Supreme Court Rules Against Power Companies in TVA Case
The Supreme Court ruled the private power firms lacked standing to challenge the Tennessee Valley Authority program. The decision allows continued TVA dam construction and sale of surplus power. Justices Butler and McReynolds dissented, Reed did not participate.
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Atler
Tva
Ashington
Supreme
Ustices
Butler
McReynolds
Nsed
Deam
Ustice Reed
Genhe
Oberts
Coompanies
Soviet Plan Outlines Year Five Five-Year Plan Progress
Pravda outlines the third five-year plan from January detailing a gradual transition from Socialism to Communism. Molotov presents a program to boost heavy industry and consumer goods while achieving a classless society and national economic self sufficiency.
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Scow
Soviet Union
Pravda
Vyacheslaff Molotoff
Council of People's Missars
Communist Party
Otoff
Fatry
Europe
Michigan Storm Paralyzes Detroit to Benton Harbor Roads
A severe winter storm swept southern Michigan from Detroit to Benton Harbor with a northeast wind causing heavy drifts that halted traffic on major highways and all side roads. Emergency crews scrambled to assist stranded motorists as visibility dropped and travel remained treacherous.
Last Minute Bulletins: Snow Delays and Fatal Bomber Crash
Snowbound traffic on elevated lines in Chicago injures at least 50 as rear end collisions disrupt crowded cars. In Rio de Janeiro a bomber crash kills former US airline executive E Powell and Brazilian Lt. Jose Grisbul during a Vultee bomber instruction. American safety report updates say all Americans in Barcelona believed safe.
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Chicago
Rio DE Janeiro
PLC
E. Powell
United States
Jose Grisbul
Andarahy
Powell
Vultee Aircraft Corporation
California
Grisbul
Vultee
Record Attendance Seen At Southern Furniture and Rug Market
Second week under way with 145 dealers from scattered areas indicating activity may ease but attendance remains strong. Buyers praise better styling and steady orders while inventories run low. Southern Furniture Exposition Building, Inc. committee to announce mid-summer market dates tomorrow.
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Southern Furniture Exposition Building, Inc
Three Train Crew Die In Wreck Near Robbe
Illinois Central official Max Foley said three train crew members were killed and one injured when an engine and 29 freight cars derailed a mile north of Robbe in Pope County last night.
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Carbondale
Iwi
Max Foley
Illinois Central Railroad
Robbe
Pope County
Frankfurter Takes Seat on Supreme Court in Washington
Felix Frankfurter, born in Vienna and a Harvard professor, was sworn in as a justice of the Supreme Court. Chief Justice Hughes and clerk Charles Elmore Cropley administered the oaths before a packed courtroom as Frankfurter joined the bench left vacant by Justice Cardozo's death.
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Felix Frankfurter
Supreme Court
Hughes
Charles Elmore Cropley
Harvard
Frankfurter
Justice Black
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Tax Plan Targets Bottled Drinks In North Carolina
Raleigh January 30 The legislature plans a bill tonight to impose a crown tax on all bottled drinks in North Carolina. The week will also see the labor department wage and hour act and an administration bill to allow discretion in life term sentences instead of death penalties in first degree cases. A model estates and wills reform bill prepared for the 1935 legislature is to be printed. Budget bills and tax measures proceed as hearings loom on diversion and other proposals as public meetings are announced.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Labor Department
Hoey
Carl L. Bailey
Plymouth
Department of Justice
F. H. Shuford
Withrow
Rutherford
Taylor
Caswell
Appropriations Committee
Finance Joint
Highway Users Conference
Georgia Escaper Captured After Tear Gas Standoff
Augusta police and state highway patrolmen captured Forrest Turner, an escapee from Tattnall prison, and Bryan Schwab after surrounding a cabin nine miles from Augusta at dawn. Officers said a stolen Jacksonville car, nitroglycerine and burglar tools were found. Turner allegedly helped Schwab in an earlier prison escape.
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Augusta
Forrest Turner
Tattnall
Bryan Schwab
Forsyth County Public Works
Turner
C. J. Wilson
George R. Folds
Wilson
Schwab
Graymount
Folds
Jacksonville
Fla
Pope Pius XI to address bishops on Lateran treaty anniversary
The Vatican announced that Pope Pius XI will deliver an extraordinary address to all of Italy's bishops on February 11, the tenth anniversary of the Lateran treaty between the Vatican and the Italian state.
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Vatican City
Pius XI
Italy
Vatican
Relief bill sent back to conference committee
The House sent the 725 million relief bill to a conference committee to reconcile with a Senate version. The amounts match, but the Senate added amendments including a 25 percent cap on WPA pay differentials and new limits on WPA political activity. Conference leaders Woodrum Taylor Cannon Ludlow Snyder McMillan Johnson Taber Wigglesworth Lambertson expect a report by Wednesday.
