Senate Approves 25 Million Red Cross Relief Fund
The Senate approved a 25 million dollar Red Cross relief appropriation attached to the interior department bill with no record vote. Senator McNary moved reconsideration. Senator Smoot objected, keeping the amendment as is.
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Senate
Washington
Red Cross
Interior Department
McNary
Oregon
Smoot
Utah
Robinson
Reed
Pennsylvania
Hoover
House
North Carolina House Debates Gross Income Tax for School Funding
A proposed gross income tax on all businesses in North Carolina aims to fund a six month state school term. Exempts under ten thousand dollars. applies to mining, lumber, stone and sand quarries, property sellers, manufacturers, banks, railroads, pipelines, and utilities with varied rates. County taxes would be eliminated under the plan, shifting school funding to state level.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Representative Young
Harnett
Young
Baggett
House
Telegraph
Telephone
Express
Electric Light
Strikers Barred From Entry at Dan River Mills
In Danville Virginia a court permanentized a temporary injunction preventing strikers from blocking employee entry and exit at Dan River and Riverside textile mills. The lawsuit named Francis J. Gorman Buford Nash and J C Blackwell plus 31 others. affidavits claim workers were forcibly restrained from entering. The sixteenth weekend of the strike closed with no settlement evident.
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Danville
Dan River
Riverside
Henry C. Leigh
Corporation Court
Leigh
Francis J. Gorman
United Textile Workers of America
Buford Nash
J. C. Blackwell
Four Die in Bengal Rioting at Jhalda
Dispatches from Calcutta reported four killed and twenty injured in rioting at Jhalda in the Bihar province of Bengal with clashes and unrest observed by Evening News correspondents.
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London
Evening News
Calcutta
Jhalda
Bihar
Bengal
Young Man Shot After Wild Ride in Taxi Cab
Washington January 17 Macon Wesson 23 son of Lieut Col C M Wesson U S A lay near death under police guard after a commandeered taxi ride that ended with a policeman firing into the cab. Wesson had forced the driver to take him toward an airport then toward a park near a Masonic home. He fired at a porch light and warned the driver to speed. The taxi crashed into a tree as pursuing officers approached and Wesson was shot in the chest. He was rushed to a hospital unable to be questioned.
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Washington
Macon Wesson
C. M. Wesson
Wesson
Three More N. Banks to Reopen This Weekend
Raleigh Jan 17 Three more North Carolina banks forced to close will reopen this weekend. Bank of Dallas Citizens Bank of Yancey Burnsville and Clayton Banking Company Clayton resume business per banking department orders. Banks closed in late November and December due to hysteria may also reopen as plans are underway.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
John Mitchell
Banking Department
Bank of Dallas
Citizens Bank of Yancey
Burnsville
Clayton Banking Company
Clayton
Mitchell
Tom Zachary Tries Matrimonial Bliss
ASHEVILLE January 17. Tom Zachary pitcher for the Boston Braves and Miss Etta McVane of Saxapahan North Carolina were married here last night at All Souls Episcopal church. They left for St Petersburg Florida where Zachary will join Braves training camp with early arrivals.
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Asheville
Jan
Tom Zachary
Boston Braves
Etta McVane
Saxapaban
N. C
All Soul's Episcopal Church
St. Petersburg
Fla
Zachary
Braves
Communism Branded Grave Threat to U S Government
A formal House report by a five member Communist Investigating Committee branded Communism a grave threat to democratic governments and their economies. It cites eight months of nationwide evidence, calls for tighter immigration and deportation laws, and federal surveillance of radical activity. The panel tallies 500000 to 600000 communists and sympathizers, with 12000 dues paying. Moscow is cited as the central source.
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Washington
House
Group of Five
Representative Fish
Republican
New York
Communist International
Moscow
United States
Soviet Union
Russia
Nelson
Maine
American Federation of Labor
Decline in U S Exports and Trade in 1930
The department of commerce reports 1930 exports fell to 3.841 billion dollars from 5.241 billion in 1929 while imports dropped to 3.061 billion from 4.399 billion. December trade also declined with exports at 273 million against 426.6 million in 1929 and imports at 209 million against 309.8 million.
