Spring Storm Toll Rises Across Minnesota Wisconsin Iowa
A Midwest tornado outbreak killed nine people and left more than 100 hospitalized across Minnesota Wisconsin and Iowa. Farm buildings and homes were leveled from Rice Lake to Minneapolis with extensive property damage and missing residents.
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
Lake Minnetonka
Andrew Hanson
George Lundgren
Forest Lake
Taylor Falls
C. F. Bryan
Rice Lake
Reeves
Wis
Louis Reed
Martha Raane
Neeves
Richard Pittman
John Soloman
Clayton
George Tuin
Little Rock
Rice Lake District
Basil Traischoms
Marie Buchrow
Reed
Bombs Found Strewn Along Railroad During Violent Night
Violence along the international border erupts as American and Mexican troops clash near Naco and bombs are found strewn along the Southern Pacific line east of town. Rebels evacuate Santa Rosalia as Cristeros threaten further actions in Jalisco.
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Naco
Sonora
Fausto Topete
Ariz
Southern Pacific
Lucas Gonzalez
Here
Tenth United States Cavalry
Naco Loyal
Revolutionary Army
Chihuahua City
Mexico
Santa Rosalia
Bachimba Pass
Jalisco
Mexico City
Iraei Anguscalientes
Loma
Guadalajara
Barber Commission Jobs Much Sought
Raleigh April 6 Governor Gardner worries about the barbering sector as barbers statewide push for spots on the barbers examining board. He vows to appoint the board soon in self defense citing high demand from practitioners.
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Barber Commission
Raleigh
Gardner
Barbers’ Examining Board
Income Earners First In Line To Profit By Tax Reduction
President Hoover and Secretary Mellon signal possible tax relief for wage earners. Action unlikely for at least six months, with final decisions tied to federal spending and national business conditions. Public debate to resume after mid year ahead of December congressional session.
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Washington
Internal Revenue
Hoover
Mellon
House
Senate
Treasury
Congress
Nationalists Slay 400 Chang’s Men in Battle
In Chefoo Shantung on April 6 AP reports Liu Chen Nien nationalist forces killed 400 of Marshal Chang Tsung Chang in Ninghai chow. Chang’s besieged forces were surprised by the assault as civilians left through gates opened by agreement, later joined by nonuniform troops.
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Chefoo
Shantung
China
Liu Chen-Nien
Chang Tsung Chang
Ninghaichow
Chang
Liu
Cramer Named to North Carolina Park Commission
Major Stuart A. Cramer Jr. of Cramerton was appointed to the North Carolina Park Commission by Governor Gardner to replace the late Frank A. Linney of Boone. Cramer is a Republican.
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Cramer
Raleigh
N. C
Stuart A. Cramer, Jr
Cramerton
North Carolina Park Commission
O. Max Gardner
Frank A. Linney
Boone
Destroyer Rams Schooner A Ernest Mills Off Currituck
The destroyer Childs rammed the schooner A Ernest Mills off Currituck North Carolina at 9 p.m. Thursday, sending her to the bottom. Survivors were later picked up as the ship sank with captain A C Chaney and several crew members aboard.
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Norfolk
Childs
Norfolk Navy Yard
A. Ernest Mills
Currituck
N. C
A. C. Chaney
East Kingsham
N. H
J. L. Hall, Jr
Hall
George A. Carver
Maine
Cogslan
Bruce
Mediation No Nearer In Strike in Carolinas
North and South Carolina textile workers press on with strikes led by the National Textile Workers Union. About 5,000 on strike, with mass meetings at Gastonia and Loray mills. National guardsmen stationed at Gastonia. United States commissioner Bendheim met with strikers and mill officials in Greenville and unions elsewhere.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
National Textile Workers Union
Carolinas
Gastonia
High Shoals
Manville-Jenckes Corporation
Loray Mills
Manville-Jenckes Company
North Carolina National Guardsmen
Union
S. C
Charles Bendheim
United States
Buffalo, Ottaway
Monarch Mills
Greenville
Brandon Mills
Brandon Duck Mills
Poinsett Mills
Brandon Corporation
Anderson
Orr Mills
Anderson Mills
Woodruff Mills
Spartanburg County
South Carolina
Loray
Metts Deplores Reds in Strikes at Gastonia
Raleigh April 6 Adjutant General J Van B Metts calls the Gastonia strike the gravest issue the growing influence of the National Textile Workers Union and its plan to spread communist doctrine in the state He says five National Guardsmen remain at the mills and will be moved only as events develop He denounces strike organizers Fred Erwin and George Pershing as enemies of the government warning of propaganda including school groups and new unions.
