Lithuanian Cabinet Resigns After Memel Cession Talks
Kaunas March 27 cabinet resigns after agreeing to Memel cession to Germany and amid negotiations with Nazi Memel director Willi Bertuleit. General Tshenius named to handle foreign ministry negotiations as cabinet contemplates a common patriotic front and new representation.
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Kaunas
Lithuania
Memel
Germany
Tshenius
Willi Bertuleit
Common Patriotic Front
Rights. Net
Chamberlain
Romania
Bucharest
Patriotic Front
Francisco Franco
Catalonia
Madrid
Madrid National Defense Council
Switzerland
Europe hopes fade as Mussolini speech steers toward negotiation
Amid talk of Italian demands and Djibouti Tunisia and the Suez Canal Premier Mussolini’s anniversary speech suggested no clear territorial claims. Reconciliation with France appeared closer in Paris while Britain faced unrest over eastern commitments and German expansion.
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Associated Press
Europe
France
Premierussolini
Tunisia
Suez Canal
Rome
Newpaper
Paris
Mussolini
Hich
Daladier
Italy
London
Meanhile
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Hitler
Germany
League of Nations
Geniuses and dullards speak at medical meeting
Stephen J. McDonough reports from New Orleans on a call for a metal revolution in education and mental health. John M. Barclay argues for individualized treatment of children from three to 23 with IQs 75 to 150 and warns many mental hospital beds could be spared with early intervention.
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Stephen J. McDonough
Associated Press
New Orleans
American College of Physicians
John M. Barclay
Devereaux School
Berwyn
United States
Barclay
Devereaux
Wagner
Irvin Abell
Louisville
American Medical Association
College of Physicians
Association
St. Louis
Safe robbed at Valley Coal and Lumber Co
Police seek burglar who broke into Valley Coal and Lumber Co offices on Fourth avenue east and stole between 150 and 200 dollars from the safe. Chief W. P. Moore calls it an expert job. Manager T. B. Middlebrooks found the break Sunday at 10 30 AM. Entry was through a rear window.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valley Coal and Lumber Company
Fourth Avenue
East
W. P. Moore
T. B. Middlebrooks
Newsome Nelson Improves at Prospect Drive Home
Newsome Nelson shows improvement at his Prospect Drive residence after a sudden illness that began several days ago. Family reports his condition stabilizing and recovery underway.
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Newsome Nelson
Prospect Drive
Mr. Nelson
American's Return Home Interrupted Near Slovak War Zone
American citizen Mike Zahratka from Mather Greene County Pennsylvania neared his parents in Slovakia when Slovak Hungarian fighting started. A bomb fell near his taxicab as he sheltered in a roadside ditch injuring one foot. He and companion Joe Clay Hoy turned back toward Budapest awaiting evacuation.
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Budapest
Mike Zahratka
Mather
Greene County
Pennsylvania
Slovakia
Zahratka
Joe Clay- Hoy
Local Girl Is Given Honor in Hi Y District
Miss Constance Peerson of Decatur was elected first vice president of the district Hi Y organizations meeting in the Tri Cities. Other officers include Harold Whitlock Huntsville president Billy Blackburn Sheffield second vice president Bobby Roberts Huntsville third vice president Wendell Payne Huntsville secretary Virginia Ware Tus
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Constance Peerson
Decatur
Tri-Cities
Harold Whitlock
Huntsville
Billy Blackburn
Sheffield
Bobby Roberts
Wendell Payne
Virginia Ware
Tuscumbia
Miss Gay
Jack McLaughlin
Junior Thompson
James Arthur Jones
Katherine Boswell
Mary Virginia Bingham
Anne Johnson
Billy Duncan
Mary Katherine Nungester
Martha Frances Kilgore
Cameraman Released After Refusing to Name Cockfight Location
Robert Brown, Chattanooga News photographer, jailed for contempt after refusing to tell a county grand jury if a cockfight he photographed was in Hamilton county. He said the fight was not in Hamilton county and provided no further information.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Robert Brown
Chattanooga News
Grand Jury
Hamilton County
Brown
Charles Lusk
Frank Darwin
Masonic Officer to Speak at Rising Sun Lodge Dinner
E. F. Yielding acting grandmaster from Florence will be guest at Rising Sun Lodge No 29 Thursday evening. Eastern Star banquet serves at 7 00. Yielding will deliver an address and other speakers will be heard. All Masons in the area urged to attend.
