Effort to Delay Farm Bill Is Defeated
Washington reports show Chairman Vinson sought to amend the naval expansion bill to defend both coasts and possessions with a balanced fleet. The House Naval Committee then blocked calling Arthur Krock to testify about alleged U S British fleet cooperation in the Pacific. President Roosevelt indicated no immediate foreign affairs action forthcoming as Congress discussed a $16 880 000 army appropriation and related requests.
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FDR
Washington
Vinson
DGA
House Naval Committee
Atlantic
Pacific
Arthur Krock
New York Times
United States
Roosevelt
Congress
Brewster
POR Krock
Senate eyeing quick passage of crop control aid
The WPA chief Aubrey Williams said if the extra 250 million dollars is approved, 500000 more workers can be added to relief rolls, raising total on the rolls to about 1 960 000. House debate expected next Tuesday as Senate signals mixed support.
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Washington
Aubrey Williams
Rae Progress Administration
Roosevelt
Congress
Williams
House Appropriations Committee
Appropriations Committee
House
Barkley
Senate
King
Utah
Workers’ Alliance of America
Shells Fall in Madrid as Rebels Bomb Five Cities
Madrid reports renewed fighting as government and insurgent artillery clash in the capital including shells in the neutral district. Rebels attacked five towns behind the lines Peninscola Alcosebre and Benicasim housing foreign troops. Teruel front skirmishes reported with government forces repelling several assaults.
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Madrid
Teruel
Russia refuses Chinese plea for greater aid in war
News from Shanghai reports Soviet Russia declined a Chinese request for large scale aid against Japan. Sun Fo reportedly urged Moscow, but Russia feared a direct clash with Japan. Chinese troops pressed to hold the Sunghai corridor as eight Japanese columns advanced along the Shanghai railway.
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Shanghai
Soviet
Russia
Japan
Sun Fo
Sun Yat-Sen
China
Moscow
Central China
Sunghai Railway
Escaped prisoners captured as manhunt narrows forces
George Christian was arrested near Valparaiso, the third of five Indiana State prison escapees. August Cummings and Frank Paviench were recaptured near Wheatfield, while Theodore Hulburt and Angelo Gengo remain at large in the Kankakee marshlands south of Michigan City. In Syracuse, a large gathering questioned Bund official G W Kunze about religion and its alleged U S attitude amid rising tensions with Germany.
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Michigan City
Ind
Indiana State Prison
George Christian
Valparaiso
August Cummings
Frank Paviench
Wheatfield
Theodore Hulburt
Angelo Gengo
Kankakee
Syracuse
N. Y
Fed
Legi
G. W. Kunze
The
Bund
United States
Germany
Dwight C. Dale
Onondaga County Legion
Kunze
Dale
Mathias P. Snyder
Sink Announces for Judgship in Two Districts
Raleigh Feb 11 Judge H Hoyle Sink of the 22nd district and Hector H Clark of the 9th filed with the state board of elections to enter the June Democratic primary. Sink lists Greensboro as his legal residence and has no announced opposition.
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Raleigh
Superior Court
H. Hoyle Sink
Hector H. Clark
State Board of Elections
Housing Program Boosted by New Mortgage Association
The RFC announced a newly created national mortgage association may lend up to 211 million dollars as part of the housing program. It starts with 10 million paid-in capital and 1 million paid-in surplus, and can issue debentures up to times its capital stock. The group will buy and sell first mortgages insured by the FHA to support large projects.
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Washington
National Mortgage Association
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
Agis
Federal Housing Administration
Jesse H. Jones
Jones
S Ite Capital
January Retail Sales in Fifth District Rise 1 Percent
Richmond, Va. Feb 11 The January retail sales report for the Fifth Federal Reserve district shows 56 department stores posting a 1 percent increase in dollar value over January last year. West Virginia records the largest gain at 13.7 percent while North Carolina stores fall 3.2 percent.
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Richmond
Federal Reserve District
West Virginia
North Carolina
Joyner Seeks Reelection and Iredell Treasurer Nomination
State Senator Jack Joyner announced in Statesville he will seek the Democratic nomination for reelection. Henry P. Van Hoy, former Iredell County treasurer, also announced his candidacy for the post.
Ice Floe Scientists Build Snow Hut Amid Greenland Storm
A storm wrecks tents and rips a radio mast on a bleak Greenland coast. Campers salvage a new radio setup and construct a snow hut to wait for relief as they endure shifting ice floe conditions and overturned sleds.
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Greenland
California Storm Breaches Weather Records in 16th Day
San Francisco reports a prolonged North California storm extending into its 16th day bringing more rain and snow and raising flood danger. Eight deaths are attributed to hurricane force winds along a 100 mile front in the region.
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San Francisco
Weather Bureau
California
Last Confederate Buried in Lincolnton
Funeral service for Elias C. Huss 91, survivor of Lincoln County Civil War unit, was held here today. He died yesterday after a two week illness from a fractured hip.
