Tennessee House Debates Finance Plan to Balance Budget
Tennessee House votes to set finance bill as special order and weighs more than 1 million dollars in annual cuts. Speaker Haynes pushes for a balanced budget with federal match funding and hunger relief, warns against an extra session, and urges swift action to avoid fiscal peril.
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Nashville
Walter M. Haynes
House
Haynes
Ray Stuart
Dickson
Z Haynes
Tennessee
United States
Paulper
Weather Synopsis From Virginia and Kentucky Reports
Fragmented forecast notes describe cloudy conditions in Virginia with a warm trend followed by a cold front. Central sections show Thursday morning deterioration and Western portions indicate later Thursday rain. Kentucky predicts rain tonight ending Thursday morning with colder air in the west.
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West
Virginia
Kentucky
Biggest spender on earth resting in Florida sun
Narrative by Nathan Robertson describes Harry L. Hopking in Florida as the capital weighs a vast relief program. Analysts flag risks to government credit and inflation while debates in Congress aim to spur industry with a $4.88 billion measure that could employ millions.
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Washington
Florida
Harry L. Hopking
Unis
South Wharun
Towa
Senate
House
Federal Reserve Board
Ing
Relief program aims to spend 4.88 billion under new plan
Washington dispatch notes the administration moves to organize the work relief fund to aid 3.5 million job seekers. Harry Hopkins and Rexford Tugwell are lined up for key roles with Ickes involved, while Roosevelt may oversee policy. Conferees finalize a relief bill as Baruch defends wartime duties before a Senate munitions panel.
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Washington
Congressional
Harry L. Hopkins
Ickes
Rexford G. Tugwell
White House
Roosevelt
Relief Fund
Culbertsons Lead in 150 Rubber Bridge Marathon
The Culbertsons move to the lead in the 150 rubber contract bridge marathon against Mr. and Mrs. P. Ral Sims. After two days, the Culbertsons hold a 1750 point edge from last night’s clean sweep of five rubbers. Strong card play and spades show dominance as Sims trail at dinner.
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Sims
Tom Hagenbucht
Associated Press
New York
Ely Culbertson
P. Ral Sims
Culbertsons
Ely
Nn Trump
Pape Ten
Dust Storm Deluges Denver as Winds Sweep Mile-High City
A fierce dust storm sweeps Denver and southeastern Colorado, halting air traffic and delaying travel. The plume reddens skies, blocks roads in Prowers and Baca counties, reaches Iowa Oklahoma and Minnesota, and a snow trace appears by midnight as temperatures fall from 67 to near freezing. Farmers seek PWA funds to plant shelter belts in eastern Colorado.
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Denver
Cole
Oye
Colorado
Iowa
Okahoma
Minnesota
Public Lands Board
PWA
USSR Orders Quick Death in Moscow Crime Drive
Nine more robbers and murderers were sentenced to death in Moscow as the crackdown on crime intensifies. A woman judge Comrade Kiroleva handed down four death sentences to members of a killer band led by Mintagolt. The latest rulings follow a week that saw fifteen executions ordered in Moscow and conveyed in Leningrad.
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Moscow
City Criminal Court
Kiroleva
Leningrad
Kireiers
Mintagolt
Threat of legal action over Quakers arrest at War Dept visit
Philadelphia readers witnessed a protest during Secretary of War Dern's visit as two Quakers Matthias Shallcross and John Adams were arrested amid antiwar leaflets and a larger armament exhibit. Sophia A. Dulles threatened legal action on behalf of the total disarmament committee.
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Philadelphia
George H. Dern
Mildred Young
Friends Yearly Meeting
Friends
Pennsylvania Committee For Total Disarmament
Mde
Sophia A. Dulles
Organi
Man Hopes To Avert Father’s Morbid Plan
Theodore Case of Oshkosh appeals to a New York man named F. A. C. H. who plans to kill himself and his child on All Fools Day. Case invites the boy to join his childless family, offering love and a home and urging the father to spare the son. Case seeks a reply to prevent the tragedy.
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Oshkosh
Wis
New York
Theodore Case
Case
F.C. H
Kong
Baruch Defends War Era Finances Before Senate Panel
Bernard Baruch testifies before the senate munitions committee denying insinuations about his war time government service. He says he sold holdings at a heavy cost to his fortune and that his wealth fell from about 9.8 million to lower figures as he reinvested in liberty bonds. He cites losses in 1917 and 1918 and states his income from bonds was around 200 thousand.
