North Carolina House Hears 3 Percent Sales Tax Battle
Administration forces press the biennial revenue bill as the house, in committee of the whole, rejects amendments to the three percent retail sales tax schedule. The senate passes minor bills while Rep Barker’s proposal to tax dividends from domestic and domesticated corporations is defeated 71 to 34. Chairman Gregg Cherry leads the finance fight with McDonald and Lumpkin backing the anti tax bloc.
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Italy rejects Ethiopia appeal to League for investigation
Geneva dispatch reports on March 22 that Italy refused Ethiopia's request under article 15 of the League Covenant for a League investigation and said it was ready in principle to accept arbitration. The exchange highlights the dispute and calls for a settlement path.
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Geneva
Italy
Ethiopia
League of Nations
Inflation Dominates Congressional Action in March Debates
Washington reports inflation sentiment rising as Congress debates the 2.0 billion Patman currency bonus plan and the 4.88 billion administration relief bill. Test votes show shifting support, with a key roll call on the Patman proposal and Senate talks on silver purchases. Donald R. Richberg becomes NRA helm as the administration board expands to seven members.
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Lumber Company Challenges NRA Code As Unconstitutional
Greensboro March 22. A Bonlee based lumber firm denies federal court jurisdiction over the defendant under the National Recovery Act. The defense objects to NRA and the code of fair competition arguing Congress lacked power to enact or delegate authority to write or approve codes governing small plants.
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NRA
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Siler City
Congress
Harding's Sister Abigail Hardin Dies in Marion
Mrs Abigail Hardin Lewis sister of the late President Warren G Harding dies at age 59 at her Marion Ohio home Funeral services set for Monday at the residence.
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Marion
Abigail Hardin
Lewis
Warren G. Harding
Germany Aims Navy Equal To Italy In Size
London reports from Berlin say Germany seeks a navy at least equal to Italy and comparable with France. Reich aims for about 375,000 tons, with Britain leading at 1,160,000 and the United States at 1,000,000. Hitler plans to press Simon and Eden in Berlin next week for Germany to regain major sea power.
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Italy
France
Berlin
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United States
Air Base Bill Approved by House Military Committee
The House military committee voted unanimously to authorize the War Department to build six powerful air bases to defend U S frontiers. The measure described as essential by army officers moves to the full committee for consideration on Tuesday.
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War Department
House Military Committee
McSwain
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NRA Board Reorganized With Richberg As Leader
Richberg took command of the NRA in a March reorganization that expands the board to seven with two labor leaders and two industrialists plus two professors. Roosevelt and the AFL backed extending NRA life as labor leaders eyed support for the Wagner labor disputes bill.
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Washington
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William Green
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Hull outlines US views on treaties amid German rearmament
Secretary Hull stated the United States condemns Germany’s breach of Versailles and related treaties by rearming. He said treaties must form the foundation of a stable peace and that the American people expect strict adherence to treaty provisions. Hull noted concern over Europe’s crisis but that the State Department continues its normal foreign relations course.
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Germany
Hull
United States
Planes Search for Lost Ship Planes Search for Lost Ship
Stanley Siscoe president of Siscoe Extension Gold Mines is missing in northern Quebec. Multiple aircraft from Montreal area initiated search from Montreal to Amos with pilots Wrathall Lymburner and Ressingeur aided by civil aviation and railway planes. Experts suspect forced landing on a northern lake due to damaged undercarriage or heavy slush.
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Stanley Sincoe
Siscoe Extension Gold Miles
Quebec
Here
Amos
Siscoe
Tommy Wrathall
Montreal Light Airplane Club
Ste. Jovite
Stuart Graham
St. Hubert
Bob Lymburner
Canadian Railways
Fairchild
Seneterre
Bill Ressingeur
Rouyn
Ressingeur
Siscoe Extension Gold Mines
Stanley Gold Mines
Senate Commerce Panel Backs Broad Food Drug Bill
The Senate commerce committee voted in favor of a new food and drug bill granting the secretary of agriculture authority to regulate packages and advertising of foods drugs and cosmetics.
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Washington
Senate Commerce Committee
Secretary of Agriculture
Rail freight carloadings rise week over week
The Association of American Railroads reports revenue freight loadings for the week ended March 16 at 507,482 cars. This is 10,162 more than the prior week, 80,117 below the 1934 level, and 148,705 above the same week in 1938.
