Loyalists Jubilant After Triumph in Naval Battle
Loyalist authorities hailed what they called the first real naval battle of the civil war. A Loyalist force from Cartagena, including two cruisers and four destroyers, torpedoed a Nationalist cruiser and hit other ships, with rescuers later taking aboard about 400 survivors from an estimated 765 crew. Seaman George G. Long was fatally wounded.
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Irving D. Pflaum
BAR
ELONA
Thorities
Baleares
Canarias
Cartagena
George G. Long
Indalecio Prieto
East Coast
Sanchez Barcaiztegui
Almirante Antehuera
Lepanto
O'Connor Predicts Wage And Hour Bill Passage
Washington report on House rules chair Joan O'Connor predicting floor passage of a wages and hour bill this session. He backs a compromise urged by Mary Norton proposing a 30 cent minimum wage and a 44 hour work week in the first year.
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Washington
Joan O'Connor
N. Y
House Rules Committee
House
O'Connor
Mary Norton
N. J
House Labor Committee
Fire damages tin plant at Republican Steel Corp
A Sunday blaze at the Republican Steel Corp tin plant in Niles Ohio caused about 55,000 in damage to the annealing and cold rolling mill. Three firemen were injured. The fire started from an undetermined source in the mill area.
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Niles, O
Republican Steel Corp
Temple University Names Henry L Doherty to Board of Trustees
Temple University announces the election of Henry L. Doherty, president of Cities Service Company, to its board of trustees. Doherty's appointment adds a prominent corporate leader to the university's governing body.
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Doherty
Philadelphia
Temple University
Henry L. Doherty
Cities Service Company
Crash Victims' Father Dirlam Dies in Shock
Jay N. Dirlam, 55, vice president of Mansfield Building & Loan Co., died suddenly after suffering a heart attack while unaware his two children were missing in a California plane crash. His children, J. Tracy, 19, and Mary Lou, Stanford students, were believed aboard the San Francisco flight that disappeared near Fresno with nine aboard.
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Mansfield
U.P
California
Jay N. Dirlam
Mansfield Building & Loan Co
Dirlam
J. Tracy
Mary Lou
Stanford University
San Francisco
Fresno
Calif
Akh party chiefs accuse Bukharin at mass trial
Nikolai Bukharin testified at a mass trial of 21 opposition leaders in Moscow. He described plans to seize delegates at the 17th Communist Party Congress in 1934 and to stage a palace coup to overthrow the government and restore capitalism.
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Moscow
U.P
Communist Party
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin
Lenin
Bukharin
Union
Kremlin
British Plan Debate Vote in Commons on Defense
London reports the national government ready for a Commons debate and confidence vote on defense. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain leads off the government after publishing defense estimates of 1,664,635,000 for the new fiscal year. Labor and Liberal opposition seek to widen the debate to foreign affairs and Anthony Eden's resignation as foreign secretary.
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London
U.P
Neville Chamberlain
Anthony Eden
Artist Once Rebuked By Court Dies at 8
Waterford Connecticut artist Walt McDougall aged eight, once rebuked by the Supreme Court for his cartoons, was found dead Sunday in a ramshackle home. The medical examiner said he killed himself about a week earlier, living in extreme poverty.
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Supreme Court
Waterford
Conn
Walt McDougall
McDougall
Rancher Spots Possible Plane Crash Above Bass Lake
Fresno reporters say a rancher saw a distant object resembling a plane on Goat Mountain 1500 feet above Bass Lake. Searchers rode at dawn toward the site, following reports tied to the Transcontinental and Western Air liner missing since last Tuesday night with nine aboard.
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Fresno
Calif
Goat Mountain
Western Air Express
John Sears
Sears
Bass Lake
John Graves
Bakersfield
Police Spread Hunt for Killer in Grand Rapids
In Grand Rapids Michigan police spread a house to house search for Mina Dekker a 19 year old girl found slain last Friday. Police Chief Frank J O Malley said there are no suspects or clues and they will question everyone near the office buildings where the murder occurred. The victim was known as a home girl active in church choir.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Mina Dekker
Frank J. O'Malley
Fifth Reformed Church
Patman seeks to curb private profits in naval bill
Rep Wright Patman of Texas announces he will propose an amendment to Roosevelt s billion dollar naval bill to bar private profits of war manufacturers in peace as well as war He hopes to reduce the current 10 percent profit cap on naval construction contracts to around one half of one percent or similar nominal figure The move follows some House members desire to remove the profit limit entirely
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Washington
Wright Patman
Tex
Roosevelt
Patman
House
Fire Causes $100,000 Loss to Office Building
A Sunday blaze destroyed the three story Trappers Building in downtown Springfield. The damage is put at $100,000 with the second and third floors ruined and seven ground floor shops affected by water and smoke from the fire caused by a tossed cigarette into rubbish on an open stairway.