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Commerce Department
Washington
United States
Department of Commerce
Senate urged for aid against oil giants warfare
Washington January 17 independent oil producers asked Senator Nye to call for a Senate investigation into alleged price fixing by large petroleum companies. J Edward Jones, vice president of the Independent Petroleum Association, made the appeal to the North Dakota senator.
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Washington
Senate
Nye
Republican
North Dakota
J. Edward Jones
Independent Petroleum Association
Think Miss Moss Killed By Woman in Men’s Clothes
Chicago detectives pursued a theory that Miss Eppie Moss was strangled by a woman dressed as a man. The 41 year old was found slain with a rope in a garage behind her home as investigators explored her personal life and habits for clues.
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Chicago
Trailed To Home Ends In Death After Robbery Attempt
Cleveland police report Robert Elrick aged 24 shot himself after an alleged confederate in an attempted holdup fell to a riot gun volley. William Corris aged 19 was wounded 11 times while the two detectives lay in wait at a filling station. Corris is near death.
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Cleveland
Robert Elrick
Elrick
William Corris
Corris
Mellon will not resign position
Washington said at the White House there is no foundation for reports that Secretary Mellon submitted his resignation. Denials also covered rumors of Dawes as Republican national chairman and Adams replacing him in London. Reports were described as a mix of rumors and gossip, reflected since March 4, 1929.
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Washington
White House
Mellon
Ambassador Dawes
Adams
London
George Akerson
Ray Benjamin
California
Unidentified Man Burned In Head-On Truck Streetcar Crash
In Chicago a head on collision between a steel bar truck and a crowded streetcar left an unidentified man dead in flames. Motorman Bruno Michaels, 35, and laborer Charles Mortensen, 48, were injured with leg and knee fractures and other injuries as firefighters extinguished the blaze and moved tons of steel bars. Witnesses say the truck may have skidded into the streetcar path.
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Chicago
Bruno Michaels
Charles Mortensen
Boston Red Sox Sign Milton Gaston to Contract
The Boston Red Sox announced the receipt of a signed contract from Milton Gaston, their ace pitcher, on January 17, confirming his return to the staff for the season.
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Boston
Milton Gaston
Boston Red Sox
Revenue Bills Introduced in Assembly
Raleigh January 17. Revenue measures to fund a six month state school term and relieve land taxes were introduced in both houses. A tax package on gross sales income of wholesale and retail businesses and gross receipts of corporations could raise about 20 million annually. A separate house bill proposed a graduated gross sales tax on retail merchants. Local bills advanced. quadrennial property revaluation delay measure moves back to the house for concurrence. Campbell waterways bill enacted. hearings set for January 20 on executive appropriations. Rumors of a state ad valorem land tax surfaced but no action. Jeffress bill banning slander of building and loan associations passed the house. Cherry bill deferred.
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Raleigh
General Assembly
Bagget
Young
Harnett
Senate
House
Campbell Waterways
Southport
South Carolina
Joint Appropriations Committee
Jeffress
First Woman Elected to Georgia Senate from Clayton
Atlanta Ga Jan 17 A former country school teacher Mrs Charles E Cannon of Clayton widow of the fortieth district senator has been elected without opposition as Georgia’s first woman senator. She won a special election last Tuesday and will take her seat next week.
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Atlanta
Georgia Senate
Charles E. Cannon
Clayton
Cannon
Greensboro
Washington To Aid Drought Sufferers
Washington society organizes sewing groups to aid drought sufferers. Volunteers produce 200 girls dresses 50 boys shirts 480 boys underwear and 500 girls underwear for regions in need. A Monday sewing group operates at Mrs Dolly Gann's home with senators wives and representatives wives leading units.
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Washington
Washington Society
Dolly Gann
Red Cross
Tremors Recorded On Seismograph
Washington dispatch reports earth tremors recorded on Georgetown University seismograph last night from 9 58 to 12 30 o clock. Father Sohon noted they began at 9 58 35 with maximum disturbance about 10 10.
