Hitler Receives Enabling Act Power to Govern by Decree
In Berlin on March 23 the Reichstag granted Adolf Hitler authority to govern by decree for four years. The vote was 441 to 94 as Socialists were outvoted. Hitler announced the first chapter closed and the second beginning, with plans to draft a new constitution and restore the monarchy not being discussed. He urged unity to save Germany from misery and warned against Communism while signaling restraint in disarmament and foreign policy. Soldiers and police were stationed around the Kroll Opera House as crowds gathered.
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Berlin
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Reichstag
Herr Hitler
Enoes
Europe
Aged Father Appeals Mercy in Ruth Judd Case
Phoenix March 23 Reverend H J McKinnell spoke for his daughter Winnie Ruth Judd asking the Arizona board of pardons and paroles to weigh justice tempered with mercy. He urged the board to consider factors beyond the killing of Agnes LeRoi and rejected dismemberment charges as beyond the slaying. The condemned woman faces execution on April 14.
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Phoenix
Ariz
H. J. McKinnell
Winnie Ruth Judd
Phoenix “Trunk
Arizona Board of Pardons and Paroles
Agnes Anne LeRoi
Judd
LeRoi
Ruth Judd
Anne LeRoi
Spencer elects Starcher as mayor and GOP council majority
Harry Starcher, Republican, is re elected mayor of Spencer for a two year term after defeating Democrat W B Poling 686 to 487. For the first time in seven years the council will have a Republican majority with members J H Crislip A R Thames and Howard Beckley. Democrats Howard Hughes and B H Young, term starts April 1.
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Spencer
W. Va
Harry Starcher
W. B. Poling
J. H. Crislip
A. R. Thames
Howard Beckley
Howard Hughes
BH. B. Young
A Chance for Betterment in Spring Home Improvements
The article urges Bluefield to launch a spring home modernization campaign to create jobs and boost property values. It argues repairs, painting, roofing, and renovations will improve appearances, support local dealers, and keep money within Bluefield while aiding both owners and workers.
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Bluefield
Complete action on banking bill passes house and senate
Washington March 28 Congress completed action on a bill to extend the emergency banking act provisions to state banks outside the reserve system. The measure requires thorough examinations by reserve banks and security standards, with the goal of allowing nonmember banks to borrow under the same terms as members.
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Washington
Congress
Federal Reserve System
Glass
Virginia
Senate
House
Rainey
Garner
Roosevelt
Es Sound
Adams
Colorado
Adama
Federal Reserve Banking System
Death of Raymond W Stevens Shocks Chicago
Raymond W Stevens former president of the Illinois Life Insurance company and hotel operator was found shot to death in his Highland Park home in what appears to be a suicide. A pistol lay near him and a bullet was in his head. his son reported the despondent financier had faced collapse of major ventures. Stevens 59, and his father James W 80 and brother Ernest J are under embezzlement charges tied to the life company collapse. The father recently suffered a stroke and is near death.
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Chicago
Raymond W. Stevens
Illinois Life Insurance Company
Highland Park
Stevens
Hig
James W
Ernest J
Colchester
Coal Sales Group Formulates Plan For Bituminous Region
Appalachian Coals Inc elected officers and outlined plans to create a marketing agency for four state coal regions. Ken tucky Tennessee West Virginia and southwest Virginia would be served with Cincinnati as headquarters. production target 60 million tons per year, up from 37 million last year. James D Francia elected president to direct marketing and production in high volatile coal. Plans call for producers to sell output through the agency rather than maintain separate sales offices. Court rulings earlier blocked formation. plan revival expected within a month.
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Cincinnati
Appalachian Coals, Inc
Kentucky
Tennessee
West Virginia
Southwest Virginia
Ite
James D. Francia
Island Creek Coal Company
Huntin Va
Sases
Murder suspect Bushnell dies in Montana cell
A 1918 escapee and murder suspect Harry Bushnell was found dead in his Butte Montana cell. A sock note said he killed himself using poison he had carried since his 1918 escape near Jackson Michigan. He denied knowledge of the Jenkins Bordner murders for which he was being questioned.
