Flood Panic Spreads as Levee Breaks in Mississippi Valley
Flood fear rises after a government levee breaches north of Greenville Mississippi at Stops Landing and the Missouri Pacific bridge over the Arkansas River at Little Rock collapses. The disaster threatens 250000 acres of prime farmland as waters advance, while refugees in Wynne Parkin McLellan and Van Buren face disease outbreaks. Authorities deploy doctors nurses and sanitary staff to camps to curb mumps measles and whooping cough amid the crisis.
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Greenville
Miss
Little Rock
Memphis, Tenn
Mississippi Valley
Stops Landing
Missouri-Pacific
Arkansas River
Verflon
Mississippi
Arkansas
Missouri Pacific Bridge
Martineau
National Guard
State Health Department
Wynne, Parkin
McLellan
van Buren
Marines scale walls of Soviet embassy in Peking raid
U S Marines scaled a wall of the Soviet embassy compound and forced the gate in Peking. Guards of other powers then entered as protocol guards took over the western wall. Chinese authorities agreed but gates were locked. Soviet consular officials remained in the embassy. China said it would review seized documents before replying to Soviet demands.
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Peking
Western Wall
Legation Quarter
Moscow
Mississippi floods threaten seven states in great surge
Across Arkansas and neighboring states the Mississippi river rose to historic levels flooding more than 6 000 square miles of farmland. Arkansas suffered worst damage at Clarendon where a levee break left hundreds homeless as Texas saw rainfall and Little Rock fought to protect its water supply.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi River
Gulf
Arkansas
Missouri
Illinois
Kentucky
Mississippi
Tennessee
Louisiana
Texas
St. Louis
Clarendon
White
Cache
Texarkana
St. Francis River
Arkansas River
Bank of England Cuts Rediscount Rate to 4 1 2 Percent
London April 21 The Bank of England lowered its rediscount rate from 6 to 4 1 2 percent today signaling easing in monetary policy. The move affects British lenders and may influence borrowing costs across the economy.
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London
Bank of England
March records dry month despite heavy North Carolina snow
Raleigh April 20 AP March, though marked by the state’s heaviest snow, was a dry month with 3.41 inches of moisture. Snowstorms on March 1–2 from a Georgia disturbance dropped 14 inches statewide, 31 inches at Nashville, trace at Hatteras. Flood stages appeared on Cape Fear Neuse Tar Yadkin rivers after melting snow. Temperature averaged 51.4 across 66 stations, with highs of 88 at Chadbourn Kinston Rockingham and lows of 7 at Rockingham.
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Raleigh
Weather Bureau
Georgia
North Carolina
Atlantic
Hatteras
Norfolk
Asheboro
Pinehurst
Fayetteville
Edenton
Nashville
Cape Fear
Neuse
Tar
Yadkin
Chadbourn
Kinston
Rockingham
Moncure
Banner Elk
Kellys Fight Over Ray Raymond Death Prompts Inquest
In Los Angeles on April 21 AP reports coroner Frank Nance prepared to probe an alleged cover up as inquest into Ray Raymond death following a fight with Paul Kelly continues. Kelly faces murder indictment after grand jury action and Dorothy MacKaye testified wearing distress after learning of the indictment.
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Los Angeles
Ray Raymond
Paul Kelly
Screen Juvenile
Frank Nance
Raymond
Nance
Kelly
Dorothy MacKaye
MacKaye
Grand Jury
Funeral rites for James C. Long observed at local church
James Oscar Long, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Long, died from injuries in a Arch dale highway automobile motorcycle crash. Services at First Presbyterian church featured Rev. Chas P. Coble and Rev. Geo. T. Stephens with a large attendance. Active pallbearers were city fire department members. uniformed firemen and the high school junior class attended. burial followed at Oakwood cemetery.
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James Oscar Long
J. R. Long
Archdale Highway
First Presbyterian Church
Chas
P. Coble
Geo. T. Stephens
Mr. Long
Carey Davis
Clarence Schultheiss
Dan W. Smith
Nat Walker
Four Square City
Frank Smith
Ira Shelton
W. A. Metcalf
J. S. Sechrest
C. 5. Kennedy
H. M. Smith
Fire Department
A. B. Horney
H. A. Oakes
Sons and Daughters of Liberty
C. L. Smith
Marjoria Fesperman
George Singleton
Jessie Ledwell
Irene Ledwell
Oakwood Cemetery
Bankers Conference Breaks Up Without Decision
Reuters reports a bankers conference at Premier Tanaka's residence ended without a decision. The new government faces three options including summoning a Diet session to empower the Bank of Japan, pursuing a drastic expedient, or declaring a moratorium. Silk market shows little impact amid overall business slack.
