Roosevelt Urges Naval Build Up And War Readiness
Congress swiftly pushed a defense program amid Roosevelt’s call for expanded naval construction. An $800 million naval bill was introduced in both houses, with hearings under Carl Vinson. The President urged 20 percent more in naval building, two more battleships, two cruisers in 1938, $8.8 million for anti aircraft gear, and army reserve expansion. Critics from the Midwest questioned the policy as foreign entanglement. Claude Bloch became fleet commander at San Pedro pledging readiness.
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Congress
Roosevelt
House
Senate
Carl Vinson
Georgia
House Naval Affairs Committee
Tinkham
Massachusetts
United States
League of Nations
Vandenberg
Michigan
Frazier
North Dakota
U S Aids China Plan Stalls Over United States
Representatives from Great Britain France and Russia in Geneva supported a proposal to aid China by sending war munitions but waited on U S cooperation. Washington was informed informally and informally rejected after President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull discussed policy. Hull said America would not lead or alter policy to aid China.
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U.S
Great Britain
France
Russia
League of Nations Council
Geneva
China
United States
Washington
Roosevelt
Hull
America
Turn of Little Business Meets to Seek Recovery Plan
Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper and Ernest Draper hosted discussions with about 500 representatives of small business aiming to present a recovery program to President Roosevelt. The group seeks federal financing for small industries, potentially via a new agency or through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Major complaints include taxes on undivided profits, capital gains taxes, and perceived monopolistic practices hindering enterprise growth.
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Washington
Daniel C. Roper
Roosevelt
Roper
Ernest Draper
White House
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Row Over Coal Prices Stirs National Dissatisfaction
National bituminous coal price and marketing rules sparked a storm of complaints led by Illinois critics. Six coal companies filed suit in Chicago to block the price schedule enforcement, with Chicago and other cities including Rochester New York Cleveland Ohio and St. Louis Missouri seeking court relief from the commission orders.
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National
Bituminous Coal Commission
Illinois
Chicago
Rochester
N. Y
Cleveland
Ohio
St. Louis
Oregon Democrat Reames to Fill Stiewer Seat in Senate
Charles Martin of Oregon appoints Alfred E Reames 67 year old Salem lawyer to serve out 11 months of the term of Frederick Stiewer who resigned to practice law. Reames first Democratic senator from Oregon since 1921 and heads the state central committee executive panel. He will not seek reelection. John Roosevelt and Anne Lindsay Clark set June 18 Nahant wedding with Franklin as best man. Rev Endicott Peabody to officiate. Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill to preside. They plan a six week honeymoon and will live in a Brookline apartment while John works in a Boston ad agency. Also union contract gives AFM control of canned music output for about 689 radio stations via major labels and networks.
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Stiewer
Charles Martin
Oregon
Alfred Even Reames
Salem
Frederick Stiewer
Reames
Democratic State Central Committee
Senate
John Roosevelt
Anne Lindsay Clark
Nahant
Mass
Franklin
Endicott Peabody
Groton School
Henry Knox Sherrill
Massachusetts
Brookline
Roosevelt
Boston
Labor and Nazi Realignments Stir 1938 Electorate
Labor leader KH TAM GREEN calls for withdrawal of AFL support from the Non-Partisan League to split organized labor vote in 1938 elections. John L. Lewis warns of widespread hunger while urging 3,000,000 relief jobs. Nazis praise Hitler on fifth anniversary, tout unemployment elimination and foreign alliances, while facing questions on colonial expansion and church relations.
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Labor Voto KH
Tam Green
American Federation of Labor
Organized Labor
Federation
Labor
League
Committee For Industrial Organization
Green
Executive Council
Washington
John L. Lewis
Congress
Lewis
Workers of America
Hitler
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Italy
Japan
Yugoslavia
Poland
Rumania
Hungary
Jackson Nominated as Solicitor General of U S
Oberth Jackson, assistant attorney general, nominated by the President to be solicitor general. He succeeds Stanley Reed, whose Supreme Court appointment was confirmed by the Senate. Jackson has been in headlines for speeches attacking business and his stated aim to seek New York governorship.
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Jackson
Reed
United States
Stanley Reed
Supreme Court
Senate
New York
President Roosevelt Birthday Dinner With Gilded Cuff Links
President Roosevelt, aged fifty six, and Mrs. Roosevelt hosted a dinner on January 29 with twenty guests including members of the Cuff Link club. Each guest wore gold cuff links gifted by the President to mark campaigns and earlier service in the navy. A post-dinner radio address referenced nationwide birthday balls to fund infantile paralysis research.
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Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Falls View Bridge at Niagara Falls Crushed by Ice Jam
The Falls View bridge at Niagara Falls collapsed into the gorge after an immense ice jam. The structure had been closed to traffic a few hours earlier, so no lives were lost despite the mass of twisted steel.
