Bonus Bonds Farm Relief Must Be Met
President Roosevelt indicated a tax raising measure may be needed this session to fund the farm program and the bonus. He cited a $2.249 billion bonus cost and a $440 million yearly soil conservation bill but offered no specific tax plan or funding source. He noted no funds are available from last year’s four billion dollar work relief fund for these expenditures.
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Washington
Dent Roosevelt
Congress
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Second Victim Of Gas Chamber Dies In Nine Seconds
Raleigh dispatch reports that Ed Jenkins, a 49 year old white man, died in the gas chamber nine seconds after inhaling hydrogen cyanide, the second execution in North Carolina’s use of lethal gas. Three physicians witnessed the death and said it was painless. Officials noted the time from pellets dropped to death, and Jenkins requested packages for his widow be mailed.
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Raleigh
Chamber
Jenkins
G. 8. Coleman
W. C. Davison
Duke University Medical School
F. M. Hanes
Duke
North Carolina
J. Winder Bryan
Ed Jenkins
Bes
Mississippi River
Bessie I. Jenkins
Bessemer City
Colorado
Capus M. Waynick
Nations Agree on Naval Information Exchange Plan
A four-nation naval pact among the United States Great Britain France and Italy for annual exchange of fleet data was submitted to the international conference. The plan delays keel laying for vessels over 100 tons for four months after information exchange and allows further delays only if plans change. The move aims to ensure coordinated construction while notifying partners of post keel changes.
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London
Great Britain
France
Italy
Market Tapers Off As End Approaches
The Southern furniture and rug market nears the close of its mid winter session with attendance surpassing the old January record of 1766. Registrations yet to come may push the total some 100 higher as manufacturers report healthy orders and broad satisfaction despite modest volumes. The outlook remains unusually bright with expectations of steady plant operation through the year.
Cheating Racket At North Carolina Chapel Hill Exposed
January report details a highly organized cheating scheme at the University of North Carolina. Seventeen students suspended from the student body with charges pending against twelve others as investigation unfolds.
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Chapel Hill
University of Carolina
Jack Pool
Ity
Stuon
Ugh
Jackson
Prosecution Has Answers To New Kidnapping Probe
TRENTON N J January 31 Answers to Governor Hoffmans questions about the Lindbergh baby kidnapping inquiry are in state police files a prosecution source said Attorney General David T Wilentz and state police head Col H Norman Schwarzkopf met to discuss the governors order for continued investigation and 12 key points are addressed including possible accomplices discrepancies in ransom talks gang contacts the J J Faulkner deposit and the switch to a one man theory after Hauptmanns arrest. The governor attacked the officials over the probe and Wilentz indicated no extensive new inquiry was needed.
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Trenton
N. J
Harold G. Hoffman
David T. Wilentz
Bruno Hauptmann
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Schwarzkopf
Wilentz
Hunterdon County
Anthony M. Hauck, Jr
Hoffmen
John F. Condon
Lasfie
John Hughes Curtis
Norfolk
J. J. Faulkner
New York
Hauptmann
Inflationists Revived In Washington in Election Year Clash
President Roosevelt urged Congress to pass at least 500 million dollars in new revenue to wind up the AAA and fund a new farm program, while debate over new levies to pay the 2.249 billion dollar bonus bill stirred inflationist and orthodox finance lines. A commission studied Governor Talmadge speech for possible law violation.
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Congress
AAA
Roosevelt
Ward F. McGrady
Wall Street
Communications Commission
Talmadge
Georgia
Pacific Coast
Soviet Protest Over Border Invasion From Manchukuo
Moscow delivered a formal protest to Japan over an alleged invasion by Japanese Manchukuoan troops of Soviet Far Eastern territory. Soviet frontier guards repelled two attempts to cross the border in the Grodekovo region amid sharp fighting.
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Moscow
Russia
Japan
Manchukuo
Tamekichi Ota
Foreign Office
Far
Grodekovo
Carolinas Dig Out From Snow Blanket
The Carolinas faced heavy snow ranging from four to 13 inches with temperatures in the twenties. Snow melted into slush, relief workers cleared streets, and many schools closed while roads remained hazardous but open. No serious accidents were reported.
