Inflation Drive by Bipartisan Bloc Targets Currency Expansion
A bipartisan group in Washington proposes using new money backed by government credit to fund veteran and farm aid programs, opposing additional taxes. The plan includes a steering committee to push currency expansion while Senate leaders resist tax and bond expansion. The Chamber of Commerce warns against unchecked inflation.
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Senate
Treasury
AAA
Roosevelt
Greenwood
Indiana
House
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Chamber
Scarborough Withdraws From 28th District Senate Fight
Truitt L. Scarborough Ruston attorney tonight withdrew from the senatorial race in Louisiana's 28th district. R. W. Rhodes of Farmerville stands unopposed in the March 3 second primary. Leo F. Terzia and Rhodes will represent Union Lincoln Morehouse and West Carroll parishes in Baton Rouge for four years.
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Truitt L. Scarborough
Louisiana
Scarborough
R. W.rhodes
Farmerville
Leo F. Terzia
Rhodes
Baton Rouge
Union
Lincoln
Morehouse
West Carroll
Paving of Alto Road to Begin Monday
Concrete paving of six miles from LaFourche swamp to Alto will begin Monday morning, state engineer Wayne Huckabay announced. The highway will be closed during construction, with detours via the Dixie Overland to Start or Rayville routes, and completion expected in about six months. Paving from Alto to Archibald to follow after this project.
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LaFourche Swamp
Alto
Wayne Huckabay
Monroe
Dixie Overland
Archibald
Motorists Arrested in Orleans Traffic Crackdown
In New Orleans on February 1 police enforcement led to the arrest of 481 motorists and 23 law violators were tried by Recorder Albert T. Thompson. Those fined faced jail if they refused payment.
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Orleans
New
Andy
Albert T. Thompson
Spanish King and Wife May Soon Be Reunited
Paris reports say former King Alfonso of Spain and his estranged wife Queen Victoria may reconcile due to the upcoming birth of a grandchild. Victoria has agreed to talk when visiting Rome with their daughter Infanta Beatriz, Princess Torlonia, who is expecting.
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Alfonso
Spain
Victoria
Rome
Infanta Beatrize
Torlonia
Threat to Kidnap Governor Curley Son Sparks Security
Police guard the 12 year old son of Massachusetts Governor Curley after a typed unsigned threat mailed from a Back Bay post office station warned the boy would be kidnapped within a week. The note reached the governor in Washington as he traveled to Florida, with post office inspectors and justice department agents investigating.
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Curley
Massachusetts
Post Office
Justice Department
Back Bay
Boston
Francis
Florida
J. Edgar Hoover
Bureau of Investigation
Hoover
Plymouth
Boston American
Martin English
Call to tighten Italy boycott to curb evasion
Geneva report says sanctions group urged raising the reexport penalty from 25 to 50 percent with some experts proposing 75 percent to curb Italian goods slipping into sanctionist nations via non sanctionist states like Austria or Hungary.
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Geneva
Italy
League
Austria
Hungary
Engineer Sentenced in Bremer Kidnapping Case
Classus W. McDonald of Detroit was convicted as a conspirator in the $200000 Bremer kidnapping of St. Paul banker Edward G. Bremer. He received a 15 year sentence in Leavenworth. McDonald was charged with exchanging about half the ransom in Cuba, tried with Harry Sawyer and William Weaver.
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ST. Paul
Classus W. McDonald
Detroit
Mich
Edward G. Bremer
Leavenworth
McDonald
Cuba
Gunnar H. Nordbye
Harry Sawyer
William Weaver
Boy Rescued From Underground Drain After Flood
Fred Cass ten year old was swept two miles into an underground storm drain in Pasadena after losing balance on the drain bank during a rain storm. Joseph Peck waded in and pulled him to safety as he regained consciousness the boy suffered only scratches and bruises.
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Pasadena
Calif
Fred Cass
Joneph Peck
Sland island aid by dirigible amid icebound relief plan
Alert residents report 1500 marooned by cold in Tegier Island area as an attempt to airlift food by a privately owned dirigible is planned after surveys show no landable sites for planes or ships. Army bombers failed to land due to ice.
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Washington
Tangier Island
Malin Craig
Bland
Virginia
Minnesota launches Roosevelt drive in farm belt
Minnesota Democrats open renomination bid for Roosevelt at state convention in Mankato with 26 delegates pledged for June Philadelphia convention. About 2,000 attended as Elmer J. Ryan urged support and rebutted Al Smith's Liberty League speech. A split arose with a separate March 14 convention proposed by Joseph Wolf faction.
