Glades Drainage Financing Obligation Carried By District
Tornadoes and blizzards sweep the central to southern states causing deaths and widespread flooding. Texas records heavy toll with Rocksprings hit hardest as 47 perish. Floods force 1,000 from homes in Arkansas towns as dikes fail at Columbus, Kentucky. Damages to Oklahoma and Kansas crops rise to tens of millions. Red Cross coordinates relief and barriers crumble against the rising Mississippi. Continued on Page Two.
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Glades
Rocky Mountain States
Mississippi Valley
Missssippi
Columbus
Fort Smith
van Buren
Ark
Arkansas River
Kansas
Oklahoma
Colorado
Wyoming
Nebraska
Eckmen
Liestock
Fred
Memphis
Mississippi River
Kentucky
House Gets Bill Leader in Cantonese Verse
Representatives Perry and Tervin introduce a new bill amid chaotic Chicago politics. The article notes extremist threats and a public debate over government oversight as lawmakers seek control over energy policy and public safety.
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HOUSE
Perry
Tervin
Legislature advances tax and crime bills in Florida session
Lawmakers propose raising the gas tax from four to five cents with three cents for the state road department and two cents for counties to split between road and school funds. Other measures cover unlawful breaking and entering of occupied dwellings, motor vehicle tax collection, a 300000 dormitory appropriation at the University of Florida, and a five minute train crossing limit. Senators push slot machine fraud penalties and actions affecting negotiable instruments while many local measures await action.
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Tallahassee
Perry
Manatee
Tervin
Getzen
Bushnell
University of Florida
Hagen
Arran
Victor
St. Augustine
Kenzie
Leesburg
25Th Judicial Circuit
Flagler
Putnam
St. Johns
Senate
House
Gary
United States
Harrison
Mitchell
Definite Split in Ranks Of Farewell Note Sent to Woman
A division emerged within a political faction as a farewell note addressed to a woman prompted questions of complicity. Authorities and party members debated the document and its implications for the ongoing dispute.
Manatee River Bridge franchise sought for toll link
The Manatee River Bridge Company of Florida plans to apply for a legislative franchise to build a toll bridge from Leffingwell Avenue Ellenton to River Haven Manatee west of St. Augustine Castle camp. Cities of Manatee approve joining terms with a 100 foot right of way and toll regulations to be set by the company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manatee River
Manatee
Bay Street
Financiers in New York to back Everglades bonds
Florida Governor John W. Martin told the legislature New York financiers are prepared to take up to 29 million dollars in bonds to finance the Everglades drainage project. The plan outlines sinking funds from existing taxes and land sales to support bond interest and eventual fund transfer to the treasury.
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Tallahassee
A.P
John W. Martin
Florida
Everglades
House
Senate
New York
Rence
Internal Improvement Fund
Treasury
Winter Haven Wins Florida Horticultural Society Convention
The Fortieth Annual Florida State Horticultural Society convention closed after three days of sessions. Winter Haven won next year’s host city after rivalries with Clearwater and Lake Wales. Notable talks included Victor Newton on citrus grower issues, cooperative marketing by J C Commander, and fruit frost service remarks by J B Kincer. Delegates visited Manatee County sights before returning home.
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Florida State Horticultural Society
Winter Haven
Clearwater
Lake Wales
Skinner
Lakes Wales
Victor Newton
Orlando
Newton
J. C
Tampa
J. B. Kincer
Weather Bureau
Washington, D. C
L.M. Hodes
State Marketing Bureau
Jacksonville
West
California
Florida
Frank K. Anderson
Altamonte Springs
J. C. Merrill
Leesburg
Association
Bradenton
Manatee County
River at Fort Smith Rises to 36 Feet
STILL RISING FORT SMITH ARK April 15 The Arkansas river at 7 oclock this morning had reached a stage of 36 feet and still was rising slowly. seventies became higher than the record set in 1898.
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Fort Smith
Ark
Arkansas River
Grand Chapter O. E. S. To Elect Officers In Florida Session
Tampa hosts the Grand Chapter of Florida order of Eastern Star as it closes its annual session with election of officers and a potential convention city for 1928. Mrs Lulu M Scott of Sebring proposes a girls auxiliary similar to De Molays. Mrs Alvina Craig of Winter Haven presides as grand matron.
