Weather showers and colder in Tennessee and nearby states
A weather note reports showers tonight and Friday across Tennessee East and Central areas with clearing Friday morning in the extreme heat portion. It predicts warmer conditions in the East, colder Friday, and similar showers in Kentucky Virginia and North Carolina with gradual temperature rises in parts and occasional showers through Friday.
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Tennessee
Kentucky
Virginia
North Carolina
Vera Stretz Sobs New Angles Are Developed
Vera Stretz wept as Detective John Kaiser testified the accused said there was no assault after fatally shooting Dr Fritz Bebhardt in a luxury hotel corridor. The cross examination by Samuel Leibowitz challenged self defense claims while Judge Collins urged access to grand jury records.
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Pat M'Grady
Associated Press
New York
Vera Stretz
Fritz Bebhardt
Cornelius Collins
John Kaiser
Kaiser
Samuel Leibowitz
New Worry Faces Georgia Executive
Contempt of court citations were added against three fiscal officers of Georgia as Governor Talmadge faces a financial crisis. De Facto Treasurer J. B. Daniel De Facto Comptroller General G. B. Carreker and Paul H. Doyal of the revenue commission were ordered to answer by April 4. The move follows Talmadge's seizure of nearly 1,000,000 dollars in February gasoline tax funds from Atlanta banks amid an injunction. Judge Porter said Carreker and Doyal withdrew funds and handed them to Daniel in defiance of the injunction. Matheson was removed after refusing further checks for the gasoline tax transfer. Crowe was named to replace him. The injunction blocks diverting gas tax money from its lawful use.
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Atlanta
Mar
Talmadge
Claude Porter
Rome
J. B. Daniel
G. B. Carreker
Paul H. Doyal
Porter
Carreker
Doyal
Daniel
R. E Matheson
Revenue Commission
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Jury Selected in Shoemaker Flogging Case in Tampa
In Tampa Florida on March 26 the trial against accused men for flogging Joseph Shoemaker continues under Judge Robert T Dowell. Sixty jurors remain in the venire with six to be chosen and each side holds fifteen challenges. If no panel forms, a change of venue to Polk County may be granted.
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Tampa
Fla
Shoemaker
Robert T. Dowell
Criminal Court
Joseph Shoemaker
Stow
Dewell
Polk County
Eye of Telescope completes long transcontinental journey
The Corning Glass Works shipped a six million dollar 200 inch telescope mirror by a special freight train at sunrise, bound for the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Dr. George Wet McCauley watched the 2 1/2 ton glass cast leave with rail officials aboard the caboose, traveling 3,300 miles at a maximum 25 mph amid little fanfare.
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Corning
California Institute of Technology Observatory
Pasadena
Calif
George Wet McCauley
Corning Glass Works
High School Strike Demands Superintendent Return in Lenoir City
More than 300 Lenoir City high school students protested the board of education’s decision to replace superintendent C. M. Mitchell. They walked downtown, sang and demanded Mitchell be reinstated, while 75 stayed in classes. The board named John K. Hicks as successor by a 3 to 2 vote, and officials warned against further strikes.
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Lenoir City
Tenn
Board of Education
C. M. Mitchell
Mitchell
John K. Hicks
Virgil Adams
Adams
Hicks
Hoffman Lays Hands Off For New Reprieve
Bruno Hauptmann’s lawyers pressed the court of pardons for a new reprieve as Governor Hoffman maintained his position that no further delay would be granted without the attorney general’s agreement. With trial judges and Supreme Court justices unmoved by new evidence, a new trial seems unlikely and execution looms in five days.
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John Ferris
Associated Press
Trenton
N. J
Hoffman
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Court of Pardons
Lindbergh
David T. Wilentz
Hruptmann
Hauptmann
Supreme Court
Thomas W. Trenchard
Hauptmane
Zeppelin Hindenburg Encounters Accident At Launch
German airship LZ 129 Hindenburg experiences a damaging incident as it lifts from its hangar during a planned double air tour. Captain Ernst Lehmann orders a temporary descent after the Hindenburg cruises over Lake Constance for two hours while Graf Zeppelin heads toward Stuttgart.
