Roosevelt seeks 950 million for relief program
President Roosevelt asks Congress for 950 million dollars to continue the emergency relief program. The request exceeds the initial 500 million for direct relief and 350 million for civil works, with the division not specified. The message to Speaker Rainey spurred speculation on delaying demobilization of the civil works army beyond May 1.
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Factor testifies to Touhy gang kidnapping for ransom in Chicago
John Factor, under cross examination, reiterates his identification of three Touhy gang members Roger Touhy Gustav Schaefer and Albert Kator as his kidnapers demanding seventy thousand dollars. Defense questions his memory citing dim light and blindfolding. Co-defendant McFadden sits calm as prosecutors plan to link him to the case next week.
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Birthday Balls Across Nation Honor Roosevelt Birthday
Col Henry L. Doherty heads a national committee staging over 6 000 birthday balls Tuesday to raise funds for the Warm Springs Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Proceeds support the President’s cure while events span Washington New York Hawaii Alaska and Berlin with military uniforms and a White House broadcast planned.
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Paris Rioters Clash With Police Over Chautemps Resignation
In Paris center royalists battled massed police after the cabinet of Premier Camille Chautemps quit amid the Stavisky scandal. Demonstrators chanted Down with Chautemps and smashed at officers and horses in Place De Liopera and near Cafe De La Paix as magnesium flares lit the scene.
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Roosevelt’s Monetary Bill Clears Senate for Final Signatures
Approved by both houses, the Roosevelt administration plan would empower the president to devalue the dollar and place 2 billion dollars to stabilize the foreign value of U.S. currency. The Senate's final passage was 66 to 23, with amendments restricting three year duration and other changes, sending the bill to the White House for Roosevelt’s signature.
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Gunmen raid police exhibit at Boston auto show
Meantime, gunmen raided a state police exhibit at a Boston auto show in the Me anies building. They displayed arms and removed weapons and equipment, including shotguns, a sub machine gun, ammunition drums, tear gas pistol and gas canisters. State officials promised to discontinue exhibiting police weapons at fairs.
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Insull Seeks Residence Permit Extension in Athens
Samuel Insull may appeal for an extension of his residence permit to stay longer in Athens with a January 31 deadline noted by reliable quarters. A second item reports A Lynton Jones of Norfolk named to manage peanut milling code and agreement across four states. A third brief notes a jury in the Wentworth court considering the Lee Waynick killing case remains locked up for the night after lengthy deliberations.
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Prison Reformer Quells Revolt On Welfare Island
Commissioner Austin H. MacCormick used a sharp order to stop a threatened Prison revolt on Welfare Island. He suspended Warden Joseph A. McCann and Dr. Abraham Norman, medical officer, citing incompetency and neglect of duty. The warden had only routine authority after MacCormick’s raid earlier in the week that confiscated drugs and weapons.
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Bank Failures Decline in Final Half of 1933
Figures show a tremendous drop in commercial failures in the latter half of 1933 compared with 1932. Continued on page nine.
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Federal curb on exchanges urged and telegraph plan urged
Sade committees urged a federal curb on stock market speculation and a unified national telegraph system. They called for strict licensing and a federal administrative authority to regulate exchanges and all communications.
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Stalin warns Japan of war risk to Soviet state
Stalin told the All Party Congress that a future war sparked by Japan or other enemies could ignite a world revolution and collapse landowner regimes. He urged readiness and warned against foreign interference as he praised Moscow’s push for non aggression pacts with neighbors and broader East Asia diplomacy.
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Draft Dodger Bergdoll Seeks Presidential Pardon
Emma C Bergdoll asks President Roosevelt to pardon Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, fugitive in Germany since 1920, to mark the president's birthday. The case recalls Erwin Bergdoll's 4 year sentence and citizenship restoration last Christmas for WWI draft violations. Grover, once famed aviator, vanished from guards during a 1920 escape after a window box pursuit in Wynnewood.
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Ex-Winston-Salem Detective Becomes Prisoner At Central
J H Cofer former Winston-Salem police detective is inmate 29 100 at Central prison to serve three to five years for accepting bribes He awaits a physical exam before work assignment and possible parole or pardon to Canada as attempts continue Bergen Bergdoll German citizen and his case referenced for context.
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House Leaders Move to Force Senate Adjournment
Washington January 27 House Democratic leaders move to push administration bills through and force Senate delays. President Roosevelt backs quick adjournment after essential legislation, with Rainey forecasting House adjournment by April 1 and Senate by May 1 amid three day recesses.
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Long And Wamsley Fight In New Orleans Court
The Long and Walmsley factions clash in counter investigations in New Orleans criminal district court. Eugene Stanley seeks state payroll data to expose alleged padding, while Huey Long accuses city hall of payroll padding and gambling largesse.
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