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Raleigh
J. van B. Metts
Gastonia
National Textile Workers’ Union
Metts
Fred Erwin
George Pershing
Fire at Kirkwood Hotel Claims Multiple Lives in Des Moines
Four people are confirmed dead and many injured after a blaze at the Kirkwood hotel in Des Moines. About 125 to 150 guests were in the building when the fire started shortly after 3 am, with Fire Chief Burnett fearing more victims in the debris.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Kirkwood Hotel
Burnett
Red Watson
Red” Jarrup
Fourth and
Walnut Streets
Pershing Suggested as France Ambassador in Washington Talk
Washington rumors floated General John J. Pershing as a potential ambassador to France. Mentioned alongside Kellogg, Davis, and Fletcher, Pershing’s wartime hero status could balance Dawes’s possible Britain post. Herrick funeral in Paris cited as context for cross Atlantic diplomatic naming.
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Washington
John J. Pershing
France
Frank B. Kellogg
Dwight F. Davis
Henry F. Fletcher
Rome
General Pershing
America
Myron T. Herricks
Dawes
Great Britain
Paris
Herrick
Tourville
Flora MacDonald College to Broadcast Music on Air
The Flora MacDonald College school of music faculty and students will go on the air at radio station WBT Charlotte Monday April 8 from 8 30 to 9 p m The program will feature violin solos vocal solos and piano solos.
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Red Springs
Flora MacDonald College School of Music
WBT
Charlotte
Hoover Fishing Jaunt in Virginia
President Hoover arrived in Madison Virginia after a three hour ride and immediately headed to the nearby hills for his first fishing outing since becoming chief executive.
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Hoover
Virginia
Madison
Prison Buys Tag Making Machinery for State Plant
The North Carolina state prison in Raleigh awarded a 26000 contract to the John R Ward Company of Nitro West Virginia for license plate making equipment. The installation will begin July 1 with an expert staying until 1200000 plates produced and trained. The bid was 3000 under the next lowest bid and 9000 under the highest. Governor Gardner and Superintendent Pou announced the decision after bids opened yesterday.
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Wald
Pou
John R. Ward
Oxford
Ward
McComb Post Office Robbery Nets $21,000 Loot
Yeggmen robbed the McComb post office 70 miles southwest of Peoria early today using an acetylene torch to crack the safe. The haul included cash stamps and securities, totaling $21,000.
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Peoria
McComb
Here
Pritchard Orders Vacating Office Next to De Priest
North Carolina congressman George M. Pritchard ordered the vacating of his office in the House Office Building next to Representative De Priest, the Chicago Negro congressman. He sent a telegram to his secretary stating Room 132 was unsatisfactory and to remove his name and relocate.
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Asheville
de Priest
Chicago
George M. Pritchard
United States
Tenth
North Carolina
Pritchard
Pritchard de
Congressman Pritchard
House
Clarkson
Long Loses First Step Of Battle
Baton Rouge and impeachment drama unfolds as Governor Huey P Long is impeached by the Louisiana House on 19 counts for alleged bid to suppress press freedom. The case centers on a threat to publish about publisher Charles Manship and his insane asylum brother unless an editorial attack on a tax tax plan ends. The Senate will act as impeachment court, with further charges to follow.
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Baton Rouge
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
House of Representative
Senate
Charles P. Manship
House
Associated Press
J. E. McClanahan
Caldwell
Traffic Paralyzed by Snow in Colorado and Utah
Heavy rains in Colorado and a six inch snow in Utah halted travel by rail and road across parts of both states. Air service at Salt Lake City Airport suspended as winds of thirty mph persisted. In Milfer Utah six inches of snow. San Juan basin floods followed two days of rain. bridges and track on the Denver and Rio Grande Western line near Arboles were washed away and highways became impassable.
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Denver
Colorado
Utah
Salt Lake City
Milfer
San Juan Basin
Denver and Rio Grande
Alamosa
Durango
Arboles
Mysterious explosion wrecks coach on Santa Fe train
A passenger coach of a southbound Santa Fe train was wrecked about 15 miles north of Temple Texas early today by a mysterious explosion. None of the 15 passengers in the car was seriously injured.
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Santa FE
Temple
Tex
Here
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