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Butte
Mont
Harry Bushnell
Bushnell
Michigan
Jackson
Mich
Tillie Jenkins
Varden
Alian Severn
Escaped Suspect Fled Jury Box During Carnegie Steel Theft Case
Pittsburgh March 23 Joseph Micuki 35 of Charleston West Virginia slipped from a jurybox as he waited for arraignment after being charged in a $125 theft from the cashier of the Carnegie Steel trust. The case was called and Micuki was absent. deputies searched the crowd for the fugitive.
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Pittsburgh
Joseph Micuki
Charleston
W. Va
Mucuki
Carnegie Elke cl
Micuchi
Ohio Valley Flood Eases Slowly Amid Widespread Loss
Observers warn the flood may linger a week or more as the Ohio River crest moves downstream from Cincinnati toward Louisville and Indiana. From Kentucky to Missouri, thousands homeless, dikes hold, and relief workers aid evacuees while crews clean debris and secure bridges.
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Ohio Valley
Louisville
Ohio River
Cincinnati
Ohio
Mississippi
Kentucky
Indiana
Illinois
Missouri
Owensboro
Paducah
Henderson
Covington
Newport
Northern
State
Obinsport
Derby
Union Township
Tobinsot Creer
Troy
Wabash
Vincennes
Madison
Aurora
Ohio River Flood Recedes but Relief Remains Heavy
Floodwaters along the Ohio River receded from Cincinnati to Gallipolis with the crest dropping from 63.6 to 63 feet. Thousands remain homeless as Red Cross aid reaches about 9,500 families across counties including Hamilton Clermont Brown Adams Belmont Lawrence Gallia Washington and others. Officials warn relief work will continue for a week or more.
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Cincinnati
Ohio River
Gallipolis
Ohio
Red Cross
Lawrence County
Gallia
Washington
Belmont
Adams
Brown
Clermont
North Dakota Governor Bars Forced Real Estate Sales
Governor William Langer issued a proclamation prohibiting forced sales of real estate occupied by owners and of personal farm property. Exceptions require owner written consent. The move tightens a foreclosure moratorium and bank holiday, aiming to keep homeowners in place during financial strain.
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Bismarck
N. D
William Langer
French debt payment plans hit barrier
Paris reports that payment of 19 million dollars in defaulted war debt to the United States, due since December, seems blocked as Premier Daladier awaits clear American policy. Deputies and Socialists show waning enthusiasm for a resolution, while Rene Richard and Pierre Renaudel push for action amid credit concerns.
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Paris
United States
Daladier
Socialist Party
Rene Richard
America
Pierre Renaudel
Perkins defends relief plan to put jobless to work
Labor Secretary Frances Perkins argues before joint Senate and House committees that the new plan would place thousands of unemployed on forest conservation projects at nominal wages as relief, not as full employment. Critics target the dollar a day rate while Perkins notes the work would cover long overdue projects.
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Washington
Frances Perkins
Roosevelt
Senate
House
Organized Labor
Conservation Corps
Miss Perkins
Dern
War Department
New York
Chicago
Detroit
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Bradstreet reports near normal bank operations
Dun and Bradstreet says bank clearings for the nation in the last week topped 4.0 billion dollars and were only 0.01 percent below a year earlier. Also noted are February cigarette production up from 1932 and a beer case wood demand, with wholesale food prices rising to 1.60 in March.
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New York
Dun and Bradstreet, Inc
Dun and Bradstreet
Gun Totter Attempts Entry At Hoover Home
William Compagian, Burlingame janitor, tried to visit Herbert Hoover at the Stanford campus residence with a loaded revolver. Gate employee stopped him. police said he was mental and released him, though under surveillance. He thought he was negotiating large business deals with the former president.
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Palo Alto
Calif
William Compagian
Burlingame
Herbert Hoover
Stanford University
Campagian
Hoover
Soltace
House Approves Beer Sale Move In Nation Capital
As Washington nears legalization momentum for 3.2 percent beer grows. Attorney General Cummings rules sale may begin 12:01 a m on April 7 and prohibits sales to under eighteen. Congress and state legislatures move on repeal and production measures across New England and the mid Atlantic.
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Washington
Cummings
Cummings i#o
House
District of Columbia
Augusta
Maine
State Senate
Ely
Massachusetts
Iowa Senate
Philadelphia
Tt Wee
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaedenne
Beer 3.2 percent approval clears House debate
The United States House approved a bill allowing sale of 3.2 percent alcohol beer in the capital by a 180 to 53 vote. Speaker Rainey indicated the 3.2 percent beer is not intoxicating and should be sold in the House restaurant. The bill would bar sales to those under 18 and imposes annual license fees on brewers and retailers.
