Hoover Economic Plans Move Through Congress
Congress advances Hoover measures with a $125 million increase in Federal land bank capital and aims to place it as a top economy bill. The conference on reconstruction is expected smooth, while direct unemployment relief faces Senate resistance and potential committee hurdles. The bill credits Senators LaFollette and Costigan as authors.
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House
Federal Land Bank
Hoover
Senate-House
Federal Reserve System
LaFollette
Wisconsin
Costigan
Colorado
Dawes to Head RFC and Stimson to Geneva
President Hoover announced Dawes would resign as head of the American arms delegation to lead the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and Stimson would replace him at Geneva. Eugene Meyer would chair the new finance corporation with a $2 billion resources plan. Ambassador Hugh Gibson will chair the Geneva opening sessions.
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Hoover
Dawes
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Stimson
Geneva
Eugene Meyer
Federal Reserve Board
Finance Corporation
Hugh Gibson
United States
Senate
House
Great Britain
White House
State Department
Turmoil in Spain Intensifies Across Cities
Madrid reports riotings and labor unrest spreading nationwide with threats of a general strike. Workers plough land for food as communists and syndicalists allegedly organize for a revolutionary push. Jesuit leaders order 200 novices at Loyola to prepare to leave if the order is dissolved. In Pamplona thirty two socialists and communists are injured in a tavern clash.
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Madrid
Spain
Loyola Novitiate
Bilboa
Pamplona
Independent Democrat Seeks Tennessee Governorship
Horace G. O'Kain of Nashville announces he will seek the governorship in the November election on an independent Democratic ticket. He will skip the August 4 primary, arguing voters favor independence from party machines. O'Kain pledges a nonpartisan effort to address taxation unemployment and prohibition while opposing repeal of the prohibition law. He has long lived in Nashville and worked selling ice plant machinery.
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Horace G. O’kain
Nashville
Tennessee
O’kain
Jury to Decide Fate of Winnie Ruth Judd in Phoenix Trial
Winnie Ruth Judd faced a murder charge in Phoenix on January 19 as 85 men were summoned for jury service in a case involving the killings of Agnes Le Roi and Hedvig Samuelson. More than 60 witnesses from Los Angeles and Arizona were planned, with parents visiting in custody before the trial.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Winnie Ruth Judd
Superior Court
Agnes Anne le R
Hedvig Samuelson
Judd
W. C. Judd
Los Angeles
le Roi
Miss Samuelson
Harvey Joy McKinnell
Darlington
Ind
Arizona
France Demands Germany Pay Up in Reparations Clash
Premier Laval unveiled his cabinet in Paris and stated France will not forego reparations from Germany. He warned that fiscal charges must stay just and that postwar debts require fair balance to protect production and living standards. He cited steps to aid the domestic market and relieve industries amid unemployment.
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Paris
Laval
Chamber of Deputies
France
Germany
Dollar's Introduction by West India Trade Before Revolution
The dollar entered American commerce through West India trade networks before the Revolutionary era, shaping early currency use and monetary exchange in the colonies.
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America
Inquiry cites bias in police and courts over race crimes
James D. Burton told the Tennessee Interracial Commission that southern leaders see inadequate police protection in negro communities fueling crime. He said negro on negro offenses go unchecked while crimes against whites face severe penalties, including mob violence, and noted light court handling of black defendants in intra-race offenses.
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Nashville
Tennessee Interracial Commission
James D. Burton
Oakdale
Alabama
Tennessee
Southern Commission On
Burton
Six Die in Parrott Virginia Mine Blast
A Pulaski Anthracite Co mine explosion near Parrott Virginia at 530 pm killed six workers Foster Boyd Audry Boyd Frank Siffered Dewey Siffered Harve Siffered and Ernest Snead. Rescue crews worked through the night as officials blamed gas ignition by a spark.
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Dewey Siffered
Audrey Boyd
Joel Asberry
Rail labor offers trade of pay cut for job increases
Chicago Jan 19 1932 labor leaders proposed to trade a 10 percent pay reduction for a 10 percent rise in jobs for the nations rail workers. They demanded a guaranteed total man hours equal to 1930 levels to spur recovery and restore purchasing power of 2 billion dollars. Labor and rail presidents planned to respond today with the main bargaining point to stabilize employment. An emergency employment bureau was agreed upon to operate under McClees Higgins and Neil in New York Chicago and Washington.
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Chicago
Rail Committee
E. J. McClees
New York
J. W. Higgins
C. P. Neil
Washington
State aims to pay teachers as bond funds expected soon
Nashville January 19 Delayed by technical proceedings funds to meet 2,600,000 in overdue school obligations may arrive via a 2,000,000 bond issue. Commissioner McCabe said bond attorneys in New York must clear statutes and documents for validity and delivery could come within a few days.
