Maiden proposals lift speed limit on highways in state
Nashville reports executive highway committee actions on highway bills including proposed rise of speed limit from 30 to 40 miles per hour. Lendon Maiden and Rep John Cowley favor lifting limits while cautions on enforcement by police. Bus taxation and regulation bills discussed. multiple revenue schemes proposed under rail and public utilities commission. Miss Mignon Be Fouderer, 13, a composer, to have four songs performed at a Sunday concert in New York theatre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Solons
Finance, Ways and Means
Sam R. Bratton
Lendon Maiden
John Cowley
Lincoln
C. Neal Bass
Bass
New York
Mignon BE. Fouderer
Army Lieutenant Killed by Auto in Atlanta
Lieutenant Waldo Ickes, 33, of the United States Army, was struck and killed by a sedan while crossing near Poachtree Place in Atlanta. An unidentified person summoned an ambulance to Grady Hospital. A nearby resident heard the driver exclaim I killed a man and drive away. Ickes, a Cullman Alabama native, served in the demyinance section of the fourth corps staff. survived by a widow.
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Atlanta
Waldo Ickes
United States Army
Poachtree Place
Grady Hospital
Army
Ickes
Goowidow
Cullman
Alabama
Fouth Corps
Father Sought in Slayings of Two Children in Gary
Walter Scholl a former convict and realty broker is hunted as police probe the killings of his eight year old daughter Vivian and her six year old brother Donald. Bodies found in an abandoned Gary house after his wife Margaret raised fears. Police fear he may have fled or killed himself joining a national search with leads to Pittsburgh and St Louis.
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Ghicago
Walter
Scholl
Vivian
Donald
Gary
Ind
Margaret
Scholl Hadeen
F Donald
Schall
Walter Schall
Pittsburgh
Charles Scholl
Three Robbery Suspects Caught In Pittsburgh Case
Police say three suspects in the Pittsburgh terminal payroll robbery have been arrested with one confessing after a fake telegram. About $30,000 of the stolen $36,000 was recovered near Bentleyville on a farm belonging to Joseph Weeoski, linked to a suspect named Jawroski. Detroit authorities report another arrest as the gang reportedly fled there. Authorities continue farm searches as extradition plans unfold.
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Pittsburgh
Morell
Pittsburch Terminal Coal Company
Detroit
Bentleyville
Penna
Joseph Weeoski
Joseph Jawroski
Jawroski
Weeoski
Weedski
Pennsylvania
Labor Increase Seen Across Industries in February Report
February labor bureau review shows slight employment gains in major industries across Tennessee with textile, lumber, stone, glass, clay, chemical, metal and furniture plants hiring more workers. Some sectors, including iron and steel and coal mining, reported reductions. Building activity remains high and state road construction prep promises unskilled job opportunities. farm labor demand is very light.
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Louisville
Mareh
Tennessee
Federal Labor Bureau
Textile Industrie
State Highway Department
Flour mill destroyed in Hopkinsville fire
A major fire destroyed the Acme Flour Mills plant and warehouse in Hopkinsville Kentucky today. Estimated loss reaches 500000 dollars. The mill, with a 1000 barrel per day capacity, housed 400 workers. A nearby radio station building sustained no damage.
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Hopkinsville
Acme
Lita Grey Chaplin Returns to Films for Livelihood
Los Angeles March 16. Lita Grey Chaplin, denied 4,000 a month alimony from Charles Chaplin, says she will reenter movies within two weeks. She stresses the move is for her livelihood and not a settlement demand, aiming to secure support for her children for five to twenty five years.
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Lita Grey Chaplin
Los Angeles
Calif
Mercury Lights
Hollywood
Charles Chaplin
Beverely Hills
Chaplin
Southern forest regions urged for steady production
In Nashville Tennessee March 16 forester R B Maddox urged the production of forests to market them stressing continuous stands of timber as essential to conservation and economic growth. He noted the south hosts two major forest regions the southern pine belt and the hardwood district and said continuous production is the key to supplying lumber for industry. State foresters federal service and business leaders will attend a conference led by Col W B Greely to discuss management and sustained yields.
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Nashvilee
Tenn
Maddox
Auittu
Mississippi River
Congress
North Carolina
Atlantic
Gulf
North
Federal Service
Col
W. B. Greely
United States
The
Forest Service
Negroes in West Palm Beach Flock to Postal Savings
A long line of African Americans gathered at the West Palm Beach post office to make heavy withdrawals from the postal savings department amid rumors that the government was going broke. The scene reflects widespread concern in negro sections over national financial stability as March 16 reports circulated locally.
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West Palm.beach, Fla
United States Post Office
Postal Savings Department
Weather snippet reports mixed Virginia and Tennessee forecasts
Fragmented weather data notes fair conditions across Virginia with slight warmth in the west tonight and Thursday. Tennessee forecast lists fair skies, warmer temps, then increasing clouds and mild readings. Data attributed to a local weather station, with inconsistent timestamps and figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia
Jin West
Tennessee
Opening Of Ford Trial Is Delayed
Detroit March 16 The opening of today's session of the $1,000,000 libel suit against Henry Ford was delayed by a conference of Judge Fred M Raymond Senator James A Reed Ford counsel and William Henry Gallagher attorney for Aaron Sapiro plaintiff Possibilities of a compromise or settlement were denied by Sapiro An hour after court was due to open the conference was still in progress
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Detroit
Henry Ford
Fred M. Raymond
James A. Reed
Ford
William
Henry Gallagher
Aaron
Sapiro
Mail Carriers Lead Drive for Better Roads
Cleveland Tenn March 16 The rural free delivery carriers of the state plan a drive on the legislature to add a 2 cent gasoline tax to fund road improvements. The push, announced at the post office after a carriers meeting of the third district in Athens, aims to enlist doctors as supporters, citing winter road conditions and funding needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Tenn
Athens
Moriey
Wife of Martin Durkin is Granted a Divorce
Irma Sullivan Durkin of Cornell Illinois has been granted a divorce from Martin Durkin the Chicago gunman now serving a prison term for the murder of a federal officer at Pontiac. The decree allows her to resume her maiden name.
