Legislative jam halts reconstruction plans in Washington
Roosevelt pushes Congress to break the legislative jam delaying NRA social security and big administration measures. Senate leaders consider sidetracking anti lynching bill amid southern filibuster threats while the House begins debate on the Omnibus banking bill and works program projects loom.
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Roosevelt
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Senate Democratic Steering Committee
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Burns
Newsom
Bil
Ickes
Rexford G. Tugwell
White House
Weather Outlook for Tennessee Virginia and Carolinas
Tartly cloudy and frosty in western Tennessee tonight with light frost in exposed areas. Virginia sees cloudy skies with showers tonight and Tuesday, colder in the southeast and north and west. North Carolina remains cloudy with possible showers tonight and Tuesday, with cooler conditions Tuesday.
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West
Virginia
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East
Testimony from Vanderbilt custody trial published
New York reports secret testimony on alleged misconduct cited in Gloria Vanderbilt's bid to win back her daughter Gloria. The Daily News prints nurse and mother statements, Vanderbilt and Prince Hohenlohe denials, and details of a 1927 1928 timeline at villas in Biarritz.
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New York
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt
Gloris
The
Daily News
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Prince Hohenlohe
Biarritz Villa
Laura K. Morgan
Emma Reislich
Aice Copen
Good Outlook Shared by Roosevelt and Manufacturers
In Washington on April 23 President Roosevelt and the National Association of Manufacturers expressed optimism about recovery prospects. They disagreed over the next New Deal steps with the President urging rapid social and economic reconstruction while manufacturers urged postponing certain measures and avoiding disruptive legislation.
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Water Power Act Criticized Before Senate Panel
H Lester Hooker, Virginia Commissioner, denounced proposed amendments to the federal water power act as encroaching on state rights. Appearing before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, Hooker opposed the Wheeler Rayburn utility holding company bill while urging Virginia’s view that licensing should be limited to navigable waters and necessary to protect navigation. He warned the amendment could stall water power development unless licenses are accepted, extending beyond navigation concerns.
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Washington
Federal Water Power Act
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
H. Lester Hooker
Old Dominion Corporations Commission
Hooker
Wheeler-Rayburn Utility Holding Company
National Association of Railroad and Utilities Commissioners
United States
Real Indian chief was never in existence says institute
The Smithsonian withdraws belief in a universal Indian chief across America. Ethnologists say leaders were archists with no legal right to rule, and followers joined voluntarily. War leadership varied, with campaigns led by individual figures whose exploits spurred support and plunder prospects.
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Smithsonian Institution
All America
Arctic Circle
Rio Grande
Smithsonian
Sitting Bull
The
Body of 4 year old found in Chicago river
The body of Richard Max Perrot, a four year old missing since April 4, was found today in the Chicago river near his home. His father Max Perrot led the search while letters demanding ransom and threats had arrived at the family home after the boy vanished with reports of a mysterious thin man.
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Max Perrot
Perrot
Third party talk grows in 1936 campaign
The Associated Press reports growing interest in a third party as the GOP prepares for the 1936 election against Roosevelt. After a Des Moines weekend meeting, Senator Long of Louisiana led the National Farmers' Holiday Association to back forming a third party to express farmers and laborers' desires, though some opposed the move and Long denied linking it to his Share Our Wealth program.
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National Farmers Holiday Association
Huey Long
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Des Moines
Charles E. Coughlin
Reno
Henry A. Wallace
Lord Corn
AAA
Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
Senator Long
D-La
National Farmers’ Holiday Association
Long
Hollywood party brawl damages countess home in Cauliflower Lane
Hollywood sees a staged fight end in real havoc as Countess Dorothy Di Fra no’s home is damaged by guests from Cauliflower Lane. Grant Withers and Jon Benjamin, both linked to film stars, clash in a separate melee after earlier chaos. Joe Egli also sustains a black eye as deputies identify participants.
