Rebels Close on Mazatlan in West Coast Push
Rebel forces pressing a counter offensive near Mazatlan clash with government troops as 6,000 federal reinforcements rush to the port. Reported fighting subsides with insurgents three to four miles from the city while officials say Mazatlan’s defense under General Carrillo should hold. Rebels also move toward Torreon, Bermejillo, and Naco as leaders forecast control of the country by July.
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Mazatlan
Carrillo
Margaret Johnson
Torreon
Calles
Bermejillo
Naco
Tornadoes, floods rack South in one day
A brutal storm system swept from Louisiana to North Carolina causing seven deaths across three states and over 100000 dollars in damage. In Alabama a church school tragedy left five black children dead and eight injured near Merrellston while nearby Nash counties reported a boy killed in North Carolina and a farmer struck by lightning in Alpraretta Georgia. Alexandria Louisiana faced 100000 dollars in losses, with Charlie County and surrounding towns enduring heavy damage from tornado wind and rain. relief efforts continued for 23000 homeless flood victims across Alabama Georgia and Florida as救援 boats ferried evacuees south of Selma.
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Atlanta
Louisiana
North Carolina
Merrellston
Ala
Small Creek
N. C
Alpraretta
Alexandria
Charlotte
Pell City
Wilson
Chattsworth
Cestanaula
Maxwellborn
Jackson
Miss
Pearl River
Town Creek
Alabama
Georgia
Florida
Selma
Flood Ravages East Tennessee Towns Drowning Scares
Unconfirmed reports say up to eighteen lives lost in Hamlin and surrounding areas as Emory Creek breached banks. Lafollette and Rockwood reports describe houses inundated and scouts swept from a bluff into White Creek. Five hundred homes affected and 1,500 people displaced as rainfall totals reach 2.29 inches in Knoxville region.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Hinman
East Tennessee
Lafollette
Emory Creek
White Creek
Middlesboro
Wate
Knotville
Tennessee
Tennesse River
Lenoir City
Rockwood
Stone's Ashes Placed in Washington Cathedral
The ashes of American journalist Melvin E. Stone arrive in Washington Cathedral's crypts. President Hoover and other officials attend a service at Bethlehem chapel before the interment, marking Stone among nation's notable figures in a vault often compared to Westminster Abbey.
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Washington
Washington Cathedral
Mount Saint Alban
Melvin E. Stone
Hoover
Curtis
Stone
New York
St. Joseph of Arimathea
Bethlehem Chapel
England
Westminster Abbey
Woodrow Wilson
Admiral Dewey
Herman Henry Kohlsaar
Mr. Stone
Fighting reported as hostilities start in China
Tokyo dispatches from Nanking quote reliable but unconfirmed reports that clashes have begun between Nanking government forces and Wuhan Kuomintang allied forces with Kwangsi units. Fighting said to have occurred at Hwangmei on the Huveh Anhwei border.
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Tokyo
Nanking
Wuhan Chique
Hwangmei
Huveh Anhwei
Tragedy in Woods: 16-Year-Old Boy Shot by Companion
Lewis Horne, age 16, was fatally shot in the head with a single barreled 12 gauge by Elvin Cagle, 19, in the woods near Thomasville while four youths investigated a squirrel hole. Cagle remained in custody with authorities gathering details. Horne was pronounced dead at Guilford General Hospital.
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Lewis Horne
Oak Hill
Elvin Cagle
Thomasville
Benjamin Horne
R. F
Guilford General Hospital
Yow
Horne
Cagle
Albert Newton
Felix Webb
Young Horne
Benjamin Horne, Jr
Victor Horne
Estelle Lackey
Lether Frazier
Cable
C. H. Whitlow
Waynesville Man Dead Slaying Sends Suspect to Jail
Lloyd Payne is dead and Commodore Curtis is jailed in Waynesville N C charged with murder after a quarrel with Curtis sister Lucy Curtis. Curtis allegedly shot Payne at a Mitchell home following a dispute the evening before. Curtis surrendered to the sheriff and a coroner’s inquest was not held. Mrs Payne returned to work for Southern Railway after learning of the death.
