Garner Sees Sales Tax as Best Revenue Path
Speaker Garner announced the new tax bill will include a manufacturers sales levy and be completed in a week or ten days. The Ways and Means Committee found $800 million needed, with $450 million from income and other taxes, and plans to curb foreign tax credits to raise about $6 million. Snell urged deeper spending cuts and universal taxation on nearly all products to balance the budget.
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Washington
Garner
Texas Democrat
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury
Mills
Ways and Means
Representative Snell
New York
Snell
Congress
Stimson Note Seen as Move to End Chinese Crisis
Washington dispatch describes Secretary Stimson's letter to Senator Borah outlining U.S. China policy as a move to inform world opinion, reject Japanese calls for treaty changes, and reinforce nine power pact and Nine-Power Treaty ties to China’s territorial integrity and free trade amid Shanghai fighting. Shanghai updates report heavy fighting, Japanese advances around Kiangwan, and air bombardments as Chinese positions unter threat with potential large-scale Japanese offensives ahead.
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Washington
Stimson
Borah
China
Tokyo
Shanghai
United States
Okate
Omer Mations
Japan
Guam
Philippines
Strikers Return to Work in Greensboro Mills
In Greensboro two Blue Bell Overall Company plants reopened as about 1,200 workers returned after an agreement with mill officials on a wage revision. Strikers had quit a day earlier at the second plant, with meetings failing to reach a settlement before an average wage cut of roughly 12 percent was accepted.
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Greensboro
Blue Bell Overall Company
Congress in Session Focuses on Budget and Bills
Senate debates anti injunction bill while judiciary subcommittee studies trade practice bills. Appropriations subcommittees hold hearings on interior department supply and treasury and post office appropriations. House votes on state justice commerce and labor appropriation, agriculture addresses short selling regulation, and insular affairs weighs Philippine independence.
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Senate
Judiciary
Appropriations
Interior Department
HOUSE
State, Justice, Commerce and Labor Departments
Treasury and Post Office
Agriculture Committee
Insular Affairs Committee
Mrs Judd Interrupts Death Sentence in Dramatic Courtroom
In Phoenix on February 25 Winnie Ruth Judd, 27, was sent to Florence penitentiary to be hanged May 11 for the Agnes Le Roi murder after a tense appeal. She interrupted proceedings with muttered protests and claimed no murders occurred, but Judge Speakman refused further discussion and imposed the sentence.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Winnie Ruth Judd
Florence
Agnes Anne le Roi
Howard C. Speakman
Speakman
Mrs. Judd
Convention Draft as Basis for Arms Conference
Geneva reports that Britain’s resolution to base world disarmament talks on the 1930 draft convention was adopted unanimously. Major powers including the United States and France supported it, while Soviet delegate Litvinoff pressed for his own plan to be considered. Andre Tardieu urged forming a special political commission to review French security proposals and League of Nations armament plans.
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Geneva
Jon
John Simon
United States
France
Max Litvinoff
Litvinoff
Andre Tardieu
League of Nations
Justice Cardozo Expected To Join Supreme Court Bench
The Senate quickly approved President Hoover's nomination of Benjamin N. Cardozo of New York as associate justice. Cardozo is not expected to take his seat on the Supreme Court until March 14, succeeding Oliver Wendell Holmes who retired.
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Washington
Benjamin N. Cardozo
New York
Supreme Court
Senate
Hoover
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Cardozo
Reputed Rich Gold Strike In Canada Draws Attention
In British Columbia a placer gold strike on McConnell Creek north of Burns Lake drew prosecutors to the scene. Statements described gold as plentiful like rice and beans. Two car loads of mining equipment were shipped to Burns Lake and will be flown to the area, with planes pressed into service.
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Vancouver
Gragg Named U S Marshal for Middle District of N C
Washington Feb 25 Watt NH Gragg was appointed by President Hoover to be United States marshal for the middle district of North Carolina in a federal personnel move announced today.
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Shanghai
Nan
Kenkichi Ugeda
Kiangwan
Tayang
Gragg
Washington
Watt NH
Hoover
Middle District
North Carolina
Bankers Named as Responsible in Financial Mess
In Beverly Hills on February 24 a writer notes bankers are the primary group blamed for the financial mess by prominent Americans including Henry Ford and Barney Baruch. He observes bankers attend Washington hotels seeking Dawes Commission favors while the letter claims bankers were the first to seek dole in America.
