Britain Ready To Fight If Necessary Chamberlain Says
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain declared Britain is prepared to go to war if vital interests are at risk and urged a strong rearmament program. He warned against exclusive blocs and rejected a joint Soviet led conference while emphasizing defense, international law, and a potential League of Nations revival.
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Chamberlain
Eneland
London
U.P
Great Britain
Neville Chamberslain
Comes Mons
Britain
Soviet
Russia
Germany
Italy
Japan
Litvinov
France
Czechoslovakia
League of Nations
League
Chamesberlain
Belgium
Spain
Balearics
Lick Run and Hocking Mines Closed Today
Lick Run Mine of Athens & Hocking Coal Co and Hocking Mine of Hocking Valley Mining Co suspended operations today. The shutdown is indefinite with little spring or summer prospect, as market collapse and reduced Great Lakes demand threaten coal, ore, and vessel fuel shipments.
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Lick Run
Hocking
Nelsonville
Athens & Hocking Coal Co
Hocking Valley Mining Co
Cambridge
Ohio
West Virginia
Kentucky
Great Lakes
Upper Lake
FDR Weighs Railroads and Flood Control Plans
At Warm Springs Georgia President Roosevelt awaited Southern reaction to his wages and hours attack in Gainesville. He planned Friday to receive railroad relief recommendations and to study flood control, with a long range plan ready upon returning to the Capitol in April.
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Warm Springs
U.R
Roosevelt
White House
Washington
Gainesville
Congress
Capitol
Murray City Miner Drowns in Ohio River
Charles Pierce a 44 year old Murray City miner drowned Wednesday after falling into the Ohio River at Covington Kentucky. His body was returned to Stout Funeral Home and will go to his parental home. He leaves his parents a brother and two sisters Mrs Gerald Baird of Nelsonville among survivors.
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Nelsonville
Charles Pierce
Thomas Pierce
Murray City
Ohio River
Covington
Stout Funeral
Pierce
Gerald Baird
Sears Roebuck Sells Life Insurance Firm
Sears Roebuck & Co confirms sale of Hercules Life Insurance Co to Occidental Life Insurance Co in Chicago. Final approvals from Illinois and California officials are pending, with spokesmen expecting clearance soon.
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Sears Roebuck
Chicago
U.R
Hercules Life Insurance Co
Occidental Life Insurance Co
Sears Roebuck & Co
Illinois
California
FDR Favors Move To Keep CCC Camps Open
Representative Clifton A. Woodrum introduces a joint resolution for an extra 50 million dollars to fund the Civilian Conservation Corps and keep 300 camps slated for closure open. Woodrum says he discussed the measure with President Franklin D Roosevelt who supports the plan.
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FDR
Washington
Clifton A. Woodrum
Civilian Conservation Corps
Woodrum
House
Roosevelt
Hearst’s Son Weds New York Entertainer
Hope Chandler, Broadway nightclub entertainer, married David Whitemire Hearst, 21 year old son of publisher William Randolph Hearst, on Wednesday in New York.
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Hearst
New York
Hope Chandler
David Whitemire Hearst
William Randolph Hearst
Postmaster Free on Bond in Embezzlement Case
Lawrence Ehler the West Alexandria postmaster was released on bond after arrest on a charge of embezzling 1650 dollars in postal funds.
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Dayton
Lawrence Ehler
West Alexandria
Budget Bugaboo Haunts Treasury Amid Record Revenues
The piece notes tax revenue flowing into the Treasury at nearly eighteen million dollars daily while daily expenditures exceed twenty million. It forecasts a deficit this year far beyond one billion dollars, with New Deal fees possibly tripling that amount.
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Washington
AU P
Federal Treasury
Treasury
Senate Finance Committee Drops Undistributed Profits Tax
The Senate Finance Committee replaces the undistributed profits tax with a flat 18 percent tax on corporate income. Chairman Pat Harrison announced, citing Treasury estimates that the plan would raise 948 million dollars based on 1938 figures, compared to 851 million under the old tax. A provision allows small corporations with net income under 25 000 to deduct the difference before applying the rate.
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Washington
U.P
Senate Finance Committee
Pat Harrison
Miss
Senate
Harrison
Treasury
Cardenas Promises Indemnification for Expropriated Oil
Mexico's President Lazaro Cardenas launches a plan to restore foreign credit and begins immediate indemnification for 17 American and other foreign oil companies whose $400 million properties were expropriated. He pledges Mexico will honor its obligations abroad and seeks broad support.
