Navy to expand facilities at all yards for 800000 expansion
Admiral Dubose told the House Naval Committee additional facilities would be needed at each navy yard to support the proposed 800000 expansion plan. He urged an amendment giving the department authority to upgrade yards, and discussed the split of construction between navy and private yards amid a stormy two hour hearing.
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Washington
Navy
Concor
House Naval Mittee
Navy Yard
William G. Dan
Department
McGrath
Dubose
Congress
Ubose
Senate eyes doubling emergency relief funds amid WPA review
Senate leaders push to double the 250 million emergency relief appropriation as the House debates a 130 million package for state justice commerce and labor departments. Aubrey Williams testifies before appropriations subcommittee while Frazier cites Plains states’ demand. debate aims to advance relief measure before weekend recess.
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Washington
Frazier
R-Nd
Senate Appropriations
Aubrey Williams
Works Progress Administration
House
State, Justice, Commerce and Labor
Senate
Adams
D-Cole
Plains States
Heroine perishes in Madawaska fire after warning
In Madawaska Maine February 17 a 23 year old Miss Matheolin of Upper Frenchville a photographer risked her life warning residents as a rooming house burned. Ten leaped from a 4th story window into frigid air. Fire officials later recovered her body and searched for missing Philip Luen a 25 year old teacher from South Portland.
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Madawska
Edmonton
N. B
Matheolin
Upper Frenchville
Iss Morin
Sen Eral
Philip Iuin
South Portland
Madawaska High School
Two Reno Gamblers Sentenced To Nine Years Each
New York reports Liam J. Graham and James C. Kay, Reno gamblers, were sentenced to nine years in prison after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy in a 2 500 000 nationwide swindle.
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New York
Liam J. Graham
James C. Kay
Reno
Panthers Top Parkdale A C In A U Tourney Clash
Action in a college basketball game shows Irwin number 4 of Parkdale A C year old Panthers star after a missed foul shot. Brady number 1 watches while Mickey Cochrane of High Point college number 11 tracks the ball. Jack Moran of Panther fights for the ball with Brady, both feet off the floor. High Point lost to Parkdale last night in the first half, with the Panthers holding the lead as the photo captures the moment.
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Irwin
Parkdale Athletic Club
Parkdale
Brady
Mickey Cochrane
High Point College
Jack Moran
Panther
Parkdale A. C
Gastonia
Panthers
Britain France Austria Await Next Action of Hitler
Britain and France seek clarifications from Hitler on Austrian plans and Nazi expansion but show little sign of taking steps beyond questions. Austria’s interior minister Seyss INquart arrives in Berlin to report on economic military and political cooperation with Germany.
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Britain
France
Austria
Hitler
Associated Press
Adolf Hitler
London
Paris
Arthur Seyszinquart
Berlin
Fuehrer
Arthur Seysz-Inquart
Hermann Wilhelm
Steed Named City Collector by Knox
Ear B Steed, a city accounting clerk, was elevated to city collector by City Manager E M Knox from an eligible civil service list after exams. The appointment takes effect immediately with Steed expected to start tomorrow, succeeding A Lee Gibson who retired last November. Steed has served the city about three years.
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Ear B. Steed
E. M. Knox
Civil Service Commission
Knox
Steed
A. Lee Gibson
Garland McPherson
G. Edwin Hedrick
Austria Demands German Promise Adherence in Schuschnigg Accord
Vienna reports Austria declares Germany must directly pledge independence as Adolf Hitler prepares to address the Reichstag. Austrian interior minister Wilhelm Seyss-Inquart carries Schuschnigg’s proposals to Berlin, signaling initial cooperative moves and possible amnesty for political prisoners.
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Vienna
Austria
Germany
Fuehrer Hi
Hitler
Reichstag
Mexican Bandit Raids Kill Nine Across Mexico
Nine people died and five were wounded in bandit raids across Mexico. One hundred gunmen attacked Quajinicutlapa in Guerrero, burning buildings and killing a civilian two federal soldiers and two women. A hacienda manager was slain in Querataro, and in Jalisco peasants from San Nicolas and Brisenas clashed over land rights leaving three dead and five wounded.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Quajinicutlapa
Guerrero
Querataro
Jalisco
San Nicolas
Brisenas
Russians Plan Air Evacuation From Ice Floe
Four Russian scientists stranded since May on a Polar ice floe discussed leaving by airplane. Commander Ivan Papanin said they could stay three more months, but removal was expected soon. Pilot Ivan Cherevichny remained with the campers while Gennady Vilasoff returned to the icebreaker Taimyr.
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Moscow
Ivan Papanin
Ivan Cherevichny
Gennady Vilasoff
Train Collisions Kill Four In New Mexico And Arkansas
In Trinidad Colorado four trainmen died and others injured when a radio and Southern freight collided sixty eight miles south of Folsom New Mexico. The wreck left all the dead from Trinidad. In Roe Arkansas the Cotton Belt Lone Star passenger train hit a southbound freight, killing a freight brakeman C Parker of Pine Bluff instantly and injuring two others while engineer John Roma of Pine Bluff suffered a broken leg after jumping from his car.
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Trinidad
Colo
Folsom
N. M
Trini
Cotton Belt Railroad
Lone Star
C. Parker
Pine Bluff
H. EB. Thompson
John Roma
Roosevelt to Take Five Day Rest at Hyde Park
President Roosevelt plans a four or five day rest at Hyde Park after securing enactment of two major proposals. He signed the crop control bill and pushed amendments to the Federal Housing Act to ease financing for home building beyond government insured mortgages.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
N. Y
Yestery
Woman Held for Killing Husband
Hartsville D C February 17 Mrs Helen Gesthier co proprietor of an inn near here was held on a murder charge today in the fatal shooting of her husband Alfred A Gesthier on February 5 A coroner s jury held last night that she was responsible for Gesthier s death Witnesses said that an argument preceded the slaying.
