House Democrats strike plan to force inflation vote
Democratic leaders shift tactics after rejecting unanimous consent for a vote on the inflation amendment to farm relief. Representative Snell of New York blocks quick action, prompting a rule to force a vote tomorrow. Burns urges a five minute rule debate while the house agrees to a report filing deadline tonight to compel the inflation vote. The session also honors late Representative Clay Stone Briggs of Texas with a memorial resolution.
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House
Snell
New K
Burns
Tennessee
Senate
Ins
Rules Committee
Tonkieken Sun
Clay Stone Briggs
Texas
Solons Seek End of Session Late This Week in Raleigh
North Carolina lawmakers return to the capital amid hurdles to adjournment. Disputes linger over a kilowatt hour tax, tax on foreign stocks, and sales tax rate, with House and Senate concessions and oppositions. The school machinery act and trucking license bill also await final action.
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Raleigh
North Carolina General Assembly
House
Senate
Ate
Joint Education Committee
Market Probe 10 Start On May 23
Ferdinand Pecora, counsel for the Senate banking committee, said Morgan partners including J. P. Morgan and 23 Morgan firm questions will be subpoenaed as the panel resumes its stock market investigation on May 23. The inquiry will then move to Kuhn, Loeb and Dillon Read, with Otto H. Kahn and Clarence Dillon named for testimony. Accountants are daily examining records.
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Washington
Ferdinand Percera
Senate Banking Committee
J. P. Morgan
Senate
Fletcher
Pecora
House of Morgan
Kuhn, Loeb and Company
Dillon-Read and Company
John W. Davis
Morgan
Thomas W. Lamont
Morgan and Lamont
Otto H. Kahn
Kuhn, Loeb and Anpany
Clarence Dillon
Tee
Johnson Backs Delay on President Plan For Regulation
Senator Johnson of California urged postponing consideration of the administration's securities regulation bill to avoid interfering with the administration program. He noted the administration measure was approved by the banking committee and awaiting action on the calendar.
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Washington
Johnson
Repuban
California
America
Californa
Bank
Prohibition cases and political moves reported in May Day flash
In Raleigh a man arrested for violating South Carolina prohibitions pleaded guilty in federal court with sentence deferred. Tennessee marks legal beer for first time in 25 years on May Day. The Senate judiciary committee approved James Crawford Biggs of North Carolina for solicitor general of the United States.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
James Crawford Biggs
North Carolina
United States
Tire price rise announced by J. F. Goodrich Co
The J. F. Goodrich Co. notified dealers that tire prices will increase an average of five percent effective immediately.
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New York
J. F. Goodrich Co
North Carolina Completes Initial Contingent for Fort Bragg
Raleigh May 1 North Carolina forms its first group of 1160 men for the federal reforestation program and will encamp at Fort Bragg by Thursday. Recruitment from the Charlotte area is nearing completion as state officials announce progress.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Fort Bragg
Charlotte
Governor's of
N C Highway Revenue Receipts Rise In April
Raleigh May 1 A J Maxwell commissioner of revenue says North Carolina highway fund receipts rose in April compared with April 1932 signaling a possible turn in revenue trends Gasoline tax collections were 623 479 94 higher due to earlier payment under the new law effective April 1 Net increase over 1932 April 40 097 88 Motor vehicle license taxes rose 53 918 27 while general improvements in business supported the gain Highway fund total for 16 months of the fiscal year stood at 16 582 290 97 a deficit of 1 508 881 20 from last year General fund revenues for April 1933 totaled 393 837 15 down 438 477 17 from 1932 April.
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Raleigh
A. J. Maxwell
North Carolina
Maxwell
Beer Returns to North Carolina After Long Ban
North Carolina lifted the beer prohibition with 12 01 a m sales in several cities. Charlotte, Asheville, High Point, Raleigh and Durham saw open sale and related celebrations. Prices ranged from 20 to 36 cents a bottle, with 30 cents common. Lenoir noted a 75 year gap since alcohol sales. Some residents complained about quality compared with past beers.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
Asheville
High Point
Igh
Durham
Lenoir
Aera State
Tar Heel workers to be drawn for forest refor estation
The relief office announced Asheville and Winston-Salem will supply 1,100 men each within two weeks and 1,200 from the Raleigh area starting May 15. In total 6,500 Tar Heel workers will be placed on reforestation projects in the western part of the state.
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Relief
Asheville
Winston-Salem
Releigh
Japanese Press Claim Major Assault Near Great Wall
Rengo reports five thousand Chinese troops in a northern salient were attacked by Japanese infantry with air support. Hinglungchen city said to be occupied as Japanese forces under Major General Yoshimichi Suzuki claim near annihilation of the enemy with eight Japanese dead and about seven hundred Chinese killed. Li Shao Keng notes Manchukuo cannot recognize 1924 Sino Soviet railway accords unless revised.
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Great Wall OF
China
Great Wall
Rengo
Japanse
Hinglungchen
Yoshimichi Suzuki
Manchuria
Japan
Manchukuo
Tokyo
Chinese Eastern Railway
Russia
Harbin
Li Shao-Keng
Japanese envoy urged to curb Manchukuo Soviet tensions
Tokyo May 1 report says General Nobuoyoshi Muto, Japan’s top military and diplomatic representative in Manchuria, has been instructed to use his influence to prevent the growing wordy strife between Manchukuo and Soviet Russia from worsening. The war office sent the instructions and the foreign office noted Muto’s role.
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Nobuoyoshi Muto
Japan
Manchuria
Manchukuo
Sov
Riesa
War Office
Foreign Office
Siri
Muto
Soviet official challenges Manchurian line ownership claim
Moscow dispatch reports the Soviet vice chairman of the Chinese Faster Railway board sending a sharp note to the Manchurian chairman. He denounces talk that motives are held without authority and accuses the chairman of challenging Russia's 30 year claim to the railway line.
