Absence of Reece Highlighted in Nashville Trial
In Nashville March a trial of former State Insurance Commissioner J I Reece for larceny moved to argument stage after six weeks. Gov Hill McAlister testified as a rebuttal witness denying knowledge of a political agreement to divert bonds from the insurance department to fund his election. Seth Walker criticized the defendant’s statements as fabrications and noted Reece’s absence from the proceedings, while witnesses testified to Reece’s supposed involvement with the unadjusted back tax account and a 1932 conference.
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Nashville
B. Carroll Reece
J. I. Reece
Seth M. Walker
Criminal Court
Carroll Reece
Nathan L. Barhman
J. J. Lynch
Chattanooga
Insurance Department
Hill McAlister
Bachman
Lynch
McAlister
Verge
Walker
Waller
Reece
Blue Sky
Tenn
J.J. Reese
Johnson County
Dolingon City
Elizabethton
Reese
Reeves
Richard M. Atkinson
Seth Walker
Weather in Tennessee and Virginia Briefing
Fair and warmer in parts of Tennessee east while the west remains colder. Tonight, Thursday will be cloudy and colder with rain likely Thursday night, especially in the west. Virginia sees fair and warmer conditions tonight, then a cloudy and colder Thursday, with a high reading noted yesterday.
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Tennessee
West
Virginia
Harrison Leads Plan For Corporation Tax Reform
U Miss senator Ghani an Harrison proposes a one tenth of one percent levy on corporate capital stock to repeal nuisance taxes. He says corporations would value capital themselves but face penalties for undervaluation. If enacted, sales taxes on admissions candy gum and soft drinks might be repealed. He aims to report the bill for Senate action soon as the income tax rates pass.
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Washington
Ghanian Harrison
U-Miss
Senate
Congress
Harrison
House
Senate Banking Committee
Roosevelt
States clash over Georgia cheap license tags
Atlanta March 21 AP Georgia’s $2 auto mobile license plates trigger a regional dispute as seven states including Florida North and South Carolina Alabama Connecticut Louisiana and Mississippi challenge the tag policy. Georgia residents could buy the plates without residence proof, sparking enforcement actions and cross state legal tempers. The clash widens as neighboring states use 30 day rules to curb out of state plate use.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Eugene Talmadge
Union
District of Columbia
Florida
North
South Carolina
Alabama
Connecticut
Louisiana
Mississippi
United States
Talmddge
Tampa
Train wreck near Sverdlovsk leaves 33 dead
Moscow reports a head on collision between a local passenger train and a freight train near Savatui after a closed semaphore. Eight cars derailed as two locomotives were wrecked. Thirty three people died and 68 were injured in the incident, the fourth major railway disaster in a month.
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Moscow
Sverdlovsk
Russia
Miss Carr Found After 11 Day Lifeboat Atlantic Crossing
Catherine Teresa Carr, 24, Irish born in Belfast, survived an 11 day voyage in a feighter's lifeboat from Scotland to Canada after buying two loaves of bread in Glasgow. Found aboard the Sulaima near Halifax, she was frostbitten, weak, and hospitalized in Walspan, Nova Scotia, while immigration officers confirmed she had been detained for deportation in London Ontario years ago.
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Walspan
Nova Scotia
Catherine
Teresa Carr
Canada
Scotland
Donaldson Line
Swabia
Ehalee
Ile
Inmigration Detention Hospital
London
Glasgow
Belfast
Ireland
Halifax
Halifax Harbor
New Trails Found Spy Ring Activity
Paris March 21. French secret police intensify probe into the greatest spy wing, exposing documents seized yesterday from six arrests. Revelations hinge on American prisoners Robert Swilx and Marjorie. Judge Andre Benon orders deeper review as police anticipate up to 25 more arrests in the Am and British ramifications.
