Mysterious Malady Baffles Kingsport Doctors
Dr. E. L. Bishop visits Kingsport as seven local cases of a partial paralysis like illness draw state health department scrutiny. Physicians refuse to name a cause pending Johnson City investigations, with Dr. F. L. Moore saying the disease is not believed contagious. Case count remains seven in the area, amid ongoing inquiry by state epidemiologists awaiting results.
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Kingsport
Johnson City
State Department of Health
F. L. Moore
Sullivan County Health Unit
G. G. Keener
Elizabethton
Doctor probes paralysis outbreak in northeastern Tennessee
Dr. E L Bishop head of the Tennessee state health department pushes an investigation into a paralysis outbreak affecting 138 people in northeastern Tennessee. He issued a statement saying the illness resembles multiple neuritis but whether infection or chemical toxaemia caused it remains undetermined. Continued on page two.
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Johnson City
Tenn
Mar
E. L. Bishop
Tennessee State Health Department
Tennes
Bishop
Gandhi Leads Civil Disobedience March to Jalalpur
Mahatma Gandhi and 79 disciples begin a 20 day march from Ahmedabad toward Jalalpur as crowds gather at his quarters. The first act of the civil disobedience campaign against British rule, announced by the All India National Congress in Lahore, aims to dismantle British authority through peaceful defiance. The march includes 16 saffron-marked Gujarat University students acting as an advance guard amid fears Gandhi might be arrested.
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Ahmadabad
India
Great Britain
Mahatma Gandhi
Jalalpur
Pioneer Party
All-India National Congress
Lahore
Asali
Bareja
Gujerat Vieyapit
Grandh’s National University
Gandhi
Lord Irwin
Auto travel in Tennessee heaviest in August
March 12 AP Automobile travel in Tennessee is heaviest in August and lightest in February per the department of finance and taxation. In August 1929 gas tax collections totaled $1,017,928.70. Since 1923 August has been the peak month for gasoline tax receipts, funding highway construction. Tax history shows 2 cents in 1923, then 3 cents in 1925, and 5 cents in 1929 with growing annual receipts. Three-fifths of receipts fund general highway, one-fifth county road bonds, one-fifth maintenance of secondary roads.
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Finance and Taxation Department
Nashville
Tennessee
Department of Finance and Taxation
Department
General Highway Fund
Weather sketch for Tennessee and Virginia regions
Readings indicate fair and warm weather across Tennessee with increasing cloudiness tonight and Thursday, possible light rain, and a cooler Thursday night. Virginia shows fair conditions tonight with clouding and warmth later, followed by light rain and colder temperatures Thursday night, with fresh west winds decreasing to southwest by Thursday.
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Tennessee
West
Virginia
Tragedy in Elizabethton as mother slashes children
In Elizabethton Tennessee two young children Blanche nine and Fay six months were attacked by their mother Lillian Masengill who also killed her five year old son F D and herself. Doctors say Blanche and Fay are slightly improved after surgeons work on severed tracheae while the father Clyde Masengill prepares to bury his wife and son.
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Elizabethton
Tenn
Mar
Lillian Masengill
Blanche
Fay
Fay Masengill
Clyde Masengill
F. D
TOSSED TO DEATH IN TENNESSEE BRIDGE INCIDENT
In Loudon Tennessee Leenyder and Buck Williams were jailed on charges linked to the death of Roy Schrimp shire a 25 year old whose body was found on a railroad track under a bridge A preliminary hearing testified that Schrimp shire was knocked from the bridge by attackers.
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Loudon
Tenn
Leenyder
Buck Williams
Roy Schrimpshire
Schrimpshire
Memorial Shaft For Taft Tomb Fulfills Tribute Tradition
Taft memorial shaft to mark his tomb in Arlington National Cemetery chosen by Mrs. Taft and the Taft children. The marker will be simple yet imposing with an inscription honoring the late president and chief justice. Full honors included gun salutes and a dignified funeral procession as the body was laid to rest.
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Washington
Mar
William Howard Taft
Taft
Arlington National Cemetery
Doheny Bribery Trial Under Way
Edward L. Doheny, affluent oil operator, faces bribery charges for allegedly giving $100,000 to Albert B. Fall to secure a lease to Elk Hills naval reserve. Judge Hitz overruled double jeopardy claim as jury pool is instructed to prepare for a possible several weeks of testimony. Fall was previously convicted of accepting the bribe.
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Washington
Mar
Edward L. Doheny
Albert Ball
Harding
Justice Hitz
Doheny
Fall
Elk Hills Oil Naval Reserve
Frank J. Mogan
Embezzlement Charges Filed Against Bank Officials
Montgomery Alabama President and cashier of the defunct First National Bank of Tallahassee faces charges of embezzling 250 856 07 dollars.
