Welfare Hearings Open On Social Security Proposals
The House Ways and Means Committee opened hearings with Arthur J. Altmeyer detailing administration plans to liberalize old age benefits extend coverage to 1 million workers and provide disability and survivor support. Dr Francis Townsend and the National Welfare group flag the debate as lawmakers weigh reorganizing federal agencies and other proposed programs.
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Washington
Congress
Arthur J. Altmeyer
Social Security Board
House
Ways and Means Committee
Gevers
Chaiman Doughton
North Carolina
Francis ©. Townsend
Slam
Oneral Elfare Association
House Itgel
Floyd Roberts
River hearing set on Friday in city hall
A Friday 10 a m hearing in city hall will review flood control and navigation on the Ouachita River. United States engineers, under the war department, will consider House Document No 196 with flood storage reservoirs at river headwaters and deepening the channel to nine feet to accommodate larger barges.
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War Department
United States Engineers
House
Secretary of War
Quachita River
Chamber of Commerce
H. M. Williams, Jr
West Monroe
Ouachita
Quachita
Mississippi
Minneapolis
Ohio
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Clinois River
Ouachita River
Noe Seeks Photo Access to Orleans Poll Books 1938
New Orleans Feb 1 Senator James A Noe a 1940 gubernatorial hopeful formally asked Civil Sheriff Louis Knop Jr for permission to photograph Orleans parish poll books for 1938 He proposes placing a camera in the office and cited constitutional authority He had earlier sought permission to photograph registration lists and the request was sent to the attorney general for ruling
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New Orleans
James A. Noe
Louis Knop, Jr
Orleans Parish
Noe
Louisiana
Richard L. Gregory
Registar
4Uston L. Porterie
Flashes of News From Cities and Towns
In Philadelphia a pan with liquor sped along a street pursued by Officer Lynch who fired in the air. A passerby exclaimed and joked as the chase ended with a smashed tie. In New Lisbon Indiana weather drove birds together and a robin sheltered under a hen. Tulsa notes mention W R Amiott of Mind Oklahoma seeking action.
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Philadelphia
John Lynch
Lynch
New Lisbon
Ind
George Vankirk
Monroe charity hospital contract to be let soon
A. R. Johnson, Louisiana welfare commissioner, announced at a Louisiana Public Welfare association meeting in Baton Rouge that a contract for the instruction and construction of Monroe’s charity hospital will be let soon. The facility will have beds and resemble the Alexandria charity hospital recently completed. The association aims to battle tuberculosis with plans set for its annual convention March 31 and April 1 at Eaton Road, with efforts to expand hospital capacity statewide.
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Monroe
A. R. Jotpon
Louisiana
Uring
Board of Memors
Louisiana Public Velre Association
Baton Rouge Vestern
Hopital
Alexandria
Board of Governmet
Eaton Road
Fr. Johnson
Cvty Parish
Neil Oxon
Amite
Welfat Association
Francis St. Martin
Hema
Richard R. Foster
New Orleans
Judson Hardy
Missing sloop Bonito searched after Gulfport voyage
Coast Guard cutters comb the Gulf of Mexico for the foot sailing sloop Bonito overdue at Gulfport Mississippi since last Sunday night. Two men aboard are Captain Robert Brtin age 21 of Corpus Christi Texas and Hugh Hughes 35. Owner Steven L Walter of New Orleans says the boat left January 1 from Sabine Pass en route for New Orleans. Walter accompanied it to Sabine Pass and believes the crew may have encountered a storm but expects they are safe aboard.
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Gulf of Mexico
Bonito
Gulfport
Miss
Steven L. Walter
New Orleans
Robert Brtin
Corpus Christi
Tex
Hugh Hughes
Walter
Abine Pass
Corpus Christ
Sabine Pass
Southern Agricultural Workers Convene 40th Annual Meet
More than 1000 delegates from states and Washington, D C gather in New Orleans to open the 40th annual convention. The theme covers the relation of plant animal and human nutrition to social and economic life of the South across 16 sectional meetings.
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Farm Workers Opw
New Orleans
Washington, D. C
Association of Southern Agricultural Workers
New Mexico WPA graft trial hears dance ticket scheme
In Albuquerque witnesses testify that meager WPA wages funded a political campaign via dance tickets sold or coerced from workers. Defendants include state Democrats and Senator Chavez allies tied to the Rio Grande Social Club and the Charter League.
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Albuquerque
N. M
New Mexico
Democratic Party
United States
WPA
Rio Grande
Mariano Vargas
A. J. Danels
Dennis Chavez
Chavez
Vargas
Daniels
Ralph Gallegos
Pete Martinez
Gallegos
City Charter League
Clyde Tingley
Arthur Campbell
Charter League
Campbell
Alberto Lovato
B. W. Means
Stanley W. P. Miller
Senator Chavez
Ward Anderson
German spy sentenced to death beheaded in Berlin
Heinrich Schaffner, condemned for espionage on November 18, was executed by beheading today in Berlin. The court-ordered death marks a severe end to the espionage case as authorities confirm the sentence was carried out.
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Berlin
Heinrich Schaffner
Democracies Jubilant Over Roosevelt Views
Paris reports headline jubilation as first editions claim President Roosevelt said the frontiers of the United States are in France. Government officials avoid comment on a closed session after a senate military committee meeting, while stock markets react positively. London also notes British press approval of Roosevelt's senate meeting.
