New Taxes for Farm Program Planned by Roosevelt
Washington February 8 President Roosevelt will ask Congress for new taxes to yield 500 million dollars annually to finance a soil conservation farm program. Leaders expect swift passage despite election-year reluctance, with the proposal to originate in the House Ways and Means Committee. Inflationists oppose bonus taxes and currency expansion plans, while relief spending for 1936 is being shaped to shift more funds to the Works Progress Administration.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
House Ways and Means Committee
White House
Robert L. Doughton
House
Ways and Means Committee
Doughton
William Bankhead
Alabama
Treasury
Wright Patman
Tex
Aeek
Works Progress Administration
American Federation of Labor
WPA
Three in Same Film Nominated for High Award
Hollywood report lists six actors and four actors overall as nominees for 1936 Academy awards. Clark Gable Charles Laughton and Franchot Tone from Mutiny on the Bounty are up for best performance. The film is also among 12 for best picture. Victor McLaglen earns a separate actor nomination for The Informer. Female nominees include Elizabeth Bergner Claudette Colbert Bette Davis Katherine Hepburn Miriam Hopkins and Merle Oberon for various roles.
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Hollywood
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Film- Com
Clark Gable
Charles Laughton
Franchot Tone
Victor McLaglen
Elizabeth Bergner
Claudette Colbert
Bette Davis
Katherine Hepburn
Alice Adams
Miriam Hopkins
Becky Sharp
Merle Oberon
Tax Collector Plans Visit to Convoy Banks
County Treasurer G. M. Brown will collect taxes for Tully, Harri gan and Union townships next Tuesday Feb. 11 and spend the day at the First National Bank in Convoy.
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G. M. Brown
Tully, Harrigan
Union
First National Bank
Farm Help Speed Program Nearing Operation
Washington February 8 The administration rushes preparations for a new farm program awaiting congressional approval. Department of Agriculture officials sharpen benef schedules and overhaul state machinery to set the plan in full swing within about two weeks. The farm bill is expected to pass next week, enabling operation for the cotton planting season.
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Washington
Congress
Department of Agriculture
OSU Agriculture students listed with B grades
Dale F. Runnion and Byron Gam ble, Van Wert county students at Ohio State University, maintained grades of B or better in the agriculture college during the winter quarter.
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Dale F. Runnion
Byron Gamble
van Wert County
Ohio State University
Agriculture College
Winter snows good for soil says USDA analyst
Chicago February 8 Heavy snows and extreme cold may strain city coal piles but benefit American farmers according to F C Bisson USDA Chicago office. Wheat crops may equal record years 1931 1932 as drought damage recedes. Chinch bugs could be killed by deep ground freezing aiding grain and corn crops. Benefits seen across North and Southwest winter and spring wheat belts. spring planting expected to rise as soil improves. Some risk to winter wheat seed in Kansas Oklahoma and Texas where cold without snow reached deep roots. Ohio Indiana Illinois Iowa forecast improved conditions with pests declining in 1936. similar relief expected in Dakotas Minnesota Montana grasshopper states.
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Chicago
U. S. Department of Agriculture
F. C. Bisson
Bisson
Kansas
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Iowa
North
South Dakota
Minnesota
Oklahoma
Texas
Colorado
Nebraska
Dakotas
Montana
Stamp Widow Is Found in Court
In Cincinnati on February 8, Leonard Fierlage a noted philatelist with a $50 000 stamp collection faced divorce court where his wife Haze was charged with disposing of property. Judge Charles Hoffman issued a restraining order prohibiting further disposition of any of Fierlage's assets until the case concludes.
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Cincinnati
Leonard Fierlage
Haze Flerlage
Charles Hoffman
Flerlage
Row Over Dog Rocks Washington Society Foster Hostile Row
A social dispute on Massachusetts Avenue in Washington pits two factions of prominent women over their Great Dane Hamlet. The 180-pound dog’s behavior prompts neighbors to seek action while Hamlet’s owner Mrs. W Forbes Morgan defends him as harmless. Assistant Corporation Counsel J. W. Lauderdale weighs the issue as witnesses from high society testify about Hamlet’s conduct.
