Gold value raise proposal to net treasury $20b
A North Carolina businessman proposes lifting gold value from $20 to $100 an ounce to create an immediate $20 billion cash surplus for debt retirement and to pay the soldiers' bonus. He says five million men could work in placer mining and related supplies would rise across the country.
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Asheboro
C. Crawford
Crawford
Joint Finance Committee
House
Senate of Congress
Reed Smoot
Utah
United States
Treasury
Cabinet Is Completed in Roosevelt Plans
President-Elect Roosevelt has fixed his policies and chosen his aides as he prepares to assume office. He aims to tackle the European debt crisis with tariff reform and currency stabilization, and may call an extra session to push farm relief budget balancing economies and reorganization. The Tennessee watershed proposal seeks nationwide forestation and water power development, signaling broad reform.
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Roosevelt
United States
New York
Congress
Driblete
Tennessee
Sandino Seeks Peace After Six Years of Revolt Visit to Nicaragua Leader
General Augusto Sandino surprised Managua by visiting President Juan Bautista Sacasa and vowing peace after six years of revolt. He arrived with his father and allies in a northern front retreat plane and spent a night in the presidential palace while declaring that peace is now a fact as U.S. Marines depart.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Augusto Sandino
Presidential
Juan Bautista Sacasa
United States
Blakeney Freed On Bank Charges In Monroe Case
Judge W F Harding quashed three indictments charging W S Blakeney former president of the Bank of Union with violating state banking laws freeing Blakeney. The state dropped two counts and will appeal. A jury had been impaneled and the trial had begun when the ruling was made.
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Monroe
Blakeney
Bank of Union
W. F. Harding
Harding
State Supreme Court
Budget cuts proposed for legislative establishment
Washington reports the House appropriations committee plans a total reduction of $2,123,463 for the next fiscal year. The committee trims $4,760,030 from legislative branch estimates and sets supply at $16,588,878, down from $18,712,341. Salaries remain at $9,000 for Congressmen and Senators, with a possible later reduction. The Senate is allotted $2,826,439 and the House $7,415,399 in the bill.
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Washington
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
Legislative Establishment
Legislative Branch
Senate
House
Es Eub-Committee
Sandlin
Senate Abolish State Corporation Commission Bill Returns
In Raleigh the legislature advances reform ideas including reviving the bill to abolish the three member state corporation commission and appoint a single public utilities commissioner. The finance sub committee examines a proposed production tax while Moore and Hinsdale push electricity tax and luxury tax ideas.
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Raleigh
General Assembly
Senate
State Corporation Commission
Clement
Rowan
Corporation Commission
Hartsell
Cabarrus
Reorganization Committee
House
Budget Bureau
State Board of Conservation and Development
Debts Paid Up To June Prompting Concern
Beverly Hills reader WILL argues that many domestic issues fear unemployment and hunger but debts to England being paid through June suggests lawmakers should focus on more immediate problems. He contends long term debt relief is not urgent while others strain to meet basic needs.
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Beverly Hills
Cal
England
Will
Two Negroes Pay Supreme Penalty
In Montgomery Alabama on February 3 two Black men were executed at Kilby Prison for murder. Willie James Johnson convicted of killing Jack Hartzog Birmingham night watchman entered the death chamber at 12 03 am and died at 12 13 am. Charlie Jones who confessed to killing a Birmingham Negro girl went into the chamber at 12 23 am and died. neither spoke.
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Montgomery
Ala
Kilby
Willie James Johnson
Jack Hartzog
Birmingham
Charlie Jones
Proposals Made For Change In State's Election Laws
Proposals to reform North Carolina style election rules include direct voting for president and vice president. A 33 page bill backed by the state elections board would cut election and primary costs by about 42 500 dollars per biennium. Voters would mark a ballot with the candidate’s name, representing a vote for president and vice president directly.
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Raleigh
House Elections Committee
Raymond C. Maxwell
State Board of Elections
Elections Board
Maxwell
Committees On Elections
Nine Women Die In Suspected Fire At Suburban Sanitarium
A suburban Cleveland dormitory fire killed nine women patients early today despite rescue efforts. Eight bodies were identified. the ninth remained missing. Dr. William Glendenning labeled the blaze incendiary and questioned a Chardon farmer amid threats against his wife.
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Cleveland
Lottie Roback
Helen Kovack
Agnes Dorrington
Loraine Dean
Fannie Laundon
Ethel R. Zipp
Mary Bennett
Isabel McBride
Newcastle
William Glendenning
Glendenning
New Castle
Lorane Dean
East Cleveland
Voters oppose Stevens and Younts for public offices
North Carolina veterans committee members passed a resolution opposing Paul R. Younts and Henry F. Stevens as possible public appointees. Stevens was criticized for opposing servicemen in legislative battles and Younts for backing Cameron Morrison in the Democratic senatorial primaries.
