England imposes partial embargo on Russian goods
London reports an 80 percent embargo on Soviet imports including butter grain and timber. King George signed the proclamation at Windsor to take effect April 26 with potential relief if two British engineers’ sentences are commuted.
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London
Great Britain
Moscow
L. C. Thornton
William L. MacDonald
Russia
George
Windsor Castle
London Gazette
Privy Council
Stanley Baldwin
Sir John Simon
Baldwin
Ramsay MacDonald
United States
Hope
U S Government Shows Profit After Paying All March Expenses
The U S government posted a March profit with income tax receipts of 180 712 321 dollars and a month end balance of 817 909 on the right side. General fund receipts totaled 269 914 029 with 283 185 773 including special and trust funds, while expenditures reached 282 367 864. The nine month deficit stood at 1 361 225 708. Major outlays included the veterans bureau 683 411 424 and interest on the public debt 420 291 859.
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Washington
United States
Treasury
Veterans Bureau
General Fund
Dykes Dynamited Guards Called Out
A fifty man Mississippi National Guard unit rushed by train to the delta to patrol levees after dykes were dynamited by up to 300 men. The Glendora deployment followed Tallahatchie county requests to Governor Connors, with Capt. Virgil Adkins and Lieut. Conwell Sykes leading the Clarksdale company.
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Clarksdale
Miss
National Guard
Mississippi Delta
Glendora
Thomas Grayson
Tallahatchie County
Sennett Conner
Clarksdale Company
Virgil Adkins
Conwell Sykes
Plane Crash Near Valmeyer Under Federal State Investigation
A federal and state probe began into a high speed monoplane crash near Valmeyer NL that killed all four aboard. Pilot W N Gregory 19 of Augusta Ark owned and flew the craft with his father W N Gregory G W Martin mayor of Augusta and store manager Glen Herndon among the victims.
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ST. Louis
Valmeyer
W. N. Gregory
Augusta
Ark
G. W. Martin
Glen Herndon
Mrs. Augustus Pitts Dies After Stroke
Mrs. Augustus Pitts, 78, died at her brother Brastus Johnson's home Route 4 High Point after a stroke. Funeral services are set for Thursday at 11 from Prospect Church with Rev. John Cline officiating. Body remains at Russell's funeral home until service time.
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Thomasville
Augustus Pitts
Brautus Johnson
Route 4
High Point
Prospect Church
John Cline
Russell
Another Flight Over Mt. Everest
India reports a second successful airplane flight over Mt. Everest. The prior summit was achieved April 3 by two British planes piloted by the Marquess of Clydesdale and Lieut. D F McIntyre.
Congress Pushes Administration Bills Amid Roosevelts Deflation Drive
Congress advances administration bills including a farm bill with cane and beet sugar added as beneficiaries, and a direct relief Wagner bill of 500 million dollars. The House committees tighten the Muscle Shoals provisions and set limits on power distribution to a 400 mile radius. The five day week bill is studied in secret as Perkins amendments drawing objections spark hearings.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Federal Reserve Banks
Treasury
Woodin
Congress
White House
America
Senate
House Banking Committee
Muscle Shoals
House Military Committee
House
Rainey
Burns
House Labor Committee
Perkins
Connery
Essex County
Massachusetts
Exiled British Engineers Marked by Moscow Trial
The Central Executive Committee of Soviet Russia was asked to exile for life L. C. Donald and Thoronton. MacDonald received two and three year terms for espionage sabotage and bribery. Four other Britons left Russia. Albert W. Gregory was acquitted. Eleven Russian co defendants got prison terms up to ten years.
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Moscow
Central Executive Committee
Soviet Russia
L. C. Thornton
William L. MacDonald
Thornton
MacDonald
Russia
Fly at night and praise for crippled children group
In Wichita April 18 the International Society for Crippled Children hosts a convention with praise for the society’s work. The writer extols the group’s impact on disabled children and urges state affiliation to support the cause.
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Wichita
Kans
West Coast
American Airways
International Society For Crippled Children
Kansas
Ohio
Federal Forces Unite To Fight Beer Racketeers
The prohibition bureau and the justice department join to curb beer racketeers in the brewing industry. A. V. Dalrymple defends permit policy while Dr. James M. Doran criticizes rushed New Jersey licenses amid a national probe led by Attorney General Cummings.
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Washington
Prohibition Bureau
Justice Department
A. V. Dalrymple
Prohibition
New York
James M. Doran
Industrial Alcohol
Dalrymple
Cummings
William G. Walker
Callifornia
Nevada
Stocks and Commodities Jump on Deflation Fight News
Markets rose across the New York stock exchange and Chicago board of trade as word of greater government spending to fight deflation spurred buying. Dollar exchange and gilt edged bonds moved oppositely amid expectations of inflation and a revived gold embargo policy. European currencies surged as the dollar fluctuated with new banking legislation.
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New York
Ees
New York Stock Exchange
Chicago Board of Trade
Uncle Sam
Roosevelt
Fire losses in North Carolina March report trends
North Carolina fire losses in March showed a slight overall decrease from the prior year. Total blazes 320 caused $512 571 in damage, with 218 dwelling fires totaling $144 275. Major losses included Tarboro warehouse cotton 106 640 and a Lexington furniture plant 80 000.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Dan CC. Boney
Tarboro
Lexington
Kinston
Mt. Airy
Lenoir
Lee County
Whittier
Japanese Planes Bomb North China City Near Tientsin
Japanese bombing and artillery strikes were reported targeting Lwan chow the major city between Chinwangtao and Tientsin as the Chinese defense organized southwest of the town. The press notes Chinese troops retreat toward Tangshan and American missionaries in the area were advised to leave while U S consular decisions lingered.
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Tientsin
China
Lwanchow
Chinwangtao
North China Coast
Lwan River
Tangshan
Peiping
Great Wall
Swan River
United States
15Th
United States Infantry
Rintsin
America
Boone Indicted On Murder Charges
Asheville April 19 Boone Girdweed Boone of Weaverville section indicted by a Buncombe county grand jury for first degree murder in the death of Howell Swann. Swann died after a rock cayó caused him to fall and strike his head on a concrete highway days later.
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Asheville
Girdweed Boone
Weaverville
Buncombe County
Howell Swann Severa
Boone
Swann
Severa
Beer sale at large hotel draws crowd at low price
Beer went at 2 cents a bottle at a large Greenville hotel today. The hostelry received hundreds of cases and a large portion sold quickly after the sale began.
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Greenville
Oyatra
Tod
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By Chas, P. Shaffer
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