Britain and France Reach Breathing Spell in League Talks
In Geneva April 11 British and French diplomats eased tensions at a League of Nations session but deep divisions remain over Italo Ethiopian peace and Germany remilitarization. Locarno powers plan to wait for the next league meeting while seeking renewed settlement with Italy.
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Associated Press
Geneva
Britain
League of Nations
France
Europe
Germany
Rhineland
Salvador de Madariaga
Spain
Irman
Italy
Ethiopia
Neiliation
Sesson
Locarno
Jon Pompeo Alotei
Isolini
Belgium
Iron Aloisi
Ankara
Usenne
Ermany
Hineland
Versailles
Democrats Continue Draft On $799 Million Tax Plan
Washington April 11 Democrats on a House tax subcommittee met to finish drafting a new $799 million program. They agreed on core provisions for a corporation net income tax with rates tied to profits paid to stockholders and set a flat 15 percent rate for foreign banks and foreign corporations in receivership.
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Washington
Samuel B. Hill
D-Wash
Subcommittee Democrats
Hill
Doughton
D-Nc
Ways and Means Committee
Three Die As Clipper Sinks In Port-of-Spain Harbor
The 19-ton Puerto Rican airliner clipped a fishing boat at dawn in Port-of-Spain Trinidad, sinking with two passengers and a steward dead and around a score injured including pianist Jose Iturbi. Pilot Wallace Culbertson swerved to miss the launch. crash boat crews recovered survivors.
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Miami
Fla
Port-of- Spain
Trinidad
Jose Iturbi
Pan-American Airways
Roman Martinez
Eagle Pencil Co
New York
Eric R. Brogh
London
England
Amadeo Lopez
Wallace Culbertson
Pan-American Sendrome
North Carolina Man Dwight Beard Convicted of Murder in Dallas
Dwight Beard, 25, of North Carolina was found guilty of murder in Dallas for the December 23, 1935 holdup killing of former detective John Robert. A jury recommended death in the electric chair, with defense planning an appeal. Beard had escaped from the state penitentiary in August 1935.
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Dallas
Tex
Dwight Beard
John Robert
New Carolina
Edwin Fore
Carolina
Mer
Allgn Bounous
Valdese
Roberts
Beard
North Carolina State Penitentiary
North Carolina State College
R. A. Beard
Len
Prue
Smoot Schmidt
Huntsville
Robe
Albert Houck
Lenoir
Hauck
No Carolina State Asylum
Partly Cloudy Forecast For Easter Across Regions
A weather forecast predicts fair conditions in the Midwest including Michigan Wisconsin Missouri Iowa South Dakota Nebraska and Kansas for Easter with partly cloudy skies in most Southern states and cloudy or little change in temperature in New York Eastern Pennsylvania New Jersey Delaware and Maryland. The far west should see sunshine and no heavy rain storms are expected nationwide.
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Washington
Michigan
Wisconsin
Missouri
Iowa
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Far West
Deputy Sheriff Killed in Whisky Raid Near Colona
Deputy Sheriff James Thomas was shot and killed near Colona along with injuries to Deputy Sheriff Owen Taylor and Robert Williams during a raid on a whisky operation run by Williams and his associates. Five deputies attacked the still site when surprised by armed operators, and gunfire erupted just before noon.
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James Thomas
Sanford
Owen Taylor
Robert Williame
Colon
Williams
Slaying of Authoress Nancy Titerton Prompts New Clues
New York detectives seek leads in the murder of Nancy Titerton 34 author wife of a broadcasting executive found strangled in her Beekman Place apartment. A fountain pen near the nearly nude body is the only definite clue as investigators review autopsy results and questioned 12 witnesses.
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New York
Nancy Titterton
National Broadcasting Company
Titterton
The
Broadcasting Company
Negro charged after assault and stabbings near Colbert
A crowd in Danielsville forms after a farmer, Lint Shaw, allegedly choked one girl and attempted assault on two others near Colbert. Two officers were stabbed, one critically, as Governor Talmadge orders troops from Gainesville to restore order.
