Neutrality legislation debate widens in Washington
Congressional leaders push for a one year extension of the embargo on shipments of arms to belligerents. Senator Pittman signals executive action and potential limited amendments while the administration scales back its permanent neutrality plan to ease Senate opposition.
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Belligts
Nevada
Evert
Amera Shipping
America
Supreme Court to Rule on Tennessee Valley Act Case
Government officials expect a split decision on the government’s right to sell power in competition with private utilities. The ruling could come after 53 days since arguments, with justices and few trusted aides aware of the final outcome. The case centers on the TVA and the government’s yardstick for electricity costs.
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Washington
Supreme Courtier
Sutherland
Butler
van DeVanter
McReynolds
Charles Curtis Dies Suddenly In Washington
Former vice president Charles Curtis died at 76 in Washington from a heart attack. He spent four decades in Republican politics and planned a 1936 presidential bid with Alf Landon. Roosevelt and Capper expressed regret. funeral set for Tuesday in Topeka after his body leaves Washington.
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Charles Curtis
Alf M. Landon
Roosevelt
Capper
Kansas
Curtis
Dolly Gann
Topeka
Threaten Union Warns Uprising Among New York Dress Makers
A security warning warns 105,000 dress-makers and 40,000 workers that a threatened strike could force plants to move out of town. The warning targets leaders of the union and 300 dress jobbers amid tensions in New York.
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Union New York
U S Boy Scouts Rally As Roosevelt Addresses Nation
Thousands of Boy Scouts nationwide gathered with troop standards to hear President Roosevelt speak from the White House in a radio address. The movement began in Washington 26 years ago under William Boyce of Chicago as hundreds assemble in Constitution Hall for a pageant on growth.
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Roosevelt
White House
William Boyce
Chicago
Constitution Hall
Governor Ehringhaus Honors Transfer of Suspect Binder
Raleigh reports Governor Ehringhaus granted Georgia Governor Talmadge’s request to return C A Binder Jr who is held in Winston Salem. Binder is wanted in Elbert County Ga for automobile theft. Sheriff Carroll Jones traveled to North Carolina to fetch Binder.
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Ehringhaus
Eugene Talmadge
Georgia
C. A. Binder, Jr
Winston- Salem
Binder
Elbert County
Carroll Jones
North Carolina
Convicts Captured Near Beattyville Ky After Escape
Four of ten Frankfort reformatory escapees were captured without violence at a farm near Beattyville by Lee County officers led by Sheriff Charles Blount. They held four men in Beattyville jail, while six others remained at large as a massive hunt continued near Monterey. The captured fugitives included Henry Coomer’s relatives and associates.
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Frankfort State Reformatory
Here
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Charles Blount
Dave Coomer
Henry Coomer
James ©. Morris
Clarence Crawford
Dexter Anderson
Monterey
Blunt
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Breathitt
Link Moore
Herman Price
Dewey Lovelace
Coomer Farm
Inflation Drive Fails In One Wing Of Congress
President Roosevelt and tax planners reviewed the administration bill as Boland reports only 94 of 317 House Democrats favor the 3 billion Frazier Lemke refinancing plan. Burns and Boland say the measure would be slaughtered if voted. A White House session with Morgenthau and Bell focused on finances and future spending.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
Boland
Burns
White House
Morgenthau
Daniel Bell
Capitol
Treasury
Bell
Harding Named Dawes To Succeed Him In White House
Washington February 8. Charles Dawes of Chicago was selected to succeed President Warren G Harding in the White House according to a story related by Charles Curtis who spoke after years of silence. The account recalls Harding’s spring 1923 decision and Curtis’ caution about public disclosure.
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Dawes
White House
Coolidge
Washington
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Warren Harding
Charles Dawes
Chicago
Curtis
Raskob Tax Plea Leads to Additional Billing
The treasury denied John J. Raskob’s appeal of a 15 978 deficiency tax assessment and billed him an extra 1 026 840 40 for unreported income in 1829. The government cites an agreement with Pierre S. duPont to create fictitious losses on stock sales for tax purposes. Both men are noted as prominent figures with party ties and influence.
