Big Towns Roil Parties in Hoover Era Clash
Washington on March 25 AP reports a heated clash among major parties over New York and Chicago. Republicans label New York a corruption sink while Democrats attack Chicago’s GOP ties to Al Capone. Progressives watch Norbeck and LaGuardia seek a workable 1931 farm relief program amid farm board wheat policy concerns and Muscle Shoals proposals.
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Washington
Republican National Committee
New York
Shouse
Democraticational Committee
Bill Thompson
al Capone
Chicago
Hoover
Farm Board
West
Northwest
Kansas
Nebraska
Tampany Hall
Walker
Roosevelt
Gate City Fire Suspected Thieves Cause
Investigation into yesterday's Gate City blaze that destroyed four buildings and their contents with an estimated loss of 70000 dollars suggests possible incendiary origin. The early findings point to thieves as potential instigators, though accident or deliberate act remain theories.
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Gate City
Hoover Continues Caribbean Jaunt In Virgin Islands
President Hoover landed at St Thomas and received a buoyant ovation as guns boomed and a parade unfolded near the governor’s residence. The day opened with a naval salute and a flag-enshrined arrival as Hoover observed the colorful procession from the reviewing stand. Meanwhile in Gate City a hardware store safe showed signs of tampering after a fire, with the door sprung and the combination torn out, and inspectors from the insurer expected to determine if contents were disturbed.
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ST. Thomas
Virgin Islands
Hoover
Naval Station
Harvey Culbertson
Scott County
Gate City Hardware Company
Culbertson
Gate City
Arrest of Leas Threatens Arrest Over Bond Cutoff
Asheville March 25 The case of Col Luke Lea Luke Lea Jr and FE Fb Charlet of Nashville charged with North Carolina bank law violation faced a bond deadline crisis As of yesterday no bonds were posted and jail capture warrants were ready Tennessee authorities planned to post bonds in a few days Lea's bond was set at 10000 and the others at 5000 each Gen Albert L Cox Raleigh attorney represented the trio and could not comment
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N. C
Col
Luke Lea
Luke Lea, Jr
Fb. Charlet
Nashville
Tenn
North Carolina
Tennessee
Albert L. Cox
Raleigh
Colonel Lea
J Jr
Charlet
Gandhi faces mixed cheers at national congress in Karachi
Mahatma Gandhi arrived in Karachi to attend India’s all-India Congress meeting amid a split crowd. Some shouted for Baghat Singh’s murder and hissed while others hailed Gandhi. He defended his efforts to save Singh, noting he appealed to the viceroy to temper justice with mercy.
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Mahatma Gandhi
all-India Nationel Congress
Raghat Singh
Gandhi
New Delhi
Singh
Lahore
Baghat Singh
Congress
Mahatma
Witness links Brothers to Chicago murder scene
Otto Swoboda, a Chicago public library area witness, testified that a man ran from a tunnel entrance shortly after Tribune crime reporter Alfred Lingle was killed. He described spotting a man with a pocketed left hand then lighting a cigarette for him before a shot was heard.
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Chicago
Leo Brothers
Alfred Lingle
Otto Swoboda
Chicago Public Library
Lingle
Tribune
Swoboda
Expect Trial To Clear Mystery In Beaumont Case
Testimony was to be introduced today in the trial of A B Johnson charged with slaying Ottis Lee Adams 22 in a Port Arthur refinery shop. Prosecution planned a simple reconstruction of how Adams was shot to death the night of January 17. State witnesses include C J Torsclair and M C Collier who owned the show where the shooting occurred. The jury, largely refinery workers, was completed yesterday. The case centers on Johnsons daughter Elizabeth 17 a prominent Sunday school worker and why Johnson a refinery foreman killed Adams who had accompanied her.
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Beaumont
Tex
A. B. Johnson
Elizabeth Johnson
Ottis Lee Adams
Port Arthur
Texas
C. J. Torsclair
M. C. Collier
Johnson
Adams
One Man Crime Wave Probed With Burke Inquiry
LT JOSEPH Mo March 25 Michael Burke 16 year old high school freshman lounged in his cell as county authorities investigated a one man crime wave in which two men were shot to death and another wounded. Burke son of an attorney drew attention for a statement by the Very Rev P J Carney that the youth never has been normal for his years.