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Danielsville
T. L. Henley
Talmadge
Gainesville
Danielaville
Colbert
Lint Shaw
Slayer of Woman Telegraphers Sought By Police
BROOKVILLE PA April 11 A posse of 100 men searched roads and railways for a killer after telegrapher Katherine Bracken 45 was beaten slashed and killed in a railroad signal tower Her body was dragged down the tracks and dumped over a 12 foot bank Coroner Hulme said autopsy possible and a wandering tramp was suspected by state troopers and Bracken had 19 years service with the road.
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Brookville
Katherine Bracken
Pittsburgh
Shawmut
Gilbert Hulme
Jefferson County
Three Injured In Clash Between Police Strikers
At the John Morrell and company packing plant near Sioux Falls South Dakota a clash between police and striking workers left at least three injured including a woman. A strike leader was arrested as tear gas dispersed about 300 strikers and sympathizers. The violence followed a March 1935 dispute over seniority rights.
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Sioux Falia
John Morrell and Company
Gilbert Denfeld
Ralph Gould
Ed Gunn
Sam Twedell
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen's Union
Cities Vote to Raise Funds for Schools in Special Elections
Eight more cities and towns won approval from the state school commission to hold elections on levies to supplement state school funds. Guilford County Greensboro Mt Airy Fayetteville Reidsville Rockingham City Le Noir City levy amounts range from 10 to 25 cents. The commission also approved budgets for Durham Raleigh and Southern Pines with Warren attaining a $4800 salary as Durham City schools superintendent.
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Raleigh
State School Commission
Guilford County
Greensboro
Mt. Airy
Fayetteville
Reidsville
Rockingham City
Lenoir City
North Carolina
Raleigh and
Concord
Durham Raleigh
Southern Pines
W. F. Warren
Durham City Schools
Exiled Mexican Strongman Calles Departs Dallas for West Coast
Exiled Mexico leader Plutarco Elias Calles leaves Dallas at 8:35 a m aboard a plane with Luis Leon Luis Morones and Melchor Ortega bound for Los Angeles. He plans to drive to San Diego to see his daughter and continues via El Paso and Tucson. No guards were assigned to the party.
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Callas
Tex
Plutarco Elias Calles
Mexico
Los Angeles
Luis Leon
Luis Morones
Melchor Ortega
Manuel Fuentes
Calles
San Diego
Fernando Terrblanco
Dallas
el Paso
Tucson
Mississippi river floods claim four lives and displace residents
In Memphis and across six southern states about 5,000 people sought refuge as smaller rivers caused four deaths and heavy damage. Col. Eugene Reybold said no general danger yet an outlook was slightly less cheerful. The Alabama and Mississippi rivers flooded over 2,000,000 acres, with drownings reported near Montgomery and other towns.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi
Eugene Reybold
U. S
Ridgely
Caruthersville
Vernon Harris
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Good Suspect Held in Easter Gift Bombing Case
Investigators for the postal service and detectives questioned several persons, calling one a good suspect, as they probe the Easter gift bombing outrages that killed one, blinded or burned four, and terrorized the coal region. A cigar box like the bombs was reported found. Six bombs were mailed from downtown Wilkes-Barre.
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Postal Service
Wilkes-Barre
lInvestigators
Wafnead
Aiaones
Washington
Easton
Wara
Anthracite Conciliation Board
George H. Earle
Charles J. Margiotti
St. Mary's Catholic Church
J. J. Curran
Wilkesbarre
Four Prisoners Recaptured After Davidson County Jail Break
Four men escaped by overpowering Deputy Jailer June Evans and breaking a jail cell lock with hacksaw blades. They were Padgett and Gunter charged with a filling station holdup and Warner and Baucom held for lesser offenses. Recaptured within hours nearby with no further resistance.
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Lexington
Davidson County
Evans
Charlies H. Padgett
R. E B. Gunter
James Warner
James Baucom
Padgett
Gunter
Body of John Ten Eyck Hillhouse Sent for Burial
The body of John Ten Eyck Hillhouse 566 a retired research expert for Western Electric was sent today to his former home in Philadelphia for burial. He died here yesterday after a three weeks illness.
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Philly Asheville
John Ten Eyck Hillhouse
Western Electric Company
Philadelphia
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