Senate Advances Monetary Bill Amid Western Silver Battle
In Washington on January 27, the Senate moved toward passage of the monetary bill with late afternoon votes expected. Western senators Wheeler and Pittman pressed amendments aiding silver interests, while Robinson steered against. Reports to Congress disclosed a federal stock exchange license plan and a Roosevelt committee backed federal regulation of communications.
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Senate
Roosevelt
House
Wheeler
Montana
Pittman
Nevada
Robinson
Hamilton
Jefferson
Bryan
Congress
Special Administration
Fletcher
The
Power Commission
Waiters Strike Halts Hotel Service Across New York
A widespread strike by the Amalgamated Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union shuts many New York hotels with 280000 members, prompting hotels to use reserve staff as workers ignore a 5 pm deadline. The action includes demonstrations at the Waldorf and Park Central while union seeks 40 hour week and higher wages.
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New York
Amalagamated
NRA
Norman Thomas
Waldorf Assa Ee
American Federation of Labor
Waldorf
Huey Long Faces New Orleans Payroll Probes
Senator Huey P. Long confronted a city hall payroll inquiry as Louisiana officials announce a retaliatory state probe into city payrolls and alleged gambling houses operating openly in New Orleans.
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New Orleans
Huey P. Long
War Dept approves 30000 for waterway repairs
The War Department announced an allotment of 30000 dollars for repair work on the waterway from Norfolk Virginia to Beaufort North Carolina. The funds aim to restore navigation and safety along the affected stretch.
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Washington
War Department
Norfolk
Beaufort
Explosion at Southern Corp furnace injures five
An explosion at the Southern Corporation furnace number 5 in Mobile Alabama killed one man and wounded five others, with two of the injured believed fatally hurt. Rescue teams and investigators cordon the plant as the warning sirens sounded.
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Mobile
Ala
Southern Corporation
Magazine
Federal committee urges private ownership under regulated communications
A special interdepartment committee formed by Secretary of Commerce Roper at the president's suggestion recommends private ownership of communications with stringent federal regulation. The item notes executive support and aims to balance private control with public oversight.
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Washington
Reby
Blower Held In Winston Wanted In Two Other States
Authorities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey file reports seeking the return of Edward Ki alias Johnson to face safe blowing charges in those states. Ki served three years in New Jersey state prison for arson and was linked to a $1,000 theft on a similar charge. He is also wanted in Medulia for blowing a safe, while his wife Dorothy, charged with blowing the safes of two large firms here, was captured in West Virginia.
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Ston-Salem
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Winston-Salem Ée
Edward Ki
Johnson
Meduiia
Etelski
Dorothy
West Vir
CWA Overseer Shakeup Amid Graft Probes Faces Pushback
Washington reports reveal Army officers replacing civilian CWA directors as protests grow over graft charges. Lieut Col Dan Sultan to head Cook County duties while Major Donald Connally takes Los Angeles County. Hopkins aims to complete line up by Monday as uproar over politics and funding continues.
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Dan R. Sultan
Lago
Cook County
Bui
Bui There Came A Blanket Resig From Civilian Directors of and County Civil Works
Bert J. Dunham
Hopkins
Connally
CWA
Los Angeles
Justice Department
Public Works Administration
Roosevelt
Capitol Hill
Federal Regulation of Stock Exchanges Asked By Committee
The interdepartmental committee urges strict federal licensing of stock exchanges and an administrator with broad powers to set fair dealing standards. It calls for license conditions, rule enforcement, possible sanctions, and leaving detailed rule content to the administering authority.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Senate Banking Committee
Fletcher
Roper
Wallace
Agriculture
Secretary Wallace Defends Voluntary Cotton Sign-Up Plan
Secretary Wallace defends the voluntary cotton sign-up as discussing potential compulsory measures not a confession of failure. The administration may extend sign-up deadlines in late or poorly distributed areas while weighing Bankhead bill ginning quotas and a tax on cotton above allotments.
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Washington
Wallace
Farm Administration
Bankhead
Cully A. Cobb
Senate
North Carolina eyes possible loss of national committeewoman
The week raised the possibility that North Carolina could be without a Democratic national committeewoman after Mrs. T Palmer Jerman and former committeeman Max Gardner. President Roosevelt's stance on officeholders serving on committees loomed, while fiscal shifts included civil works curtailment and North Carolina short term note market activity.
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Paul Barkley
Associated Press
Raleigh
North Carolina
Roosevelt
T. Palmer Jerman
Jerman
Max Gardner
Washington
Gardner
Statebank liquidation costs and recoveries rise in half year
A state report covering June 1933 to December 1933 shows $85,737 in lawyers fees to liquidate defunct banks and $6,916,318.63 recovered on assets. Separately, the supreme court ruled the Sullivan law unconstitutional, a statute governing sale of claims against closed banks across 54 counties.