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Springfield
Trappers
Santa Ana
Tujunga Canyon
Los Angeles
Coast Guard
San Bernardino Mountains
Big Bear Lake
Barstow
Mojave
Foes of Bill Aim To Curb FD's Power
Senate foes of the administration’s government reorganization bill planned a major attack with an amendment to curb Presidential powers. Sen. Byrd and Sen. Wheeler led the push to require Congress approval for reorganizations, while others argued over extending or exempting certain offices. In the House, debate opened on the unreconciled revenue bill and the undistributed profits tax, with Republicans weighing repeal or modification to keep the rate at 16 percent.
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Washington
U.P— Senate
Harry F. Byrd
Burton K. Wheeler
Mont
Wheeler
Congress
James F. Byrnes
Royal S. Copeland
N. Y
Roosevelt
William E. Borah
Ida
Office of Comptroller General
House
Bertrand H. Snell
Allen T. Treadway
Mass
Ways and Means Committee
Senate
TVA Chairman Will Not Quit Invites Probe
TVA chairman Arthur E. Morgan refused to resign amid a board dispute. He accused fellow directors David Lilienthal and Harcourt Morgan of making false reports to the president, Congress, and the public and renewed calls for a congressional investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TVA
Washington
Arthur E. Morgan
Tennessee Valley Authority
Congress
Publc
Morgan
David FE. Lilienthal
Harcourt A. Morgan
Davey Attacks Graft Witness
Governor Martin L. Davey denounces Harry A. Sparks highway department engineer as a scheming politician after Sparks testified to the Senate Graft Investigating Committee about overpriced bituminous road material. He ordered Sparks's position abolished, though not yet dismissed, and directed the engineers board to focus its study on hot and cold mix highway projects.
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Columbus
U.R
Martin L. Davey
Harry A. Sparks
Highway Department
Senate
John Jaster, Jr
Sparks
Board of Engineers
Roosevelt Friends Cite Emergency Pressure Gap On Congress
Close associates of President Roosevelt say his hands-off stance toward Congress stems from a belief that urgent pressures have waned. They note Cabinet doubt, Morgenthau push for economy, and mixed advice as the administration weighs whether to push further reform duties this session.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Washington
Secretary of Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Morgenthau
Feud Between Border Officers Sparks Three More Deaths
A gun battle near Rio Grande City tied to a feud between two Mexican families who served as lawmen left three dead, including Deputy Juan De La Cruz and former deputies Eulalio Elizondo and Jose Cantu. Five deputy constables opened fire as Elizondo boarded a bus with De La Cruz aboard, then surrendered to Sheriff Gus Guerra.
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Rio Grande City
Tex
Juan de la Cruz
Eulalio Elizondo
Jose Cantu
Elizondo
Cantu
de la Cruz
Gus Guerra
Starr County
Mass Funerals Held in California for Flood Dead
Massive floods in Southern California left 139 dead in a 30,000 square mile area with estimates of 200 or more. National Guardsmen patrolled Anaheim while county officers blocked roads to deter sightseers and looters as rescue and relief continued.
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Los Angeles
U.R
California
National
Anaheim
San Bernardino County
Lytle Creek
Husband Ends Life Following Death of Wife
Logan report states 82 year old William P Heft, husband of Victoria Davis Heft, died by suicide after his wife's death. Funeral services for the couple planned at their Wood Street home, with burial in Beech Grove Cemetery. Mrs. Heft, 80, DAR and Presbyterian Church member, died after five weeks of illness. two daughters and one grandchild survive.
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Logan
William P. Heft
Victoria Davis Heft
Wood St
Robert D. Green
Princeton
Ruth Heft
Arnold Named To Key Post
Washington Yale professor Thurman W Arnold accepted a nomination as assistant attorney general in charge of the anti trust division subject to Senate confirmation. If approved, he would succeed Robert H Jackson who left to become solicitor general. Cummings said he sent the nomination to the White House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Thurman W. Arnold
Yale University
Senate
Arnold
Homer S. Cummings
Robert H. Jackson
United States
Cummings
White House
Athens Temperature and Rainfall Summary
Noon temperature in Athens reached 43 degrees. Yesterday's high was 55 and low 29. Rainfall measured 0.58 inches yesterday.