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Mexico City
U.pa
Lazaro Cardenas
Mexico
Close Permanent Pools In Conservancy District
Ohio Conservation Commission orders closure of all permanent pools in Muskingum conservancy district to fishing this year to aid stocking behind the dams. Prohibits fishing and motor boating on the Portage lakes except Summit Lake for three weeks during the Bluegill spawning season.
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Columbus
W.P
Ohio Conservation Commission
Muskingum Conservancy District
Portage Lakes
Summit Lake
Rhett Butler Faces Police Court On Writing Numbers Charge
Rhett Butler aged 29 listed as an author was scheduled to appear in police court in Columbus to answer a charge of writing numbers.
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Columbus
U.P
Rhett Butler
Model-Slayer Is Sane Finds Lunacy Commission
New York Daily News reports Robert Irwin, accused of the Easter morning murders of Veronica Gedeon, her mother, and a boarder, has been adjudged sane by a three man lunacy commission in New York.
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New York
U.P
New York Daily News
Robert Irwin
Veronica Gedeon
Gedeon
New Axis in Central Europe Forming
Warsaw reports a Baltic-Black Sea Axis forming as Poland and Lithuania seek restoration of communications. Observers expect a fortified belt including Poland Estonia Latvia Lithuania Romania, with two Maginot style lines and a wide Russian defense zone amid secrecy and danger.
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Warsaw
U.P
Russia
Germany
Poland
Lithuania
Esthenia
Latvia
Roumania
Seek Aid for Little Business
Washington officials held a first joint meeting to map an aid plan for small businesses. They agreed that long term capital is needed and that financial help must be provided to small business, following the Little Business Congress.
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Washington
U.p)—Administration
Little Business Congress
Body of Ohio Political Leader To Be Returned
The body of Harvey C. Garber, 72, former Ohio congressman and Democratic leader, will be returned to Columbus before burial after his death by his own hand near Naples Florida on Wednesday.
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Body of Ohio
Columbus
U.P
Harvey C. Garber
Ohio
Naples
Fla
Woman Dies From Cleaning Fluid Explosion Burns
Mrs. Calvin Errett, 21, died in a Findlay hospital after suffering burns from a cleaning fluid explosion on March 4. She died Wednesday night.
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Findlay
U.P
Calvin Errett
Ondov Sister Tragedy Adds Worry Over Injury
Michael Ondov a Wittenberg College divinity student faces recovery from spinal surgery while sister Suzanne Ondov is hospitalized in Cleveland after being struck by a car near their home. She suffered a possible brain concussion and scalp lacerations. The family mortgaged their home for 2500 dollars to fund treatment. Four Mansfield Lutheran churches raised funds for Michael’s operation, which doctors say was successful.
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Cleveland
U.P
Michael Ondov
Wittenberg College Divinity
Suzanne
Michael
Miss Ondor
Hayesville
Ondov
Mansfield
Miss Ontoy
Roosevelt Heads to Warm Springs For Relaxation
President Roosevelt, smiling despite a clenched fist, leaves Washington for Warm Springs, Georgia, to seek rest amid bloom on the cherry trees along the Tidal Basin. He rails at a handful of opponents resisting the New Deal after five years of policy drift, signaling no lasting relaxation in tension.
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Washington
Tennessee Valley Authority
New Deal
TVA
Roosevelt
Arthur E. Morgan
H. Styles Bridges
N. H
Senate
Bridges
William King
Utah
Dr. Morgan
Harcourt A. Morgan
David E. Lilienthal
Congress
Warm Springs
Gainesville
Miners Die After Plane Fails to Reach Mine Rescue
In Marysvale Utah two Deer Trail Mine workers Bert Lund aged 35 and Dale Dalton 23 died after oxygen exhaustion in the gold and silver mine. A resuscitator was sent from Salt Lake City 200 miles away and a plane with the device could not land.
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Marysvale
Utah
U.P
Deer Trail
Salt Lake City
Bert Lund
Dale Dalton
Archduke Josef Ferdinand Arrested by Nazis Near Salzburg
65 year old Archduke Josef Ferdinand of Hapsburg chief of the Hapsburg Tuscany line, arrested by Nazis after Austria’s annexation. He is the great uncle of Archduke Otto, pretender to the Austrian throne. Nazis charged he made insulting remarks about the regime.
