Senate Bloc to Oppose Naval Funds Passage
Washington May 2 Senate Republicans and several Democrats vow to block approval of a $531,068 naval appropriations bill including two new battleships and several auxiliary vessels. Senator Nye says the fight may delay adjournment after the political conventions as Congress seeks to pass other legislation.
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Nye
Washington
Congress
Am Nye
le House
Walsh
Naval Affairs Cam
Republican Party
Addis Ababa Burned as Rioters Loot City
U S dispatch reports Addis Ababa center ablaze amid fire, pillage, and rioting as authorities flee. American legation hit by stray bullets, 53 Americans unaccounted for. consular shelter offered to 30 Greeks and six Russians. phone links cut, messengers used to relay word.
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Washington
Ethiopia
Addis Ababa
State Department
Cornelius van H. Engert
Legation
van Engert
W. M. Cramp
Philadelphia
Engert
Taly Well Supplied With War Materials
Washington reports that Italy now holds a large surplus of war materials despite sanctions and past shortages. The Commerce Department says higher stockpiles reduce imports to support the war, while American exports to buy for March were nearly a dollar less than a year ago.
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Ashington
Italy
Kovent
Substitute Is Suggested For Tax Measure
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Harrison forecasts the house tax bill reaching the senate floor with limited changes as hearings end. Democrats, including Bailey and King, propose substitutes and treasury estimates on revenue from higher national income. Leaders plan to push tax relief bills through before the Republican convention and release the large deficiency appropriation bill next week.
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Washington
Harrison
D.-Miss
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Bailey
North Carolina
King
Dutah
Treasury
Congress
House
Democratic Leaders Confident In Old Line-Up Ahead Of Delegates
Washington May 2 The capital awaited results from ten states voting next week as Democratic leaders show optimism about their slate. Of 1100 delegates, 462 have been chosen with 522 Republican delegates already reported. Uninstructed delegates loom, with Kansas Governor Landon’s support shaping Cleveland outcomes and Knox and Borah listed among slated delegates. Capper says Landon will unquestionably secure the nomination.
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Washington
Phila
Roosevelt
Cleveland
Alf M. Landon
California
Kansas
Wisconsin
Borah
Idaho
Moses
New Hampshire
Col
Frank Knox
Chicago
London
Senator Capper
Landon
Bold Venture Wins Derby Upsets Top Favorite Brevity
Churchill Downs reports Bold Venture, the long shot, defeats 4 to 5 favorite Brevity in the 1941 Kentucky Derby before a crowd of 62,000. Brevity, Indian Broom, and Coldstream are among horses caught in a rough stretch, with jockey suspensions following the race. Morton L. Schwarte owns the winner who pays $43 for a $2 mutuel.
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Churchill Downs
Louisville
Bold Venture
America
Brevity
Secand
Morton L. Schwarte
New York
Will'am Woodward
Granville
Ira
Babe) Hanford
Hanford
George Burns
Indian Broom
Hope of the Far Wear
Nick Wall
Shaffer
Coldstream
Hearing Ends On Merchants Plea In Raleigh
A three day hearing on the petition of the North Carolina Merchants Association for lower commercial power rates ended with Duke Power vice president BE C Marshall denying that commercial rates were set because merchants would kick less than residential customers. He added that lowering commercial rates would raise other rates as the state utilities commission began deliberations.
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Raleigh
North Carolina Merchants Association
BE. C. Marshall
Duke Power Company
Marshall
Full
State Utilities Commission
Rockingham Man Robbed and Killed by Hold-Up Men
Roy Rhyne operator of a filling station west of Rockingham was shot and killed by two or three hold-up men who robbed him of 700 and 49 in his pockets. The robbers fled in their car after the fatal shooting and raid on the cash register.
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Rockingham
Roy Rhyne
Here
Sherif B. L. Pinch
Lee Moss
Moss
Rhyne
Mystery Ruth, Karpis’s Lady Friend, Hid Identity
New Orleans reports federal agents guarded the identity of a woman calling herself Ruth who posed as Alvin Karpis’s wife. Karpis and accomplice Fred Hunter were captured. Karpis flown to St Paul while agents searched their apartment and questioned Hunter and the woman.
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New Orleans
Alvin Karpis
Karpis
Fred Hunter
Garrettsville
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Edward O'Hara
United States Proposes Neutrality Reform at Inter-American Conference
The United States urged a broad approach to neutrality at the Inter-American peace conference in Buenos Aires. Secretary Hull proposed a general convention to clarify wartime neutrality rights and duties, open to all nations, and outlined four other agenda items including a tariff truce and trade nondiscrimination measures.
