Soviet anti church terror erupts on border villages
Reports from Romanian border villages said Soviet troops shot women defending churches in a bloody Sunday. Witness accounts describe church wrecking and villagers resistance as 300 women faced fire near Taslak Kuzani. Other reports claim fifteen peasants including women were killed at Buturaga while defending crosses. Some Ukrainians tried to flee across the Dnestr by hiding in barrels then crossing.
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Bucharest
Rumania
Mar
Taslak
Kuzani
Nihamteazu
Holy Cross
Buturaga
Schlotlaga
Dneister
Night club closed in Memphis after raid
Memphis reports Sheriff W J Bacon closed the Famous Inn night club for a week after finding 30 or more high school boys and girls inside Saturday night with many drinking liquor. A fight sparked the raid. no arrests were made. Officers will monitor for further disorder upon reopening.
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Memphis
Mar
W. J. Bacon
Treasury receipts and expenditures report for March
Treasury receipts on March 18 stood at 37,042,396.15 with expenditures of 34,456,004.35 and a balance of 738,809,064.71. Customs duties for the first 18 days of March totaled 13,026,027.52.
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Treasury
Washington
Mar
Flashes of Life from a Jail and a Trial
Cecil Thompson, once a base runner for Michigan Reformatory convicts, seeks a team spot at the state prison. Judge Vanderwerp sentences Thompson to seven and a half years in Jackson for larceny. In Baltimore, Joseph Der Guardis argues the state overreaches by arresting him for selling a Bible on Sunday.
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Associated Press
Muskegon
Mich
Michigan Reformatory
Cecil Thompson
Vanderwerp
Thompson
Jackson
Baltimore
Joseph der Guardis
Justice of the Peace Fines 72 Prisoners After Raid
State troopers raided a Schenectady gambling house and brought 72 prisoners to Mrs. Mittie Benedict home. Benedict, a justice of the peace, fined each according to her judgment, then released them after they paid. She joked that an extra minute would have burned the potatoes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schenectady
Emperor Haile Selassie Dines On Gold Service
Addis Ababa reports that the Abyssinian emperor Haile Selassie uses a solid gold dinner set for royal meals on special occasions. For lesser events he employs solid silver service, while braves at "raw meat" dinners dine without any dishes.
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Addis Ababa
Haile Selassie of
Abyssinia
Movie Stars Intrigue Washington Politico Banquet
Celebrities draw attention at the Motion Picture Theater Owners banquet in Washington. Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas and Vice President Charles Curtis listen to June Collyer while Claudette Colbert appears on cinema’s night stage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Senate
Joseph T. Rob
Inson
Arkansas
Charles Curtis
Washington
June Collyer
Claudette Colbert
Tense Hocking Valley unrest as miners clash with guards
In Athens Ohio on March 21 1946 a wage dispute between operators and about 7000 miners in the Hocking Valley coalfields flared into violence. Ohio National Guard units stood ready after Gov. George White demanded an end to lawlessness under martial law. Early morning mass meetings drew over 1000 striking miners at Millfield while guards sheriff deputies watched. Agitators were blamed for the disorder with telephone lines cut hindering communications.
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Athens
Mar
Hocking Valley
Ohio National Guard
Geo. White
Sunday Creek Coal Company
Millfield
Lick Rune
Hocking and Athens Coal Company
Frank D. Henderson
Athens County
Chauncey
Weather Forecast Tennessee and Virginia
Tennessee expects showers and thunderstorms tonight ending Tuesday morning with much colder conditions by Tuesday, especially in the west. Virginia sees occasional rain tonight and Tuesday with warmer readings, especially in the east central portion. Temperatures yesterday were 74 high and 39 low with no rain on either date. Readings taken at 6 00 p m daily for the preceding 24 hours by T C Harris USWO.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee
West Portion
Virginia
T. C. Harris
U.S.W.O
Spring Weather Ends Freak Year Across the Nation
A powerful winter storm disrupted the nation from the Atlantic to the Rockies. Snow fell heavily along the East Coast and into the Midwest, with Chicago and Cleveland blanketed by morning snow. Four missing in a Colorado Springs area car incident and utilities report damage in Los Angeles as spring arrives amid unsettled skies.
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Associated Press
Atlantic Seaboard
Rocky Mountains
California
Los Angeles
Colorado Springs
Colo
Philadelphia
Delaware
Chicago
Loop
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
Page Six
Jap Invaders Prepare For War As Peace Negotiated
Shanghai reports say peace talks under neutral observers continue while Japanese and Chinese negotiators seek an armistice. Front line work includes new trenches and barbed wire as Japan shortens lines west of Shanghai and makes a permanent defense near Chenyu and the Yangtze. A neutral commission may oversee withdrawal and administration of the Shanghai area.
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Shanghai
Mar
International
Tokyo
Nanking
Yangtze River
Shanghai- Nanking
Chenyu
Yangtze
International Settlement
Whangpoo River
Brazil Moves for New Constitution
Rio Grande do Sul abandons Vargas regime amid a crucial crisis as Getulio Vargas faces pressure to restore constitutional government. A Rio de Janeiro conference with Flores Da Cunha could decide the fate of the de facto regime and southern states' support.