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Cauliflower Alley
Sheriff's
Robert Jurgenson
Richard Summers
Grant Withers
Corinne Griffith
Loretta Young
Jon Benjamin
Marion Nixon
Withers
Benjamin
Fred Perry
Joe Egli
Joseph Egli
Alberta Vaughn
Jor
Countess
Eglin
Countess’ Home
Gus Wilson
Terry Hunt
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Countea
Hantess
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la Cienega Boulevard
Egli
Hoollywood
Jurgensen
Summers
Longworth Remains Critical in Kingsport
Dr. W. H. Longworth a longtime city physician in Kingsport has fallen seriously ill with a sudden spinal meningitis attack. He was moved to hospital Saturday night and remains unconscious as physicians express low hopes for recovery. He came to Kingsport in 1931, later becoming the city physician and widely known among residents and the medical profession.
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Kingsport
Longworth
Be.m. Corns
Casey Jones Life Story Retold From Rail Legend
Memphis April 29 The rails click a requiem to Casey Jones on the thirty fifth anniversary of his farewell trip to the promised land The real Casey story traces to 1893 at the Chicago Columbian Exposition where he first took the engine 638 to haul the Cannon Ball and later died in the 1900 Memphis to Canton run Widow Mrs Jones reveals new angles describing the fog shrouded night and Casey’s call to Sim Webb to jump as they raced through Vaughn Miss and a final perilous curve with the caboose looming
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Dupont Fi TnACHeNy Leader Dies at Estate Near Jacksonville
Alteea Dupont, aged 7, head of Dupont explosives and chemicals, died after a heart attack at Epping Forest estate outside Jacksonville. He had rallied after a Thursday attack but was struck again last night and died a few hours later. A major landowner and former president of the Florida National Bank of Jacksonville. Captain Alfred Dupont of Wilmington, aged 70, known for leading the Dupont de Nemours Company from 1902 to 1916, died today at his estate near Jacksonville. He expanded the firm’s assets from 15 million to 82 million and designed all machinery for black powder production and prismatic powder development.
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Delaware
Ori
Eugene Dupont
Dupont de’ Nemours Company
Alfred Dupont
Tariff Issue for Textiles Blocked by House Committee
Regular Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee blocked attempts to reopen the cotton textile tariff issue this session. The cabinet committee studying the cotton textile situation had heard Maine’s appeal for immediate assistance. Democrats argued the president already named a cabinet committee to study imports and the cotton processing tax, and the panel postponed further study of imports in a near party line vote.
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House
Ways and Means
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Maine
Cabinet
Lewis J. Brann
War games launch fleet off California coast
The U S Navy fields a massive six week war game with the Pacific fleet sailing from San Diego under cover of darkness. Rear Adm Joseph Reeves leads the exercise with 153 ships including battleships submarines aircraft carriers and cruisers moving to Hawaii Midway and the Aleutians as crews execute silent battle orders and mock combat.
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Henry Martin Jensen
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Admiral Reeves
Pacific Coast
Hawaii
Midway Island
Aleutians
Rain and snow fall near the dust center
Rain and snow skirt the dust bowl region as health officials report seven pneumonia deaths tied to dust storms and curb efforts. Red Cross opens two emergency hospitals in Ulysses and Johnson City with four nurses aiding the sick. ten thousand cloth masks are being distributed while more hospitals are readied. Amarillo reports a trace of rain. East Texas sees heavy rain and hail. Missouri and Nebraska have showers. light snow falls in Montana and Wyoming.
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Texas
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Tana
Wyoming
Germany plans 12 submarines pace new defense crisis
London reports say German orders for twelve 250 ton submarines were issued and parts already built. British officials debate legality of disclosures and potential protest to the League. Cabinet plans consultations with France and Italy as Germany expands naval program amid Versailles treaty defiance.
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Associated Press Foreign Staff
Associated Press London
Sir John Simon
House of Commons Today
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