Roosevelt In Close Touch With Solons
President elect Roosevelt stays near Congress as he shapes a Democratic program aimed for quick passage. He plans no special session, awaiting March 4, with meetings in New York and Washington to align budget balancing, farm relief, and a possible parity plan restricting agricultural support to wheat and cotton. He travels to Washington then Warm Springs, with Muscle Shoals nitrate plant review en route.
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New York
Roosevelt
Congress
Washington
Capitol Ksil
Benator Smith
South Carolina
Smith
Agriculture Committee
New York City
Southland
United States
Hover
Warm Springs
Muscle Shoals
Three Killed in French Landslide at Scenic Resort
A landslide at a historic French resort left two elderly women and one man dead and several others seriously injured. Police said residents ignored warnings to evacuate their homes perched near the danger zone, as the rustic area famed for beauty and light wines faced the disaster.
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Rochecohbon
France
Bank teller forced to open vault in $500 robbery
In Harris Kansas three men and a woman confined teller Wilbur M. Thomas at his home for three hours last night and compelled him to access the People's State bank vault. They escaped in a large sedan with about $500 in cash.
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Ofens Vau
Harris, Kan
Wilbur M. Thomas
People's State Bank
Judge Refuses to Delay Suit Despite Illness of Aimee
Los Angeles January 17 Judge Marshall McComb said Aimee Semple McPherson’s illness did not require delaying two court actions. If she cannot appear, testimony may be taken at her bedside in the $240000 contract suit by Roy Stewart accusing her of breaking an emotional picture deal. The municipal court denied a six month continuance in the $1903 salary suit of Roy A. Watkins, former investigator for Mrs Hutton's Angelus temple. Trial set for February 24.
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Los Angeles
Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton
Marshall McComb
Roy Stewart
Roy A. Watkins
Hutton
New York Penal Pen Sinkage Reported by Engineers
New York officials report the new penitentiary on Biker's Island sinking beyond all reason. Engineers from the finance department found foundations tested on ash over a mud bottom, casting doubt on the structure after costs exceeding 5 million dollars.
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New York
Gray Hair Best Remedy Made At Home
Home remedy instructions claim to color gray hair using a water mix and a small box of Marlo compound with glycerin. The mixture is applied daily to the scalp to restore natural color, leaving hair soft and not rubbing off.
Funeral rites for Samuel Belden San Antonio attorney
Funeral services for Samuel Belden 54 San Antonio attorney who died Saturday night will be held at 2 p m Wednesday from the Wilbert Hanavan chapel. Burial will be in San Fernando cemetery. Native of Brownsville he came to San Antonio to practice law 30 years ago after earning a civil engineering degree from Texas A and M and a law course at the University of Virginia. A Spanish American War veteran he served as legal representative for Presidents Carranza and Obregon of Mexico and for a time was legal representative of the Mexican government at Washington. Surviving are his widow Isabel Belden a son Chester Belden a daughter Marguerita Belden a sister Mrs Pami Na Adams of Detroit and a brother Harry Belden of San Antonio. Active pallbearers include Randolph Carter Gus Manermann Dr T Goodson William Salbig and Charles Haltom. Honorary pallbearers list many judges and local figures.
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Samuel Belden
San Antonio
Wilbert-Hanavan Chapel
San Fernando
Brownsville
Ben Antonio
Texas A. and
M. College
Unversity
Virginia
Carranza and Obregon
Mexico
Washington
Isabel Belden
Chester Belden
Marguerita Beldan
Pami Na Adams
Detroit
Harry Belden
Randolph Carter
Gus Manermann
T. Goodson
William Salbig
Charles Haltom
H. C. Carter
W. 5. Anderson
Joseph Ryan
D. A. McAskill
H. B. Creager
John F. Onion
W. 5. Anthony
R. Nel Campbell
Frank Bosshardt
Nat Lewis
W. Saeligson
G. Tayloe
Lloyd Caldwell
Frank H. Bushick
Augustus McCloskey
R. B. Minor
Leonard Brown
L. B. Camp
PF. P. MeCloskey
Pacific Seaboard Attacked in Winter Fleet Maneuvers
Washington dispatch reports the Pacific seaboard to be targeted in winter maneuvers. Beginning February 6 at midnight, a fleet base at Hawaii will lead an attack from a point midway between the California coast and the Hawaiian Islands. The battle fleet will defend the Pacific slope against the invaders.
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Washington, D. C
Pacific
United States
Hawai
California
Hawaiian Islands
Robbery Complaint Filed Against Man in South Alamo Area
A robbery complaint was filed Tuesday in Justice Jet F. Onian's court against a man identified as win rls. 22 of Alven near the Acme Tourist camp. The case follows an alleged holdup of J. E. Bardwell, manager of the Graybure Ol company station at South Alamo and Beaurerard streets on January 9, with about 5 reportedly taken.
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Alven
Acme
Issrul
Jet F. Onian
J. E. Bardwell
Graybure
South Alamo S
Beaurerard
Bardwell
Repeal Move Starts in House to Force Vote on Eighth Amendment
The Wisconsin Republican Representative Suhater filed a petition in the House seeking to trigger a floor vote on repealing the Eighth Amendment. The move aims to revive Speaker Garner’s repeaI resolution, contingent on enough signatures to force consideration.
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Washington, D. C
Suhater
Wisconsin
House
Garner
Senator Sheppard Defends Prohibition Anniversary Rally
In Washington on January 17, Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas urged Americans to resist repeal of national prohibition on the thirteenth anniversary of its enactment. He warned that repeal would threaten freedom and progress, while Huey Long’s filibuster delayed his remarks and Senator Moses noted the civil service law's political impact.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Morris Sheppard
Texas
America
Sheppard
Huey FP. Long
Louisiana
Moses
New Hampshire
Democratic Party
War Debt Cited as Bar to Peace
Miss Mary E. Woolley the sole American woman delegate at the Geneva army conference warns that the Far East menace and debt debacle threaten conference success. She addresses disarmament hurdles notes some progress and predicts more. The report mentions a radio program, Job-Becker on air weekly at 9:15 p.m. on KONO.
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Washington, D. C
Far East
Mary E. Woolley
Ilona
Treasury receipts and expenses for mid January
Treasury receipts for January 14 totaled 2,083,830.55 with expenditures of 1,610,320,601.42 and a balance of 414,864,178.44. Customs duties for the first 14 days of January amounted to 9,053,915.87.
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Treasury
Washington, D. C
Sailor identified as missing Bradham found at sea
Long Beach Calif Jan 1 A seaman first class James H Bradham missing since January 1 from the U S G Trenton has been identified and found in the ocean under a landing here today. The report notes the body was recovered from the sea near the shore.
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Long Beach
Calif
James H. Bradham
U. S
G. Trenton
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Josephine
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J. W. Widener
Philadelphia
Askel C. P. Wichfeld
Washington, D .C
Reno
Eishot Deix
Wilbert Hanavan Chapel
Aimee
N, Y
Island
Pacific Seaboard
Studenakeragtan
Becker
Kono
Wazxahachie
Dy. EB. F. Gough
Pernambuco
Brasil
Jean Mermas
Naetal
Paris
Buenos Ares
Frost Bros
Frost's
Fashions
A Ayo Chere
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