Vote to Override the Bonus Veto in Washington
A heavily Democratic House voted 324 to 61 to override President Roosevelt's veto of the 2.491 billion dollar bonus bill. The bill goes to the Senate, where leaders expect passage to become law over the President's opposition. Treasury plans include issuing bonds and expanding cash payments to about 3.5 million World War I veterans, with initial costs around 1.5 billion dollars.
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Bureau of Engraving
Veterans Bureau
House Refuses Funds to Enforce Potato Control Act
Washington Jan 24 With no dissenting vote the house declined to appropriate funds to enforce the potato control act. The body rejected a $1,000,000 request to gather and distribute potato information and struck a $1,250,000 enforcement item from the deficiency bill after Woodrum’s substitute for $500,000 failed.
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Washington
Warren
D-N.c
Woodrum
D-Va
Subcommittee backs revised farm bill with secrecy rules
A five member Democratic Senate agriculture subcommittee unanimously approved a revised farm bill to replace the AAA. President Roosevelt framed agriculture as productive as a 100 years ago. Secretary Wallace and Farm Administrator Davis noted soil conservation as core, with plans for state cooperation and future subsidy payments setup.
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Scottsboro Defendant Shot in Jail Transport Incident
Birmingham January 24 Sheriff McDuff said Ozie Powell one of the Scottsboro defendants was shot and critically wounded after attacking Highway Patrolman Blaylock during a transport from Cullman to Birmingham. Patterson and Tagewood Patterson were also reported wounded in earlier accounts. Police guarded the convoy at Jefferson County jail as the nine defendants were moved. Powell’s condition described as critical.
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Ala
Fred H. McDuff
Cullman
Ozie Lowell
Scottsboro
McDuff
Blaylock
Powell
Jefferson County
Mr. Brown
Tagewood Patterson
Biringham
Sheriff's Office
Sub Zero Blast Out of Northwest
A new arctic blast swept from the northwest, freezing the Midwest and East. Seventeen states reported at least 110 deaths as snow piled high from Montana to Illinois and beyond.
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CAIA
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Oklahoma
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Chesapeake Bay
Climax in Russo Japanese border tensions escalates
Moscow reports the Red Star accuses Japan of planning military actions around Outer Mongolia. Tokyo cites new frontier incidents between Manchukuo and Outer Mongolia as the border dispute nears an apparent climax.
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Russian War Commissariat
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Soviet Union
Outer Mongolia
Tokyo
Manchukuo
Strikes Out Spud Funds Deficiency Measure Passes House
Washington reports the 238 million deficiency appropriation bill sailed through the House. It includes 42 million for the social security board and 296 million to pay AAA farm contract benefits, with potato control funding removed. Attempts to earmark coal commission and reciprocal trade program funds failed.
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Senate
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Supreme Court
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Kansas anti saloon league to hold February meeting
Topeka January 24 The Kansas anti-saloon league will hold its annual meeting February 11, with plans for campaigns to elect legislators and push for a law outlawing 2.2 beer, announced by superintendent Jason M Averill. Gerald L K Smith organizer of share our wealth clubs said Huey Long and Eugene Talmadge had decided to join forces against President Roosevelt.
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Averill
Talmadge
Long
Atlanta
Gerald L. K. Smith
Huey
Louisiana
Georgia
Eugene Talmadge
Roosevelt
Vote Basket of the Nation Shifts Midwest Campaign Pressure
A Chicago-1sav story notes Midwest interest in the 1936 campaign as the vote basket term emerges. It highlights Democratic efforts to consolidate New Deal support amid intra party strife in Illinois and Republican activity around Alf Landon. Delegates and early movements signal a pivotal midwest role for the election.
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Middle West
Roosevelt
Illinois
Government to plant 22.5 million trees in six Midwest states
Lincoln Neb Jan 24 72 Fed shelterbelt officials announce first of 22.5 million trees to be planted in 1956 across Oklahoma Texas and neighboring states as part of a 75 million effort to curb wind erosion and soil moisture loss. Planting crews from relief rolls will work for monthly wages ranging 26 to 47 dollars for up to 40 hours weekly.
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Neb
Fed‘erst
Oklahoma
Texas
Kansas
John TD. Jones
Mangum
Oklahk City
Oklas
Chillicorhe
Tex
Jones de Ha
Dakotas
Nebraska
Landon Seen Leading GOP Prospects Says McCormick
Chicago Tribune publisher Robert R. McCormick says Gov Alf M Landon Kansas is far ahead of other Republican hopefuls and would win broad support if a presidential race were held He disputes Hoover as a possible candidate and hints at Roosevelt as a rival. Washington January 24 The House approves 296 185 000 for farmer benefits under pre January 6 AAA contracts following the Supreme Court ruling.
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Kansas
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Hoover
Roosevelt
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House
Talay
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Supreme Court
Stock Market Index Rises to 58.0 on 60-Stock Average
The stock market index for sixty listed stocks closes at 58.0 yesterday with notable gains across sectors. Investors monitor daily movements and market breadth as the index reflects overall performance.
Motorists Urged to Renew Licenses Before Penalty Date
In Douglas and neighboring counties a rush is anticipated as the first monthly penalty on license tags applies February 1. Treasurer Gardner warns motorists to renew 236 car and 389 truck licenses by noon each day next week to avoid the added fee, with the office keeping noon hours to accommodate renewals.
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Wits
Joey County
A. M. Lens
Douglas County
Gardner
Two Women Die in Fire at Baldwin
Trapped in a Baldwin residence, Mrs. Wiley Hausam 47 and her mother Mrs. Sarah Kline 61 perished early morning as fire tore through the home two blocks west of the Methodist Episcopal church. Three others escaped uninjured including the King family with a four month old baby. Fire officials and Dr. Harald Guest searched the ruins. possible origin linked to an overheated furnace under the west side of the house. The Rust Ruble house was owned by Harriet Ruble, mother of Mrs. Fleming. Mrs. Hausam was a Baker University graduate and former assistant librarian.