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Washington
Georgetown University
Sohon
Quakes Spark New Alarm in Oaxaca Valley
In Oaxaca Valley Mexico City reports ongoing earthquakes with subterranean rumblings as authorities scramble to aid towns from Miahuetlan to Zimatlan. Governor Cortes Lopez sent an emergency brigade after 20 dead and many injured. observatory head Dr. Juan Rueda described continual tremors and artillery-like blasts.
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Mexico City
Oax- Oaxaca
Miahuetlan
Oaxaca City
Cortes Lopez
Oaxaca
Juan Rueda
Tele
Rueda
Zimatlan
Daisy De Boe Trial Depicts Clara Bow Spending Spree
Daisy De Boe testified in Los Angeles that Clara Bow bought expensive presents for men, ordered large liquor consignments, and held six poker nights weekly. She described a special Bow account with checks and cash withdrawals to cover gifts and debts, while Bow faced a $16,000 alleged theft case as the trial paused for two days.
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Los Angeles
Clara Bow
Daisy de Boe
Miss de Boe
Clara
Miss Bow
Sylvia Sidney
New York
Earl Pierson
Texas
Harry Richman
Lothar Mendes
Hollywood
Nathan Freedman
Daisy
Bank Cashier Is Given Seven Years
Gastonia January 17. Thomas Rankin former cashier of the Bank of Lowell which closed in November was sentenced to seven years in state prison by Superior Court Judge W F Harding after pleading guilty to embezzlement.
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Gastonia
Thomas Rankin
Bank of Lowell
Superior Court
W. F. Harding
English storm causes widespread damage and deaths in Britain
A violent English storm ripped roofs from factories and killed three people as chimneys and signs collapsed. Sulfuric acid spilled from Claydenontyne Chemical, delaying ships in Liverpool while ferries and tugs struggled against strong gales. The storm also battered Germany, causing a train wreck and widespread damage.
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London
England
Claydenontyne Chemical Factory
Duchess of York
Liverpool
Orbita
South America
Mersey
Berlin
Jan
Germany
Perleberg
Thieves Rob Bank While School Burns
Rockton January 14 two men walked into the State bank seizing two thousand dollars as the town watched the grade school burn leaving during the blaze.
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Rockton
Lil
State Bank
Theft of Funeral Coach In Toledo Lifts City Vigil
In Toledo on a day when Joseph Abele and his son James awaited the body of Henry Hubbard, 71, a funeral coach was stolen from a residence where it had been parked with the engine running. Authorities investigate the theft as they seek the missing hearse and any clues leading to the suspect or motive.
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Toledo
Joseph Abele
James
Henry Hubbard
Autopsy Finds Nails and Wire in Cow Died in Idaho
In Grangeville Idaho on January 17 Albert Fray examined his cow after neighbors warned of poisoning. The autopsy revealed foreign objects including four nails eight penny, a large tack, six inches of wire, and a copper strip.
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Grangeville
Ida
Albert Fray
Fray
Durham youth arrested after pistol threat in city
Bowling Byrd an 18 year old drew a pistol and threatened to shoot during a chase in Durham. He was arrested for highway robbery and assault with a deadly weapon after being linked to the robbery and wounding of T. M. Fields, a North Carolina State College student. Raymond Duke was already jailed in Raleigh for robbing and shooting Fields while Fields rode home for the holidays. Police say Duke and Byrd may have stolen four autos, more than 1000 chickens, and a quart of gasoline in Durham.
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Durham
Jan
Bowling Byrd
Byrd
Raymond Duke
Raleigh
Duke
Everglades Park Plan Approved by House Committee
Representative Ruth Bryan Owen's proposal to establish a national park in the Florida Everglades was approved today by the House Public Lands Committee. The action advances a broader push to preserve the region and create federal protection for its unique ecosystems and wildlife.
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Everglades Park
Wanhinaros
Ruth Bryan Owen
Florida Everglades
House Public Lands Committee
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