Japan Rejects League Manchurian Report
Miami dispatches report Mayor Cermak of Chicago and Mrs Gill recovering after gun attack aimed at Roosevelt. Bulletin notes Cermak “satisfactory” with no complications and Gill “holding her own.” Others injured rest well. doctors issue later update on Cermak’s condition. A Sanity commission for Zangara requested by defense lawyers is discussed by Dade County Bar Association.
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Japan
League
Zangara
Cermak
Anton Cermak
Chicago
T. W. Hatson
Wire
Joe H. Gill
Miami
Fra
Margaret Kruis
Newark
N. J
William Sinnott
New York
Russell Caldwell
Cocoanut Grove
Fla
Karl Meyer
Frank Jirka
John Snyder
Nichol
T. W. Hutson
Jirka
Richey Graham
Illinois
Roosevelt Ambers Cabinet Talks as Candidates Convene
North Carolina General Assembly rejects Sunday baseball for profit as 84 to 25 vote against Sullivan bill. A representative accuses sinister influences of delaying relief for burdened taxpayers amid legislative session in Raleigh.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
General Assembly
House
Sullivan
Williams
Duplin
Ratification Route for Prohibition Repeal Debated
6 HP TO HOUSE WASHINGTON Feb 17. Legal questions cloud how repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment would be ratified if submitted to voters. The House may follow the Senate to refer to state conventions, a method supported by party platforms, though conventions have never before ratified a constitutional amendment. Opinions differ on whether Congress or states control the process.
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Washington
House
Senate
Congress
A. Mitchell Palmer
Mrs. Roosevelt Plans 25 Percent White House Cut
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt says she plans to reduce White House expenses by 25 percent, aligning with President Roosevelt. She envisions cutting nine or ten staff, trimming food costs, and curbing household expenses while maintaining enough help for formal events.
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Lorena A. Hickok
New York
Franklin PD
Roosevelt
White House
Ithaca
N. Y
Franklin
Roosevelts Conferring On Cabinet Posts In Transit
President-Elect Roosevelt and Senators Glass Hull and Cutting held discussions aboard the Roosevelt train from Washington to New York about cabinet posts. no decision was reached and a final choice was expected within a day or two. security was tight at the brief Virginia stop as speculation focused on Hull as secretary of state or treasurer and Glass possibly returning to the treasury.
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Roosevelt
New York
Senator Glass
Virginia
Washington
Baltimore
Maryland
Hall of Tenness
Glass
Cutting
New Mexico
W. H. Moran
Secret Service
Senator Hull
Treasury
William H. Woodin
Hull
Miami Woman Rescues Roosevelt Target by Grasping Assassin
Mrs. W. F. Cross of Miami seized the pistol arm of Guiseppe Zangara during an assassination attempt on President-Elect Roosevelt. Though weighing about 100 pounds, she twisted his arm to spoil the aim, a act she credits to foresight of danger. Zangara was captured with the weapon at the Miami jail.
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W. F. Cross
Miami
Guiseppe Zangara
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Dan Hardie
L. G. Crews
League Report on Manchurian Crisis Calls For Autonomy
The League of Nations urges Manchuria to remain under Chinese sovereignty, dissolve Manchukuo, and establish a governing body in Manchuria under China’s control. It backs joint negotiations with Japan and Russia to settle disputes under the Covenant Kellogg Briand pact and nine power treaty.
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League of Nation
OY Associated Press
League of Nations
Manchukuo
Manchuria
China
Japan
Lytton
Russia
Geneva
Switzerland
Yosuke Matuoka
Jehol
League
Jéhol
United States
Fall League Assembly
Stimson
Lytton Commission
Churia
Assembly
Italians and Deportation Debate in Beverly Hills Letter
A Beverly Hills writer argues about citizen status of an Italian man and the idea of deporting nonbelonging residents. He praises Italian Americans and recalls Tony Cermak’s friendship with President Roosevelt during a Chicago visit.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Tony Cermak
Chicago
Roosevelt
Tony
Will
War described as main factor in current economic woes
Washington Feb 17. David F. Houston former treasury and agriculture secretary and Mutual Life Insurance president told the senate finance committee that World War is a principal factor in present economic ailments. He cited 30 million killed or wounded and wartime expenditures totaling 268 billion as background factors disrupting international exchanges.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
David F. Houston
Democrats Cement Push to Repeal Prohibition in House
Washington February 17 Democrats rallied to force a floor vote on the Blaine repeal with Speaker Garner promising a Monday suspension vote. The Senate passed the repeal 63 to 23 and a Democratic caucus aimed to bind members to support repeal, while Republicans signaled over 100 votes in favor. The measure would put repeal to the states for ratification by three fourths of state legislatures or conventions.