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Montgomery
Ala
First National Bank of
Victim Refuses to Name After Auto Crash
A man about 40 lies in Marsh Clinic Hospital after being struck by a Dodge sedan driven by Ed Smith of Rogersville. He refuses to identify himself. police, hospital staff, and reporters are unable to learn his name. No ID found. the accident occurred on the Lee Highway near Riverview Hospital. the man’s injuries are serious but not life threatening.
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Marsh Clinic
Riverview
Ed Smith
Rogersville
Old Riverview Hospital
Lee Highway
Hos
Pital
Smith
Kingsport
Rotherwood
Texas Blonde Wins Title America's Sweetheart in Miami
Miss Janet Eastment a 20 year old Fort Worth Texas blonde won the first annual Miami Bathing Beauty Pageant earning 2500 dollars and a Rio de Janeiro trip to represent the United States in an international beauty contest She stands five feet six inches tall and weighs 120 pounds.
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Miami
Fla
Janet Fastment
Fort Worth
Texas
Eastment
Rio de Janeiro
United States
Veteran Hangs Self in Johnson City Jail
AP reports Hiram Thompson, 34, of the National Soldiers Home, was found dead by hanging in Johnson City city jail after being arrested for drunkenness. Police Chief W. L. Fleming announced the death, noting the body hung from a woven belt tied to an iron window bar. Thompson, a single man, came from Mt. Vernon Indiana in 1927.
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Johnson City
Tenn
Hiram Thompson
National Soldiers Home
W. L. Fleming
Thompson
Mt. Vernon
Ind
Edward F. Albee Taken by Death
Edward F. Albee, pioneer showman who with B. F. Keith built a continental vaudeville theater chain, died of a heart attack in Palm Beach at 72. He had been ill at times but felt well before dying in his hotel room. Body to be moved to New York. funeral plans to be arranged. He rose from P. T. Barnum days to helm major show houses and employed stars such as Fred Stone Al Jolson and George M. Cohan.
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Palm Beach
Fla
Edward F. Albee
B. F. Keith
Mr. Albee
New York
P. T. Barnum
Fred Stone
al Jolson
George Cohan
Two Pilots Killed Near Mostar Airdrome
Two Yugoslav pilots die when their military aircraft breaks up in mid air near Belgrade. The craft crashes from about 300 feet, catching fire and burning after the collision.
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Belgrade
Jugoslavia
Mar
Mostar
France to Stand Pat on Demands in Navy Talks
London dispatch reports naval experts from United States Great Britain and France met at St James Palace to resolve the disarmament crisis sparked by French tonnage demands. U S and Britain resisted France’s call for a security pact in return for naval cuts as they analyzed figures for a 724000 ton fleet while A V Alexander Rene Massigli Jacques Louis Dumesnil Dwight W Morrow J Theodore Marriner and Harold C Train participated.
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London
United States
Great Britain
France
St. James’ Palace
A. V. Alexander
Admiralty
Rene Massigli
Jacques Louis Dumesnil
Marine
Dwight W. Morrow
J. Theodore Marriner
Harold C. Train
Prohibition Supporters Hear Women's Testimony On 18th Amendment
A group of women testified before the House judiciary committee in support of keeping Prohibition and the 18th Amendment. Led by Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, they argued wets failed to offer workable repeal solutions and highlighted statements from Mrs. Henry Ford and Mrs. Thomas A. Edison. Notables included Mrs. Vic Donahey and Mrs. Jesse W. Nicholson.
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Washington
Mar
Friends of Prohibition
House Judiciary Committee
Womanhood of America
Henry W. Peabody
Beverly
Mass
Woman’s National Committee For Law Enforcement
Congress
Henry Ford
Thomas A. Edison
Detroit
Vic Donahey
Ohio
Orrin R. Judd
Council of Women For Home Mission
Jesse W. Nicholson
Chevy Chase
Maryland
National Woman's Democratic Law Enforcement Committee
John
Laborites Remain in Power Despite Mine Bill
London March 12 AP Ally despite an eight vote House of Commons defeat on an amendment to the coal mines bill the labor government of J Ram say MacDonald will not resign and will continue in office. The division 282 to 274 prompted questions on a censure motion by Stanley Baldwin with MacDonald stating he would accept the decision if his party votes for censure two days hence.
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London
House of Commons
J. Ramsay MacDonald
MacDonald
Baldwin
Daily Herald
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C. L. Bunn
Philadelphia
Pinchot
Arlington
Sylvan Nook
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Hoover
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Marine Corps
Washington Monument
Broad
Potomac
Fall Convicted
Social Bloc
Prohibition
H. W. Peabody
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