German envoy informs Hull of Austrian legation seizure
German Ambassador Hans Dieckhoff told Secretary Hull that the Austrian legation has been taken over by the German Reich and that Edgar Prochnik and his staff have joined the German embassy. A ragged informant described two suspicious men linked to the Peter Levine kidnapping case to New Rochelle police and G Men.
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Washington
Hans Dieckhoff
Hull
Dieckhoff
Edgar Prochnik
Collections Set Record Income Taxes in March
Washington March 16 The treasury reported a record income tax haul of 61 047 718 for the first 15 days of March. Officials said collections were 18 higher than the same period last year and that Roosevelt budget estimates would be exceeded.
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Washington
Mar
The
Treasury
Roosevelt
Jonas Wins GOP Senate Nomination In North Carolina
The State Republican convention nominated Charles A. Jonas of Lincolnton for the United States Senate after adopting a platform of sweeping tax and financial reforms. Jonas defeated Dr. J Forest Witten of Mooresville by a vote of 1043 to 260 in Charlotte on March 16.
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Senate
Charlottr
Charles A. Jonas
Lincolnton
United States Senate
J. Forest Witten
Mooresville
Halifax Warns Germany On European Peace
Britain's new foreign secretary Viscount Halifax warned Germany that peace in Europe depends on honoring its pledge to Czechoslovakia after Hitler's Austrian coup. He spoke in London addressing Germany's role in maintaining European stability.
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Halifax
Germany
London
Britain
Viscount
Czzechoslovakia
Adolf Hitler
Newell Heads Charlotte GOP Exec Committee
Jake F. Newell, Charlotte attorney, elected chairman of the State Executive Committee to replace W. Meekins of Hendersonville. The veteran party leader was nominated by McKinley Edwardes of Swain County and elected by acclamation.
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Newell
Gor Charlotter
Jake F. Newell
Charlotte
W. ©. Meekins
Hendersonville
McKinley Edwardes
Swain County
Kurfees Named Republican Nominee for Congress in Fifth District
Winston Salem March 6 Fifth congressional district Republicans chose Joan V Kurfees Jr as their candidate for representative at a convention held yesterday. The party also elected Dell Sapp of Winston-Salem as chairman Odell Jones of Walnut Cove Ella Shore of Winston-Salem as vice chair and Henry Masten of Winston Salem as secretary.
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Winston
Mar
Joan V. Kurfees, Jr
O. P
Kurfees
Dell Sapp
Winston-Salem
Odell Jones
Jalnut Cove
Ella Shore
City Buys Courtroom Use In New County Building At 150 A Month
A county building will rent courtroom facilities to the city for 150 dollars monthly. In a separate crash near Five Points on Montheu avenue, a truck and a car collided injuring the car driver, Henry Oscar Burnside, who was hospitalized and later identified by detective Lewis E. Williams as Henry Oscar Burnside. Burnside faces charges of driving under the influence. the municipal court trial was postponed due to the accident. The injured driver, calling himself one of the Jones boys, narrowly escaped death.
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Montheu Avenue
Henry Oscar Burnside
Greensboro
Atlanta
Burrus Memorial Hospital
Burnside
Jones Boys
Lewis E. Williams
Jones
Henry Oscar “Burnside
Acci
Public Safety Committee Sets Prisoner Transport Plan
High Point city council authorizes renting courtroom and clerk facilities in the county building for up to 150 per month. Payment begins after the public safety committee arranges an adequate prisoner transport plan likely including a patrol wagon costing about 1825 for police department funds. Bar association committee members urged improved facilities citing urgent need for the court space.
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Public Safety Committee
Bar Association
LeRoy Briggs
E. M. Knox
Police Department
Thomas Turner, Jr
Owen Reese
Silas B. Casey
Arthur Kirkman
Tom Gold, Jr
Mr. Turner
Blythe Brothers Win 90 Day Project Extension
Blythe Brothers Inc of Charlotte obtains a 90 working day extension on the ia Tracks Low Mood project after delays caused by A Guion and Company. The new deadline advances to March 4, with contract amendments and liability terms under review by the city council.
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Blythe Brothers
Blythe Brothers, Inc
Harlotte
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A. H. Guion and Company
Death Prefers To Nazification
Major Emil Fey an Austrian anti Nazi leader reportedly killed himself his wife and son in Vienna rather than submit to Hitler Nazi rule. Reuters and exchange telegraph dispatches carried Vienna reports while Vienna authorities offered no statement. The reports also said Friedrich Reittinger head of an industrial holding firm reportedly killed himself.
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Emil Fey
Austria
Vienna
Fuehrer Hitler
Reuters
Exchange Telegraph
Friedrich Reittinger
Cyclone toll rises as eight states seek more victims
The death toll reached eighteen as authorities in eight Mississippi valley states searched for additional tornado victims. The storm struck Mississippi Alabama Georgia Tennessee Arkansas Missouri Illinois and Iowa, leaving about 1000 homeless. Twisters formed long clean paths across farmland, with high winds and heavy rains sweeping wide areas. Livestock losses were reported amid floods along local rivers.
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Associated Press
Mississippi Valley
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
Tennessee
Arkansas
Missouri
Illinois
ToIawa
Middle West
GOP Speaker Warns Against Dictatorship in North Carolina
Col Frank Knox Chicago publisher and 1936 VP nominee told North Carolina Republicans that democracy and free competition are inseparable, warning that a supreme executive and planned economy cannot coexist with liberty. He criticized social security taxes as overbearing and selective, urging a limited reserve and emphasizing loyalty to democracy and free enterprise.
