Senate Delays Money Bills As Jams Hit Legislation
Congress runs on with routine acts while a joint service for Calvin Coolidge interrupts business. The House plans adjournment, Garner calls bills jammed, and the Senate debates a five percent cut in appropriations while a special session looms before April 17. Committees tackle farm relief, mortgage, silver coinage, and unemployment measures amid a broad backlog.
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Senate
Washington
Congress
Calvin Coolidge
House
Treasury and
Post Office
Garner
Dems
Roosevelt
Bratton
Agriculture Committee
McNary
I. Ore
Memphis newspapers relocate to new five story plant
Memphis newspapers The Commercial Appeal and Memphis Evening Appeal moved into a new five story plant at 493 Union Street today. The remodel converted an automobile assembly building into a publishing plant with storage for 100 carloads of paper and ink storage and gravity fed ink tanks for the presses.
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Memphis
Commercial Appeal
Memphis Evening Appeal
Union Street
St Johns cancels basketball schedule due to player shortages
St Johns College Annapolis postpones its basketball schedule because exams left only a few players eligible. Several first year players were put on probation after mid year exams, leaving a depleted roster unable to field a team.
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Annapolis
Mds
St. John’s College
Tourist Blames Rail Service in San Francisco Vagrancy Case
Ted Foster, 35, who vowed to leave San Francisco, reappeared on a vagrancy charge blaming poor railroad service. He said a Chicago bound boxcar he slept in was switched last night and sent back to the city.
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San Francisco
Ted Foster
Couxtom
Chicago
McAlister Calls Mortgage Study Meeting in Nashville
Governor Hill McAlister announced a conference in Nashville with insurance and mortgage company representatives and other mortgage holders to seek a voluntary moratorium on foreclosures during the low mood period. The aim is to bolster public morale by delaying foreclosures on homes and farms if a consensus can be reached. The 10 am meeting will be at the War Memorial auditorium with state lending and financing agencies invited.
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Nashville
Hill McAlister
MaAlister
War Memoral
MedAlister
Tax-free year for Rougemont parish in Rougemont
Rougemont parish will levy no tax this year. Last year property owners were taxed 10 cents per $290 of assessed value, but the parish has enough money in the bank to cover expenses without new taxes.
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Rougemont, Que
Rougemont Parish
Where's Dobbin? Mare Missing From Sharonville General Store
Charles Tune drove a gray mare to Sharonville's general store and parked it outside. On return the mare and bogey were gone. He searched by taxi, spending $4, but found no trace of the animal.
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Cincinnati
Charles Tune
Gray Mare
Sharonville
Forse
Bogey
Federal agencies push farm relief plans and crop loans
Federal agencies rush relief measures as $90 million is made available for farmers to finance this year's crops. The Senate committe intends to report the parity bill, while Hyde drafts crop loan regulations for six regional offices. Regional offices are planned in Dallas, Memphis, Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, St. Louis, and Washington.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Congress
Senate
Dallas
Memphis
Minneapolis
Salt Lake City
St. Louis
Dutch Warship Seized by Mutinous Native Crew in Java
Mutiny aboard the Dutch cruiser De Zeven Provinciën off Sumatra leaves nine officers and several sub-officers kidnapped. Mutineers, angry over pay cuts, seize the ship with 16 guns and steer, while a pursuer Aldebaran under government flag trails. Island group and East Indies squadron race to recover the vessel as tension mounts.
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Batavia
Java
Sumatra
Babi
Aldebaran
Rain and Warmer Tennessee and Virginia Outlook
Weather brief notes rainfall and temperature changes for Tennessee and Virginia. Rain tonight and Tuesday morning in central regions with warmer readings, followed by cooling Tuesday. Virginia sees clouds and rain along the coast with possible snow inland late tonight or Tuesday. Temperatures expected to rise tonight in central and southeast areas. High yesterday 38. a year ago 4. Readings taken at 6 p.m. daily.
