One Man Filibuster Stalls $4 88 Billion Relief Bill
Huey P Long blocks quick Senate action by threatening to filibuster until absentee votes are counted. House debates a $118 112 878 supply bill for agriculture, while Wagner labor disputes legislation and military bonus funding face committee wrangles and delays.
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Washington
Huey P. Long
Senate
Caraway
Dark
Overton
D-La
Glass
Virginia
Appropriations
House
Agriculture Department
Clay Williams
Recovery Board
Finance Committee
James F. van Zandt
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Eugene G. Grace
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Senate Labor Committee
William Green
American Federation of Labor
The
Communications Commission
Western Union
Postal Telegraph Companies
Wee
North Carolina House Debates Money Bills and Liquor Store Plan
Raleigh reports the senate debating the Hill bill on state liquor stores while the house prepares to tackle the 1935 37 revenue and appropriations bills. The house advances an amended beer bill and contemplates a special session tonight to review both measures.
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Raleigh
Senate
House
Venate
Harris
Person
Bryant
Cherry
Gaston
House Finance Group
Fenner
Nash
Johnston
Iredell
Sentelle
Brunswick
Day
Onslow
Lumpkin
Franklin
Bowle
Ashe
Bing
State liquor store plan moves to finance committee
The Hill bill to establish a state liquor store system was sent to the Senate finance committee after lengthy debate. Senator Folger moved the reference, while Senator Grave ly proposed diverting revenues to the general fund. The chamber adjourned without a vote as debate continued.
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Raleigh
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Folger
Surry
Gravely of
Nash
State General Fund
Teague
Wayne, & Dry
John Sprunt Hill
Durham
Hill
A. Graham
North Carolina and South Carolina Weather Forecast
North Carolina expects fair skies with slightly colder temperatures and possible frost in the central and west portions tonight. Friday looks fair with temperatures slowly rising in the interior. South Carolina sees fair conditions tonight with possible frost in the north, and Friday remains fair with gradual warming. Winds from Hatteras to Jacksonville are moderate to fresh west and northwest. Sandy Hook to Hatteras reports fresh northwest winds over the north and fresh west and northwest winds over the south with partly overcast skies tonight and fair conditions Friday.
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North Carolina
South Carolina
Hatteras
Jacksonville
Sandy Hook
Three White Men Held For Threats
In Raleigh on March 14 three young white men were held on bond after trying by threat of lynching to force a confession from Ed Austin, 25, a Black man. The suspects are Chris Webbie 23 George Davis 23 and Rex Eastman 18. Police say they attempted to pressure the alleged thief to reveal who stole three suits from one of the men.
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Raleigh
Ed Austin
Chris Webbie
George Davis
Rex Eastman
W. J. Horton
Attorneys Draft Decree In Reynolds Trust Settlement Fight
Hearing on the 30 million Reynolds trust estate was recessed to 2:30 PM for attorneys to draft a decree for Judge Clayton Moore. The proposal would divide the fortune among Anne Reynolds two, Christopher Reynolds two, and the siblings with a memorial trust, amid opposition by Mrs. Annie Laurie Cannon's guardian.
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Winston-Salem
Smith Reynolds
Clayton Moore
Moore
Forsyth Superior Court
Reynolds
Aubrey L. Brooks
Greensboro
N. C
Annie Laurie Cannon
Anne Cannon Reynolds
Young Reynolds
Broo
Wood. Reynolds, Jr
Henry W. Bagley
Charles Babcock
Little Anne
Christopher Smith Reynolds
Libby Holman
R. J. Reynolds
Christopher
Probe Launched Into Convicts Deaths In Camps
North Carolina lawmakers moved to verify shocking testimony that inmates died under solitary confinement and were buried in unmarked graves at night. Leaders said they will follow every lead and inspect camps across the state, with emphasis on western facilities and possible highway commission rule breaches.
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Mecklenburg
Raleigh
Committee On Penal Institutions
Charlotte
R. E. Sentelle
Brunswick
House Committee
Boone
Blowing Rock
Sentelle
North Carolina
The
Highway Commission
Five Per Cent Beer Bill Moves On In North Carolina
Raleigh March 14 substitute measure would raise the beer limit from 3.2 to five percent alcohol content. It clears Judiciary Committee No. 1 and faces further House action amid dry forces opposition and calls for hearings. The same session reports show bills on divorce lawsuits and workmen compensation appeals progressing with mixed committee action.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
House
Judiciary Committee
Cale K. Burgess
E. T. Cansler
United Dry Forces
W.S. Bernard
D. D. Carroll
Isaac Manning
Chapel Hill
House Judiciary Committee
Bryant
J. D. Dorsett
T. A. Wilson
J. H. Poll
J. M. Broughton
Joint Insurance Committee
Hobbs- Ervin
Will Rogers on Roosevelt remarks about holding companies
In Beverly Hills on March 13, Will Rogers quips about President Roosevelt calling holders of holding companies dishonest. He notes Huey Long Father Coughlin and General Hugh Johnson trade barbs but that those exchanges aren’t serious. He defines a holding company humorously as a scheme where you give goods to an accomplice while a policeman searches you.