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Niagara Bridge
Falls
T‘he
View
Ni‘&agara Falls
Navy picks younger chief for Annapolis academy
Younger Service Chiefs EAR ADMIRAL WILSON BROWN named head of the naval academy at Annapolis to succeed Admiral D F Sellers. President Roosevelt had urged placing younger officers in academy leadership. Brig Gen Jay L Benedict, 56, to take command at West Point replacing Maj Gen W D Connor who retires February 28.
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Wilson Brown
Naval Academy
Annapolis
D. F. Sellers
Roosevelt
Army
Navy
Jay L. Benedict
West Point
W. D. Connor
Australia marks 150 years with city ceremonies
Australia begins a three month celebration of its 150th birthday as a white settlement. In Sydney the first fetes take place to honor Capt. Arthur Phillip who landed on January 26, 1788 with soldiers and 800 British convict settlers. United States ships Memphis Trenton and Milwaukee take part in water pageants.
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Australia
Commonwealth of Australia
Sydney
Arthur Phillip
United States
Memphis
Trenton
Milwaukee
Lynch Bill Doom Nears Senate Session
AFTY bill faced defeat after a motion to invoke cloture failed as 11 senators opposed the move. Majority Leader Alben Barkley signaled the measure would be displaced by other legislation, ruling out passage of the anti lynching act.
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Alben W. Barkley
Kentucky
Senate
Tall Nordic-Falian peasants of Bremen marshland
A Munich Anthropological museum study by Dr Christian von Krogh identifies three isolated Bremen villages Arsten Habenhausen and Neuenland as the world’s tallest blond communities. He notes their Nordic-Falian traits, centuries landholding, endogamy, inbreeding, but no adverse physical effects. Average height tops five feet nine inches with large heads and faces.
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New York
Bremen
Christian von Krogh
Munich Anthropological Museum
Arsten
Habenhausen
Neuenland
Newland
von Krogh
Europe
Tree Rings May Solve Mayan Calendar Puzzle
Archaeologist Dr A V Kidder of the Carnegie Institution reports new Guatemala finds that may fix Mayan dating. Pottery suggests Toltec traders brought Mayan goods to Guatemalan cities around 700 or 950 AD, with tree-ring dating promising a missing link to link Toltecs with Southwestern pueblos.
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Washington
Southwest
Guatemala
A. V. Kider
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Kidder
Teotihuacan
Mexico City
Dr. Kidder
United States
Pine Grown in Haste May Have Poor Qualities
Syracuse report from the Society of American Foresters meeting warns that quick-grown southern pine yields wood of low density and strength and excessive shrinkage when dried. Arthur Koehler of the U.S. Forest Service cautions growth rates of about two-thirds inch per year in diameter can impair usefulness and harm second-growth timber reputation.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Society of American Foresters
Arthur Koehler
United States Forest Service
Forest Products Laboratory
Wisconsin
Koehler
Dry Years Return Warns Weather Expert
Washington reports that droughts will recur despite recent heavy rain periods. J B Kincer of the U S Weather Bureau told the National Appraisal forum that long term land use plans must assume drouth cycles will reappear with severity similar to past events.
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Washington
J. B. Kincer
United States Weather Bureau
National
Mr. Kincer
Drouth
Much Forest Land Is Now in Farm Ownership
Syracuse report cites Census data showing one third of U S forest land on farms. Parker Anderson of Minnesota extension forester notes woodland acres on farms rose recently and argues farms on productive soils can yield higher forest product returns than public lands while warning against private exploitation and tax policies that leave land to revert to state when delinquent.
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Syracuse
N. Y
United States
Society of American Foresters
Parker Anderson
Minnesota
Anderson
Lead Is Found So Deep That Man Cannot Mine It
Durham England report on Dr Arthur Holmes findings in Economic Geology shows lead deposits extend deeper than mining. He distinguishes rock lead from vein lead, noting rock lead contains radioactive decay products while vein lead does not, implying vein lead originates from a deeper zone.
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Durham
England
Arthur Holmes
Holmes
Rubber Coated Seeds Carry Own Nitrogen
Washington reports a patent to George E. Heyl of Mill Hill England for seeds that carry fertilizer fungicide and nitrogen fixing bacteria in a latex rubber coating. The coating includes nutrients mixed in the latex before drying so water in soil delivers nourishment to the seed as it grows. The inventor says plants from these seeds will grow better and yield more.
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Washington
George E. Heyl
Mill Hill
England
Quotes on education and youth in a small town
A reflective passage praises college for broad understanding, notes regrets over wasted youth, and laments the runaway of horses as a small town excitement. It argues true dignity tames impertinence and criticizes young men who refuse to work, leaving work to others.
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American Federation of Musicians
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Eeo Science Service
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North
By Emily C. Davis
Emerson
Teco Sd — Ek
Stance Inc
Blaise Pascal
Cedar Rapids
Towa
Adolf Spena
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Pool
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