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Tampa
Grand Chapter
Florida
Order of Eastern Star
Order of de Molays
Eastern Star
Lulu M., Scott
Sebring
Alvina Craig
Winter Haven
Sweetser to travel by train to New York after illness in Asheville
American golf star Jess Sweetser, British amateur champion, contracted a severe cold during a motor trip through Kentucky last week. He has abandoned plans to drive home Monday and will take the train instead. Though not well, his condition is not serious and he plans to enter the national amateur tournament this summer.
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Asheville
N. C
Kentucky
Jess Sweetser
New York
Sweetser
Navy Congressmen Watch Geneva Arms Conference Plans
Washington April 15 AP navy members of congress follow the Geneva three power naval arms talks set for June 12. Senator Hale Maine and Representative Butler Pennsylvania, chairmen of Senate and House naval committees, discuss augmenting the fleet with seven additional cruisers while weighing how the conference may affect their plans. Hale notes general accord with President Coolidge but has not yet decided on large cruiser authorization.
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Washington
Geneva
Navy
Congress
Hale
Maine
Butler
Pennsylvania
Senate
Housekeeping
Coolidge
White House
Chen proposes international commission on Nan King outrages
Washington reports Eugen Chen Cantonese foreign minister suggests an international commission to investigate the Nan king outrages. He refuses to admit Cantonese nationalist troops caused the killings of an American and several foreigners. Officials cite reticence and await the Cantonese moderates' meeting led by General Chiang Kai-Shek.
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Michael Borodin
Hankow
George Hsu Chien
Chen Tu-Hsiu
Chinese Communist Party
Tung Png- Shanh
Tung Yen-Ta
Eugen Chen
Borodin
Central Control Committee
Kuomintang
Washington
Chen
China
State Department
Nanking
Shameen
Canton
Japan
Italy
Tag
Chiang Kai-Shek
Earl Carroll Held In Coma While Sentenced
Earl Carroll New York theatrical producer remained unconscious today as he was en route to the Atlanta penitentiary to begin a perjury sentence. He showed slight signs of waking after two days in coma, receiving nourishment by mouth for the first time since hospital admission. Mrs Carroll, who arrived ill to be at his bedside, spent a peaceful night and was reported in satisfactory condition.
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Chicago
John Walton Winn
Albert Nusba
Gerand Eliza Nusbaum
Nusbaum
Winn
Salvation Army
Nnn
Grandma
Delian Martin
Edwin Goof
Marion Stringham
Con- Was
Greenville
8. C
Earl Carroll
New York
Atlanta
Carroll
Mrs Dodge Plans Evading Husband on President Madison
Reports from Honolulu say Mrs Horace Dodge wife of a Detroit millionaire has booked a cabin on the Dollar liner President Madison to elude her husband who arrived incognito for a reconciliation. Dollar Line officials declined to comment or permit inspection of the reservation list. The Madison sails for San Francisco tomorrow as Mrs Dodge returns from Hilo.
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Honolulu
Horace Dodge
Detroit
Madison
Dollar Line
San Francisco
Dodge
Hilo
Warrant Signings Set Executions for Two Black Prisoners
Governor Martin signed warrants for the electrocution of Jim Williams in Putnam County and Fortune Ferguson in Alachua County. Williams is slated for the week of May 9 and Ferguson for the week of April 2.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Jim Williams
Putnam County
Fortune Ferguson
Alachua County
Martin
Williams
Ferguson
Ex Follies Beauty Mary Lewis Weds German Bass Bohnen
Mary Lewis former Little Rock singer and Follies star married German basso Bohnen after a six week courtship. The ceremony at City Hall delayed by subway misrouting. Bohnen sails to Germany May 1 for operatic engagements. Lewis will join him in June. Both are divorced and have two sons and a prior marriage.
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New York
Mary Lewis
Little Rock
Ark
Follies
Metropolitan Opera
Michael Franz Behnen
City Hall
Walker
Miss Lewis
Bobwen
Germany
Berlin
Bohnen
Metropolitan
Mary Kidd Lewis
J. Keene Lewin
Mike Beans
Cologne
la Boheme
Wreck injures several on Memphis Special near Stevenson
In Alabama the Memphis Special eastbound derailed near Stevenson at about 5:30 am. Officials report no fatalities. The engine and four cars left the tracks and railroad men were uncertain of the wreck cause.
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Huntsville
Ala
Memphis
Southern Railway
Stevenson
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