End Walkout Move Called by Union Leaders
Maritime union leaders urged an end to the 93 day West Coast shipping tieup. They ordered a segment vote and backed tentative settlements with Cooks Stewards and Marine Firemen preparing for possible ballots. The joint policy committee noted losses exceed 650 million dollars. In Detroit, a separate strike threatened General Motors, seeking a truce with the United Automobile Workers as talks faltered in Washington.
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Associated Press
Detroit
General Mo
United Automobilers of America
Frank Murphy
Labor
Perkins
P. Sloan, Jr
Corpora
Flint
Ikere
Union
New York
Neutrality bill debate reaches Capitol over war material controls
Lawmakers in the Capitol clash with Hull over neutrality law details as McReynolds discusses feasibility of giving the President power to regulate or suspend shipment of war materials. A plan to shift war exports to peace time status faces committee hearings and administration stance remains undecided.
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Hull
McReynolds
House Foreign As
Walton Moore
Asais
Green H.rth
McRey
Hackworth
Reynolds
Sanitation Biggest Job Facing Areag
Memphis report says area sanitation heads face a major task as the Mississippi River rises. Skilled workers battle high waters and expect the challenge to endure for a long time. Authorities push containment and relief efforts amid ongoing flooding danger.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi River
Louisville Tightens Flood Laws Amid Citywide Crisis
Louisville officials imposed stricter flood regulations after looting of relief boats and the arrest of two soldiers tied to a smashed liquor store. The city’s real estate losses were pegged at 95 million dollars with 63 known deaths and an estimated total of 200. Authorities warned of epidemics as thousands faced water and power shortages while levee work intensified along the river.
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Louisville
Earl Major
375Th Artillery
Charles Crouch
Lawrence Doyle
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Ind
Albert Neurath
Mark Twain
Deficiency Bill Sent to Senate and Hitler’s Peace Pledge
Adolf Hitler pledged loyal cooperation in peace and economic growth as Germany, four years after rising to power, proclaimed sovereignty and renounced surprise tactics. He called for the return of war losses, renounced isolation, cited anti Communist Japan ties, and offered neutrality to Belgium and the Netherlands.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Versailles
Germany
Reichstag
Old Roll Opera House
Nazi Germany
Japan
Belgium
Netherlands
Madrid Front Quiet After Night of Firefight
Madrid reports calm after a furious insurgent assault failed to crack government lines. Cannon boomed and machine guns fired through the night, but by morning government defenders remained in control and the frontier quiet.
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Madrid
Albania's Bachelor King Said to Have Found Romanian Wife
In Zabol Romania on January 30 residents hear claims Albania's King Sos I has found a wife at the Mikes castle. Official Albanian circles deny it, but activity around the castle hints at a possible engagement with Countess Hanna Von Mikes as courtship rumors swirl.
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Albania
Zabol
Rumania
Mikes
Catalines
Hanna von Mikes
Mary
Sos I
Mikes Castle
Major Fight Looms as $900 Million Deficiency Bill Hits Senate
Washington January 30 The Senate faces a major battle as a $900000000 deficiency appropriation bill arrives on the floor with an investigation rider. Liberal senators plan to strike the rider, arguing it would hamper two ongoing inquiries into civil liberties and railway finance. The bill includes 865000000 for WPA and 65000000 for resettlement, with cuts to administrative expenses and housing projects at Greenbelt Maryland and Greenhills Wisconsin.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
Wheeler
Mont
LaFollette
Wis
Nye
White House
Senate
Civilian Conservation Corps
Resettlement Administration
House
Greenbelt
Greenhills
Dike Workers Battle Bravely To Save Cairo From Water
Ohio river height reaches record level endangering Cairo. Workers rush to reinforce the 60 foot bulkhead as 568.83 feet is reached. Floodway operations in Missouri aim to spare Cairo while residents flee.
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Cairo
Ohio
Mississippi
Birds Point
New Madrid
Utility Firms Warned Over Holding Company Act Compliance
James M. Landis, securities commission chairman, warned today that public utility companies resisting registration under the New Deal holding company act face criminal action. He told them to ignore Liberty League lawyers’ advice and comply with the act.
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Washington
James M. Landis
Securities Commission
Commission
Liberty League
State Revenues Jump Amid January 1937 Totals Rise
North Carolina reports January 1937 revenues of 7.55 million dollars, up 38.44 percent from January 1936. Automobile tag sales lead gains. seven month fiscal total reaches 39.50 million, up 26.6 percent from prior year. Gross receipts rise across sales tax, beer levy, income tax, gasoline, revenue division, and motor vehicle divisions.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Department of Revenue
Tattoo Artist Critiques Social Security Act Beliefs
Seattle based tattoo artist Professor George Fos dick argues the Social Security Act will fail due to few clients seeking number tattoos. He notes people tattoo memories like the NRA blue eagle and accuses the Supreme Court of a dirty trick on them.
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Seattle
Sailor George) Fosdick
NRA
Blue Eagles
Supreme Court
River Flood Threat Across Ohio Valley
A fragmentary AP dispatch describes sixty billion tons of water moving slowly toward the Mississippi valley. It notes Cairo and towns along the Ohio from Pittsburgh to Louisville facing rising flood risk and disease, with widespread destruction feared as the river's force overwhelms smaller tributaries.
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Eye Associated Press
Cairo
Mississippi Valley
Pittsburgh
Wheeling
Pouth
Huntington
Cincin
Louisville
Ohio
Weather Outlook for North and South Carolina
North Carolina sees mostly cloudy skies with occasional rain Sunday and a warmer trend in the west and east on Monday. South Carolina will have mainly dry conditions, with warmer highs in the northwest later Sunday and in the south and east on Monday.
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North Carolina
South Carolina
Northwest
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