Fleeing felons kidnap motorist in unabated chase
Washington Feb 15. Senator Burke of Nebraska opposes President Roosevelt's court plan. He proposes a constitutional amendment to force federal judges to retire at 75. Burke says compromise may be possible on increasing the Supreme Court only if justices retire at 70.
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Ashington
Nator Burke
D-Neb
Elt
Ibraskan
Roose
Supreme Court
Burke
Cummings
North Carolina Legislature Moves on Liquor and Tax Bills
Carolina's assembly plans debate on Local Liquor bill to regulate county stores and potential referendums. Senate to consider revenue, State High Commission funding, and an $145 million options bill as sessions proceed.
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Leigh
Carolina
Senate
House
State High Commission
Sen
Tragedy in Winchester Fire Claims Rexrode Family
In Winchester Virginia, Mrs James Rexrode age 28 and her five year old daughter Lillie died in a house fire that trapped them in their room. The blaze also badly burned the husband and their infant son as a stairway collapsed during their attempt to escape.
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Winchester
James Rexrode
Lillie
Jordan Springs
Rexrode
Retairway
Daughtois Faye
Arma
Soviet Ex Premier Arrested as Traitor
Alexis Rykoff former Soviet premier long at top of power is reported arrested on treason charges linked to Trotsky sympathies. Authorities outline alleged political crimes, with Rykoff’s status and affiliations under scrutiny in Moscow.
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Alexis Rykoff
Russia
Trotsky
Rykoff
Private debts still problem across state legislatures
A Chicago report notes private debts especially land contracts and mortgages keep lawmakers in low spirits. Debtor relief moves spread statewide with 14 states enacting or expanding moratorium laws to extend redemption times and curb foreclosures.
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Chicago
New England
Minnesota
Bnen
Washington
North Dakota
Wisconsin
State Farm Credit Administration
California
Nebraska
Iowa
Arizona
New York
Seized liquor poured out after Mecklenburg raids
Mecklenburg County Judge Fred C. Hunter fined eleven people a total of 2900 for liquor raid arrests. State patrolmen under Lieut. L. H. Fisher poured out more than 350 cases of tax paid gin and whisky at a rural police station watched by news photographers and spectators.
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Charlotte
Mecklenburg County
Fred C. Hunter
L. H. Fisher
Asheville
Social Security backlog shows 23 million applications pending
The Social Security board reported on file 23,461,000 employee applications for old age benefits. New York City led with 1,941,800 applicants among five big cities, while Chicago had 1,327,866 and Pennsylvania totaled 2,285,086. Additional totals for North Carolina 456,710 and Charlotte 207,794 were listed.
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Ashington
Social Security Board
New York
Post Office
New York City
Chicago
Pennsylvania
North Careling
Charlotte
N. C
House Appropriations Panel Advances Large Fiscal Bill
The House Appropriations Committee approved a 1.5 billion dollar measure for the treasury and post office for the fiscal year starting July 1. It includes 750 thousand for a new trans Atlantic air mail service and 500 million for old age pensions. Officials discuss stopping foreign gold inflows and Pinkerton case contempt charges loom over the strike reporting.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Treasury and
Post Office Departments
House
Post Office
Treasury
Post Office Department
Postal Service
Harry W. Anderson
General Motors
Senate Civil Liberties Committee
Federal Reserve Board
The
Securities Commission
Civil Liberties Committee
Robert Pinkerton
Pinkerton
Declines Seen on Stock Market in New York
The stock market fell around 3 points on Feb 15 amid modest offerings. Brokers attributed declines partly to the Washington conference of Secretary Morgenthau and other monetary authorities seeking regulation of foreign capital inflows. Bonds were irregular and commodities mixed as the pound and franc improved.
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New York
Washington
Morgenthau
Torch Slaying Denied By Man
Southport Feb 15 Deputy George Tripp said Hermon Clemmons 32 held without bond in the torch death of Hobson Sellers 21 told him he did not set the truck driver afire. I found him on fire the officer quoted the prisoner as saying. Sellers told officers in a dying statement he had been drinking at a friend's home went out in the yard lay down and Clemmons his companion of the evening came out and set him on fire.
