Senate Defers Vote as Currency Plan Is Rejected
A crowded Senate chamber watched the decisive defeat of a plan to pay soldiers’ bonuses in new currency. Leaders postponed the final vote on the $2 billion debt retirement via cashable bonds, choosing to reconvene Monday after open-session nominations.
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Washington
Senate
King
Utah
Borah
R-Iidaho
Robinson
Arkansas
Thomas
Dokla
Patman
LaFollette
Pien Oa
Best undressed show headlines fashion in Manhattan
In Manhattan this week the best undressed are the lingerie makers and models, with hard to access displays for a merchandising crowd. Observers note lighter stronger corsets, satin garters, and new sheer fabrics, while 200 pound silhouettes are addressed by specialist stylists.
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New York
Manhattan
Ogden Mayor Launches Free Leap Year Weddings Program
Ogden Utah January 18. Mayor Herman W Peery and Commissioner Edward T Saunders form a matrimonial bureau to promote home building by offering free ceremonies during leap year. A Los Angeles widow seeks a husband. two Ogden men respond with interest and a 27 year old suitor from Georgia expresses readiness to marry.
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Ogden
Utah
Harman W. Peery
Edward T. Saunders
Los Angeles
Pacific Coast
California
Georgia
June Travis to live on weekly allowance from parents
Hollywood January 18 4 June Travis will continue in films but will not receive salary checks. Her pay about 350 dollars a week will be sent to her Chicago parents who will give 75 dollars weekly and bank the rest until her 25th birthday when the money is turned over to her.
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Hollywood
Travis
Miss Travis
Harry Grabiner
Chicago
Sight Restored After Years of Blindness in Utah Woman
Mrs. Mary Jemima Checketts, 87, described her first moments of sight after a long blindness. She recalled a frightful seeing of her own face in a mirror and the joy of finally viewing her great grand children and flowers.
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Salt Lake City
Mary Jemima Checketts
Woman Released From Cash Bond
Mrs Dorothea Longcope, former wife of Jesse Livermore, was released in superior court from a bond tied to her guardianship of son Paul Livermore. She had shot and seriously wounded her other son Jesse Jr last Thanksgiving. Jesse Jr. is recovering while Paul is with his father in South America.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Dorothea Longcope
Superior Court
Paul Livermore
Longcope
Jesse Livermore
New York
Jesse Jr
South America
Critics Await Results From Bruno Inquiry In New Jersey
Critics of Governor Harold Hoffman await tonight’s reveal on the Lindbergh case. Attorney General Wilentz says no new evidence but questions Hoffman’s 30 day reprieve for Bruno Hauptmann. Schwartzkopf and Wilentz studied Hoffman’s fiery statement as lawmakers weigh impeachment prospects. The next legislative session looms.
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Associated Press
Trenton, N. J
Harold G. Hoffman
David T. Wilentz
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
H Norman Schwartzkopf
Hauptmann
Hoffman
Clark Defends Arms Inquiry in Senate Clash
Senator Clark of Missouri defended the Wilson era arms inquiry as debate with Senator Glass escalated to insults. Secretary Hull announced actions against 20 to 30 munitions makers for neutrality law violations while Nye faced a split committee over funding beyond the $125,000 already spent.
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Pope
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George
D-Ga
Woman Wins Humane Medal For Saving Dogs In Chicago
Miss Viola Larsen, a 50 year old Chicago resident, received the Eichelberger international humane medal for 1935 for saving and sheltering more than 3000 stray and abandoned dogs. She has spent her life rescuing dogs from pits and ill treatment and keeps them in a near north side apartment with her only living space for herself.
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Chicago
Viola Larsen
Wes
Eichelberger
Jackson Day Dinner Plans Delayed By Farley Trip
Ernest T. Spencer of Pocatello, Idaho, announced that National Democratic Chairman James A. Farley cannot attend the proposed Jackson Day dinner. Farley will tour the South late next month and will not return until February 6 or 7, then speak in Topeka on February 22. A new date will be set that fits Farley’s schedule and hopes for broader national interest.
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Pocatello
James A. Farley
Anquet
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Aslows
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Topeka
Kansas
Spencer
Iley
Idaho
Parley
Pocatello Beaten By Bancroft Five
Bancroft defeated Pocatello 36 to 26 in a Saturday night high school game. Bancroft led 16 to 7 at halftime as Creer scored 12 points, with Johnson adding 10. Pocatello’s Harris and Ellsworth stood out for the visitors.
