Bonus May Get Committee OK Today
House Ways and Means Chairman Doughton said the bonus bill could be approved this afternoon after a closed committee session. Speaker Burns pledged cooperation to expedite the measure while Rep Vinson explained the plan and faced questions from Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines on costs. Patman and veterans groups urged backing from 218 supporters to authorize full cash payments.
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Doughton
DNC
House
Ways and Means Committee
Burns
Ways and Means
Representative Vinson
D-Ky
Frank T. Hines
Veterans
Coughton
Herler
Patman
Dtex
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Disabled American Veterans
Farm Act Ruled Unconstitutional By 6 To 3 Vote
The Supreme Court delivered a six to three decision striking down the New Deal farm relief act as an invasion of states rights and beyond the general welfare clause. Justice Roberts read the majority opinion while Justices Stone Brandies and Cardozo dissented. The ruling may affect other farm measures and the 1936 presidential landscape.
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Washington
AAA
NRA
Supreme Court
Roberts
Stone, Brandies
Cardozo
McNary
Republcan
Stone
Roosevelt
Italians and Ethiopians In Jungle Clash
Italian troops moved toward the Ethiopian interior and clashed with raiders 31 miles north of Dolo in dense jungle near Areri in the Gh nale Dorya river valley. The two day fighting left 10 Ethiopians dead and one Italian soldier killed before reinforcements with armored cars and machine guns routed the Ethiopians.
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Associated Press
Dolo
Ethiopia
Areri
Ghnale Dorya River
Scottsboro Case Back In Courts Change Is Asked
The Scottsboro mass attack case entered its fifth year as seven of nine accused Negroes pled not guilty to new indictments returned last November. Defense lawyers sought to move retrial from Alabama state court to federal court claiming local hostility tainted proceedings.
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Decatur
Ala
Scottsboro
Alabama
Guilford Officials Plan Joint Meeting on Trinity Archdale District
Guilford commissioners vote to meet in High Point at 2 p m next Wednesday with Randolph county board to name three trustees for the Trinity Archdale sanitary district and to discuss mutual issues. They approve Hospital Care Association group hospitalization for county employees with 25 or more joining. letter to inform staff and boost enrollment.
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Greensboro
Guilford
High Point
Randolph County
Trinity-Archdale
Hospital Care Association
Durham
George Stansbury
Swaim Qualifies As Administrator
Roy V. Swaim of High Point route 2 today qualified as administrator of his father J. W. Swaim's estate. J. W. Swaim died November 8 leaving $7,500 in property. Heirs include widow Mrs. J. W. Swaim four sons C. L. Roy V. E. J. and Wayne and two daughters Mrs. B. L. Johnson Thomasville and Mrs. Henry Byerly High Point route 2.
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Greensboro
Roy V. Swaim
High Point
J. W. Swaim
C. L
Roy V
E. J
Wayne Swaim
B. L. Johnson
Thomasville
Henry Byerly
Food Shares Jump On AAA Ruling Hits Wall Street
New York Jan 6 The Supreme Court decision on AAA processing taxes sent food shares sharply higher with gains from fractions to about eight points. Major gainers included National Biscuit Swift Corn Products Cudahy Gobel Standard Brands and Continental Baking as trading lagged briefly. Utility shares also firm with modest advances while budget concerns lingered over Roosevelt’s deficit and relief spending.
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Supreme Court
Stock Exchange
National Biscuit
Swift
Corn Products
Cudahy
Gobel
Standard Brands
Continental Baking
Washington
North American
Consolidated Gas
People’s Gas
Roosevelt
Wall Street
President Roosevelt Smiles on Court Ruling News
President Roosevelt reportedly smiled upon learning of the AAA Supreme Court ruling. Secretary Dern, discussing war department questions, confirmed the news via Stephen Early and noted the president said nothing beyond a smile and continued with business.
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Washington
Roosevelt
AAA
Supreme Court
Dern
War Department
Stephen Early
Power Tax Upheld By Court
The U S Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the 1931 South Carolina law imposing a half mill per kilowatt hour tax on electricity produced in the state. The Duke Power Company argued the act unconstitutional and urged tax on delivered power after losses. The court ruled the tax at the source and allowed future suit if the act falls.
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Levy
South Carolina
Charlotte
Duke Powers Company
John J. Parker
Parker
Power Company
Duke Company
Supreme Court
Morris A. Soper
Baltimore
Drunken Drivers To Be Refused Gasoline
Lake City Utah January 6 The town council authorized Mayor Jack Dalzell to request station owners and operators to refuse gasoline to intoxicated drivers. Council members said they would not permit liquor and gasoline to mix within the town.
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Lake City
8. C
Jack Dalzell
Nine Believed Destroyed When Fire Sweeps Hotel
Firemen recovered four bodies and searched for five others at the Van Deusen hotel in Westfield Massachusetts after a three story brick building burned. Nine people were believed trapped. victims named include Henry Van Deusen 17 and George Alexander 72 along with Miss Nathalie R Jones and Mrs Minnie C James. Seven were hospitalized and investigators sought the cause as Mayor Cowling ordered the inquiry.
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Westfield
Mass
van Deusen
Spencer van Deusen
Narow
Henry van Deusen
George Alexander
Henry
Nathalie &. Jones
Minnie C. James
Alexander
Young van Deusen
Noble Hospital
Mahoney
Raymond E. Cowling
Fred Shepherd
Durham Officer's Wife Killed In Train Car Crash
Mrs. B. W. Sharpe, 44, wife of Police Captain Sharpe, was killed when police car 52 was struck by eastbound Southern railroad train No. 18 at a mid town crossing in Durham. Her niece Nancy Sharpe was seriously injured and Captain Sharpe, Leroy Gattis, and Jerry Markham are named in the report. Witnesses said crossing gates failed to lower and the watchman reported the mechanism malfunctioned.