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Washington
United States
Hull
Americas
Roosevelt
Buenos Aires
Weird death plot tied to rattlesnakes and drowning in Los Angeles
LA district attorney says Mary Emma Busch James was strangled and bound then placed in a den of rattlesnakes by her husband Robert James a barber. A witness described James calling for a box of snakes and later drowning his wife after failed venom. Police urge grand jury indictment for murder.
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Los Angeles
Eugene Williams
Mary Emma Busch James
Robert James
James
Williams
H. Pope
Hope
Snake Joe's
Pasadena
la Crescenta
Asheboro Indian Village Site To Be Excavated In June
The North Carolina Archaeological Society announced an excavation near Asheboro for June. Joffre L. Coe of Chapel Hill outlined methods and urged patience, saying careful work could yield a valuable discovery without rushing the process.
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Asheboro
Winston-Salem
The
North Carolina Archaeological Society
Joffre L. Coe
Chapel Hill
Weather outlook for North Carolina with showers and cooling
A North Carolina forecast calls for partly cloudy to partly dowdy conditions with scattered showers on Sunday. Temperatures will fall modestly Sunday afternoon with a cooler feel and a potential break to fair weather on Monday.
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North Carolina
Mrs A G Rutledge Funeral Services Planned For Today
Funeral services for Mrs. A. G. Rutledge who died at her home on Grimes street yesterday morning will be held this afternoon at Green Street Baptist church. Reverends Regal and Needham will officiate with pallbearers listed and interment in Oakwood Memorial Park cemetery.
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A. G. Rutledge
Grimes Street
Green Street Baptiste Church
Hastings to retire from Senate. not seek re election
Senator Daniel O Hastings of Delaware, a vocal Republican critic of the New Deal, announced he would retire at the end of the current session and would not run for re election.
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Noy
Washington
Damiel
Hastings
Delaware
Tenute
Townsend plan caravan branded cruel hoax by congressman
Washington May 2 A Townsend plan motor caravan from Los Angeles to Washington to press $200 per month old age aid is called a cruel hoax by Chairman Bell of the House committee investigating the Townsend organization. The investigation will resume Tuesday with Dr. F B Townsend on the stand as tests of the plan continue.
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Washington
Townsend Plan
Los Angeles
Bell
D.mo
House Committee
Townsend
F. B. Townsend
Townsend Weekly
Dr. Townsend
Selassie Will Arrive Today in Somaliland
Rome dispatches report Emperor Haile Selassie and his family would reach Djibouti by special train today after fleeing Addis Ababa. Italian press described spontaneous Rome celebrations as government planned Adunata mobilization loomed amid Italy’s third victorious war in 24 years.
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Rome
Djibouti
Addis Ababa
Italy
Petro Badognio
Big business ganging up on Roosevelt says Pennsylvania governor
Gov George H Earle of Pennsylvania charges that big business is united against President Roosevelt. In remarks for Worcester An drew Jackson club dinner he accuses Wall Street of hating the President for exposing profits from exploitation and uncovering crooked financial gamblers preying on the public.
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Worcester
Mass
George H. Earle
Pennsylvania
Roosevelt
Earle
Andrew Jackson Club
Wall Street
Big Business
Outbreak of Lawlessness as Ethiopian Capital Falls
In Addis Ababa amid Haile Selassie's flight chaos erupts with burning, looting and shootings by armed bands. Foreigners shelter in the British legation while officials debate the emperor's status and possible escape routes to Palestine or Djibouti.
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London
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Haile Selassie
Sidney Barton
Kimge
French Somaliland
Sydney
Asfa Wasan
Sir Sidney
Djibouti
Palestine
Addis
Steamers City of Aukland and Canadian Planter Collide
Radio marine report says steamers City of Aukland and Canadian Planter collided four miles northwest of Cross Air Lightship. Canadian Planter sinking while City of Aukland stands by.
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New York
Radio Marine Corporation
City of Aukland
Canadian Planter
Crossair
Aukland
Karpis Returns To Scene Of Two Major Kidnapings
Alvin Karpis, hunted as leader of a gang tied to two major U.S. kidnappings, was flown to St Paul after arrest in New Orleans. FBI chief J Edgar Hoover announced the capture. Karpis faces trials for the Hamm and Bremer abductions with possible life in Alcatraz.
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ST. Paul
Alvin Karpis
Threa Awime
Department of Justice
New Orleans
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hoover
Beon
Proudding
Washington
Edward G. Bremer
William Hamm, Jr
Brewing Company
George F. Sullivan
Angel
Hamm
Bremer
Alcatraz Island
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