France Agrees To Recognize German Rearmament Rights
France reportedly agreed in London to abandon Versailles military clauses and recognize German rearmament in exchange for England backing pacts to preserve peace. Paris seeks a broader framework including Austrian independence, the Eastern Locarno pact, and a defensive air treaty with Germany, Italy, Belgium, and Britain. A final accord and communique were anticipated after further talks.
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Paris
France
London
England
Berlin
League of Nations
Germany
Italy
Belgium
Geneva
Rhine
Authorittaive
Secret Senate debate stalls $4 880 000 relief bill action
A secret Democratic conference of the Senate appropriations committee in Washington delayed the full committee meeting to report the $4 880 000 work relief measure. Reports said there was a near total collapse of accord as Republicans walked away from a group plan and Democrats prepared to redraw the bill from beginning to end.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
Full Committee
Senate Committee
Capitol
Congress
Christian J. Peoples
Glass
Appropriations Committee
Seasion
Senator Byrnes
D-Sc
Assembly
Upton Sinclair
California
Dickinson
Rtown
Senate
House
Steiner
R-Ore
Relief Administration
FERA
Roosevelt
Morgenthau
Perkins
Ways and Means Committee
Seven Gangsters Of Richmond In Clutches Of Law
Seven members of an alleged Richmond gang were arrested as police seized dynamite nitroglycerine burglar tools and three license plates. The group including James Aubrey Smith and John Leland Harvey faced raids at a west end residence and a major hotel, with an infant among those detained.
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Richmond
James Aubrey Smith
John Leland Harvey
James Auburey Smith
Main Street
Macon
Elsie McCall
Washington Avenue
Lois Reid
Morris Twyman
Addison Street
Bettie Twyman
John Randall
Ashland
Alabama
Twymans
Georgia
Florida
Whitefield
West End
Randall
Twomans
Trade Pact With Brazil Cuts Tariffs and Boosts Trade
Washington February 2 1930 a White House ceremony marked the signing of a new trade agreement between the United States and Brazil. The treaty cuts Brazilian tariffs by 36 percent on 67 American products and includes a financial settlement plan to resolve blocked accounts. The United States grants reduced tariffs on seven Brazilian products and keeps coffee and eleven other commodities on the free list. Secretary Hull said the pact could break the log jam of international trade and bring light to the global economic darkness. President Roosevelt urged Hull and Brazilian ambassador Osvaldo Aranha to sign the agreement making it the third executive mansion treaty since 1908.
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Washington
United States
Brazil
White House
Cuba
Hull
Roosevelt
Osvaldo Arapha
France
Weather overview for North and South Carolina regions
Washington reports weather records showing temperatures and rainfall for the previous 24 hours ending 8 PM in major cotton growing areas. Sunday and Monday expected slightly warmer in parts.
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Washington
Weath
Bureau
Woman Claims Talk With Violet Sharpe the Night Lindbergh Jr Kidnapping
Elsie Hart a former Hackensack New Jersey newspaper woman told AP from Memphis that she talked with Violet Sharpe at the Dwight W. Morrow estate in Englewood New Jersey on March 1 1922 the night of the Lindbergh kidnapping.
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Memphis
Tenn
Elsie Hart
Hackensack
N. J
Violet Sharpe
Dwight W. Morrow
Englewood
Chas
A. Lindbergh, Jr
Pretty Eloise Keeton Weds Local Policeman In Slaying Case
Laurel Mississippi February report says Eloise Keeton who returned from New Orleans to aid officers probing her mother’s murder has married Jack Anderson, a member of the city police assigned to the case. It is her third marriage.
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Laurel
Miss
Eloise Keeton
New Orleans
Jack Anderson
Washington Predicts Major Solar Eclipse Tomorrow
The article previews the third act of 1035's eclipse, the first fully visible from the United States, with the moon attempting to swallow the sun for a couple of hours before releasing it.
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Washington
United States
Law Gets Man In Havana For Harboring Public Enemy No 1
An American hotel manager Nathan Heller was seized in Havana on charges he aided and harbored Alvin Karpis, named the era s newest Public Enemy No 1, last September.
