign corporation franchise taxes, with sharp exchanges between Representatives Everett and Brawley. The Senate meanwhile passed on second reading the Dunagan bill creating a state supervised mutual compensation insurance fund by a 21 to 20 vote. A beer prohibition measure passed locally in Bladen County banning 3.2 percent alcohol sales in Frenchs Creek township.
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Raleigh
House
Senate
Dunagan
Everett
Durham
Finance Committee
Brawley
Dennis G. Brummitt
Frenchs’ Creek
Bladen County
Judiciary Committee
Daniel Boone National Forest Park
North Carolina
Will of James L. Ragan filed for probate in High Point
Special to the Enterprise reports probate filing for the late James L. Ragan near High Point. The will leaves the estate to the Wesley Memorial Church of High Point, excluding burial expenses, with Wachovia Bank and Trust Company as executor. Also probated today, the will of F H Hartgrove leaves $2000 to his widow.
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Enterprise
Greensboro
James L. Ragan
Near High Point
Anna Cook
Aes Ata
Wesley Memorial
High Point
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
F. H. Hartgrove
Causey Sues Railroads for 10000 in Damages
C M Causey of High Point files in Guilford Superior Court for 10000 against Southern Railway and North Carolina Railroad Company seeking damages for injuries from a wreck at the Jamestown crossing on December 2. The suit alleges the train was operated in rapid reckless and unlawful manner. Robert Hiatt was killed in the crash.
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Greensboro
C. M. Causey
High Point
Guilford Superior Court
The
Southern Railway
North Carolina Railroad Company
Jamestown Crossing
Robert Hiatt
No True Bill For Driver of Auto
Raleigh April 12 Fred Cowan a Raleigh man who drove the car wrecked near here March 29 fatally injuring Miss Genevieve Fales of Wilmington was freed of manslaughter charges when the Wake county grand jury failed to find a true bill. Cowan was driving the machine of Representative Harriss Newman of New Hanover county and was bound over to the grand jury by Coroner L M Waring after a preliminary hearing.
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Raleigh
Fred Cowan
Here
Genevieve Fales
Wilmington
Wake County
Cowan
Harriss Newman
New Hanover County
L. M. Waring
Shaw denies insulting Americans over Dear Old Boobs
George Bernard Shaw insisted he meant no insult by the term dear old boobs and denied saying Americans are blind deaf and dumb. He told more than a hundred reporters that any misinterpretation arose from a misquote and noted Helen Keller was praised as seeing and hearing better than many Americans. The S.S. Empress of Britain was to sail soon as Shaw completed a cruise.
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Shaw
Morris Watson
New York
George Bernard Shaw
Helen Keller
Miss Keller
Southampton
al Smith
Robinson Opposes U S Recognition of Russia
Senator Robinson of Indiana warned that recognizing the Soviet government would place “a gun in their hands” to undermine the United States. He argued Moscow agents distort elections and propaganda would flow from an official embassy, and said formal recognition would not fix trade or improve economic conditions.
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Washington
Senate
Robinson
Ind
Russia
Indianan
Foreign Relations Committee
Moscow
United States
Former War Aviator King Dies In Hotel Window Plunge
Captain Paul B. King 35 son of Senator William H. King Utah died last night from a fall or jump from a seventh floor hotel room. Acting coroner A Magruder MacDonald withheld the death certificate pending determination. Senator King deemed the death accidental, saying he recently spoke with his son who was in good spirits.
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Washington
Paul B. King
William H. King
Utah
A. Magruder MacDonald
King
Mother and Seven Die In Farmhouse Fire
A farm house fire near Harris Minnesota early Tuesday killed a mother Mrs Albin Johnson and her seven children Harold ten Clifford nine Kenneth seven Dorothy five Bernice four Lester two and James fourteen months. Authorities sought to determine if the father also perished in the flames as searchers recovered the bodies.
