Patman inflation bill passes House amid veto threat
The Patman inflation bill authorizing 2 billion dollars for soldiers bonuses clears the House 207 to 204 despite administration opposition and a looming presidential veto. A contentious roll call shows shifting votes as Tydings Cochran and Andrews backers fail to gain momentum while Patman supporters claim a final victory with narrowed margins.
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Cox
Georgia
Ooners
Texas
Oliver
Alahama
Sumners
Malone purchases Dothan Bank House in landmark deal
George H Malone bought the Dothan National Bank building, one of the citys oldest landmarks, for 28200 in a major real estate transaction. He said no arrangements exist yet for lease or disposal and offered no further plans.
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Dothan National Bank
George H
Dothan
Malone
Brother of Insull deported to Canada for quiet life
Detroit AP report says Martin J. Insull brother of the fallen utilities empire builder Samuel Insull was deported to Canada as a British subject after being freed from charges stemming from the collapse. He plans to return to Orillia with his wife and live quietly.
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Detroit
Martin J. Insull
Samuel
Canada
Orillia
Spun Fragments From Peverly Hills March Notes
A139 fragmented note from Peverly Hills California discusses state legislatures debating tax policies and blackjack, expressing confusion over freight train rules and a compromise on 74 Tan ten. Railroads are blamed for hindering recovery, with hopes that 74 empties will prompt improvements.
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Peverly Hills
Calif
March
Benedict offers six month farm camp for young married men
Montgomery March 22 AP Alabama Re-Employment Service and CCC camps expand to aid the neglected young married man. A six month training program will begin April 1 on government farm land in Coffee County to train 420 men from 21 South Alabama counties into future farm citizens.
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Thad Holt
New Deal
Alabama Re- Net Administration
Coffee County
Holt
CCC
Alabama
Coffee
Revelers See Girl Thrust Knife In Writer's Heart
In New Orleans a knife stabbed John Irving Pierce, 23, a Jackson Mississippi writer, at the Nut Club. Marian King, 23, a former journalist, was arrested without charge after the incident. Police say the girl admitted the stabbing following quarrels, while letters found suggest a personal motive behind the slaying.
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John Irving Pierce
Jackson, Miss
Marian King
Pierce
M. E. Culligan
Miss King
Annapolis
United States
Babbitt
Frank
Montgomery
Ala
Airplane Seance Senses Spirits Aboard Plane Above New York
New York reporters describe an airborne seance as fourteen spiritualists drift 4000 feet above the city. Voices identified as spirits of Conan Doyle Amundsen Greeley Beachey and Bennett purportedly spoke through a medium after lights were blocked and participants began singing.
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Max Hill
Associated Press
New York
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes
Roald Amundsen
Horace Greeley
Lincoln Beachey
Floyd Bennett
Mama Tate
State Increases Income Tax Take to Half Million
State tax figures show current year income tax payments reach 538,777 with yearly receipts projected at 883,300 meeting interest on a 17 million refunding bond. Chairman Henry Long notes general taxes including gasoline, tobacco and corporate taxes are 50 percent ahead of 1933-34. Last year income tax receipts were 339,943, with 138,000 of this year’s shown as escaped taxes.
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Montgomery
Henry Long
State Tax Commission
Long
Federal tax volume gains by 33 percent
The treasury reported income tax receipts for the first 20 days of March rose 33 percent over the same period last year. The revenue figure was described as the continuing trend and noted with a page break indicator.
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Washington
The
Treasury
Roy Dickerson Granted Six Month Parole in 1929
Montgomery March 22 AP Roy Dickerson a 34 year old bank robber who escaped Kilby prison three times since 1920 received a six month test parole from Governor Bibb Graves. He was serving a 25 year sentence for the Phoenix Girard bank robbery in 1920 involving $51000. He has spent months operating a coffee roaster at Kilby and was recaptured after fleeing Kilby in October 1928 and later held in Salt Lake City. He was convicted in Montgomery County in 1914 for assault to rob and paroled in 1915.
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Roy Dickerson
Phoenix-Girard Bank
Phoenix City
Ala
Dickerson
Bibb Graves
Kilby
Graves
Argentina
Salt Lake City
Utah
Montgomery County
Los Angeles
Calif
Birmingham
House approves bill to build six air bases for frontier defense
The House military committee unanimously backed a bill authorizing the war department to construct six powerful air bases to guard the nation’s frontiers. Regions named include Atlantic Northeast, Southeast and Caribbean, Southeastern states, Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and the Rocky Mountain area, with intermediate stations for transcontinental moves.
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War Department
House Military Committee
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Atlantic Southeast
Caribbean
Panama Canal
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Pacific Northwest
Alaska
Rocky Mountain Area
Woodring
Rogers
New Hampshire
Department
Wilcox
Florida
Louis Howe Clings to Life Near White House Verge of Death
Washington dispatch reports Colonel Louis McHenry Howe secretary to the President remained near death with cardiac trouble. White House doctors feared his remarkable resistance might fail at any moment as members of the Roosevelt household and Howe family waited at his bedside.
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Louis McHenry Howe
White House
Roosevelt
Howe
Hartley Howe
Boston
Mary Howe Oaker
Urbana
Til
Dame Nature Clears Dust Storms With Rain Across Regions
AP reports heavy rain helped dust plagued areas in the southwest. Showers eased the Texas panhandle dust, cleared Oklahoma skies, and brought blue skies to much of the state except the northwest wheat belt. Rain also reached Wichita Falls Abilene and El Paso while dust edges lingered in Delaware New York and Washington D C.