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Washington Society
Washington
Massachusetts Avenue
Hamlet
J. W. Lauderdale
Lauderdale
King Claudius
W. Forbes Morgan
Democratic National Committee
Morgan
Social Register
Joseph P. Tumulty
Wilson
Lucian B. Boggs
L. W
Chip) Robert
Treasury
George Conlon
Europe
Snow and Severe Cold Wave on Way East from Rocky Mountain Region
Blizzards roared over the Rocky mountain region with more snow and severe cold forecast east to the Atlantic. Coal miners in Tuwa Illinois Kentucky and Alabama labored to dig out fuel for hundreds facing hardship while midwest temperatures eased but bitter cold and snow loomed tonight and Sunday. Washington DC and the mid Atlantic were buried by a historic snowstorm with more snow predicted as rivers rise from the deep south floods. Subzero cold and 43 below at Helena Montana preceded icy gales and a United Airlines jet diverted. dust storms hit Liberal Kansas and the Texas Panhandle.
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Rocky Mountain
Atlantic
Tuwa
Illinois
Kentucky
Alabama
Middle West
Washington
D. C
Middle Atlantic
Weather Bureau
Deep South
Helena, Mont
Rockies
Pacific Northwest
United Airlines
Twin
Liberal
Kans
Amarillo
Texas Panhandle
Harvard Astronomer Names Heaviest Star In Universe 29 Canis Majoris
Cambridge February 8 news from Harvard Observatory reports Dr Sergei I Gaposchkin identifies 29 Canis Majoris as the heaviest and hottest star in the universe, weighing 420 octillion tons and shining 100000 times the sun's brightness. The eclipsing twin star lies 20000 light years away and rotates with its partner every 3.5 days.
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Cambridge
Mass
Albert Einstein
Sergei I. Gaposchkin
Harvard Observatory
Gaposchkin
Broadcast Treaty Program Set For Greenville Event
Governor Martin L. Davey Col Thad Brown and Charles Sawyer will speak over a national network of 70 Columbia broadcasting stations Tuesday night February 1 from Greenville for a program by the Greenville Treaty Memorial Association.
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Martin L. Davey
Col
Thad Brown
Charles Sawyer
Columbia Broadcasting
Greenville
Greenville Treaty Memorial Association
121 Register at Opening of Epworth League Institute Here
The Epworth League institute at First Methodist church opened with 121 delegates registered for a three day program on Youth in the Modern Christian Church. About 150 young people attended including a noon luncheon and 6 o clock banquet. Dr. John Patterson missionaries from India and Rev J Otis Young led sessions with a candlelight consecration and a Sunday worship by Dr Clarence Grauser. Certificates will be awarded to those completing the courses.
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Epworth League Institute
First Methodist Church
Modern Christian Church
J. Otis Young
Life Service
John Patterson
India
Clarence 8. Grauser
Military Policies to Be Discussed at Y W Monday
The Marathon Round Table group at the YWCA will host a discussion on U S naval and military policies Monday at 7 30 pm. Participants include Mrs L C Miller Rev John H Lamy Floyd F Green Miss Ethel Armstrong Miss Dorothy West and W Ralph Wood. Open discussion by all members will follow.
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United States
YWCA
National Committee For the Cause and Cure of War
L. C. Miller
John H. Lamy
Floyd F. Green
Ethel Armstrong
Dorothy West
W. Ralph Wood
Old Jesse James Pal Involved in Kansas City Killing
Eighty nine year old Zenas Milburn, once a boyhood companion of Jesse James, sat amid a murder inquiry in Kearney Missouri. He says he shot Jacob Fiscus during a struggle with Fiscus s wife Christina, claiming self defense after Fiscus struck him and heavily bruised him. Milburn says the killing was about money and notes the attack was by his mother in law. Authorities describe Milburn as a capable marksman with a past as a night watchman who once killed a post office robber.