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Beverly Hilia
Hay
Mr. Roosevelt
Huey Long
Father Coughlin
Hugh Johnson
First Liberty Loan Bonds Called In By U S Government
The treasury called for payment on June 15 of the entire first Liberty Loan issue totaling about 1 933 billion dollars. It spans 1932 47 maturities in three series including 1 392 billion at 3 12 percent, 5 002 billion converted 4 percent and 535 981 billion converted 41 4 percent bonds. The move follows efforts to refund gold clause bonds after the Supreme Court held gold payments invalid.
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Washington
Treasury
Supreme Court
British Admiral cites hopes for 1936 naval conference
Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell told the House of Commons Great Britain is disappointed by Japan’s denunciation of the 1922 Washington treaty but sees no need for panic. He urged an international conference, outlined Britain’s willingness to cut capacity, and compared projected 1936 tonnage to 1914 with the United States up 20 percent and Japan up 35 percent while Britain falls 48 percent.
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London
Bolton Eyres-Monsell
House of Commons
Great Britain
Japan
Bolton
Admiralty
Sir Bolton
United States
Governor rejects clemency for Sidney Etheridge
Raleigh March 18 Governor Ehringhaus announced he would not grant clemency to Sidney Etheridge of Portsmouth Virginia scheduled for execution Friday. Etheridge, a native of Chow an county, was convicted in Onslow county of the murder of Mamie Moore a 71 year old woman.
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Etheridge
Raleigh
Ehringhaus
Sidney Etheridge
Portsmouth
Chowan
Onslow
Mamie Moore
Long Senate Rejection of Long Amendment to Relief Bill
The senate defeated Senator Long of Louisiana 58 to 27 on his amendment to direct up to 100 million for youth education from a 4.88 billion relief bill. The vote showed broad factional splits with 18 Republicans and 9 Democrats for, and 52 Democrats 5 Republicans plus La Follette for the administration plan against it.
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Washington
Senate
Long
D-La
Emergency Relief Administration
la Follette
Norris
R-Neb
Johnson
R-Calif
Glass
D-Va
Huey Long
Loisiana
Hattie Caraway
Arkansas
John H. Overton
Louisiana
McCarran
Roosevelt
Little Lady
Willkie Claims Utilities Valued $8.5 Billion Lower Since January
Wendell L. Willkie, president of Commonwealth and Southern, told the House Interstate Commerce Committee that government actions against public utilities have reduced utility securities' value by about 8.5 billion dollars since January 1, 1958.
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Washington
Wendell L. Willkie
Commonwealth and Southern Corporation
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Cotton Consumption February Output Report
The census bureau reports February cotton consumption totals 478201 bales of lint and 62850 bales of linters. This compares with January figures of 546787 lint and 1832 linters and February of the prior year at 477646 lint and 50141 linters.
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Washington
Mar
Census Bureau
Miss Perkins Presses For Social Board Control Clash With House
Washington March 14. A major dispute between Secretary Perkins and the House Ways and Means committee over social security machinery remains unsettled. Perkins seeks the social insurance board under labor, while the committee favors an independent board and higher employer coverage to ten workers. Perkins has kept informal talks with committee members while the White House conference awaits final bill drafting.
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Perkine
House
Ways and Means
Social Insurance Board
Washington
Perkins
Ways and Means Committee
Miss Perkins
Roosevelt
Department of Labor
Capitol Hill
Doughton
D-Nc
White House
Rice tax bill passes house consumer levy to White House
The house approved today a bill imposing a tenth of a cent per pound tax on rice processing. The measure moves to the Senate and then to the White House for signature.
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Washington
House
Senate
White House
Radio compass plane readied for midnight trans Pacific flight
At Oakland port observers note preparations for the government radio compass plane as mechanics fix a generator and fuel pump before the 2400 mile flight that aims to open a trans Pacific commercial route.
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Oakland
Calif
Resignation of U S Solicitor General Biggs Announced
The White House announced the resignation today of J Crawford Biggs solicitor general of the United States from North Carolina.
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Washington
J. Crawford Biggs
North Carole
The
United States
White House
Raleigh House kills Gardner bill on absentee voting
The North Carolina House on this afternoon rejected a minority committee report and killed the Gardner bill to tighten absentee voting requirements.
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Raleigh
Gardner
Railroads Challenged Over Pension Act Before Supreme Court
In Washington on March 14 attorneys for 184 railroads two express firms and the Pullman company urged the Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of the railroad pension act.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Express
Pullman Company
Bus overturns injure twenty seven children near Jackson
A school bus overturned nine miles south of Jackson injuring twenty seven children. The accident occurred today as first responders assisted the victims and transported them to nearby hospitals for evaluation. Local authorities investigated the cause and traffic was briefly delayed in the area.
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Jackson, Miss
Jackson
Watch For This Girl on Page Thirteen Today
Local paper highlights a feature on a young woman to watch, with details promised inside Page Thirteen. Readers are invited to inspect the page for profile highlights, achievements, and upcoming appearances.
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