Senate Finance Committee Approves Three-Year Trade Pact Plan
The Senate Finance Committee voted 12 to 8 to approve the House proposed bill to extend the administration's trade agreements program three more years beyond June 12. The panel rejected six amendments including Pittman to require Senate ratification of all future pacts, sending the measure toward floor debate.
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Mar
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Dmiss
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Girl Identified After Jump From 17th Floor Hotel
A 28 year old Pontiac Michigan woman identified as Geraldine Kenyon died after leaping from a 17th floor downtown hotel room registered under J Stoddard of New York City Inspectors from the Detroit police homicide squad confirmed the identification. The report notes the event occurred this morning and the woman was known locally.
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J. Stoddard
New York City
John O. Whitman
Geraldine Kenyon
Pontiac
Mich
Mayors Urged To Fight Tax At Southern Meeting
About 100 mayors gathered in Birmingham for the Southern Regional meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors. Mayor Cecil F Bates urged a united front against a proposed federal tax on state and municipal bonds, warning of higher debt costs and strained city finances. Fiorello H La Guardia, president of the conference, supported relief funds and called for opposition to the tax measure.
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Birmingham
Ala
Cecil F. Bates
Mobile
United States Conference of Mayors
Bates
Fiorello H. la Guardia
New York
Conference of Mayors
la Guardia
Brazil to resume foreign debt payments announced
Brazil will resume payments on its foreign debt, Finance Minister Arthur de Souza Costa said. He noted that the terms would be announced tomorrow in parallel from Washington Paris and London.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Arthur de Souza Costa
Washington
Paris
London
Germans Air Raids Sinking Eleven British Merchant Ships
Berlin reports German planes attacked the British east coast during March 6 7 and 7 8 sinking or badly damaging 11 merchant ships with total tonnage about 30 000. All pilots returned safely though one reconnaissance plane is missing. The British say one German plane was shot down. Danish and Luxembourg territory were violated by enemy planes overnight. Britain and France had sent large aircraft and arms to Finland with most deliveries arriving there.
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Germany
DNB
High Command
Scotland
Helgoland
Bight
Luxembourg
Japanese Take Chungshan Area in South China
The Japanese army's South China headquarters reports complete occupation of the Chung-Shan area fifty miles south of Canton after an inland push from the Pearl River delta three days earlier. Chungshan is noted as Sun Yat Sen's birthplace, with Chinese observers fearing a swift seizure before March 12, the 15th anniversary of Sun's death.
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Hong Kong
South China
Chung- Shan
Canton
Pearl River
Chungshan
Sun Yat-Sen
Sun
Britain Demands Retaliation as War Credit Reaches 700 Million
London reports renewed German air raids on shipping spark British calls for retaliation while the treasury issues a 700 million pound vote of credit for a year’s war expenses. Britain conducts reconnaissance over Germany and Poland, with some criticism of pamphleteering flights and naval air power control debates.
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Treasury
Josiah C. Wedgwood
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Air Ministry
Posen
Poznan
Poland
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Leipzig
Stettin
France
Roger Keyes
Former Finn Prexy Makes Berlin Call
79 year old former Finland president Evind Svinhufvud arrived in Berlin and met Foreign Minister Ribbentrop with Swedish envoy Arvid Richert. Circles expect a Finland Sweden appeal to Hitler to mediate a peace with Russia to avert Western intervention.
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Per Evind Svinhufvud
Finland
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Arvid Richert
Sweden
Adolf Hitler
Russia
Hitler
U.6
Reuters
United States
Stockholm
Frederick
Sterling
Elias Erkko
Copenhagen
Ervind Svinhufvud
Germany
Moscow
Helsinki
78 Million To N. C. Farmers Analysis of relief loans
Washington reports New Deal aid to farmers in North Carolina and South Carolina since 1933 totaling about 139 million dollars. North Carolina received 78.367 million and South Carolina 61.317 million in loans and grants across Land Bank, Production Credit, emergency crop, drought relief, rehabilitations and electrification programs.
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South Carolina
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Production Credit Association
Barkley
Georgia
Virginia
Tennessee
Eight Prisoners Paroled By Hoey
Governor Hoey freed eight prisoners including Z. K. Coley and Ransom Wooten both serving second degree murder terms. Others paroled include Paul Stewart Lester McCorkle Coy Bates Bill Keever Bonie Walker and Gary Lane with sentences ranging from six months to two years for forgery assault larceny breaking and entering and related offenses.
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Z. K. Coley
Ransom Wooten
Hoey
Cooley
Wake County
Clay Mullen
Wooten
Pender County
Eugene Farer Farrow
Paul Stewart
Mitchell County
Lester McCorkle
Catawba County
Coy Bates
Macon County
Bill Keever
Lincoln County
Bonie Walker
Robeson County
Gary Lane
Columbus County
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Finland fights on as Soviet attacks press on Viipuri
Finnish high command reports wary but defiant defense around Viipuri with ice and land assaults continuing. Britain and France vow aid to Helsinki if Finland continues fighting to the bitter end amid unofficial signals that ultimatums may be rejected.
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Mar
Viipuri
Russia
Paris
Britain
France
Finland
Viipuri Bay
Bay of
High Command
Roosevelt says no request for mediation in Russo Finnish war
The president indicated the United States had received no mediation request and would not comment on European mediation reports. State Department officials confirmed no formal or informal request had been made, while sources in London noted possible mediation talks and officials stressed seeking a genuine peace without spreading conflict.
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Washington, Mar
Roosevelt
United States
Howe
Welles
State Department
Unis
London
Empha
Martial Law Extension Prepared in Netherlands
The Hague March 8 reports a royal decree extending martial law to most of the Netherlands is in preparation. Defense Minister Lieut. Col. A. Q. H. Dijehoorn said the government would not hesitate to apply martial law nationwide if espionage dangers worsen, though a date for the decree’s effect was not given.
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the Hague
Netherlands
A. Q. H. Dijehoorn
Democracy Origins in Stone Age Tribes
The article explores when the idea of democracy emerged among early humans as a safer way to govern. It discusses cave-dwelling ancestors, the shift from individualism to united action, and the harsh Stone Age context shaping communal rules.
Lobbying inquiry spurs FBI probe ordered by Attorney General
Washington reports that AG Jackson ordered an FBI review of evidence from a House committee probing possible violations by the Le Board linked to lobbying activity. Committee counsel Edmund Toland presented letters by Ben Wolf aimed at influencing Wagner Act changes.
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le Board
Federal Bureau of Iny Gation
Edmund Toland
Ben Wolf
Board Secret
Smith
D-Va
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Jack
Opium Shares U.S. Vaults More Valuable Than Gold
Washington reports a treasury vault holding millions in gold hoards 300 tons of opium considered more valuable. Commissioner Anslinger notes the shift from gold storage to opium amid world shortages. Opium sourced from Turkey Yugoslavia Bulgaria and Afghanistan moves under government control.
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Treasury
H. J. Anslinger
Narcotics
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