Four condemned killers to broadcast last statements
Four prisoners scheduled for execution by hanging in Columbia, Louisiana, prepared radio statements claiming crime does not pay. District Attorney C C Minard ordered Sheriff Erskine to bar the broadcasts on KMLB Monroe, though microphones were placed in their death row cells. The four men William Mehare, William Heard, Floyd Boyce, and William Landers faced noon execution for killing a posse member during an escape from an Arkansas prison.
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Columbia
C. C. Minard
G. E. Erskine
Caldwell Parish
KMLB
Monroe
Enie
Baton Rouge
Jumbia
William Mehare
William Heard
Floyd Boyce
William Landers
Gartman
Columbia Posseman
Prince Paul Sees Hitler at Berchtesgaden
Regent Prince Paul traveled to Berchtesgaden for a meeting with Adolf Hitler and is expected to announce Yugoslavia's stance amid mounting pressure from Britain and the Axis. Belgrade awaits a formal statement clarifying neutrality in light of the new situation after the trip.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Prince Paul
Adolf Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Britain
Germany
Italy
Prince Paul Page
Senate panel urges strict limits on campaign funds
The Senate campaign investigation committee reports that major parties spent at least 22 million dollars in the 1940 presidential contest and urges Congress to set rigid limits on political funds to tighten federal election laws. Republican groups are credited with nearly 15 million in expenditures.
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Washington
Senate Campaign Investigating Committee
Congress
Graftonee Invites To Tonight's Strand And Dixie Showings
The Graftonee invites herA L Gainer to attend tonight's presentation of Remedy For Riches with Jean Hersholt at the Strand theatre or Across the Sierras with Bill El Mott at the Dixie theatre.
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Graftonee
Hers A. L. Gainer
Ee Street
Jean Hersholt
Strand Theatre
Across the Sierras
Bill el- Mott
Dixie Theatre
Sham Invasion Mock Brings Parliament Into Confusion
London march 7 mock invasion of England by British forces with staff officers impersonating German command created a high government puzzle. War Secretary H D R Margesson told the House of Commons that civil and military organization came through with greatest credit. Sources said the question was whether British officers acting as Nazi commanders were exceptionally brilliant or defenders not so nature.
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London
England
H. D. R. Margesson
House of Commons
Malta Raid Downed Sixteen Axis Planes In RAF Claim
Cairo dispatch reports the RAF announced sixteen Axis warplanes were shot down during a heavy raid on Malta last Wednesday. British fighters claimed five German bombers two Messerschmitt fighters destroyed, and anti aircraft batteries knocked out a Messerschmitt and eight other enemy aircraft.
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Cairo
Egypt
RAF Command
Mediterranean
Malta
RAF
Turkey Warns Nazi Rulers As War Spreads To Balkans
Turkish newspapers warned against accepting German assurances and warned the war could spread to the Balkans. The Foreign Minister Sukru Saraoglu was to outline foreign policy at a closed People's Party session next Monday.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Balkans
Sukru Sarasoglu
People’s Party
Turhey
Thousands Offer to Wed Czech Skating Star in Deportation Fight
Champaign, March 17. At least 2500 American men volunteered to marry Vera Hruba, the Czechoslovak skating star facing deportation as her entertainer passport expires. Mrs Nan Foley of Lafayette posted a $1000 bond and works with Rep Charles Halleck to act as her guardian until she is of age. Hruba said she would rather die than return to Europe.
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Champaign
Vera Hruba
Nan Foley
Lafayette
Ind
Hruba
Foley
Charles Halleck
R.ind
Test Blackout Is Scheduled In Seattle
Seattle marks the first wartime blackout night in a major American city tonight with over 10,000 men and Boy Scouts recruited as traffic guardians, light snuffers, fire alarm watchers, residence patrols and more. Traffic will halt, cigarettes smothered, and lights extinguished or covered in thousands of homes as hotels tackle large duties.
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Seattle
Teachers Can Join In State Pension System
Charleston March 7 The state and individual teachers will contribute 4 percent each to a teacher pension system enacted by the state legislature. The act passed by the house yesterday after Senate amendments allows present teachers a year to decide about joining, while new teachers join upon hire. Retirement at 60 after 35 years of service, with pensions for superannuated teachers continued.
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Charleston
House
Senate
May primary probe report made public
State election officials lax in overseeing West Virginia's bitter May primary. Investigators who sat in on the election reported apparent conspiracy to violate election laws by illegal ballot marking and vote buying. The inquiry followed complaints of widespread vote buying and ballot tampering as M. M. Neely defeated Harley M. Kilgore for governor and U S senator, with notes of laxity by election officials.
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Washington
Mar
West Virginia
M. M. Neely
Harley. M. Kilgore
Two Doctors and Societies Acquitted in Sherman Case
Justice Proctor granted directed verdicts of acquittal for Dr. Leon A. Martel and Dr. J. Rogers Young along with Washington Academy of Surgery and Harris County Texas Medical Society. Other defendants proceed to defense as evidence deemed insufficient for acquittal.