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Kearney
Zenas Milburn
Jesse James
Jacob Fiscus
Milburn
Ezora
Marshal Joseph Thomas
Fiscus
Christina Fiscus
James Brothers
Cougars Fall to Ada. Slip to Third in League Standings
Van Wert dropped to third place in the Mid-Western Ohio league after Ada repeated a early season win 33 to 25 in Lincoln gym. Van Wert must win all three remaining games against Wapakoneta Bluffton and St Marys to force a tie for first. Ada led 9-3 21-8 and 23-17, with a late Van Wert rally in the fourth quarter.
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W. L. TP OP Pet
Wapakoneta
van Wert
St. Marys
Recont
Glenn H. Livingston
Ada
Aca
Iittle
Buechner
Ross
Harrow
Trapp
Holmes
Wilkinson
Cougars
George Marsh
Fell
Marsa
Bluffton
Butterfly sighting in February at Greenville Daily Advocate
BEENVILLE residents saw a live butterfly picked from snow by Amos Orrison and shown at the Greenville Daily Advocate office. The paper notes a separate report from Omer Westerfield of a duck frozen to the ground to temper expectations of warm weather.
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Beenville
Amos Orrison
Greenville Daily Advocate
The
Advocate
Omer Westerfield
Laundry aiders labeled cousins under Chinese launderies
New York report shows 341 laundrymen questioned by the state labor department said they have no employees and rely on cousins for help in return for board. An interpreter aided the examiner as many laundries denied employing staff and claimed only cousins assist with daily work.
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New York
State Labor Department
Dog saves boy in chill Illinois rescue
In Cooksville, Illinois, 10 year old Harlan Spencer slipped from a haymow and suffered a deep head gash. His shepherd dog dragged him to view of the storm home where his mother rescued him amid zero weather.
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Cooksville
Ill
Harlan Spencer
Political War Brews Around Farm Program
Washington headlines a battle over the administration’s farm program as Sen Borah questions its constitutionality and hints at using the issue in his bid for the Republican nomination. Snow delays Senate action while debates split along constitutional and subsidy lines and wage contests loom for committee referrals and policy substitutions.
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Henry D. Thompson
United Press
Washington
William E. Borah
Borah
Supreme Court
AAA
Senate
Ohio
James P. Pope
Duck Seeks Haven In Aviators Bar
A wild mallard wandered into Floyd Bennett Field Bar and Grill in New York on February 8. The sociable duck joined aviators in the tavern, settled by a window, and moved to a radiator after a warm-up. It enjoyed biscuits and beer before being shooed out and flying toward the ocean.
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New York
Floyd Bennett Field
Ocean
Severe cold wave to hit with snow and Sunday cold
Weather brief notes a severe cold wave bringing snow with Sunday expected to be fair and cold. 7am temperatures show a maximum yesterday and a minimum last night around 25 and 19 respectively, with smaller readable fragments indicating chilly conditions.
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Wellesley
Tucson
Ariz
A. E. O. Munsell
Rocky Mountain Region
Middlewest
South
Earth
Broadcast Treaty Program
E. L. Institute
Y. W
Pal
G.O.P
James W. Wadsworth
Alfred M. Landon
Philadelphia
Landon
Marsh
Varvit Gag
Ivan Wert
F Rees Hike
Hammond
Horton
C Seeeenee
Sae Eens
Jerome, G
A | Wilkinson
Marrow
Enee
Epley
Gossard
Brewer
Fulks
Ewnee
R. Epley
Senee
Pere
FT Ceeeeee
Acess Arses
Fulmer
Gunsett
Teen
Charles L. McNary
Oregon
Agriculture Committee
Tom Connally
Connally
Duck
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