Consolidation Of State Funds Urged In 1933 Report
North Carolina should merge the highway and general funds to save interest costs and stabilize revenues. Former State Treasurer John P. Stedman, signing the biennial report, advocates short term refund bonds, budget director power to cut appropriations, and earlier auto tag sales to bolster year end cash.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Treasuerer
General Assembly
John P. Stedman
Cotton Co op Likely to Lose Big Sum Says Official
E F Creekmore general manager of the American Cotton Cooperative Association testified before the Shannon committee that liquidation of cotton held since 1930 31 would show a collateral loss of 5600000 and shift much of the burden to the government He noted the cooperative with 79500 capital had been financed with 20000000 from the farm board and argued the market benefited farmers by 175500000 in higher prices while sustaining the market in 1930 31
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Washington
E. F. Creekmore
American Cotton Cooperation Association
Shannon Committee
Creekmore
Cotton Stabilization Corporation
Farm Board
Rich
Pennsylvania
Pettengill
Indiana
United States
Government Tax Windfall If Wine Is Legalized
A government analysis argues legalization would yield a large tax revenue. A committee heard a plea to restore the old wine decanter to every dinner table as part of a broader push for wine policy reform.
Japan Gets Sharp Note on Manchurian Issue
Moscow refuses to surrender insurgent General Su Ping-Wen and his army or stop their departure from the Soviet Union. Russia says it cannot extradite and notes neutrality in Manchurian affairs. Discussions began December 8 when Japan pressed for order in Manchukuo.
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Moscow
Foreign Office
Su Ping-Wen
Soviet Union
Surdly
Manchua
Manchuria
H.M. Kharakhan
People's Commissar
Russia
Af Firstman
Manchukuo
Furniture Industry May Be Revolutionized By Machine
Dr Joseph A Hartig announced a pressure process that colors sap replaced by a dye in logs before lumber is cut. Demonstrations showed sap replaced by blue green coloring following tree rings, with potential use of sap chemicals for paints and varnishes and to insert fireproof or waterproof additives.
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Fairfax
G. C
Joseph A. Hartig
Hartig
Jacksonville
Fla
Dc. W. Brewer
Rome
Donations For Empty Stocking Fund Urges Public Help
The Empty Stocking Fund seeks Christmas aid from city residents to fill stockings for needy families. The Enterprise sponsors the drive, noting many homes face cold, lean meals this holiday. Contributions so far are below last year, with names and small amounts listed, and every penny supports making Christmas brighter.
Money Bill Cut Sharply In House Appropriations
Washington December 10. The appropriations committee recommended a sharply reduced money bill for the treasury and post office departments. The combined total for 1934 falls to 961,416,000 with Coast Guard funds also trimmed despite warnings of increased rum running. Admiral Hamlet testified legalization of low alcohol beer will not curb smuggling. committee still cut the coast guard allotment from 28,172,000 to a lower 1934 figure.
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Washington
Treasury
Post Office
House
Appropriations Committee
Coast Guard
Harry G. Hamlet
Hamlet
House Ways and Means
United States
Mother and Three Children Killed
Paul Guterez returned to his Brooklyn home to find the door bolted and the kitchen door forced. He discovered his wife dead on the floor with a four month old infant in her arms and the two other children beside her. Gas jets in the range were on. Relatives said the mother had acted demented since the birth of the last child.
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New York
Paul Guterez
Brooklyn
Siz
King Winter Makes His Bow Across The Nation
Californians endure record cold with San Francisco at 34 and Sacramento 26 the coldest in years. Alaskan readings soar to 39 on the Arctic Circle while snow blankets mountains near San Diego and Oregon towns report deep freezes. A waterspout appeared in San Francisco Bay as frost warnings stretch from the Canadian border to Mexico with frost feared for citrus in San Diego.
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San Francisco
California
San Francisco Bay
Point Barrow
Alaska
Arctic Circle
Lake Tahoe
Calif
Sacramento
San Diego
Fresno
Oakland
Bay
Bay Area
Crescent
Oregon
Grants
Rogue River
Utah
California Division of Highways
Ydonner
Reno
Heaviest Snow In Six Years On Tap For New York City
A nor eastern snowstorm spread across the Northeast including New York City as officials plan to hire 16 000 unemployed men to shovel snow at 50 cents an hour. The system began as Gulf of Mexico rain and moved northeast bringing slippery roads and a wide area of snow with temperatures from zero to 34 degrees. Several inches are expected by tomorrow.
