Nye and McSwain Bills Push War Industry Control
Senate committee reports a drastic Nye bill to curb wartime profits by giving broad presidential power to fix prices license all industry control raw materials and draft industrial leaders while House members back a similar McSwain measure without tax features. The panel heard about a Bath Iron Works contract bid by an agent tied to the President’s son.
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Enator
Gerald P. Nye
Munitions Committee
Senate
United States
Nye
House Military Affairs Committee
McSwain
Nye Senate Committee
Roger S. McCrath
James
Bath Iron Works
Maine
Austria Resumes Armament Near Hitler’s Example
The Austrian government under Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg announces disregard of the St German treaty limits and an immediate arms build up. A spring army parade at the Ringstrasse in Vienna is revived with new uniforms. Hungary and Bulgaria are expected to seek consent to expand armies and restore conscription.
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Hitler
Austria
European security pact urged by Moscow talks
The meeting in Moscow with Capt Anthony Eden and Soviet foreign commissar Max Litvinov signaled readiness to line up Britain France and Italy behind a general European security pact. Germany and Poland could join but the plan would proceed without them. The Soviet press then attacked Germany with claims of a looming army buildup led by Hitler.
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Oviet
Russia
Great Britain
France
Italy
England
Moscow
Anthony Eden
Josef Stalin
Maxim Litvinov
Europe
League of Nations
Germany
Poland
Eden
Warsaw
Michael Tukhachevsky
Pravda
Hitler
Mussolini warns against miracles from Stresa conference
In Popolo d Italia an editorial likely by Mussolini cautions Italians that no miraculous results will come from the foreign ministers conference at Stresa. It states western powers must stabilize their common action against foreseeable contingencies and assume responsibility, accusing France and Britain of blocking action against Hitler.
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pPawere
Mussolini
Germany
Europe
Popolo ‘d'Italia
Ilduce
Conference of Foreign Ministers
Stresa
Hitler
Flandin
Laval
France
League of Nations
Poland Declares Independent Stance in European Tangle
Poland will sign only bilateral pacts and refuse any treaty forcing it to fight for Russia or Germany. It will not allow German or Russian troops on Polish soil and seeks parallel disarmament. Polish leaders deny an alliance with Germany while keeping ties with France amid the Berlin Warsaw exchanges.
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Poland
Germany
Eden
Warsaw
John Simon
Berlin
Russia
France
Japan backs European powers stance on anti Hitler moves
Tokyo issued a statement by Eiji Aman of the foreign office saying Japan will offer moral support to European powers seeking countermeasures against Germany. Japan will stay aloof from the European crisis and reject any Far Eastern Locarno pact but is open to discussing demilitarization with Russia on eastern frontiers.
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Tokyo
Japan
Hitler
Germany
Eiji Aman
Foreign Office
Aman
Russia
Bailey Leads Opposition to Copeland Tugwell Bill Debate
Senator Josiah W. Bailey of North Carolina criticized expanding the Agriculture Department to regulate advertising medicine and cosmetics. He argued the department should foster agriculture, not govern commercial labeling, likening its ambition to a boast that outdid Samson in slaughter yet failed to match the boll weevil in cotton work.
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Senate
Josiah W. Bailey
North Carolina
Department of Agriculture
Bailey
State Recovery Act Ruled Unconstitutional by Judge
County Judge Homer W. Hall of Bloomington holds the state recovery act unconstitutional and says the national automobile code is inoperative as applied to Tilots. He notes the act permits federal control via an unlawful delegation enabling prosecutions only with federal sanction.
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Miineis
Horner
Homer W. Hall
Bloomington
Federal Director of Codes
Coal code extended to June 16 averts miners strike
Through Donald Richberg of the NIRB an agreement tied to the bituminous coal operators and United Mine Workers extends the prevailing code to June 16. Wages and hours remain the same. President Lewis says the union did not yield, though absent consent the code would have been extended by executive order.
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Donald Richberg
NIRB
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Richberg
Augustus Lukeman Dies at 64 In New York
Augustus Lukeman, a leading American sculptor, died in New York at age sixty four. He succeeded Borglum in carving the Confederate memorial on Stone Mountain Georgia after 1925 and completed the work in 1928. He also served as chief sculptor at the Chicago World's Fair.
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America
Augustus Lukeman
New York
Borglum
Confederate Memorial Committee
Lukeman
Stone Mountain
Georgia
Chicago
House Rejects Work Relief Restrictions in Conference
The House refused to accept labor and oversight limits in the work relief bill and sent it back to conference. Ickes warned the third of funds for direct labor could exclude rural electrification and slum clearance. Buchanan urged shifting from dole to employment while Bacon argued the provision targets local projects. Snell criticized Congress for bowing to executive orders.
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Beying
Roosevelt
Florida
House
Senate
Ickes
Buchanan
Georgia
Dole
Robert Bacon
Rep
N. Y
Congress
Bertrand Snell
Supreme Court Reverses Scottsboro Convictions on Equal Protection
The high court voided two Scottsboro verdicts after ruling Alabama barred negroes from juries violated the Fourteenth Amendment. The decision quashed indictments but also held that in Texas the Democratic Party is a voluntary association not subject to state control, allowing it to exclude colored voters from primaries.
