California Senate Defeats Major State Government Reorg Bill
RALFIGH Feb 2 The California Senate defeats a major reorganization plan to abolish the three member corporation commission and appoint a single public utilities commissioner. House approves transferring the local government commission to the treasurer and moving the personnel department to the budget bureau. A medical examiners board license revocation measure advances.
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Ralfigh
Senate
Corporation Commission
Crporation Commission
House
Local Government Commission
Budget Bureau
State Board of Medical Examiners
Long
Halifax
Charlotte to Host Western North Carolina Methodist Conference
The Western North Carolina conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South chose Charlotte as the meeting site for the next gathering likely held near early November with First Methodist Church as the venue. The decision rests with Bishop Edwin D. Mouton after committee member Rev. J B Craven chaired the meeting.
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Western North Carolina
Conference of
Methodist Episcopal Church
Queen City
Charlotte
North Carolina
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
J. B. Craven
Gastonia
Edwin D. Mouton
Roosevelt proposes vast Tennessee Valley jobs experiment
President elect Roosevelt outlines a colossal plan to create 200000 jobs in the Tennessee valley through reforestation flood control water power and agricultural reform. The program aims to shift population from cities to the countryside and could extend to the Ohio Arkansas and Columbia basins with bonds and self sustaining financing.
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Tennessee Watershed
White House
Roosevelt
Tennessee Valley
Alleghanies
Pacific Coast
Cove Creek
Clinch River
Sant Jantnot
Great
Mississippi River
Congress
Ohio
Arkansas
Columbia River Basin
Northwest
Gattie kidnaping bill dies in North Carolina panel
The house judiciary committee voted unfavorably on Rep Gattis Orange measure to make kidnaping a capital crime. It found the four existing capital crimes arson rape murder and first degree burglary constitutional and did not add kidnaping. The panel deferred action on a senate bill to appoint guardians for missing persons after 90 days.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
House Judiciary Committee
Gattis
Orange
Senate
McDuffee of Vance
Marian Nixon Seeks Divorce From Edward Hillman Jr
Marian Nixon files suit for divorce from Edward Hillman Jr and obtains a temporary restraining order preventing him from entering their Beverly Hills home. She accuses him of abusive language and excessive drinking affecting her work, citing a Thanksgiving incident. she seeks no alimony. The couple married in Chicago on August 11, 1929 after Nixon's prior divorce from Joe Benjamin.
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Los
Angeles
Marian Nixon
Edward Hillman, Jr
Chicago
Hillman
Beerly Hills
Miss Nixon
Joe Benjamin
Move To Abolish Farm Board Fails
Washington February 2 The Fuller amendment to the independent offices supply bill to fund 500 000 for the farm board for six months of the next fiscal year was defeated in the House Fuller questioned why money should be appropriated for a board likely to be abolished by the next administration He called the farm board a farce noting most of the 500 million appropriated had been lost.
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Washington
Fuller
Independent Offices
Farm Board
House
Congress
Publisher Frederick G. Bonfils Dies in Denver at 72
Frederick G. Bonfils, publisher of The Denver Post, died at his Denver home this morning after several days of illness and a recent minor ear operation. He was 72 years old.
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Denver
Colo
Frederick G. Bonfils
The
Denver Post
Locomotive Engineer J B Wemyss Receives 50 Year Rail Roading Citation
Fayetteville report notes J B Wemyss awarded a special citation for fifty years on the Atlantic Coast Line. At 66 he remains at the throttle of a main line express locomotive with a forty seven year career as an engineer.
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Fayetteville
J. B. Wemyss
Wemyss
U S Government Deepens Debt in Early 1933 Fiscal Year
Washington reports seven months of the 1933 fiscal year show a deficit of 1.271 billion dollars. Revenue totals rose little as income tax and miscellaneous receipts faltered, while expenditures remained high and the public debt climbed toward 20.8 billion dollars.
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Washington
Robinson demands arrest of Bullitt over war debt talks
Senator Robinson faults William C Bullitt for reportedly negotiating with foreign governments on world debts. He cites Berlin London and Paris visits, calls Bullitt a laughing stock, and says the Logan act could cover unauthorized talks with foreign powers.
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Washington
Senate
Robinson
Ind
State Department
William C. Bullitt
Bullitt
Berlin
London
Paris
House
United States
Local Man Survives 42 Foot Fall Into River Water
Ralph DeHart of Spray plunged 42 feet from a railroad bridge into six inches of water at Smith River. He is recovering at home with no bones broken.
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Leaksville
Ralph DeHart
Smith River
O'Brien Attacks Republican Tariff Plans
The report notes O'Brien challenging Republican tariff proposals as Germany faces political strife in Berlin. Hitler seeks a parliamentary majority in the March 5 elections amid bans on outdoor communist demonstrations and a reshaped Reichstag after dissolution.