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Washington, Mar
James M. Proctor
Federal District Court
Leon A. Martel
J. Rogers Young
Washington
Harris County
Texas
Charleston Detective On Trial For Slaying
Charleston March 7 Edgar C Bourne city detective lieutenant on leave was placed on trial on an indictment tied to the death of Maxine Collier 22 found fatally wounded on a hotel roof in March 1939 She had died days later An indictment was returned by the January 1941 grand jury A $2500 civil verdict was won last fall for Mrs Sadie Lykens Bourne and his lawyers chose to proceed without a defense witness The state waived a first degree verdict at trial start and five jurors were seated by 11 am
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Charleston
Mar
Edgar C. Bourne
Maxine Wilburn Collier
Miss Collier
Bourne
Sadie Lykens
J. Blackburn Watts
Permanent Registration Law Ready For Neelys Signature
West Virginia voters must give county registrars their names, descriptions and signatures before voting in the 1942 primary. The permanent registration bills, enacted by the legislature, aim to prevent election frauds and are awaiting Governor Neelys signature to take effect in the 1942 spring balloting.
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Charleston
West
Virginia
Neely
House In Middle Of New Battle Over CIO's Wage Hour Law
The West Virginia House of Delegates faced a heated clash over the CIO wage hour bill, amending it to cover employers with six or more workers. Debate stalled the measure, with Senate action doubtful and labor leaders noting the fight as another strike against labor relations. Speaker Malcolm Arnold urged rest after the budget adjournment, as committees held up administration bills including railroad exemptions under federal acts. House action on the wage hour bill and related measures persisted into late sessions.
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House
CIO
Charleston
House of Delegates
Senate
Neely
Thomas
D.-Kanawha
Rairden
Malcolm Arnold
Alltop
Jury Verdict Shocks Kansas Judge In Damage Case
Wichita Kansas March 7 The jury verdict in a damage suit unsettled District Judge Grover Pierpont as foreman Warren Daniels said one juror may be mentally incompetent The judge excused the panel to decide next steps in the case
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Wichita, Kas
Grover Pierpont
Warren Daniels
Lofoten Raid Rehearsal Signals Wider Assault
London reports a British and Norwegian naval raid on the German held Lofoten islands off Norway described as a rehearsal for bigger actions. The press notes that swift sea raiders with landings are targeting Nazi military and industrial centers along Europe's coast, signaling vulnerability of many ports.
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London
Lofoten Islands
Norway
Lofoten
Norse Freighter Runs Aground Off Ocean City
The Norwegian freighter Olaf Bergh ran aground 100 feet from shore six miles north of Ocean City. Coast Guard Captain Topping F. Phillips said the crew was safe as rescue ships from Norfolk and nearby stations aided. The ship, 400 feet long with 5,811 tons cargo capacity, was apparently cargo free.
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Ocean City
Olaf Bergh
Ocean Resort
Coast Guard
Topping F. Phillips
Phillips
Fenwick
Cape May
Mendota
Norfolk
Coast
Lakin Report Urges Inquiry at State Industrial School
Charleston March 7 A house investigating committee asked for authority to conduct an inquiry at the State Industrial School for Boys at Pruntytown after adjournment of the 1941 session The report lists discrepancies in the operation of the state hospital for Negro inmates at Lakin Mason county The house accepted the report on A See LAKIN REPORT Page 5 or
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Charleston
House
State Industrial School For Boys
Pruntytown
Jackson
D.logan
Lakin
Mason County
Italian Planes Hit Escort convoy and North Africa bases
Italian planes attacked a heavily escorted British convoy in the eastern Mediterranean, sinking a cruiser and a destroyer and three merchant ships. The daily bulletin also noted bombing of a North Africa airbase, barracks, and encampments near Derna, with German raids on Valletta and Malta targets.
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Rome
Mediterranean
High Command
North Africa
Daily War Bulletin
Derna
Valletta
Malta
Legislative Burlesque Seen By Neely In House Gallery
Governor Neely watched as legislative attaches and press correspondents staged a biennial third house. Calvert Estill from the Wheeling Intelligencer spoke in the chair while Max Fullerton of the Charleston AP bureau acted as clerk in a farcical session with bills motions and speeches.
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Charleston
Neely
House of Delegates
Third House
Calvert Estill
Wheeling Intelligencer
Max Fullerton
Charleston Associated Press Bureau
Roosevelt says delay in British aid bill harms democracies
President Roosevelt warned that every day of delay on the British aid bill would push back war material deliveries to the democracies. He noted February or March delay could affect later deliveries and said opposition amendments would be defeated by a comfortable margin. Administrations aides argued against amendments forcing U S forces out of the western hemisphere, fearing it could encourage Japanese expansion southward.
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Washington
Mar
Roosevelt
Senate
United States
Clark Amendment
Roosevelt hints at labor board to mediate and study disputes
Washington March 7 President Roosevelt disclosed he contemplates creating a labor board with wider reach than the Taft Walsh panel. He said it could mediate and also study labor production factors while opposing jurisdictional strikes by unions.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Csuney
Grafton Sentinel Ad Shows Play at Opers House
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs. R. 5. Kunst of 335 West Washington Street to attend Who Killed Aunt Maggie starring Wendy Barrie and John Hubbard at the Opers House theatre.
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Grafton Sentinel
R. 5. Kunst
West
Washington Street
Maggie
Wendy Barrie
John Hubbard
Opers House Theatre
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