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Buenos Aires
Brazil
Getulio Vargas
Rio Grande Do Sul
Vargas
Rio de Janeiro
Flores da Cunha
Porto Alegre
Rio
Sao Paulo
US Navy Orders Withdrawals From Shanghai Fleet
The US Navy withdraws six destroyers and six submarines from Shanghai, with destroyers to the Pacific coast next month and submarines to Hawaii. The Chaumont carrying the Thirty first Infantry from Manila resumes Manila to San Francisco sailing March 30, leaving the regiment behind. The Houston cruiser and Admiral Taylor stay at Shanghai with other small craft as the Asiatic squadron repositions.
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Washington
Mar
Shanghai
Pacific
Hawaii
Chaumont
Manila
San Francisco
China
Asiatic Squadron
Houston
Montgomery M. Taylor
Notes on Lindbergh baby case yield hoax and false leads
Police in Hopewell New Jersey report two carrier pigeon notes connected to the Lindbergh kidnapping were either a prank or unverified. One note tied to a dead pigeon was admitted as a prank by a Pennsylvania youth, the other allegedly in code found after a storm in Connecticut remains unconfirmed. Authorities continue investigations statewide with Henry Johnson held in Jersey City and likely to face federal immigration action.
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Hopewell
WN. J
New Jersey
Col
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
East Stroudsburg
Connecticut
United States
Jersey City
Henry Johnson
Lindbergh Baby Still Missing As Leads Multiply
In Hopewell New Jersey on March 21 reports flood in about sightings of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. Police maintain scrutiny on every baby that could match the abducted child and Mrs. Lindbergh answers calls. Despite many tips none have proven correct and the search continues with heightened checks on potential clues.
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Hopewell
N. J
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr
Lindbergh
Senator Bailey Faces Ouster Over 1930 NC Election
Washington March 21. A formal effort to oust Senator Bailey of North Carolina on fraud charges from the 1930 election will be presented to the senate election committee. The move raises to two the number of Democratic senators targeted for ouster. George M. Pritchard, defeated Republican candidate, also asks the committee to act. The subcommittee reports on Senator Bankhead of Alabama come before the group, with Republicans urging unseating and Democrats saying he was legally elected.
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Washington
Mar
Bailey
North Carolina
Senate Election Committee
George M. Pritchard
Bankhead
Alabama
Power question cited as top issue in 1932 campaign
Fifteen senators and 22 representatives signed a declaration that the power question would dominate this year’s presidential campaign. The statement, issued by Judson King of the National Popular Government League, includes signers from both parties and names Hoover as power trust president and Roosevelt and Garner in contrasting camps. Wheeler projected Roosevelt with broad West transfers and instructed delegates if nominated.
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Washington
Mar
Power Trust
Judson King
National Popular Government League
Johnson
Norris
Nye
Frazier
Brookhart
Cutting
Howell
Walsh
Montana
Wheeler
McKellar
Costigan
Dill
Gore
Long
Shipstead
Farmer-Labor
Hoover
Ritchie
Maryland
Newton D. Baker
Alfred E. Smith
Garner
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Congress
Roosevelt
New York
Chicago
Mississippi
South counts to dead in crashes across the South
The South logged ten fatalities in weekend motor vehicle crashes and one in an airplane crash. NC led with five deaths, GA three, VA two. Incidents include aviator Grayson S. Douglas killed in Columbia South Carolina, plus multiple automobile accidents in North and South Carolina and Georgia.
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Atlanta
South
North Carolina
Georgia
Virginia
Columbia
S. C
Grayson S. Douglas
John Spencer
Hubert Cameron
Greenville
Marshall
N. C
Lumberton
Mildred Inman
Mary White
Winston- Salem
Silvia
U. S. S. Idaho
Elizabeth City
Charles H. Denmark
Savannah
A. W. Adams
Valdosta
Meigs
Will Autrey
Experiment
Griffin
Jose Weis Southward
A. C. Farmer
Richmond
Fifteen Alleged Reds Nabbed in Raid at Tazewell Farm
TAZEWELL Tenn Mar 21 Fifteen men described by Sheriff Frank Riley as communist workers and organizers were arrested in a Powell valley farmhouse raid early Sunday on charges from disturbing the peace to carrying concealed weapons. Among those taken into custody were Tom Johnson a Kentucky Tennessee organizer and Silas Burge secretary of the Kentucky district of the International Labor Defense.
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Tazewell
Tenn
Mar
Frank Riley
Riley
Powel Valley
Tom Johnson
Silas Burge
Kentucky District of International Labor Defense
Renewed Attack Faces End of Truce on Sales Tax Measure
House leaders frantically pressed the revenue bill amid a weekend truce as opposition to the sales tax grows. Crisp forges amendments to exclude foods from taxation while LaGuardia pushes high income and stock tax proposals.
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Washington
Mar
House
Ways and Means Committee
Crisp
Rainey
Illinois
LaGuardia
N. Y
Congressional battle over million tax in petroleum imports
Atlantic coast lawmakers planned a fight against a proposed one cent per gallon levy on petroleum imports. New England members oppose the plan, saying it raises fuel costs for factories and homes. debate continues as Ways and Means weighs exemptions to the 2.25 percent manufacturers tax.
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Washington
Mar
Atlantic Coast
Representative Linthicum
Maryland
New England
Treasury
Ways and Means Committee
House
Laguardia
Rpublican
New York
Coughton
Democrat
North Carolina
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Curtis
White
Vergas
U. S
Hunt
Just
American Academy of Dramatic Arts
New York City
Marion Ball
Alliance, C
Charles Hopkins
Miss Ball
H. B. Ball
Mt Union College
Alliance
Carnegie: Institute of Technology
Senator Bailey
North
Caroline Solon
Solons
Tazewell, Tenn
Ilinois
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