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Dukes St
Bernard M. Baruch
Senate Munitions Committee
War Industries Board
United States
Henry S. Harriman
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Senate Labor Committee
Supreme Court
Preston Lt. Grover
Associated Press
Washington
Ted
World War Industries Board
New York
Odyssey of 4 Million Dollars in Smuggled Liquor Barred from U S Markets
Treasury and the Federal Alcohol Control Administration disclosed the fate of 4 million dollars of liquor deemed tied to a Cali firm with smuggling links. The cargo, aboard the Canadian freighter Mogul, was rejected despite willing duty payment and sent back to Murape. Officials traced its journey from Antwerp to New Orleans and New York before being halted under President Roosevelt’s anti smuggling order.
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Richard Rendell
Associated Press
Washington
Mar
Treasury
Federal Alcohol Control Administration
California
Murape
Offials
Mogul
Tenosevelt
Coast Guard
Havy
Los Angeles
FACA
Hionebs
Mexico
Belgium
Antwerp
New Orleans
New York
H. L. Lourie
Joseph H. Chomite, Jr
Mfr
Chinele
Trearury
Parley Tells Hitlers Parity and Mercy Court at Parchman
Governor Sennet Conner holds a unique court of mercy at Parchman prison for inmates in prison a decade or more to plead for clemency. He aims to review 150 cases with hearings that begin with two young brothers and include John Randolph who has long claimed innocence yet remained jailed.
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Parchman
Miss
Sennett Connes
Court of Mercy
Conner
Jackson
Mamimy
John Randolpn
Lowndes County
Justice of the Peace
R. EB. Smith
Drew
Widow Acquitted in Plot to Kill Husband for Insurance
Mrs Anns Ericksen a 40 year old Chicago widow and mother of six was acquitted of hiring James Senese age 19 to kill her husband George Ericksen a tavern operator so she could collect 6100 in insurance and wed another man. The jury delivered verdict after six hours of deliberation in a dramatic session marked by the presence of her six children and the defense argued the shooting was a botched robbery. The case drew intense testimony including the witness Senese who testified to the hired killing plan and the defense tracing the attack to robbery rather than murder for profit.
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Chicago
Anns Ericasen
Ericksen
James Senese
Proposals Pour into Tiny Cabin
Proposals of marriage have been pouring into the tiny cabin of Sue Bonney a 28 year old former New Haven Conn girl and friend of Baby Dee Tuber. Sue's mail has been heavy since she and Tom French a miner left the home of Mrs. Tabor widow of the late Iver King who died in poverty. A Bozeman Mont man told Sue he was fed up with single life and needed a Christian spirit and home loving disposition to inspire him.
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Leadville
Cato
Marrriage
Sue Bonney
New Haven
Conn
Dee
Sue
Tom French
Bozeman
Alonf
Security bill tax meets opposition in Congress
Opposition to 2 percent payroll tax starting 1937 and rising to 6 percent by 1940 grows as lawmakers seek to strike sections on compulsory contributory annuity and unemployment insurance. The panel divided 13 to 0 on removing the voluntary annuity, arguing it would crowd out private competition. A Hollywood note reports Birney Howard delivering Kipling adaptation The Light That Failed to a major studio, with Gary Cooper set to star.
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M.de
House | Ways and Means
Hollywood
Calif
Birney Howard
Kipling
Gary ‘Cooper
Congress to honor Greely with long delayed Medal
Washington March 27 officials planned to pin a congressional medal on Major General A W Greely for Arctic expeditions that extended farther north than any prior unit. He noted the recognition lands late after a career that included Civil War wounds and service in the Spanish American War.
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Washington
A. W. Greely
Arctic
Greely
Lraz
Cheely
United States
Hitler Simon Berlin talks allegedly set for parity and gains
Reports from European sources describe a Berlin meeting where Hitler pressed for parity in armaments and aircraft with Britain and France, a navy expansion, and an economic union with Austria. The alleged demands include ending the Polish corridor, regaining Czech territory, and larger air and naval forces directed at Soviet Russia.
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Pomorze
Poland
Great Britain
France
Soviet Russia
Koenigsberg
Prussia
Memel
Germany
Hitler
Anthony Eden
Jord
Berlin
Levestia
Russia
Hitler seeks gun for gun military parity with Britain and France
An Associated Press report from Berlin cites a high authority stating Adolf Hitler demands equal military power with Britain and France, excluding the navy, and aims for army and air parity. He hints intent to surpass Russia and insists Germany has rearmed, with talks not about revising the Versailles Treaty but addressing what to do about the armaments reality.
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Melvin K. Whiteleather
Associated Press Foreign Staff
Associated Press
Berlin
Reichsfuhrer
Hitler
John Simon
London
Germany
John
France
Russia
League
Sir John
Mitler
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