House Economy Bloc Strips Farm Parity Payments From Bill
The House economy bloc won a 13 vote margin to remove a 250 million parity payment item from the billion-dollar agriculture bill and defeated a 60 millionCotton surplus plan. They then backed the bill and pursued a 150 million relief appropriation to July 1. President Roosevelt announced a plan to subsidize exports of government surplus cotton as Jones urged 150 million.
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Washington
Farm Bloc
Agriculture Department
Roosevelt
House
Jones
Texas
House Appropriations Committee
Hearings Set on Wagner Act Amendments
Washington reports two developments in the Wagner act debate. The Senate Labor Committee will hold public hearings on April 11 to consider amendments, while the U S circuit court of appeals finds the act creates an employer inequality by denying a legal remedy against injury from union competition. The move follows months of agitation and ongoing CIO AFL tensions.
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Washington
Senate Labor Committee
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Brown seeks divorce from young film actor in Los Angeles
Natalie Draper Brown sues Tom Brown for divorce on grounds of extreme cruelty in Los Angeles. The case filed March 28 names Brown as the defendant in this divorce action.
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Los Angeles
Natalie Draper Brown
Tom Brown
Roosevelt approves 45,000-ton battleship construction plan
President Roosevelt authorized the Navy to proceed with plans for 45,000-ton battleships under the fleet expansion act, with two ships funded in the new budget and a third vessel anticipated. Britain already plans 40,000-ton ships, while Congress begins hearings on initial funding and possible neutrality act amendments.
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Roosevelt
Japan
White House
House
London
Britain
Senate
Nye
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Bone
Wash
Clarke
Heavy battle rages for Wuning in central China
Shanghai reports a heavy clash between Japanese and Chinese forces near Wuning central China as both sides claim stiff resistance and heavy casualties in the town about 65 miles northwest of Nanchang.
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Central
China
Shanghai
Wuning
Chinatown
Nanchang
Ohio Senate Votes to Probe UnAmerican Doctrines
Columbus March 28 The Ohio senate voted after two hours of debate to investigate charges that un American doctrines are taught at Ohio State University and other state supported schools.
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Columbus
Ohio Senate
Ohio State University
American Girl Marries Indian Maharaja in Europe
Indore ruler Yeshwant, Oxford educated, wed an American girl to seek mental peace and fulfill duties over 1,325,000 people. Bride identified as Marguerite Lawler and previously Nancy Miller, a nurse from Fargo, linked to earlier royal abdications and a controversial kidnapping episode.
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India
Maharaja Yeshwant of
Indore
Maharaya Tokoji Rao Holkar
Nancy Miller
Europe
Lobcity
Brangen
Rite Lawler
California
Marguerite Lawler
Fargo
N. C
Union Pacific Railroad
Los Angeles
Omaha
John Paul Brangen
Num~taz Begum
Bawla
Judge Denies Joan Crawford Mail Order Divorce in L A
In Los Angeles on March 28 Judge Benjamin Scheinman refused to accept Joan Crawford’s deposition testimony for divorce from Franchot Tone. He continued the case to April 18 with a provision for a later date if the star cannot attend court. Crawford, in New York, said she would comply and return to testify in person. The judge noted policy favors the plaintiff being present to avoid mail order divorces. A corroborating witness, Kashi M Haroldi, was present but not called.
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California
Joan Crawford
Franchot Tone
Benjamin Scheinman
Joan
New York
Franchot
Hollywood
Miss Crawford
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
Scheinman
Tone
Kashi M Haroldi
Hal Lesener
Scott Named Municipal Judge in Bluefield
Thomas H. Scott, a Bluefield attorney and former United States commissioner, was named municipal court judge effective July 1. L. B. Sutherland remains permanent supply judge and will preside until Scott’s appointment takes effect. The council also approved acquiring Bildt property from Bluefield College and extra land from Sallie M. Sanders, plus trustees to hold title for recreation facilities. James A. Stevenson’s home work was allowed to resume exterior but not interior.
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Thomas H. Scott
Bluefield
L. B. Sutherland
Sutherland
John R. Dillard
Scott
United States
Bildt
Bluefield College
Sallie M. Sanders
James A. Stevenson
Melrose Street
Daladier Replies to Mussolini Speech as Spain Crisis Deepens
Paris reports inform ed diplomats expect France to demand Italian withdrawal from Spain amid Francoist victory. Britain and France prepare measures to limit Rome Berlin axis influence with Daladier to address the cabinet and broadcast a reply to Mussolini's recent speech.
