Debate limned to clear path for ballot on sales tax
Washington March 22 House leaders struck a two hour debate limit and a scheduled vote on the estates tax provision followed by two hours of debate on the 2 percent manufacturers sales levy. The Ways and Means Committee approved the plan to press the sales tax portion of the revenue bill. New Treasury estimates reduced the cost of exemptions to 104 million dollars, altering funding hopes.
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Paul R. Mallon
United Press
Washington
U.P
House
Ways and Means Committee
Crisp
Treasury Department
Tornado Toll Rises Across Five States
A line of tornadoes killed at least 214 people across Alabama Georgia Tennessee Kentucky and South Carolina with Alabama most affected. Rescue efforts faced blocked roads damaged lines and heavy rain as National Guardsmen nurses doctors and volunteers aided injured victims. First reports arrived from Northwest Alabama with Northport noting 26 deaths.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Georgia
Tennessee
Kentucky
South Carolina
Northport
Smith College Names Star Student Constance Morrow
Constance Morrow, sister of Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, is announced as second in scholastic standing in Smith College freshman class at Northampton Massachusetts and serves as vice president of her class.
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Constance Morrow
Charles A. Lindbergh
Smith College
Northampton
Mass
800 Mine Strikers Return to Pits After Nine Days
Wilkes Barre Pa March 22 The first break in the insurgent strike of anthracite miners occurred today when more than 800 Maxwell Colliery employees returned to work. They had been on strike for nine days as pickets in the pouring rain jeered and tried to block them, but the Maxwell miners proceeded into the pits.
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Wilkes Barre
Maxwell Colliery
Maxwell
Discharged worker kills woman then shoots self in factory
In Rochester on March 22 a discharged employee Ralph Stacco hid in a factory and opened fire killing 40 year old Mrs. Josephine De Lucia whom he blamed for losing his job and then killed himself. Stacco had been dismissed weeks earlier as an elevator operator.
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Rochester
N. Y
Josephine de Lucia
Ralph Stacco
Expect Brinkley Suit To Be Tried in April
The report covers legal action awaiting court dates in April involving Brinkley. It notes the broader wartime context, with China facing plague and famine amid conflict. The piece cites Dr Wu Lien Teh on smallpox spread and Sir John Hope-Simpson on famine, plus Manchurian clashes near the Soviet border involving Japanese and Chinese forces.
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Associated Press
Shanghai
Orient
Wu Lien- Teh
Chinese Maritime Quarantine Service
John Hope-Simpson
China Famine Commission
Dr. Wu
Sir John Hope Simpson
National Flood Relief Commission
Brinkley libel suit to be tried in April term
Dr. J. R. Brinkley of radio and goat gland fame sues the Amarillo Globe News for 600000. The trial in Del Rio district court is expected to air the Brinkley Howe Krieger editor dispute with various references to Brinkley’s criticism of Mary Garden and Charles Lindbergh. Also reported are two deadly fires in Dallas and Shawnee with several fatalities and multiple injuries.
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Brinkley
Mary Garden
Charles Lindbergh
Amarillo Weather Forecast Turns Warmer Tonight
Weather forecast for Amarillo and West Texas calls for fair skies and a rise in temperatures tonight with partly cloudy conditions on Wednesday. New Mexico outlook shows generally fair weather with frost and freezing temps in the southeast. Temperature extremes reach 28 to 46.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Thirteen prisoners escape Cooke County jail in high wind
Thirteen inmates pried bars from a cell window and lowered to the ground by a blanket rope as a strong wind masked the break from Cooke County jail in Gainesville Texas. The fugitives include Bob Banks Garret Banks Andrew Jenkins Howard Hendon and others with varied theft burglary forgery arson and murder histories. Three inmates refused to join the breakout.
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Gainesville
Tex
Cooke County
Bob Banks
Garret Banks
Andrew Jenkins
Howard Hendon
Clarence Burenson
Dallas
Clarence Colwell
Homer Malone
Ralph Aubrecht
Earl Dooley
Lee Greer
Bailey Crabtree
Dallas County
G. L. Rogers
Tarrant County
Hobby
Frank Bracken
William E. Johns
Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping Case Stirs Hope and Friction
Hopewell New Jersey March 22 Charles A Lindbergh Jr only 21 months old was kidnapped three weeks ago and remains missing despite a large search. Detectives report a new ladder clue with pine pieces and crude saw horses bearing a New York City address found near the Lindbergh estate. State and local officials clash over strategy as grand jury action looms.
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Hopewell
N. J
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr
Elmer Hann
Hunterdon County
Lindbergh
Lindbergh House
Wil
Liam Stevens
Hunterdon
Lindbergh Estate
New York City
New York Daily News
Emerson L. Richards
Atlantic City
Senate
Pennsy's First Billion and Other Bold Facts
Arthur Brisbane notes Pennsylvania Railroad dividends topped 42 million dollars in a year and the line became the first to exceed a billion in total payments since 1846. The piece surveys racing odds, a Harvard core of the earth study, and a New York University lung fish amid tax talk and evolving science.
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Pennsy
Pennsylvania Railroad
General Atterbury
Pennsylvania
Harvard University
Rockfeller Foundation
Dante Sais
Newton
State moves in milk war
March 22. Forces move into position for a major engagement in a Texas milk war that may spread statewide. State Agricultural Commissioner J E McDonald travels to Houston to marshal producers under the Marketing Act as lawyers probe distributors for possible anti trust violations.
