Inflation And Arms Embargo Test Votes In Congress
Washington April 17 Congress entered its sixth week of the extra session pressing inflation and arms embargo votes. The senate faced a five day work week snarl linked to a farm relief bill while the house prepared a McReynolds resolution to empower Roosevelt to embargo arms shipments to wartime aggressors. Senate leaders planned action as party lines split on the embargo measure and inflation amendments were urged by Senators Long and Wheeler.
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D-Fla
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Arkansas
Chinese Forces Face Major Japanese Offensive in North China
Bombing planes and heavy guns launched a large scale attack as Japanese and Manchukuoan troops push Chinese forces south of the Luan river. Chinwangtao and Changli fell, many towns followed as foreign interests and mission sites near Peiping-Tientsin area faced occupation and upheaval.
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Fifth National Salvation Army
IA Chi- Chung
Kailan
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Manchuria
Pehtaiho
Daughters of the American Revolution hold 42nd annual congress
Washington reports Mrs. Russell William Magna urged D A R members to remain independent from other groups and push a 100 percent national defense program. She led a procession into Constitution Hall and stressed patriot education and preparedness as essential to national safety. The congress debated resolutions on non recognition of Russia amid broader defense aims.
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America
Continental Congress
Enterprise Plans Election Party Tomorrow Night
An election party will be held by The Enterprise Tuesday night starting at about eight o'clock in front of the office on North Main street to announce returns from tomor row's primaries. Registrars and election officials will cooperate to make results known from their precincts as early as possible. Telephone numbers 4567 and 4568 for information or returns.
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Herriot Leaves France for Washington to Discuss Debt
Former French Premier Edouard Herriot sails aboard the Ie De France from Le Havre to New York to observe, then support France’s push for a lump sum payment on US war debt. He aims to advance the French case through diplomat Andre De La Boulaye amid Lausanne reparations context.
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Germany
Herriot Talks Debt Revision in Washington Dialogues
Word from Paris said former Premier Edouard Herriot would push for a lump sum settlement of war debts in talks with President Roosevelt. White House officials offered no comment while observers see this as added pressure on debt revision amid broader economic discussions with Herriot and Ramsay MacDonald. War debts were not highlighted in official invitations or replies, and U S officials stress wider economic issues in discussions with the two leaders.
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Ramsay MacDonald
Great Britain
Death Sentence Given Patterson
DECATUR AL APM 17 Formal sentence of death was passed on Heywood Patterson 19 of Chattanooga by Judge James E B Horton in Morgan county circuit court He was convicted by a jury Sunday April 9 as the first of nine Negroes indicted in the Scottsboro case to go to trial Patterson said I did not get a fair trial before sentencing The execution date was set for June 16.
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Chattanooga
James EB. Horton
Morgan County
Patterson
Scottsboro
Horton
Gregory Released as Prosecution Drops Most Charges
Moscow dispatch reports Prosecutor Andrey Vishinsky recommending dismissal of Albert W. Gregory’s charges while seeking severe punishment for five British engineers and detailing other defendants as spies and bribers. He urged death for Vassili Gusev, with discretion left to the court for remaining prisoners, and claimed Soviet justice seeks no blood vengeance.
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Albert W. Gregory
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Vishinsky
Vassili Gusev
Gusev
L. A. Sukoruchkin
N. G. Zoric
A. T. Lovanov
Fish urges U S diplomatic intervention in Cuba
Representative Fish calls for diplomatic action to end the Cuban terror regime. He warns the administration to act within a week or ten days and proposes sending a strong ambassador to Cuba after discussions with State Department officials.
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Fights Continue In Opichen Yucatan Conflict
In Opichen Yucatan 41 people died in a clash between rebels and federal troops. Only three were federal soldiers. six were wounded. Governor Bartolo Garcia Correa called it a local incident caused by uninformed supporters of a revolutionary defense group opposing the government. Twenty rebels were captured. casualties among rebels unknown.
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Beer Runner Freed After Beer Car Arrest
Sheriff H. H. Clark and deputies arrested Tom Marks in Elizabethtown driving a large touring car with 40 cases of beer. The brew was found not to violate state law and Marks was liberated.
