Farley and Brown Denials Follow Western Bus Wrecks
Wrecks near Aquila Arizona claim nine lives in two incidents involving Mormon church workers en route from Mesa to California. Six women and an infant among the dead. several injured as brakes locked and wheels skidded. Survivors describe a violent crash as vehicles disintegrated. Medical teams and officials from Wickenburg and Phoenix organized aid and planned returns to Mesa for the dead and injured.
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Farley and
BROWN
Wickenburg
Ariz
Aquila
Vere
Mesa
Home Guardens
Calif
W. J. Young
Santa Fe
Aguila
Young
Genevieve Seadlock
Frank Riggs
Elizabeth McArthur
Mabel Gowan
Sarah Crawford
Pearl Hawes
Phoenix
Ald
Rail revenue loadings rise in week ending February 17
Washington reports the American railway ration announced loadings for the week ended February 17 at 508,806, up 26,302 from the prior week and 81,367 over the same week in 1933, with further notes on a Winston-Salem loan for channel dredging and a grant for water construction.
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Washington
Winston
Publc Works Adistration
Winston-Salem
Lowell
Tebell Accepts Virginia Head Football Coach Post
TeBell K Tebell announced he has accepted the head football coach job at the University of Virginia. He expressed regret that he could not coach both Virginia and the University of Richmond and noted negotiations may continue regarding a successor to Frank Dobson as coach and athletic director.
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Tebell
University, Va
Tins K. Tebell
Univers of Virginia
Virginia
University of Richmond
Frank Dobson
Auto sales jump in January and December totals
Washington reports factory sales of autos rose from 84,152 in December to 161,006 in January. The January total surpassed 1931 figures by about 30,000 units, with January showing a significant gain over the previous year and indicating a strong start to the year for auto production.
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Washington
Departur Commerce
Nuary
Robber Shot in Street Encounter Leaves Marion Wounded
Winston-Salem police report Ernest Marion was shot in the abdomen by an armed highwayman as he resisted an attempted hold up on a street at 11:25 pm. Marion, injured but alive, is hospitalized in serious condition and says he can identify his assailant if seen again.
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Winston-Salem
Ernest Marion
Marion
Roosevelt era sugar investigations and Washington chatter
Will writes from New York about politics and investigations. He mentions Val Harrison and Bob La Follette in sugar probes and Mississippi issues, plus Wall Street and corporate loans cited from 1920.
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Egiat
New York
Washington
Senate
House
Val Harrison
Bob LaFollette
Pat
Mississippi
Wall Street
Wall
Bus collision near Bethel Kansas kills driver and two aboard
A Union Pacific Stage Lines bus and a truck collided in a snow storm near Bethel Kansas, killing the bus driver Edgar Keith of Topeka and two passengers. One deceased is Isaac Entin of Boston, a clothing salesman. another passenger is unidentified. Boris Kaliszky of Kansas City, Mo., was injured. The truck, owned by Kansas Truck Service, was en route to Kansas City. The bus was traveling west a few miles west of Kansas City, Kansas.
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Bethel
Kans
Union Pacific Stage Lines
Here
Eolgar Keith
Topeka
Isaac Entin
Boston
Boris Kaliszky
Kansas City
Kansas Truck Service Company
Invented Alarm Guards Asheville Fireman
T W Haynes, an Asheville fireman, has built an automatic alarm that sounds when room temperature hits 110 degrees, reducing fire risk. The device reflects his confidence in early fire safety innovation.
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Asheville
T. W. Haynes
Sanders May Lose Chairmanship as Republicans Plot Strategy
Washington Feb 24 A quiet effort to shelve Ever Sanders as chairman of the Republican National Committee unfolds as Senate and House Republicans agree to run next fall campaigns on their own. McNary Hastings and Bolton are seen guiding a unified campaign with the national committee acting in support while retaining the title.
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Washington
Sanders
National Committee
McNary
Hastings
Delaware
Bolton
Ohio
Capitol
Post Office to Pay for Airplanes in Mail Service Vote
The House approved an amendment to the Mead emergency air mail bill to reimburse the army air corps by the Post Office Department for aircraft and equipment. Lawmakers argued over fatalities in air mail operations with critics calling the policy murder and supporters citing operational needs amid wartime.
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Washington
House
Mead Emergency Air Mail
Army Air Corps
Postoffice Department
Mott
R-Ore
Edith Nourse Rogers
Massachusetts
Farley
Bacon
McGugin
R-Kan
Truax
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ray
Dobbins
D-Ill
Post Office Department
McSwain Admits Writing Dern Letters for Remick
Chairman McSwain of the House military panel says he wrote two letters to Secretary Dern at Remick’s request. He insists he acted only to aid a constituent and did not discuss the merits of Remick’s tire and motor car contract claim. Remick, a former South Carolina constituent, is under District grand jury scrutiny over army contracts.
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Washington
Secy
Remick
Dern
War Department
Grand
North Carolina congressmen urged to back sales tax on interstate shipments
Governor Ehringhaus asks NC's 18 congress members to support a bill to tax interstate shipments of merchandise. The proposal, drawn by the revenue department, follows Wilpon Webb Kenyon principles and would tax outside merchants for NC use. Harry McMullan sent the measure to Congressman Lindsay Warren amid unanimous state tax official backing.
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Raleigh
Ehringhaus
North Carolina
Congress
State Révenue Department
Indianapolis
Harry McMuran
Lindsay Warren
General Assembly
National Association of State Tax Administrators
Ebring
South Seeks New Industries for Coastal States
Augusta Georgia February 24 The coastal states coordinated executive committee discussed aiding small industries to obtain RFC loans through a three industry consortium. The group named a study committee with James H Hammond Burnett R Maybank and Benjamin Co Smith to explore the RFC plan and future report.