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E. F. Yielding
Florence
Rising Sun Lodge No
Eastern Star
Mr. Yielding
Andrews Praises Wage Hour Act At Atlanta Rotary
Wage-hour Administrator Elmer F Andrews told Atlanta Rotarians that the labor standard act is broad social legislation aiding both workers and business. He urged strict enforcement to ensure benefits and noted the plan to raise the 44 hour week to 40 hours at 40 cents per hour within six years. Roosevelt had spoken in Gainesville last year urging higher southern pay to attract new industry.
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Atlanta
Elmer F. Andrews
Roosevelt
Atlanta Rotarianus
Andrews
Gainesville
South
Textile minimum wage proposal faces public hearings
Atlanta reports Elmer F Andrews national administrator for the fair labor standards act says a 32 1/2 cent per hour minimum wage for textile mills is subject to public hearings. The wage may take effect July 1 per group recommendation and final action could be delayed several weeks.
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Atlanta
Elmer F. Andrews
Paul Sifton
Washington
A J Lindley Rites Set After Death at 67
A J Lindley died at 8 this morning at his daughter's home in Hartselle route 3. Funeral at 1 p m Tuesday at Herring cemetery. Burial by Rev Rigil Jones with Peck in charge. Survived by widow seven daughters and five sons, plus a brother and three sisters. Pallbearers named, flower girls listed.
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A. J. Lindley
J. W. Tucker
Hartselle
Herring Cemetery
Rigil Jones
Peck
Lindley
Goldman Harris
Falkville
Curtis Upton
Danville
Earl Harris
Herman Smith
Lacon
James Montgomery
Mindie Lindley
Tucker
Henry
Jack
Jefferson
John R
Raymond Lindley
Jim Lindley
Dave McMillan
Wiley Land
Kya ‘Young
Elbert Doss
James Morris
Jim Morris
W. L. Hardwick
Sherrill Harris
Fred Robinson
Misses Pauline
Dorothy Nell Doss
Dorothy Jean Dutton
Edith Annie
Eula Owens
Banker John W. White Dies After Lacon Mountain Crash
John W. White president of Peoples Exchange Bank of Russellville died from injuries in a crash on Lacon mountain. His niece Miss Sarah Jane Herden suffered injuries. Ezell Cotton the driver sustained a shoulder injury. A Greyhound bus traveling south avoided serious harm. a relief bus carried passengers onward. White was en route from his Florida winter home to Arkansas.
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John W. White
Russellville
Ark
Lacon Mountain
Drinkard Funeral Co
Cullman
Peoples Exchange Bank of
Arkansas
St. Petersburg
Fla
Sarah Jane Herden
Ezell Cotton
Miss Herden
van Gilbert
Sanders Fusch
State Highway Patrol
Bee Line Highway
Greyhound
Smith Dodson
Nashville
Dodson
White
Cullman Hospital
Three Accident Deaths Reported in Alabama
Birmingham dispatch notes three fatalities over the weekend. John W. White of Russellville Ark died near Cullman in a highway bus collision after his car left the road. John Richard McKee of Columbus Ga died from injuries in a three car crash near Lanett. Taylor Bennett Sargent, a night watchman, was killed at Tarrant Alabama.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
John W. White
Russellville
Ark
Cullman
Taylor Bennett Sargent
Tarrant
John Richard McKee
Columbus
Lanett
White
McKee
West Point
Solon Fights Dumping Plan
Senator George of Georgia urged the Senate to block government cotton dumping abroad without congressional approval. He warned a two price program would subsidize cotton in world trade, harming farmers and the economy. The administration holds 11.5 million bales at about ten cents a pound and White House talks on the issue continued with Wallace visiting.
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Washington
George
Senate
Agriculture Department
Congress
Secretary of Agriculture
White House
Roosevelt
Wallace
Lee
Okla
Jones
Tex
House Agriculture Committee
Decatur Woman Class Mate Of Slain Teller
Reneau Carrell says John Gawthrop, 20 year old First National Bank teller of Powell Wyoming, graduated with her in Greybull High School class of 1935 and was popular and active in honors society orchestra and school life. The two former classmates later met as students at John Brown University in Silom Springs Arkansas.
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John Gawthrop
First National Bank
Powell
Wyoming
Decatur
Reneau Carrell
Church Street
Gawthrop
Greybull
Carrell
Lela Belle Minnis
John Brown University
Siloom Springs
Arkansas
Rainmaker Miss Stoate Says Rain Will Come
Miss Lillie Stoate of Oxford Mississippi known as a rainmaker sits by Lake Reedy claiming a peculiar power over water. She asserts rain will fall if given time and by watching a body of water for a few hours daily. The 67 year old has 400 prior trials cited. Weather officials forecast partly cloudy skies with some showers in Florida.