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Nashville
Charles M. McCabe
McCabe
Tennessee
New York
China decries Japan note on Manchuria clash
A Chinese foreign office spokesman denounces Japan's reply to Stimson and Nine Power treaty as insulting and imperialist. Sun Fo urges a second Washington conference of Nine Power signatories to seek a solution to the Manchuria dispute and urges U S involvement.
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Nanking
Japan
Stimson
America
China
Manchuria
Pacific Ocean
Sun Fo
United States
Washington
Hawaii Moves to Reform Honolulu Police and Prosecution
Hawaii legislature in special session adopts a five point program to restructure Honolulu law enforcement and make police chief and prosecutor appointments rather than elected. Governors appointee for territorial high sheriff and warden of Cahupri named to replace Lane amid reform push.
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Territorial Legislature
Islands
Honolulu
Oahu
Lawrence M. Judd
Edeth Low
Attorney General
United States
Naval Affairs Committees
National Senate
House
Hawaii
Judiciary Committee
Territorial Senate
Judd
Maj
Gordon C. Ross
Hawaii National Guard
John C. Lane
Territorial
Cahupri
Alfalfa Bill Shocks Drys
A dramatic political moment described as Alfalfa Bill's actions surprise Dry forces. The piece notes regional weather forecasts for Tennessee Virginia and temperature readings with past-day comparisons and daily rainfall measurements.
Missing strike leaders spark cross-state hunt in Kentucky
Harlan Kentucky January 19 officials report National Miners Union leaders Joe Weber and Bill Duncan are missing authorities seek them after labor groups accuse Kentucky officers of kidnapping Adjutant General W C Boyd investigates while authorities in Wise and Lee counties deny detaining them. Lawyers for Harlan County UMWA officials plan to appeal a murder conspiracy conviction tied to the Evarts battle that left four dead and resulted in life terms.
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Harlan
Joe Weber
Bill Duncan
National Miners Union
Kentucky
Horton
Tennessee
W. C. Boyd
Boyd
Claiborne County
Weber
Duncan
Virginia
Wise
Lee
Harlan and
Bell
W. B. Jones
William Hightower
Harlan County
United Mine Workers of America
Battle of
Evarts
South Pauses to Honor R. E. Lee in Virginia
Virginia led observances of the 126th anniversary honoring Robert E. Lee. A bronze statue was unveiled in Richmond’s old Virginia House of Delegates chamber by Lee IV as the assembly met for the first time since 1904. Founders Day events at Washington and Lee University and observances in Winchester Staunton and Bristol accompanied the nationwide tribute.
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Richmond
New South
Robert Edward Lee
Virginia
Lee
Plains of Texas
Capitol
Washington
Manassas
Appomattox
Virginia House of Delegates
Robert E. Lee IV
General Lee
Armed Forces of
Virginia Assembly
Supreme Court of Appeals
Giles G. Cook
R. Gray Williams
Winchester
Lexington
Washington and Lee University
Frederick Wilhelm von Prittwitz
Gaffron
United States
Staunton
Bristol
United Daughters of the Confed
Oklahoma Governor proposes liquor control compact at prohibition league
At a Los Angeles Anti-Saloon League session Governor Murray of Oklahoma floated a replacement for prohibition a state compact system tied to congressional sanction. The idea aimed to ease interstate liquor trade while keeping legal alcohol limits. Bishop Cannon defended prohibition and urged southern leaders to push nonpartisan party unity.
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Murray
Oklahoma
James Cannon, Jr
Oklahoman
League
A. J. Barton
Wilmington
North Carolina
W. D. Upshaw
Georgia
Cannon
James M. Cox
Ohio
Cox
Smith
Raskob
Flood covered area grows new breaks open in levees
In Mississippi delta corridors floods from Yazoo and Tallahatchie rivers advance, flooding 410000 acres across Le Flore Holmes Yazoo and Humphreys counties. towns Cruger Thule Keirn Mileston Bee Lake brace for 3 foot water as Red Cross and Coast Guard mobilize 12 Red Cross staffers and eight lifeboat crews to aid residents marooned in the inundated area.
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Glendora
Miss
Mississippi Delta
Tallahatchie
Tippo Basin
Tallahatchie County
Yazoo
Ohney Island
le Flore
Holmes
Humphreys
Cruger
Thule
Keirn
Mileston
Bee Lake
Tallahatchie River
Red Cross
Coast Guard
National Red Cross
Chicago
Gulf Coast
Bank Looted at Limestone Tennessee
Three masked and unmasked hold up men robbed the Bank of Limestone in Tennessee, forcing the cashier and assistant cashier to lie down. About $3000 was taken and the robbers escaped in a waiting car toward Johnson City.
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Johnson City
Tenn
Bank of Limestone
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