Special Message on Air Mail Looms in Congress
Congress prepares for clash over cancellation of air mail contracts as President Roosevelt weighs a special message. Farley accuses 14 aviation chiefs of collusion in 1930 meetings. 13 allegedly benefited, threatening reforms and new bidding rules.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Farley
O. Mahoney
Wyoming
Gray Stone
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Post Office
New York
Army
District of Columbia
William P. MacCracken
Airmail Company
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W. Irving Glover
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Monroe community rally for crutches and church bell history
Morning World appeal for crutches aids a Salvation Army case as locals donate walking sticks. Aged First Baptist bell, donated in 1877 by Phinette B. Hasley, stands witness to Monroe's growth from a hamlet to a city of 2000 members. Local math minds discuss a geometry problem with nine miles as the city diameter.
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Monroe
Morning World
W. L. Workman
Salvation Army
E. O. Smith
J. C. Ray
West Monroe
E. H. Pierce
First Baptist Church
Longfellow
Schiller
Phinette B. Hasley
Monroe Baptist Church
B. H. Redditt
Ouachita Junior College
J. W. Hammett
Neville High School
C. E. McKenzie
J. J. Douglas
Douglas
Intensive hunt for missing 8 year old in Rockford
In Rockford Illinois authorities press 200 volunteers to search shacks and cellars near the home of eight year old Charles Backus Jr missing eight days and believed dead. Sheriff William C Bell ordered the intensified hunt as officials grill the boy's father who denies abduction and hints at kidnapping.
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Rockford
Ill
Charles Backus, Jr
William C. Bell
Backus
Stunting Airman Dies In New Orleans Crash At Pan Am Races
Captain W. Merle Nelson of Los Angeles, 36, was fatally burned when his Comet aircraft failed during a loop at 600 feet and crashed near the grandstand at Shushan airport during the Pan American air races in New Orleans. Officials consider cremation and ash scattering over the field per the pilot's request amid a day that also saw a world light-plane speed record of 137.513 mph by S. J. Wittman and Jack Monahan's minor injury in a separate mishap.
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New Orleans
W. Merle Nelson
Los Angeles
New Shushan
Nelson
S. J. Wittman
Oshkosh
Wis
Jack Monahan
Leo Rice
Melvin Traylor dies after pneumonia siege in Chicago
Melvin A. Traylor, 55, president of the First National Bank, dies after a 35 day pneumonia illness at his Chicago home. His wife Dorothy Arnold Yerby Traylor and their two children were present. physicians cite a rare pneumonia form with Friedlander bacillus.
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Melvin A. Traylor
Chicago
Kentucky
First National Bank
Traylor
Japanese detachment occupies Suiyuan near Khabarovsk
Harbin dispatches report a Japanese military detachment has occupied Suiyuan on the Amur river, 35 miles from Khabarovsk, marking the winter anti bandit campaign goal in northern Manchukuo. The occupation occurred February 13, the first Japanese entry into Suiyuan.
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Tokyo
Harbin
Suiyuan
Amur
Russia
Khabarovsk
Rengo Agency
Manchukuo
Khabarovsis
Bankhead pushes cotton control plan before House panel
Senator Bankhead argues for compulsory cotton production control with President Roosevelt backing the idea. He notes market jitters from Oscar Johnston opposition and outlines a permanent tax based plan, with aims to help small farmers and tenants. He cites potential application to other crops and adjustments to gin licensing.
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HOUSE
Washington
Alabama
House Agriculture Committee
Roosevelt
Committee Today
Oscar Johnston
Johnston
AAA
South
Marshall
Republi
Can
Ohio
Farm Administration
Jones
Texas
Fairbanks and Pickford Divorce Suit Shocks Reconciliation Efforts
Douglas Fairbanks Sr and Mary Pickford faced a divorce action named against Fairbanks as corespondent by Lord Ashley. The case, filed February 5, unsettled the couple's recent reconciliation efforts. Fairbanks, in Monte Carlo, has attorney steps to contest within two weeks while Lady Ashley also appeared.
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Associated Press
London
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr
Mary Pickford
Lord Ashley
Fairbanks
Ashley
Sylvia Hawkes
Ninth Earl of
Shaftesbury
Lady Ashley
Monte Carlo
Plan To Aid Broke Cities Is Pondered
Washington considers using the Reconstruction Finance Corp to lend to bankrupt municipalities. The plan hinges on RFC legislation and tax-anticipation warrants as collateral, pending tax bill debates in the House and Senate. President Roosevelt tweaks civil works funding with Hopkins, aiming to taper CWA employment by May.