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Graham
Paul R. Younts
Henry F. Stevens
North Carolina Veterans Committee
Stevens
Younts
Cameron Morrison
Big Pipe Order Is Filled In McDowell
Marion February 3. A three hundred thousand pipe order opened a new industry in McDowell County. A local furniture company shipped a carload of three inch square laurel root blocks to a New York firm to supply 300,000 pipes. Roots came mainly from Mitchell and Avery counties.
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McDowell
Marion
McDowell County
New York
Mitchell
Avery Counties
Bennett Champ Clark Sworn U S Senator From Missouri
Washington reports Bennett Champ Clark son of the late House speaker was sworn in as senator from Missouri to succeed the resigning Harry B. Hawes. In Mobile Alabama probate judge David W. Crosland once imperial potentate of the Shrine was found dead in his hotel room at age 57.
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Washington
Bennett Champ Clark
Missouri
Harry B. Hawes
Mobile
Ala
David W. Crosland
Montgomery
Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine
Southern Railway Cuts 706 Jobs at Spencer Shops
Spencer February 3 AP The Southern Railway reduced its force in its Spencer shops by 706 workers with the largest cuts in the machinist boilermaker and car repair departments.
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Spencer
Southern Railway
Railroad Inspector Barney Hinshaw Is Killed In Train Crash
Winston Salem Feb 3 AP Barney Columbus Hinshaw 71 long time Southern railway car inspector was killed instantly when struck by a freight train in the yard.
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Winston-Salem
Barney Columbus Hinshaw
Southern Railway
Port warns legislatures on mortgage terms curbing lending
Franklin W. Port, chairman of the Federal Home Loan board, told state legislatures not to alter mortgage terms too far or lending by institutions would halt.
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Washington
Franklin W. Port
Federal Home Loan Board
Whitttington presses 25 percent cut pledge in Congress
Mississippi Representative Whitttington questioned fellow Democrats in the House about why their platform promise to reduce federal expenses by 25 percent has not been enacted. The call spotlights GOP and Democratic tensions over cutting federal spending.
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Washington
Congress
Whittington
Mississippi
House
House panel backs bill barring officers from taking witness fees
Raleigh report says a House judiciary committee favorably reported the Hauisell bill, already approved by the Senate, to prohibit peace officers from accepting witness fees in cases within their own jurisdiction.
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Raleigh
House Judiciary Committee
Hauisell
Senate
Harris appoints five reps to salaries study committee
Speaker Harris named Representatives Allen Granville Forsyth James Forsyth Mas senator PolkWarlick Onslow Watson Nash to join a joint legislative committee to study salaries and personnel of state departments. A joint resolution creating the committee was ratified today.
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Harris
Allen
Granville
James
Forsyth
Massenburg
Polk
Warlick
Onslow
Watson
Nash
House
Aberdeen Bank Robbery Reported by Three Men
Three men robbed the Page Trust company in Aberdeen today, escaping toward Southern Pines with about 300 to 400 dollars. Assistant cashier Francis Pleasant was forced to the floor as the robbers produced pistols. A bag of pennies and loose currency were taken, and police searched for the gunmen who fled in a small sedan.
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Aberdeen
Page Trust Company
Southern Pines
Francis Pleasant
Pleasant
D. I. McKeithen
Farmers fight foreclosures in restless mood across farms
Chicago reports farmers battle foreclosures after a Julesburg Colorado clash where 6500 farmers seized machinery valued at 3000 dollars and returned it to farmer George A. Jones. Led by the Farmers' National Holiday Association the action marks a mass show of defiance amid mortgage pressures.
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Chicago
Julesburg
Colo
George A. Jones
Farmers’ National Holiday Association
U S Mulls Ending Gold Standard to Aid World
Senator Wheeler told the House coinage committee that the rest of the world cannot return to a gold standard unless the United States yields much of its gold, urging remonetization of silver as the safer path to inflation. He argued higher silver prices would lift world prices and help American producers compete with China, while highlighting the global impact of monetary policy.
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Washington
United States
House Coinage Committee
Wheeler
Mont
France
Senate
Germany
China
Still Raiders Shot 10 Death in Stevenson Ambush
Two officers Deputy Sheriff Fred Jackson and Special Deputy J H Holland were killed by shotgun blasts while driving the body of one officer from a wagon near Sand Mountain. They had earlier raided Lucas Brown on liquor charges and were seeking two other suspects.
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Jackson
Holland
Lucas Brown
Stevenson
Scottsboro
Three-Gun Turner Executed At Sing Sing Prison
Ossining N Y February 3 William Turner alias Three Gun Turner was carried to the execution chamber at Sing Sing after his mother spoke to him hours before the death sentence for murder in a New York speakeasy. He sobbed and asked for a clergyman as the chamber door closed.
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Ossining
N. Y
William Turner
Turner
New York
Perdition
Sing Singeres
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