Agriculture Bill Cuts White House Budget Promises Highway Savings
The House Appropriations Committee reported an Agriculture Department appropriations bill totaling $176,443,814 for the current year, a $10.1 million reduction from Hoover's request. Major cuts target federal road aid by $9 million, with highways now forecast at $100 million through March 1, 1933.
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House Appropriations Committee
Congress
Agriculture Department
Hoover
Bureau of
Murray Seeks State Credit Power to End Ten Percent Bank Tax
Oklahoma Governor Murray urged Congress to back a bill repealing the ten percent tax on state bank currency and allow states to pursue a cheap money policy. He told the House Ways and Means Committee the move would restore easier, safer currency and empower producers over speculative bankers.
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Washington
Ang Bluff
Murray
Oklahoma
Congress
House
Ways and Means Committee
McKeown
Leon Murray
Mellons Defense Ends as Patman Presses Charges
Secretary Mellons defense against impeachment charges concluded before the House Judiciary Committee in Washington. Representative Wright Patman renewed accusations of political pressure related to the Barco concession in Colombia and Gulf Oil dealings. Gregg denied discussing a Colombian concession or credit extension with Colombian officials.
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Mellon
House Judiciary Committee
Wright Patman
Texas
Alexander W. Gregg
Secretary of the Treasury
Patman
Summers
Dyer
Missouri
Gregg
Barco
Colombia
Gulf Oil Company
Naga
Republic
Ankers
Hawaiian Legislators Consider 10 New Island Laws
Hawaiian lawmakers in Honolulu gather to review bills revamping the city police department and making assaults on women punishable by death. Governor Judd oversees the program, with aims to remove political control of the police and address taxation and education while others arrive from outer islands. City Attorney Gilliland prepares evidence for the grand jury in the Kahawaiai killing case.
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Congress
Lawrence M. Judd
Judd
Orbu Island
Kauai
Molokai
Hawaii
Maui
James F. Gilliland
Joseph Kahahawai
American Minister To Abyssinia Struck by Cop
Addison Southard United States Minister to Abyssinia was knocked down in Abyssinia after an automobile accident. The car ran over a woman's foot. he was about to assess injuries when a native policeman arrested the minister’s chauffeur.
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Addis Ababa
Abyssinia
Addison Southard
United States
Two Die In Plane Crash Near Norfolk? Headline Conflicts
Two persons were critically injured when their airplane slid into a tail spin at 2,000 feet and crashed near Norfolk Virginia. Pilot Guy C Edwards 31 of Portsmouth sustained severe head injuries and probable brain and abdominal trauma. Passenger Conley Guay Shreves 24 of Orlando Florida suffered injuries that could require amputation of the left leg.
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Norfolk
Here
Guy C. Edwards
Portsmouth
Conley Guay Shreves
Orlando
Fla
Akron Dirigible Safety Probed by Congress This Week
Washington January 18 The house naval affairs committee plans hearings on the Akron airship safety and airworthiness amid rumors of overweight structure and construction concerns. Rep McClintic says a start date will be set by Wednesday with civilian and navy witnesses. The investigation could influence future lighter-than-air funding.
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Akron
McClintic
Oklahoma
House
Naval Affairs Committee
Navy Department
Navy
William A. Moffett
Bureau of Aeronautics
Addiion
Japs Crush More Sine Opposition News Bulletin
Wilmington reports tell of a former New Hanover County official pleading guilty to embezzlement and receiving two to five years. In Manchuria Japanese forces announce heavy Chinese losses in several battles, including Yentai and Tungliao, with dozens killed and multiple prisoners taken as violence escalates.
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Marion J. Shuffler
New Hanover
Mukden
Manchuria
Shigero Honjo
Yentai
Tungliao
Yingkow
Here
Gunliao
Tur
Weekend Feud Fights Leave Kentuckians Dead
In Kentucky over the weekend feudal strife and family quarrels sparked pistol battles. Nine people were killed and six wounded across counties including a church melee at New Salem, a Knox county duel on Cold Fork creek, and a fatal shooting involving Sheriff N J Tipton in Rockcastle. Additional suicide and rival shooting events occurred in Franklin Bowling Green Hellier Pike county and Pineville hospital where victims were treated.
