Veterans Bureau Rules On Rights Of Bank in Loan
Banks raise veteran loans from 22 1 2 percent of old law to 50 percent of face value, waiving old paper collection. Bureau says banks cannot issue a new note for half the value to cover an old loan and collect immediately. Regulations require six month hold before collection. combined new notes count as new loans. Federal Reserve advises expedited handling and continued discounting under old law despite 41 2 percent rate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, Mar
Veterans’ Bureau
Bureau
Federal Reserve Board
Hines
Excessive Speed Blamed for Southern Railroad Wreck
The Interstate Commerce Commission report cites excessive speed as the probable cause of a January 24 passenger train wreck on the Southern system near Helenwood Tennessee. Five people were killed and ten injured as the train left the rails while traveling between 50 and 55 miles per hour according to surviving crew members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Southern Railroad System
Helenwood
Tennessee
Legge Resigns as Farm Board Leader Accepted by Hoover
President Hoover accepted Alexander P. Legge's resignation as chairman of the farm board. Hoover planned a formal announcement later in the day, with no clear word on Legge's successor. Vice Chairman Stone had been mentioned as a potential successor. Legge had submitted his resignation nearly two weeks ago and met Hoover for over an hour yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hoover
Alexander P. Legge
Farm Board
Mr. Lege
Stone
Legge
White House
Grant Mabe Sentenced to Life for Slaying
Grant Mabe, 18, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the September slaying of Will Jamar Jones, a 26 year old farmer, after a jury found first degree murder with mitigating circumstances. A confession stated Lettie Jones, Jones’ widow, handed him the gun and watched from the farm home window as he shot Jones from ambush.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rogersville
Tenn
Grant Mabe
Will Jamar Jones
Marie
Jones
Lettie Jones
Veterans Loan Office to Stay Open Saturdays
Washington reports the veterans loan bureau will keep its office open all Saturday afternoon this weekend to receive loan applications. By closing time last night the office had mailed 6,041 checks totaling 2,323,985 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Veterans Loan Brigade
Veterans Bureau
Postmasters Appointments Vary After Senate Adjournment
The White House announced that 171 of 300 postmasters not confirmed by the Senate will continue serving as reappointments until successors are chosen. The remaining 12 will be named as acting postmasters or placed on a recess appointment under a postmaster specific law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
White House
Robbery Seen as Motive in Gordon Murder Case
New York reports consider robbery the likely motive behind Vivian Gordon’s murder in Van Cortlandt Park. The piece notes the pattern of crime lore naming robbery in similar high profile cases and cites experts and past cases to question the silence motive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vivian Gordon
New York
van Cortlandt Park
Jame Tiwell
Dorothy King
Louise Lawson
Arthur A. Carey
Homicide Bureau
New York Police Department
Elwell
Kinz
Lawson
West Seventeenth Street
Jury Deliberations Continue In Bridge Slayer Case
The fate of Myrtle A. Bennett, charged in the "bridge quarrel" slaying of her husband John G. Bennett, rests with a jury after closing arguments. Defense urged maximum penalty or acquittal while prosecutors argued against a motive. The court noted lack of proven deliberation and instructed the jury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Mar
Myrtle A. Bennett
James A. Reed
J. Francis O'Sullivan
George Cauthen
Reed
Cauthen
Bennett
O'Sullivan
Raskob Pushes Prohibition Plan at Democratic Meeting
At the Democratic national committee meeting in Washington on March 6, Alfred E. Smith and others clashed with Chairman Raskob over his home rule plan for state liquor control. Senators Robinson Hull and Morrison, plus Mary Norton, attacked the proposal while Cox urged unity. The session ended with permission to consider the plan at the next committee session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Democratic Party
Democratic National Committee
Raskob
Robinson
Arkansas
Cordell Hull
Tennessee
National Committee
Cameron Morrison
North Carolina
Joe Robinson
Jack Garner
Alfred E. Smith
Houston
Smith
Kirkland Sobs As Tale Of Love For Draves Girl
Virgil Kirkland the 20 year old Gary youth testified in a Valparaiso court about his relationship with Arlene Draves 18. He described meeting her at a Gary dance hall and said they planned to elope to Valparaiso. He broke into tears when asked about loving Arlene and said his mother supported the family after his father died.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kirkland
Valparaiso, Ind
Virgil Kirkland
Gary
Arlene Draves
Barratt O’hara
Arlene
Charles Draves
O’hara
Virgil
John Underwood
Grant Crumpacker
Dempsey's Father Plans Marriage in Salt Lake City