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Moscow
Chinese Faster Railway Board
Gaatread Kusentsef
Russia
President Sanchez Cerro Assassinated in Peru Riot
In Lima on May 1 President Luis M. Sanchez Cerro was shot dead by Abelardo Hurtado De Mendoze. The assassin, two soldiers, and a riot left six soldiers and two civilians wounded as unrest followed the assassination. General Oscar assumed control as Peru entered May Day under siege.
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Lima
Peru
Luis M. Sanchez Cerro
Abelardo Hurtado de Mendoze
Oscar
Seven Dead In April Tornado Strikes Yazoo City Mississippi
Seven killed and scores injured as a weekend tornado moved from Arkansas lake village area into Yazoo City and Greenville Mississippi. The storm damaged hundreds of homes and disrupted relief efforts with National Guardsmen aiding response.
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Arkansas
Mississippi
Greenville
D. D. Boyd
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Missisippi
Jonestown
Yazoo
National Guardsme
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Regulations on gold announced by Treasury in Washington
Treasury issued regulations governing the distribution of gold to legitimate industries just before the deadline for turning in gold to the government. The rules describe how those with valid needs may obtain gold and limit export by customs collectors.
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Washington
Treasury
Union Officials Freed After Kidnapping in Chicago
Two kidnapped union officials Fred Sass of the Ash Wagon Drivers union and Morris Goldberg of the Van Teamster's union were released unharmed and handed to police for questioning by the state's attorney's office. The abduction, tied to a gang war over Teamsters control, occurred Friday when Rogert Touhy and his gang seized them. They were found blindfolded and taken to police headquarters after a passing squad car rescued them.
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Chicago
Teamsters
Fred Sass
Ash Wagon Drivers’ Union
Morris Goldberg
van Teamster’s Union
Rogert Touhy
Five bombs rock Chicago on May Day in 1933
Five bombs fired almost simultaneously rocked downtown Chicago during May Day. Damage reached about $150,000 with shattered plate glass across five major industrial sites including Illinois Bell Telephone. A watchman was injured as police pursued radicals and a possible labor or underworld motive.
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Chicago
Loop
Illinois Bell Telephone Company
Police Hold Two In Death of Four
BOYDTON Virginia May J B Cannon and Edward Holmes both of Roanoke Rapids North Carolina remained in Mecklenburg county jail today pending further investigation of their possible connection with the massacre of four members of the Cannon family at their home near La Crosse on March 31. Cannon and Holmes the former a relative of the murdered men were brought here from Roanoke Rapids where they were taken in custody by detectives last week.
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J. B. Cannon
Edward Holmes
Roanoke Rapids
N. C
Mecklenburg County
Cannon
la Crosse
Holmes
Relief Bill Passes Senate With Minor Amendments
The Senate approved a $500 million direct relief bill for states. Amendments added Virgin Islands benefits and flexible administration under federal relief rules. The measure, no recorded vote, moves back to the House for final action.
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Senate
House
Wagner
la Follette
R-Wi
Costigan
D-Cole
Senate Banking Committee
Fletcher
D-Fla
Virgin Islands
Logan
D-Ky
Federal Relief Agency
Burns
D-Sc
North Carolina Woodmen Conclude Annual Asheville Meet
North Carolina Woodmen of the World opened a two day convention in Asheville with national president D E B Bradshaw of Omaha as principal speaker. Judge B T Hill presided as head consul. Officers will be elected and committees appointed with final sessions to install new officers.
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Asheville
North Carolina
Woodmen of the World
D. EB. Bradshaw
Omaha
Neb
B. T. Hill
Wadesboro
Bradshaw
Morehead City
Not To Join In March VFW urged to abstain from bonus march
Lis ton L. Mallard, commander of the Raleigh post of Veterans of Foreign Wars, received a letter from Admiral Robert E. Coontz, national commander, warning of a communist driven Washington bonus march and urging VFW members to refuse participation.
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Raleigh
Liston L. Mallard
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Robert E. Coontz
Veterans Group
Washington
Congress
March Banking Holiday Cuts Down R. F. C. Loans
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation reports March advances of 233.196 million dollars, down from February’s 262.346 million. It details loans authorized under emergency banking act provisions including 14.93 million to subscribe to bank stock and several sector allocations to banks, mortgage firms, insurance companies, and federal credit banks.
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Congress
Reconstruction Corporation
National Bank of Detroit
Onal Bank
Bank of 1
First National National
Bremer
American National Bank of St. Paul
American National Bank
Secretary of the Treasury
Sem Home Loan
Global May Day Demonstrations and May Day Parades
May Day saw widespread demonstrations from Moscow to Madrid and Paris with heavy security and clashes. In Moscow a mass parade of up to 50 000 troops and hundreds of thousands of workers unfolded at Red Square. Berlin and Vienna reported militarized displays under nationalist regimes. In Tokyo and Manila labor divisions led to separate parades and injuries. Athens saw a general strike by the workmen's federation.
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United States
Oetenay
Chicago
Moscow
Red Square
Communist Party
Lenin
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Lustgarten
Sanchez Cerro
Madrid
Ministry of War
Vienna
Dollfuss
Paris
Tokyo
Manila
Athens
Workmen's Federation
Fletcher Appointed Employment Chief
RALEIGH May 1 P A Fletcher commissioner of labor was notified that he has been appointed federal director of employment for North Carolina. Fletcher will be paid 1 per year and succeeds N A Gregg of Charlotte who received 3500 annually.
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Raleigh
P.A. & Fletcher
Frances Perkins
North Carolina
Fletcher
N. A. Gregg
Charlotte
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