Committees Doing Most Work Today In Raleigh
In Raleigh on January 31 the Senate passed a local government revenue bill and sent it to the House as committees handled most work. Senator Hanes warned North Carolina bears a high debt service burden while debate noted reorganizations and salary changes amid bills on highway reimbursements and state offices.
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Raleigh
Senate
Local Government Commission
House
Hanes of
Forsyth
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
North Carolina
Murphy and Bean
Rowan
State Highway Commission
Ate
Person Tax Commission
Senate Roads Committee
Reorganization Committee
Conservation Board
Corporation Commission
Hitler rises to chancellorship sparks national turmoil
Berlin reports a tense day after Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor as clashes erupt across the Reich. Police break up Communist demonstrations, confiscate literature, and a general strike appeal circulates in Berlin. Nazi processions and anti National Socialist protests leave several injured.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Reich
Hitler
Communist Central Committee
Magdenburg
Rote Fahne
Dresden
Wall Street
Duesseldorf
Halle
Schweinfurt
Offenbach
Hirschberg
Paul von Hindenburg
Bill Okehed Two Day Week Six Hour Day Advances
Washington January 31 The House Labor Committee approved the Connery five day week six hour day bill. Chairman Connery expects quick action in the House with Speaker Gar ner and leaders to decide. The measure would fine or imprison anyone knowingly transporting goods produced by workers exceeding six hours daily and five days weekly in interstate or foreign commerce. Senate committee study continues with sponsors seeking rapid action. Testimony cited supposed interlocking directorates as Morgan banking interests and Chase National Bank in New York dominating industry and labor.
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Washington
House Labor Committee
Connery
Garner
House
Senate
Capitol
John P. Frey
Morgan Banking
Chase National Bank
New York
Senate panel finds banks not sharing loan losses
A Senate committee reviewing Reconstruction Finance loans to railroads reported 11.4 percent of banks borrowing from the KR F have closed. Atlee Pomerene said total bank loans authorized were 80,262,278 with 66,057,000 outstanding, and he warned losses will be offset by good security.
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Senate
Reconstruction Corporation
KR. F
Atlee Pomerene, Corporation
Mich
Beatrice Snipes Transferred From Hospital To Penitentiary
Mrs Beatrice Ferguson Snipes aged 29 was removed with her two week old baby from the state hospital to the state penitentiary at 11 am today. She faces a life term for murder. The baby’s fate was not disclosed but she will not rear the child in the penitentiary. The state children's bureau seeks placement for Frances Joan and Clyde Snipes Jr.
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Columbia
Beatrice Ferguson Snipes
State Hospital
State Penitentiary
Snipes
State Children’s Bureau
Frances Joan
Clyde Snipes, Jr
Jeffress Signals Possible Resignation Over Pay Cut
In Raleigh on January 31 AP reports the House Salaries and Fees Committee backed the Douglass bill to cap highway department salaries above 1500 annually. Chairman FE B Jeffress said, If you want a 1000 man I imagine you can get one, hinting at resignation potential. The proposal would cut salaries on a 10 to 33 1-3 percent scale. The committee also supported reducing marriage license costs from five to three dollars.
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Raleigh
Jan
House
Douglass
State Highway Department
FE. B. Jeffress
The
Highway Commission
Bill to halt new highway construction considered
In Raleigh on January 31 the senate roads committee ordered a subcommittee to draft a bill suspending all new state funded highway construction for two years to study exemptions. Senators floated exemptions like eight miles Dellwood to Soc Gap and 18 miles Gum Neck to Fairfield amid opposition from Aiken and Fuller and a vote to form the subcommittee.
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Raleigh
Senate Committee On Roads Today
Francis
Haywood
Dellwood
Soc Gap
Kirk
Patrick
Mecklenburg
Bailey
Washington
Gum Neck
Fairfield
Burgin
Davidson
Aiken
Cuatawba
Fuller
Robeson
Bargin
Death of John Galsworthy British Novelist at Home
John Galsworthy British novelist dramatist and 1932 Nobel laureate died at 9 15 am at his London home aged about 66 or 67 after uremia from a cold. He avoided Stockholm for the prize cite receiving the certificate from King Gustaf via Archibald Kerr. He wrote 50 plus short stories 52 plays and numerous novels. He declined a knighthood in 1918.
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London
Ohn Galsworthy
Stockholm
Gustaf
Sweden
Archibald J. ©. Kerr
Galsworthy
Sussex
England
Forsyte
Farm prices hit new January low under allotment debate
Farm prices fell to 51 percent of prewar level in January as Congress debated the domestic allotment plan and mortgage relief. Miller and packer representatives warned the plan would push consumers to substitutes in wheat and pork. Hoover prepared to act on the $90,000,600 crop production loan bill while Hyde reported. Bestor testified against moratorium on federal land bank loans.
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Washington
Congress
Agriculture Department
Millers
Senate Agriculture Committee
Robinson
Arkansas
Hull
Tennessee
Senate Banking Committee
White House
Hoover
Hyde
Paul Bestor
House
Mass Meeting in Raleigh Hears Education Viewpoints
Raleigh Memorial auditorium packed as 5000 fill a mass meeting led by Major L P McLendon and Mrs J L Henderson to present a picture of education in the state. Governors campaign ties noted, with educators and civic leaders guiding the event.
