Eight Believed Lost In Plane Disaster NINE KILLED SATURDAY IN BUS WRECKS
A severe winter across the west and midwest left nine dead and thirty-one injured in two motorbus crashes in Arizona and Kansas while an airliner remained missing near Salt Lake City as search efforts faced blizzard conditions.
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Arizona
Kansas
Salt Lake City
United Air Lines Transport
Cheyenne
Wyo
Wasatch Mountains
Aguila
Ariz
Home Gardens
Calif
Mesa
Aziz
Bethel
Kan
Missouri Pacific Stage Lines
Army Air Mail
Rocky Mountain Country
Mid-West
Canada
Arkansas
Kansas City
New England
California
Brown Says Farley Denied Words in Air Mail Row
The Senate air mail hearing centered on Postmaster General Farley denying Walter F. Brown's claim of a personal remark about Senator Black. Farley and Brown traded denials as the committee examined the air mail contract cancellations tied to Brown's tenure and the political uses of investigations.
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Farley
Senator
Sam Bledsoe
Associated Press
Washington
Walter F. Brown
Senate Air Mail Committee
Senator Black
D-Ala
Brown
Black
House
Austin
Vermont
Senate Committee
Karl A. Crowley
Postoffice Department
McCarran
MecCarran
Crowley
Post Office Department
Chase Gorg
Department
W. Irving Glover
Glover
Wadell Williams
Postmaster General
Avigation Corporation
Haliburton
Earle
Halliburton
Greensboro lawyer LeVines runs for sixth district Congress
Charles T. LeVines of Greensboro announced his Democratic candidacy for Congress in the sixth district comprising Guilford Alamance Orange and Durham counties. He pledged an aggressive campaign. Snow flurries fell in Chester South Carolina with temperatures above freezing and melting quickly.
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Greensboro
Charles T. LeVines
Congress
Guilford
Alamance
Orange
Durham
C. Chester
8. C
John McGraw Relapse Brings Grave Hospital Update
New Rochelle New York February 24 John McGraw veteran baseball leader suffered a relapse tonight and hospital officials said his condition was extremely grave, marking a sharp turn in his health prognosis.
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New Rochelle, N. Y
John McGraw
New Rochelle Hospital
Woman Dies of Wounds After Highway Incident
Florence Jones, age unknown, died in a Shelby hospital after being shot on the highway. Police say the shooter was Louis Sentell. the case followed news that Jones had been married five years to William Drake, a Saluda laborer.
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Shelby
Florence Jones
Louis Sentell
William Drake
Saluda
Touhy and Pals Begin Sentences at Joliet Prison
Chicago reports Touhy and two gangsters Albert Kator and Gus Schaefer begin nine year penitentiary terms at Joliet. They arrived in irons amid large police escort after a jury convicts them of the $70 000 kidnapping of William Factor.
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Chicago
Rog¢ Touhy
Joliet
Touhy
Powerul
Albert Kator
Gusay
Gus" Schaefer
Kago
Jolie
Wilm Scott Stewart
Illinois Sureme
Supreme Court
Cook County
Feinberg
Government closes in on XER radio station near border
Federal troops guard XER at Villa Juana Mexico after forced shutdown for broadcasting medical talks and ads without authorization. The United States and Mexico dispute, with the department of communications giving 39 days to disable equipment and enforcing a court order to suspend operations.
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Mexico
D. F
XER
United States
John R. Brinkley
Kansas
Villa Una
del Rio
Texas
Senate
Department of Comunications
Brinkley Jerday
Federal District Court
Department of
Predas Negcas
Coahuila
Coastal Group Backs Merger Amid Regional Growth
Coastal states meeting in Augusta endorsed adding Virginia to the Atlantic Seaboard Development Association and approved a merger with the South Atlantic Development Association. Jacksonville mayor John T. Alsop was reelected president and Myrtle Beach was chosen for June’s next gathering.