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Supreme Court
War Secretary Dern Visits Winston-Salem Portrait Session
Secretary of War George H. Dern visited Winston-Salem to sit for a portrait by a local artist and then traveled to Fort Bragg for a review. The trip highlighted military ties in North Carolina during his statewide tour.
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George H. Dern
Winston-Salem
Fort Bragg
Episcopal bishop consecrated in Winston-Salem ceremony
The Rev. Robert Emmet Gribbin was consecrated bishop of the Episcopal diocese of western North Carolina in a Twin City ceremony attended by many clergymen and laity including Governor Ehringhaus, an Episcopalian.
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Robert Emmet Gribbin
Winston-Salem
Episcopal Diocese
Western North Carolina
Ehringhaus
Rowan County Plans Second Election Despite AG Ruling
The Rowan county commissioners, opposing an AG opinion by Dennis G. Brummitt that they had no authority for a second special election on pari mutuel wagering, pressed ahead with a February 20 vote. The initial referendum failed.
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Dennis G. Brummitt
Rowan County
Month-old mystery of Leota Childress death persists
The 18 year old Leota Childress of Yadkin county remains dead end in mystery. Investigators failed to link her 1930 death with a 1927 killing after renewed efforts.
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Leota Childress
Yadkin County
Four new arrivals on death row at state prison
A reprieve and an appeal to the Supreme Court saved Theodore Cooper, a Durham negro, who was to be electrocuted Friday, leaving four new arrivals to fill each of the 16 sombre cells.
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State's Prison
Supreme Court of the United States
Theodore Cooper
Revival at Little Oak Grove Church Led by Corum McGee
CARTERVILLE January 27 The Little Oak Grove church faced a notorious past as Corum McGee repeatedly stirred trouble. Past incidents include a pistol shot when a bird flew in and a watermelon fight followed by arson that burned the organ. McGee and others served prison terms while some turned state's evidence. Now a revival attracts crowds with McGee leading the revivalist effort.
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Til
Little Oak Grove
Here
Corum McGee
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Corum
MeGee
Littl Oak Grove
Mary Pickford Fears Kidnapers Retreats to Cape Cod
Mary Pickford fled a Boston stage after reporting a man and a woman trailing her. Police escorted her by car to Buzzards Bay and Bourne Bridge before she entered hiding on Cape Cod at Fulton Oursler's home.
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Fulton Oursler
Buzzard's Bay
Mary Pickford
Boston
Miss Pickford
Mary
Pickford
Bustards Bay
Oursler
Cape Cod
Buzzards Bay
Cape Code Canal
Massachusetts State Police
Bourne Bridge
Bay Hotel
Two Negroes Held On Lottery Charges
Two women were arrested on lottery charges after police raids on homes at 713 Washington Street and 208 Reid Street. Eliza Johnson was found with four packs of lottery tickets and records, and Bertha Freeland was also captured with tickets and records. Both were held on charges with bond set at 2.
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Reid Street
Eliza Johnson
Bertha Freeland
Johnson
Freeland
Navy to Build Seven Small Carriers for Coast Guard
Secretary of the Treasury accepted the Navy's plan to construct seven small aircraft carriers for the Coast Guard. Five vessels will be built at a navy yard and two at the New York navy yard.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Navy Department
Coast Guard
Navy Yards
Navy Yard
New York Navy Yard
Will Travels From Tulsa to Meet Oklahoma Leaders
Special to the Enterprise reports WILL traveling from Tulsa toward the airport where he chats with 10,000 nightly crowds. He praises Alfalfa Bill Murray and Jim Ferguson of Texas as exemplary leaders, notes Missouri Indiana and Ohio once opposed them, and predicts Washington will be reached by lighted airways by 11 tonight before a big show and a pivotal vote.
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Tulsa
Oklahoma
Bill Murray
Jim Ferguson
Texas
Missouri
Indiana
Ohio
Washington
Will
Indiana Officers On Way To Arizona For Dillinger Return
Four Indiana officials left Chicago for Tucson to extradite Dillinger and the gang. They plan to fight extradition proceedings if needed and seek writs of habeas corpus for bonds set at 100000 dollars each. The group faces murder charges in East Chicago and Lima and is tied to bank robberies totaling about 250000 dollars.
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Arizona
Chicago
John Dillinger
Ohio
Tucson
Dillinger
Robert G. Estill
Lake County
Nicholas Makar
East Chicago
Carroll 0. Holley
Hobart Wilgus
First National Bank
Patrick O'Malley
Estill
Buskirk
Charles Makley
Harry Pierpont
Trigger
Russell Clark
George White
Makley
Pierpont
Clark
Jess Larber
Lima
Ind
Clarence Houston
Lima County
White
Pierpont and Clark
Sarber
Dillinger gang uses legal tactics to seek jail release
Tucson dispatch reports John Dillinger and three captured henchmen, held under heavy guard in the county jail since Thursday, turning to attorney John L. Van Buskirk’s legal strategy to win their release rather than using firearms in their bid for freedom.
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Ariz
John Dillinger
Desperado
John L. van Buskirk
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