Chinese Forces Push Japanese One Front in Central China
A Great Chinese army reportedly drives back Japanese along a 101 mile front in a bitter Central China battle. Reports say heavy casualties on both sides as fighting continues through the night. British Japanese friction flares over threats to civilians and soldiers. A bomb at the Italian consulate gate and new Japanese signage signal control.
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Children Lock Themselves In Car In Nebraska
Sidney Nebraska March 29 Mrs Hansen tried to coax her two 14 month old twin boys Ron and Jon from a locked family car. She begged and pleaded as the children pressed their noses to the glass and gurgled. Mrs Hansen then bought two shiny toothbrushes to catch their attention and the twins rolled down a window.
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Weather Thundershowers Across Tennessee and Kentucky
Local showers and thunderstorms with gusty winds and varying temperatures tonight and Wednesday. Virginia sees showers tonight with warmer overnight and Wednesday in eastern regions. Alabama reports mostly cloudy skies with plains likely shower activity interior tonight and Wednesday. Fresh to strong south winds on the east.
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Tornadoes Kill Six and Wound Twenty Five Across South
A spring tornado outbreak across the South and West leaves six dead and at least 25 injured. Notable hits include Turtle Lake Louisiana, a Texarkana Arkansas farm area, and Gordon Arkansas. One Oklahoma resident injured. debris deaths occur near Texarkana and Fer riday. Damage estimated near $100,000 with multiple barns and homes destroyed. Weather Bureau issues Gulf small craft warnings.
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Ourso
Charles Barnett
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Hugh Barber
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Saws In Jelly Put Samaritan In County Jail
Jailer Sam Feathers thwarted a jail plot when a jar of jelly carried by Herbert Cartier of Bristol yielded seven steel saws. Cartier and brother Wilbur bound over to circuit court on a felony charge after a Sunday jail visit and a Monday preliminary hearing noted by Magistrate H. H. Massengill.
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Herbert Cartier
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Feathers
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Power Companies Urged to Expand and Reorganize
Washington reports the administration urges utility firms to proceed with construction programs free of immediate compulsory reorganization. The Securities Commission affirmed 1935 act registration while allowing holding companies time to simplify structures after a Supreme Court ruling.
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Supreme Court
Breach Of Promise Charge Leads Couple To Marriage
In Hollywood a breach of promise suit between Vera Reynolds and Robert Elias Reynolds ended with a settlement. They had lived together as man and wife for 45 months since 1925 and were to marry in Greenwith. Judge Goodwin Kavight announced the settlement. the couple smiled for photos but did not leave together. Vera’s father called it not a contract of the heart. counsel Harris Cassell called the agreement the first good fund in a long time. An attorney’s note suggested reconciliation was not guaranteed.
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Crime Commission Probe Faces Supreme Court Ruling
Nashville March 29 The State Crime Commission head B C Durkangr said a state supreme court decision on its constitutionality would be sought at the earnest morfacy moment while insisting the injunction does not affect investigations. Sheriff Joyner and six Shelby county citizens obtained the injunction restraining the commission from functioning claiming it relied on Gov Browning allies and spent large sums to opposing taxpayers.
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Joyner
Guy Joyner
Dewitt Henderson
Shelby County
Tennessee
Browning
Roosevelt Takes Vacationer Role Across Georgia Trip Planned
President Roosevelt, at Warm Springs, Georgia, blends leisure with duties. He plans a 120 mile round trip to Fort Benning to inspect troops and will hold a brief press conference. He handles Fort Benning itinerary, officials in Columbus, and reviews bills including a 1499 appropriation for treasury and post office.
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Post Office
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Alabama
Cel
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House approves Senate probe of TVA activities
Washington March 29 The House Rules Committee approved a Senate resolution for a thorough congressional investigation of all TVA operations. The panel kept Senate language permitting a ten member inquiry panel to examine private utilities involved with TVA. An added amendment would require a report by next January 3, with the inquiry serving as basis for potential legislation. Rankin urged a full inquiry beyond TVA to include private power firms, warning of misconduct.
