Flying Fortresses Land at El Palomar on Record Lima Flight
Five United States Army bombers completed a record Lima to Buenos Aires one‑stop flight, covering about 5 200 miles in 12 hours. They crossed the Andes at 20 000 feet, landed at El Palomar near Buenos Aires, to attend inauguration ceremonies for President‑elect Roberto M. The escorting Argentine planes greeted them with a thunderous welcome.
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Buenos Aires
United States Army
el Palomar Military Air Base
Miami
Fla
Lima
el Palomar Field
United States
Argentina
Roberto M
Andes
Mendoza
Army bombers begin goodwill flight toward Buenos Aires
Five United States Army bombers depart Lima on the second leg of a goodwill mission to Buenos Aires after a six hour stop at Limatambo Airport. One plane remains in Lima due to a defective propeller as the flight plans to Valparaiso then across the Andes to Buenos Aires. The lead flight commander Lieut Col Roberts Olds says the trip covers roughly 2500 miles with about 13 and a half hours flight time if no further stops are made.
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Lima
Peru
United States Army
South America
Buenos Aires
E.S.T
Pacific
Limatambo
Miami
Army Air Corps
Roberts Olds
Valparaiso
Chile
Andes
Tax total update shows about $65 000 unpaid from 1937
Tax Collector H R Summer said about 65 000 remains from the 1937 axes for collection. Distribution of funds collected between February 1 and 15 totaled 5 684 with most going to schools. The payment brings the tax collector's office up to date.
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H. R. Summer
Mississippi House Buries Liquor Bill in Dry Era
Mississippi remained in the dry column as the House voted 90 to 35 to bury the liquor bill. Supporters cried hypocrisy while opponents called the proposal a compromise with evil in Jackson.
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Mississippi
Jackson
Miss
Dinsmore Brothers Move to New Second Avenue Store
Dinsmore Brothers furniture store will occupy the former Ben Franklin building on Second Avenue. The firm plans extensive renovations and expects to open around March 5.
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Dinsmore Brothers Furniture
Ben Franklin Company
Second Avenue
Do You Know About Cotton Rule Primer Tells All
A government cotton farming primer outlines the March 12 referendum on marketing quotas for 1938. It explains voter eligibility, administration by county soil conservation committees, secret ballots, and nationwide applicability. It details state and farm allocations, expected acreage and bale ranges, and contrasts quotas under the 1933 act with the 1938 adjustment act.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
County Soil Conservation Committee
Arctic Snowstorm Halts Icebreaker Rescue Mission
An arctic snowstorm off Greenland stalled the icebreaker Taimyr as it attempted to reach four drifting Soviet polar scientists. Rescue efforts resumed with flights planned to drop supplies once visibility improves after the storm. Pilot Cherevichny, lost for two days, was later rescued along with Karabanoff. Viasoff, hailed on Murman, visited the explorers.
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Moscow
Taimyr
Russia
Greenland
North Sea Route Administration
Ivan Cherevichny
Cherevichny
Karabanoff
Gennady Viasoff
Viasoff
Murman
Girl Athlete Acquitted in Mud Puddle Death Case
Philadelphia report states Mary O Connor a 19 year old girl athlete was found not guilty on murder voluntary and involuntary manslaughter charges in the Nancy Glenn mud puddle death. Verdict greeted by cheers in court with judge instructing acquittal if testimony believed.
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Philadelphia
Mary O'Connor
Nancy Glenn
O'Connor
Glenn
Nancy
No date set for Decatur taxi hearing before Alabama Supreme Court
The Decatur taxi dispute awaits a date as the city and cab firms seek the Alabama Supreme Court ruling on city street control powers. A decision is expected in the coming days to clarify authorities over Decatur's streets.
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Decatur
Alabama Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Decatur Man T H Gentry to Celebrate 83rd Birthday
T H Gentry a Decatur resident for 30 years will mark his 83rd birthday on Sunday February 20 born in 1855 at Pikelville Tennessee Bledsoe County. He has five children 25 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren residing at 1206 South Avenue South.
