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sidered its acceptance alone sufficient

to assure the success of the confer

ence. which grew out of the initiative

of President Roosevelt.

Seven nations followed the United

States, Argentina and Brazil in sign

ing the project last night. They were

Mexico, Cuba, Guatemala, Nicaragua,

Chile, Peru and Uruguay. This morn

ing these nations signed: Haiti, Do

minican Republic, Panama, Salvador,

Costa Rica, Honduras, Colombia. Ven

ezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and, last of

all, Paraguay.

RULING DELAYED

INDEFINITELY ON

PWA LOAN ISSUE

Some Provisions of Massa

chusetts ‘Succession Tax’

Law Held Invalid by Su

preme Court

Washington, Dec. 14—(AP) —Delay

ing indefinitely a final ruling on the

constitutionality of PWA loans and

grants for publicly-owned hydroelec

tric plants, the supreme court today

sent a test case back to lower courts

for further action.

Secretary Ickes, the public works

administrator, commented that "the

result of this technical decision will

mean further delay in construction on

some half hundred PWA power proj

ects, in the event that private power

interests persist in dilatory tactics."

The test litigation which the high

tribunal returned to the western

South Carolina federal district court

was the suit of the Duke Power com

pany against a proposed $2,852,000

public works loan and grant to Green

wood County, S. C„ for an electric

plant at Buzzard Roost.

The justices said the district court

and the circuit court of appeals at

Charlotte. N. C.. had “failed to act

in accordance with the standards of

proper procedure.” The case is to be

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Springfield weekly Republican. (1936). Springfield, Mass., 1936-12-17. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83020847/1936-12-17/ed-1/?sp=6

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Springfield weekly Republican, 1936-12-17.