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Waynesville
N. C
Lloyd Payne
Commodore Curtis
Payne
Curtis
Lucy Curtis
Mitchell
Main Street
Southern Railway
Asheville
Farrington to Retire From Hawaii Governor Post
Secretary Wilbur announced Hawaii Governor Farrington will retire from office on June. The statement came amid speculation over his political future and possible succession plans in the territory.
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Farrington
Washington
Wilbur
Hawaii
Chicago Exchange Raises Large Loan Pool For Brokers
Chicago stock exchange formed a forty million dollar money pool to supply call loans backed by securities listed on the exchange. Ten million available today and thirty million Monday, with rates tied to the New York call money rate. Bankers and exchange officials approved the plan after banks urged brokers to cut loans following a volatile trading day.
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Chicago Stock Exchange
Chicago
Mar
Chicago Exchange
R. Arthur Wood
Exchange
New York Exchange
New York
Federal Reserve Bank Board
Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Bankers
Stock Exchange
Boy Scouts Guard Foch's Body in France Funeral
Paris reports state planners prep a grand funeral for Marshal Foch with a guard of 12 to 14 year old Boy Scouts. President Doumergue will attend and ride in the funeral cortege behind the casket as France observes a historic, solemn tribute.
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France
Marshal Foch
Lfe
Gaston Doumergue
French Republic
Notre Dame
Doumergue
Republic
Foch
Arc de Triomphe
Rue Grenell
Painleve
Rue de Grenelle
Tornado Unroofs Gastonia Area Farm Home
Lee Alexander, a farmer six miles south of Belmont, was painfully but not fatally injured when a tornado blew the roof off his home and damaged structures. His daughter's house nearby was blown down. four people were trapped briefly but rescued with no injuries. Widespread damage reported in lower county sections with roofs off and many trees uprooted.
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Gastonia
Lee Alexander
Belmont
Charles Neill
Four Hams Stolen From Home Near Thomasville
Lexington March 23. Four hams stolen from a Thomasville area home in Davidson county. Farmer Reuben Kennedy on Route 2 reports the loss from his smokehouse one night recently. A Ford coupe was also stolen from Neils Shoaf nearby the same night, with authorities suspecting the same culprits.
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Lexington
Davidson County
Reuben Kennedy
Route 2
Thomasville
Neils Shoaf
Kennedy
Kinloch Mine Disaster: Rescue Ends as Two Men Found Alive
Rescue crews halted operations at Kinloch mine after locating two missing workers alive in Kinloch housing. The death toll stood at 46 with 45 bodies recovered and Arnold Breiding’s remains buried. Peter Karatovich identified among the unidentified miners. Fires had broken out during the explosion but were controlled as air currents resumed.
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Parnassus
Kinloch
Valley Camp Coal Company
Arnold Breeding
Peter Karatovich
Missions in Southern Kiangsi Burned and Pillaged
A report from Canton cites a message to the French consul by Lazarist Bishop Dumond at Kanchowki dated March 20 stating all missions in Southern Kiangsi were burned and pillaged and missionaries fled to the hills. Efforts by American and French consuls to contact Bishops Oshea and Dumond failed as telegraph lines along the Kiangsi border were severed.
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Canton
China
Dumond
Kanchowki
Kiangsi
Navy's new Diezl drive ship tested
The Defiance, converted to a Diezel drive, completed at Norfolk navy yard, sailed for a trial run with more than fifty shipping men and officials aboard. After a stop at Old Point for visitors from Baltimore, Washington and New York, the vessel proceeded to the Chesapeake Bay mouth for a speed test off the Virginia coast.
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Norfolk
Shipping Board
Norfolk Navy Yard
Virginia Capes
Steamship Company
Navy Yard
Old Point
Baltimore
Washington
New York
Chesapeake Bay
Virginia
Cloudburst Floods Lake Hickory Dam
A sudden cloudburst in Hickory N C dumps nearly an inch of rain in 15 minutes. Lake Hickory waters rise to flood levels at the high dam and flow over it four feet deep.