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Minn
Minnesota
Roosevelt
Elmer J. Ryan
al Smith
Liberty League
Philadelphia
State
Democratic Party
Joseph Wolf
Five Die As Auto Strikes Train In Georgia Collision
Five Savannah residents died when their car struck a freight train backing across a highway at Port Wentworth. The victims named include Bert Warnedee the driver, Miss Letha Wise, Elton or Fleming Thacker, and Mr. and Mrs. Heyward Stewart traveling to an amusement center in South Carolina.
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Gra
Port Wentworth
Bert Warnedee
Letha Wise
Elton
Fleming Thacker
Heyward Stewart
South Carolina
Laundry truck driver dies from pistol wound in Shreveport station
Claude Reeder, 40, a laundry truck driver, died today from a self inflicted pistol wound at a downtown Shreveport filling station. Police found a note addressed to his wife beside his body.
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Shreveport
Claude. Reeder
Southerners Hope Break in Cold Wave AmidSnow Accumulation
Weather weary southerners anticipate a break as rains spread across sections and snow or rain is forecast for Atlanta. Eight inches of snow lingered, with low temperatures persisting. Jackson Mississippi 46, Shreveport 48, New Orleans 58, Memphis 34 with sleet, Little Rock 30 with freezing rain as northeast Arkansas reports snow ahead of a colder snap.
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Memphis
Little Rock
Arkansas
Explosion of leaking gas damages Logan Grocery building
A gas main leak caused by an employee flipping a switch ignited sparks and exploded, damaging the Logan Grocery building in Arkadelphia. The blaze, starting on the main floor and spreading to the basement garage, incurred about 45009 dollars in damages to the structure and stock.
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Arkadelphia
Ark
Logan Grocery Company
Leopold Denies Knowledge of Loeb Death
JOLIET IL Feb 1 Nathan Leopold Jr denied to A L Bowen head of the Illinois penal system he knew anything that could illuminate the prison slaying of Richard Loeb Leopold said on his oath he did not know the murder facts He defended Loeb from the label penitentiary pet and Bowen announced an impartial commission would investigate Stateville prison conditions Gov Horner has approved the inquiry and Warden Lewis E
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Leopold
Stateville Prison
Loeb
James Day
Henry Horner
Lewis E
Solons Propose New Cotton Dea Plan
Southern senators proposed a plan to liquidate government cotton holdings at up to 20 000 bales weekly through a president appointed sales agent. Chairman Smith of South Carolina said the measure would be in a senate resolution to be introduced Monday and backed by most cotton trade leaders and cotton-state senators.
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Washington
Smith
South Carolina
Senate Agriculture Committee
Senate
New Jersey Police Seek New Leads From Governor
New Jersey state police reopen old Lindbergh kidnapping inquiries hoping for leads from Governor Harold G. Hoffman. Hoffman plans early talks with Col. H Norman Schwarzkopf about possible evidence suggesting other participants in the crime.
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Trenton
N. J
New Jersey
Harold G. Hoffman
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
West Point Suffers Record Subzero Cold Spell
West Point residents faced the coldest blast in 36 years with temperatures around one degree below zero. The freeze marked a second straight day of subzero conditions, per U S experimental station head T F Akers east of the city.
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West Point
Miss
West Pointers
T. F. Akers
U. S
Registrations Close for Run-Off Primary in Ouachita Parish
Voter registration books in Ouachita Parish closed Saturday at 6 p.m. with 228 total registrations since opening by registrar Miss Lillian Collins after the January 21 primary. Those registering since then are eligible for the March 3 second primary.
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Quachita Parish
Lillian Collins
Plane crash near Eaton Texas kills pilot Ted Kincannon
An American Airlines jet crashes into trees in a blinding snow storm near Eaton Texas. Pilot Ted Kincannon is killed, while five passengers escape with no injuries in the crash scene captured by Associated Press photographers.