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Augusta
RFC
South
Coastal States
M. O. Dunning
James H. Hammond
Columbia
8. C
Burnett R. Maybank
Charleston
S. C
Benjamin Co. Smith
Camden
N. J
Smith
Study plans to abandon bases in Philippines amid independence talks
The Navy quietly reviews a plan to withdraw all military and naval fortifications and bases in the Philippines if independence is granted. Pearl Harbor would lead Pacific operations, altering U S Far East strategy. Corregidor and other posts host about 5 500 regulars and 6 000 scouts.
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Washington
Navy Department
Philippines
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Pacific
Far East
Navy
Corregidor Island
Manila Bay
Manila
United States
Philippine Republic
North Carolina Cracks Down On Crime This Week
Two men Bascom Green 47 and son Lester Green 24 were sentenced to die for role in Taborstown fatal bank robbery shooting. Nine Chicago Touhy gang members indicted in Charlotte 105000 mail truck robbery. Three Wake Forest gang suspects nabbed after firebug findings. Robbers loot Haw River bank of about 1000. Wake Forest campus fires destroy Wall Wingate halls and new public school. Fire ravaged Smith residence. State detectives and guards deployed as fires prompt investigations.
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Paul Barkley
Associated Press
Raleigh
North Carolina
Bascom Green
Lester Green
T. C. Barnes
Taylorsville
Stewarts
Asheville
Chicago
Hunter
Wake Forest College
Wake Forest
Wall
Wingate
Smith
Death Row Population to Hit 23 with Greens
Warden H H Honeycutt anticipates a new high as Bascom Green and son Lester join 21 others on death row for the murder of Taylorsville banker T J Barnes. Mike Stevenoff and R E Black remain on the row amid appeals. notice filed for the Greens.
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H. H. Honeycutt
State
Little Stone
Bascom Green
Lester Green
Greens
T. ©. Barnes
Taylorsville
Mike Stevenoff
North Wilkesboro
R. E. Black
High Point
Supreme Court
Whitney Leads Fight Against Exchange Bill
The stock market probes continue as Richard Whitney denies that the New York Stock Exchange floods the nation with propaganda against the Fletcher Rayburn government control bill. Senate investigators cite spending of about 1 000 000 on publicity over five years and plan more testimony as hearings resume with Whitney and Pecora testifying.
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Washington
Senate
Richard Whitney
New York
Fletcher-Rayburn
New York Exchange
George A. Harriss
Exchange
Publicity Committee
Congress
Whitney
Ferdinand Pecora
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Man Hangs Self After Dining At Philadelphia Eatery
In Philadelphia on February 24 a man ate a beef meal at a restaurant then left with a 70 cent check. He returned, took a seat, and hanged himself in a washroom with his belt. Doctors say survival odds are low.
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Philadelphia
Deach
Four High Point Men Face Death In Taylorsville Bank Slaying
In Taylorsville North Carolina Bascom Green and his son Lester were sentenced to death for the July 29 bank slaying during an attempted holdup at Merchants and Farmers bank. Co defendants R E B Black and Mike Stevenoff await execution in Raleigh after conviction. Justice set for April 27 with appeals allowed.
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Taylorsville
Bascom Green
Lester
Tennessee
T. C. Barnes
R. E B. Black
High Point
Mike Stevenoff
North Wilkesboro
Raleigh
Stevenoff
Wilson Warlick
Solon Little
Ashier
Green
Little
Barnes
Guilford Farmer Convicted of Murder in Neighbor Death
Guilford county farmer Rush Winfrey, 52, was found guilty of second degree murder in Greensboro for the December death of neighbor Paul A. Young after a drinking bout. Judge Thomas J. Shaw did not set an immediate sentence. The state argued Winfrey shot Young following a knife injury during a quarrel.
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Greensboro
Rush Winfrey
Guilford County
Paul A. Young
Young
Thomas J. Shaw
Winfrey
Denials Mark Senate Airmail Hearings In 1930s
Denials dominated the Senate airmail committee hearing as Postmaster General James A. Farley and Walter F. Brown disputed claims of a personal remark about Senator Black. Farley denied any such remark and any collusion or sympathy for investigations while noting contract reductions and later adjudged violations of the law.
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Washington
Senate Airmail Committee
Walter F. Brown
Hoover
James A. Farley
Recow
Senator Black
D-Ala
Farley
Brown
Black
Austin
R-Vi
Congress
Comptroller General
Decision upheld on workman compensation for Fire Chief Nissen
Judge Felix E. Alley affirmed the Industrial Commission award granting $6,000 to the estate of Fire Chief Harry E. Nissen. The ruling held Nissen performed administrative duty but was a working employee, not an administrator, and thus entitled to compensation. The city of Winston-Salem will appeal to the Supreme Court.
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Winston-Salem
N. C. Industrial Commission
Harry E. Nissen
Felix E. Alley
Nissen
Supreme Court
Impossible To Limit Profits To 10 Percent
Former secretary of the navy Charles Francis Adams testified before a House committee that limiting profits on navy contracts to ten percent is impossible. He denied owning Douglas Aircraft stock, argued profits are already checked, and urged maintaining a small Navy aircraft factory to deter high prices while avoiding large scale government building.
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Washington
Charles Francis Adams
Navy
Adams
Aire
Philadelphia
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Kansas
Durward Lowry
Deshler
Lowry
Will
Aunders
P. O. Department
McSwain
N. C
N.C
Gene Gunter
Haw River
Treens
Guilford Farmer
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