Browning Foes Are Kicked Out In Board Setup
The State Board of Elections reorganized to favor Governor Browning. Abe Waldauer, Memphis, protested removal of leadership. Lee F. Ware Jackson named chairman. J. B. Miller Clarksville made secretary. Proceedings hinted at ousting Shelby County Election Commission members.
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Nashville
State Board of Elections
Browning
Abe Waldauer
Memphis
E. H. Crump
Lee F. Ware
Jackson
Reed Sharp
J. B. Miller
Clarkaville
Shelby County
GM Memphist Election Commission
Lytle McKee
Joe Thompson
Ross Mathews
Tom Taylor
Athens
Waldauer
Supreme Court
Taylor
Robert T. Johnson
Elizabethton
Sharp
Walda
Johnson
Ware
Miler
Weather Outlook Tennessee Kentucky Virginia
Fair and colder with light frost tonight. Friday brings fair and warmer conditions. In Kentucky expect fair conditions tonight and Friday with colder tonight and warmer Friday. Virginia remains generally fair and colder tonight with Friday turning fair and warmer.
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Tennessee
Kentucky
Virginia
Better Judiciary Revenue Push Takes Center Stage in Virginia
Richmond reports the legislative advisory council's program to strengthen the judiciary by raising judges salaries and retirement benefits was moved as a noon special order. the bills, costing about 100000 a year, passed the senate amid opposition citing urgent needs in old age assistance and teachers retirement. In Washington, a revenue hunt continued as Congress eyed restoring a deleted levy on closely held corporations and exploring liquor tax and fuel oil levies to offset 30 to 45 million dollars in lost revenue.
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Richmond
Legislative Advisory Council
Judiciary
Virginia
House
Senate
Washington
Congress
Laney
Ways and Means Committee
Robertson
D.va
Representative Plannery
D.-Pa
Murder Trial for Youth Continues in Henderson
In Henderson North Carolina on March 10 the state pressed witnesses in the murder trial of 83 year old Clarence Fairbanks charged with fatally hacking his employer Steve Good of Cason with an axe after a quarrel over a multicolored bird. Deputy Joe Mitchell testified Fairbanks confessed to killing Good and injuring Mrs Good following the attack. Good, operator of a traveling miniature citrus venture, died at his trailer home on January 16. Mrs Good was badly injured but survived.
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Henderson
N.C
Clarence Epirbanks
Steve Good
Cason
Tox
Joe Mitchel
Fairbanks
Good
BEC
Mitchell
Pasrbansks
Bank Night Awards Honor Without Cash For 1937 Cinema
Hollywood prepares for a gala Bank Night in Los Angeles as 15 000 Academy voters tally ballots for 1937 cinema honors. Five actresses and five directors vie for the two best actor and actress statuettes drawn from a 10 name field. Greta Garbo and rivals expected to attend. Luise Rainer and Janet Gaynor are past winners.
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Angeles
Glory
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Greta Garbo
Sigtuette
Szwede Ig
Italy
Leopold Storkowski
Luise Rainer
Janet Gaynor
Irene ‘Duine
Barbara Stanwyck
Garbo
Fredric Mar
Paul Muni
Spencer Traty
Hoapital
Robert Stone
College Cleared in Pupil's Death
Raleigh March 10. Coroner L M Waring ruled NC State College not responsible for the electrocution death of 21 year old Philip Winslow of Greenville. The inquest found Winslow died performing a dancing stunt while climbing a pole with a live wire. Witness Ed Pugh said Winslow touched the wire while checking for an approaching train. Winslow was not undergoing initiation when he died. his father E Winslow headed the Farm Bureau Federation.
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Raleigh
D. C
L. M. Waring
N.C State College
Philip EB
Greenville
Winslow
Ed Pugh
Elizabeth City
Young Winslow
E. Winslow
Farm Bureau Federation
Blum Accepts Mandate to Form Cabinet in France
Paris reports Leon Blum accepted President Lebrun’s mandate to form a new cabinet after Camille Chautemps resigned. Blum, head of the first People’s Front government, pledged a stable coalition with Socialist backing and Communist support, while Parliament debates powers for emergency finances amid economic strain and rearmament costs.
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Paris
Leon Blum
Lewislist
Albert Lebrin
Camille Chautemps
Chautemps
Bowers
Blum
First People's Front
Elysee Palce
Lebrun
Blam
Socialist Party
People’s Front
Leorun
France
Germany
Europe
Sti
Coautemps
Senate
Roosevelt urges study of national water plan
President Roosevelt presents to Congress a comprehensive national resources report for water conservation and development. He urges careful study for a democratic regional framework and cites his 1937 veto of a broad flood control plan that ignored local planning.