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Helvering Likely Appointed Revenue Commissioner
Washington reports March 17 1930 administration ready to name Guy T Helvering former Kansas representative as commissioner of internal revenue. Vincent Dallman Springfield Ind slated for treasury secretary to replace Seymour Lowman. Edward McGrady AFL official to department of labor possibly as assistant secretary. Other posts include Harry Mitchell interior assistant secretary and A C Miller Fed Reserve board governor.
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Guy T. Helvering
Kansas
Internal Revenue
Vincent Dallman
Springfield
the Treasury
Seymour Lowman
New York
Edward McGrady
American Federation of Labor
Department of Labor
Harry Mitchell
Great Falls
Mont
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A. C. Miller
Federal Reserve Board
Roosevelt
Robert Gore
Chicago
Florida
Beer Returns to Capitol House Restaurant
Washington April 17 Thirty cases of cold beer were made available in the house restaurant for congressmen and their secretaries who had not been able to buy beer in 16 years. Chairman Warren said beer would be sold at 20 cents a bottle only to patrons at tables and should reduce last year’s $10,000 deficit. It will not be sold in cloakrooms adjacent to the house floor.
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Assembly to Clash Over Sales Tax in North Carolina
Raleigh April 17 Members of the North Carolina general assembly returned home for a fight over the biennial revenue bill. The house must consider a sales tax to cover an $83,000,000 appropriations plan. Anti tax leader Tom C Bowie warns a tax pass would provoke retaliation by a likely 1935 Republican legislature.
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Bowie
Funeral services for Rebecca Whitted age 120
Funeral services were held here for Rebecca Whitted a Black woman said to be 120 years old when she died Wednesday.
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Fayetteville
Rebecca Whitted
Aged Woman Dies After Fall in Home
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Laugenour aged 90 died in Winston Salem from injuries suffered in a fall at her home Friday.
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Winston-Salem
Mary Elizabeth Laugenour
Boggan Proposes Raising Income Tax Cap in North Carolina
Senator Boggan introduces a constitutional amendment to raise the income tax limit from 6 to 12 percent and to permit taxes on trades and professions with specific exemptions for families. The proposal faces uncertain approval and may be voted separately from a broader redrafted constitution.
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Means Loses Appeal in $104000 Theft Case
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals affirmed a 15 year sentence for Gaston B. Means who was convicted of stealing $104,000 from Evalyn Walsh McLean. He had received $100,000 in cash and $4,000 for expenses, claiming he handed funds to a man he believed acted as McLean’s agent.
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Washington
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Gaston B. Means
Evalyn Walsh McLean
Means
Charlies A. Lindbergh
McLean
Alexandria
North Carolina
Puritan Weaving Reopens With 100 Jobs At Fayetteville
One hundred men gain work today as Puritan Weaving resumes operations returning to three eight hour shifts daily at Fayetteville plant following a pause in production.
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Puritan Weaving Company
Factor Cantnoi Meets Demands for Kidnapped Son
John Factor known as Jake the Barber faces extradition to England over investor fraud totaling eight million dollars. He said he could not raise the rumored ten to sixteen thousand demanded for his 17 year old son Jerome who was kidnapped outside his ex wife’s home. He spoke from a loop hotel bungalow with multiple suites reportedly leased in his name as police and underworld search for the youth continues.
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England
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Northwestern University
Murray Humphries
Joe Fusco
Capone
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Supreme Court
Napoca
Ten Thousand Year Moravian Easter Service Observed
In Winston-Salem on April 17 the 61st Moravian Easter dawn service drew thousands who stood in rain for two hours before dawn. Bishop J. Ke declared the Lord is risen as crowds answered with the Lord is risen indeed and rain eased to reveal Easter garb.
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J. Ke
Mexican Paper Praises Ambassador Daniels Arrival Policy
Mexico City April 17 government newspaper FE Nacional praises Ambassador Josephus Daniels for his attitude toward the new task in Mexico. The paper lauds his declarations on arrival as supporting equal sovereignty reciprocity and territorial rights.
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