House Increases Two Cent Postal Rate By One Cent
The House raised the first class postage from two to three cents for two years, aiming to raise about 135 million dollars. The Ways and Means committee also approved five revenue bill amendments to bring in roughly 45 million dollars more, including higher corporate taxes, oil pipeline charges, aircraft price tax, and gift tax rate increase.
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Washington
Mar
House
Ways and Means Committee
Duke Endowment Grants Aid Carolinas Hospitals Orphans Homes
The Duke endowment has allocated 681000 plus dollars to ninety two hospitals and forty five orphanages across the two Carolinas plus other benevolent agencies. Major beneficiaries include Roper Hospital Charleston Duke Hospital Durham and City Memorial Winston-Salem with amounts ranging from about 12000 to 75000 dollars. Other notable grants address Presbyterian and Rex hospitals and several orphanages in Oxford Raleigh Thomasville and Greenwood among others.
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Charlotte
Mar
Two
Carolinas
Duke Endowment
States
J. B. Duke
Power and
Roper Hospital
Charleston
S. C
Duke Hospital
Durham
City Memorial Hospital
Winston- Salem
Columbia Hospital
Columbia
D. C
Greenville
City Hospital
James Walker
Sentences in Bank Chief Clements Sentence in Durham Case
Former Merchants Bank of Durham president W. P. Clements receives a two to three year term after pleading guilty to 15 counts of false entries. Judge Midgette notes no personal profit or embezzlement. bank loss of about $13,000 attributed to entries. Clements to begin sentence Friday. family present and weeping.
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Durham
N. C
Clements
Merchants Bank of Durham
J Garland
Perjury Charges Lodged Against Two Men in Surry Case
A Davidson County jury completed a panel to hear manslaughter charges against George A. Younce and W. F. Brinkley in the death of Sheriff J. A. Leonard. Indictments for perjury were returned after both men denied knowledge of the fatal shooting and later claimed the sheriff was wounded by his own gun.
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N. C
George A. Younce
W. F. Brinkley
Lexington
J. A. Leonard
Davidson Superior Court
Younce
Brinkley
Neal Wimmer
Roanoke
Democratic Executive Committee
Wimmer
E. F. Sullivan
Palatka
Fla
Sullivan
Swernm
Young
Garner Leads Fight Over Tax Plan Revisions
Washington, Mar 30. Speaker Garner wins again against the ways and means committee to reject Cannon's amendment striking out consolidated corporate returns. Garner argues the proposal of a 15 percent rate on consolidated returns would curb independent stores and test if corporations with affiliates maintain consolidated filings. The committee predicts $18,000,000 returned by the amendment.
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Garner
Washington
Mar
Ways and Means Committee
Cannon
Ways and Means
Lumbermen's Convention to Be Held in High Point in 1933
Charlotte and Myrtle Beach were also chosen for association meetings. The Carolina Retail Lumber and Building Supply Dealers Association announced the July and January gatherings with High Point set for 1933. Victor W. Wheeler disclosed invitations from several other cities.
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High Point
Charlotte
Mar
Myrtle Beach
S. C
Carolina Retail Lumber and Building Supply Dealers Association
Victor W. Wheeler
Roosevelt's Rise Surges as Delegates Grow
Franklin D. Roosevelt advances toward the Democratic presidential nomination with 111 delegate votes and the prospect of more. Iowa and several states filed for Roosevelt while Maine votes loom. The keynoter post is to be decided in Chicago with Barkley as a leading Roosevelt choice as Shouse signals opposition.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Iowa
Roosevelt
Georgia
Minnesota
New Hampshire
North Dakota
Washington State
Maine
New York
Kentucky
Chicago
Senator Barkley
New Yorker
Jouett Shouse
Shouse
John J. Raskob
Smith
East
Alfred E. Smith
Wilbur L. Cross
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Gasoline From Cottonseed Demonstrated by Chemists
Dr. Gustav Egloff reported to the American Chemical Society that cottonseed oil can be converted into anti knock gasoline at 35 to 40 cents a gallon using a 900 degree Fahrenheit, 150 psi process. The oil yields gasoline, heavy Diesel fuel, coke, 13 gases, and water with potential for alcohol and radiator antifreeze by products.
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New Orleans
Mar
Chemistry
American Chemical Society
Gustav Egloff
Chicago
Japan
Russia Reports Alleged White Exile Plots Across Europe
Moscow papers front a Tass dispatch from Paris citing L Humanite that White Russian exiles are stirring in Europe. The claims include plots against Stalin and anti Soviet conspiracies abroad, with alleged targets including Maxim Gorki in Italy and Maxim Litvinoff in Germany.