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New York
Weather Bureau
New York City
Gulf of Mexico
Virginia
Maryland
New York State
New England
Owls Head
Adirondacks
Rescue party feared lost on Lake Erie after hunting tragedy
Five men of a rescue expedition are believed missing after answering calls for aid from hunters near Camp Perry in Lake Erie. Four Akron men reached shore from Three Sisters Islands. the dead hunter's body remains missing with George Ganther, the West Sister Island lighthouse keeper, who had gone to aid them. Four coast guardsmen sent to assist Ganther are also feared lost.
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Sandusky
Lake Erie
Akron
Three Sisters Islands
Camp Perry
George Ganther
West Sister List
Coast
Winter storm sweeps the south with deaths and travel disruption
Snow sleet and cold rains hit the south as a northwest passage drives a cold wave. Arkansas reports a death from exposure near Osceola. In Jonesboro sleet halts selecting a successor to Gov elect Futrell as a bar meeting is canceled. The state game and fish commission urges farmers to scatter grain to save birds amid frozen ground.
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New Orleans
Dixie States
Weather Bureau
Gulf Region
California
New York
Mid-South
Arkansas
W. E. Rogers
Tupelo
Miss
Osceola
Jonesboro
J. M. Futrell
Bar Association
State Game and Fish Commission
Nine-Year-Old Boy Shoots His Sister in Charlotte
In Charlotte on December 10, nine year old D Grooms Jr. retrieved his father's small shotgun and threatened his sister Estina, 12, ordering her to surrender. She was shot in the abdomen and listed in critical condition. The boy says he believed the gun was unloaded. the father, night watchman D Grooms, Sr., says he left the gun on a table within the home.
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Charlotte
D. Grooms, Jr
Estina
Rum Running Increases As Prohibition Fallout Grows
Washington reports a rising tide of liquor smuggling since the November elections with more foreign vessels off the North Atlantic than since 1930. Coast Guard commandant Rear Admiral Hamlet testified to House committees that law enforcement will be lax and legal beer will not curb distilled spirit smuggling.
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Washington
Coast Guard
North Atlantic
Harry G. Hamlet
House Appropriations Committee
Treasury Department
Hamlet
United States
Twenty Three Miners Die In Kentucky Gas Mine Blast
Harlan Kentucky December 10. Twenty three bodies removed from the gas filled interior of the Yancey mine near here as rescue teams seal the pit. The last victims were brought to the surface in burlap sacks and taken to Harlan for viewing. Eleven white men and twelve negroes among the dead. six of the eleven white victims were brothers. John F. Daniel plans an investigation next week into the disaster’s cause.
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Harlan
Yancey
John F. Daniel
State Departent of Mines
Guy Arrest Expected in Wanderwell Killing Case
Police and district attorneys prepared to issue a formal murder complaint against William James Guy after a final conference. The 24 year old adventurer faces implications from a grudge against Wanderwell and conflicting witness testimony. Alibi witnesses Edward De Larm and his wife were questioned regarding Guy's whereabouts at 8 p m Monday.
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Long Beach
Calif
William James Guy
Walter Wanderwell
the Times
Guy
Wanderwell
Edward de Larm
Glendale
Postmaster General Brown Buys Car To Fit His Hat
Washington dispatch reports Postmaster General Brown used appropriated funds to buy a larger automobile after finding a small Lincoln car inadequate for his height and formal duties. He testified that clearance issues with a tall hat prompted the change and that authorities later removed use limitations to permit a larger vehicle.
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Brown
Washinton
Post Office Department
Congress
Burns
Lincoln Company
Senate
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John Stedman
Lagis
Congressional Committee
U. S
New York Harbor
Conte de
Antonio Lena
Anes
Japan
F. Tepmoas
William London
Anna Lou Doctor
W. F. Pleming
Herbert Wayne Beal, Jr
Ladies Aid Society
B'Nai Israel Synagogue
WAR Vs
Bidnec
Ceva
Treasury and Post Office Department
King Winter
Los
Southland
Ways and Means Committee
James M. Doran
Industrial Alcohol
Lea
Marion de Vries
Grape Growers League of
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