House Rejects Major Pay Cuts for Members
Washington report notes the House rejected an eleven percent pay cut for members and kept current salaries. The Senate moves on air mail subsidies and ocean mail contracts while lawmakers debate tariff walls and the farm bill hearings continue.
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Tle
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Whittington
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David S. Barry
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Senate Agriculture
Treasury-Post Office
Senate Trims Treasury Post Office Supply Bill
Washington moves cut two million from a 940 million treasury post office supply bill and bars new public building sites. King Utah brokered a compromise on higher figures, with Dickinson Iowa seeking further curbs on public buildings and McKellar Tenn. opposing ocean mail cuts. The measure now shows a total reduction of 21.4 million.
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Iowa
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Mrs Roosevelt to Make No Contracts After March Fourth
New York February story cites Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt saying after her husband becomes president she will not sign contracts or involve her writings with politics or the White House. She vows not to lend her name to advertising and cites giving proceeds from a radio contract to unemployment relief and charities.
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Evening Post
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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the Post
Dynamite Cache Found in Atlanta Area
Police investigated 55 sticks of dynamite found in a duplex garage linked to Lewis Hodges a part time Georgia Power employee. Mrs. Roy Horton reported the find and a note claimed the cache was planted with a threat to blow up a tower. Authorities connected the note to a two year spate of power line dynamiting and a grand jury inquiry.
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Roosevelt Sets Off for Ten Day Fishing Trip on Nourmahal
President elect Roosevelt tours Jacksonville crowds gather at Hemming Park before he boards Vincent Astor's Nourmahal yacht for a ten day vacation at sea. Governor Sholtz and Mayor Aslop ride with him as speakers warn photographers to avoid interviews during the cruise.
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Macon Uses Scrip to Meet Payroll
Macon Georgia uses six percent scrip to cover payroll totaling $16,094 for the day as the third issue of this paper in the year announced.
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Macon
Local Visitors and Community Notices Featured in City Journal
Mr. M. V. Costello of Jacksonville and Mr. Clyde Fuller of Atlanta were in town on business yesterday. Miss Pearl Stuckey of Valdosta visits, while Mrs. Coy A. Stephenson mourns her brother W. S. Bradley’s death near Pavo. W. H. Platt traveled from Atlanta for his mother’s illness. The issue also lists service ads for repairs and auto work, plus local births and hunting party gatherings.
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Jacksonville
Coy A. Stephenson
W. S. Bradley
Pavo
W. H. Platt
Atlanta
Free Coinage of Silver Discussed by House Body
John A. Simpson of the Farmers Union urged remonetization of silver and a congressional probe into farm deflation begun in 1920. He cited Reconstruction Finance Corporation loans aiding only big farmers and presented a Montanan letter detailing an $800 loan secured by livestock and crops. He questioned bank closures and noted 3 billion dollars retired from currency.
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Emory J. LaRoche
Modoc
Montana
P. B
Overlooking Deficit Proposed To Balance Budgets
Georgia official Roy Harris told the double taxation conference that balancing budgets could be done by overlooking the deficit. He cited Georgia reasons including delegated local tax powers, lack of large bond issues, and a state practice of balancing the budget by overlooking the deficit.
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Georgia
Roy Harris
Senate investigates Barry over bribery claims article
Senator Norris pressed for immediate dismissal of David S. Barry as sergeant at arms amid allegations of bribery in a magazine piece. The matter was referred to the Senate judiciary committee which will consider action and possible prosecution by District of Columbia and New York authorities.
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Crisp County Pays Bond and Interest on Power Plant
Crisp County Power Commission announced a 25000 dollar bond retirement and 30000 dollar interest payment to New York ahead of the February 1 maturity. The hydro electric plant, county owned, is reported in good condition by E S Killibrew with prospects for increased business and no citizen funding required.
Sewing Machine Bobbin Removed From Child’s Throat
Atlanta reports the removal of a sewing machine bobbin lodged in Gladys Hand Heflin Alabama girl since she swallowed it two years ago. W B Barker says Birmingham operation six months ago attempted removal by stomach tube feeding since then.
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Birmingham
General Glassford to Open Camp Near Washington
General Glassford announces a camp near Washington to shelter unemployed men aged 18 to 25. Participants will raise vegetables and clear woodland, using private funds. He notes he is currently unemployed and cites the Bonus March in Washington as context.
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Parker's Attitude on Postmaster Appointments
In a conference of officials, Parker declines early comment on postmaster appointments at Millen Metter Fort Screven Greenwood Reidsville Lyons and Riley noting ongoing investigations. He mentions Waynesboro and Fort Wentworth examinations and endorses S A Gray at Waynesboro while awaiting the civil service list outcomes.
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Countess of Oxford Sells Berkshire Home Due to Finances
Margot Asquith widow of Herbert Asquith says she must sell her Berkshire country home The Wharf at Sutton Courtenay because taxes and reduced security dividends leave her unable to maintain it She sold for a mere song while noting she still values her late husband's memory and her writings and annuities support her London life
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Evening Standard
Prussia Prepares for March 12 Elections Amid Turmoil
The article notes a tumultuous session ending the vote with the cen trist socialist and communist benches facing dissolution. The socialist motion for dissolution was introduced as each party received an hour of debate. The nationalist bloc vowed to oppose the proposal as the meeting grew disorderly.
Prussian Diet Rebuffs Dissolution Bid in Vote
The Prussian diet defeated a national socialist motion for dissolution by 214 to 196. Nazis shouted Hitler as Hans Qerrl, NSDAP diet president, ended the session. Communists centrists and socialists had pressed for Versailles nullification and worker farmer measures blocked by Nazis.
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Recess Taken In Louisiana Senate Campaign Probe
The special senate campaign sub-committee recessed today in New Orleans, delaying hearings on alleged election fraud in the Overton versus Brossard Senate contest. Senator Huey P. Long cited absence of counsel for Overton and asked for postponement to Monday.
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United States Senate
Edwin S. Brossard
George Wallace
Louisiana
Huey P. Long
Overton
Navy League Split Over Hoover Criticism Faces Resignations
The Navy League once united behind a charge that President Hoover erred on naval policy now splits over undisclosed internal matters. Secretary William A. Galvin resigned along with Walter Bruce Howe chairman of the board and Clement L. Bouve of Washington.
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Hoover
Lought
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Walter Bruce Howe
Clement L. Bouve
Bowery Savings Bank caps new deposits at 2000
Bowery Savings Bank, the nation’s largest, set a 2000 dollar limit on new savings accounts and will cut savings rates to 3 percent starting Monday. Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank will also reduce its rate effective Monday. The move follows a recent New York clearing house rate cut on commercial deposits, spurring new accounts.
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Emigrant Industrial Savings. Bank
New York Clearing House
Atlantic Coast Line Schedules and Train Info Listing
The notice shows arrival and departure times for trains on the Southland and mixed local services. It lists Montgomery Savannah Atlanta Cincinnati Detroit Chicago and other destinations with through sleepers to Montgomery Savannah Atlanta Cincinnati Detroit and Chicago. Agent contacts M. T. Wells and L. P. Green are provided with phone numbers.
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