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Berlin
Hitler
Germany
Farmer and the Worker
Telegraphen-Union Press Association
Rote Fahne
Reichstag
von Hindenburg
Carter chosen solicitor for Tenth Judicial District
Leo Carr of Burlington, a prominent Alamance County attorney, was named solicitor of the Tenth Judicial District by Governor Ehringhaus to succeed Congressman-elect William B. Umstead who resigned. Carr, a leading lawyer and Alamance Democratic chairman, will serve until the next general election. the district includes Alamance, Durham, Granville, Orange and Person counties.
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Ralsigh
Leo Carr
Burlington
Alamance County
Tenth Judicial District
J. C. B Ehringhams
William B. Umstead
Carr
Alamance
Durham
Granville
Orange
Person
Embargo debate heard as Tariff Plan faces House vote
Robert L. O'Brien tariff commission chairman urged Republicans to pass an embargo honestly and intelligently. He advised accepting Secretary Mills's leadership and criticized auto boosting tariffs against depreciated currencies as the path to recovery.
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O'Brien
Advocat
Gastonia trio admits theft in Bessemer City case
Rich Leonard Red Goodman and Broadus Tony confessed to stealing articles valued at $200 from Rev. N. D. Yount of Bessemer City on January 8. The men, jailed awaiting a hearing, had most of the loot recovered.
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Gastonia
Rich Leonard
Red Goodman
Broadus Tony
Cowpens
8. C
Rev. N. D. Yount
Bessemer City
State Legislatures Act To Halt Mortgage Foreclosures
Friendly state actions and farm protests halted foreclosures with moratoriums in Arkansas suspending court jurisdiction. Governors and legislatures across Alabama Georgia Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Kentucky Mississippi expressed support. Georgia reports moratoria by 15 life insurers. Cherokee Oklahoma saw a farmers alliance form. Rev. Claude R. Hill received a 60 day church leave. Aurora Nebraska farmers bid 10 cents foreclosure prices. Illinois reported aggressive mortgage actions.
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Arkansas
Alabama
Georgia
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Kentucky
Mississingi
Cherokee
Okla
Farmers’ Marketing Association
Claude R. Hill
First Christian Church
Aurora
Neb
Ilinois
Thistles Threat In Texas Travel
A new menace to traffic, Russian thistles or tumbleweeds, has appeared on Texas Panhandle plains roads. The drifting weeds pile up to several feet, breaking fence lines and delaying harvests, as driver J W McFolk recalled a narrow escape from a weed drift between Silverton and Floydada.
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Amarillo
Tex
Texas Panhandle Plains
J. W. McFolk
Amarilllo
Silverton
Floydada
McFork
WILL Says: Water distribution plan and loan funds
Beverly Hills reader letter argues a Reconstruction era loan to railroads and banks failed to reach the needy, noting money moved uphill to lenders while water would flow downhill, ending with a sharp sign-off to J. P. Morgan.
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Beverly Hilas
Cal
Death Valley
Papa J. P
Chinese launch new offensive on Japanese at Suicheng and Chiumenkow
Chinese volunteers attacked Japanese forces holding Suicheng and Chiumenkow on the Jehol border. A four hour battle followed with Japanese air and artillery resistance, later renewed at night with higher casualties reported on both sides.
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Pieping
China
Suicheng
Chiumenkow
Jehol
Great Wall of China
Chiumenkov
the Wall
Reduction in Tire Prices Announced by Firestone
J W Thomas president of Firestone Tire and Rubber company announced a five percent reduction in tire prices. The cut applies to lines comparable to mail order firms and first line tires adjusted to align with other grades. Other Akron district rubber companies are expected to follow suit.
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Akron
W. Thomas
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
Thomas
Akron District
Hurley and Party Leave Greensboro
Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley and his party left Greensboro at 10 30 A M aboard an army plane en route from Washington to Shreveport Louisiana Memphis Tennessee to be next. The party’s aircraft was forced down in Greensboro yesterday due to bad weather and they stayed overnight. Seth Richardson assistant United States attorney general Lieut C W Causland and two aviators accompanied the secretary.
$150 Million More for R F C Loans Sought by Miller
Reconstruction Finance Corporation president Charles A. Miller urged a Senate committee to appropriate an extra 150 million dollars for direct relief loans to states. He supported the Wagner bill to liberalize the program but warned against widening the corporation’s remit too far. The fund now stands at 300 million, with Illinois cited as a major borrower and a potential limit looming within six weeks.
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Senate
Charles A. Miller
Reconstruction Corporation
Corporation
Miller
Illinois
Wagner
N. Y
Directlief
Wanderers
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