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Hartsville
D. C
Helen Gesthier
Here
Alfred A. Gesthier
Gesthier
Farm bill faces farmer vote on marketing control
President Roosevelt signed historic farm legislation amid opposition. In a month 2.225 million cotton and tobacco growers will vote by secret ballot on granting the agriculture secretary broad power to control marketing this season. Quotas would aim to limit cotton output to about 10.75 million bales with a two thirds yes vote required to take effect. Last year’s cotton crop reached 18.747 million bales.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Roosevelt
Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace
Abou
Germany sees peace as aim in foreign policy says Dieckhoff
Ambassador Hans Dieckhoff told UNC students that the Germany Italy alliance is an informal understanding not a binding military pact. He argued Germany seeks peaceful relations with neighbors and non neighbors, citing wartime wounds and domestic reforms as reasons to avoid war.
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Italy
Chapel Hill
Fed
Germany
Hans Dieckhoff
Dieckhoff
United States
University of North Carolina
Hitler
Longshoremen's Union Is Rapped By Joseph Curran
National Maritime Union president Joseph Curran charged rival International Longshoremen's Union and Joseph P. Ryan with responsibility for waterfront deaths. He testified before Senate committees that 17 members were killed and 125 injured since NMU’s founding, denied communism, and rejected Ryan’s accusations of “beef” squads and labor graft.
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Washington
Joseph Curran
National Maritime Union
International Longshoremen's Union
Husky Maritime
Senate Commercee and Labor Committees
Joseph P. Ryan
A. F. of
L. Union
Curran
Ryan
Regrets Sent To U S Reds Smash Back At Invader
Shanghai dispatch reports United States marine headquarters saying Japanese patrols were forbidden to encroach on the U S defense sector in the International Settlement. American marines had repelled four patrols before the amicable settlement stating gendarmes were instructed not to extend routine patrols into the sector.
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U. S
Shanghai
United States Marine Headquarters
United States
Marine Headquarters
Red Army Seizes 75 Mile Rail Corridor in North China
Chinese forces report capture of every station along a 75 mile stretch of the Peiping Hankow railway behind Japanese lines in North China. Japanese use of the line to move reinforcements and supplies to Changte area in Henan Province is hindered as frontline positions face new pressure.
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Shanghai
Red Army
Peiping-Hankow
China
Changte
Henan Province
Wright still faces one sanity test before freedom
Paul A. Wright, found not guilty by reason of insanity for the slayings, but previously convicted of manslaughter, will undergo another sanity examination by psychiatrists tomorrow. If approved, he is to be released.
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Paul A. Wright
Wright Nears Victory In Fight For Freedom
Los Angeles reports convict Paul A. Wright may walk free after a jury found him insane at the time of the killings of Evelyn Wright and John Kimmel. A lunacy commission will rule on his status tomorrow morning.
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Los Angeles
Paul A. Wright
Airport
Evelyn Wright
John Kimmel
Wright
Kimmel
Ben B. Lindsey
Price Fixing of Coal Enjoined by U S Court
Chicago February 17 The United States circuit court of appeals barred the National Bituminous Coal Commission from enforcing parts of its price fixing order on railroad locomotive fuel. Seven coal companies with about 23.1 million dollars invested in Illinois and Indiana challenged the schedules as confiscatory and sought vacatur or adjustment of Illinois and Indiana price provisions.
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Chicago
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
National Bituminous Coal Commission
Illinois
Indiana
Social Security pays January benefits to Raleigh claimants
Stacey W. Wade of the Raleigh field office said $10,871.47 was paid to 524 old age insurance claimants in North Carolina during January.
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Raleigh
Stacey W. Wade
Social Security Board
Payne's Appeal 10 to Be Reviewed
Raleigh February 17 The state supreme court will review the appeal of Bill Payne and Wash Turner who were sentenced in Buncomb County to die for the murder of State Highway Patrolman George Penn. The court granted certiorari and declined to dismiss the matter despite objections over docketing compliance.
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Raleigh
State Supreme Court
Bill Payne
Wash Turner
Buncomb County
George Penn
A. A. F. Seawell
Seawell
Derby History Notes On Dead Heats And Disqualifications
Louisville Feb 17 In all Kentucky Derby runnings since 1875 there has never been a dead heat for any position nor any horse disqualified from any portion of the purse this date.
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Louisville
Spanish Armies Deadlocked In Aragon Sector
At Hendaye France on February 17 the Spanish government and insurgent forces clashed in eastern Spain. Government reports said insurgents attacked to regain ground north of Teruel while government lines northwest of Montalban held. Southern front gains included recapture of mountain positions near Peraleda in Badajoz province.
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Hendaye
France
Spain
Aragon
Teruel
Montalban
Badajoz
Peraleda
Separate roots shelter Laurel and wife in Hollywood divorce dispute
In Hollywood on February 17 the bride Vera Shuvalova, who married Stan Laurel in a New Year elopement, has moved out and is undecided about seeking a divorce. The couple say they still love each other despite the split.
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Hollywood
Laurel
Vera Shuvalova
Police suspect incendiarism in upholstery plant fire
Police investigated an abortive fire at the Wilson Upholstery Co on English Street. 25 gallons of shellac were poured on three floors and two attempts were made to enter. Dewey George Beck, the watchman, was arrested on arson charges and jailed on bond. Officers described the vandalism as the work of a rank amateur.
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Wilson
English Street
Agai Dewey George Beck
Beck
Bond
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Twoassenger
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Hartville, 8. C
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Longshoremen’s Union
N.M.U
Perkins
CI0
Wife
Best
Circuit Court
Payne
Penn
North Teruel
Stan Laurel
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