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House
Senate
Roosevelt
Harry L. Hopkins
CWA
Washington
P. MacCracken
Supreme Court
L. H. Brittin
Aviation Concern
MacCracken
District of Columbia
Capitol
New Orleans Charity Hospital Shapes Humane Mortuary System
Investigation into the New Orleans charity hospital shows a more humane and businesslike system than Shreveport. An undertaker works under contract, cannot claim bodies, must notify relatives, and pays 6300 dollars yearly for three representatives to receive death notices.
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New Orleans
Shreveport
Huey Long Visits Baton Rouge Capitol Amid Crawfish Holes Rumor
At the Baton Rouge statehouse, workers drill holes to stabilize a sinking rear driveway. A prank story spreads that the building is sinking, until an employee notes hundreds of crawfish holes visible from a fourth story window.
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Huey P. Long
State House
Baton Rouge
Statehouse
Huey
State Capitol
Austrian Socialist revolt blamed on foreign support says Giornale Italia
Rome reports the Giornale d Italia accuses Czechoslovakia and unnamed states of backing the Austrian Socialist uprising. It cites media praise, prewar arms, and flight paths of socialist leaders as proof, urging states to restore discipline and accountability.
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Rome
The
Giornale d'Italia
Czechoslovakia
Giornale
Dollfuss
Delayed Exile for Insull Extended in Greece
Premier Tsaldaris said Samuel Insull Sr will stay in Greece while his health improves. The U.S. wants extradition over his collapsed enterprises, but illness delayed deportation after Greek courts blocked extradition actions. The premier called deportation in his weakened state a potential murder.
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Greece
Athens
Tsaldaris
Samuel Insull
Insull
United States
Embalming Fluids Focus At Kennedy Murder Trial
In Greenwood Mississippi on February 15 the trial of Dr. Sarah Ruth Dean heard witnesses about embalming fluids used on John Preston Kennedy. Officials testified the fluids contained no mercury as they prepared the body for burial. A chemist from Starkville was delayed to the stand.
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Greenwood
Miss
Sarah Ruth Dean
John Preston Kennedy
Starkville
Kennedy
Grand Plums, Jr
Columbus
French Premier Doumergue seeks truce of parties in parliament
Gaston Doumergue told the French National Assembly he would not be drawn into party feuds and urged a moral house cleaning. Police prepared for trouble outside the deputies chamber as he asserted authority and announced a cabinet formed to achieve the truce of parties.
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Paris
Gaston Doumergue
Chamber of Deputies
Doumergue
Rockefeller Ready to Travel After Doctors Declare Condition Fit
John D. Rockefeller Sr. left his Pocantico Hills estate on a special train to New York en route to Florida after physicians pronounced him in fit condition for travel. The move follows a period of illness and careful medical supervision.
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Tarrytown
N. Y
John D. Rockefeller, Sr
Poncantico Hills
New York
Florida
Humphrey's Challenge Ends in Sudden Death
President Roosevelt faced a federal court challenge over the removal of William E. Humphrey from the Federal Trade Commission. Humphrey, 71, died of a stroke at his Washington home after a period of frail health, ending the suit alleging unlawful removal without charges.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Federal Trade Commission
William E. Humphrey
Humphrey
German Pressure and Austrian Tensions Across Europe
As Austria faces internal resistance in the provinces, Dollfuss appears to control Vienna while socialists resist. Italy mobilizes 75 000 troops on the northern border amid Austrian concerns. Czech labor shows sympathy strikes. Germany resents Dollfuss’s anti Nazi stance as France’s Doumergue pushes budget action with minimal bickering.
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Associated Press
Austria
Engelbert Dollfuss
Vienna
Italy
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Dollfuss
France
Gaston Doumergue
Revolt Put Down In City Of Vienna
Socialist rebellion in Vienna collapsed in the capital but continued in the provinces where government troops faced counterattacks. Two thousand Socialists surrendered at Laaberg while Prince Starhemberg was reported surrounded in Steyr. Goethe Hof apartment building fell after shelling and found to house only women and children.
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Engelbert Dollfuss
Laaberg
Ernst von Starhemberg
Austria
Fascistheimwehr
Steyr
Goethe Hof
World tension blues echo in Santa Monica taking sides
A vivid column notes Europe Asia and Africa orbiting conflict as Britain tells Germany to stop and nations readjust alliances. It cites Mussolini France and Russia eyeing power while domestic discord risks drawing the United States into broader turmoil.
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Santa Monica
Cal
Austria
England
Germany
Russia
Japan
Mussolini
France
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