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Paris
Roosevelt
United States
France
Senate Military Committee
The
Stock Exchange
London
Senate
FHA discussed in mass meeting at Hotel Virginia
Details on FHA loan eligibility were discussed at Hotel Virginia Tuesday night by lumber dealers architects contractors realtors and financial institution representatives. Attending were George C. Laborde Wade Sutton G E Davis and A V Miller local Better Housing chairman.
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Hotel
Virginia
George C. Laborde
Wade Sutton
G. E. Davis
A. V. Miller
Better Housing Committee
Twin Cities
Laborde
Miller
FHA
Louisiana
Sutton
Mutual Mortgage
A F L push to revise labor act faces Senate hearings
The American Federation of Labor plans a nationwide mobilization to back revisions of the national labor relations act. President William Green says all large unions will urge Congress to curb the labor board powers and secure rights for employers to trigger elections and support a specific union. Senate hearings on the amendments were approved, but a veto blocks immediate action without a clear defect to fix.
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Miami
Fla
American Federation of Labor
Concentratin Today
William Green
Congress
Green
Senate
House
Federation
National Labor Relations Board
John L. Lewis
Washington
Senate Labor Committee
Thomas
Utah
France Uses Spanish Army Deserters as Camp Builders
France forces 200 Spanish army deserters to dig foundations and raise fences at Argeles Sur Mer concentration camp. They are told they will be fed and housed but must work under French military discipline as they live in a camp built by Spaniards who chose to stay.
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Perpignan
France
Spain
Argeles- Sur-Mer
Argeles
Jackie Coogan May End Woes With Settlement Talks
Jackie Coogan may settle the $4 million accounting suit against his mother and stepfather before the trial next Monday. Lawyer William Rains cited discussions with the Bernsteins' counsel as a settlement possibility amid ongoing bickering over remaining funds from Coogan’s movie fortune.
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Hollywood
Jackie Coogan
Kid
Silent Screen
William Rains
Arthur L. Bernstein
Jackie
el Paso
Tex
Betty Grable
Young Coogan
Bernsteins
John Coogan, Sr
Bernstein
Coogans
Four More Speakers Arrested in Mexico Under Speech Ban
Four more political figures were taken into custody in Mexico City amid enforcement of a ban on unauthorized public speeches against the regime. Arrests include Ovidio Pedrero Valenzuela and Reynaldo Sanchez Lozada of the Gold Shirts for inciting to riot and insulting the president, along with Colonel Francisco Linares and Jose Perdomo Benitez of the Mexican Constitutional Democratic Front for similar charges. Authorities also sought six additional agitators.
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Mexico City
Ovidio Pedrero Valenzuela
Reynaldo Sanchez Lozada
Gold Shirts
Lazaro Cardenas
Francisco Linares
Jose Perdomo Benitez
Mexican Constitutional Democratic Front
Mexico
Negro pair tied to campus attack and Prairieville holdup
General Louis F. Guerre said two Negroes questioned in a campus assault on a Louisiana State University coed may also have shot an elderly storekeeper at Prairieville. Tire tread marks allegedly matched, linking both crimes.
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Baton Rouge
Louis F. Guerre
Louisiana State University
Mandez Cambre
Guerre
Dave Johnson
Leo Freeman
New Orleans
Johnson
Reciprocal tax plan considered for federal and local salaries
Washington report on a proposal from the house ways and means committee to tax salaries of federal state municipal and county employees. Only about 16 million of the billions paid to these workers is currently collected due to low state local income taxes and exemptions. Governors’ pay figures illustrate wide disparities.
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Washington
House Ways and Means Committee
Roosevelt
New York
New Jersey
Britain to Continue German Broadcasts Despite Hitler Warning
London February 1 The British Broadcasting Corporation announced it would ignore Hitler’s warning to stop broadcasts to Germany and said there was no plan to discontinue the nightly news program. Officials noted no intention to curtail transmissions from foreign sources.
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Britain
London
British Broadcasting Corporation
Hitler
Germany
Winter storm batters the northern states with 39 deaths
A powerful system roared across the central states driving heavy snow and blizzards. The storm spread toward the Atlantic coast with rain and snow forecast from Massachusetts to Maryland as police curb parked cars to speed snow removal and thousands toil in Chicago.
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Associated Press
Middle West
United States
Rockies
Plains
Weather Bureau
Atlantic Seaboard
Nebraska
Wyoming
Dakotas
New England
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
West Virginia
Virginia
Delaware
Meryland
District of Columbia
Massachusetts
Mississippi
New York City
LaGuardia
Chicago
Poison Ring Inquest Probes 4 Deaths Across States
Six witnesses were summoned in Philadelphia for an inquest into three men and a 11 year old boy reportedly killed by a three state poison ring. Authorities cite autopsy findings in Ferdinand Alfonso and possible life insurance payouts from Pennsylvania New York and New Jersey policies ranging from 50 000 to 100 000. Three suspects held in connection with the case are a man and two women.
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Philadelphia
Vincent P. McDevitt
Ferdinand Alfonso
Alfonso
Philip Ingrao
Charles
Guiseppe di Martino
Pennsylvania
New York
New Jersey
Ison
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W. R Amiott
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Serman
U.S
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Warm Springs Foundation
Vega
Laramerville
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Hasiker
Youngstown
Ve Springs
Forrest Turner
Georgia
Augusta
Turner
Bryan Schwab
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