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Havana
Nathan Heller
Alvin Karpis
Peek's Trade Complaint Faces Senate Challenge
George N Peek, head of the Import Export Bank and adviser on foreign trade, argued the state department hindered his efforts while promoting reciprocal trade treaties. Economists B M Anderson of Chase and others challenged his claims at a senate agriculture committee hearing in Washington.
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Washington
George N. Peek
State Department
Senate Agriculture Committee
Cordell Hull
B. M. Anderson
Chase National Bank
New York
Anderson
Peek
Import Export Bank
Demonstration Postponed by Paris Students
Paris February 2 French students end anti foreigner campaign for now promising to restart if no satisfaction within the month.
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Paris
Labor Federation Looks To Congress For Reduced Hours
John L. Lewis denounces Ronald Richberg as a traitor to organized labor and accuses him of pushing a 48 hour week for auto industry. William Green says the federation will press White House over cigarette workers’ codification delay while NRA chairman Williams faces questions. The AFL-COO rift widens as the federation shifts toward Congress for labor hour reform.
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Labor Federation
Congress
Washington
John L. Lewis
American Federation of Labor
Roosevelt
Ronald R. Richberg
Organized Labor
Amia Haad
Wussiae
Juveau
United Mine Workers
Richberg
United States
Lewis
Senate
William Green
Federation
Ers
Green
S. Clay Williams
NRA
Williams
R. J. Reynolds ‘Tobacco Company
Manhunt Underway For Negro Jake Johnston In Robbery Case
In Rockingham County, posses pursue Jake Johnston, 45, a farm Negro sought for robbery and criminal assault on Miss Annie Grogan, 66, left bound in a gully after a brutal attack. Grogan critical but improving if complications do not arise. mob violence feared amid sweeping searches.
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Greensboro
Rockingham County
Jake Johnston
Annie Grogan
Shiloh
Miss Grogan
W. G. Grogan
Morehead Villa Bought by Firm for Hunters Club
Morehead Villa near Beaufort, built for about 250 000 in the 1920s, has been purchased by a corporation that will convert the hostelry into a country club serving hunters fishermen and trap shooters. M Simmons of Charlotte leads the venture.
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Beaufort
Morehead Villa
Simmons
Charlotte
Moodie Ousted. Welford Becomes North Dakota Governor
North Dakota Supreme Court ruled Governor Moodie ineligible after finding he voted in Minnesota in 1930. Lieutenant Governor Walter Welford becomes acting governor for the remainder of Moodie’s term, as the court voided Moodie’s November election basing on a constitutional residency rule. Moodie acquiesced and urged cooperation with Welford’s administration.
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Bismark
N. D
North Dakota Supreme Court
Thomas H. Moodie
Walter H. Welford
High Court
Moodie
Minnesota
Welford
League
Walter Welford
Episcopal Diocese May Be Enlarged
The Western North Carolina diocese may expand by adding Charlotte or Winston Salem and surrounding territory. A committee led by Rev. George Floyd Rogers will report to the diocesan council in Asheville and the convention at Christ School near Arden is expected to consider the proposal on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Ashevville
North Carolina
Charlotte
Winston- Salem
Christ School
Arden
George Floyd Rogers
Trinity
Gold Clause Decision Delayed By Supreme Court
The Supreme Court signaled a delay for the gold clause ruling likely to come after Feb 11 as Justices decide whether Congress can invalidate gold payments on bonds and contracts. Attorny General and Cummings aides met to adjust swift response plans in case the decision favors the government.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Hughes
Justice Hughes
Charles Elmore Cropley
Cummings
Congress
Two Gunmen Die In Electric Chair In Richmond
In Richmond Virginia on February 2 1932 Robert Mais and Walter Legenza were executed in the electric chair for the murder of E M Huband during the March 9 robbery of a federal reserve mail truck. Gov Peery denied clemency and only officials chaplains and two juries witnessed the deaths. Mais walked to the chair without flinching while Legenza entered with a brok en leg and remained stoic as he was strapped in and hooded. The witnesses described Mais as pale and Legenza as poker faced with no spoken response from Legenza after the hood was placed.
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Richmond
Robert Mais
Walter Legenza
Mais
Legenza
E. M. Huband
Federal Reserve
Peery
Rice M. Youell
Fred Seiler
Salvation Army
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Franklin
Corey
Pitt
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