Aerial Camera Reveals Grim Train Crash Story
A detailed aerial camera image documents the fatal train dive, with officials considering new hearings and a broader push for currency expansion. The article notes a bipartisan drive in the House and a push in the Senate to block taxes and bond issuance while alternative funding for farm relief and conservation is discussed under Roosevelt’s agenda.
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Washington
Democrats
Restep
Thomas B Olls
Senate
Treasury
AAA
Roosevelt
Dirigible To Aid Ice Bound Tangier Island Residents
Washington reports 1500 Tangier Island residents in Chesapeake Bay are marooned by cold. A privately owned dirigible may deliver food after bomber planes failed to land on ice. 1000 pounds capacity. 36 hours of supplies left. Rep Bland pursuing additional aircraft.
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Dirigible
Chesapeake Bay
Washington
Tangier Island
Malin Craig
War Department
Rep
Bland
D-Va
Karl Lange
Supreme Court begins term with TVA power case ruling expected
Washington February 1 The Supreme Court opens the second half of its term Monday with a likely decision on the Tennessee Valley Authority power program. The suit, brought by Alabama Power stockholders, challenges TVA’s right to sell surplus power in competition with private utilities. The decision could affect the power industry, consumer prices, and potential constitutional amendments and court-power debates.
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Washington
Supreme Court
New Deal
Tennessee Valley
TVA
High Tribunal
Congress
New Orleans
Alabama Power Company
Louisiana
Huey P. Long
Federal District
Reconstruction Finance Corpora
Miners respond to coal pleas across four states
Chicago reports a coal shortage crisis as mines in Illinois Indiana Michigan and Alabama run at full capacity to meet demand. Record low temperatures and blizzards slow transport, with six states experiencing frigid days and casualties in Alabama and elsewhere. New York dairy farms revive old butter methods due to blocked roads and milk transport problems.
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Ria
Illinois
Indoawa
Misri
Alabama
North States
Park Rapids
Inn
Iowa
Tates
Great Lakes
Res
Dakotas
New York State
Wyoming County
Aged veteran dies after two week illness at Sherry Vills
John T. Carpenter a 90 year old veteran who was wounded at Petersburg and captured, died after a two week illness in Sherry Vills. He was released by union forces and witnessed Lee surrender. He leaves three children six grandchildren eighteen great grandchildren and one sister.
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Sherry
John T. Carpenter
Petersburgh
Appomattox
Lee
Minnesota Democrats Rally Behind Roosevelt Delegates Chosen
In Mankato Minnesota about 2000 Democrats gathered to elect 26 delegates pledged to Roosevelt for the Philadelphia convention. Congressman Elmer J Ryan urged liberal progressives to back Roosevelt while opposing factions plan separate March 14 conventions over patronage.
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Mankato
Minn
Minnesota
Roosevelt
Elmer J Ryan
al Smith
Liberty League
Philadelphia
Democratic Party
Joseph Wolf
Ryan
New York
Wisconsin
UNC Student Council Suspends Chairman in Cheating Probe
The University of North Carolina student council suspended indefinitely its chairman Jack Pool of Raleigh after he admitted taking part in a discussion revealing exam answers during a French test taken by freshmen five years ago. Six other students were suspended at the session as part of the investigation into an organized cheat racket.
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina
Jack Pool
Raleigh
Pool
Mak
Winter Weather Echoes 1917 18 Record Cold
Washington reports a nationwide study showing this winter surpasses normal cold in the North Central region and from North Dakota to the Atlantic. It notes heavy snow in northern Georgia, the Carolinas and Tennessee, with Tennessee blanketed by early January and depths from three to ten inches.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Tennessee
Devils Lake
North Dakota
International Falls
Minn
Moran
Wyo
Landon Flayed and President Is Upheld By Texas Democrats
Texas Democrats rallied behind national and state administrations after hearing Gov James Allred praise Governor Landon as a potential Republican president but back President Roosevelt. The committee approved resolutions supporting Roosevelt and the Allred administration and sent a telegram to Senator Joe Robinson endorsing his reply to Alfred E. Smith. Landon once advocated oil industry dictatorship. in Topeka he declined comment.
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Washington
Senate
McNary
Oregon
House Agriculture Committee
Bankhead
D-Ala
Senate Bi
White House
George N. Peek
AAA
Secretary of Agriculture
Peek
Supreme Court
Austin
Tex
Texas
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Landon
James V. Allred
Democratic State Executive Committee
Allred
Roosevelt
Joe Robinson
Arkansas
Alfred E. Smith
Topeka
Child Labor In Mills Surges In Seven Months Of 1934
Labor department reports show almost twice as many children went to work in factories and stores during the seven months after May 1934, with 11,000 certificates issued post Schechter decision and NRA-era changes. Katherine Lenroot says constitutional amendment to regulate under 18 faces little chance this year. 24 states have approved, 12 needed.
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Washington
Labor Department
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Congress
National Committee For Protection of Child, Family
Church
Katherine Lenroot
Children’s Bureau
Schechter
NRA
Groundhog Prophet Killed by Cold in Rockaway
Rockaway New Jersey February 1 The long lived groundhog mascot of James Van Strander is dead after a recent cold spell The town notes the creature known for issuing a seasonal forecast was found lifeless in frozen conditions The item preserves a playful local superstition about the animal’s fate and the community’s response.
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Rockaway
N. J
James van Strander
Leopold Denies Withholding Facts In Slaying Of Friend
Nathan Leopold Jr. told A L Bowen that he knew nothing about the Richard Loeb murder and would not reveal facts. Bowen announced an impartial commission would probe Stateville prison conditions following Loeb’s slaying by fellow inmate James Day. Governor Horner had approved the new inquiry.
Six Arrested in Artillery Probe at Winston-Salem Hotel
Three men were held after five revolvers a pump gun and large ammunition stash were found in a hotel room. Named detainees include James Maddrey 46 Raleigh J W Bradley 24 Brooklyn NY Wiley C Jarvis and James Matthew Gatewood both Winston-Salem. Police said no charges yet and they would be held without bond pending investigation.
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Winston-Salem
James Maddrey
Raleigh
J. W. Bradley
Brooklyn
N. Y
Wiley CC. Jarvis
James Matthew Gatewood
W. F. Anderson
Massachusetts Governor's Son Threatened With Kidnaping
In Washington on February 1 a typed unsigned note threatened to kidnap Governor Curley of Massachusetts's twelve year old son Francis within a week. Post office inspectors and the FBI moved, the boy was guarded in Plymouth, and Curley termed the threat a possible crank message with no ransom demand.
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Curley
Massachusetts
Post Office
Justice Department
Back Bay
Boston
Francis
Florida
J. Edgar Hoover
Bureau of Investigation
Hoover
Plymouth
Eugene McSweeney
Department of Justice
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