Famous Plane Crash Kills Fourteen Aboard Central America Tour
A chartered tri engine plane carrying European nobility and crew crashed near Amecameca en route through Guatemala to Central America. Fourteen aboard perished including Prince Adolf Schaumburg Lippe and Princess Ellen Schaumburg Lippe among nine German and Austrian passengers. crew Adolfo Simon and Daniel Madrigal survived. Investigators from Pan-American Airways ordered a technical probe while wreckage hindered determination of the crash cause.
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Clark Lee
Associated Press
Mexico
D. F
Central America
Guatemala
Amecameca
Mount
Poppecatepet
Mount Iztacihuatl
Otder
Pan-American Airway
Amec
Prince Adolf Schaumburg-Lippe
Bueckenburg
Germany
Ellen - Elisabeth
San Jose
Costa Rica
Igler
Weather fair and cooler across Tennessee and Kentucky
Fair and cooler tonight with increasing clouds Saturday. Somewhat warmer in West and Central portions. Likely showers Saturday night. Virginia: Showers this afternoon and tonight, generally fair Saturday except coastal showers early tonight, cooler tonight west portion and east central portions Saturday. North Carolina: Cloudy with showers this afternoon, southeast, tonight. Saturday cloudy with possible rain east and central, colder in north central and far west tonight.
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Tennessee
Kentucky
Porthone
Virginia
North Carolina
Johnstown Flood Reunion Person Echoes Past Disaster
Albert Ringel, once a Cincinnati reader of Johnstown flood reports, traveled from Cleveland with his wife to celebrate fifty years of marriage with family in Johnstown. Caught in the 1936 Johnstown flood, the printer saw the business he helped fund for his sons wiped out, reflecting on fate and memory.
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Albert Ringel
Cincinnati
Johnstown
Ringel
Cleveland
State Attorneys Seek Extradition
State attorneys traveled to Austin Texas to pursue extradition for J H Campbell 42 oil man arrested in Houston under a habeas corpus writ. Campbell faces Tennessee indictments alleging conspiracy to defraud the state tied to gasoline tax evasions. Also named are 12 Tennesseans in oil businesses and another out-of-state refinery man. The case centers on shipping gasoline as kerosene and mis paying kerosene inspection fees. Extradition hearing set for April 1 with Gov Allred discussed. >
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Nashville
Tenn
Austin
Tex
J. H. Campbell
Tennessee
Campbell
Houston
Loser
Floods Sweep Midwest Amid Rising Rivers
Heavy rains swelled midwestern streams with Ohio River crest near Wheeling and Marietta. Flooding forced evacuations as Mississippi and Minnesota tributaries rose, damaging farms. 200 dead regionwide and losses exceeding 100 million dollars as workers rebuild in eastern states.
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Associated Press
Ohio Valley
Ohio
Wheeling
W. Va
Marietta
Steubenville
Portsmouth
Louisville
Owensboro
Henderson County
Illinois
Wabash
Mississippi
Catro
New Madrid
la Crosse
Wis
Minnesota
State to probe tobacco tax evasion statewide
Nashville March 27 Finance Commissioner Dancey Fort announced a statewide drive to catch tobacco tax evaders and gather evidence for prosecutions under the conspiracy to defraud the state statute. A special squad from the Department of Finance and Taxation will collect information nationwide, modeling after gasoline tax cases. Fort said no state employees are involved and estimated tobacco tax evasion costs at about 800000 annually. He noted fines in 1935 reached nearly 18000, showing widespread violations.
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Nashville
Dancey Fort
Fort
Department of Finance
Ex bootlegger and gangster in Ethiopian war report
In a battlefield portrait from SELA C LACA TAKAZZE region Ethiopia, Edward J. Neil relays a gritty scene with two American figures among Italian troops. A Chicago bootlegger named Jack Rose introduces himself amid dust and heat as a veteran of the St Valentine’s Day massacre, hinting at a violent past and alcohol trade in war time.
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Edward J. Neil
Associated Press
Chicago
Jack Rose
Mr. Rose
Model T Mindset Hurts City Traffic Safety Drive
March 27 Memphis crowd hears UT Knoxville engineer N W Dougherty warn that adults remain in the Model T age and cannot handle high powered motors. He notes the old dog new tricks adage fits today and the rally marks a city wide push to enlist citizens in a united front against traffic accidents.
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Memphis
N. W. Dougherty
University of Tennessee
Knoxville
Dougherty
Efforts to Seat Jury Darkened by Dispute in Slavery Case
In Tampa on March 27, defense counsel Pat Whitaker clashed with Norman Thomas of New York over a juror pool in the Shoemaker flogging case. Whitaker labeled Thomas a communist, while Walter Roush of the Socialist Executive Committee denied it. Thomas countered that civil liberties groups defend true American rights amid alleged flogging cases.
