Vienna Battles Rebel Socialist Strongholds In Violent Uprising
Civil war in Austria rages as government artillery hits the Karl Marx apartment building housing 2000 Socialist families. At least dozens are dead or injured in Vienna and across Steyr Graz Linz Ottakring and Floridsdorf amid heavy shelling and street fighting. Prince von Starhemberg leads Heimwehr forces as Emil Fey commands the Vienna assault.
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Vienna
Karl Marx
Europe
Austria
Engelbert Dollfuss
Socialist Party
Steyer
Graz
Ling
Karl Marx Prn
Ett
Floridsdorf
Schlingerhof
Ottakring
Karl Marx Court
Sandleiten
Styria
Eggenberg
Bruckandermur
Linz
Prince Schoenburg Hartenstein
Defense
All World
RFC board member under fire in Mississippi over salaries
Washington Feb 13 A demand that Harvey C Couch resign from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation board was made by Representative Rankin asserting the RFC director drew almost 70 000 in 1933 from three power firms Arkansas Power and Light Louisiana Power and Light and Mississippi Power and Light Rankin linked Couch to the Insull interests and opposed municipal and TVA power access citing high salaries reported by the Federal Power Commission
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Washington
Harvey C. Couch
Reconstruction Corporation Board of Directors
Rankin
D. Miss
Federal Trade Commission
Couch
RFC
Roosevelt
South
Insull
Senate
Costigan
D.-Col
Power and Light Company
Arkansas Power and Light Company
Louisiana Power and Light Company
Mississippi Power and Light Company
France weighs aid to Austria over Germany clash
Paris reports Henry Berenger, head of the Senate foreign affairs committee, privately suggested France and other League powers may need to give armed help to Chancellor Dollfuss amid the Vienna crisis. Government officials doubt international troops would be deployed to Vienna.
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Paris
Henry Berenger
Senate Foreign Affairs Committee
France
League of Nations
Engelbert Dollfuss
Austria
Germany
Vienna
Germany keeps hands off Austria as Czechs loom
Berlin officials signal restraint in Austrian affairs. They state Germany will let Austria salvage itself, but warn that Czech actions toward Austria could force Germany to drop its reserve and act.
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Berlin
Germany
Austria
British Secretary Says No Interference in Austria Affairs
London Feb 18 Sir John Simon British foreign secretary told the House of Commons there is no plan to interfere in the internal affairs of another country while discussing Austrian matters. The remark framed Britain's stance in the debate on European affairs today.
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London
Sir John Simon
House of Commons
Lincoln would differ on many points in modern politics
A Beverly Hills letter discusses what Lincoln might do today, suggesting he would vote Democratic, oppose wood chopping, and be labeled a radical progressive. The writer notes Alice Longworth’s birthday and includes remarks about aviation, stock, and Roosevelt, ending with a call to jury service in a political controversy.
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Beverly Hilia
Cal
Lincoln
Alice
Alice Longworth
Will. P
Beverly Hills
France Adopts Firm Foreign Policy as Unrest Rages
Paris reports swift cabinet action to quell unrest after a 24 hour general strike against Fascism. Rioters were shot and wounded in several cities, with deaths rising to 21 in Paris clashes. Government vows sharp measures toward Hitler and possible trade reprisals against Britain.
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Paris
France
Marseilles
Nantes
Toulon
Lille
Roubaiz
Mulhouse
Hitler
Germany
Austria
Gaston Doumergue
Great Britain
Hawks Bring in Bounty From Falcons Traps
Rex Idol a 10 year old from Colfax operated a hawk trapping business in Winston Salem. Using jump traps on poles he caught 35 Cooper hawks and Shine hawks and earned 25 cents bounty on each.
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HAWKS
Winston-Salem
Rex Idol
Colfax
Rex
Cooper and Shine Hawks
MacCracken Trial Suspended by Senate
Washington report notes the senate's contempt trials paused to permit emergency legislative business and await two Republican inquiry committee members. The case centers on MacCracken and three counsel for air company officials as disputes over removed letters in subpoenaed files unfold.
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Washington
Congress
CWA
Senate Ward
House
Banking Committee
Treasury
Ways and Means Committee
Lewis
Senate
William P. MacCracken
Senate Appropriations Committee
Independent Offices
Veterans Administration
Jones
RFC
Capitol
Army
White House
Charles A. Lindbergh
MacCracken
Air Company
Frank Hogan
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Hogan
Jarney
Air Mail
Wallace opposes compulsory crop control plan in hearing
Secretary Wallace told the house agriculture committee he opposes compulsory crop control though backing the Bankhead cotton program due to farmer support. He questioned testing standards for producer assent, warned against freezing production by state, and raised issues on embargoes and exemptions that could penalize cotton specialists.
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Washington
Wallace
House Agriculture Committee
Jones
D-Tex
Secretary of Agriculture
Commercial Policy Committee
21 Men Confined To Death Row At Pen
RALEIGH February 13 Twenty one men sit today in the state prison's death row cells facing electrocution. William Bunk Deal of Robeson County joined yesterday to push the death sentence total to an all time high. No execution dates are set before mid March as appeals remain in state and U S supreme courts.
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Raleigh
State
William
Bunk) Deal
Robeson County
United States Supreme Courts
Regional Codes in Certain Industries Encourage Codes
The NRA abandons past policy and supports regional codes in trades outside interstate commerce. Hugh 8 Johnson notes national organization can guide self-governing states with local control, applying to laundries, restaurants, taxicabs, and barber shops but not local retail stores. NBA sees this as easing enforcement in trades like dry cleaning.
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Washington
NRA
Hugh 8
Johnson
NBA
Death penalty asked for leaders in prison break
Walla Walla, Feb 13. Warden McCauley sought the death penalty for ringleaders in yesterday’s bloody prison break attempt that left eight dead, six guards or staff wounded, and knives forged in the plate shop. Convicts seized Jackson office, then fired from the walls as guards moved in.
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Walla Walla
Wash
James M. McCauley
H. L. Briggs
Turnkey
Wallace Turcott
Paul Krouse
Gerald Hill
H. R. Clark
James R. de Long
Ernest de Boer
H. Robert Parks
Warden McCauley
F. W. Jackson
de Long
Frank Butler
Jackson
H. M. Williams
S. B. Bowman
William Truman
Identification Bureau
McCauley
Truman
Clark
Briggs
Donald F. Collins
James Fenning
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AP Foreign Staff
Blond
Laura Fenner
New Orleans
Fenner
Senate of the United States
Chesley Jurney
Jurney
Pen
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