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Treasury
John J. Raskob
Ihs
Pierre 8. duPont
Raskob
Alfred B. Smith
Democratic National Committee
duPont
Administration pushes soil subsidy bill to force May adjournment
Leaders concentrated on passing the soil fee subsidy bill through Congress next week as a drive toward May 1 adjournment. Senator King charged the AAA replacement was a policy to push Tugwell and Wallace ideas while Chairman Smith forecast enough votes to block opposition moves. The House aimed to act by Thursday, with Roosevelt and Morgenthau reviewing tax options to finance the program.
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Smith
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Agriculture Committee
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Senate
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Morgenthau
Daniel W. Bell
Supreme Court
Governor Hoffman questions Hauptmann evidence after reprieve
Governor Harold G. Hoffman questioned the evidence used to convict Bruno Richard Hauptmann in the Lindbergh kidnap murder case. He said New Jersey would pursue all involved and urged fairness, noting possible other accomplices and criticizing reliance on disputed testimony.
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Mussolini blames British for looming world war
The Sunday Observer quotes Mussolini saying Britain has turned colonial war into a possible world disaster. In the interview with MP Arnold Wilson he criticizes Hoare Laval peace moves and condemns London leaders for dismissing Sir Samuel Hoare.
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Arnold Wilson
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Samuel Hoare
Meekins Endorsed at North Carolina Republican Convention
Elizabeth City February 8 The first district Republican convention unanimously endorsed Federal Judge L M Meekins of Elizabeth City for the presidential nomination and instructed the district’s delegate to nominate him at the national convention. John Wilkinson of Beaufort was named Republican candidate for congress and R Clarence Dozier was chosen as national convention delegate.
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L. M. Meekins
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Meekins
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Beaufort County
Congress
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Winton
Congressional
Hikers Swindle Columbia Man Then Abandon Car Near Kershaw
O L Brodie of Columbia reports two hitch hikers befriended him then stole his automobile while he stopped at a filling station near Kershaw and left him stranded.
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O. Ll. Brodie
Columbia
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Kershaw
Winter Blizzard Strikes Plains States Paralyzing Travel
CHICAGO Feb 8 A fierce blizzard from the west drives subzero temperatures across the Plains. The storm cuts rail and road service, adds several inches of snow to existing accumulations, and causes multiple deaths as it heads toward Indiana Ohio and beyond. In Texas zero readings reported and 400 people marooned at a Radium Kansas school dedication.
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Borah challenges favorite son plan in Ohio primary fury
Idaho Senator Borah denounces Ohio GOP efforts for a favorite son convention in the May 12 Buckeye State primary as sham and deception. He accuses the plan of denying voters a fair choice and signals a broader political clash as the 1932 nominating fight continues.
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Borah
Idaho
Simeon Fess
Ohio
Ohio Party
Buckeye
Philadelphia
Massachusetts
Maryland
Jouett Shouse
American Liberty League
Alfred B. Smith
Cleveland
Fess
Roosevelt
Guilford Jury Resumes Study of Abortion Murder Case
Guilford Superior Court jurors will resume consideration at 9 30 tomorrow in the death of Miss Ethel Smith at a Greensboro hospital. Dr C C Stewart Negro physician and Ollie Parrish white youth are charged with abortion and murder in the November 29 1934 case. The jury had been unable to reach a verdict and was locked up for the night after Judge H Hoyle Sink directed. Trial began last Tuesday.
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Caleb Wagner Held Without Bond After Prem hearing in Tom Marion Killing
MT AIRY, Feb 8 FP Caleb Wagner ordered held without bond for grand jury action after a preliminary hearing on the charge of killing Tom Marion, 33, at seaom last January 6. The defense offered no testimony.
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Tom Marion
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