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Wiley Hausam
Sarah Kline
Methodist Episcopal Church
Eldon King
Hansam
Mr. King
Faby
Mrs. King
Harald Guest
Baker University
King
Ottawa
Kline
Harriet Ruble
W. B. Fleming
Robert Myres
Chardon, Kan
Hfausam
Talks Road Patrol at Cooperative Club Dinner
Maurice Plummer of the state highway department explained Road Patrol aims to educate on road safety protect drivers and assist the public on highways at a Cooperative club dinner in Odd Fellows hall. Special guests included Bob Rutherford former Douglas county sheriff Chief Will Johns and Sheriff Fred Vogler.
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Co-Operative Club
Odd Fellows Hall
Maurice Plummer
State Highway Department
Plummer
Bob Rutherford
Highway Patrol
Douglas County
Will Johns
Fred Vogler
Edward Penchard
Lawrence
W. A. Schaal
Mr. Abels
Doris Jackson
Lois Sumner
Peace is Endangered by Britain's Mediterranean Pact
Rome reports Italy warned sanctionist powers that Britain's Mediterranean security pact risks European peace. A Geneva memo claims Britain acted outside the league covenant initiating the talks. Italy says it had promised not to drag a colonial conflict into a European war and had previously protested the Britain France Turkey Greece Yugoslavia pact.
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Italy
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France
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Yugoslavia
Men on Increase at University of Kansas
A registrar study of KU enrollment shows men increasing from 9 to 6 women in 1925 to 14 to 6 in the current year, with men rising from 2,432 in 1923 to 2,919 in 1935 and women slipping from 1,461 in 1925 to 1,327 last November. Causes cited include tighter finances pushing men to attend college and sisters remaining at home to enable brothers’ study.
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University of Kansas
G. O. Foster
Law
Engineering
Medicine
Ray Nichols
Mary Olsen
CSEP
Debaters Clash On Agricultural Policy In Hutchinson
Dan Casement of Manhattan and Senator Simon Fishman of Tribune, Republicans with opposite views, debated in Hutchinson on January 31 over a successor program to the AAA during Farm and Home Week. Casement attacked the AAA and New Deal policies while Fishman backed the AAA and had lectured nationwide. House burns at Ottawa.
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Kan
Dan Casement
Manhattan
Simon Fishman
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Hutchinson News and Herald
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Fishman
Woman Saves Baby From Fire While Visiting Ottawa
Mrs. HLA Dunn of Ottawa visiting her daughter Mrs. Raymond Schwegler Jr. learned her small rental house had burned. The tenant's wife, returning from an errand, saw the roof ablaze and rushed upstairs to pull the sleeping infant to safety.
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Ottawa
Raymond Schwegler, Jr
Sarraut Forms Cabinet In France During Transition
Paris January 24 Senator Albert Sarraut succeeded in forming a new cabinet for France the 101st government of the third republic. The veteran radical socialist premier leads a transition body to run the government until parliamentary elections slated for April or May.
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France
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Radical-Socialist Party
CCC Theft Ring May Be Uncovered In Camp Raid
Lawrence police raid at 721 Rhode Island street led to the arrest of Warren C. Purvis and an Garnett CCC camp worker with alleged government property from Garnett camp. A letter to Mrs Purvis and tips from Lieut James W. Lansing spurred state and federal investigators to Garnett and Anderson counties.
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Warren C. Purvis
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Will Johns
Alvah Monshower
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Anderson County
James W. Lansing
Lone Star CCC
Lone Star
Kansas City
Fatal crash kills family near Grabill Indiana
A Wabash passenger train struck an automobile at a Grabill crossing, killing a father Marion M. McBride, mother in McBride, and seven of their nine children. Two other children were seriously injured, later a sister-in-law also died, raising fatalities to ten. The wreck occurred near the McBride home. injured were taken to St Joseph’s hospital.
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Ind
Marion M. McBride
McBride
Marion, Jr
Mary
Arthur
Virginia
Robert
Ramona
Richard
Phyllis
Clara
Grabill
India
St. Joseph’s
Palmer Goes to Hospital After Threat Letter Charge
New York Jan 24 Austin Phelps Palmer retired Park Avenue engineer who wrote threatening letters to President Roosevelt was sent to Bellevue hospital for observation on motion of J Howard Carter chief assistant United States attorney Sentence under his plea of guilty was deferred until January 30 Crow d cheers Landon s name at Kansas Day dinner Leavenworth Kan Jan 24 Governor Alf M Landon cited as Republican presidential possibility cheers from 450 party members Speakers Alf M Williams Will G West attended Hiccoughing Causes Death Watertown Jan 24 George R Young aged 66 died after an attack began January 6
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Austin Phelps Palmer
Park Avenue
Roosevelt
Hellevue
J. Howard Carter
United States
Landon
Leavenworth
Kan
Alf M. Landon
Alf M. Williams
United States District
Will G. West
Federal District Court
Hiccoughing
Watertown
George R. Young
Weather Forecast for Kansas Edges Toward Snow and Cold
Kansas weather outlook shows snow in eastern areas with rising temperatures in extreme east and moderate to severe cold waves in central to west regions. Clouds prevail with snow, significant chill, and cloudy to partly clear mornings in Coffeyville Arkansas City and Dodge. Road conditions improve to good except Manhattan rough and Topeka frozen. Douglas county roads listed as good.
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Dodge
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Topeka
Douglas County
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