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Hickory
N. C
Resolutions Deploring School Bill Before Educators Today
North Carolina educators at their annual convention debated resolutions criticizing features of the 1929 school aid law and lamenting a rift with business interests. Resolutions condemn removing professional qualifications for county superintendents and transferring equalizing fund administration from state school officials. The committee chairman is F E W Carver of Hickory.
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Raleigh
State Education Association
Committee On
General Assembly
E. W. Carver
Hickory
North Carolina
World oil kings meet in New York to discuss control
The Daily Mail reports top oil executives from the world plan a New York meeting to coordinate output and prices of gasoline. It says the aim is a de facto world oil trust, built on a costly consumer burden and reduced competition from confiscated Russian fields. The saga traces to a secret Achnacarry Castle gathering last year of Sir Henri Deterding, Walter Teagle, and Sir John Cadman.
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London
The
Daily Mail Today
New York
Russia
Achnacarry Castle
Scotland
Henri Deterding
Walter Teagle
John Cadman
Blease Accused of $500 Campaign Contribution
Senate testimony reports that Senator Blease a Democrat from South Carolina gave $500 to the Tolbert committee a Republican state campaign group. It is also alleged he pardoned two of Tolbert cousins while governor.
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Charge Blease
Republican
Washington
Blease
South Carolina
Joseph W. Tolbert
Republican National
Tolbert
Senate
W. F. Brown
Charleston
S. C
Faith healer held in mysterious death near Allentown
Charles T. Belles, a self styled faith healer, was arrested in the death of Verda Octavia Delp a 21 year old foster daughter of a Lehigh County farmer. District Attorney Gearhart ordered a searching inquiry into pow wow hex doctors in Lehigh and nearby counties as the case develops. Delp was found dead near the East Cat Catataauqua Gun Club grounds from poison of undetermined nature.
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Allentown
Charles T. Belles
Verda Octavia Delp
Green Pond
Gearhart
Lehigh
Belles
Miss Delp
East Catcatasauqua
Carol and Marie Meet Believed Reconciled
Telegraph dispatches report Carol of Romania met his mother Queen Marie in Saint Briac at the Villa of Grand Duke Cyril of Russia. The meeting is described as a reconciliation between Carol and Marie amid Queen Marie's visit to her sister the grand duchess.
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London
Exchange Telegraph Company
Dinard-Saint-Enogat
Carol
Romania
Queen Marie
Cyril
Russia
Saint Briac
Marie
Defiant Rum Smuggling Schooner Seized After Gunfight
Coast guard cutters Dexter and Walcott seized the British rum smuggling schooner Imalone after a sea battle off Marsh Island. One dead crew member recovered. the vessel, long active off New England, was sunk with suspected contraband. Officials say the Imalone is to be brought in for search and arrest.
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New Orleans
Mar
Coast Guard
Dexter
Walcott
Mississippi
Louisiana
New England
Marsh Island
F. C. Billard
Dant
Washington
United States
Admiral Billard
Atchafalaya
A. H. Bixby
Pascagoula
Miss
Dallas
Forward
Townsend Accepts Joe Under Gardner as Executive Counsel
Judge N A Townsend will become executive counsel to Governor Gardner on April 1 serving as pardon commissioner and possibly representing the governor on the state board of assessment and county government advisory commission. He will oversee investigations into state institutions and handle official dealings. Governor Gardner also named T L Johnson and G Vernon Cowper special judges and reappointed John Sprunt Hill to the highway commission.
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Raleigh
N. A. Townsend
College Cham
Max Gardner
Gardner
General Assembly
Townsend
State Board of Assessment
T. L. Johnson
Lumberton
Senate
G. Vernon Cowper
Kinston
John Sprunt Hill
Durham
Highway Commission
Mr. Hill
Commission
Unsuccessful Bank Robbery Attempt Near Lowell
Gas ton ia March 23 An unsuccessful attempt to rob a bank at Lowell near here was reported last night The vault appeared blown but the safe inside containing money and Lowell post office supplies was not opened
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Gastonia
Lowell
Here
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