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Oklahoma
Northwest Wheat Belt
Wichita
Falls
Abilene
el Paso
Tex
Delaware
New York
Washington, D. C
Half Million Hidden By Soviet Pensioner Revealed By Death
Ivan Burtzeff, 70, died today leaving $500,000 worth of gold and other articles unknown to authorities. A former high city official before the revolution, he lived frugally in recent years. A postdeath apartment check uncovered the hoard.
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Gorky
U. 8S
S. R
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Burtzeff
Nazis ban Russ garb Cologne carnival
In Cologne Germany on March 22 AP reports Russian costumes were forbidden at the carnival because they might provoke misunderstandings.
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Cologne
Germany
State motor patrol to curb Houston county traffic violations
A five to six member state motorcycle unit led by W. J. Mc Clellan will arrive in Houston county to launch an ongoing traffic law enforcement drive. The plan focuses on drunken and reckless driving, proper vehicle equipment, school bus safety zones, and truck carrier compliance with the common and contract carrier acts. Judge Saxon Poyner supports the campaign to reduce accidents and fatalities.
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Houston
W. J. McClellan
McClellan
Saxon Poyner
County Court
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Judge Poyner
Andalusians Removed To Clayton Will Get Trials For February
Four young Andalusia men detained yesterday in the Nance highway robbery case were moved from city jail to Barbour county jail in Clayton to face trial in February. The suspects P M Albritton W C Holmes B Prawner Jr and W G Turner gave their names to police. Nance said he was kidnapped in Georgia and brought to Alabama near Eufaula where he was robbed of 89.95 dollars and a pistol. A residence repair permit was issued to H W Brown for 207 Park Avenue with an estimated cost of 1599 dollars.
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A. G. Nance
Barbour County
Clayton
Williams
P.M. Albritton
W. C. Holmes
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W. G. Turner
Nance
Georgia
Alabama
Eufaula
Lowely
Press group opposes Sedition Act amid legislative delay
Alabama Press Association members protested before the recess against Street sedition bill after the House passed it. a public hearing was urged to hear both sides. Publishers led by Bruce Shelton urged delaying action as Senator Havse Tucker’s motion to oppose was withdrawn at Hale Representative Alf Tunstall’s request. Ratford of the Selma Times Journal argued many papers opposed the bill though amended. The hearing was to be held later to study the measure’s impact on newspapers.
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Associated Press
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Tunstall
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New Morals Bois Down Relief Act As Thomas Rages
Washington report notes Senator Thomas of Oklahoma opens debate on the Patman silver bonus plan amid a storm of arguments over the 4.48 billion relief bill. Richberg assumes NRA leadership after rapid-fire events showing a united labor front against scrap threats to the Eagle program. UnionsCriticism continues as administration weighs support for labor and currency policy changes.
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Washington
Donald ER. Richberg
NRA
Moosevelt
American Federation of Labor
Titehberg
Clay Williams
A. Food TT
House Group to Rush Flood Control Plans
Washington March 22 Cary The house flood control committee began consideration of the emergency flood control bill providing 600 million for general flood control work. Zones would be allocated from the 4.45 billion work relief appropriation and expended by the secretary of war under the army engineers chief with projects on streams watersheds and hydro electric development. Immediate funds cover flood protection in endangered areas while other funds cover new projects and completion of existing work as part of the program. The committee aims to rush approval of the bill.
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Washington
Cary
House Flood Centrol
Wilson Oemergeneys
Othe
Secretary of War
Chief of Army Engineers
Bizarre Touch Deepens Agony Death Mystery
In San Diego California March 22 authorities investigate the mysterious death of Carl George Frey a 3 year old chauffeur and former Hollywood stunt man found bound with a tire chain garroted by a belt and suspended from a pepper tree. Detective Chief Jack Berg says Frey perhaps died trying to free himself in a Houdini like stunt but bruises dim the theory. His gold athletic medal clipped through his nose raises questions as Frey had been missing since Monday night and wore only shorts shoes and a blue overcoat.
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Celif
Carl George Fres
Frey
Jack Berg
Harry Houdini
Berg
Detroit
London Says Germany Will Demand Big Sea Fleet Besides Army
Paris hails pact as rearmament questions split nations. Germany signals major armament moves with a navy aim rivaling Italy and France, prompting fears of a European alliance system to encircle Berlin if talks fail. US Secretary Hull urges adherence to Versailles provisions while Britain Italy and France push diplomacy.
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Germany
Washington
Hull
United States
France
Italy
Berlin
Paris
Heplain
Rome
Ans
Fulvio Suvich
Tokyo
Foreign Office
Key Mittman
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Geneva
John Simon
Paris Cabinet Wins Overwhelming Confidence Vote
Paris March 22 AP Pierre Laval told the chamber France seems to regroup to curb Germany. Deputies approved the Franco Italian African accord by 555 to 9, signed January 8 in Rome by Laval and Mussolini, exchanging colonial territories in America and creating a consultative pact. France won’t give up, Laval said, noting France is the principal card in the game.
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Paris
Pierre Laval
Chamber of Deputies
France
Alnex
Germany
Rome
Laval
Mussolini
America
Deputies
Flandin
Weather Summary for Alabama Tennessee and Northwest Florida
Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday across Alabama and Northwest Florida. Tennessee expects mostly cloudy skies with local showers and thunderstorms tonight and Saturday, with little change in temperature.
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N.W
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Tennessee
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