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Washington
House
Congress
Senate
Rainey
Officers Engage In Pistol Battle Near Knoxville
Knoxville, March 23. Deputized agent Tom Sizemore guarding a liquor car was killed and Deputy Tom Atchley and his brother Mack were wounded when two groups of officers shot at each other after mistaking the other car for liquor runners. John Howe reported Sizemore and himself were attacked. Howe escaped unharmed. Deputy Atchley was hospitalized in serious condition with a bullet in the eye. Mack Atchley was wounded in the shoulder and jaw.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Tom Sizemore
Tom Atchley
Mack
John Howe
Atchley
Howe
Sizemore
General Hospital
Mack Atchley
Charles Dean
Mack Atchi
Banks Rally to 467 Licenses in Fourth District
Cleveland reports 467 member banks now licensed for 100 percent operations in the Fourth district after adding one Ohio institution. The district totals 631 member banks across Ohio eastern Kentucky northern West Virginia and western Pennsylvania.
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Cleveland
Federal Reserve District
Ohio
Kentucky
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Governor Kump Calls Extra Session for April 10
West Virginia Governor Kump announced an extraordinary legislative session to start April 10 to address the state budget crisis. He plans revenue measures, a reorganized school system, a secondary road program, and financing changes, with potential extensions to utility and industry levies and broader state reforms.
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Charleston
W. Va
Kump
House
Senate
Flood of Yellow Metal Continues as Gold Reserves Rise
Washington reports a continued surge of gold into federal reserve banks raising reserves to 3.192 billion dollars in the week ending March 23. Deposits also climbed by 31.11 million with a broad decline in currency in circulation as emergency notes see limited use across districts.
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Federal Reserve Banks
Washington
United States
Roosevelt
Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Reserve Bank
Boston
New York
Cleveland
St. Louis
Roosevelt Dishes Out Choice Jobs Across Agencies
President Roosevelt moves to fill key posts sending to the Senate the nominations of James Collier to the Tariff Commission James Hanley to the Radio Commission Arthur Mullen as federation court of appeals judge and John W Troy as Alaska governor.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Arthur E. Mullen
Nebraska
Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
Eighth Distriit
Senate
James Collier
Mississippi
House
Ways and Means Committee
Tariff Commission
James H. Hanley
Radio Commission
John W. Troy
Alaska
Smokeless Fields See Coal Output Rise in Early 1933
Coal production in the smokeless fields rose by 687 310 tons in January and February 1933 compared with the same months in 1932, per a Pocahontas Operators Association report. New River lead remains, Pocahontas field second, with week of March 18 production up 284 387 tons and a calendar date total of 517 982 dollars and 320 000 tons weekly average.
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New River
Pocahontas
Pocahontas- Tug River
Banks Licensed to Reopen in Fifth District
All except 112 of the 388 member banks in the Fifth federal reserve district have been licensed to reopen for normal business. Richmond federal reserve bank officials announced today. The district includes Virginia, North and South Carolina, Maryland, West Virginia and the District of Columbia.
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Richmond
Fifth Federal Reserve District
Richmond Federal Reserve Bank
Virginia
North and
South Carolina
Maryland
West Virginia
District of Columbia
TAZEWELL BOY KILLED IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENT
Jimmy Sheets a 12 year old lad died after being struck on state highway route 112 in Witten valley five miles west of Tazewell. Roscoe Cain of Johnson City Tenn is jailed on manslaughter charge awaiting preliminary hearing. eyewitness Junior Cowling said Cain’s car swerved and hit Sheets as the boys played a marble game beside the road.
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Jimmy Sheets
Witten Valley
Tazewell
Roscoe Cain
Johnson City
Tenn
Commonwealth
J. 8. Gillespie
J. H. Hurt
H. S. Kinser
Junior Cowling
Sheets
Cain
Tasewell
Bell Cab Co
West Virginia
Johnson
Martin
Jet
Midland Trail Blocked Between Pont Sion Pleasant
Midland Trail traffic disrupted between Pont and Pleasant due to obstruction. No alternate routes listed.
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Cherleston
Tndee
Outween Pont Si Pleasant
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