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Harris, Minn
Albin Johnson
Harold
Clifford
Kenneth
Dorothy
Bernice
Lester
James
American Missionary Captured in Manchuria
Dr Niele Nielsen an American medical missionary for Danish Lutheran mission at Halugen was kidnapped by Chinese brigands. The telegram from his wife received at the American consulate in MAKDEN, Manchuria states the capture occurred yesterday.
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Makden
Manchuria
Niele Nielsen
Nielsen
Minneapolis
Halugen
Here
Officals Acquitted in Prohibition Frameup Case
The sheriff, chief deputy, a sergeant and a former deputy of Uderdale County, along with two other men, were acquitted here yesterday of conspiring to violate national prohibition laws. The defense described the case as a political frameup.
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Ailer
Uderdale County
Tennessee Senate approves 3.2 beer repeal bill
In Nashville the senate passed a house approved bill to reintroduce 3.2 percent beer on May 1 ending the state’s bone dry status since 1909. House concurrence expected and the governor likely to sign. Also reports from Peru and Paris note a landslide burial near Chiclayo and former U.S. ambassador Walter Edge sailing to New York.
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Nashville
Tenn
Senate
Tennessee
House
Paris
Walter KE. Edge
United States
New York
Roosevelt ship Phoebus honors Akron crew rescues
The AP reports President Roosevelt ship Phoebus tending this nation's gratitude to the crew who aided in rescuing three Akron crew members after the airship disaster.
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Washington
President Roosevelt
Phoebus
Akron
Prime Ministers to Stay at White House
President Roosevelt adopts a rule ensuring prime ministers stay at the White House while cabinet members remain at their embassies. Prime Minister MacDonald of England will be a White House guest, and Edouard Herriot of France will reside at the French embassy. The president suggests a joint meeting by the fireplace if they are present together.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
MacDonald
England
Edouard Herriot
France
Herriot
Crush Cottonseed Report Published
Washington reports the Census Bureau data for the period August 1 through March showing 3,817,786 tons of cottonseed crushed, down from 4,596,604 tons a year earlier. Mills held 749,164 tons on March 31, up from 709,502 tons last year.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Parole Granted For Liquor Law Offenders In Michigan
Lansing April 12 Governor Comstock said all liquor law violators without other crimes have been paroled from state prisons. More than 200 paroles have been granted to those serving terms solely for liquor law offenses.
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Lansing
Mich
William A. Comstock
Hagood Urges Rapid War Department Reform to Save Millions
Major General Johnson Hagood told the House Military Committee that the war department is top heavy and would collapse at war. He proposed a $50,000,000 annual saving through a five line reorganization including administration supply tactics air corps and militia bureau. He backed McCarthur and urged a stronger navy and updated harbor defenses.
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Washington
Johnson Hagood
South Carolina
House Military Committee
War Department
Hagood
Hoover
Seventh Corps
Omaha
Neb
McSwain
Dern
Thomason
Tex
Douglas McCarthur
Army
National Guard
Regular Army
Reserve Officers Training Corps
General Staff
Air Corps
Militia
Secretary of War For Air
Life Sentence Passed On Head Of Kentucky Cult
In MNBZ Kentucky on April 12 the jury convicted John H. Mills Ballard Mills and Blaine McGinnis in the Mills human sacrifice case. John H. Mills drew life imprisonment while Ballard Mills and Blaine McGinnis received 21 years each. Mrs Mollie McGinnis and Mrs Ora Moore were acquitted. The slain victim, Mrs Lucinda Millis, 67, died February 8 in a mountain cabin near Tomahawk. The trial followed a lengthy religious cult confrontation, with defense claiming the defendants were under a hypnotic spell. The verdict was read in a silent court room as sentences proceed under sea law.
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Mnbz
Joh H. Mills
Ballard Mills
Blaine McGinnis
Mills
Mollie McGinnis
Ora Moore
John H. Mills
Lucinda Millis
Tomahawk
Dawe
Daugher
Amon
J. B. Clark
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Thornton
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U.S
Chiclayo
Michigan
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Kentucky
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