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Washington
March
Roosevelt
Congress
National Resources Committee
Senate
Spies Face Death in Soviet Treason Trial
Moscow reports say prosecutors outlined charges against 21 defendants in a major treason trial. Andrei Vishinsky prepared a death-by-shooting demand as the court convened to consider alleged conspiracies involving British, Polish, German, and Japanese agents and medical murders linked to political intrigue.
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Moscow
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Vishinsky
Great Britain
Poland
Germany
Japan
Sheriff Faces Ouster in City Court Battle
March 16 petition filed by Attorney L C Ely and Justice WW H Southern seeks to oust Sheriff I Carroll Cate from office in civil court. Also reports street fights in Vienna and Graz injuring at least 40 as political strife intensifies ahead of Sunday's plea.
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Knorvicle
L.C. Ely
Justice of the Peace
HM. H. Southern
Ciiewl Court
I Carroll Cate
Vienna
Graz
Plebiscite Tensions Roil Vienna Amid Austrian Crisis
Street clashes erupt as Nazi and Fatherland Front factions clash over Chancellor Schuschnigg policy for a Sunday referendum on Austria independence. Police mobilized. Vienna's old calm gives way to tensions with crowds, arrests, and calls for support of Schuschnigg.
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Schuschnigg
Austria
Hitler
Riaing
Senate
Germany
Kaerntnerstrasse
Front
Palize
Richard Schmitz
Guido Zernatto
Franz von Papen
Kitebuen
Berlin
France
Hapsburg
Probe May Show Cause of Failure
The U S attorney and District Attorney Dewey joined a probe into the collapse of Richard Whitney and Co a leading Wall Street brokerage led by Richard Whitney five NYSE presidents. Assistant State Attorney General Ambrose V McCall will assist in any criminal aspects and Gregory F Noonan says a grand jury presentation will begin with cooperation from Bankruptcy Referee Irwin Kurle and others.
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New York
U. S. Attorney's Office
Thomas E. Dewey
Richard Whitney and Company
Wall Street
Richard Whitney
New York Stock Exchange
Dewey
Ambrose V. McCall
McCell
Grand Juty
Gregory F. Noonan
Federal Prosecutor's
Brien McMahon
U. & Attorney General
Washington
Federal Grand Jury
Irwin Kurle
Babylon mother charged with murder in two child deaths
Police say Margarette E Thomson admitted smothering her two children Katherine aged three and Harry five months in Babylon XN. She called police and is held without bail for the grand jury on a first degree murder charge.
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Margarette E. Thomson
Babylon
Katherine
Harry
Re routed plane forced to ground after emergency landing
Officials of the American Airlines at McKellar Airport said a sleeper plane with seven passengers and its crew was rerouted and forced to land near Richlands North Carolina due to adverse weather. None of the ten aboard were injured in the field landing.
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American Airlines
McKellar
Richlands
N. C
East Tennessee
Associated Press
Deybreal
Reduction in CCC Camps Ordered
Washington dispatch reports Civilian Conservation Corps director Robert Fechner ordered a reduction of 4 291 camps by July 1 to meet the 1939 budget. About 1,216 camps remain with 10 to close by October 31. roughly 3,000 camp officers and civilian officials will be dismissed while enlisted personnel stay to be reassigned. Abandonment to begin likely in May as the final quarter program maintains 266,000 trainees and veterans.
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Washington
Robert Fechner
Civilian Conservation Corps
Feshner
Fechner
Ickes Reveals Plan In Letter From Willkie
Secretary Ickes publicizes a letter accusing Wendell Willkie of asking the Public Works Administration to conspire with him to delay a $1500000 TVA related municipal power project in the Tennessee Valley. He cites Willkie’s meetings and demands to halt PWA work and press TVA negotiations.
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Washington
Ickes
Wendell L. Willkie
Commonwealth and Southern
Public Works Administration
Tennessee Valley
Watkins Overton
Memphis
PWA
Willkie
David E. Lilienthal
TVA
Chattanooga
Liligathal
Overton Pwa
Willie
Norris
Tennessee Valley Authority
Federal Trade Commission
Bridges
N.H
King
Utah
Garner
New Hampshire
Arrest Bela Kun End of Terrorist Era Rumor
News from New York reports that Bela Kun, infamous figure linked to communist terror, is believed imprisoned in Russia, ending decades of fear as European capitals grow calmer. Details suggest the Moscow treason trial reinforced the escapee’s confinement.
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Dewitt MacKenzie Assuluten Brown
Affaire Welter
New York
Moscow
Belm Kun
Jsp
Bela Kun
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