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Eaton
Texas
American Airlines
Ted Kincannon
Associated Press
Ruling on Power Plan Looming at Supreme Court
The Supreme Court prepares to rule on the constitutionality of the New Deal power program regarding TVA power sales. The decision, long anticipated after a delayed January 26 forecast, could reshape the power industry, affect consumers, and influence congressional efforts on constitutional amendments or court powers.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
High Triebunal
Congress
Collision blamed on signal disregard in Cincinnati trains
Poe Wilbur R. Welloge manager of the Cincinnati Terminal Company says failure to observe a signal caused a collision of two fast passenger trains in Cincinnati. Forty people were injured last night. Investigators will determine which train failed to observe the signal next week. The Chesapeake and Ohio and the Louisville and Nashville railways cooperated in the inquiry.
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Cincinnati
Poe Wilbur R. Welloge
Cincinnnati Terminal Company
Chesapeake and Ohio
Louisville and Nashville
Noe bids for WPA purge as Crutcher named in Louisiana
The Louisiana fight over federal relief funds heats up as Governor Noe wires Harry Hopkins demanding Crutcher be removed as acting WPA head. Peterman resigns March 1, with Long successor maneuvers shaping the Senate seat issue and party strategy amid Huey Long’s shadow.
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Long
James Crutcher
Senate
New Orleans
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
James A. Noe
Works Progress Administration
Noe
Harry Hopkins
Washington
James H. Crutcher
WPA
Frank H. Peterman
Hopkins
Peterman
Alexandria
State Senate
Crutcher
Nelson brothers tax evasion trial postponed to Feb 10
The federal income tax evasion trial of highway contractors Harry B Nelson, John P Nelson, and Willis W Nelson was moved from February 3 to February 10 in New Orleans. They are indicted for attempting to evade taxes totaling 29,297.10 for 1931 1932 and 1933 tied to state of Louisiana contract work.
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New Orleans
Nelson Brothers
Harry B Nelson
John P. Nelson
Willis W. Nelson
Louisiana
New Japanese Minister Succeeds Dead Official
Tokyo February 1 Takakichi Kawasaki leader of the Minseito party succeeds Ganji Matsuda today as minister of education after the latter died from a heart attack.
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Tokyo
Takakichi Kawasaki
Minseito Party
Ganji Matsuda
Mill Explosion Fatal Near Jonesville
A mill grindstone explosion at an old grist mill near Jonesville, Louisiana, killed an 11 year old boy working with his father and injured another boy. Walter S. Reagan, operator, witnessed the disaster as flying stone fragments struck Reagan and others nearby. Continued on Tenth Page.
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Jonesville
Ilhar Reagan
Walter S. Reagan
Son of former King of Spain gravely ill in Cuba
The count of Covadonga, eldest son of former King Alfonso of Spain, is reported gravely ill in Havana. Physicians say he has a malignant tumor that cannot be removed due to hemophilia. He is attended by his wife Helmiro Sampedro of Havana. Police establish a no noise zone near the hotel.
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Cuba
Havana
Covadonga
Alfonso
Tus Betel
Prince of the
Austrias
Hdelmira Sampedro
New York Brokers Will Visit South Next Month
Pi Charles R. Gay, president, leads a party from the New York Stock Exchange on a ten day swing to Tennessee Oklahoma Texas and Louisiana. Cities on the schedule include Memphis Oklahoma City Tulsa Dallas Houston and New Orleans as part of the exchange public relations program after Gay's May election.
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Charles R. Gay
New York Stock Exchange
Tennessee
Oklahoma
Texas
Louisiana
Gay
Memphis
Oklahoma City
Tulsa
Dallas
Houston
New Orleans
Miners Work on Holiday as Coal Supply Runs Low
Chicago February 1 Miners in four states returned to the pits on a holiday pace as January’s sharp coal depletion spurred quick action. Iowa Missouri Alabama collieries operated at full blast to fill urgent orders despite record subzero conditions. Park Rapids Minnesota hit 36 below zero with cold extending to southern Iowa and West Virginia.
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Chicago
Janeuary
Iowa
Missouri
Alabama
Park Rapids
Minn
West Virgina
Ash Garment Factory and Ford Agency Loss in Forrest City Fire
Fire destroyed the Ash Garment factory and the adjacent St Francis Motor Company Ford agency in Forrest City Arkansas. Owners estimate losses at about 50000 with the garment plant previously rebuilt after December’s total loss and the motor company figures listed as “in excess.” The cause was not stated and the fire is described as total by records.
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Ark
New Ash
St. Francis Motor Company
Ford Agency
Garment Company
Motor
F Garment Company
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