Judge Halstead Rules Newspapers In Contempt In School Board Case
Judge D C Halstead dissolves a temporary injunction blocking Houston County from holding district elections for school trustees. He also finds two Houston area newspapers in contempt for publishing news about an April hearing that suggested the court had already dissolved the injunction. The Eagle and The Houston Herald face critique for dispersing statements that could coerce or mislead the public about the court’s decision. The ruling notes the boards may appoint trustees if elections are not conducted, and directs continued attention to the case records.
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Houston County Board of Education
Alomon Baxter
Halstead
County Board of Education
Columbia Consolidated School
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Eagle
Houston Herald
John W. Bish
Houston County
the Herald
Mussolini Opens Guidonia Air City in Fascist Italy
Premier Mussolini inaugurates an air city at Guidonia near Rome calling it the last word in modern aeronautical centers. He says the project embodies the will of Fascist Italy and will shape the future as hundreds of inhabitants and large sums are invested in ships and buildings. A feature allows an operator to transmit radio drawings of enemy positions.
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Benito Mussolini
Guidonia
Italy
Mussolini
Anator
Tuscaloosa Man Sentenced to Death for Wife Slaying
Joe Wheler Gast, 40, a farmer of Ralph, Alabama, was found guilty of murdering his wife on April 1 and was sentenced to death in the electric chair. He remained largely silent through sentencing after a dramatic courtroom demeanor and refused to testify on motive.
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Tuscaloosa
Als
Joe Wheler Gast
Gast
Henry B. Foster
Foster
Ralph
Daylight Time Begins Sunday Across Regions
Daylight saving time starts at 2 a m Sunday in most of the Eastern U S, parts of the Middle West, and many Canadian areas. Clocks move forward one hour, with effects on sleep and later sunlit hours.
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Associated Press
United States
Middlewest
Canada
Europe
France
Belgium
Portugal
Great Britain
Northern Ireland
Netherlands
Connecticut
New Haven
Waterbury
Brideport
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Rochester
N. Y
Empire State
South
Atlanta
Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Chicago
Texas Man Slays One Wounds Two on Onion Plantation
A man on the Clark onion plantation three miles south of Laredo killed one man and shot two others before fleeing armed. Ramon Martinez was reported shot as he answered a door call at his home on the plantation. Details remain unclear as a search of nearby woods began.
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Tex
Clark Onion
Here
Ramon Martinez
Hollywood Slayings Linked to Navy Man McDermitt
N C McDermitt reported for duty on the U S Pennsylvania after days away as investigators link him to the Hollywood murder of Paul Ivar and the wounding of Henry Bolte. Capt Norris Stensland seeks him for questioning while Howard’s mother doubts his involvement. Ballistics tie a pistol to the Ivar shooting.
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Calif
N. C
Stensland
McDermitt
Paul Ivar
Hollywood Couturier
William M. Howard
Naval
Ivar
Constance Bennett
Jean Harlow
Rina de Liguoro
Ray Wolfe
Beverly Hills
William Bright
Sheriff's Office
Howard
Washington
William McCauley
Hollywood
Henry E. Bolte
Edgar L. Howard
Robert Rogers
Washington, D. C
Naval Headquarters
Frank Gompert
Bolt
Officers Nab Two On Liquor Charge
County officers arrested I. C. Willis and Herbert Lewis for violating the prohibition law. Willis posted $300 bail, Lewis remained jailed in default of bond. Chief Deputy Alas G. Watford observed deliveries from Willis' N Cherry street establishment for 14 to 15 hours. Two pints were seized.
Protest Letter Questions 1936 Democratic Support on Anti-Lynching Bill
Charles H. Houston urges President Roosevelt to back the Costigan Wagner anti-lynching bill as Democrats maneuver in the senate. He notes Robinson’s opposition and implies White House silence risks alienating self-respecting Negroes in 1936. Southern senators attack the bill arguing federal power over sheriffs is unconstitutional.
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Senate
White House
Charles H. Houston
Howard University School of Law
Houston
Roosevelt
New York
Castigan-Wagner
Sen
Bailey
North Carolina
Congress
PWA Accepting New Applications for Relief Work Funds
Secretary Ickes ordered state engineers to resume accepting non federal project applications for the 4 billion relief work fund. Morris Llewellyn Cook nominated for rural electrification director. PWA to deploy 150 engineers and examiners to assist in preliminary project reviews. It remains unclear if new applications go to Walker’s clearing house or directly to PWA HQ.
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Ickes
PWA
Morris Llewellyn Cook
Philadelphia
Harry L. Hopkins
Works Progress Division
Frank C. Walker
Recess work highlights state education and highway issues
In Montgomery Alabama during April 27, four legislative recess groups wrapped a 12 week session drafting education, agriculture and highway reforms. A gasoline tax increase to seven cents plus elimination of city county levies was proposed to the committee, with a vote expected after Monday. A finance tax committee pushed to balance the quadrennium budget by about $2,400 annually as a rough revenue draft emerged.
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House
Senate
Finance and Taxation Committee
Gore proposes debt settlement to fund soldier bonus
Oklahoma Senator Gore pushes an amendment to the soldiers' bonus bill to authorize the president to settle war debts and use proceeds to pay the bonus in full. He suggests collecting up to 1.75 billion from European debtors, possibly via bonds or future war-time sales, as discretionary action to fund the bonus.