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Fia
Lillie Stoate
Oxford
Lake Reedy
Womhn
Mias Stoate
Weather Bureau
Jacksonville
Florida
Swan urges rainmaker to delay incantations at festival
Clifford Swan head of the St Petersburg festival asks Miss Lillie Stoate to postpone her Mississippi rainmaking incantations until after the local celebration Frost proof Florida today shows possible showers as the event opens and runs through Saturday.
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ST. Petersburg
Fila
Clifford Swan
Lillie Stoate
Mississippi
Malaria engineers meet to coordinate control program
Malaria engineers from several North Alabama county health departments met for the regular monthly conference to review past malaria control measures and plan future efforts. G B Christ presided at the health department offices with attendees W K Littrell, A H Johnson, H E Breedlove, G H Gassman, M E Smith, and E A Philen representing multiple counties.
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North Alabama
G. 8. Christ
Health Department
W. K. Littrell
Lawrence County
A. H. Johnson
Lauderdale
Colbert
H. E. Breedlove
Limestone
G. H. Gassman
Madison
M. E. Smith
Jackson and Marshall
E. A. Philen
Morgan County
Rites Held for Infant Son of Mr and Mrs Runge
Final rites for the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Runge were conducted today at Union Hill at 2 PM. Peck of Hartselle directed burial. The baby died at home Sunday afternoon. Surviving are the parents and two brothers James Buford and Edward Eugene.
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Clarence Runge
Baileyton
Union Hill
Peck
Hartselle
James Buford
Edward Eugene
Cotton swap proposed by Goodyear head at Akron
P W Litchfield president of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co proposed that the United States seek negotiations with Britain and Holland to exchange surplus American cotton for an emergency crude rubber supply. He warned rubber sources lie far away and that war would disrupt shipping. He noted US rubber stockpiles cover only about five months of consumption and warned of spillover effects on industries.
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Akron. C
P. W. Litchfield
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
United States
Great Britain
Holland
Litchfield
Goodyear
Parity Proposals Delayed to Tuesday in House
Washington March 27 House leaders planned action on a general WPA investigation and District of Columbia bills while deferring debate on a $250 million parity payment for farmers and a $150 million WPA relief fund. Rep Rayburn said the labor department appropriation would be taken up Wednesday and the parity issue Friday.
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Washington
House
WPA
Rep. Rayburn
Texas
Chamber
District of Columbia
Rep
Cox
House Rules Committee
House Appropriations Committee
Senate
Rayburn
Labor Department
Roosevelt
Liberal Bloc
Sabath
D., II
Agriculture Department
Garner
Benny Plans Plea Talks in Federal Jewelry Smuggling Case
The Daily News reports comedian Jack Benny will plead nolo contendere or possibly guilty in a federal trial next Monday over smuggling 2131 dollars worth of jewelry. He allegedly bought the pieces as a gift for wife Mary Livingston, from Albert N. Chaperau, whom he met in Cannes. Also mentioned are prior guilty pleas by George Burns and Elma Lauer in related matters.
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New York
The
Daily News
Jack Benny
Benny
Albert N. Chaperau
Cannes
France
Mary Livingston
George Burns
Gracie Allen
Elma N. Lauer
York State
J J. Lauer
Right Upheld by High Court in Test Gases
The Supreme Court ruled that a state may tax salaries of federal workers, affirming reciprocal taxation ideas. Justice Stone delivered the opinion in New York, with Justice Black in Utah. Dissent by Justice Butler.
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High Court
Washington
Supreme Court
New York
Utah
Roosevelt
Congress
Justice Stone
Justice Black
Utah Supreme Court
Butler and
McReynolds
Collector
Stone
Hughes
Falkville Schools Reopen After Influenza Closure
Falkville high and grammar schools reopen after short suspension due to an influenza epidemic that affected 299 students, more than a third of the total enrollment. Authorities expect the move to help stop the illness spread.
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Falkville High
Spring Football Training Approved In Alabama Schools
J P Creel president of the high school athletic association announced that a day football spring training has been approved for schools desiring it in Lacauga Alabama on March 27.
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Spring Training CO. K. PhD
Lacauga
Ala
J.P. Creel
Rr High School Ath Association
Weather summary for Tennessee and Alabama today
The Tennessee river gauge read 167 feet with a 75 degree high and 57 degree low over the past 24 hours. Alabama forecast calls for partly cloudy skies, cooler conditions inland, and gentle to moderate northeast winds along the coast.
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Tennessee
Alabama
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