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Southport
George Tripp
Hermon Clemmons
Hobson Sellers
Sellers
Clemmoné
Churches Oppose Liquor Measure in State Vote Plea
Dr Charles Darsie pastor of Elm Street Christian church says 26 Protestant churches in Greensboro and nearby areas adopted a resolution asking State Senators Thomas J Gold Jr and J Benton Stacy from Guilford Rockingham to oppose any move to liberalize liquor laws without a state wide referendum.
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Greensboro
Charles Darsie
Elm Street
Whistle Call Shifts 79 000 Strikers Back to GM Work
Detroit Feb 15 Factory whistles called about 75 000 GM employees back to work as plants reopen nationwide after a six week strike. Chevrolet Motor divisions in Detroit Bay City Flint Saginaw Toledo and Muncie begin to resume operations with Buick Flint also restarting its large plant as conditions improve.
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Detroit
General Motors
Flint
Chevrolet Motor
Bay City
Saginaw
Mich
Toledo
Ohio
Muncie
Ind
Buick
Fisher Body
Chevrolet Motor Assembly
Miners' Union Moves to Expel William Green
Washington February 15 United Mine Workers policy committee orders expulsion of William Green president of the AFL from the miners union calling him guilty of treason and betrayal. The action ties to Green’s role in the General Motors strike and aligns with the committee’s push to unite workers across industries.
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Labor
Washington
United Mine Workers’ Policy Committee
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Green
Committee For Industrial Organization
A. F. of L
Cooper Batts Surrenders Over Gunshot Wound Incident
Wilson Feb 15. Cooper Batts 45 Wilson County surrendered to officers and is held without bond after seriously wounding his wife with a shotgun last night. Deputy Frank Carter quoted Batts as saying he shot his wife and that he and his children spent the night in a hotel. Batts has been married four times.
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Wilson
Cooper Batts
Wilson County
Frank Carter
Batts
New York Clothing Workers Win 12 Percent Pay Increase
A 12 percent wage rise takes effect May 16 for 135000 workers in the clothing industry. The deal, between the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and a committee representing 85 percent of clothing manufacturers, is expected to cost about 30 million dollars annually. Sidney Hillman calls it a step toward broader well being. The union had sought 15 percent.
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New York
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
Sidney Hillman
The
Amalgamated
New Attacks Stir Alarm After Mary Babcock Slaying
In Buffalo on February 13 a statewide homicide squad was assigned to find the knife-slayer of 18 year old Mary Ellen Babcock as two more assaults on women were reported. Seven attacks total since the blonde victim was found with multiple stab wounds in a South Buffalo field last week.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Mary Ellen Babcock
Miss Babcock
Three Held in Slaying of Elva Brannock
Sheriff Irvin announced a third arrest, Sam Phipps, in the Elva Brannock case as Everett and Delter Fortner remain under questioning. Officials say the 17 year old girl was ravished and strangled near the Virginia line, with the body found in an ivy dump after she had been missing five days.
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Sparta
Walter M. Irvin
Elva Brannock
Sam Phipps
Irvin
Phipps
Everett
Delter Fortner
Virginia Line
Emoky Mountain Parkway
Czar's Executioner Faces Purge Trial
Leeste states Nikolai Bukharin labeled czarist executioner and says he is among hundreds arrested and secretly held in Stalin era purge trials. The article notes Bukharin's alleged role and the broad scope of detentions in the Soviet purge.
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Czar
Leeste
Nikolai Bukharin
Stalin
Bukharin
Joi
Supreme Court agrees to review tax refund case
The Supreme Court will hear an Aniston Alabama Manufacturing Co case seeking $270,000 back from the government. The high court paused to decide other matters, delaying rulings on wage laws, New York unemployment insurance, and 1933 constitutional questions.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Anniston
Ala
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
New York
Doctor Denies Contempt Count in Va. Affidavit
Dr. H. C. Coleman of South Hill denied in Mecklenburg County circuit court an allegation of contempt for a letter to the Richmond Times Dispatch. He said he criticized the court system for years but bore no ill will toward Judge Turnbull's court and aimed to point out general evils in the system.
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Boydton
H. C. Coleman
South Hill
Mecklenburg
Mild Winter Boon to Chesapeake Bay Crabs
Baltimore February 15 reports a mild winter boosts crab stock for Chesapeake Bay watermen. Crabs survived easier and migrate south to Virginia and North Carolina spawning grounds as Maryland bans crabbing last November protected spawning crabs.