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Charlotte
Frank Knox
Chicago
North Carolina
Col. Knox
Roosevelt
Col Knox
Knox
Mussolini Backs German Coup and Defends Italian Frontiers
In Rome on March 16 Benito Mussolini assured Italians that German expansion will not breach Italian frontiers while praising Hitler’s absorption of Austria. He called Austria a German state and urged defense of frontiers, saying Versailles provisions on Austrian independence are absurd. Accompanied by loudspeaker rallies, Mussolini linked recent events to Italy’s security and warned against anti-German sentiment among the public.
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Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
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Chamber of Deputies
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Grand Council
Il Dnce
Engelbert Dollfuss
Arecreluas
Tr Duce
Loyal rebels slow Franco advance near Caspe
Reporting from Hendaye France on March 16 the loyalist government forces halt Franco's swift drive to the sea. Insurgent troops mass east of Alcaniz to Caspe. heavy fighting looms around Caspe with government reinforcements crossing the Ebro to defend the city and its highway junction near Catalonia and Aragon.
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France
Francisco Franco
Alcaniz
Caspe
Catalonia
Spain
Aragon
Ebro
Valderrabres
Mediterranean
Barcelona
Valencia
Madrid
Chiprana
Franco
Jesue Hernandez
Pittman urges changes to administration reorganization bill
Sen. Pittman urges adoption of the Wheeler amendment as he claims President Roosevelt would move forest service functions to Interior under Ickes. He warns against meddling and calls for modification amid Senate debate on the reorganization bill.
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Washington
Mar
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Senate Today
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Nevada
Roosevelt
Forest Service
Department of Interior
Ickes
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Byrd
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Walsh
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Civil Service Commission
Attorney Held For Shooting In Elk Park
Val Bowers an Elk Park attorney was held on 590 bond on a warrant charging assault with a deadly weapon in the fatal shooting of Charlie Taylor 25. Sheriff W H Hughes said Taylor claimed a divine command to break all the windows and was shot during the breakage at the attorney's home. The sheriff added Taylor had previously smashed windows in several local business houses.
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Elk Park
N. C
Val Bowers
Charlie Taylor
W. H. Hughes
Taylor
Bowers
Ceylor
Hoey Aims to End Illiteracy by 1940 in North Carolina
Governor Hoey addressed the state adult education advisory council in Raleigh urging a coordinated effort to banish illiteracy. He cited a 1930 census showing 10 percent illiteracy in North Carolina and said progress must rise to national averages with universities colleges public schools and WPA directing efforts.
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Raleigh
N. C
Hoey
North Carolina
WPA
Furniture men to meet in Statesville
The Central District of the Southern Retail Furniture Association will hold a meeting in Statesville tomorrow night. The group covers several North Carolina counties.
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Statesville
Mar
Southern Retail Furniture Association
North Carolina
Royal couple cheer Battersea and Lambeth crowds
King George and Queen Elizabeth toured working class districts of Battersea and Lambeth in South London greeting cheering crowds. They observed rehousing developments during the visit.
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London
Mar
King George
Queen Elizabeth
Battersea
Lambeth
Jail escape in Buchan an county yields no arrests yet
In Grundy Virginia on March 16 Sheriff F M Ratliffe of Buchanan County said none of the 15 inmates who escaped Monday night from the jail had been captured.
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Grundy
F. M. Ratliffe
Buchanan County
France and Russia vow to defend Czechoslovakia if attacked
France and Russia agreed to fight to defend Czechoslovakia if she is attacked. Premier Blum urged Britain to join efforts for a Spanish armistice and to act with France to deter Italian and German troops in Spanish insurgent ranks. Reports say Hitler sped to Berlin amid a Polish ultimatum to Lithuania, denied by Poland, as war forces ready to aid Czechoslovakia are discussed.
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Spain
France
Britain
Russia
Czechoslovakia
Leon Blum
Neville Chamberlain
Mediterranean
Poland
Lithuania
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Germany
Hitler
Pyrenees
French
Father of Local Man Dies in Apparent Suicide
Dr. Stephen W. Davis a 44 year old Charlotte physician was found shot in his bathroom with death ruled as self inflicted by Mecklen burg county coroner Dr. Fred Austin a World War veteran and University of Pennsylvania graduate He is survived by a widow an infant daughter two brothers and two sisters and is father of A Davis Duke Power Company official The family connection to Charlotte is noted with Davis presumed to be in Charlotte.
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Stephen W. Davis
Fred Austin
Mecklenburg County
Davis
Merryman
Hal A
High Point
Rose Elba Davis
Mary
Dr. Davis
A. Davis
Duke Power Company
Mr. Davis
State GOP Platform Calls for Tax and Election Reforms
Charlotte march 16 the North Carolina Republican convention adopted a platform pledging sweeping tax and election reforms and criticising the Democratic administrations. It calls to repeal the general sales tax reduce motor vehicle license tax stop diversion of highway funds abolish nonessential state departments and repeal the absentee ballot law. It also urges statewide prohibition by referendum on liquor.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
Republican Convention
Free America
George Butler
Platform
Withon
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