Coast Guard Recovers Eight Of Iowa Crew In Pacific Storm
Astoria reports the steamer Iowa, struck by a Nor’easter off Peacock Spit, lost 34 lives as 410 foot hull broke apart. Eight bodies recovered. coast guardsmen and CCC workers traced 13 miles of shoreline through 76 to 90 mph winds. Two victims identified, Marion Perich of New Orleans and O A Meyers of Portland.
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Astoria
Ore
Washington
Oregon
Peacock Spit
North Pacific
Streigher
Columbia River
Marion Perich
New Orleans
O. A. Meyers
Fortland
Coast
Coast Guard
Onondagan
Spit
General Warren
Rosecrans
A Business Man endorses Scouting in Roswell
Tom Hall, longtime sports official, says scouting shapes boys’ sportsmanship after fifteen years in event officiating. Roswell businessmen support Scouting, praising its economic practicality. On Wednesday the Boy Scout annual Campaign begins with about fifty young local business leaders volunteering to boost the drive.
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Tom Hall
Hall
Roswell
Boycout
Grazing Fees Debate Opens Western Conference
Salt Lake City January 13 AP The Taylor Grazing Act brings peace to feed torn ranges and rehabilitates eroding lands. Theodore A Walters first assistant secretary of the Interior spoke at the opening session of a two day conference with federal officials and stockmen district advisory boards from 10 western states. Ickes and Roosevelt messages stressed no quarrel with stockmen and fees should not be so low as to provoke envy or subsidize permittees. Walters praised advisory boards for peace between cattle and sheep men and urged use of their local knowledge to build a cooperative program for the nation. The act supports watershed protection and water supplies via range preservation and CCC support. No high fees discussed yet.
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Salt Lake City
Theodore A. Walters
Walters
Roosevelt
Interior
Ickes
Interior Department
Department of the Interior
Rains Hamper Italian War Drives in Ethiopia Fronts
A neutral observer reports Italian air squadrons bombing Webbe Shibeli and Ganale Doria valleys daily between 7 and 9 am while heavy rains hinder northbound troop movements. Desert heat and malaria slow advances south, with a Negele raid killing six and wounding forty. Three Italian airmen die in a crash near Asmara.
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Associated Press
Ethiopia
Addis Ababa
Ras Desta Demtu
Portsmouth
Nelson
Gibraltar
Asmara
Miss Healy among 25 Ole Miss coeds on campus
Natchez sophomore Rosa Healy named one of Ole Miss 25 most beautiful coeds and noted as an honor student. In other items, John W. Davis denounces New Deal utility holding company act as unconstitutional and Philippine President Quezon reorganizes constabulary into the army with registration for male youth.
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Rosa Healy
Natchez
Miss
University of Mississippi
Aid pours in for sterility case Heiress Hewitt
San Francisco reports two hundred volunteer witnesses and sympathizers respond to Ann Cooper Hewitt's damages suit against her mother Maryon McCarter. Messages come from across the nation and Europe offering aid, testimony, or moral support, with few offering money. Attorney Russell P. Tyler notes many letters are sympathetic, some from nurses who attended Peter Cooper Hewitt before his death.
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San Francisco
Ann Cooper Hewitt
Russell P. Tyler
Tyler
Europe
Peter Cooper Hewitt
Miss Hewitt
American Liberty” League
Deadwood
S. D
London
Paris
New York
Maryon McCarter
Matthew Brady
Bids Too High On Supreme Court Building
Bids for the new supreme court building near the capitol grounds are $40 000 or more above estimates. Companion contracts for electrical plumbing heating elevator and equipment were within estimates. Debate over excluding the state treasury office and vault to save costs prompted opposition. The Agency for International Aid? The text moves to federal court rulings on taxes and the Bankhead cotton act. The Supreme Court adjourned without ruling on TVA Act constitutionality. The decision ordered $200 million in processing taxes returned to taxpayers.
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Supreme Court
Bankhead Act
TVA
Bankhead
Santa Fe
Capitol Grounds
PWA
State Treasury Department
Genral
Capitol
Washington
NRA
AAA
William Humphrey
D-Ala
Department of Agriculture
Louisiana
No Romance Rumors About Garbo and Coward Reported
London reports dash romantic rumors about Greta Garbo and Noel Coward. A Garbo source says meetings were casual during Coward’s Stockholm visit and that romance claims are pure fabrication. Coward’s secretary denies any meeting.
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Garbo
Coward
London
Greta Garbo
Noel Coward
Stockholm
Miss Garbo
Fulmer Receives Unusual Farm Relief Request
In Orangeburg South Carolina Rep Fulmer seeks a novel farm relief loan of 200 dollars to help a man court an attractive widow with a farm. The groom hopeful claims a year on the farm will yield enough to repay the loan. In Atlanta Charlie Yates leads Hughes 1 up in a long 500 hole amateur match.
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Orangeburg
S. C
Fulmer
D-Sc
Roswell School Board Favors Band Trip to Dallas
The Roswell school board approved sending the Roswell school band to the Texas Centennial Exposition in Dallas next summer if arrangements and funding can be secured. Superintendent D N Pope noted no definite plans yet and a fundraising effort would be needed. If feasible, the band would depart after classes end, with the exposition opening June 6 in Dallas.