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House
Conference
Senate
Roosevelt
Speaker Bankhead
Woodrum
D-Va
Taylor
Dcole
Cannon
D-Mo
Ludlow
D-Ind
Snyder
D-Pa
McMillan
D-Sc
Johnson
Taber
R-Ny
Policy Witness Shoots Himself in New York Trial
In New York on January 30 a key policy racket witness George Weinberg, linked to gangland violence, shot himself to avoid testifying in the Tammany District Leader James J. Hines case. Dewey plans to read Weinberg’s lengthy, disputed testimony despite his death and lingering fear among witnesses.
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New York
George Weinberg
Tammany
James J. Hines
Thomas E. Dewey
Weinberg
Hines
Bo Weinberg
Gangland
East River
Dewey
Blizzard Hits Chicago With Heavy Snowfall
A furious blizzard paralyzed Chicago and the southern Great Lakes region, threatening a new record snowfall. Schools and transit shut down, hundreds injured in a Douglas Park train crash, and city crews deployed over 150 plows to clear roads as air travel halted.
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Ohio Valley
C. A. Donnel
Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
Pennsylvania
New York State
Lake Front
Chicago Board of Trade
Great Exchange
C.S.T
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West Side
United Airlines
Moline
Supreme Court affirms 1935 federal tobacco inspection act
The Supreme Court upholds the 1935 federal tobacco inspection act, requiring two thirds voter approval in a referendum of growers. Federal inspectors grade tobacco at warehouses before auction, aiming to stabilize prices. Oxford North Carolina warehouse operators challenged the act, contending tobacco was not interstate commerce. The fourth circuit had sustained the act and the high court affirmed the decision.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Oxford
N. C
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
Hughes
McReynolds
Butler
Federal Judge Charged With Misconduct
New York January 30 briefing reports Judge Martin T Manton of the U S circuit court of appeals faced a double bar investigation after District Attorney Thomas E Dewey alleged he accepted more than 400000 from litigants In a letter to Representative Hatton Summers Dewey listed six loans totaling 439481 paid since 1932 to Manton or companies controlled by him Only 50000 of the sum was repaid with a largest loan of 232981 to James J Sullivan via Lord and Thomas for the American Tobacco Company authorities could not confirm comments from Paul Hahn and George W Hill
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Martin T. Manton
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Thomas E. Dewey
Rep. Hatton W. Summers
House Judiciary Committee
Dewey
Manton
Appeals Court
James J. Sullivan
Lord & Thomas
American Tobacco Company
Paul Hahn
George W. Hill
American Obacco Company
Hahn
Europe
Hill
Chinese Guerrilla Attacks Report 7000 Japanese Casualties
Chinese sources claim guerrilla strikes from mountain bases in South Shansi caused 7 000 Japanese casualties in the last ten days. A Hamlow dispatch cites Japanese reports of 1 190 Chinese irregulars killed in 65 Hankow area engagements with 41 Japanese dead and 92 wounded.
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Shanghai
Shansi
Hamlow
Hankow
New Earthquake Strikes Chile Area Brings New Panic
SANTIAGO Chile Jan 30 New shocks described as very strong struck Chillan and Concepcion just before midnight injuring 20 at Concepcion and terrorizing the homeless in Chillan public squares. Officials fear last Tuesday’s quake killed up to 15 000 of Chillans 40 000 residents as walls caved in and makeshift camps rise. The government convened Congress to discuss relief and an emergency foreign loan of about 1 200 000 000 pesos.
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Santiago
Chile
Chillan
Concepcion
Here
Congress
Hitler Warns Western Powers Against Interference
Adolf Hitler told the Reichstag in Berlin that Western powers must not interfere in Austria and Czechoslovakia as Germany pursues self determination. He praised Francoist Spain insurgents and attacked Bolshevism, with Konrad Henlein and Arthur Seyss-Inquart present at the Kroll Opera House.
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Adolf Hitler
Reichstag
Germany
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Hitler
Spain
Kroll Opera House
Konrad Henlein
Arthur Seysz-Inquart
Hjalmar Schacht
Reichsbank
Walter Funk
Fuehrer
Reich
Franco Pushes On With Drive Toward Catalonia
Insurgent forces strike from three directions to break Government lines north of Barcelona. Advances push toward Moya Granollers and Arenys de Mar as Franco aims to seal Catalonia within a fortnight. If successful the drive may pivot toward Valencia and Madrid in the two and a half year war.
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Catalonia
Manresa
Moya
Granollers
Ilenars del Vallas
Mediterranean
Arenys de Mar
Burgos
Granollers-San Celoni
Gerana
Gerona
Avenys de Mar
Francisco Franco
Valencia
Madrid
Duke Boys Freed Breaking Charge
Two Duke University students John Dodd and David Cloud were acquitted by Trial Justice H B Chermside in Charlotte Court House Virginia after a lengthy hearing. Commonwealth's Attorney R Page Morton prosecuted. Kent Early defended. Dodd was reportedly shot in the left leg by Joseph Kuhn during the incident.
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Duke University
H. B. Chermside
John Dodd
New Jersey
David Cloud
Long Island
Commonwealth
R. Page Morton
Kent Early
Morton
Dodd
Joseph Kuhn
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