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Austin
U.P
J. E. McDonald
Houston
Attorney General's Department
McDonald
W. A. Canon
Dallas
Fort Worth
Mercury Rebounds As Spring Returns to Amarillo
The article notes a swing in temperatures in Amarillo with a low near 28 degrees and a high of 86 degrees on Sunday, followed by a rise in today temperatures. Winds easing and sunshine returning after a day of light rain and snow, with a forecast of fair, warmer, partly cloudy conditions for tonight and Wednesday.
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Spring
Amarillo
Mercury
Sterling says privately he is candidate for re election
Ross Sterling has broken his silence and said he will run for reelection. State Senator Clint Small of Wellington, who was involved in last year’s governor’s race, heard the statement and noted it may trigger further declarations.
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Gordon K. Shearer
United Press
Austin
Ross
Small
Senate
Husband Wife Slain and Robbed in East Texas Oil Field
In Arp Texas a 58 year old well digger George Brimberry and his 50 year old wife were beaten to death with a flatiron and robbed of their savings in their log cabin home three miles east of Arp in the East Texas oil field. The woman was sexually assaulted. Fireman J L Grantom found Mrs Brimberry and Deputy Sheriff Jim Bradford found Mr Brimberry in a ditch nearby.
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Arp
Tex
George Brimberry
Texas Oil Field
J. L. Grantom
Zion Oil Company
Brimberry
Bandits Take Town Loot Bank of Marionville
Three masked bandits raided the Bank of Marionville at 2 A.M. they cut telephone wires and seized $3,400 in cash. They entered via the town and found night watchman Dick Morris and two bakers at the bakery. Police captured three suspects later that day.
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Marionville
U.A
Dick Morris
Woman found dead in garage at home in Brownwood
The body of Mrs. H. C. Walker, 48, was found hanging by a wire in the garage at her Brownwood home today. She had been in ill health. Surviving are her husband and two sons, Shelby 16 and Henry 18.
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Brownwood
H. C. Walker
Shelby
Henry
Tornado death toll by town across Alabama and neighboring states
A Birmingham dispatch lists storm fatalities by town from last night s tornadoes across the South. Alabama totals include Union Grove 10 Collins Chapel 4 Thorsby 12 Sylacauga 17 Marion 11 Paint Rock 4 Columbiana 16 Northport 28 Fairview 1 Uniontown 2 and others for a statewide sum. Tennessee totals report Conasauga 4 Pulaski 4 Charleston 1 Franklin 1 Ladds 2 Lewisburg 1 Walesboro 1 total 14. Kentucky Uniontown 2 South Carolina near Spartanburg.
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Collins Chapel
Thorsby
Collman
Talladega
Sylacauga
Marion
Paint Rock
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Walesbor
Tornadoes Strike Alabama Towns Killing Dozens
A series of violent tornados ripped through Demopolis Linden Farnsdale Marion and other towns. Columbiana reported sixteen dead while Lineville saw six. Emergency services and the National Guard assisted as damage spread toward Spartanburg and surrounding areas.
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Cymnasium II
National Guard
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Warrior River
Tuscaloosa
Ala
University of Alabama
Columbiana
Lineville
Spartanburg
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Northport and Clanton Hit Hardest by Sam Late Storm
Northport Alabama and Clanton suffer heavy losses as storms sweep the region late Monday. Obie Willie carries his maimed mother and dying wife after his house is struck. his father is critically injured as a tornado rips through Collins Chapel area. Homes are wrecked and survivors describe the sudden darkness and wreckage.
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Clanton
Sam Late
United Press
Ala
Southland
Black Warrior River
Tuscaloosa
The
State University
Obie
Willie
Collins Chapel
Three Pilots Die In Crashes In US And Canada
Three military pilots were killed in air crashes in the United States and Canada. Hal George, an airmail pilot from Columbus, was found dead in his wrecked plane near Brown's Island on the Ohio River. a passenger, Dr. Carol Cole of St. Louis, was missing and likely jumped from the plane in a sleet storm. Second Lieut. R. P. O'Keefe of Langley Field and Second Lieut. Rowland Akre collided during maneuvers over Plum Island. Akre survived after parachuting. Second Lieut. William Lamar Parham of Nashville, Ga., a West Point graduate, died practicing at San Antonio. A Canadian flier reportedly died during tests of a winged biplane near Ottawa.
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Canada
Hal George
Columbus
Brown's Island
Ohio River
Carol &, Cole
St. Louis
George
R. P. O'Keefe
Langley Pield
V.a
Rowland G. Akre
Plum Island
Akre
William Lamar Parham
Nashville
West Point
Search on Ohio River for Dr. Carol Cole body after plane crash
Crews on the Ohio River near Brown's Island six miles north of Steubenville search for the body of Dr. Carol Cole a St Louis woman physician believed dead when a Continental and Western Airways airliner crashed into the river yesterday.
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Steubenville
Ohio
Ohio River
Brown's Island
Here
Carol 8. Cole
St. Louis
Transcontinental and Western Airways
Freighter Fire Off Balboa With 50 Aboard
The freighter San Angelo battled a fire in the third hold while approaching Balboa Canal Zone. Coast Guard reported the 5,600 ton ship owned by States Steamship Co of Portland left Philadelphia March 6 en route to San Pedro and Portland. Fairbanks stood by to assist. The blaze began 200 miles northwest of Balboa last night.
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San Pedro
Cal
San Angelo
Balboa
Canal Zone
United States Coast Guard
Fairbanks
States Steamship Company of
Portland
Ore
Philadelphia
Neff delays date to resign state job for Baylor presidency
Former Governor Pat M. Neff refuses to fix when he will resign from the State Railroad Commission to become president of Baylor University. He notes his acceptance letter did not specify a date and gives no reason for the indefinite timing. He says he has nothing to lament about his acceptance.
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Pat M. Neff
State Railroad Commission
Baylor University
Waco
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