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Moscow
Paris
Tass
L’humanite
Europe
Joseph Stalin
Maxim Gorki
Italy
Maxim Litvinoff
Germany
Nearly 400 Thousand Jobs Now Obtained
New York March 30. Thirty nine states pushed the United Action campaign for a million jobs. They reported 16 138 new posts for jobless workers bringing the total to 373 736 in a month and a half. Nebraska led daily with 3 205.
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New York
United Action Campaign
Nebraska
Georgia Senator William J Harris Improves Significantly
Washington March 30 Senator William J Harris of Georgia, ill with an intestinal disorder, was reported by his physician to be considerably improved. His temperature is normal his appetite better and he remains very weak but is expected to pull through. The doctors Sterling and Harris visited the patient this morning and confirmed the improvement.
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Washington
William J.harris
Georgia
Woman Dies After Jump From Hollenden Hotel
A woman identified as Dora J. Smith of Madison Wisconsin jumped from the Hollenden hotel eleven stories to her death in Cleveland on March 30. She was about 40 years old.
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Cleveland
Dora J. Smith
Madison
Wis
Hollenden Hotel
Activity In Lindbergh Estate Area Draws Police Attention
Overnight increased activity at the Lindbergh Sourland mountain estate near Hopewell New Jersey as ten state troopers remained on duty through the night instead of moving to Skillman. State police headquarters continued monitoring the kidnaping case with officers at the scene.
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Hopewell Hopewell
N. J
Lindbergh Sourland Mountain Estate
Skillman
Mirror Brings Luck Then Fire Destroys Canary Cage
Mrs Bertha Jackson carries a mirror from 463 West 125th Street to 1326 Amsterdam Avenue despite superstition. She nails it to a wall and leaves to the store where a fire breaks out, ruining 500 pounds of bird seed and killing 19 canaries while 40 goldfish survive.
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Bertha Jackson
West 125Th Street
Amsterdam Avenue
Mirror
Couzens Attacks Credit Agency Rail Loans in Senate
Senator Couzens of the interstate commerce committee condemned Reconstruction Finance Corporation loans to railroads including a 12.8 million dollar Missouri Pacific loan. He argued the securities’ value was well below loaned sums and urged congressional accountability for a program he says could push railroads into government ownership or losses.
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Washington
Mar
Reconstruction Finance’ Corporation
Senate
Couzens
Interstate Commerce Committee
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Reconstruction Corporation
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Congress
Missouri Pacific
Income Tax Receipts Fall Daily Collections Record
Income tax receipts for March 28 totaled $680,572, down from $1,624,446 a year earlier. Monthly total reached $191,304,729 versus $330,741,438 last year, with the fiscal year sum to $849,426,071 against $1,502,172,462 previously. The government ran a deficit of $1,852,343,161 on March 28.
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Washington
Two Die as Fire Wrecks Yugoslav Star Film Studio
A fire and explosion gutted the Star Film Company studios in Zagreb. Two people died, about thirty were hospitalized with seventeen in critical condition, and authorities fear many more may be buried in the ruins.
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Zagreb
Jugoslavia
Mar
Star Film Company
A C L Storage Dock At Washington Damaged By Fire
The Atlantic Coast Line railroad storage dock in Washington North Carolina was badly damaged by a fire that began in a small office on the dock. Officials estimate the building damage at about 15000 dollars and several thousand bags of soy beans burned. Four box cars on a siding were damaged. Fire was discovered about 7:40 a m and brought under control in about an hour.
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Washington
N. C
Maer
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Big bankers schemes dodge government aid via loans to Uncle Sam
In Beverly Hills a reader-letter blasts bankers for a new racket. They route debts through the government before paying borrowers, leaving the government as the sole remaining target. The writer laments transfers of loans to Uncle Sam as petrified assets.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
New Finance Commission
Sam
Will
Mackerel Season Opens Early Off Cape May
CAPE MAY N J The mackerel season opens about two weeks early Captain Carl Cobisson arrives with the schooner Sirena II at port after catching 600 pounds of fish about 150 miles south of here.
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Cape May
N. J
Carl Cobisson
Here
New Student Delegation Leaves For Mine Region
Commonwealth college students led by Lucien Koch depart MENA Arkansas March 3 to aid striking miners in Harlan Kentucky. They carry supplies and a bill of rights for sheriffs while seeking a federal investigation and cooperation from eastern labor groups.
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Labor’’ College
Arkansas
Mena, Ark
Commonwealth College
Harlan
Lucien Koch
America
Laffoon
Kentucky
Koch
U. S
Costigan
Commonwealth
Labor College
Labor Movement
Koch and
Grubow
Sam Sandbur
Isaac Greenberg
Little Rock
Memphis
St Louis
Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Frankfort
Lexington
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H. Dobson Peacock
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John H. Curtis
Norfolk
W. P. Clements
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr
H. Dobson-Peacock
Lindbergh
Hopewell
Charles A. Lindbergh
Mre
Charries H. Consolvo
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Dean Dobson-Peacock
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