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T. H. Gentry
Decatur
Pikeville
Tenn
Bledsoe County
Sth Avenue South
Japanese seize key position near Shanghai and Chengchow
Japanese troops reportedly broke through heavy fortifications to capture Sinjiang, the last major Peiping Hankow rail hub north of the Yellow River, as advance columns push toward Chengchow. Detachments and leadership reshuffles are noted along the Lunghai corridor while other fronts face stiff Chinese defenses.
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Shanghai
Sinjiang
Yellow River
Lunghai
China
Iwane Matsui
Japan
Sunhioku Hata
Chengchow
Peiping- Hankow
Kaifeng
Nanking
Suchow
Hiwai River
Pengpu
Shantung Province
Tsining
Can Control Cancer If Treated Properly
Dr. L. R. Murphree Morgan County Health Officer urged public cooperation with doctors and health agencies to control cancer. He noted 1936 deaths in Alabama reached 1 729 statewide and 37 in Morgan County, asserting early, proper treatment can cure cancer.
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Alabama
L. R. Murphree
Morgan County
Warning Issued Over Fraudulent L and N Pay Vouchers
Louisville and Nashville police chief M. B. Harlan warns officers to watch for an unidentified man circulating unauthorized L and N pay vouchers. The suspect has operated in Bessemer Alabama and Kingsport Tennessee. The checks are drawn on non existent Louisville banks.
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M. B. Harlan
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
Harlan
Bessemer
Ala
Kingsport
Tenn
Louisville
Roosevelt outlines balanced prices program to curb inflation
President Roosevelt released an interdepartmental committee report detailing a balanced prices plan aimed at steady production growth. He denied this signals inflation or gold devaluation, citing actions like the farm act housing program and $250 million relief as supporting steps.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Alabama Motor Deaths Rise Between 1934 and 1936
Alabama recorded 525 motor vehicle deaths in 1934 rising to 698 in 1936, a gain of just under 33 percent. The increase trails the national rise of about 512 percent and places Alabama nineteenth among U S states in 1936 motor death tolls.
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Alabama
United States
State Department of Health
Bureau of the Census
United States Department of Commerce
States of the Union
Senate OKs emergency relief bill with changes
The Senate appropriations committee favorably reported the 250 million dollar emergency relief bill stripping an alien provision. Senator Adams said amendments would allow aliens to share if they declared intent or had ten years residence. House previously passed the relief bill amid debate on allocations and eligibility.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
House
Adams
Colo
United States
Hale
Ways and Means Committee
Ah Gyeg
Democratic
Forced emergency landing of American Airlines flagship near Forrest City
The New York to Los Angeles airliner made a precautionary landing two and a half miles south of Forrest City around 11 30 am after one engine failed. All 12 passengers and three crew members remained safe with only a bent propeller. the craft had stopped in Memphis overnight due to bad weather.
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Forrest
Ack
Theérican Airlines
Here
New York
Los Angeles
Sherman Willard
Charles Curry
Forrest City
Memphis
Cotton Growers Vote March 12 On Farm Bill Control Plan
Southern cotton and tobacco growers will vote March 12 on a farm act control provision creating marketing quotas to limit sales this season. The plan aims to raise parity prices so farm goods match purchasing power of 1909–14, with parity for cotton near 16 cents per pound and corn around 85 cents per bushel.
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Ovid Martin Washington
Agriculture Department
Wind strike on Odessa town kills and injures many
A devastating storm hit Rodessa Louisiana at 9 45 pm causing at least 22 deaths and more than 100 injuries. Eighteen injured were in Shreveport hospitals with property damage estimated up to 500000. Rescue teams from nearby towns aided amid power outages and downed lines as officials mobilized state aid and Adel positions for relief.
