Calles Advances On Torreon With Army Of 30,000
AP reports federal columns within 30 miles of Torreon and General Calles in Durango after a bloodless entry. Rebels retreating toward Tepehuanes face a long overland trip to the next railroad point as Canitas status is disputed. Esperbar rebel strength cited at 5,000 with a possible retreat north to Chihuahua.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Torreon
Calles
Durango
Tepehuanes
Escobar
Chihuahua
Canitas
Associated Press
Federal Army
West Coast
Mazatlan
San Bilas
Sinaloa
Culiacan
Obregon
Guanajuato
Richards Signs 65 Million South Carolina Highway Bill
Gov. John G. Richards signed a 65 million dollar highway bond bill in Columbia with highway leaders and commissioners present. The measure allows two financing methods, statewide bonds funded by the five cent gasoline tax or district bonds with local taxes, subject to court action. A companion bill raises the gasoline tax to six cents and distributes the additional cent to counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
S. C
John G. Richards
South Carolina
State Highway Commission
State Commission
Rivers Rampage Recedes as Skies Clear Over Alabama
Flooding along the Pea and Choctawhatchee rivers worsened in Geneva and nearby towns, with 12 confirmed dead and many missing. Refugees crowded a camp north of Elba as measles outbreaks prompted health crews to deploy serum and relocate families to Troy, while rescuers patrolled Big Creek and repaired routes between Elba and the floodline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Creek
Montgomery
Ala
South Alabama
Big Cree
Elba
Geneva
Alabama-Florida
Pea River
Dothan
National Guard
Maxwell Field
Enterprise
T. R. Gill
T. H. Graham
State Health Department
Troy
Ben Lee
State Highway Department
Olvany Steps Down as Tammany Hall Leader
George W. Olvany, longtime Tammany Hall leader since Charles Murphy's death, resigns due to ill health. The New York county democratic committee postponed action until next Friday after his letter, read at a committee meeting, cited illness. A neurologist reportedly urged a long vacation for Olvany.
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New York
Mar
George W. Olvany
Tammany Hall
Charles F. Murphy
New York County Democratic Committee
Olvany
the Times
Gaking Company Air Drops Bread to Marooned Refugees
A Thomasville bakery sent a plane with 500 loaves to Enterprise Alabama to aid food victims, with plans to return for another load to Ozark Alabama. If no airstrip is available the bread will be dropped from the plane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
Enterprise
Ala
Ozark
Lawyers Attacked Over Prohibition Education Tactics
Dr. Ernest H. Cherrington of the World League Against Alcoholism denounced New York lawyers for seeking to educate juries to avoid convicting under the Jones law. He called the effort a frank confession of disrespect for law and faulted liquor advocates for aiming to defeat the Eighteenth Amendment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. H. Cherrington
World League Against Alcoholism
Washington
New York
Ernest H. Cherrington
The
Cherrington
United States
Concord Sailor Dies in Philadelphia Apartment
The body of S. E. Widenhouse, 30, a sailor aboard the Oklahoma, was found in the Philadelphia apartment of Miss Lillian Humphries, 35. A bullet wound to the chest and a revolver were beside him. he left $150 and a telegram request to send a message to Essie Harrington, with a note implying a meeting. Police and naval investigators pursued the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
S. E. Widenhouse
Concord
N. C
Oklahoma
Lillian Humphries
Widenhouse
Essie Harrington
Hoover Has Numbers Of Counselors
President Hoover relies on a broad pool of advisers rather than a single guiding voice. He consults cabinet members for policy carryout and frequently taps Vice President Curtis for legislative and governmental expertise during cabinet meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoover
Associated Press
Washington
Curtis
Doctors Report Marshal Foch Weakening Gradually
Nine doctors attending Marshal Foch in his illness held a bedside consultation and announced he was not in immediate peril but was gradually weakening. They noted his two month illness had slowly sapped his strength and his heart was not as strong as before.
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Paris
Marshal Foch
Mae Murray files $80,000 damages suit in Los Angeles
The motion picture actress Mae Murray sues L. R. Eccles and J. M. Ferguson for 80000 damages alleging they conspired to defraud her in a real estate deal in Los Angeles on March 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Mae Murray
L. R. Eccles
J. M. Ferguson
Appropriation Bills Pass Lower House Amid Debates
The North Carolina House approved the maintenance appropriation bill setting $38 million for the coming biennium on third reading and sent it to the Senate. An amendment cut the Confederates reunion grant to Charlotte to $25,000 and spending for the state insurance department rose to $114,380. The debate touched on literacy funding and vocational education, with senators noting a $1 million deficit and a dispute over the equalizing fund.
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Raleigh
Mar
House
Mecklenburg
Charlotte
Wilson
Pasquotank
Appropriations Committee
Insurance Department
Young
Buncombe
Carr
Duplin
Senate
Higgins
Alleghany
General Assembly
Winston
Bertie
Eaker Sets Dawn to Dusk Flight Toward Panama
Capt Ira C Eaker begins a dawn to dusk flight in the Pan American first model P 12 pursuit to Colon Panama aiming for 7 PM. The endurance plane Question Mark travels at 188 mph with 135 mph average including refueling stops at Tampico Minnatilan Guatemala City Managua and David.