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United States Supreme Court
Scottsboro
Alabama
Supreme Court
Democratic’ Party
Texas
Ethiopian Government Breaks Off Border Talks With Italy
Ethiopia ends border negotiations with Italy and sends a new note to the League of Nations. Special measures protect foreigners in Addis Ababa as Rome seeks a peaceful settlement without league intervention.
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Italy
League of Nations
Addis Ababa
League
Pope Pius Denounces War During Secret Consistory
Nineteen cardinals met with Pope Pius in a secret consistory where he condemned war as an enormous crime and a foolish manifestation of fury. He warned he would pray for those who seek war, while the consistory approved the canonization of Blessed Thomas More.
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Ineteen
Pius
Holy Father
Thomas More
State Treasurer reports March gasoline tax totals
State Treasurer George E. Hall said Nebraska collected 669,905 in gasoline taxes during March with 239,978 distributed to the states 93 counties.
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George E. Hall
Nebraska
Norfolk to start 25 watt short wave station this April
Norfolk police department has FCC permission to operate a 25 watt short wave radio station on 2490 kilocycles. The transmitter, under construction in Norfolk, will broadcast within a 25 mile radius and aims to begin operation in the latter part of April.
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Norfolk
Senator Burke Proposes Federal Office Building in Valentine
Senator Burke of Nebraska announced efforts to obtain a federal office building for Valentine. The proposal would house the post office weather bureau and several federal agencies including a game preserve, wildlife refuge, and agricultural adjustment administration supervisor offices.
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Burke
Neb
Valentine
Nebr
Post
Weather Bureau
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
State banking dept reports March dividends to depositors
The state banking director announced March dividends totaling 200911 dollars to depositors of banks. A first dividend of 15 percent, 21274 dollars, was authorized for Chappell State bank depositors. March payments broke down into 124484 dollars refunded to claimants against administrative banks and 76426 dollars to depositors of judicial banks.
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State Banking Department
State Banking
Ben Saunders
Saunders
Chappell State Bank
Nebraska road funds to fund grade crossing removal program
State Senator Frank J. Brady said federal highway chief T. H. MacDonald told him about a plan to devote about half Nebraska’s federal road money to grade crossing removals and the other half to the state highway department as in prior aid. Brady and Governor Cochran sought more definite details soon.
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Frank J. Brady
Nebraska
T. H. MacDonald
Federal Bureau of Public Roads
Brady
State Highway Department
Nebrakan
MacDonald
Cochran
Nebraska Sees Early 1935 Sales Rise Amid Dust Threats
In early 1935 Nebraska shows higher expected sales and receipts than last year. Dust storms hinder agriculture while business observers expect a rapid upturn if conditions improve. Omaha retailers report spotty trade but dollar sales up three to nine percent.
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Nebraska
Omaha
Nebraska to get 50000 for distressed rural schools aid
Federal Emergency Relief Administration indicated Nebraska will receive about 50 thousand dollars to aid distressed rural schools. Officials said hundreds may close early next month without the funds, and FERA may move the money from its emergency education reserve. A drought relief allotment was also requested, with action pending new relief funds from PWA or the work relief bill.
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Nebraska
FERA
Nebrasikea
PWA
Nebraska CCC Camps Moved Under Federal Erosion Drive
More than 3,000 youths in 19 Nebraska CCC camps shift to the U S soil erosion service. R L Von Treba says the transfer starts a federal campaign against wind erosion after recent dust storms across the middle west. CCC units will focus on anti erosion work under new command.
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Nebraska
CCC
Middle West
R. L. von Treba
U. S. Soil Erosion Service
Lincoln
Ivan D. Wood
Washington
von Treba
Ideal Frock Afternoon Dress Pattern 9206
Youthful afternoon dress with yoke front and back triangle, shoulder emphasis, tucked bodice, slimming back seam and kick pleat. Suitable in metal flecked crepe silk or wool with short sleeves. Pattern available in sizes 12 to 20, requires 3 yards fabric for size 16, order form and 15 cents.
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Circle Pattern Department
West Eighteenth Street
New York
Playful Quip on Dentist Poker Expert Draws Laughs
A Philadelphia Bulletin quip jokes about a dentist who plays poker, noting his skill at drawing and filling, implying he would outdraw opponents with steady hands. The line blends office humor with dental puns.
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Philadelphia_ Bulletin
Dizzy Dean Winners Ad Offers Free Prizes
Read the Grape Nuts advertisement in another column to learn how to join the Dizzy Dean Winners and win valuable free prizes. The note appeals to boys and girls to participate through the contest in this newspaper.
Dad’s Handy Car Fixups Leave Kenneth Baffled
Lulu asks what is wrong with the car as Kenneth confesses ignorance while blaming their dad’s recent repairs for the vehicle’s failure to run. The exchange hints at family dynamics and a casual, domestic scene.
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Lulu
Kenneth
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Journal de Moscou
Reich
M. Litvinov
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Amau
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