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Roswell
Dallas
D. N. Pope
Administration bills pay bonus in full for veterans
Senate leaders press a bill to redeem bonus certificates at face value with small non transferable bonds that mature in ten years at 3 percent. The plan avoids new taxes and relies on post office redemptions to limit treasury strain. Strong support from Harrison Byrnes Steiner and Clark cited. A separate House bill leaves payment method unspecified. Judge McDevitt jokes about honeymoons as Louis Hamburg faces speeding charge.
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Washington
Senate
Harrison
D-Miss
Byrnes
D-Sc
Steiner
R-Ore
Clark
D-Mo
Robinson
Philadelphia
Harry
McDevitt
Louis Hamburg
Hamburg
Woman accuses mother of sterilization plot for big trust
Ann Cooper Hewitt in San Francisco alleges her mother Mrs. Maryon H McCarter, widow of inventor Peter Cooper Hewitt, orchestrated sterilization to gain from a 10 000 000 dollar trust.
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Maryon H. McCarter
Peter Cooper Hewitt
Ann Cooper Hewitt
San Francisco
Dempsey Comments on Townsend Old Age Pension Plan
Representative J. J. Dempsey of New Mexico said he has nothing new to add to earlier statements on Townsend's old age pension plan. He had been listed in Townsend publications as among lawmakers who answered affirmatively on the $200 monthly benefit proposal.
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Washington
J. J. Dempsey
DNM
Townsend Old Age Pension Plan
Dempsey
Townsend
Efforts Continue To Save Hauptmann Life
Trenton January 13 efforts to save Bruno Hauptmann from the electric chair next Friday night remained secret. C Lloyd Fisher chief defense counsel telephoned from Flemington but gave no sign of seeking habeas corpus or other action. Mrs Anna Hauptmann visited. State police had no new clues. Governor Hoffman was away. Puzzle of ransom money remains unresolved.
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Associated Press
Trenton
N. J
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Nugent Dodds
Heil Burkinshaw
Washington
United States Supreme Court
C. Lloyd Fisher
Fisher
Flemington
Anna Hauptmann
Bernard M. Finnigan
Chicago
Charles A. Lindbergh Jr
Harold G. Hoffman
Labor plans to organize industry
Washington January 13 AP industrial unionists of the A F L today demanded immediate steps by the executive council meeting Wednesday at Miami to promote organization of auto steel rubber and radio workers. John L Lewis former leader quits last fall and the industrial committee will be represented in the council by a single member Avid Dubinsky president of the Ladies Garment Workers.
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Washington
A. F. of L
Miami
John L. Lewis
Avid Dubinsky
Ladies’ Garment Workers
Three Stores Robbed In City During Night
Price and Company, the Safeway Store and Geo B Owens store were robbed last night. A rack of 15 or 20 dresses valued about 200 dollars were taken from Price's. Cash stolen included 25 dollars from Safeway and 20 dollars from Owens. The Safeway money had been hidden but was recovered. Owens lost cash from the register. A hole in the second story ceiling at Price's suggests an attic entry, but no exterior opening found. all doors were locked at dawn. No thief identified.
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Price and Company
Safeway
Geo. B. Owens
Price’s
Owens
Merchants To Meet Tomorrow In Roswell
Roswell businessmen will gather for the Roswell Merchants Association monthly meeting at 6 30 tomorrow night at Nickson Coffee Shop. Speakers J Walden Bassett and Dan H Wilmot will discuss the federal Social Security Act. Large attendance is anticipated as the topic is of great importance to all business men.
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Roswell
Roswell Merchants’ Association
Nickson
J. Walden Bassett
Dan H. Wilmot
American Gave British Precedence
The Senate investigation heard evidence that some American munitions makers pledged to fulfill British orders regardless of U.S. needs. A cablegram from J P Morgan and Company, which organized about 3 billion dollars of Allied purchases, was introduced to show the promise.
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Washington
United States
Senate
J. P. Morgan
Morgan and Company
Veterans bonus payments totals and beneficiary figures
The bonus of 291,137 veterans has already been paid. VA statistics through June 30, 1935 show 132,842 beneficiaries who died before applying were paid 45,974,146 dollars, and 158,295 veterans with adjusted service credits of 50 dollars or less received 5,321,021.71 dollars.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Weather forecast notes fair tonight and Tuesday
The outlook calls for fair conditions tonight with warmer spells on Tuesday. Temperatures rise to a high near 60 degrees and a low around 26 degrees, with no precipitation expected.
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Thomas J. Hall
Negele
Dolo
Naples
East Africa
Lanza
Mississippi Bell
Davis
Charlotte
N. C
New Deal
Utility Holding Company
John W. Davis
Circuit Court of Appeals
Committee of
Utility Executives
Coleman
Baltimore
James Piper
Congress
Electric
Davis-Pipe
Manila
P. E
Philippine Army
Manuel Quezon
Philippine Constabulary
Miss Rosa Healy
Louisiana Rice Millers
Eugene Tallmadge
Georgia
Rice Millers
Justice Roberts
Cout
Butler
Atlanta
Charlie Yates
Hughes
Mrs
Maryon Hewitt McCarter
Hauptmann
Mount Holly
Ellis
Price & Co. Safeway
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