Levee Hold As Flood Strains Labor And Health Risks Grow
Memphis and surrounding areas faced worsening flood conditions as Mississippi crested and levees held. 120,000 workers battled sandbags and seepage while a dysentery outbreak among Reelfoot levee crews spurred chlorination and burial of flood animals. Red Cross supports 80,000 refugees across four states as Cairo gauges show only slow declines.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi
Reelfoot Levee
Eugene Reybold
United States
Cairo
Paducah
Ohio
Weather Bureau
F. W. Brist
Tennessee
Louisiana
Kentucky
Red Cross
Cincinnati
Louisville
Portsmouth
Fransville
Avondale Heights
Pittsburgh
WPA
Pope plans 10 address meet
Pope Pius XI works a full day in Vatican City preparing a radio speech for the eucharistic congress in Manila. He battles leg pain amid rains but expects to complete the address as 500000 listeners eagerly await at Manila.
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Vatican City
Pius XI
Manila
Cardinal Pacelli
Vatican
Gressmen Rule Out Eligibility for Extra Seats
Department lawyers said no members of Congress could be eligible for appointment to any new seats created by presidential reorganization. The ruling cites constitutional limits forbidding appointments to vacancies beyond the term for which current senators or representatives were elected.
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Hington
Department
Con
Congress
Senate
Joseph T. Robinson
Nator
United States
Blood pocket knife and wool clue in Mary Babcock death
In Palo New York on February 6 authorities examined a blood pocket knife and wool fiber as clues in the death of 18 year old Mary Babcock. The body was found in a ditch near a maroon and white jacket, with the knife and wool fragment tied to the investigation.
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Palo
N. Y
Mary Babcock
Girl Will Wed Sit Down Lover in Comedy of Affection
Miss Florence Hurlbut, pursued by Harold Hulen who chained himself to a radiator in Excelsior Springs to win her hand, heads to New York where she will formally accept his proposal tomorrow night if she does not change her mind.
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New York
Florence Hurlbut
Sove
Excelsior Springs
Harold Hulen
Lady Love
Wedock
Austria to float 180 million in loans for army
Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg announced an internal loan of 180 million schillings to equip the Austrian army and provide employment. About 4.4 million will go to the army and an equal amount to hardware of strategic value.
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Vienna
Kurt Schuschnigg
Loyalists Repulse Attacks in Cordoba Siege
Fierce fighting marks a renewed bid by socialist loyalists to take Cordoba as siege lines tighten. Jose Giral Pereira signals readiness to expel foreigners from the front while opposing Moorish troops allied with Franco. The Madrid front remains quiet amid broader Mediterranean clashes.
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Jose Giral Pereira
Franco
Madrid
Negro Sought In Murder Is Caught
Fayet teville police captured Joe McKinnon who sought for the killing of Archie Ratley. Ratley’s body was found shot in a wood near his abandoned car in mud. McKinnon was arrested after a daylong posse searched Comeortens county. he offered no resistance.
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Fayetteville
Joe McKinnon
Archie Ratley
McKinnon
Ratley
Lower Comeortens County
Paducah Damage Estimated at 27.61 Million
Paducah city manager L V Bean put total flood damage at 27.61 million dollars as the city seeks a 2 million RFC loan to maintain fire police hospitals and schools during rebuilding. The Ohio river flood waters dropped another half foot, totaling nearly a foot drop since the week began.
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Paducah
L. V. Bean
Bean
RFC
Library club marks first anniversary with tag day
Asheboro Randolph Library club plans a tag day on Tuesday February 9 to celebrate the library's first anniversary. That evening the club will host a banquet at the local hotel starting at 6 oclock.
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Asheboro
Randolph Library Club
World's Richest Man Prefers Simple Life in Jubilees
The Nizam of Hyderabad, reputedly the world’s richest man with vast wealth in gold and jewels, marks his accession jubilee with restraint. He cancels many state functions urging funds for public works while living frugally in a 1927 car and a modest style, yet remains a major imperial figure. The 50-something ruler, Sir Mir Usman Ali Khan, is noted for philanthropy and diligent governance amid grand ceremonial plans that are pared back.
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India
George V
Nizam
Sir Mir Usman Ali Khan
British War Fund
Coast Guard Aids Stricken Freight Fleet in Atlantic
Off Cape Henry the Morgan Line freighter Ocidente, with a broken rudder, was towed by the Sebago as another cutter aided the Norwegian freighter Rigel, adrift 300 miles off the North Carolina coast. The Tela rescued five men from the burning schooner William A Morse near Charleston and proceeded to Philadelphia. The Rigel’s rudder also failed and Modoc could not reach before night.
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Norfolk
Morgan Line
Coast Guard
Sebago
Cape Henry
Rigel
North Carolina
Tela
William A. Morse
Charleston
8. C
Philadelphia
Norfolk Coast
Mussolini's Son Vittorio Marries Ornella Buvoli in Rome
Vittorio Mussolini, 20, wed Oracla Buvoli, 22, at St Josephs church in Rome as Premier Mussolini watched with pleasure. Rain and mist did not deter cheering crowds gathered to witness the ceremony.
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Rome
Mussolini
Vittorio
St. Joseph's Church
Papa
Oracla Buvoli
North Carolina Highway Chief Warns on Tax Bill
Raleigh reports strong opposition to the joint finance committee tax bill as Highway Chairman Capus M Waynick claims the measure diverts 2,100,000 yearly from highway funds through the 1939 biennium. He says the budget is at least 2,800,000 short for urgent highway needs and urges revision to avoid crippling the road system.