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Joseph
Michael Burke
Burke
P. J. Carney
Tamany Plans To Meet Investigation Attack
New York March 25 AP Stunned by the legislature plan to probe city life Tamany plans a strategy to meet the attack Mayor Walker to leave Palm Springs Sunday and return five days before he planned Governor Roosevelt to judge the charges against Walker Untermyer defense speech before League for political education La Guardia warns the probe could uncover a corrupt system Tasmanian yet to appoint a committee of attorneys to guide Tamany Possible court challenges to subpoenas planned while Seabury continues inquiries into Crain magistrates courts and other investigations linked to the city wide probe
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New York
Mar
Tammany
Walker
Palm Springs
Cal
Roosevelt
City Affairs Committee
Samuel Untermyer
Thomas C. T. Crain
Crain
League For Political Education
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
Washington
Untermyer
Max D. Steuer
Legislative Committee
Samuel Seabury
Reelfoot Lake land deal under investigation probe
In Nashville on March 25 the legislative investigating committee examined the purchase of land near Reelfoot Lake amid claims the state paid about 535 per acre, far above the commission's top offer of 65. Pardue testified the governor may not authorize such a deal without commission approval, and that settlement involved Morris’s representative and the attorney general.
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L. J. Pardue
Lake Commission
Nashville
Tenn
Legislative Investigating Committee
Henry H. Horton
Tennessee
State Affairs Legislative Investigating Committee
Liz J. Pardue
Reelfoot Lake Commission
Scott P. Fitzhugh
T. O. Morris
Union City
Morris
Fitzhugh
Reelfoot Lake
Commission
Pardue
E. C. Parker
R. E. Maiden
L. D. Smith
Major Barr
Seed loans approved for five-state drought relief program
Federal seed and rehabilitation loans totaling 11,075,000 were approved by the district loan office at Memphis at the start of business today. Farmers in Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi share the loans disbursed here, with the Memphis office allotted about 23,000,000 drawn from drought relief appropriations.
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Memphis
Tenn
Tennessee
Arkansas
Alabama
Louisiana
Mississippi
Lloyd George gains Liberal support to keep Labour in power
London March 25 AP report: David Lloyd George pledges the Labour government under Prime Minister MacDonald enough Liberal backing to stay in office if it avoids actions against Liberal principles. Liberal MPs vote 33 to 17 in endorsing a policy statement guiding Labour's future legislative path.
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London
David Lloyd George
Labor
MacDonald
Liberal Party
Lloyd George
John Simon
Thomas Johnston
Scotland
Youth sought as nurse's slayer in Rhode Island case
Verna Russell a 20 year old student nurse was found strangled in a ditch near the Rhode Island border. Elliott Hathaway 28 of Fall River is accused of first degree murder after Vernon Galvin, a Fall River ex football star, led investigators to the scene and a witness stand.
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Newport
R. L
Verna Russell
Vernon Victor Galvin
Fall River
Mass
New Hampshire
Elliott R. Hathaway
Massachusetts
Hathaway
Galvin
Miss Russell
Rhode Island
Dempsey Battles Injunction in 1926 Wrested Suit
Chicago March 25 AP. A five year old injunction from 1926 resurfaced in a damages suit against Jack Dempsey by the Chicago Coliseum company. They claim Dempsey agreed to face Harry Wills and backed down, while Dempsey says the contract terms were not met by the company. Judge Pomeroy warned that appellate reversal would affect admission of the injunction.
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Chicago
Jack Dempsey
Harry Wills
Indianapolis
Dempsey
Wills
H. Sterling Pomeroy
Gene Tunney
Pomeroy
Chicago Coliseum Company
Weather Fair and Colder Tennessee and Virginia
Tennessee and Virginia forecast summaries indicate fair conditions with gradual cooling. In Tennessee tonight east and central areas will be slightly cooler with increasing cloudiness Thursday and rain in the west Thursday night. Virginia expects fair weather tonight and Thursday with light rain or snow flurries in extreme west tonight and colder conditions in western and southern portions. Readings at 6 p.m. show yesterday’s high 65 and low 43 with .08 inches rain yesterday.
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West
Northwest
Virginia
T. C. Harris
U.3.w.o
Admiral Plunkett Dead at 67 and Silent Big Bertha Feats
Rear Admiral Charles P Plunkett who commanded the naval railway battery in World War I and helped silence Paris with ships on wheels dies of heart disease at age 67 Born in Washington on February 15 1864 he led five mobile units with 14 inch rifles forming Americas answer to the Big Bertha siege.
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Charles P. Plunkett
Big Bertha
Paris
America
Plunkett
Grad
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