Roosevelt Signs Bankhead Bill to Limit 34 Cotton
President Roosevelt signed the Bankhead compulsory cotton control bill to cap the 1934 cotton crop at 10,000,000 bales. The measure, praised by Senator Bankhead and Representative Bankhead, aims to place cotton on a sound financial base and accompanies a broad plan to prevent surpluses from depressing prices.
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Bankhead
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Associated Press
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Price Fixing Policy Not Yet Feasible, Roosevelt Told
A cabinet committee advised President Roosevelt that a policy on price fixing is not yet feasible. The report, prepared for the White House by Perkins Roper Wallace and Attorney General Cummings, suggests gathering more data to form an objective judgment. It notes that many factors beyond prices may have caused harm and that the NRA’s results cannot be decided now.
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Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
White House
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Roper
Wallace
Cummings
NRAA
Anniversary of Remembering Maine and Alamo Battles
The article recalls the April 1898 US war with Spain sparked by the Maine disaster and the 1836 Texan siege at the Alamo ending with Santa Anna’s defeat of Texas. It notes the Maine explosion, the battles of San Jacinto, and the legal Texas holiday. It also covers Roosevelt era politics, bank legislation, silver debates, and unemployment relief discussions.
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Will Rogers on Wirt affair as a joke and passports in China
Santa Monica column notes Will Rogers saying the Wirt affair was a joke on him and asks if taxpayers were framed. The piece mentions Japan’s claim to have taken over sup er China and notes other nations may need visas or passports to enter China.
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Wirt
Japan
China
America
Tokio
Will
Robbery at filling station target in Winston-Salem
Two unmasked white men robbed RE. T. Cockersham, a filling station attendant, with a sawed-off shotgun last night, taking 860 dollars. Separately, National Park Service officials flew in for a one-day aerial survey of proposed Shenandoah Great Smoky Mountains Parkway routes.
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Winston-Salem
RE. T. Cockersham
Washington
National Park Service
Shenanddoah-Great Smoky Mountains National Parkway
Soviet Leaders Out To Set Up Defense Against Invasions
Moscow reports on April 21 that under President Kalinin Soviet leaders pushed a defensive program. The article cites calls in La Pravda urging training of women and children to carry on if men are called to fight and warns imperialists plan wars against the Soviet Union and Japan.
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Michael Kalinin
Russia
la Pravada
Kaldain
Soviet Union
U. S
Red Army
Weather Forecast by States and Coastal Winds
North Carolina sees pair tonight and Sunday with warmer Sunday and light frost in west portion tonight. South Carolina remains fair tonight and Sunday with light frost possible in northwest tonight. Winds Hatteras to Jacksonville moderate shifting to west on Sunday. Hook to Hatteras shows moderate winds and partly clear tonight and Sunday. Charlotte AP reports official temperature and rainfall records for the seven hours to 6 am in principal cotton regions.
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Vinson Plans Confab On Tobacco Tax Reduction
Representative Vinson of Kentucky, chairman of a House subcommittee, seeks a personal conference before commenting on President Roosevelt’s opposition to a 40 percent cut in federal tobacco taxes. The subcommittee favored a graduated tax, arguing a temporary revenue drop could be offset as consumption rises. Governors from tobacco states pressed officials to support the plan.
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Vinson
D-Ky
House
Ways and Means
Roosevelt
Treasury
Ehringhaus
North Carolina
Tobacco farmers' 1933-34 income to reach 214 million
Washington officials estimate American tobacco farmers will earn about 214 million dollars in the 1933-34 marketing year, more than double the prior year. Market receipts total 186 million, with 28 million in benefit payments under acreage reduction contracts. Prices rose about 25 percent as 200 million pounds were sold despite world demand.
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Washington
Farm Administration
Harriman Hosiery Must Surrender Blue Eagle
After weeks of delay and intercession by President Roosevelt, Harriman Hosiery Co of Harriman Tennessee was ordered by Hugh S. Johnson to give up its blue eagle for alleged violations of labor sections of the industrial law. The case followed a refused settlement of a strike and a March 13 request to remove the eagle, with NRA officials seeking an accord.
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NRA
State General Fund Shows Red In North Carolina
Raleigh April 21 The state treasury reported a March 31 cash balance of 9 26 million but the general fund remained overdraft. The auditor treasurer’s report shows the general fund deficit reduced to 1 781 million 501 65 from 4 33 million 414 75 on February 28. Highway fund on hand 10 510 million 516 76 explains the cash balance. For the year general receipts 22 479 million 744 93, total expenditures outpaced revenues keeping the general fund under by 4 084 932. Highway receipts 3 246 million 211 37 last month lifted its balance, with a year total 37 965 481 in receipts and a year end balance 9 113 922, though disbursements reached 36 568 887.
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North Carolina
Budget Bureau
General Fund
Legislative Threat To Recovery Dying In Rush Of Closing
The Chamber of Commerce reports the legislative threat to business recovery has eased as Congress nears adjournment. It notes a moderate remaining program focusing on taxes tariff stock exchange regulation and securities act changes with labor and silver issues still uncertain.
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Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Congress
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Washington Review
Furth
Tamany Hall Limbs Cut as New York Politics Reshaped
New York report says Tamny Hall loses power after John F Curry’s ouster. Fusion win shifts Bronx Queens Brooklyn Staten Island, leaving Manhattan with only two minor posts. Roosevelt era tensions loom as party realigns ahead of 1936, with convention votes now uncertain.
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BL. Livingstone
New York
York City
Tony
Tammany Hall
John F. Curry
Tammany
New York City
United States
Manhattan
Borough of
Board of Estimate
New York County
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
Seabury
Curry
John P. O'Brien
Democratic
Bronx
Queens
Brooklyn
Staten Island
John McCooey
Tammany Party
Division Ordered in Ecker Estate in High Point
Judge John H. Clement confirmed two orders directing division of about 50000 in stocks and bonds from the Ford Ecker estate and appointing Wachovia Bank and Trust Co as administrator with will annexed. A receivership for the Ecker Mirror Co was postponed to April 27. The petition by Mrs. Clementine Loose sought the division of assets among the two executrices, who resigned in favor of the bank.
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Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
High Point
John H. Clement
Ford Ecker Mirror Company
A. Wayland Cooke
Superior Court
Clement
Cooker
Clementine Loose
Ecker
Elizabeth Kalte
Loose
Kalte
R. A. McPheeters
Ecker Mirror Company
Preservation funds set for Winston-Salem trees
The Winston-Salem board of aldermen approved $1,000 for preserving public property trees, adding to a previous $2,500 allocation. Despite spring foliage, the January ice storm scars remain visible on many city trees.
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Winston-Salem
Board of Aldermen
Farley Defends Cancellation Act in Newark Address
Postmaster General James A. Farley defends canceling air mail contracts at a Newark ceremony for a new $6.15 million post office. He accuses bidders of collusion and fraud, says contracts violated bidding laws, and vows a sound legal air mail policy tied to a broader aviation program.
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N. J
James A. Farley
Farley
Air Mail
Post Office Department
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