Americans To Try Court In Fighting Coup
Mexico City March 19 AP Oil workers returned to work to cooperate with the government in operating the expropriated $400 million oil industry as 17 American and foreign firms planned a court challenge to President Cardenas expropriation decree. The suspension of foreign exchange dealings paralyzed credit. peso devaluations were considered. Oil officials planned injunctions and appeals while Supreme Court past actions shadow the crisis.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Lagaro Cardenas
Central Bank of Mexico
Cardenas
Congress
Supreme Court
Oll
Johnson Attacks Pending Bill as Dictatorial Power Grab
In two radio addresses General Hugh S. Johnson denounces a government reorganization bill as an attack on democracy. He objects to giving the President power to alter agencies and to require a two thirds Senate vote to override presidential proposals, calling it a breach of constitutional democracy.
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Washington
NBC
CBS
Hugh
Johnson
NRA
Congress
More Jobs Big Need As Roosevelt Presses Work Policy
President Roosevelt addressed a work and security conference saying the first duty is to find work for every able bodied man and woman. In a letter read by David Lasser, Roosevelt urged labor as the path to security and national welfare, praising open forum government. Senator Murray blamed price fixing and weak economic principles for the recession.
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Washington
Mar
Roosevelt
David Lasser
Workers Alliance of America
Lasser
Murray
D-Mont
Cherry Blossoms Near At Capital
Capital Park officials say the Japanese cherry trees should peak in the first week of April due to maturity and favorable winter and rainfall.
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Washington
Capital Park
Senate finance panel debates tax revision and refunds proposal
The finance committee discussed returning undistributed profits taxes to taxpayers as a fairness gesture while revising the House tax bill. Treasury figures show about 200 million dollars collected. Senators debated new levies on farm processing to fund additional benefits, with opposition citing cotton industry harm.
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Washington, Mar
Senate Finance Committee
J. W. Oliver
New York
New York Merchants Association
Senate
Oliver
Committee xxx
Treasury
Pope
Idaho
Harrison
D-Miss
Hale
Maine
New England
Japs In China And Rebels In Spain Smash Forward In Steady Drives Toward Goals
Japanese forces estimated at 150000 pressed along the southern Shan tung front backed by artillery planes and tanks as 250000 Chinese defenders fought to stem the advance. If Suchow falls, linking with troops from Pengpu would push west toward Chengchow and Hankow, while other units move from Wuhu toward Hankow.
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China
Spain
Shanghai
Shantung
Suchow
Sunghai
Tientsin-Pukow
Japan
Pengpu
Chengchow
Yellow River
Lunghai
Beiping- Hankow
Hankow
Wuhu
Insurgent Push Advances Toward Mediterranean Front
Spanish insurgents reported near Castellone six miles from Castellon Province as Franco orders forward thrusts toward the coast. Barcelona endures air raids with 640 dead and 1,200 wounded, amid calls to halt bombardment.
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Mediterranean
Barcelona
Hendaye
France
Castellon
Francisco Franco
Sierras
Franco
Castellone
Valencia
Spain
Raimundo
Gandesa
Tarragona
Tortosa
Maella
Caspe
Belchie
Montalban
Great Britain
Wallace backs McNary bill to extend marketing agreements
Secretary Wallace endorsed Senator McNarys proposal to authorize the agriculture department to approve marketing agreements for any agricultural commodity. He urged extending the act to all producers, noting programs must be driven by affected groups and involve keeping part of crops off the market.
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Washington
Wallace
McNary
Agriculture Department
Smith
8. C
Senate Agriculture Committee
Educators Map Action As Meeting Closes
Raleigh dispatch reports the 64th annual New Carolina Education Association convention adopting unanimous resolutions. They call for salary boosts, reduc tion of teacher loads by ten percent, adding a 12th grade, independent voting on taxes for large districts, a teacher retirement fund, protection against political dismissals, stronger certification laws, a constitutional amendment to unify agencies, a major federal vocational funding push, adequate instructional funds, improved school transportation, and options for exceptional students to complete training sooner.
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Raleigh
New
Carolina Education Associate
Association
Lindbergh Law Challenged in Appeal After Seadlund Death Sentence
Chicago March 19 Attorneys for kidnapper John Henry Seadlund filed a notice of appeal challenging the Lindbergh law minutes after his death sentence was imposed. The appeal grants an automatic stay and 60 days to perfect the case as Judge Barnes approves extended time for court appointed lawyers Floyd E. Thompson and Frederick Burnham.