Hiram Dempsey 73, father of former heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, and Hanna Lyle Chapman 37, a local neighbor, intend to wed after obtaining a license in Salt Lake City. Dempsey has been married twice before, and he was born in West Virginia, later moving with his family to Colorado and Utah.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
Hiram Dempsey
Jack Dempsey
Hanna Lyle Chapman
Dempsey
Cecilia Dempsey
West Virginia
Manassa
Colo
Aater
Chapman
John T. Lythgoe
Bloody Trail Left by Bandits in Florida Chase
Four bandits two men and two women were captured in a swamp near Mulat Florida after a daylong pursuit by a 200 strong posse led by Sheriff’s deputies. The group named Dex Hayes Bert Oglesby Mabel Wertz and Fay Harris were brought to Milton jail after last night’s escape in a auto mobie frame.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milton
Fla
Florida
Mulat
W. H. Cobb
Santa Rosa County
Dex Hayes
Bert Oglesby
Mabel Wertz
Fay Harris
Cobb
Radio City to be a city within New York
Plans announced for a $250 million midtown complex bounded by Fifth and Sixth avenues, 48th Street and 51st Street. Rockefeller Jr leads construction with S L Rothafel as first "mayor" and a 68 story center housing NBC studios and two 45 story skyscrapers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Radio City
Heart OF
New York
Uch
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Une
5Th Avenue
6Th Avenue
48Thtreet
51St Street
S. L. Rothafel Roxy
The
National Broadcasting Company
Torrid Battle of Words Between Crump and Gov Horton
Nashville dispatch details a heated political feud as Congressman Edward Crump and Governor Henry Horton trade impeachments and sharp retorts. Crump labels Horton insipid while Horton accuses Crump of lying and seeks to shield his administration amid a legislative probe into fiscal affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shelby Ross
Gov. Horton
Nashville
Tenn
Edward H. Crump
Henry H. Horton
Shelby County
Weather Outlook for Tennessee and Virginia
Rain and warmer conditions expected in Tennessee with rain tonight and Saturday morning. Virginia shows increasing clouds, coast rain, interior rain or snow late tonight and Saturday, with little temperature change. Readings taken at 6 p.m. by T. C. Harris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee
Northeast
West
Virginia
T. C. Harris
U.S.W.O
Hoover Plans Brief Asheville Visit With Son
President Hoover, freed from congressional duties, plans a quick trip to Asheville North Carolina to see his convalescent son Herbert Jr. The visit may include Mrs Hoover and would provide one day in the Carolina resort before he returns to work Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Son
North Carolina
Washington
Hoover
Asheville
Herbert, Jr
Rapidan
Carolina
Mr. Hoover
Peru’s new junta seizes power in Lima coup
In Lima a group of army officers toppled the civil military junta. Lieutenant Colonel Gustavo Jiminez became head of the new regime after deposing provisional president Lieutenant Colonel Luis M. Sanchez Cerro. Jiminez promised elections and constitutional return, while Sanchez Cerro prepared to depart for Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lima
Peru
Gustavo Jiminez
Arequipa
Luis M. Sanchez Cerro
Jiminez
Sanchez Cerro
Country Club
Europe
Britain has new political party in Britain
London March 6 AP report details Lady Cynthia Mosley lecturing at Farrington Hall where her husband Oswald Mosley’s new party gains attention. She warns of a national crisis by proposing governance by a five man board. She criticizes Conservatives Liberals and Labor. She faces another audience tonight at Trent demanding her resignation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Cynthia Mosley
Oswald
Farrington Hall
Marquis Curzon
Levi Leiter
Chicago
House of Commons
Britain
Labor Party
Trent
Immediate Prosecution Demanded in Ramsey Case
Tennessee legislative investigators pressed for the arrest of J Basil Ramsey former president of Holston Union National Bank and Holston Trust in Knoxville as they returned to Nashville to press for more trace of the loss of state funds. Senator Hal Clements spoke of charges including larceny embezzlement and fraudulent breach of trust and the committee planned further actions with the bank’s receiver who refused to open records. The session adjourned without testimony on the Knoxville bank failures with plans to reconvene in Nashville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knoxville
Tenn
J. Basil Ramsey
Holston Union National Bank
Holston Trust Company
Legislative Investigating Committee
Hal Clements
Clements
F. Curtis Allen
Santa Claus
Senator Clements
Nashville
Broken Holston Union National Bank
Florida
Holston-Union National Bank
Commonwealth of Tennessee
Walter Faulkner
Walter Haynes
Scott Fitzhugh
Harley G. Fowler
Federal Comprelier of Currency
Ramsey
Faulkner
Also Mentioned on This Page
Co Ad
Myrtle Bennett
Wordeo
Mal S. Daugherty
Harry M. Daugherty
Washington Court House, O
Ohio State Bank
Pensacola
Gulf Coast
Murat
Empire State Building
R. K. O. Vaudeville Theatre
R. K. O. Motion Picture Theatre
Metropolitan Opera Company
R. Fuleton Cutting
Horton
Memphis
Crump
NEW Group
Husband
Holston
Ralph Wheatley
Associated Press
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!