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Nathan Robertson
Washington
Gore
Oklahoma
One Corp
Roosevelt
Senate
Costigan-Wagner
United States
Oklishoma
Final Feature Entrants Quoted As Contest Halts
Letters flood The Eagle office as feature contest nears end. Readers praise Orphan Annie and Mrs. Bronks Peters Church Talks to Parents, while others favor How's Your Health and Talk to Parents for practical advice.
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Eagle
J. W. Jackson
Dothan
Annie
Beraner
Apeech
Taurie Anetin
Madrid
Iev
Milo Reno slams Democratic administration at Holiday convention
Milo Reno, head of the National Farmers Holiday Association, assailed the Democratic administration for harming agriculture and society. He nicknamed the secretary of agriculture Lord Corn Wallace and praised Huey Long for resisting levies. He vowed cooperation with citizens to defend representative government and rejected any shift toward Mussolini, Stalin, or Hitler. The speech cited ND platform promises and criticized tariff and anti trust actions.
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Holiday Association
Reno
AAA
NRA
Lord Corn Wallace
Huey Long
Louisiana
Muscolini
Stalin
Hitler
Nationnal Democratic
Cooking School Is Huge Success In Dothan
More than 3000 Dothan women learned cooking and household economy during a four day session at the city auditorium under Mrs. Edna Riyvyga Crabtree. The crowd packed the venue for practical demonstrations and tips as merchants supplied the stage kitchen and the event drew to a close.
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Dothan
Dothan Eagle
Hea Sien
Bedna Riyvyga Crabtree
City Auditorium
Crabtree
Webb Applies For $80 000 For Civic, School Betterment
Webb, a 600 population town, seeks 80 000 to 100 000 federal funds under the Public Works Administration for seven projects. A 40 000 restoration, a self liquidating water works system, hard surfacing worth 10 000 to 21 099, and four non liquidating improvements including a city hall, cemetery beautification, and senior grounds redesign are proposed. R C Newton, clerk, with Mayor W C Webb and council members, presented the plan to the Public Works Board in Montgomery.
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City Commission Advocates Ready To Ask Election
Warm Springs Georgia locals press for repudiation of Governor Talmadge stand as Democratic groups gather in the resort town. A Paris Moscow pact signals a safer Europe while Britain reports submarine production and Mexico closes banks to adjust to new export controls. Senator Nye pushes navy spending and Morgenthau says no silver price change this weekend. Augusta cotton interests seek study of farm payments and a continuation of cotton loan tax plans for 1945-36.
FDR Radio Talk Set For Sunday Night
President Roosevelt will discuss his relief program and the New York relief undertaking in a national radio address scheduled for Sunday night. The address will outline government efforts and provide guidance to the public.
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Washington
New York
Roovevell
Sweet Adeline Authors Sue for 250 000 Damages
Harry Armstrong and Richard H. Gerard file a 250000 dollar suit against W Witmark and Sons Inc Warner Brothers Pictures Inc and Warner Brothers Production Corporation claiming their copyright agreement gave them rights to consult on film rights and share a third of royalties but were ignored. The suit alleges unauthorized use of the song in a film with credits to Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammie.
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New York
Harry Armstrong
Richard H. Gerard
W. Witmark and Sons, Inc
Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc
Warner Brothers’ Production Corporation
Armstrong
Gerard
Dothan Petition Drive Aims For Commission GovernmentVote
Petition drive seeks to replace Dothan's aldermanic system with a city commission form. Circulators say more than 600 names may appear on petitions filed Monday with Probate Judge Saxon Poyner. Judge must certify signatures within ten days, then Mayor Ezell must call an election within forty days. Candidates Galjlerstedt Miller and Brennan back the change and pledge a manager for a more economical administration.
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Dothan
Saxon Poyner Mons
Poyner
I. C. Ezell
Eric Galjlerstedt
Miles Miller
Jim Brennan
Five Die In Birmingham Auto Wrecks In Four Weeks
Five people were killed in automobile accidents in Birmingham Alabama in the four weeks ending April 13. This raises Birmingham's year to date toll to 67. Nationally 630 deaths occurred in the four weeks, with New York leading at 84 and Chicago 60.
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Birmingham
Ala
Bureau of the Census
New York
Chicago
Los Angeles
Wall River
New Bedford
Sommerville
Spokane
Utica
Waterbury
Four Indicted As Aides of Hamilton
Four alleged accomplices of condemned Texas gunman Raymond Hamilton in his raid on a Mississippi bank were indicted in federal court at Tacksom Mississippi. The defendants include the Davis sisters Fatel 19 and Dorothy 23 of Dallas and Mrs Bergle Johnson of Prentiss with Ralph Fults captured in Texas. Fults faces indictment under the Lindbergh kidnapping law for the Prentiss citizens getaway and stands charged with harboring Hamilton and aiding Hamiltons escape.
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Texas
Raymond Hamilton
Mississippi
Davis Sisters
Fatel
Dorothy
Dallas
Bergle Johnson
Prentiss
Ralph Fults
Fults
Hamilton
Bank of Blountville
Weather Outlook For Alabama And Northwest Florida
Weather report notes cloudy conditions with showers in eastern areas and cooler temperatures except in southeast Alabama tonight. Northwest Florida expected mostly cloudy with possible showers and cooler conditions tonight through Sunday. Week outlook from Monday favors generally fair conditions in the Central and East Gulf states, then cloudy with likely showers mid to late week.
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Alabama
Florida
Central and
East Gulf States
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