Alabama House Adopts Resolution 91 to 3 Vote
Passage brought applause from the galleries and cheers from senators on the floor. The Alabama House adopted the resolution by a 91 to three vote after a motion by Senator Hooten of Chambers County for suspension of the rules and immediate passage. The resolution was reported without a dissenting voice in the Senate.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Senate
Hooten
Chambers County
Heflin
House
Butler court martial prep eyed as Davis may lead defense
The report notes John W. Davis, noted New York lawyer and 1924 Democratic nominee, may head Major General Smedley Butler’s court martial defense. Navy officials and Major Henry Leonard are coordinating, with a panel of 5 to 13 officers to serve as the court, likely near 13, and sessions to be opened publicly per custom.
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Washington
John W. Davis
New York
Smedley D. Butler
Henry Leonard
Butler
Leonard
J. M. Meade
P. F. Archer
Quantico
Randolph C. Berkeley
Navy Department
Marine and Naval
John T. Halligan
Halligan
Federal Reserve Chief Warns On Veterans Bonds Raises Rates
Governor Roy Young of the Boston Federal Reserve warned the house Ways and Means Committee that issuing government bonds to pay veterans certificates could force the Federal Reserve System to raise discount rates to protect itself. He, following J Herbert Case, said such securities would depress the entire market and inflation could follow. Unemployment might dip temporarily, but farm benefits would trickle through, with prices tied to world markets.
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Washington
Roy Young
Boston Federal Reserve Bank
Reserve
J. Herbert Case
New York Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Board
House
Ways and Means
Young
Case
Melton
Scientist-Taine: Dr Eric Bell, Mathematician and Novelist
Dr Eric T Bell professor of higher mathematics at Caltech and renowned scientist writes fantastic thrillers under the pseudonym John Taine during vacations. The author follows Jules Verne in style and has earned wide renown for his fiction.
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Eric T. Bell
California Institute of Technology
Jules Verne
John Taine
Dr. Bell
State general fund to finance six month school plan
Raleigh reports the General Assembly debated a MacLean bill for statewide school support funded by a 20 cent ad valorem tax. The measure would shift state operation of schools from first through eleventh grade for six months, with a central purchasing agency and salary scales, aiming for an $18 million needs estimate. Proponents argue a sales tax or stock tax could finance the plan, claiming state support would reduce land taxes.
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Raleigh
MacLean
General Assembly
Senate
House
Jeffress
Jones
County Boards of Education
State Boards of Location and Equalization
Charge Former Senator Bayard Bought Nomination
Wright Dizer former Democratic congressional candidate testifies before the Senate campaign funds committee claiming that Thomas F Bayard secured the Delaware Senate nomination through large expenditures. He attributes the funding to John J Raskob and P S Dupont of Wilmington and says Bayard defeated Josiah Marvel at the state convention.
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Washington
Thomas F. Bayard
Delaware
Senate Campaign Funds Committee
Wright Dizer
Congress
Bayard
John J. Raskob
Dupont
Wilmington
Josiah Marvel
Dizer
Nye
Raskob
P. 8
Marvel
Bring Five Bodies of Marines Ashore
The naval transport Vega docked at Hampton Roads with the bodies of five Marines killed by Nicaraguan bandits. The bodies were brought ashore or sent to the Portsmouth Naval Hospital for disposition per relatives wishes.
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Norfolk
Vega
Hampton Roads Naval Operating Base
Naval Hospital
Ortsmouth
Quakes Hit Southern Mexico Cause Structural Damage
Renewed earthquakes in southern Mexico caused building collapses and injuries. In Oaxaca the Temple tower at Tlaxiato caved in, a girl was injured in Miahuatlan, and many houses fell in Huatusco and Veracruz.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Oaxaca
Tlaxiato
Miahuatlan
Huatusco
Vera Cruz
Miner Thought Dead Found To Be Living
LINTON Ind Jan 30 The death list from the Little Betty mine explosion was reduced to 28 as Fred Reed a miner formerly reported dead was found alive He said he left the mine shortly after the blast
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Linton
Ind
Little Betty
Fred Reed
Reed
State takeover of county roads gains momentum in Raleigh
Sentiment to have the state assume maintenance of county highways grows despite opposition from Col T L Kirkpatrick John Sprunt Hill and road commissioners across North Carolina. Backed by Pete Murphy lobbying in Raleigh lawmakers see potential tax relief on land equal to the six months school support bill and note financing via a gasoline tax increase. Governor Gardner’s plan to reorganize the Highway Commission earns broad support from Frank Page and Thomas H MacDonald while Commissioner Hill backs state takeover of maintenance.
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A. c. Baskervill
Enterprise Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh
T. L. Kirkpatrick
Charlotte
John Sprunt Hill
Durham
Walter
Pete) Murphy
Rowan County
General Assembly
Gardner
State Highway Commission
Highway Commission
Frank Page
Thomas H. MacDonald
U. S. Bureau of Public Roads
Hill
Senate Passes Local Measures In Raleigh Session
The North Carolina senate, via suspension of the rules, approved a bill by Senator Bernard to aid Luncombe in reopening closed banks and sent it to the house. It also approved a Perquimans bill on six month school terms and other measures including one protecting building and loan associations from malicious slander. A capital punishment mercy recommendation bill by Senator Jones faced debate with fears of lynching, and was passed after hours of discussion as the session adjourned.
