PSC invites rail commissions to probe southern freight rates
Georgia Public Service Commission invites southeastern railroad regulators and shippers to meet at the state capitol on September 8 to launch a broad investigation of southern freight rates. Chairman Jud P L Wilhoit says the effort aims to expose rank and indefensible discriminations that hinder southern industrial growth.
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PSC
Atlanta
Georgia Public Service Commission
State Capitol
Jud P L. Wilhoit
Georgia Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Wilhoit
Southeastern
FL C. C
T. C. CL
Ceorsia
LC. C
State Commission
United States Supreme Court
South
Commission
Wilhart
Flashes of Life and City Signals Across 1935 News
A collage of brief items from various U S locales. In New York Richard Adams survives a gunpoint robbery losing only 60 cents. In Charleston births are logged Pete and Repeat Jones. In Sharpsville a 15 year old runs to see the world while parents own the carnival. Lincoln notes Christmas slogans. Chicago reports a record 8402 liquor licenses and 5 121 million in fees for late 1935.
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Windy City
Chicago
Talmadge Presses Georgia School Funding Debate
Governor Eugene Talmadge argues Georgia increased school funding from state taxes in 1933 1934 and 1935 and criticizes Washington's stance on equal tax support for education. He cites figures from the Georgia Department of Education and notes a 1935 budget increase from highway savings.
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State of Georgia
State Department of Education
L. R. Alderman
Sellon
Washington
Georgia
General Assembly
State Highway Department
Roosevelt
Alabama
Geogia
United States
South Carolina
Oklahoma
Supreme Court of the United States
Tom Wisdom
Walter Cowart
Collins
Congress
Eugene Talmadge
Attorneys for Smith and Harvey Seek New Trial
Atlanta Aug. 13. Attorneys for Leland Harvey and Aubrey Smith imprisoned for robbing a National Bank in Rome Ga filed an amended motion for a new trial claiming new evidence. The defense says a bullet-marked car tied to the case was found burning near Zephyrhills Fla after the Rome trial. An FBI agent testified at the Rome trial about the car find .
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Atlanta
Leland Harvey
Aubrey Smith
Rome
J. O. Ewing
Zephyrs Hill
Fla
Dade City
Harvey
Smith
Neil Andrews
United States
Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Dixie Cotton Leaders Seek Announcement Of Loan Continuance
Washington reports saltions by Southern cotton senators pressing for an early announcement on continuing 12 cent pound loans. Senate Agriculture Chairman Smith said he expects Roosevelt to announce soon and warned against withholding action, plus support for a $500 million foreign credit insurance plan to boost exports.
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Washington
Smith
Senate Agriculture Committee
Roosevelt
New Orleans
South
Walsh bill triumphs in senate and waits action in the house
The Walsh bill imposing NRA code waves and hours on government contractors passes the Senate 61 to 23 defeating the Black 30-hour bill. It requires minimum pay and hour limits, prohibits under 16 and convict labor, and caps operation at two years with penalties from fines to contract revocation.
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Washington
Senate
House
Clark
D. Mo
Walsh
D. Mass
Long
D. la
Austin
R. Vt
Calrk
Advocates Seek Immediate Action on Larger Army Air Corps
Washington aug 13 advocates of a larger army air corps energized by roosevelts approval of the wilcox air bases bill will ask secretary dern to act. rep wilcox says a board of air corps officers will visit proposed sites to judge strategic value for bases in six regions and a 120000000 appropriation is authorized though not yet funded the measure aims to depoliticize base establishment and advance a logical air defense policy.
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Washington
Army Air Corps
Roosevelt
Dern
Wilcox
D. Fis
War Secretary
Air Corps
Alaska
Pacific Coast
Rocky Mountain Region
Southeast
South Atlantic Seaboard
New England
War Department
House
Charles E. Kilbourne
Military Affairs Committee
Senate proposes broad new tax measure with tiered rates
The senate outlines a new tax plan including rates up to 15 percent on high incomes, exemptions for charitable donations up to five percent of net income, excess profits tax tiers from 6 to 34 percent, an intercorporate dividends tax, and a capital stock tax of 1.5 dollars per thousand of adjusted declared value.
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Senate
Visitors and locals note in city listings
Visitors include A W Turner and Thomas Thorpe from Macon. Albany guests J T Stanaland and Rudolph Moore visit. E S Deschamps Jr of Jacksonville conducts business. Others plan trips to Savannah Beach New York and Detroit. Flor ence Ferrell departs for Washington New York and jewelry centers for three weeks.
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Thomas Thorpe
Macon
J. T.stanaland
Albany
Rudolph Moore
Glayds Bibb
Martha Stanaland
Louleese Stanaland
Chattanooga
New York
New Jersey
Florence Ferrell
Washington
Detroit
Doris West Recovering After Car Accident Hospitalized
The many friends of Miss Doris West will be delighted to learn that she is resting nicely at the hospital where she was carried Saturday for treatment of injuries sustained in an automobile accident several months ago.
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Doris West
Storm Troopers Reorganized Within Nazi Campaigns
Berlin reports storm troopers are being reorganized as a quality Nazi defense unit against state enemies of Semitism and political Catholicism. Reichsführer Hitler discussed the future of the Steel Helmet veterans with Franz Seldte, signaling changes for a group now deemed reactionaries. Victor Lutze leads efforts to reshape the troopers into ideologically pure fighters while urging intensified anti Jewish hatred.