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Chicago
John Henry Seadlund
Seadland
John P. Barnes
Floyd E. Thompson
Frederick Burnham
Desperate Leap Fatal To Slayer Peter Burton
Peter Burton a 39 year old Detroit electrician and confessed slayer of two women died in Buffalo after leaping from police headquarters two days earlier He claimed on his deathbed to have strangled his estranged wife and her landlady in Detroit last Monday Detectives said he cried I killed them both before the leap.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Peter Burton
Burton
Detroit Electrician
Detroit
Negotiations Heat Up Over TVA Private Power Line
In New York on March 19, utility circles report the TVA Willkie Lilienthal talks are heating. A line from Columbus Mississippi through northern Alabama and into Tennessee could limit TVA competition with private systems. Commonwealth & Southern properties valued about 126 million are involved in this zone amid rapid Washington talks with Jones and Douglas.
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New York
TVA
Wendell L. Willkie
Commonwealth- Southern Corp
Tennessee
Willkie
David BE. Lilienthal
Columbus
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
Financial
Lilienthal-Willkie
Commonwealth & Southern
Washington
Lilienthal
Jesse Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corp
William C. Douglas
Securities and Exchange Commission
White House
Pempentee
Lillenthal-Willkie
Peace Nearer New States Dieckhoff
German Ambassador Hans Dieckhoff said peace in Europe is closer due to Germany’s absorption of Austria. He argued the union eliminates a perpetual trouble source and strengthens Germany economically and politically.
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Washington
Europe
Germany
Austria
Hans Dieckhoff
Dieckhoff
Leaders Would Terminate Brutal Demonstration
A mixed international report describes Maj. Alexander P. De Seversky flying a fast pursuit plane from Washington to Tampa in three and a half hours despite a headwind. Elsewhere in Warsaw, anti Jewish riots leave two dead and over a hundred injured as police struggle to quell violence around the ghetto. President Moscicki condemns the disorder as brutal while warning Poland risks totalitarian drift to restore order.
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Tampa
Fla
Alexander P. de Seversky
United States Army
Washington
Warsaw
Poland
Lithuania
Ignace Moscicki
Czechs Seem Unwilling To Quit Russia
PRAHA March 19. Adolf Hitler reportedly demanded that Czechoslovakia abandon its military alliance with Soviet Russia, but the Czech government showed no indication it would comply. The report cited diplomatic sources describing Der Fuehrer's position.
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Praha
Adolf Hitler
Czechoslovakia
Soviet
Russia
Czech
Hitler
der Fuehrer
Youth Held in Levine Case in Newark
A 19 year old Newark probationer was held on $25 000 bail after confessing to writing six letters to Murray Levine attorney of New Rochelle demanding 30 000 for the return of Levine's 12 year old son Peter who vanished over three weeks ago. Jasosky said he did not participate in the kidnapping but knew who did it. He was arraigned before US Commissioner Holland and sent to Hudson county jail in Jersey City.
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Newark
N. J
Murray Levine
New Rochelle
N. Y
Levine
Peter
Peter la Bagliva
Stanley Thomas Jasosky
United States
Holland
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hudson County
Jersey City
Jasosky
Dramatic Meet Opens in Chapel Hill Festival Launches
Hundreds of North Carolina student actors and directors gather for the 15th annual Carolina Dramatic Association festival. Opening talks by Prof. H. E. Spence of Duke, a religious play by Mary P. Hamlin, and the first night feature Denise M. Abbey’s The King's Messenger mark the week of events.
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Chapel Hill
N. C
North Carolina
Carolina Dramatic Association
H. E. Spence
Duke University
Durham
Mary P. Hamlin
New Bern
Hull Voices US Alarm Over Austrian Situation
Secretary of State Hull expressed serious concern over Hitler's Austria seizure and its danger to peace. He noted Austria's legation was absorbed by the German embassy and referred to technical steps the United States would take as Austria’s status shifts unfold. He refused direct quotes but cited policy principles urging restraint and avoidance of force.
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Washington
United States
Adolf Hitler
Austria
Hull
Germany
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