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Brownsville
Tex
Ira C. Eaker
France Field
Colon
Panama
Baker
Tampico
Minnatilan
Mexico
United States Army
Guatemala City
Guatemala
Managua
Nicaragua
David
Stevens and Wallace Convicted in Herring Killing
Benny Wallace and Walter I. Stevens were sentenced to 20 to 25 years after a Guilford County jury found them guilty of second degree murder in the December 29 shooting of Hubert Herring in Greensboro. The dispute stemmed from a car collision.
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Greensboro
Mar
Benny Wallace
Walter I. Stevens
Guilford County
Hubert Herring
Winston-Salem
Several Killed in Tokyo Express Wreck
Tokyo dispatches report that four coaches derailed on the Sanyo line from Shimonoseki, killing several people. Earlier casualty tallies of 200 were deemed greatly overstated. later accounts list only a few deaths.
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London
Tokyo
Exchange Telegraph Company
Tokyo Express
Sanyo
Shimonoseki
Lonsdale Textile Mills plans big plant in Gainesville
Gainesville officials confirm Lonsdale Textile Mills of Providence Rhode Island will build a fifty thousand spindle textile plant on an 800 acre site in Gainesville. The first unit will cost about $250000. Lonsdale operates mills at Blackstone Mass Ashton Hope Phenix Rhode Island and Seneca South Carolina making sheetings and cambric.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gainesville
Lonsdale Textile Mills Company
Providence
R. I
Lonsdale Company
Blackstone
Mass
Ashton, Hope and Phenix
Siamese Legation Seizure Sparks Diplomatic Liquor Row
Prohibition agents seized a five ton Baltimore truck delivering 60 cases of liquor to the Siamese legation in Washington. The driver and assistant were jailed for illegal transport under the Jones law, while diplomats dispute police seizure rights and emphasize diplomatic immunity for legation supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Legation
Baltimore
District of Columbia
Police Department
Prohibition
Quinn
Adams to Act on Magruder Case in Navy Shuffle
Washington March 16 Secretary Adams plans a disposition of the case of Rear Admiral Thomas P. Magruder who has been awaiting orders since his removal as commandant of the fourth naval district in October 1927. Magruder drew fire in a September 1927 Saturday Evening Post piece criticizing naval economy and staffing.
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Fourth Naval District
Wilbur
Saturday Evening Post
Washington
Mar
Adams
Navy
Thomas P. Magruder
Magruder
Atlantic
Coolidge
Navy Department
Daniel Appleton Dies at 77 in White Plains
Major General Daniel Appleton retired publisher and soldier died at a private sanitarium in White Plains at age 77. Born in New York he joined D Appleton Co at 19 and the New York National Guard, serving over 40 years and rising to leadership roles. He became a partner in 1879, later vice president and general manager, retiring in 1913 after 42 years with the firm. He held brevet major general rank for 45 years in the seventh regiment and remained a bachelor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Daniel Appleton
White Plains
Appleton
D. Appleton and Co
New York National Guard
Strikes at Rayon Plant Enter Fourth Day With Conflicting Claims
In Elizabethton Tennessee on March 16 both sides in the Rayon plant strike reported gains. The company says more workers will return under the current wage scale while strikers claim returns are few and warn of further demonstrations. About 1,600 workers could return if protected, and union organizers say wages must rise. Deputies guard the plant as National Guard says troops unnecessary.
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Elizabethton
Tenn
American Glanzetoff Corporation
Rayon
Arthur Mothwurf
Corporation
United Textile Workers of America
National Guard
Constance Talmadge to Wed Chicago Merchant
Hollywood actress Constance Talmadge has announced her engagement to Chicago merchant Townsend Netcher. The couple plan to marry on May 8 after she returns from Agua Caliente Mexico where she was spending the weekend.
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Hollywood
Cal
Constance Talmadge
Townsend Netcher
Chicago
Precaution Taken Along Mississippi River
Meteorologists say no immediate flood danger in the lower Mississippi valley but precautionary measures are being prepared if rains continue. The main river is already at flood stage and further heavy rainfall in 10 to 14 days could raise grave concerns.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi Valley
Mississippi
Hollywood income taxes probed in film star cases
Federal grand jury indicts Edward H. Hayden for falsifying film star returns in 18 counts. Miss Marjorie Berger also charged as Hollywood tax counsellors face similar charges after testimonies from Fred Niblo George O’Brien Raoul Walsh and Ramon Navarro who used their services. Hayden posted a $5090 bond.
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Los Angeles
Mar
Hollywood
Edward H. Hayden
Marjorie Berger
Hayden
Fred Niblo
George O’brien
Raoul Walsh
Ramon Navarro
Three Appointed to Survey Oil Leases by Government
Washington march 16 Secretary Wilbur today appointed commissioner Spry of the land office George Otis Smith director of the geological survey and solicitor Finney of the interior department to survey all oil leases granted by the interior department to carry out policies announced yesterday by President Hoover.
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Washington
Wilbur
Spry
The
Land Office
George Otis Smith
Geological Survey
Solicitor Finney
Interior Department
Hoover
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Gaking Company
Antliones
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Foch
May Murray
Eaker
Stevens
Wallace
Herring
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