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Paris
France
Spain
Madre
Franco
Britain
Sorry He Made Last Confession
Memphis reporters recount a sharecropper who claimed a long-ago prison escape in a deathbed confession. He was treated with sulphapyridine for pneumonia, survived, and Oklahoma officials planned to locate him.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mack Howard
Marked Tree
Ark
McAlester
Okla
Beets
Oklahoma
Man awarded divorce after wife cuts pictures of girls
Rufus Ross, 63, sought divorce from Bessie Ross in Akron Common Pleas Court. He testified she pinches his ears when he looks at pretty girl pictures and slaps him for glancing at women while driving. His cousin described her as dominating. Ross was granted the divorce.
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Akron
Rufus Ross
Common Pleas
Oscar Hunsicker
Bessie
Alberta Steele
Ross
Florida Residents See Real Snow In City Window
Floridians gaze at snow shipped from Cannon Mountain New Hampshire arriving by air for a public display in St. Petersburg. Parents explain the white stuff to children as snow from Christmas cards while the exhibit is unpacked and protected by dry ice at a downtown store.
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St. Petersburg
Fla
Air Express
Cannon Mountain
New Hampshire
Wage Hour Pact Talks End First Session With No Decision
A committee of eight appointed to draft a bituminous industry wage and hour contract failed to reach any conclusions in its first session. John L. Lewis said discussions continued in a respectful manner as negotiators from both sides sought to avoid a shutdown before Friday’s deadline. The group includes Lewis and three district presidents for the unions, while the operators are represented by Charles O’Neill and A. Morrow along with other officials. If an agreement is reached it will go to the 32‑member joint committee for approval.
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John Dewey
U. S. Department of Labor
Ins
Smee
John L. Lewis
Charles O'Neill
Lewis
Sam Caddy
Lexington
van A. Bittner
Charleston
W. Va
James Mark Clearnence
O'Neill
A. Morrow
Pittsburgh
Southern
L. T. Putman
Faethen
Seeley
Gunter
Poxville
Tenn
Pretty Music Tutor Missing in Tennessee
Memphis police report violin instructor Pretty Hope Brewster 24 disappeared after leaving the Memphis College of Music. Authorities fear she set off in a second-hand rowboat for a solo cruise down the Mississippi River, watched by two yacht club workers as she shoved off around 2:30 p.m. An aerial search and river patrols were ordered.
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Tenn
Pretty Hope Brewster
Mississippi
Miss Brewster
Nonor
Southwestern University
Memphis College of Music
Cliff Richards
Russell Hardwick
Memphis Yacht Club
Hungary Reopens Slovak Frontier Fighting Amid Negotiation Breakup
Budapest reports renewed clashes along the Slovakia Carpatho Ukraine frontier after negotiations collapsed. Slovak negotiators returned to Bratislava with a Hungarian proposal seen as an ultimatum. Hungary calls up more men and requisitions vehicles as Goebbels visits Budapest.
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Hungary
Slovakia
Carpatho - Ukraine
Bratislava
Pan American Clipper set to Bermuda with record reservations
In Baltimore on March 28 fifty passengers booked a Bermuda bound Clipper flight, the largest single commercial flight booking for Pan American Airways. They travel in a sister ship to the 42 ton Yankee Clipper.
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Pan American Airways
Operators Say They Cannot Continue Under 1937 Contract
O L Alexander of New York president of Pocahontas Fuel company and Pocahontas Operators delegate to the New York wage conference said operators would not continue under the event wage contract expiring soon. He noted limited extensions might be possible but a new contract is essential to keep operating as hydro electric power and oil drain the coal market. The officials were en route to Pocahontas for a board meeting and stockholders gathering.
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New York
Pocahontas Fuel Company
Pocahontas Operators Association
Alexander
H. Hawthorne
Is Pocahontas Fuel Comy
Pocatas
The
Fuel Company
Fuel Comont
Toether
Walter Carter
Rioal Company
Madrid Falls to Franco as Nationalists Take City
Nationalist Generalissimo Francisco Franco's forces entered Madrid after 29 months of Civil War, with the capital surrendering and crowds celebrating. The Fifth Column activated, releasing prisoners and seizing utilities as Franco's troops took control of municipal administration.
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Francisco Franco
Lsk
Arriba Espana
Franco
Adolfo Prada
Casado
Central Army
National Defense Council
Fifth Column
Duce and Hitler hail Madrid end of conflict
Mussolini on the Palazzo Venezia balcony proclaims the Spanish war finished with Bolshevist defeat. Fascists chant Tunisia as Italy's aviation day climaxes with the Duce's pledge against enemies of Italy and Fascism. Hitler extends congratulations to Franco for victory over Bolshevism and speaks of a new period in Spain.
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Madrid
Italy
Il Duce
Palazzo Venezia
London
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Italian Somaliland
Africa
Hitler
Berlin
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