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O'Conner
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Congress
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Seven Prisoners Remain At Large At Brushy Mountain
Tennessee March 29 seven of the 38 convicts who escaped from Brushy Mountain state prison are still at large as authorities plan a wide ranging probe. Warden Scott Swafford said the inquiry would begin once the fugitives are recaptured. Guards county officers and posses are hunting in the rugged mountains surrounding the prison. The break came after the prisoners dug and dynamited a 50 foot tunnel aided by a coal seam. Some convicts returned voluntarily while others were captured in the hills. Warden Swafford suspended mine foreman Freeman Sexton in charge of the mine crew but did not say if charges would be filed.
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Werden Swafford
Freeman Sexton
Soviet ant i Soviet activity found in Arctic route
Moscow reports the government found criminal anti Soviet activity linked to wrecks in the northern sea route administration led by Dr Otto Schmidt who directed polar flights last summer and weather observations. The Council of People's Commissars adopted a harsh plan to fix the perilous ice breaking operations and demanded a detailed report by April 15.
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Lhe Noorthern Sea Route Administration
Otto Schmidt
Aummer
America
Schmit
Council of the People's Commissars
Pape Bight
Highland Park restaurant owner freed after preliminary shooting hearing
Mrs. B. L. Hawkins proprietress of a Highland Park restaurant was discharged on felonious shooting charges after magistrates George E. Bradley and T. Mai Ketron ruled there was insufficient evidence. The case stems from a shooting incident that wounded Fred Williams, a Highland Park youth, who was struck in the left leg.
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Highland Park
George E. Bradley
T. Mai Ketron
Fred Williams
Highland Lark
Hoover Says No Imminent War In Europe After European Tour
Former President Herbert Hoover, back from a two month European tour, reports Europe changed with democracies shifting toward totalitarianism, rising armament, debt and trade barriers, and widespread fear. He finds no immediate war prospect, noting a defensive rather than offensive mood across nations.
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Herbert Hoover
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Hoover
England Studies Arming Program
London March 23 Britain shifts from broad policy to detailing rearmament and defense efforts. Naval experts hold conferences as Britain and the United States weigh exceeding the 5,000 ton limit for battleships. Air defense drills simulate raiding fleets while civilians are urged to dig six foot trenches in yards and parks as air raid refuges.
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Foes of Revision Bill Unite Forces in House Clash
Anti administration Democrats join House Republicans to block a government reorganization bill after a Senate vote. Roosevelt backers claim approval is near while opponents press for full public hearings and rapid committee action on the measure.
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Organizer Plans Appeal To Investigate Memphis Labor Tensions
Memphis March 20 A C I O organizer A E Phillips of St Louis held in jail on a threatened breach of peace charge after attempting to intimidate negro freight handlers at Federal Barge Lines terminal. Police chief Will D Lee says the 30 year old man plans to appeal to the Senate appropriations committee via Bob La Follette's committee to probe Memphis labor troubles.
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Washington
Bob LaFollette
Wiberties Committee
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Smith
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Philips
Europe Fights To Contain Spanish Civil War Spread
European leaders grapple with Spain crisis as government accuses Germany and Italy of backing Franco. In Rome Viriginio Gayda blames France and Russia for stalled fighter withdrawals while Britain organs non intervention talks. Insurgents warn of provocation if French soil is attacked. Catalonia remains the government’s stronghold amid heavy Franco flank defenses. In Asia a Chinese front fights Japanese advances. Soviet rumors and trials surface, naming Kazakh leaders amid polar era ice operations.
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Francisco Franco
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Virginio Gayda
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Northern Sea Route Administration
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Schmidt
River flood disrupts LynChburg phone service
The James River flooded an underground conduit in Lynchburg Virginia causing 2060 simultaneous calls to flood local switchboards. Operators shouted for number please but were unanswered until repair crews fixed the fault. Nearby Memphis labs expansion planned for malaria and syphilis study. A post office cash theft in Clearfield Kentucky prompts sheriff’s hunt for two suspects.
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Britain and U S to announce new value ships plan
An authoritative source said March 2 that the United States and Great Britain will announce before week’s end their intention to build value ships costing more than 600,000. The note hints at a joint defense and production effort and underscores wartime mobilization.
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Spaniards Press Offensive Toward Lerida Barricaded City
In Lerida near Barcelona civilians flee ahead of insurgent forces and air bombardments as Catalonia comes under attack. In Knoxville officials delayed exhumation of four victims from the December 9 house fire due to lack of proper authority.
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