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Kentucky
New Salem
Cumberlands
Crook
Johnson
Knox County
Cold Fork Creek
Gambrell
Walter Smith
Pineville
N. J. Tipton
Rockcastle County
Hunter Burchell
State Reformatory
Frankfort
Hayden McFarlin
Zedna McFarlin
Harry Gregory
Franklin
McFarlin
Bowling Green
Jack Warren
Hugh Backham
Warren
Beckham
Noah Johnson
Willie May Adkins
Hellier
Pike County
Will Rogers Sketches Persia Journey to Bagdad
Will Rogers reports from Bagdad on a telegraph line find. He describes flying low over the Euphrates and Tigris as he travels across level plains filled with cattle donkeys camels water buffaloes deer and wild boar. He notes the journey passes Jerusalem and the Holy Land before Bagdad.
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Tigris
Jerusalem
Holy Land
Congress Delays Passage of Reconstrucion Bill in Conference
Washington January 18 The Reconstruction bill moves to a conference committee as the Senate and House seek to resolve differences while a second emergency measure to boost Federal land bank capital advances through Congress. Hoover and the treasury await the outcome to unlock funds for business and agriculture.
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House
Hoover
Treasury
Rail labor talks stall over wage cut and job security
Chicago January 18 UP The costly push to revive a $20 billion railroad industry and raise workers' living standards hinges on nine railroad presidents and 21 labor leaders as a 10 percent pay cut proposal tests patience. The union chiefs judge the bosses' reply largely unsatisfactory while noting tentative near term conditions.
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Daniel Willard
Baltimore & Ohio
Willard
David B. Robertson
Chicago Tribune
Grade Crossing Crash Claims Four In Kentucky
GREENUP Ky Jan 18 Four persons were killed when their automobile was struck by a Chesapeake and Ohio passenger train at a grade crossing. A fifth occupant was seriously injured The victims named Edward McMillan 20 Van Green 21 Opal Brown 16 Minnie Brown 17 sisters from Elizabethtown Ky and Raymond Adkins 22 was injured.
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Chesapeake and Ohio
Edward McMillan
van Green
Opal Brown
Minnie Brown
Brown Girls
Elizabethtown
Raymond Adkins
Retrial Sought in Scottsboro Case Facing Supreme Court
The Scottsboro case faces a new trial bid as the International Labor Defense and the NAACP seek the right to defend eight condemned youths. Clarence Darrow and Arthur Garfield Hays join the defense for the NAC, while George W. Chamblee leads other New York lawyers in the effort.
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National Association For the Advancement of the
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Arthur Garfield Hays
Dayton Tenn
Alabama
George W. Chamblee
Tennessee
Joseph Brodeky
New York
Irving Schwab
Allen Taub
Carol King
A Tauber
New
Senators Back Costigan LaFollette Relief Bill In Senate Committee
A Costigan LaFollette bill to authorize 375 million dollars for unemployment relief won approval from a senate committee and heads to the full appropriations panel. It would provide 125 million immediately for this winter and the rest in the next fiscal year, with funds allotted to states by population need and past relief spending. Walter S. Gifford, Hoover relief chief, urged local and voluntary funding instead.
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Wheeler
Montana
Cutting
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Hatfield
West Virginia
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Children’s Bureau
American Federation of Labor
Walter S. Gifford
Anti-Saloon Meet Applauds Hoover as Day President
Delegates at the Anti-Saloon League biennial meeting rise in cheers as Hoover is named day president. Rev John M Phillips of Hartford denounces Connecticut Senator Bing ham and mocks the wet side. He urges renewed youth education against liquor amid critique of government control.
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White House
John M. Phillips
Hartford Conn
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Bingham
Connecticut
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League
America
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Montreal
Canada
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