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Lincolnton
Elias C. Huss
Lincoln County
Two enter race for Bertie County seat
T N Peele of Lewiston and Melton D Burden of Aulander, both merchants, announced today their candidacies for the Democratic nomination for the House of Representatives from Bertie County.
Lincoln Day dinner speaker Hamilton Fish Jr to visit Greensboro
Native New Yorker Hamilton Fish Jr a prominent Republican critic of the New Deal and potential 1940 nominee will speak at the ninth annual statewide Lincoln Day dinner at the King Cotton Hotel Greensboro Saturday night February 18. The event includes a full day of GOP activities with a State Executive Committee meeting, North Carolina Young Republicans convention and a 6:30 p.m. dinner.
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Abraham Lincoln
North Carolina
Greensboro
Hamilton Fish, Jr
Lials B. Casey
High Point
Willis H. Slane
New York
King Cotton Hotel
Republican State Executive Committee
Silas B. Carey
Florentine
E. A. Wright
Walter York
Charlotte
Guilford County
Wright
Worth D. Henderson
W. C. Meekina
Hendersonville
Guilford
Henderson
Inquest Delayed in Georgia Doctor Death Case
Coroner J. D. Baldwin postponed the renewal of the inquest into Dr. Charles H. Lee's death after County Police Chief L. D. Godwin eliminated two burglary suspects from the murder case. Baldwin expected a ballistic report from the FBI for the next session.
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ST. Simons Island
J. D. Baldwin
Charles H. Lee
L. D. Godwin
Baldwin
Federal Bureau of Ballistics
Emergency Dictatorship In Rumania Takes Quick Action
In Bucharest on February 11 the new dictatorial government under Dr Miron Cristea began rule by decree after swearing loyalty to King Carol. Decrees replace parliament, establish military prepacts as prefects, set a nationwide siege, suspend elections, and empower village officials to appoint mayors and assistants.
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Rumania
Buckarest
Sing Carol
Premmier
Octavian Goga
Miron Cristea
Bucharest
Senate
Carol
Goga
Fall fatal to son of justice in Greensburg
Kevin Butler 33, son of Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler, died after a fall from a speeding train near Greensburg Pennsylvania. He was found beside the Pennsylvania Realty road tracks near Devil's Bend after the train he rode as a passenger rounded a sharp curve. Crew suspected illness before he went to the washroom.
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Greensburg
Fev
Kevin Butler
Pierce Butler
Supreme Court of the United States
Butler
Pennsylvania Realty Road
Here
Trouble within Germany denied by press official
Berlin reports quote Alfred Ingemar Berndt vice chief of the government press department denying German internal trouble after Hitler's leadership shake-up on February 4. He said Polish Jewish sources spread reports to Europe via foreign correspondents on behalf of Goebbels and Dietrich.
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Berlin
Alfred Ingemar Berndt
Hoey to Speak at Shelby High School Dedication
Governor Hoey will address the dedication tonight of Shelby's new high school building valued at 182000 dollars. The ceremony marks the completion of the modern facility serving the Shelby community.
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Hoeby
Shelby Shelby
Hoey
Shelby
James Ten Eyck Dies at Miami Coach at 86
James Ten Eyck, 86, Syracuse University rowing coach, died in Miami after a three week illness from a heart attack. Mrs. Ten Eyck was at his bedside when he passed about 6 a m Eastern Standard Time. He had suffered coronary thrombosis and was in an oxygen tent.
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Miami
Fla
James Ten Eyck
Syracuse University
Fate of Wright to be decided by jury tonight
Paul A. Wright faced the jury in Los Angeles after denouncing the prosecution as a moral error and depicting himself as a puppet of fate for the death of his wife Evelyn and friend John Kimmel. Superior Judge Ingalls W. ruled jurors would be instructed after final arguments by defense and prosecution. Wright’s attorney Jerry Gler argued for leniency, citing biblical quotes and Hammurabi amid California law references.
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Los Angeles
Fen
Paul A. Wright
Evelyn
John Kimmel
Ingall W
Jerry Gler
Wright
Balon
Hammurabi
Laws
California
More Powers For Attorney General In N. C.
Durham February 11 Professor Paul H Sanders of Duke University law school urges a central state justice department for North Carolina to improve efficiency The plan would make the attorney general head of the department of justice create a division of prosecution and a bureau of investigation with agents and a laboratory oversee solicitors and sheriffs and assist them cooperate with state police pardon board probation commission and board of charities and public welfare seek reports and intervene in criminal proceedings to protect public welfare oust ineffective local solicitors and centralize supervision to raise office standards
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Paul H. Sanders
Duke Universality Law School
North Carolina State Department of Justice
Sanders
Hoey
Justice Department
North Carolina
Department of Justice
Division of Prosecution
Bureau of Investigation
State Police
Pardon Board
Probation Commission
State
Board of Charities and Pubs Welfare
Solid
Thetorney General
Olina
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