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Beverly Hills
Cali
Washington
America
Dawes Commission
Henry Ford
Garner
Newt Baker
Borach
Curtis
Barney Bar
Hitler Becomes Official German Citizen Under Brunswick Appointment
Adolf Hitler, leader of the German Fascists, was named an official of the State of Brunswick in Berlin, giving him German citizenship and enabling a presidential run. He had been a former Austrian and a man without a country.
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Berlin
Adolph Hitler
Brunswick
Hitler
Grandparents Galore in Albemarle Family
Grover Mills, four, has eleven grandparents living in the Albemarle area. His two living grandfathers and grandmothers, three great grandfathers, and four great grandmothers all reside nearby. Grover’s parents are Mr. and Mrs. Cicero Mills.
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Galore
Ouse Wet Bloc May Yet Get Vote
Washington February 25. House wet blocs file a discharge petition to force a vote on a state-control prohibition amendment. If 145 signatures are obtained the House will decide floor consideration of the home rule amendment backed by democratic and republican vets, previously rejected by the judiciary committee. Rep LaGuardia urged signing while several members moved to sign amid confusion.
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Washington
House
Representative Linthicum
Maryland
Judiciary Committee
LaGuardia
Pratt
New York
Kahn
California
Veteran Peace College music head James Brawley dies at 60
James P. Brawley longtime head of Peace Junior College music department died in Raleigh after a stroke at the school He was 60 and a Chester South Carolina native He was unmarried Funeral plans not yet set with college to suspend classes for the day in his honor
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Raleigh
James P. Brawley
Peace Junior College
Brawley
Chester
S. C
Harris
Mary Irwin Brawley
Anti-Saloon Meeting Shouts Down Anti-Hoover Charge
In St. Petersburg Florida on February 25 the Anti-Saloon League of America audience challenged M H McCormick of Columbus Ohio when he claimed Hoover did not state he favored retaining prohibition Leaders avoided answering if candidates would state for or against the law Wilkinson a retired minister said Hoover will be reelected and urged a referendum on prohibition Fickel editor of American Issue criticized the Detroit Legion vote as not representing rank and file troops in France
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Anti-Saloon League of America
M. H. McCormick
Ear Columbus
Ohio
Hoover
McCormick
J. N. Wilkerson
Canada
United States
Anti-Saloon League
League
Legislative Committee
Anti- Saloon League
White House
Wilkinson
Sam Fickel
Westerville
American Legion
Detroit
France
Garner supporters clash with proxy bid in Georgia primary
Washington reports a paradox as Speaker Garner’s strongest backers urge Judge Howard to drop his Garner proxy candidacy in Georgia. Rayburn says Garner is not a candidate and will not enter primaries, while Georgia whispers persist that his name may still appear in the delegation.
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Georgia
Washington
Garner
Sam Rayburn
Texas
G. H. Howard
Atlanta
Eee
Ais
Rayburn
Roosevelt
New York
California
Alfred E. Smith
Garnerites
Oklahoma
William
Roosevelt Seeks Murray On Georgia Ballot
Georgia primary rules declined Roosevelt request to enter Oklahoma Gov Murray on the ballot. Murray vows to explain alleged skullduggery in Georgia as he tours Indiana and prepares further push for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Atlanta
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
W. H. Murray
Oklahoma
Georgia
Democratic Party
Gary
Ind
William H
Bill
Mrs Hoover Visits Dixie For Commerce Beat Tour
Mrs Herbert Hoover arrives in Charleston accompanying a party to board a department of commerce inspection cruise. The Southern stop marks a courtesy visit as the First Lady travels from Washington by train for the planned inspection voyage.
Southern states to curb cigarette bootlegging at borders
Six southern states Alabama Georgia Mississippi Tennessee South Carolina and Arkansas propose border patrols to block untaxed cigarette shipments. Officials say bootleggers use private cars to move taxed cigarettes across state lines and patrols would intercept such cross border smuggling.
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Birmingham
Alabama
Georgia
Mississippi
Tennessee
South Carolina
Arkansas
Mooney's Mother Pleads For Release In Anti Capitalist Rally
Mrs Mary Mooney 74 pleads for Tom Mooney's liberty in New York at a packed Bronx event. She cites framing by California authorities and receives strong support from a Communist candidate and 12 000 attendees while a young speaker calls for ending capitalism.
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Tom Mooney
Wall Street
Mooney
San Francisco
Bronx
Mary Mooney
Rolph
California
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