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Stuart Moroney
Associated Press
Paris
United States
England
France
Robert Swilx
Marjorie
Andre Benon
Wall of East Orange
N. J
New York
Ils Leen
Benon
Cince
Insull Revenue Puzzle Baffles Police In Chicago
March 21 AP report questions Samuel Insull's funds amid fading utility empire. Investigators seek whether payments or gifts financed his Athens mission and lawsuits. Tales place $200,000 delivered to Insull in Greece and millions in jewelry and deposits, while officials deny such transfers.
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Chicago
Samuel Iasull
Greece
Insull
Athens
Paris
People's Gas Light and Coke
Samuel Insull, Jr
Prance
Iie
New Plans Replace CWA Aims for Rural Relief Farms
Nashville March 21 Colonel Walter L Simpson state CWA administrator outlined today new plans to place rural unemployed on farm lands and to offer brief relief employment to needy urban workers The program retains the present CWA setup with added supervisory forces to manage farm operations and ensure compliance Some unemployed may work on individual plots or larger tracts landlords may offer homes and farming lands with purchase options The urban side provides short term work designed to quickly place needy residents into jobs Continued on page six.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
Walter L. Simpson
CWA
Simpson
Washington
GWA
Japan and United States Share On Peace Pact
Washington March 21 US and Japan sign mutually pledging peace notes. Hirota asserts no intent to provoke other powers while Hull states US aims to avoid conflicts. Notes released in Washington and Tokyo signal goodwill and potential talks on naval arms and trade.
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Japan
United States
Washington
Pacific
Koki Hirota
Roosevelt
Nippon
Hull
Far East
Soviet Russia
Hirota-Hull
Hirota
State Department
Tokyo
Hiroshi Saito
Pu Yi
China
Kang Teh
Manchukuo
Saito
Insull's Utilities Club Room Becomes Mock Cenotaph
In Chicago on March 21 AP reports a million dollars in fake securities covered the Union League Club room. Paperhangers pasted green wallpaper imitating stocks bonds and mortgages as a satirical memorial to the Insull era boom. A worker joked about money while others added gilded touches and an imitation gold curtain. Samuel Insull's autograph appears conspicuously on the display.
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Cincago
Union League Club
Samuel Insull
Peace Sought Auto Industry Highlights of Capitol Labor
Major capital and labor disputes loomed with a truce delaying a nationwide auto strike as White House mediation began. Roosevelt invited both sides to talks after preliminary discussions, with a critical conference planned. Wage negotiations continued over railroads, while Weirton Steel faced a government suit over bargaining rights. A federal trade commission report blamed the steel code for price fixing and disadvantaging small firms.
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Associated Press
A. F. of L
Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Weirton Steel Company
NRA
A. F
E. T. Weir
Federal Trade Commission
Hitler says marriage drive to curb unemployment
Munich March 21 AP Hitler announces a new policy pairing government aid with wedding incentives to boost employment. He vows 150 million marks to encourage newlyweds by 1985, plus funds for tax loans and road construction. He defends the mark's parity and urges free enterprise with limited restraints.
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Louis P. Lochner
Associated Press
Munich
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Unterhatching
Upper Bakaria
Reichstag
Potsdam
Hitler
Roosevelt Pursues Auto and Rail Peace Talks in Washington
President Roosevelt presses direct talks with automobile executives and rail labor leaders after a truce win by auto unions. Hugh S. Johnson reports close progress but labor and management remain divided. White House awaits word on railroad wage extension as Weirton Steel protest grows. Union delegates threaten a strike if no deal is reached.
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Washington
Mar
Roosevelt
Majman
Sutire
Hugh 5S. Johnson
NRAA
New York
Johnson
White House
NRA Gore
Hugh S. Johnson
NRA
William Collins
American Federation of Labor
Detroit
Green
William Green
A. Fe
National Labor Board
Pedera
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Tvelt
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Atlantic
Mildred King
Stanford University
Palo Alto
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Nampa
Idaho
Col. Simpson
Capitol Labor
Eitler
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