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Wade Werner
Associated Press
Friedrickshafen
Germany
Ernst A. Lehmann
Paul von Hindenberg
Lake Constance
Stuttgart
Lehmann
Budget Bill May Be Passed Today In Kentucky
Frankfort March 26 The House was poised to pass the administration budget bill already approved by the Senate after a 60-member conference agreed to enact it. An anticipated amendment to curb the finance director’s power to trim appropriations faced likely defeat. Gov. A B Chandler announced a second special session next Monday to secure budget balancing revenue, with about 12.4 million dollars in new taxes planned. He cited industry talks on a whiskey sales tax of one dollar per gallon, expected to raise about seven million and double the five cent per gallon whiskey tax.
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Frankfort
House
Senate
A. B. Chandler
Army Appears Near Frontier as China Protests Grow
March 26 report from Peiping notes Communist forces near Inner Mongolia frontier alarming Japanese militarists. Major Takeo Imai warned Japan will take steps to protect Hopei and Chahar provinces if Communists threaten peace. Nanking government reported no decisive action by Chiang Kai-shek forces, heightening regional tension.
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China
Inner Mongolia
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Hopei
Chahar
Imai
Pon
Shansi
Chianz Kai-Shek
Yen Hei-Shazi
Nanking
Four tax evasion plans uncovered in Tennessee
Nashville dispatch reports that 14 Davidson county grand jury indictments accuse individuals of conspiracy to defraud the state in gasoline tax evasion. District Attorney General J. Carlton Loser travels to Texas to seek the removal of J. H. Campbell, linked to a Gladewater refinery, with Campbell’s arrest in Houston described as boosting seizure progress. Officials outline four evasion schemes including underreporting gasoline receipts and misstating car contents to dodge taxes.
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Nashville
J. Carlton Loser
Texas
J. H. Campbell
Tennessee
Campbell
Houston
Davidson County Grand Jury
Loser
Bond
Gladewater
McAlister
Jack Norman
Audain
James V. Allred
Tenn
L. Buchanan Loser
Moving Italian Forces Is Work in Wilderness
In a final installment of Edward J. Neil's Typewriter Snapshot series from Makale Ethiopia, the article details the logistical feat: Italian logistical services moved 22,000,000 cartridge cases, 279,000 heavy shells, 17,000 mortars, 12,000 mountain guns, 3,500 portable MGs, 2,500 signal flares, 1,500 mule and camel carriers, and 4,180 tons of extra ammo plus 1,079 trucks. Despite six days of battle near Amba Aradam, supplies never ran short. troops received food, water, medical goods, and a lavish commissary, including condensed milk, wines, brandy, cigars, jam, figs, fruit, lemons, and mineral water.
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Edward J. Neil
Associated Press
Makale
Ethiopia
New York
Amba Aradam
Enderta
Cartermaster’s
Townsend Plans Investigated in Capitol Hill Fraud Charges
Opening skirmishes in a $50,000 battle on Capitol Hill pitted Townsend supporters against opponents as Rep. Bell labeled the Townsend plan fantastic impossible and fraudulent. Robert E. B. Clements, coleader of the $200-a-month old age pension drive, testified before a House committee and claimed $350,000 raised with accounts for every postage stamp.
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Capitol Hill
Robert EB. Clements
House
Rep
Bell
Clements
F. B. Townsend
Acc
Congress
Senate
Ways and
Roosevelt
Youths Arrested in Assault Torture Case in Richmond
Four Richmond men James Brooks Oliver Darden Stephen Bohannan and Samuel Overby faced a police court hearing after a 20 year old girl accused them of holding her captive in a secluded Glen off Midlothian Turnpike in the outskirts of South Richmond. She says they beat stripped torched her with matches and bound her with ropes before escaping. Police report another victim Dewsllyn Parsons.
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Richmond
James Brooks
Oliver Darden
Stephen Bohannan
Samuel Overby
Midlothian
Scully Richmond
South Richmond
Ant Dan Duling
Richmond Police
Duling
Dewsllyn Parsons
Brooks
Daling
Luting
Chelon
Annl
Rivers Recede as Kingsport Sees Minor Flood After Heavy Rain
Heavy rains swept through Kingsport driving some residents from low ground. Holston River peaked at 10 ft 5 in, then fell to 7 ft 3 in by noon. Creeks receded slowly in mornings, with scattered property damage and several small buildings washed away.
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Holston
Kingsport
Holstaen
Tennessee Eastman
Old Kingsport
Clinch River
Clinchport
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