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Bloomington
Tis
Irma’ Sullivan -Durkin
Cornell
Ills
Giri
Martin Durkin
Chicago
Pontiac
Senator King will not attempt Haiti visit
Senator William H. King of Utah will not enter Haiti after the Dominican government barred admission The announcement came as he arrived in Santo Domingo from Puerto Rico and indicated no plans to pursue a Haiti trip at this time
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King
Haiti
Santo ‘Domingo
Dominican Republic
William
H. King
Utah
Porto Rico
Bank cashier Ashby jailed over eight thousand shortage
John M. Ashby, cashier of the Peoples Bank of Stafford, remained in jail on a charge of being short $8,000 in his accounts. Directors sought state bank examiners to assume the charge temporarily, claiming Ashby’s $10,600 bond would cover the shortage.
Motor Bus Association Urges Flat Tax on Highways Vehicles
NEW YORK March 16 CAP Clarence Darrow lauded hospitals replacing prisons arguing crime stems from poverty and hate. He urged a jury to decide guilt without sentencing and proposed medical isolation under a humane board to cure offenders, if funds shifted from punishment to prevention.
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New York
Clarence Darrow
West Side‘Unitarian Church
Tax per seat proposed by Nashville bus interests
Nashville March 16 Representatives of the Tennessee Motor Carriers Association and other bus operators asked the finance ways and means committee for a flat tax of 10 per seat on motor carriers using highways to provide revenue and avoid inequities from the existing scale. Accountants and tax professionals urged against the new levies, while dealers asked for rate reductions. Frank Hall asked for three auditors and county records funding, as counties had paid few privilege taxes under the 1925 law. Ben Irish, Papyrus English derby wig maker, died in London.
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Superintendent of Taxation
Commissionty of Finance and Taxation
States Attorney General
State Railroad and Public Utilities Commission
Nashville
Tent
Tennessee” Motor Carriers Association
Finance, “Ways and Means
Feho
Chargit
Funk
Frank Hall
Greeneville jail breaker is caught by deputies
Frank Luttrell, one of seven escapees from the federal jail in Greeneville, Tenn, was captured near Johnson City by Deputy Marshal Pat Davis after a mile‑a‑minute chase. The capture leaves five escapees at large. Luttrell had ties to a string of box car robberies on the Southern Railway and had been sentenced in state court with federal sentencing pending.
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Times
Greeneville
Tenn
Frank Luttrell
Johnson City
Larg
Schaepps
Atlante
Marshall Pat Davis
Johnson Ty
Pattee
Southern Railway
Alfred Grice
Yates Webb
William
McDonald
Buford
Roberts
Abie
Casteel
Robbers blow vault in southwest Missouri town
Eight robbers overpowered the Springfield night watchman and two passersby then blew open the vault of the Bank of Billings in Billings Missouri twenty miles southwest of Springfield. They escaped with about 35000 in cash and bonds valued at twenty to twenty thousand dollars.
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Sprngfield
Bank of Billings
Billings
Here
John Erskine Ill in New York
John Erskine head of English at Columbia University and author of The Private Life of Helen of Troy and Gallahad is seriously ill at his home with ten silitis and complications. In Manila over 1,000 cigar makers struck after 510 workers were dismissed. strikers demand rehiring of those workers.
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John Erskine
New York
Department of English
Columbia Universit
Helen
Troy
Gallahad
Manila
Man Rescued After Entombment in 70 Foot Well
Ashworth descended to clean a well and a section of the wall gave way trapping him about 40 feet down. After 13 hours entombed, rescuers pulled him free exhausted but not injured. The incident followed a collapse that left only a small shaft of light. Continued on page four.
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Ashworth
Shim
Weepah Holding More Gold Seekers Plunge In Storm
In Tonopah Nevada on March 16 a surge of gold seekers rushed to Barrel Springs five miles south of Weepah as news of a Barvel Springs discovery spread. About 200 men and women crossed a mountain storm to stake claims, while gale force winds and 15 degree heat drove the Goldfield Hotel windows from their frames. Desert travelers compared the weather to the Yukon trail, recalling Sourdough tales from Arizona.
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Tonqpah
Nev
Weenah
Barvel
Springs
Sam
McGee
Tennessee
Yukon
Barrel Springs
Goldfield
Arizona
Yukon Trail
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Maiden
Legislative Highway Committee
Legislative Highway Investigating Committee
D. P. Bramley
Carroll County
Walter Scholl
U. S
Probia
London
Chang
Kiangsu
Shanghai
South
Imore Production
C. Lis Bunn
Urderyoss
Reed
Motor Bus
Association
Darrow
Hospital For Prison
Ben Irish
Papyrus
Derby Winker
Weepah
Nevada City
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