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Tennessee
Virginia
National Farm Strike Looming in the Midwest
Milo Reno of Des Moines warned that a national tax strike by the Farmers' Holiday Association could follow the inauguration of President‑elect Roosevelt on March 4, with plans already under way in several states. In South Dakota a milk delivery dispute led to a shooting, hospitalizing R. D. Markell, as warrants were prepared for about twenty suspects. Milk deliveries continued, while New York bankers proposed a relief fund via the Clearing House Association and potential loans from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to support farm aid.
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Des Moines
Farmers’ Holiday Association
Roosevelt
Milo Reno
Reng
South Dakota
Sioux City
Towa
Union
South Dakoota
Nile Cochran
Moville
Woodbury County
Reno
New York
Widow on Stand in Vanderwell Murder Trial
In Long Beach California on February 6, Mrs Alpha Wanderwell widow and state witness at William J Guy trial for the December 5 192? slaying of globe trotter Captain Walter Wanderwell aboard the Carma is to detail motive. She is to expand on her assertion of ill feeling between Wanderwell and Guy who is a Welsh soldier of fortune and member of Wanderwell's 1981 expedition.
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Long Beach
Galif
Walter Vanderwell
Globe Trotter
Hia
Alpha Wanderwell
Wanderwell
William J. Guy
Guy
Lindsay at Home in London Debts Conference Visit
Sir Ronald Lindsay arrived in Southampton from Washington for a cabinet debts conference. He came ashore from the liner Europa in Cowes Roads and planned to proceed by motor to 16 Downing Street where Prime Minister MacDonald and cabinet members awaited him.
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Southampton
Ronald Lindsay
Washington
London
Europa
Cowes
Downing Street
MacDonald
Treasury Receipts and Expenditures Reported
Treasury data from Washington shows February figures with receipts for February 9 totaling 9,832,274.91 dollars, expenditures at 17,982,458.11 dollars, and a balance of 440,100,438.37 dollars. Custom duties for three days of February amounted to 2,097,938.67 dollars.
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Treasury
Washington
Senate Delays Action On Barry Bribery Claim
Washington February 6 AP A veteran Senate sergeant at arms David S Barry testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about alleged bribery in Congress while the committee postponed action on his case and planned further inquiries. Barry cited statements by Nye and Glass and suggested some lawmakers may be influenced context. The panel ordered him to bring the original article and related correspondence and to name a student who said a professor taught Congress members are crooked. Also McNary said independents cannot be disciplined by delaying committee assignments.
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Washington
David S. Barry
Senate
Congress
Senate Judiciary Committee
Artijle
Committee
Glass
Barry
Schuyler
R Cole
Nye
Stugent
McNary
Oregon
Roosevelt
Youths Drown After Boat Capsizes Near Ripley
In Ripley Tennessee on a Sunday after a coon hunting trip two young men James McFarland aged 20 and Wik Weckism, 25, drowned when their small boat capsized on Open Lake during their return. Local authorities described the mishap as a boating accident with two fatalities.
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Ripley
Tenn
James McFarland
Wik
Lake
Knife fight ends in death at Brushy Mountain prison
Jasper Trimble, 33, serving 30 years for slaying Patrolman J M Carmack in 1919, was stabbed to death in the prisoners dormitory after a fight with Rue Hill at Brushy Mountain state penitentiary. Hill admitted the stabbing. Trimble's trial and execution occurred in 1919. Funeral arrangements: Hamlett Dobson Funeral Home with services led by Rev. Mervin Seymour.
