Roosevelt Proposes Federal Guarantee for Farm Bonds
President Roosevelt asks Congress to amend the emergency farm credit act to guarantee both principal and interest on farm mortgage bonds. He argues the government has a moral obligation and bonds would be on par with treasury securities. The plan involves a $2,000,000,000 bond program and a new farm credit corporation led by Governor Myers.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Fahey
Home Loan Board
Senate
House
Treasury
Canada
St. Lawrence
Administration Farm Credit
Myers
Farm Credit Administration
Government Corporation
Land donation plan links highway to Monroe gravel tract
West Monroe proposals to build a Dixie-Overland road to a new vocational school would also provide access to Monroe city land once bought for gravel. The 80 acre tract, bought for about 17000 dollars, could become a park or recreational center. A side note reports a New Year resulution tale about a Frenchman joining a church choir after mistaking a prayer meeting for a singing event.
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T. H. McMillan
West Monroe
Dixie-Overland
Natchitoches
Monroe
First Methodist Church
Prince Alexis and Heiress Bride Reunited in Japan
Seattle dated report says Prince Alexis and his heiress bride Barbara Hut ton will reunite in Yokohama for six months or more. He plans to sail this afternoon on Hikawa Maru while Barbara travels from San Francisco on Tatsua Maru. The couple’s movements include a Los Angeles detour and San Francisco society engagements as a Los Angeles district attorney sighs off process. Barbara expresses disappointment over not accompanying him.
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Seattle
Barbara
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Prince
Reno
Pacific Northwest
Baron Fitts
House Appropriations Seeks Over Half a Billion for Agencies
The appropriations committee asked Congress to authorize 556.435 million dollars for 16 independent federal agencies for the next fiscal year. It cites 265 million in savings from veterans expenditures under the economy act and projects 160 million more budget-wide savings if the act is extended. Proposals include a 10 percent federal pay cut for 1935, salary changes for lawmakers, biannual living-cost surveys, deficit allowances only with restored cuts, and continued mileage cuts. Veterans administration would receive 546.005 million of the total allocation.
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Washington
Appropriations Committee
House
Independent Offices
Senate
Veterans Administration
Greece declares Insull must leave by end of January
Foreign Minister Dimitri Maximos stated Greece’s decision that Samuel Insull must exit by January 31 is final and revocable. He noted Greek law gives the interior minister power over foreign residence and that appeals will be dismissed by the high court.
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London
Dimitri Maximos
Greece
Associated Press Today
Samuel Insull
United States
Insull
Maximos
High Court of Greece
Athens
Mextaxas
Crowd Attacks Alleged Murderers of Archbishop
About 500 people surged toward seven men charged with Archbishop Leon Tourain’s December 24 murder as they were moved from a patrol wagon to arraignment in homicide court. Police kept order with a dozen officers.
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New York
Leon Tourain
Holy Cross
Republicans Attack Roosevelt Policy in Riverside
Riverside California January 10 The Republican National Committee denounces Roosevelt economic policy in a heated Monday statement. The piece notes the committee had reported the largest deficit on record two days earlier and mocks the idea of a broke man advising business. California’s supreme court rules male state university students must accept military training alongside free education. The piece warns against exemptions that would let academics pursue only sports arts and hobbies.
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Riverside
Cal
Republican National Committee
Roosevelt
California
Supreme Court
States
Milk Blockade Ends in Chicago After Truce
Chicago officials say milk deliveries will resume after a five day blockade that halted shipments and sparked violence. Arbitrators will set a minimum price to producers with one rep from each side plus a third arbitrator to decide terms.
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Chicago
Edward J. Kelly
Two Die When Car Plunges Off Highway Near Meridian
Mrs. Robert McArthur, 28, died instantly when the couple’s car plunged over an embankment near Meridian Mississippi. Her husband, Robert McArthur, died later in a Meridian hospital from injuries. They were returning from a rural night club and left three young children.
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Meridian
Miss
Robert McArthur
Fascists Back Dollfuss in Austria Drive
Upwards of 20 000 Heimwehrmen in Austria mobilize to back Chancellor Englebert Dollfuss in a decisive campaign against the Nazis. Leaders demand a purely fascist regime from Dollfuss as a condition of support.
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Dollfuss
Vienna
Strangest Jersey confinement ties to Lindbergh case figure
Detectives investigate the imprisonment of Sophie Cerardi 42 found in a naked, dirty closet like room above a stable at the Barnes estate in Ridgefield Park New Jersey. Her husband Joseph Cerardi 34 and housekeeper Mary Griffin 35 were jailed on false imprisonment charges amid abuse questions.