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Johnson
Harris
Ellsworth
Pocatello
Stamps Banned for Unmailable Cartoon Depicting Roosevelt
Post Office bans three New York Republican cartoons as unmailable. Crowley describes the images as Franklin Roosevelt shown as Frankenstein and other scenes attacking the president and government. Two other stamps deemed releasable to mail as to be evaluated for mailability.
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New York
Repubican
Republican National Committee
Carl A. Crowley
Post Office
Crowley
Roosevelt
Frankeinstein
United States
Senator Bankhead to push new farm program measure
Senator John Bankhead announced a plan for a $350 000 farm program to broaden and enlarge the soil conservation act. The proposal would pay drafts to farmers based on compliance with secretary of agriculture plans, including diversification crop rotation and soil building. Bankhead said funding and administration could be handled through the AAA while keeping finances separate. Secretary Wallace set February 15 as the target for the program to affect 1936 crops, while expanding soil conservation to fertility beyond erosion control.
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Bankhead D. Alabs
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AAA
Secretary of Agriculture
Bankhead
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Wallace
End Poverty Leaders Rally at California State Convention
In Los Angeles the Poverty League activity pushes for a pro unemployed platform at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia. Delegates are expected to back resolutions favoring unemployment relief while state central committee dissatisfactions and intra party tensions surface amid calls of selling out.
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End Poverty
Seue
Warden Crawford, Colorado Prison Warden in 1929 Riot, Dies
Cannon City Colorado January 18 former prison warden E Crawford aged 58 died of a heart ailment. He had led during the 1929 prison riot in which 13 people died and 7 guards and 6 convicts were killed. He faced charges before the state civil service commission and was dismissed.
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Colo
E. Crawford
Color
Crawford
State Civil Serve Commission
Prince of Wales First in Line to British Throne
The bachelor prince Edward aged 41 is first in succession to the throne. The line includes The Duke of York Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose The Duke of Gloucester and the Duke of Kent. King George V's title and Windsor name are cited with royal finances and 1927 act details.
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Associated Press
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Duke of Gloucester
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Gray
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Ireland
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India
House and Family of Windsor
Guelph
Germany
Four Killed as Sand Mountain Tornado Strikes Alabama
A Sand Mountain tornado near Fort Payne Alabama killed four people and injured several others after wrecking multiple homes including the Portwood and Rowell properties. The storm damaged Rainsville area with a path about 100 yards wide and hindered by washed out roads.
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Fort Payne
Ala
Sand Mountain
San Mountain
Alabama
Claude Port
Claude Portwood
Randolph Rowell
Morgan Cross Roads
Janet Rowell
Morgan’s Cross Roa
Portwood
Rowell
Rainsville
J. M. Smith
Asylum Inmate Seeks Writ in Idaho Case
Mrs. Hazel Hess an inmate since the Boise slaving case of 1834 asked District Judge Guy Stevens for a habeas corpus writ to gain release. Judge Stevens took the matter under advisement after Dr. W W Beck testified she is normal. Sheriff Corey said Ada county would arrest her if released.
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Blackfoot
Hazel Hess
Boise
Guy Stevens
Stevens
W. W. Beck
Hess
Pauline Frederick In Critical Condition After Abdominal Operation
Hollywood reports Pauline Frederick, 61, still in critical condition after an emergency abdominal operation performed yesterday. The famed stage and screen star, known for Madame X, was born August 12, 1884 and has spent her life in theater and film.
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Hollywood
Pauline Frederick
Madame X
British Ruler George V Struggles With Heart Attack
King George V, aged 70, suffered cardiac weakness and bronchial illness at Sandringham. Officials issued no late bulletins. family and servants stayed on as anxiety rose. A council of state may be appointed to oversee affairs during the monarch’s illness.
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England
Sandringham
Eng
George V
Sandringham House
London Sunday Dispatch
Mae West Hits Milestone With Second Million in Movies
Mae West has earned about a million dollars from her five motion pictures and related work, with a new contract to write and star in at least one film. Federal records show her 1934 income tax on 339166 dollars, suggesting yearly gross near 350 thousand dollars and a weekly average of about 6730 dollars. She remains Hollywoods top box office draw ahead of Shirley Temple.
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Annie
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