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Petros
Tenn
Brushy Mountain
Jasper Trimble
J. M. Carmark
Kingsport
Warren W. H. Nelson
Rue Hill
Roane County
Trimble
Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary
J. M. Carnmark
Carmack
Pierce Memorial
Sevier Terrace
Helen Steadman
Curery
Gome
D. A. Vines
Tritale
State Penitentiary
Bristol
Blountville
W. A. Trimble
T. B. Moats
Washington, D. C
Joe Ricketts
Birmingham
Ale
Grayce Trimble
R. R. Trimble
W. C. Trimble
Wallace Trimble
Dobson
Mervin Seymour
Sidney Showalter
E. F. Miller
Clint, Zarnes
Jim’ Shaffer
Keener Moffftt
Cryle Bevington
E. F. Smith
Albert’ Showalter
Dr L. L. Highsmith
Walter ‘Coats
Verlie Cloud
George Eddie Cox
Jim Cloud
Worley Butler
Tige Seals
S. A. Anderson
Winton Compton
Newton
Compon
T. A. Dodson
T. G. Risk
G O P League Formed to Seek Republican Comeback
Washington February 6. A national Republican League headed by Vice President Curtis has been formed to restore the GOP after its November drubbing. John A. Campbell of White Plains N Y will be its director, guiding a campaign aimed at 1936 and the next year’s congressional races. The group is non factional and pledges regular Republican principles. Ender Curtis as chairman with three vice chairmen Felix Hebert Daniel O Hastings and John Q Tilson. Headquarters will be in Washington to inform younger voters and others, noting 8 000 000 new voters will join by 1928 and the GOP’s fate rests largely in their hands. Curtis calls for educating youth in Republican principles. Campbell, who helped the national committee, said the effort will proceed with ongoing information dissemination.
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Hoover
Laiwreau
Hyde
Uquisidmte
Senate Agriculture Committee
McNary
Oregon
Catton
North Carolina
Rhode Island
New Jersey
Washington
National Republican League
Curtis
G. O.P
John A. Campbell
White Plains
New York
Ender Cutis
Felix Hebert
Rhodesland
Daniel O. Hastings
Delaware
John Q. Tilson
Connecticut
Campbell
Republican Party
Republican National Committee
National
Jealousy Affects Woman Who Leaped From 33rd Floor
Miss Vera Hayburn 25, unemployed stenographer, fell to her death from the Medinah Athletic Club on Chicago's 33rd floor after a visit to night club companion Albert Erskine Jr. 24. Investigators believe jealousy sparked the tragedy as Erskine says she sought an explanation for an affront and left after an argument. An elevator operator testified he took her to the floor about 6:30 Sunday morning.
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Chicago
Vera Hayburn
Medinah Athletic Club
Albert ‘Russell
Erskine, Jr
Studebaker ‘Corporation
Erskine
Haysbar
A. G. Atwater
Philip K. Wrigley
Wrigley Chewing Gum Company
Atwater
Patrick B. O’connell
Lieut. O'Connell
Medinah Club
Governor Delays Decision on Lea Extradition Request
Governor Hill McAlister postponed until 3 p m tomorrow his ruling on North Carolina’s request for extradition of Col. Luke Lea and Luke Lea Jr. convicted in Asheville in 1931 for conspiracy to defraud the Central Bank of more than 1 million dollars. The NC representatives asked for a 24 hour delay to discuss habeas corpus and other aspects.
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Nashville
Ten
Hill McAlister
North Carolina
Luke Lea
Leas
Asheville
N. C
Central Bank and Trust Company
Golanel Lea
U. S
McAlister
JL. B. Givi Mn
Zeb V. Nettles
Laws’ Attomneys
Leas’ Counsel
Nettles
AAP
Beawell
Gwinn
Henry E. Colton
Lea Counsel
Bank Abandoned In Knoxville After Bank Liquidation
A depositors' committee led by George R. Dempster reported that reopening Easy Tennessee National Bank, closed January 20, would require $5,000,000 in new cash. The group concludes liquidation of the trust is the best plan.
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Knoxville
Tennessee National Bank
George R. Dempster
Synthetic Apes Come to Life at Feld Museum Exhibit
Leon L. Waters of the Feld Museum perfected a synthetic process mounting woolly orang-utans. Celluloid embeds the original hair, eliminating tanning the skin. The specimens resemble living apes and even invite peanuts as if fed by visitors.
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Leon L. Waters
Feld Museum
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