Social Bill Split Fails In Committee On Social Security
Administration forces fend off a bid to split the social security program in the House Ways and Means Committee by 17 to 6 on party lines. The relief bill faces ongoing debate in the Senate over a prevailing wage amendment as Lincoln’s birthday is marked.
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Supreme Court
House
Ways and Means Committee
Senate Appropriations Committee
Senate
Smith
D-Sc
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
Farley
Lincoln
Roosevelt
White House
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Pearl Harbor
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New Administration
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Solons Debate Highway Safety And Sales Tax
Raleigh lawmakers focused on highway safety and the sales tax during a legislative session. The discussion highlighted competing priorities and potential policy implications for state residents.
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Solons
Navy public works policy approved by Vinson
Washington Feb 12 Administration approves a 38.098 million dollar Navy public works program. About 15 million funds Pearl Harbor base strengthening and 10 million for a floating dry dock there. 2 million for naval depots at Balboa and Coco Solo. 6.11 million for armor armament and munitions. 20 million from a 200 million prior program. rest via regular channels. Senate plans sales tax discussions. Lincoln birthday observed. various highway and water projects discussed. Continued on page nine.
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Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Vinson
D.-Ga
House Naval Committee
Balboa
Coco Solo
Canal Zone
Peace Talks and Mobilization Across Africa Conflict
Ethiopia refuses to pay indemnities and claims one million troops ready to defend Addis Ababa while Italy presses for reparations and a neutral frontier zone. Mussolini’s council watches border mobilizations as peace talks continue in Addis Ababa.
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Supreme Council of Defense of Italy
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Ethiopia
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Mass ‘Light
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Lybia
Supreme Council
Ualual
Tripoli
Wilentz Calls Hauptmann World’s Enemy and Menace
New Jersey Attorney General David Wilentz sought to label Bruno Richard Hauptmann the enemy of the world and a deadly menace in the Lindbergh kidnapping trial. He attacked Hauptmann’s defense as supporting circumstantial evidence and detailed the ransom notes and other alleged links as proof of guilt.
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Justice Trenchard
Bruno Hauptmann
William A. Kinney
Associated Press
Flemington
N.J
State Today
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David Wilentz
Hawmann
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr
Animal Kingdom
Hauptmann
John F.jassie Condon
Joseph A. Perrone
Taxi 4
Condon
Dr. Don
Bronx
Amandus Hochma Millard Whited
Ben Lup
Bruno
Richard
Bruno Richard T Hauptmann
Dr. Condon
Lindbergh
Senate panel debates Roosevelt plan to relieve unemployment
Beverly Hills dispatch notes a senate committee discussion on unemployment relief. The Roosevelt plan would pay jobseekers up to about 50 dollars monthly until new work is found, while the senate method would match any other employer offers. Some expect a six to three ruling to uphold current action.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Senate Committee
Roosevelt
Senate
Long Attacks Farley in Senate But Record Kept
Senator Long resumed attacks on Postmaster General Farley in the Senate but his remarks and a critical editorial were kept from the record on motion by Democratic leader Senator Robinson. Long pressed for a probe into Farley while Bailey challenged the reliability of hearsay allegations.
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Long
D-La
Farley
Senate
Mobile Post
Robinson
Big Jim
Arkansas Officers Welcome Congressional Investigation
Arkansas officers welcome a congressional probe into the sharecropper dispute and accuse Southern Tenant Farmers' union organizers of preaching race equality and inciting disturbances. Prosecutor Denver L. Dudley said a vast majority of planters tenants and officers favor an impartial inquiry and blamed union leaders for unrest.
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Congressional Investigation
Tenants’ Farmers Union
Uu Vhicuis
Denver L. Dudley
Second Judicial Circuit
Dudley
Court Hints Possible Gold Ruling From Supreme Court
Court proceedings in New York milk control case resumed at noon with routine business. An official sought a telephone line to the treasury building but was refused. A gold decision was not expected before Monday, though an afternoon ruling could occur after lunch if desired.
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Washington
Supreme Court
The
Treasury
New York
Labor 10 Fight Cigarette Code Nationwide Boycott
Organized labor announced it would resist the cigarette industry code under the NRA saying it harms workers. I M Ornburn of the AFL and E Lewis Evans of the Tobacco Workers International Union warned of a national boycott against code-proposing companies. They blamed S Clay Williams and the recovery administration for the code and called for action despite wage and hour surveys. Williams, ex head of R J Reynolds Tobacco, led the industry committee involved in negotiations.
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NRA
I. M. Ornburn
American Federation of Labor
E. Lewis Evans
Tobacco Workers’ International Union
S. Clay Williams
Williams
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Senate passes probe resolution on A T and T inquiry
A Senate resolution to investigate American Telephone and Telegraph Company was approved and sent to the appropriate committee, mirroring the six year FTC inquiry into power companies. The action signals intent to scrutinize broad practices within the communications giant.
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Washington
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Federal Trade Commission
Senate
House
Anti-Sales Taxers Set Plan to Target 1935 Revenue Bill
In Raleigh on February 12 anti-sales tax leaders announced a strategy to attack the 1935-37 revenue bill from the budget commission. Representative Lumpkin of Franklin said their first proposal would end foreign stock tax exemptions, projected to raise about 3 million dollars annually, with more measures to follow as amendments if blocked on the floor. Senate judiciary number one.
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Joint Finance Committee
Newman
New Hanover
Cherry
Gaston
Georgia
Ohio
California
Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
House
Raleigh
Budget Commission
Lumpkin
Franklin
Judiciary
Lincoln Eulogized By Jonas Before House
Raleigh February 12 Representative Jonas of Lincoln Republican house leader and former congressman eulogized Abraham Lincoln in an address to the house. He called Lincoln a model worldwide statesman and said his memory and that of Robert E. Lee would be sacred for their contributions to America and the south. He read Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
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State House of Representatives
Abraham Lincoln
Raleigh
Jonas of Lincoln
Republican House
House
Lincoln
Jonas
Robert E. Lee
America
South
North Carolina Weather With Strong Winds and Clouds
Partly cloudy tonight in North Carolina with a slow temperature rise and a chance of rain in extreme west. Winds from Sandy Hook to Hatteras shift from moderate east tonight to south by Wednesday. stronger northeast and east winds over the south portion. Hatteras to Jacksonville shows fresh northeast and east winds with partly overcast skies tonight and Wednesday.
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Hattera
Jacksonville
Nine Of 13 Sailors Aboard Seth Parker On Australia
Nine of the 13 sailors from the Seth Parker adventure cruise were aboard the British cruiser HMS Australia after rescue in the South seas. The ship, with Duke of Gloucester aboard, stood by as Lord Seth Parker and four others remained with the vessel awaiting aid from an American naval vessel. Radio reports note the Duke’s ongoing publicized presence and Lord Seth Parker’s messages from sea.
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Australia
Phillips Lord
U. S
Duke of Gloucester
San Francisco
H. M
Chilline Tawtha Radia
Ssuimipe
Lord
England
Associated Press
Collect
Wants Creditors To Get Unclaimed Funds
Greensboro February 12 Representative Hoyle of Guilford has introduced a bill sponsored by the liquidating board of the North Carolina Bank and Trust Company to amend the 1933 act so depositors and creditors of closed banks are paid in full before unclaimed assets escheat to the state university. Drafted by Herbert B Falk Greensboro attorney and board member the measure would also set a three year statute of limitations for proving claims against closed banks.
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Hoyle
Guilford
North Carolina Bank and Truat Company
State University
Herbert 8. Falk
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