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Durham
B. W. Sharpe
Sharpe
Nancy Sharpe
Southern Railroad
Leroy Gattis
Gattis
Jerry Markham
France probes arms plot amid war fear in Ethiopia line
France hunts a suspected plan to divert 3000 army rifles and machine guns to Italy as Ethiopian fighting intensifies. A missing carload was traced to a French port and could have been shipped abroad. Reports on a Swedish Red Cross worker’s death are unclear. Britain reinforces its Africa position as air attacks hit hospitals and Red Cross units.
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France
Italy
Ethiopia
Foreign Office
Addis Ababa
Great Britain
Red Cross
Death of S C Man Listed As Accidental
Greenville South Carolina coroner ruled the death of Lewis Wallen, 27, accidental after his shotgun discharged while he handled it inside his home following insults to Mrs Wallen by nearby children. No inquest was planned.
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Greenville
8. C
George W. McCoy
Lewis Wallen
Wallen
Nations Back U. S. Candidate For World Court
Switzerland Colombia and Haiti nominated Manley O. Hudson of Harvard for a vacancy on the permanent international court at The Hague. The American group nominated Hudson on December 20 to succeed Frank Kellogg. Election will occur at the next League of Nations assembly.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Colombia
Haiti
Manley O. Hudson
Harvard University
Permanent Court of International Justice
The
Hague
World Court
Frank B. Kellogg
Hudson
Potatoes Control Funds Omitted From Budget Message
Washington January 6 A request to fund the potato control act for the next year was omitted from President Roosevelts budget message. He said no estimate was prepared as the act should be amended per recommendations from the secretary of agriculture. Only 25000 was asked for enforcement for the current year ending June 30. Proposals include a two thirds vote by growers for continuance and an exemption for consumers from penalties.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Secretary of Agriculture
Agriculture Department
Roosevelt to Confer on AAA ruling with Cummings and Wallace
Washington January 6 President Roosevelt summoned Attorney General Cummings and Secretary Wallace to the White House for a preliminary study of the Supreme Court decision against the AAA. A three to four day sequence of private talks was planned with no public announcement until a final analysis is complete.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Cummings
Wallace
White House
Supreme Court
AAA
Stephen T. Early
Secretary of Agriculture
S Upreme
Textile Workers Back 30 Hour Week Plan In SC
The South Carolina Federation of Textile Workers endorses a 30 hour week replacing 40 hours. Spartanburg will host the next meeting. Francis J. Gorman of the United Textile Workers spoke at the closing session of the two day convention.
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South Carolina
Greenville
8. C
Roosevelt forecasts record national debt near 1936 37
President Roosevelt warned Congress of a looming deficit over one billion dollars for the next fiscal year and projected the public debt ending June 30 1937 at a record 31 351 638 737. He withheld a full budget but listed 6 752 606 370 for current needs and moved many programs from emergency to regular expenditures.
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Washington
Treasury
Congress
Roosevelt
Senate
House
Civilian Conservation Corps
New Deal
Finam
Roosevelt Budget Highlights Point to Deficit Cut
President Roosevelt’s 1937 budget message lauds a three year old national policy as moving the nation toward reduced deficits and lower unemployment. The speech notes expected tax receipts rise and expenditures for the needy decline, with much of the 1937 tax increase from existing schedules.
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Washington
Jan
Roosevelt
Congress
Revenue Act of 1935 Impacts 1937 Tax Revenue
The text notes that just under 30 percent of the revenue increase in 1937, compared with 1936, comes from the 1935 act. It states about 222 million dollars will be collected in 1937 due to the new schedules in the act.
Employers urged to boost hiring to raise revenue and relief cuts
Final success hinges on employer efforts to expand employment across the United States as businesses strive to lift revenues and reduce relief costs.
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United States
Tax receipts rise steadily since 1933 amid budget cuts
Tax receipts continue a steady climb started in the summer of 1933, while budget estimates for the next fiscal year show a decreased need for appropriations.
Government credit rises as business leaders pledge support
The passage notes high government credit and business willingness to cooperate. It expresses hope that political or financial power plays by a few will not hinder progress. It forecasts 1937 work relief appropriations to be notably smaller than the current year.
Congress to levy new taxes if future bills raise treasury costs
A public note urges lawmakers to provide funds in the budget for any new charges created by upcoming session legislation. The author emphasizes raising additional taxes to cover these costs.
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Congress
Treasury
Government Budget Sees Decline in Income Outgo Gap
The 1937 budget shows a substantial decrease in the spread between income and outgo while aiming to maintain government functions and essential recovery activities. Progress is linked to improving economic status of the people.
1937 Receipts Estimate Across All Sources
Government notes total receipts from all sources excluding postal revenues at 5 654 217 660 dollars for 1937. The revised estimate for the 1936 fiscal year stands at 4 410 793 946 dollars.
Expenditures for 1937 See Large Budget Totals
The 1937 budget contemplates total expenditures of 6 752 606 370 dollars with an estimated near 893 million dollars for a portion of the year. This outlines the scale of government spending and allocation priorities for the upcoming fiscal period.
Funeral for Col. John D. Hodges in Davie County
The funeral for Col. John D. Hodges a 91 year old Confederate veteran and educator will be held tomorrow morning at Concord Methodist Church in Davie County.
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Mocksville
John D. Hodges
Concord Methodist Church
Davie County
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