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Berlin
Storm Troopers
Franz Seldte
Hitler
Seldte
Storm Abteilung
Victor Lutze
Feuhrer
Mystery Surrounding Rubie Salie Disappearance Deepens
In San Diego on August 13, Prince M. A. M. Salie of Ceylon said his daughter Rubie Salie packed three suitcases and left their apartment after an alarm over her disappearance. Police noted she deposited $250 at a San Diego exposition branch before returning to her apartment, then vanished. The wealthy diamond broker described daughter as well-traveled with no local close friends.
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San Diego
Calif
Rubie Salie
Prince M. A. M. Salie
Ceylon
Prince Saiie
Prince Salie
Ihe
San Diego Exposition
Exposition
Girr
Tin Can Motorists Renew Friendships at Michigan Meeting
Twelve hundred tin can tourists gathered in Grand Rapids for the world reunion opening with welcomings by Mayor William Timmery and William B. Wise. The week features singing and campfire assemblies as the group plans next winter’s Florida convention. The name derecho to change faces opposition. the organization, with 35 000 members, dates to early motoring days and emphasizes fellowship in touring.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Tin Can
Wiliam Timmery
William B. Wise
Labor and Industry
Florida
Desoto Park
Fla
Canada
Mexico
Cuba
Georgia tobacco markets post near six million pound rise
The Associated Press reports continued heavy tobacco sales across Georgia bright leaf markets. Last week and opening week totals nearly six million pounds higher than all of 1934, with Valdosta at 765 520 pounds and Moultrie at 643 670 pounds, both strong averages. Tifton set a weekly high at 849 710 pounds with 21.79 average as offerings remained heavy.
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Associated Press
Georgia
State Department of Agriculture
Valdosta
Tobacco Board of Trade
Moultrie
Tifton
City Council Debates Finances and Utilities
City council session weighs economic viability of a swimming pool project and electric line extension to Ochlocknee. Debates over beer regulations, privy maintenance costs, termite repairs at city hall, and tax collection aids accompany routine adjournment after a lengthy meeting.
Treasury statement shows Aug 10 receipts and deficits
Washington reports Aug 10 receipts 7 097 109 97 expenditures 18 313 490 26 balance 1 663 972 640 69 customs receipts for month 10 836 177 10 fiscal year receipts since July 1 439 605 331 23 expenditures 965 373 927 05 including 478 079 244 53 emergency expenditures excess of expenditures 525 768 595 82 gross debt 29 069 352 988 53 down 6 243 119 00 since yesterday gold assets 9 176 824 610 44
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Washington
Treasury
Georgia youths visit England aboard Shickshinny
Four Georgia Rotary Clubs youths Edward Cole Jr Louis Falligant Robert McCuen and William Lee Wood Jr arrived in Wilmington aboard the freighter Shickshinny from Antwerp July 27.
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Wilmington
N. C
Georgia
England
Edward Cole, Jr
Newnan
Louis A. Falligant
Albany
Robert P. McCuen
Savannah
William Lee Wood, Jr
Macon
Antwerp
Three New Processing Tax Cases Filed in Federal Court
In Macon Georgia on August 13 three new processing tax cases were filed in the federal district court. Judge Bascom S Deaver assigned all three for hearing on August 20 after granting temporary restraining orders against W E Page internal revenue collector and defendant. Plaintiffs include Griffin Grocery Company of Griffin and Fort Valley ground corn and flour the Tallapoosa mills cotton processors of Tallapoosa and the Jefferson mills cotton processors of Jefferson.
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Macon
Federal District Court
Bascom S. Deaver
W. E. Page
Internal Revenue Collector
Griffin Grocery Company
Griffin
Fort Valley
Tallapoosa
Hopson testifies on lobbying probe location and income figures
Hopson testifies at a lobbying probe recounting the Associated System history from its 300 operating companies to public stock sales. He denies large financial stakes in the Wheeler-Rayburn utilities bill and minimizes the value of family class B stock. He notes public purchases of 50 million in preferred stock, plus 13.5 million in bonds and 3 to 4 million in common stock.
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O’connor
Hopson
Wheeler-Rayburn
Associated Gas and Electric Company
Witness Hopson Aids Fight Against Utilities Bill
Washington Aug 13 44 The key gas and electric boss H C Hopson told the House Rules Committee he urged B B Robison of Chicago to oppose the utilities bill. Robison testified the Associated company reimbursed about 6000 of 7000 dollars in expenses. Hopson’s location was not disclosed as committee members pressed for Hopson’s whereabouts. The Senate lobby committee questioned prominent lawyers about their anti bill activities.
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Washington
H. C. Hopson
Associated Gas and Electric System
House Rules Committee
B. B. Robison
Chicago
Robison
Associated Company
Hopson
Senate Lobby Committee
O'Connor
Rules Committee
Robinson
O’connor
Government to finance poor houses if communities pay share
Washington reports Secretary Ickes said the federal government will continue to finance poor houses if communities want them and can finance their share. He cited an Augusta Georgia case seeking a $175000 allotment for an alms house as an example.
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Washington
Richmond County
Augusta
Georgia
Ickes
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