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Ridgefield Park
N. J
Barnes
Sophie Cerardi
Bergen Pines
Joseph Cerardi
Mary Griffin
Cerardi
Hopewell
Geradi
No Election On Liquor Called By Police Jury
Members of the police jury met and took no action on calling a parish election to decide wet or dry status. President John M. Breard said action should wait until the Supreme Court decides a related test case. Breard also discussed potential refunds from the CWA and a grant for Selman airport drainage and lighting.
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John M. Breard
Supreme Court
David I. Garrett
Breard
CWA
Selman
Sterlington Road
Sicard
Navy Seaplanes Prepared for 2150 Mile Pacific Flight
Six large navy seaplanes ready to depart San Francisco toward Honolulu in the longest overwater formation flight. Lieut. Com. Kneffler McGinnis leads 28 crew through favorable conditions with fuel loads of 700 to 1000 gallons per plane. Landings expected at Pearl Harbor by Thursday noon PST if winds cooperate.
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Pacific
Honolulu
Com
Kneffler McGinnis
Hawaii
McGinnis
Pearl Harbor
San Diego
Two Die In Fire At Sour Lake Oil Shack
A driller's shack in the Sour Lake oil field caught fire after a guest poured coal oil into a stove. Billie Boyd Carlisle and Bill Garvin died. Mrs. Mary Carlisle and Henry Tyson were injured as the house collapsed while rescuers sought the sleeping occupants.
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Beaumont
Tex
Sour Lake
Billie Boyd Carlisle
Bill Garvin
Mary Carlisle
Henry Tyson
Lindbergh Receives Stock From Air Transport Firm
An official testified 25,000 shares of Transcontinental Air Transport stock valued at 250000 dollars were given to Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh for services in a transfer described as for income tax purposes. D M Shaeffer, the chairman, outlined the transfer system.
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Washington
Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc
Senate
Charles A. Lindbergh
D. M. Shaeffer
Air Company
Lindbergh
Dutch stonemason beheaded for Reichstag fire in Berlin
Leipzig court records say Marinus Van Der Lubbe, a 24 year old Dutch stonemason, was executed by guillotine for the Berlin Reichstag fire. He refused to divulge accomplices and faced the death penalty after a December 23 conviction.
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Leipzig
Germany
Marinus van der Lubbe
Reichstag
Berlin
van der Lubbe
Supreme Court
Paul van Hindenburg
Roosevelt backs sinking funds to ease railroads debt
President Roosevelt advocates railroad and utility sinking funds to retire mortgage debt and avert bankruptcy risk. He urges regulators like the Interstate Commerce Commission to permit earnings that let roads meet debt obligations, noting one large line faced receivership last March and that continued strain could have endangered major railways.
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Washington
Jan
Roosevelt
Interstate Commerce Commission
White House
Kemp Says Long Supported Her Without Knowledge
Mrs. Bolivar Kemp testified before a house elections committee that Senator Huey P. Long backed her due to her strength but she learned of his support from a newspaper. She said she never aligned with Long or Sanders and expected election by acclamation before factional tensions. Separately, Louisiana citizens filed charges seeking Senator Longs unseating, sent from the judiciary to the elections committee.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Louisiana
Bolivar E. Kemp
House Elections Committee
Huey P. Long
J. ¥. Senders, Jr
Kemp
Congress
Sanders
Long
Citizens Committee
Senator Long
Senate
Elections Committee
Ashurst
Judiciary Committee
Elections Group
Barkley
Kentucky
Arguments Made To House Group Over Louisiana Seat
Mrs. Bolivar E Kemp contends for a sixth district Louisiana seat against J Y Sanders Jr in a contest before the house elections committee. Kemp says she is a non partisan victim of a factional fight and hired Robert E Scott to present her position. The dispute centers on a December 5 election called by Governor Oscar K Allen without a primary and a December 27 citizen election backed by anti Long forces.
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Washington
Bolivar E. Kemp
J. Y. Sanders, Jr
Louisiana
House Elections Committee
Kemp
Robert E. Scott
Southern women push cooperation with federal plan on lynching
In Atlanta on January 10 the association of southern women for the prevention of lynching urged cooperation between federal and state governments to eradicate lynching rather than accept a federal anti lynching bill. They will send a committee to Washington to appeal to President Roosevelt for a joint approach and condemned lynching as a crime tied to racial oppression and inequality.
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Atlanta
Washington
Roosevelt
Association of Southern Women For the Prevention
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