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Athens
Father Freed After Term For Barring Vaccination
John Marsh a Blue Ridge mountaineer who swore to rot in jail rather than vaccinate his eight year old son was freed after charges were not pressed. Marsh had served 366 days in prison and eight months in 1934 plus four more this winter for resisting smallpox vaccination under state school laws. He plans to challenge the compulsory vaccination law in superior court this week with attorney Harold R. Prowell.
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Carlisle
U.P
John Marsh
Blue Ridge
Ently
Marsh
Eugene
Harold R. Prowell
Superior Court
Probe Report Causes Fight
Columbus report notes a dispute over obtaining a transcript of Senate Graft Investigating Committee testimony. Attorney General Herbert S. Duffy said Armstrong & Okey court reporters refused on committee orders. the firm, however, said a copy is available to him upon request.
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Columbus
4U.P
Herbert S. Duffy
Senate
Armstrong & Okey
US Strengthens Alaskan Patrol Against Japanese
Washington U P reports the US will tighten patrols of Alaskan salmon waters. The coast guard assigns larger, speedier cutters with some aircraft to the Bering Sea patrol to deter Japanese fishing vessels within the 12 mile limit.
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Washington
U.P
Tokyo
Japan
United States
Coast Guard
Bering Sea Patrol
Pershing Continues On Way to Recovery
Tucson report says General John J. Pershing showed further improvement this week his doctor Dr Roland Davison announced the general is progressing toward full recovery and remains under careful observation in the hospital the improvement was described as very satisfactory
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Pershing
Tucson
Ariz
U.P
John J. Pershing
Roland Davison
Nazi Minister Seeks Restoration of German Colonies
Walther Funk, minister of economics, urged restoring Germanys colonies at a Leipzig address. He argued colonies would boost the economy and could save about 200,000,000 marks in foreign exchange annually, roughly 80.96 million dollars.
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Leipzig
Germany
Walther Funk
Funk
Not To Die The Danielson Boy Faces Mental Exam
Theodore Danielson Jr., 16, appeared for psychiatric evaluation and grand jury today after admitting to killing his mother Eleanor Danielson, 47. Officials said the crime was not premeditated and the state will not seek the electric chair. If convicted he may be sent to Pontiac reformatory to live with peers and continue studies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
U.P
Theodore Danielson, Jr
Morris Meyers
Eleanor Danielson
Pontiac
Ill
Boy's Captors Remain Silent
New Rochelle New York Murray Levine, father of 12 year old Peter Levine who was kidnapped on February 24, holds to hope his son is alive. He has had no contact with the abductors for a week since a ransom note demanding thirty thousand dollars appeared. Attempts to deliver the money have failed.
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New Rochelle
N. Y
Murray Levine
Peter
New York
Ten Accidental Deaths Over Week-End in Ohio
Ohio toll rises to at least 10 after three from Newcomerstown die in a Dover crash. Charles Edwards 38, his wife Esther 38, and their daughter Wilda Lee 16 are killed when their car hits a parked truck. Dorothy Edwards 16 suffers a fractured jaw.
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Columbus
A.P
Dover
Charles W. Edwards
Newcomerstown
Esther
Wilda Lee
Harold Lee
Edwards
Dorothy Edwards
School head dies in Charleston after stroke
George S. Laidley, 83, longtime superintendent of Charleston schools for 40 years, died of a stroke Sunday. He also served as secretary of the Masonic Grand Lodge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
George S. Laidley
The
Masonic Grand Lodge
Friends Seek Minister's Release From Nazi Jail
Berlin reports that friends of Rev. Martin Niemoeller of the Evangelical Church appealed to influential figures to secure his release from a Nazi concentration camp. Niemoeller had been sentenced to seven months and a 2000 mark fine on two code violations, but had already served eight months awaiting trial when taken into custody by the secret state police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
U.P
Martin Niemoeller
Niemoeller
Bandit Goes on Trial For Slaying Detective
Stephen Figuli, 20, Cleveland, faced a first degree murder charge in Columbus today for the slaying of Detective Robert R. Cline after a bank holdup on February 5. Two other bandits were killed in the gun battle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
Stephen Figuli
Cleveland
Robert R. Cline
Air France Airmail Plane Crashes Near Jodhpur
Air France reported an airmail flight from Calcutta to Paris crashed near Jodhpur in India. Three passengers and the crew of three were killed.
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Paris
Air France
Hanoi
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