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Raleigh
Dan
Raleigh Memorial
Friends of Education
L. P. McLendon
Durham
J. C. B. Ehringhaus
Mra
J. L. Henderson
Hickory
Upton Fails to Gain Damages Against Coca Cola Bottling
In Greensboro on January 31 a federal jury ruled for the Coca Cola Bottling company in the suit by C. W. Upton of High Point seeking 100000 dollars for alleged permanent injuries from swallowing glass in a Coca Cola bottle. A separate federal case began hearings that day in which R. H. Styles of High Point sues the government over war risk insurance.
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Greensboro
Federal District Court
C. W. Upton
High Point
Coca Cola
Upton
R. H. Styles
Dirt Farmers Sit On Mortgage Plastered Throne For Aid Rush
Des Moines Iowa January 31 AP dispatch reports farmers under mortgage pressure receive swift aid. Major insurers led by New York Life pledge private moratoriums on foreclosures while Aetna Phoenix Mutual and Connecticut General pledge to hold foreclosures. Iowa Senate committee approves a statewide relief group for mortgagor and mortgagee.
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Roy FP. Porter
Des Moines
District of Columbia
Amon
New York Life Insurance Company
Thomas A. Buckner
Aetna
Connecticut
Matual
Phoenix Mutual
Connecticut General Life Insurance
Clyde Herring
Iowa
Iowa Senate Committee On
National
House of Rep
Shocking Story Fails To Convince Judge
Detroit January 31 William Golden told the recorder’s court he slept through a shock from six storage batteries found under his bed He was convicted of stealing the batteries and sentenced to 30 days in the house of correction.
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Detroit
William Golden
Recorder’s Court
House of Correction
Reorganization of Ashe County Government Proposed
Raleigh January 31 AP report outlines five bill measures by Rep Tom C Bowie Ashe to reorganize Ashe county government Abolish offices transfer duties fix board of education terms and limit debt also calls for a court stenographer. Rep Williams of Duplin seeks similar reforms with office abolition coordination of duties and a 66.23 cent maximum tax rate for the next biennium.
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Raleigh
Ashe County
Tom C. Bowie
Ashe
County Board of Education
Williams
Duplin
Surprises In Prospect When Cabinet Is Named
President Elect Roosevelt plans a cabinet with a veteran core while drawing in younger Democrats. He told leaders at the Meriwether Inn in Warm Springs he would name the official family himself and emphasized the cabinet as his own. He noted no further discussions with the assembled leaders.
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Warm Springs
Roosevelt
Meriwether Inn
Extradition Test Looms Over Lake Lea Case in North Carolina
Asheville reports Zeb V. Nettles heads to Nashville to seek extradition of Lake Lea and Luke Lea Jr. upon bank law conviction penalties. The Lees, isolated, face a first test of efforts to escape North Carolina penalties as proceedings unfold in Tennessee.
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Asheville
Zeb “. Nettles
Nashville, Tenn
Lake Lea
Tennessee
Luke Lea, Jr
North Carolina
Nashville
Tenn
Zeb V. Netties
Col. Lea
Luke Lea
I Jr
Press critics tease headlines from Beverly Hills note
The writer dismisses daily press stunts from distant events. He mocks headlines about Southern California snow, France's government, Roosevelt Lindsay talks, and Henry Ward’s bankers remarks as temporary chatter. He implies business owners should keep secrets rather than selling stock.
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Beverly Hills
Cali
Dan
Tomorow
California
France
Roosevelt
Ambassador Lindsay
Great Britain
Senate
Henry Ward
Pomerene Urges Banks to Help Rail Financing
Washington Jan 5 31 Senate banking committee hears Reconstruction Finance Corporation chairman Atlee Pomerene accuse large banks of withholding funds after securing cash in the community. He supports continuing RFC loans to railroads if no other financing exists, while urging banks to share loan risk as maturities arrive.
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Washington
Atlee Pomerene
Reconstruction Corporation
Senate
Pomerene
Reduction Corporation
New York Receives Emergency Relief Loan of 86.1 Million
The Reconstruction Corporation approved an emergency relief loan of 86,100,000 for New York today. The action supports rapid stabilization and recovery efforts across the state amid ongoing challenges.
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Washington
Can
New York
The
Reconstruction Corporation
Bread truck and street car crash injures four at Salisbury
Four people were injured near Salisbury when a bread truck and a street car collided. The truck caught fire at once and its driver A. Eh. Patterson of High Point was rushed to a local hospital in critical condition.
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Salisbury
Here
A. Eh. Patterson
High Point
Brush Creek farmer found dead on railroad tracks
MARSHALL January 31 AP report: M Hendersen a 40 year old farmer from the Brush Creek area of Madison county was found dead early today on railroad tracks believed struck by a train.
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Marshall
M. ©. Henderson
Brush Creek
Madison County
Italy Accepts Invitation To Confer On War Debts
Rome reports Italy accepted the U S invitation to discuss war debts after President-elect Roosevelt takes office. Premier Mussolini instructed the ambassador in Washington to respond favorably. The move follows scrutiny of British responses and potential trade concessions, with talks set for Washington.
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Rome
United States
Roosevelt
Mussolini
Washington
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