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Rodessa
Tts
Shreveport
Beasia Trevillan
Patricia Besg Trevillan
Clark
Laura Lee Clark
Atlanta
Tex
B. B. Crowder
B. E. Crowder
Anna Crowder
Terry
Thatcher
Ww. L
Bill) Young
Davie
George Blackwell
Bernice Blackwell
Dra
George E. Morrison
Charles Holt
Ment
Supply Street
Vivian
Louisiana
Bandits and police battle after Alabama station holdup
A man who gave the name Charles L. Lane of Pennsylvania was critically wounded by a policeman during a running gun fight near Trenton Georgia after a Fort Payne Alabama filling station holdup. Lane and two companions fled, sparking a wide manhunt as officers and citizens searched the hills. Lane was taken to Gadsden Alabama hospital for treatment.
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Trenton
Charles L. Lane
Pennsylvania
Here
Fort Payne
Ala
Lane
M. M. Robertson
Robertson
Station Robbery Spreads Fear Near Rising Fawn
Four bandits robbed a Fort Payne area filling station at 4 a.m. stealing $60. A clerk reported one wounded man, shot in the hip and shoulder, brought to the hospital here as authorities sought the suspects. The attendant testified before the DeKalb county grand jury.
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Fort Payne
Ala
Rising Fawn
L. Campbell
Sheriff's Office
Campbell
Three Jacksonville youths sentenced to death in armed robbery case
Adel Georgia reports three Jacksonville youths pleaded guilty to armed robbery and faced electrocution under a 1987 statute. Judge Will R. Smith named Edward Middleton age 17 Irving Canter 18 and Wil Riggs Jr alias William Patten 21 as the defendants.
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Adel
Jacksonville
Fla
Superior Court
Will R. Smith
Smith
Edward Middleton
Irving Canter
Wil Riggs, Jr
William Patten
RFC Resumes Making Loans to Deserving Borrowers
Washington February 18 Jesse H. Jones chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation announced the RFC would resume immediately loans to all deserving borrowers authorized to be aided.
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Washington
Jesse H. Jones
Reconstriction Finance Corporation
RFC
Austria Faces Rising Opposition as Nazism Encroaches
In Vienna on February 18, monarchists and socialists rally to curb Nazi advances amid Chancellor Schuschnigg’s tight line. The Fatherland Front, Austria’s sole legal party, clashes with calls for broader participation as protests echo across Innsbruck and other regions.
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A. D. Stefferud
Vienna
Austria
Fatherland Front
Kurt Schuschnigg
Schuschnigg
Berchteagarden
Arthur Seysz-Inquart
Berlin
Seysz-Inquart
Hitler
Germany
Hitler aims to unite Germany and Austria under Nazi leadership
Nazi spokesmen portrayed Chancellor Adolf Hitler as resolved to achieve a political and economic union with Austria, pursuing the long standing German ambition thwarted by Britain and France in 1931. The bloodless Nazification of Austria continued as European chancelleries were told that others could no longer judge Berlin.
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Hitler
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Austria
Britain
France
Docks Board Meets After Dispute Over Lease
Governor Bibb Graves said the Alabama state docks commission would meet soon to resolve a disagreement. R I Ingalls and Frederick Thompson criticized a lease by vice chairman Steiner for cotton compressing and warehouse facilities, claiming it favors a private firm over other users.
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Montgomery
Ala
Bibb Graves
Alabama State Docks Commission
Graves
R. I. Ingalls
Birmingham
Threeman Commission
New York
Ingalls
Frederick ‘I. Thompson
Mobile
R. B. Steiner
Commission Vicechairman
Steiner
Ingalls and Thompson
Enya
Weather synopsis from Tennessee river gauge report
The Tennessee river held at 16.4 feet at seven o'clock with a maximum of 65 and a minimum of 52. Rain is expected Saturday with colder air in northern portions tonight and much of Saturday.
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Tennessee
Alabama
East
Probably & R
Warr
Tion
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Dinsmore
Secretary of Agriculture
Storm
Senate Group
Jane
Star
Harriet Brown Nielsen
William King
Robert Allen Trevillan
Bennett
L. B. Somerfield
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