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London
Reuter
Tokyo
Tanaka
Diet
Bank of Japan
Final Session of North Carolina Methodist Missionaries
The women's home and foreign missionary societies of the Methodist Protestant church in North Carolina held their final session today in Henderson.
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Henderson
The
North Carolina
Bridge swept away disrupts Missouri Pacific line in Little Rock
The south half of the Missouri Pacific bridge over the Arkansas River in Little Rock was swept away by the current in the early hours. Trains carrying rock were driven onto the structure in an attempt to hold it, severing the main line between Little Rock passenger and freight terminals and North Little Rock shops. The railroad has another bridge about a mile downstream.
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Little Rock
Ark
Missouri Pacific
Arkansas River
Cadet Flyers Feared Dead After Plane Crash
Norfolk April 21 AP two men believed drowned after sea plane NB-9 crash near Fort Wood. Richard W Kennison 316 Huntington Ave Boston MA and Wilbur F Bing ham 2345 Broadway New York City were cadet flyers in training. Witnesses say craft struck a fish stake on takeoff and a large hole tore the pontoon. No trace found. they may have been restrained by crash belts.
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Norfolk
Fort Wood
Naval Air Station
Richard W. Kennison
Huntington, Avenue
Boston
Mass
Wilbur F
Naval Base
Mistrial Declared in Sapiro Ford Libel Case
Detroit AP reports Judge Fred M. Raymond granted a mistrial in the $1,000,000 libel suit brought by Aaron Sapiro against Henry Ford after a juror interview surfaced. Attorneys plan a Saturday meeting to discuss a possible new trial date, with defense claims of a frame-up and affidavits detailing juror conduct.
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Detroit
Aaron Sapiro
Henry Ford
Fred M. Raymond
Sapiro
Ford
Stewart Hanley
James A. Reed
Missouri
Cora Hoffman
Detroit Times
Raymond
Hoffman
Miller
William Henry Gallagher
Hanley
Gallagher
Ford Counsel
Raymond Rome
Veterans Loan Board declares independence from wage commission
The Independence North Carolina Veterans Loan Board says it will follow salary standards for its chief clerk and two stenographers but reserves the right to adjust salaries without consulting the wage commission. Commissioner John Hall Manning reports about 600 informal loan applications and that roughly two million dollars could be loaned in portions of 3000 or less within a year.
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Raleigh
Brummitt
County Advisory Commission
State Board of Equalization
Veterans Loan Board
Commission
John Hall Manning
Fire devastates Kanaizawa town in Central Japan
An exchange telegraph dispatch from Tokyo reports a fierce fire in Kanaizawa, Central Japan, likely causing many casualties and destroying about 1,000 houses. The high wind worsened the blaze, with damage estimated at 5,000,000 yen. Kanaizawa has a population of 129,000.
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London
Kanaizawa
Exchange
Tokyo
Japan
Kanatzawa
Hankow Rioting Sparks Foreign Alarm Amid Disorder
A wireless dispatch reports Hankow in riot and looting with eight five Americans near the foreign settlement. Foreign warships may intervene if Nanking style outrages recur, as clashes between Nanking and Pukow continue and Chang Tso Lin orders northern generals to curb fire on Yangtze shipping.
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Shanghai
Hankow
Yangtse
Michael Borodin
Nanking
Pukow
Chang Tso-Lin
Northern Alliance
Chang Tsung Chang
Department Opens Offices at the Capital
J K Dixon assistant director of the department of conservation and development has opened offices in the state agricultural building formerly used by the budget commission. Dixon, former chairman of the fisheries commission, heads administration of fish laws after the fisheries commission merged with the conservation department by the last legislature.
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Raleigh
J. K. Dixon
Department of Conservation and Development
Budget Commission
Dixon
Refunct Fisheries Commission
Fisheries Commission
Conservation Department
Sixth Man Chosen for Snyder Gray Trial
New York April 21 AP juror number five named Herman Bolway of Jamaica a retired businessman 63 with a daughter near Lorraine Snyder's age. He was chosen half an hour after court opened as the sixth man examined for the murder trial of Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd Gray.
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New York
Ruth Snyder
Henry Judd Gray
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