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Washington
House
Garner
Senate
Snell
Curtis
Congress
Blaine
Wis
Hoover
Japan cabinet debates league exit as peace plan stalls
Tokyo reports the cabinet met to decide whether Japan would secede from the League of Nations and adopt a postwar peace plan, but recessed until tomorrow without action.
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Tokyo
Japan
League of Nations
Prohibition Repeal Resolution Sent to House
The prohibition repeal resolution was received in the House today from the Senate.
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Washington
House
Senate
House Democrats to decide on Senate repeal proposal
Washington February 17 The house Democrats gathered behind closed doors to decide if the membership would back the senate prohibition repeal plan as a unified position.
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Washington
House
Senate
Senator Robinson Proposes Publicity Repeal Bill
Washington February 17 AP Senator Robinson the Democratic leader introduces a bill to repeal provisions of the reconstruction corporation act requiring publicity of loans. He seeks to ease disclosure and allow private loan terms without public notice.
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Washington
Robinson
Tobacco market closes with 38 million pounds sold
Winston-Salem tobacco market closes for the season reporting 38,036,912 pounds sold. The average price arrived at 10 dollars 60 cents, compared with 6 dollars 66 cents last season.
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Winston-Salem
Abolition Bill Approved Moves to Senate
Raleigh February 17 The abolition of the present corporation commission and creation of an elective public utilities commissioner won committee approval in the General Assembly. The substitute sets the elective commissioner at 4500 dollars annually with two associate commissioners at 25 dollars per day up to 1800 dollars yearly. The utilities commissioner would be elected for a four year term.
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Raleigh
Corporation Commission
General Assembly
Senate
Insane Negro Held In Home With Chain
A mentally deranged 27 year old man was found chained to a beam in his aged father’s house in Allendale county for more than a year. He slept on the floor by an open fireplace and was burned in a fall months earlier. The relief council took charge of the case.
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Allendale
8. C
Allendale County
J. Wilson
Relief Council
Last Rites Held For Father Local Woman
Funeral services were held at Giles chapel in Randolph county for James M. Hurley 82 who died yesterday Rev R B Truesdale of First Methodist church officiated He is survived by three sons W A of Rand leman R L of Central Falls and J H of Asheboro a daughter Mrs E B Rollins of High Point two brothers and one sister also survive
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Ashebord
Giles Chapel
Randolph County
James M. Hurley
Truesdale
First Methodist Church
W. A
Randleman
R. L
Central Falls
J. H
Asheboro
BE. G. Rollins
High Point
Cox Infant Dies In Asheboro
Catherine Cox two and a half year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Earl Cox died suddenly from pneumonia at their home in Asheboro. Final rites are set for Saturday at 2 30 PM conducted by Rev Owens Baptist pastor.
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Catherine Cox
Earl Cox
Owens
The
Baptist Church
Chicago Investment House Earned Eight Million In Paper Profits
Senate investigators revealed that Hals ey Stuart and Company a Chicago firm made nearly eight million dollars in paper profits by moving securities between Insull companies. Harold L. Stuart testified he directed transfers to bolster credit and some profits were returned to Insull entities. He said the deal aimed to realize full face value of debentures and securities, not to mislead buyers, while acknowledging it could misrepresent a company’s financial health.
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Chicago Investment House
Nathan Robertson Washington
Senate
Halsey, Stuart and Company
Chicago
Insull
Harold L. Stuart
Investment House
Stuart
Ferdinand Pecora
Insull Utility Investments, Inc
Pecora
Brookhart
Brookhartian
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Dare County Medical Association
Criminal Court
E. C. Collins
Lewis Twyman
Dade County Bar Association
J. M. McCaskill
Bar Association
Alfred E. Rain
Twyman
Dade County Medical Association
Medical Association
Collins
Franklin Roosevelt
Wilson
Eco
Cox
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