Senate set to slash WPA funds amid clashes
Senator Adams predicts the Senate will approve a $150 million cut in the WPA budget as House and Senate leaders spar over relief spending. Byrnes and Harrison defend compromise to keep relief rolls near 1.9 million, while some Republicans push for the full $875 million. About 3 million work relief workers are affected.
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William B. Ardery
Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Adams
R-Cole
House of Representatives
Work Relief Agency
Senate Appropriations Committee
Byrnes
D-Sc
McNary
Oregon
Negro man arrested for alleged attack on 9 year old girl
Charlotte report says Isaac Buster Billiard a Negro man was arrested on a charge of attacking a 9 year old white girl near a cafe midnight. The girl said she was dragged about half a block before he released her after her screams.
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Charlotte
Isaac Buster Billiard
Military training proposal for Civilian Conservation Corps
A congressional contest arose over a bill to require every CCC member to receive five hours of military training weekly under army supervision. Chairman May of Kentucky touted the plan as beneficial, while others warned of likely defeat and mixed support.
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Washington
May
Presimt
Roosevelt
Rebels Claim CIO Support In UAW Power Struggle
Insurgent faction led by Homer Martin seeks control of the United Auto Workers as 16 CIO directors and organizers meet for conferences on aid. Martin claims the official executive board and international HQ are under his faction, with guards and a police escort at the union office and a closed facility as he asserts his claim.
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Etroit
Congress Ofustrial
Ling
Homer Mar
United Tomobile Workers Union
Aders
Martin Yester
CIO
Artin
Martin
Board Bers
Leaf Tobacco Market Winds Up at Winston
Winston-Salem closes a leaf tobacco market with 52,105,314 pounds sold at an average $22.46 per hundred. Total money paid out reaches $11,702,Tha Fi.
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Winston-Salem
James T. Booth
Radio Artists Vote to Strike in Chicago
Nearly 2,000 professional radio entertainers ready to strike for higher wages after the Chicago local of the American Federation of Radio Artists voted unanimously to strike under orders from the national board. Similar action followed in New York with ballots planned in Los Angeles and San Francisco, tied to the advertising agencies rejection of wage demands for increases and for rehear sals. The potential strike could silence dominant commercial shows reliant on New York Chicago Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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Chicago
American Federation of Radio Artists
National Executive Board
New York
Los Angeles
San Francisco
American Association of Advertising Agencies
Los Angele
Chorus Girl Inheriting Ruppert Fortune Faces Future
Helen Weyant a 37 year old former chorus girl wakes to news of receiving one third of Col. Ruppert estate valued between 30 and 70 million dollars. She may gain over 5 million plus a 300 thousand tax free cash bequest, while two Ruppert nieces receive the remaining shares. Executors named to manage the empire include Ruppert associates. The recipient says she is honored surprised and has no plans yet.
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New York
Col
Jacob Ruppert
Helen Winthrope Weyant
New York Yankee Baseball Club
Manhattan
Astor Clan
Miss Weyant
Ruppert
Joseph Holleran
J. Basil Maguire
Greenwich
Conn
Colonel Ruppert
Garrison, N. Y
Government and business toward harmony, Roosevelt says
Elliott Roosevelt reports from Washington that the next two months will push toward unprecedented harmony between government leaders and business. He cites conciliatory talks with public utilities, early Agricultural Adjustment Act revision, a new defense program including civil pilot training, oil industry controls, reduced WPA spending, rail relief measures, and temporary railroad aid.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Washington
Elliott Roosevelt
Roosevelt
PWA
Japan’s Hiranuma Warns Opponents Extermination Implied
Tokyo January 21 Premier Kiichiro Hiranuma warned that persistent opponents of Japan face extermination. He spoke amid Pan-Asian aims stressing strengthening resources and morale, with permanent wartime controls and a call for a new East Asia alliance including Japan China and Manchukuo.
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Tokyo
Kiichiro Hiranuma
Japan
China
Foreign Office
Baron Hiranuma
Asia
Hachiro Arita
East Asia
Manchukuo
Arita
Maryland U President expects missing coeds to turn up at homes
College Park Md Jan 21 Dr H C Byrd president of the University of Maryland said he expected two co eds missing since they boarded a Washington bound bus Wednesday would turn up at their homes in a short time They are both perfectly able to take care of themselves Washington police had no clues to the whereabouts of Joy Lucille Heaster 19 of Salisbury Md and Joan Beatrice Matheke 19 of Newark N J College officials were at a loss to explain their disappearance
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College Park
H. C. Byrd
University of Maryland
Washington
Joy Lucille Heaster
Salisbury
Joan Beatrice Matheke
Newark
N. J
Hitler Fires Two More In Reichsbank Shake-up
Hitler removes two Reichsbank directors allied with Schacht in a purge to curb conservative spending. The move follows his ousting of Schacht ally from the presidency and signals broader Nazi aims. A parallel decree orders all able bodied Germans aged 17 and up to train for military service under the Storm Troops.
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Hitler
Melvin Whiteleather
Berlin
Hjalmar Schacht
Reichsbank
Germany
Fuehrer
Schacht
Friedrich W. Dreyse
Rudolf Brinkmann
Walther Funk
Dreyse
Ernst Huelse
Storm
Storm Troops
Tragic Farmhouse Fire Claims Mother and Child
Mrs. Leslie Smith aged 25 and her year old daughter burned to death in a farm home fire near Williamston. The bodies were found in the kitchen area as Smith tried to rescue them and a window escape attempt is noted. Neighbor and sister-in-law Verna Griffin provide statements about the blaze.
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Williamston
Leslie Smith
Verna Griffin
No Hike Expected On Beer Taxes In State
Raleigh January 21 legislators indicate little likelihood of increasing the current beer tax of 24 cents a case or per bottle. A crown tax or identification method is proposed to show tax paid on every bottle, potentially boosting revenue by about 400000 yearly without raising rates. Opposition from soft drink bottlers fears precedent for taxing their products.
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Henry Averill
Enterprise Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh
Finance Committee
Budget Commission
Revenue Department
North Carolina
Insurgents Reported Enter Igualada in Franco Drive
Reports from Burgos Lerida and on the French border say Insurgents gained Igualada then lost it to Government forces as Franco’s troops shifted to surround the town. Barcelona faced renewed air raids while fortifications and sandbags were rushed to the city gates amid a triangular advance toward the capital.
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Hendaye
France
Barcelona
Igualada
Franco
Vendrell
Mediterranean
Opposes Secret State Meetings At North Carolina Institute
John N. Aiken of the Baltimore Sun argues against secret government action to delegates at the North Carolina Press Institute in Durham. Dr H Hart of Duke University warns that loss of press freedom signals world derangement while praising newspapers as eyes ears and interpreters for world events.
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Durham
N. C
John N. Aiken
Baltimore Sunpapers
North Carolina Press Institute
Europe
Italy
H. Hart
Duke University
Dr. Hart
Nine More Years Of Relief, La Guardia Says
Mayor Fiorello La Guardia told a Senate appropriations subcommittee that the government relief program may need nine more years of operation. He called the nine year figure a guess and argued social security improvements could allow termination by then. Senator Townsend warned nine years would raise the debt to 80 billion dollars, to which La Guardia replied he could imagine a larger figure.
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Fiorello la Guardia
New York
Senate Appropriations
la Guardia
Townsend
Del
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