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Augusta
Atlantic Seaboard Development Association
Virginia
South Atlantic Development Association
John T. Alsop
Jacksonville
Fla
M. O. Dunning
Washington
Myrtle Beach
S. C
R. W. Page
Alsop
James O. Sheppard
South Carolina
Dollfuss Government Faces Fascist Heimwehr Takeover
Vienna rumors swirl of a March on Vienna by Heimwehr led by Prince von Starhemberg and Emil Fey with trucks moving toward the capital. Observers compare the threat to Mussolini’s Rome advance as banners and posters flood Vienna amid talk of cabinet reshuffles and possible resignation by President Miklas.
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Dollfuss
Heimwehr
Wade Werner
Associated Press
Vienna
Victor Emanuel
Benito Mussolini
Rome
Prince von Starhemberg
Emil Fey
Germany
Berlin
Austria
United States
Fey
von Starhemberg
van Starhemberg
Zita
Karl Buresch
Sovich
Italy
Miklas
Exchange Publicity Director Must Face Propaganda Quizzing
Senate investigators prepared to question New York Stock Exchange officials over charges of a propaganda campaign to oppose government regulation. Ferdinand Pecora will probe Whitney and publicity data as George A. Harris and Whitney testify. House Commerce Committee members push for regulatory power while critics warn of federal overreach.
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Washington
New York Stock Exchange
Senate
New York
Ferdinand Pecora
Senate Banking Committee
Richard Whitney
The
Exchange
Fletcher
Whitney
George A. Harris
Pecora
House Commerce Committee
Federal Trade Commission
Frank R. Hope
Association of Stock Exchange
E. A. Pierce
Wall Street
New England
Pretty Boy Floyd Suspect Held in Wilkesboro Jail
A man calling himself Harry Williams, described as a wandering cowboy, was jailed in North Wilkesboro after a local girl said he claimed to be Pretty Boy Floyd. Police found Oklahoma plates and a Winchester rifle. fingerprints were sent to Washington and Chicago for ID. He sought a writ of habeas corpus but was denied.
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North Wilkesboro
Harry Williams
John Walker
Pretty Boy Floyd
Oklahoma
Annie Shoals
Williams
Floyd
Alaska
Department of Justice
Washington
Chicago
T. B. Finley
Air Corps Chief Defends Air Mail Safety
Major General Benjamin Foulois asserts army air corps air mail accidents are not excessive despite bad flying conditions. He notes pilots are told to avoid unnecessary risks and that only one fatal accident has occurred on a scheduled air mail run.
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Washington
Benjamin Foulois
Air Corps
Foulois
Oscar Westover
Army Air Corps
United States
Mussolini May Face Four-Power Disarmament Talks
Feb 24 Rome reports that Anthony Eden may urge Mussolini to convene a four power session with France Germany Italy and Britain to resolve disarmament issues amid deadlocked bilateral talks. Eden arrived from Berlin to brief Mussolini on armament discussions in Paris and Berlin. France signals shift to disarmament rather than rearmament.
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Rome
Mussolini
Anthony Eden
France
Germany
Il Duce
Eden
Italy
Berlin
Paris
CWA Orders Second Reduction Of Forces
The Civil Works Administration directed eight state administrators to cut 377,500 workers next Friday, reducing total CW A staff to 2,607,000 with no federal project employe cuts. About 120,000 stay on federal projects March 2, and around 40,000 on emergency educational work. Wage rates and hours remain unchanged. State reductions list Alabama to Virginia with new stand and local quotas.
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Washington
Civil Works Administration
Civil Works
Harry L. Hopkins
Civil Works Administrator
Hopkins
Alabama
Arkansa
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
S. Carolina
Maryland
N. Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
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U. S. Air Mail
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Air Line
Cherous
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United
United Air Line
Sturdivant
Forth
Talmadge
Macon
Claude Patterson
Southern Division
National Automobile
National
Ratkins
P. O. Chief
Levines
Pals
Coastal Group
Wilkesboro
CWA
North Carolina
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