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Raleigh
Joint Finance Committee
Capus M. Waynick
Waynick
General Assembly
Highway and Public Works Department
Search Underway For Missing Boat Off Fort Pierce
An all day search was conducted for four people who went to sea aboard the cabin boat Nancy on a Thursday fishing trip fifteen miles off shore. A coast guard plane a cutter and multiple fishing boats joined the search. The party includes Alfred Meyer Bert Carver and Mr and Mrs Tim Lowry winter visitors. Lowry is a Chicago attorney.
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Fort Pierce
Fia
Nancy
Coast Guard
Alfred Meyer
Bert Carver
Tim Lowry
Lowry
Chicago
Clouds Loom On Horizon of Maritime Strike Settlement
Shipping momentum returned to the Pacific as the Dollar Liner President Hoover cleared the San Francisco harbor for Hawaii and the Orient after settlement talks. Employers reported 50 of 77 ships in port being worked by 136 longshore gangs of 18 men, with a peak expected by Monday. Negotiations and federal conciliators noted progress toward settling collateral strikes threatening waterfront peace.
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San Francisco
Pacific
Dollar
President Hoover
Hawaii
Orient
Golden Gate
Labor Leader backs Roosevelt court reform plan
William Green of the AFL endorsed Roosevelt's proposal to expand the Supreme Court to 15 members. He plans to present the idea to the federation's executive council for approval. The AFL previously debated amending the constitution to allow social justice legislation, led by John L. Lewis, amid Mine Workers suspensions.
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Washington
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Green
Federation
Bangg Nie
Supreme
Cou
NRA
Executive Council
Congress
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Smoak Faces Possible Second Indictment in Poison Deaths
Wilmington reports solicitor Burney may file a second indictment against Edgar L. Smoak after a chemist found poison in the body of Annie Thelma Smoak, 15, whose death followed convulsions. Exhumation of the second wife’s body was ordered with viscera sent to Duke Hospital for analysis.
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Wilmington
John J. Burney
Edgar Leroy Smoak
Burney
Annie Smoak
Haywood Taylor
Duke Hospital
Durham
Annie Thelma
Judge To Decide Child Bride Age In New York Case
Watertown New York February 6 A city court judge heard whether Leona Roshia Backus a girl dubbed the state child bride is 12 or 18 Her mother testified she is 18 which would make the marriage legal and potentially void the rape case against her husband Stanley Backus
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Watertown
N. Y
Leona Roshia Backus
New York
Leona
New York State
Stanley Backus
Fears President Will Be Hurt By Proposal
Senator Josiah W. Bailey said the President's plan to add six Supreme Court justices and reorganize the judiciary could injure the President politically. Robert R. Reynolds reacted favorably while many NC lawmakers remained noncommittal. The debate signals a national clash over judiciary independence and reform.
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Washington
Josiah W. Bailey
North Carolina
Supreme Court
Robert R. Reynolds
Bailey
Reynolds
Frank W Hancock
Oxford
Walter Lambeth
Thomasville
Graham A. Barden
New Bern
Harold D. Cooley
Nashville
Lindsay C. Warren
N. C
William B. Umstead
Durham
Roosevelt
John D. M. Hamilton
Congress
High Tribunal
van Nuys
Burke
Senate
Relief Bill Deadlock Threatens Aid Disbursements
Washington, Feb. 6 Informed legislators fear a deadlock over a 950 million dollar relief appropriation may pause relief payments nationwide. The deficiency bill funds unemployment and flood relief, already passed by both chambers in differing forms, with a pending compromise and a Senate objection to a rider about restricting regular federal employees after June 30. The Senate struck the house’s immediate elimination of the practice by a 72 to 0 vote.
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Washington
Senate
House
Congressional
Purge Deepens Across Soviet Union After Trotzky Conspiracy
Reports from across Soviet Russia describe the Communist party cleansing as the broadest purge since 1927. Hundreds of names are removed from party rolls after Trotzky conspiracy convictions. Noted figures including Karl Radek and others are said to be among those targeted for swift trials and removal.
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Moscow
Soviet Russia
Trotzky
Leon Trotzky
Karl Radek
Alexander Georgivich Beloborodoff
Czar
Nicolai Bukharin
Izvestia
Alexis Rykoff
Elihu Root Grows Weaker In Serious Illness
New York February 6 Elihu Root the elder statesman is seriously ill with bronchial pneumonia and grew weaker tonight his three middle aged children being summoned to his bedside. He has served as international jurist United States senator and in two presidential cabinets.
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New York
Elihu Root
Amerian
United States
Quintet Charged With Girl's Death in Louisiana
In Donaldsonville Louisiana on February 6 authorities charged a group of five youths over the death of 16 year old Genevieve Legnon from New Iberia after a night club party. Sheriff Lester Gonzales said two other girls and three young men were with her when she was hurt and later died on January 25. The five youths face murder charges as the investigation proceeds.
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Donaldsonville
Genevieve Legnon
Legnon
New Iberia
Carpenter
Lester Gonzales
Busy Raleigh Week Ahead for North Carolina Lawmakers
North Carolina lawmakers head into their sixth week of a busy session with liquor, the budget, and social security on the agenda. A brief daytime session passed in under 45 minutes as local bills were reviewed. the house and senate set a Monday return time, while debates continue on reapportionment and other measures ahead of the 1935 schedule.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
House
Senate
General Assembly
Supreme Court
Bone Dry
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