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Raleigh
Senate
Bernard
Luncombe
Whedbee
House
Perquimans
Jeffress
Guilford
Jones
Richmond
Hicks
Granville
Ward
Craven
Burrus
Clement
Rowan
Ward of
Gravely
Nash
Hinsdale
Wake
Four Buried in Avalanche Near Eggishorn
BERNE Switzerland Jan 30 Three English women whose names were not learned immediately and a Swiss guide were buried in an avalanche near Eggishorn on Wednesday. A party of six tourists and three guides left Jungfraujoch for the Aletsch glacier and had not been reported. Rescue parties found two women and two guides near Riederlap. the bodies of the others had not been recovered.
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Berne
Switzerland
Eggishorn
Jungfraujoch
Aletsch
Riederlap
Middle West Feels Breath of Spring
In a January warmth across the middlewest peach trees bloom in southern Illinois and dandelions flower in Iowa while a general heat wave loosens winter. The North Platte valley shows violets in open fields and Scotts Bluff hits 68 degrees, a January high. Chicago records 44.
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Chicago
Middlewest
A. Donnell
Weather Bureau
Illinois
Iowa
North Platte Valley
Nebraska
Scotts Bluff
Testimony in alienation case centers on class prejudice
Mrs Alexandra B Hankins testified in a $150000 alienation of affection suit in Winston Salem claiming she was driven from her home by prejudice of her minister father in law. She denied conspiring with her husband to sue for money and said she sought work to support her four children after being forced to leave. The four day trial is not expected to finish until tomorrow with plans to appeal regardless of verdict. Judge Efird ordered preservation of all court procedures in the stenographic report.
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Winston-Salem
Alexandra B. Hankins
J. R. Hankins
Jim Hankins
J Efird
Fire Wrecks Broadway Apartment And Theater
Three men convicted of slaying Coral Hickman and deputy sheriff in a March bank robbery spree near Manter Kansas will be hanged in Canon City. John Walker Claude Ray and Andrew Halliday are slated for execution between 9 and 10 p m tonight. Walker’s mother Mrs Julia Rhodes of Joplin Missouri visited him yesterday and he had written her letters for twenty years requesting monthly mails.
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Canon City
Colo
Coral A. Hickman
Ads
Manter
Kas
John Walker
Claude Ray
Andrew Halliday
Walker
Julia Rhodes
Joplin
German Seaplane to Take Off for Trans Atlantic Flight
The DO X giant German sea plane is set to depart Lisbon at 7 a m tomorrow weather permitting for the first leg to Madeira on a trans Atlantic flight toward Rio de Janeiro. The crew includes nineteen people, thirteen of them crew. The plan moves through Madeira Cape Verde Canary Islands Natal and down to Rio de Janeiro.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Rio de Janeiro
Madeira
Cape Verde Islands
Canary Islands
Natal
Broadway blaze destroys marionette collection and damages building
Firefighters comb the wreckage of a Broadway apartment fire that killed at least one and injured 17, as 250 residents fled. Mrs Sue Hastings mourns the loss of 600 marionettes valued at 40 000 dollars, with ten miniature stages ruined. The blaze, among the worst in two decades, caused 1 009 000 dollars in total losses and left 16 firefighters severely burned when the fourth floor collapsed. Two photographers were hurt nearby by exploding flash powder.
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New York
Broadway
Sue Hastings
Albania Hit by Quakes Destroys Homes Injures Two
Earthquakes again shook Koritza Albania today destroying fifty houses and injuring two people. The government donated 40000 gold francs for relief and ordered a barracks built as a refugee shelter.
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Koritza
Albania
Mussolini Seeks Redress Over Butler Remarks
Mussolini cabled Italian Ambassador De Martino that he expects just and prompt redress from the American government and people over Major General Smedley Butler’s remarks. He says the incident is closed for his part and has forgotten it. Senator Heflin voices senate protest over Butler’s arrest for criticism.
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Washington
Mussolini
de Martino
A Can
Smediey D. Butler
Marines
Rome
Butler
Senate
Heflin
Alabama
Democrats Push Six Point Relief Plan for Extra Session
Senator Robinson declares a six point relief program as the minimum emergency measures to avert an extra session. He warns that unless the 25 million relief appropriation or an acceptable substitute passes, the interior department funding linked to it will fail. The statement outlines the party’s approach and the urgency of action.
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Washington
Robinson
Arkansas
Congress
Interior Department
Senate Appropriations Pass 446 Million War Dept Bill
Washington January 30 The 446000000 war department appropriation bill is approved by the senate authorizing distribution of 20000000 bushels of farm board wheat for relief. The measure sent to conference with the house to work out amendments. Senator Capper Kansas proposed the feed hungry drought areas and unemployed city amendment. Senate Democrats vow to push relief, possibly calling an extra session. Farm board would transfer wheat to an agency chosen by President Hoover with costs charged to the revolving fund.
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Washington
War Department
Senate
House
Capper
Kansas
Senate Democrats
Farm Board
Hoover
Farm Board Revolving Fund
Will Seize Camel Cigarettes In S C
Columbia, Jan. 30. Field agents of the state tax department ordered to seize all Camel cigarettes in the state with cellophane wrappers. W G Query, chairman, said state tax stamps will not adhere to these packages. State law requires stamps be affixed within 72 hours after receipt by wholesalers and jobbers in a removable fashion.
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Columbia
8. C
State Tax Department
W. G. Query
Screen Actress Opens Divorce From Chicago Husband
Screen actress Jean Harlow obtained a divorce from Charles F. McGraw of Chicago yesterday. She charged he injured her by pushing her against a mantlepiece in their home after she asked for fox furs.
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Jean Harlow
Charles F .McGraw
Chicago
Miss Harlow
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