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Associated Press
Carolinas
North Carolina
Dunbar Initiated Into Fraternity at UNC
CHAPEL HILL Jan. 31 Alpha Chi Sigma the national chemical fraternity at the university has just initiated five new members Clarence Wendell Dunbar High Point John Robert Frye Asheville Robert Compe Jurney Jr Winston-Salem Philip Harall Latimer Jr Brunswick Ga and Robert McLean Wallsce Kule's Creek
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Chapel Hill
Alpha Chi Sigma
National Chemical Fraternity
Clarence Wendell Dunbar
High Point
John Robert Frye
Asheville
Robert Compe Jurney
Winston-Salem
Philip Harall Latimer, Jr
Brunswick, Ga
Robert McLean Wallsce
Kule’s Creek
Carolinas Hold Roosevelts Birthday Balls Despite Cold
Snow and sub freezing weather did not stop Carolinians from attending Roosevelt birthday balls to raise funds for the Warm Springs foundation. Charlotte reports 2000 attendees while Raleigh drew 1000 and Winston Salem calls the event a distinct success with Southern Pines netting 125 dollars from a 200 attendance.
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Charlotte
Warm Springs Foundation
Raleigh
Winston-Salem
Southern Pines
Young Payson Boy Receives Legion Medal for Rescue
Four year old Roy Lundell of Payson Utah earned a gold medal from the American Legion after rescuing his eighteen month old brother Dilek from a tunnel hidden in a blazing hay stack last fall.
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Payson
Utah
Roy Lundell
American Legion
Were
Dilek
Express Train Disaster Kills Three In Sunbury Area
Weathered rescuers worked in subzero cold to pull victims from the Reading company express that plunged 30 feet from a Susquehanna river bridge near Sunbury. The known dead were Dr. Guy Rothfuss and Washington Danshaw, with engineer William Ramp, plus another unidentified Bucknell student, and 25 to 35 injured treated at Mary H. Packer hospital.
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Associated Press
Sunbury
Reading Company
Susquehanna River
Bucknell University
Williamsport
New York
Express
Wil-liamsporter
Susquehanna
Guy Rothfuss
Willamseport
Washington Danshaw
Tamaqua
William Ramp
Clement's
J. K. Fisher
Blue Hill
UNC Alumni oppose Graham plan and athletic emphasis shift
Raleigh January 31 The UNC board of trustees debated the Graham plan to re emphasize Southern conference athletics and considered alumni requests to refer the matter for study. Senator Hill served notice to move rescission of transferring engineering schools. Alumni petitions from multiple counties urged no overhaul of athletic policy.
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Raleigh
University of North Carolina
John Sprunt Hill
Parham
Chapel Hill
Norman Boren
Greensboro
Guilford
Buncombe
Cumberland
Alamance
Davidson
Edgecombe
Mecklenburg
Forsyth
Pitt
Durham
Catawba
Sampson
Hoke County
Boren
University of North Caroline Athletic Council
Tragedy as Gasoline Fire Kills 20 Negro Convicts in Truck
In Scottsboro Alabama on January 31 a drum of gasoline ignited inside a transfer truck, trapping twenty Black convicts and killing them. Two white guards, Middlebrook and Wasson, were burned attempting rescues while an onscene fire crew and doctors could not save the victims. Traffic halted as onlookers gathered at the scene.
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Scottsboro
Ala
Middlebrook
Wasson
Camp C
Lee Highway
Sophia Children Take Their First Train Ride
Seventeen Sophia school children from Randleman rode a train for the first time last Saturday. Their teacher Mrs. Mary Wade Farlow hosted a movie party in Asheboro, where they enjoyed a Shirley Temple film and the new travel experience, likely to be remembered longest.
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Textile Institute
C. T. Murchison
Cotton Textile Institute
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Murchison
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D-Ill
Wood
D-Miss
N.C
Hoffman
Lindbergh
Capitol Hill
Dunbar
Boy Hero
Reading
U.N.C
Umni
Dr. Graham
Graham
Alabama
Sophia
Cesctina
Baer End
Hatteras
Jacksonville
Atlanta
Augusta
Birmingham
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Evansville
Galveston
Rock
Los Angeles
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Tampa
Wilmington
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