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Henery S. Wrenn
Associated Press
Tampa
Fla
Pat Whitaker
Norman Thomas
New York
Socialist Party
Whitaker
Thomas
Walter Roush
Socialist Executive Committee
Florida
Hitler Addresses Industrial Group at Krupp Works
Adolf Hitler spoke to 870,000 inside Essen and 120,000 inside the hall with 730,000 outside as he campaigned for equality among nations. He claimed the third Reich is a genuine democracy, vowed sovereignty, and denounced victors and vanquished while criticizing Wilson’s 14 points.
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Louis P. Lochner
Associated Press
Stalt Essen
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Krupp
Reich
Hitler
Third Reich
Weimar Repubeile
Eden Speech Alarms German Delegation in London
German representatives sought more explanations from Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden after his March House of Commons reaffirmation of Britain's Locarno obligations. Eden awaited Ribbentrop at the Foreign Office while Britain hailed his Rhineland crisis address as his greatest. The German delegation was agitated by Eden stressing Locarno military understandings over Hitler's proposed new treaties.
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Charles P. Nutter
Associated Press
London
Germany
Anthony Eden
House of Commons
Britain
Eden
Foreign Office
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Adolf Hitler
Rhineland
Locarno
Hitler
Bitter struggles over taxes seen
Washington heard that a coming public struggle over Bixer may be prolonged and bitter as hearings open on the new tax program. A long list of organizations and individuals seeks to testify before the House Ways and Means committee. Meanwhile, a Townsend pension inquiry probes income of regional managers with figures cited for Edward J. Margett. Rep Patman signals possible changes to a soldiers bonus inflation plan.
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Capitol Hill
Bixer
House
Ways and Means Committee
Townsend
Robert E. Clements
James R. Sullivan
Edward J. Margett
San Francisco
California
Rep
Patman
D-Tex
Governor A B Chandler Eyes Third Special Session
Frankfort March 27 Gov A B Chandler anticipated to call a third special session to raise revenue and balance the budget approved by the House and Senate. The plan projects a 48 718 375 expenditure over two years with about 11 million in new taxes including a one dollar per gallon sales tax on liquor. The governor said the session should last not more than 30 days and thanked legislators for passing the measure.
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Frankfort
A. B. Chandler
General Assembly
House
Senate
Chandler
Expert Confident Ladder Evidence in Case Framed
Vera Stretz admitted on the witness stand she fatally shot her wealthy lover Dr Fritz Gebhardt. The 32 year old secretary testified to her education and purchase of a revolver, and acknowledged the killing after questioning by her attorney.
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Devon Francis
Associated Press
NEW Yor
Vera Stretz
Fritz Gebhardt
Samuel Leibowitz
Gebhardt
Fiest Leibowitz
West Indies
Villeania
Leibowitz
Havana
Frits Gebhardt
New York
Trains Collision Kills Three Men Near Manor
In Greensburg Pennsylvania a Philadelphia express sideswiped a freight train in rain near Manor, killing three railroad workers HE F Snyder, George Kuhn, and Roy Mitchell. Clair N Grave was burned, 78 passengers uninjured aside from bruises. Both locomotives and several cars were derailed near Manor station ten miles from Greensburg. Continued on page eight.
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Greensburg
Philadelphia Express
Pennsylvania Railroad
Manor
HE. F. Snyder
Altoona
George Kuhn
Ruffsdale
Roy Mitchell
Latrobe
Clair N. Grave
Students Return To Classes In Lenoir City
About 250 Lenoir City High School students returned to classes after a two day strike in Lenoir City Tennessee. They threatened a new walkout if the school board does not reelect Superintendent Claude M. Mitchell who was replaced by John K. Hicks after a 2 2 vote. The student body and many parents attended a meeting last night to vote to return while a faction of strikers demanded rescinding last election actions by 9 30 Wednesday morning or risk renewed, potentially more violent protests. Mitchell has led the district four years. his term ends with the current term.
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Lenoir City
Tenn
Claude M. Mitchell
Mitchell
John K. Hicks
Office Cats Disappear Then Return with Kittens
Burlington report states a cat delivered to veterinarian P. I. Abernathy vanished before treatment. The next morning the animal reappeared in a desk drawer with three newborn kittens, startling observers and prompting questions about its sudden return.
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Burlington
N.C
P. M. Abernathy
Vow!s
Government lending habits rapped at bank conference
Memphis March 22 Southern bankers at the American Bankers Association southern convention urged an expanded 1936 program and a withdrawal of many emergency lending agencies They criticized government banking activities while proposing banks expand their services and reduce political influence on boards Dr W G Gephart warned against further regulation noting banking serves the people not banks themselves
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Memphis
American Bankers’ Association
W. G. Gephart
First National Bank of St. Louis
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