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Baltimore
Chesapeake Bay
Virginia
North Carolina
Maryland
Trainman Hurt in Fall Overnight Collision
Monroe Feb 15 James H Crawford of Charlotte, conductor for Seaboard Air Line, fell beneath a moving freight car while applying brakes and lost both legs. He was reported resting well today as railroad officials opened an investigation with witnesses stating he was on top of the car on extra duty as a brakeman.
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Monroe
James H. Crawford
Charlotte
Crawford
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Escape at Caledonia Farm Spurs Manhunt in North Carolina
Reports say 11 or 12 convicts in a cream sedan and hostages vanished from Caledonia prison farm and sped toward Nashville, with three murder fences and four long term felons among them. Authorities mention Captain T. D. ton and Steward W. L ett as missing officials. the convoy included inmates Yeager Page York and Petit and a red haired youth.
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Rocky Mount
Caledonia
Avent's
Nash County
Nashville
Raleigh
France Warns Italy on Intervention in Spanish War
France signals it will seek international control of foreign aid to the Spanish insurgents by February 28 and warns Italy against open intervention as Blum denounces violations of non intervention. British destroyers exchange fire with a suspected insurgent plane near Algeria.
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Italy
Portugal
Leon Blum
Blum
Vittorio Cerruti
Malaga
Spain
Socialist National Council
London
Algeria
Havock
Gypsy
Salamanca
Palma
Mallorca
Catalonia
Portbow
Madrid
Valencia
Aragonda
Two Soldiers Die in Wreck at Fayetteville Crossing
Two cars struck a stalled railroad gasoline car at a grade crossing in Fayetteville. Ft Bragg soldiers Paul McDonald and Haywood Fisher were killed. Injured were George B. Dockery, Crawford, and an unidentified man riding with the deceased.
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Fayetteville
State Highway Patrol Headquarties
Ft. Brags
Paul McDonald
Haywood Fisher
Cedar Creek
George B. Dockery
Crawford
Ft. Bragg
McDonald
Fisher
Receivers Ordered to Submit Comprehensive Plan for Seaboard
Federal Judge Luther B ordered receivers of Seaboard Air Line to draft and submit a comprehensive plan for reorganizing the railway’s affairs. Seaboard entered receivership seven years ago and has been operated along the Atlantic coast by Henry W. Anderson of Richmond and Leigh Powell of Norfolk.
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Norfolk
Luther B
Seabord Air Line Railway
Seaboard
Atlantic Coastal Plain
Henry W. Anderson
RFR Mond
Leigh Powell
Folk
Officer Shot by Prisoner in Winston-Salem
Winston Salem February 15 officers say R Simpson assistant police chief was shot while attempting to arrest prisoner R Gravely whom police planned to question on assault with intent to kill. Doctors reported he would likely survive barring complications continuation of care.
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Winston-Salem
R. Simpson
W. F. Ande
Simpson
R. Gravely
Sim
Virginia Methodists Urge Moore for Head of First Episcopal District
Virginia Methodists press for Bishop Arthur James Moore of San Antonio Texas to be named permanent head of the First Episcopal district following the death of Bishop Mouzon. The College of Bishops met in Dallas and assigned three bishops to temporarily lead the district including Virginia and the Baltimore and Western Virginia conferences. Concerns arose after Mouzon’s death in Charlotte North Carolina last week.
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Richmond
Virginia
Arthur James Moore
Santonio
Tex
Ed Mougan
College of Bishops of Southern Methodist Epichurch
Dallas
First
Baltimore
Western Virginia
Baltim
College of Bishops
Arthur Moore
Mouzon
Charlotte
N. C
Flood Crests Flatten Near Vicksburg On Mississippi River
Reported flood crests along the Mississippi were flattening as they advance toward Vicksburg. Metrologist J T Lindley notes this slows crest movement but does not ease strain on the main levee line. Refugees flood Red Cross camps in a 50 square mile lowland area northeast of Vicksburg while authorities urge calm.
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New Orleans
Mississippi River
Vicksburg
Gulf of Mexico
J. T. Lindley
Cairo
Vieburg
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Reope
Miners’ Union
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Dodgeville
Wis
Charles Fetterman
Los Angeles
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Caledonia Farm
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