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Washington
Association of American Railroads
Goering Announces German Zeppelin Lines Ltd
Berlin March 22 General Hermann Goering announced the foundation of German Zeppelin Lines Ltd Berlin with a capital of 3 820 000 dollars. The announcement signals a new air transport venture linked to Zeppelin interests and state backing.
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Hermann Wilhelm Goering
German-Zeppelin Lines, Ltd
Protests Turn Violent in Paris Senate Square
Fifteen injured and 37 arrested as storekeepers clashed with police in Paris over taxes in front of the senate. The protest escalated into a tax dispute with authorities attempting to quell the disturbance.
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Paris
Senate
French Protest May Be Evaded Before League Council
Predictions circulate near the League of Nations that France may not press its protest over German rearmament to a full council trial. France yesterday asked for an extraordinary session to probe possible Versailles treaty violations. Britain, France, and Italy seek a negotiated path with Germany ahead of Sir John Simon's Berlin talks with Hitler.
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League of Nations
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League Council
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Sir John Simon
U S Not Interested In Violations Of Versailles Pact
Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Key Pittman says the United States is not interested in whether Hitler violated the Versailles treaty. He favors non interference as President Roosevelt and the state department wait for clearer international positions. It is denied that Washington drafted a protest note over Hitler's conscription edict.
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United States
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Rogers Says California Rail Bill Sets 74 Car Freight Trains
Beverly Hills Calif March 22 Rogers mocks state legislatures for tax schemes and praises a railroad compromise that sets freight trains at seventy four cars He jokes about the railroads readying seventy four empty cars and quips about bus passing times and limits.
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McDonald Cleared of Murder Charge In Woman's Death
Lawrence M. McDonald 80 was exonerated in the death of Mrs Charlotte Quilter 80 who fell from his car near a roadhouse. A coroner jury found she died by a fall from a motor vehicle operated by McDonald while intoxicated and ruled the death accidental. He was held on a drunken driving charge awaiting recorder's court in Carthage.
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William Quilter
Here
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Greene Is Given Life Sentence
In Raleigh on March 22 Jim Greene a Pitt County man convicted of criminal assault on a white woman was granted a commutation to life imprisonment minutes before his scheduled execution. The governor cited newly discovered evidence and statements from officials that mitigated the crime. Greene expressed happiness and gratitude.
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State's
Jim Greene
Pitt County
H. H. Honeycutt
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Elsa Ernst
U. S. Compass Plane Flies 700 Miles On Test Flight
The government radio compass plane departed Oakland airport at 7 06 a m on a 700 nautical mile test flight with a 21000 pound load and 1590 gallons of gasoline. Captains Hegenberger and Maitland, veterans of the first Oakland to Honolulu flight, travel with Maj Chester A Snow and others. Weather concerns delayed takeoff but did not halt the mission as Kinney stated rough air would aid testing and efforts to contact ships 300 to 900 miles away to probe weather blind spots.
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Albert F. Hegenberger
Hegenberger
Lester J. Maitland
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Chester A. Snow
Clayton Bissell
Charles Snyder
Commerce Department
James L. Kinney
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Senate bill to pay soldiers bonus faces presidential opposition
The Patman bill to fund soldiers' bonus with 2 billion dollars in new money is sent from the House to the Senate. President Roosevelt threatens veto if Congress passes it, while administration leaders expect the Senate to refuse passage over a veto requiring two-thirds. The House also rejects Vinson American Legion and Tydings Cochran Andrews bonus funding measures.
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Patman
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Red Snow Covers 100 Square Miles of Turkey Today
Red snow blanketed about 100 square miles in northeastern Turkey on March 22, turning the countryside brick red to a depth of about one inch. Residents feared omens, while scientists attributed the phenomenon to distant dust storms and sometimes vegetation or insect bodies.
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Weather Outlook For Carolinas And Georgia
North Carolina remains mostly cloudy with chances of showers in the west and north tonight and Saturday. Temperatures cool slightly in the east and central portions, with a touch warmer spell in the northwest on Saturday. South Carolina generally fair with isolated showers possible in extreme northwest, cooler tonight in the east. Georgia stays generally fair tonight and Saturday with light showers possible in the extreme north. temperatures show little change.
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Weather outlook for Atlantic coast cotton areas forecast
Northwest winds shift to east or southeast across the north portion with moderate to fresh winds and overcast skies. The south sees northeast winds turning east or southeast with rain possible Saturday. In Hatteras to Jacksonville winds are mainly northeast to east with variable conditions in the far south and Saturday overcast. Official weather bureau records note 24 hour temperature and rainfall in major cotton regions.
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