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Germany
Archduke Josef Ferdinand of
Hapsburg
Hapsburg- Tuscany
Archduke Otto
Salzburg
Wealthy Maharajah of Patiala Dies at 48 in Lahore
The Maharajah of Patiala, a rich Indian ruler, soldier and statesman, died Wednesday night in Lahore. He led about 1.75 million people and owned vast palaces filled with jewels. He wore jewels valued at about $1,000,000 and maintained a royal retinue including a Maharani Sahiba and two junior Maharanees.
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Lahore
India
U.P
Patiala
Maharani Sahiba
Plan to Reestablish Minimum Soft Coal Prices Set
The National Bituminous Coal Commission calls a Washington meeting of district producers board representatives on March 30 to outline procedures for reestablishing minimum soft coal prices. It aims to speed minima restoration in under six months after prior suspensions due to court orders and legality questions.
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Washington
National Bituminous Coal Commission
General Harry Rene Lee Dies at 92 in Nashville
General Harry Rene Lee, 92, a Confederate soldier and former commander in chief of the United Confederate Veterans, died today at his Nashville home. He led veterans and held wartime and postwar duties with the UCV.
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Lee
Nashville
Tenn
U.P
Harry Rene Lee
The
United Confederate Veterans
Duce Plans To Get Jump on Future Foe
Stewart Brown of the Rome Bureau reports on the armed strength of principal powers in a dispatch describing Mussolini and Italy planning to gain an early edge against future opponents.
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Duce
Stewart Brown
Rome
United Press
Italy ready for war with 3 million planes and two million troops
The article argues Mussolini would mobilize two million men and deploy three thousand combat planes within days if war breaks out. It notes Italy’s alert posture and cites the Ethiopian invasion as a dress rehearsal for a rapid knockout blow to outpace slower nations.
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Rome
U.P
Mussolini
Europe
Italy
Ethiopia
Extortion Suspects Linked to Levine Kidnapping Case
New Rochelle police Capt. Kiernan said Edward Penn and Werner Luck, ages 18 and 23, may be connected to the Levine kidnapping. They allegedly sought 30000 ransom from Murray Levine and confessed to drafting a kidnap note. Authorities found hoods, chains, a pistol, and a rifle at their North Pelham home.
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New Rochelle
N. Y
U.P
Thomas V. Kiernan
Edward J. Penn
Werner F. Luck
Murray Levine
Levine
Peter
Kiernan
Luck
Penn
G-Men
North Pelham
Frank Attacks Roosevelt on Authority Assumption
Glenn Frank, head of the Republican policy committee, challenged the Roosevelt administration for what he called an unprecedented assumption of authority over business. He warned that American life and industry face chronic uncertainty at a Chicago banquet attended by about 1,000 guests.
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Chicago
U.P
Glenn Frank
Roosevelt
Citroen Workers Strike Halts Plant Operations in Paris
Fifteen thousand Citroen workers across five Paris plants walked out and occupied facilities demanding renewal of collective labor contracts. Government leaders began talks with union chiefs to curb broader strike action and protect the rearmament program.
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Paris
Citroen
France
Judge Orders End to Liquor Trucking Graft
Common Pleas Judge John R. King issued a temporary order stopping the state liquor department from paying 17 cents a case for liquor trucking and directing payments not to exceed 11 cents a case. He said the move aligns with good business and public policy.
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Columbus
U.P
State Liquor Department
Common Pleas
John R. King
King
Duke and Duchess of Windsor Seize Riviera Holiday
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor depart for Cap d Antibes near Cannes for a brief Riviera holiday.
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Duke
Wally
Paris
U.P
Duchess of Windsor
Cap D’antibes
Cannes
Riviera
Italy Plans War Time Mobilization and Shelters
Italy anticipates rapid mobilization with 7,000,000 men under arms and 450,000 tons of fighting craft to the Mediterranean. All workers and women would shift to war production while civilians must include underground shelters in building plans.
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Italy
Il Duce
Mediterranean
Seven Million Men Ready To Bear Arms In Air Raid Defense
The public prepares for air raids with bread containing 10 to 20 percent corn or rice as a blockade threat grows. Italians, hardened by Fascism, endure sacrifices willingly and have tested military theory in Ethiopia. Observers say Mussolini sent about 2,000 planes to support Franco in Spain.
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Europe
Italy
Mussolini
Spain
Francisco Franco
Federal bust ends race track tipster fraud ring
Federal authorities announce the arrest of 77 suspects in a long running race track tipster swindle that defrauded the public of more than 80 million dollars over 15 years.
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New York
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