Tornado kills 21 in three states and damages towns
Tornadic winds with rain hail and lightning struck east Texas northwestern Louisiana and southwest Arkansas late Thursday. The toll includes many named residents in Huntington Lindale Shelbyville Center and San Augustine with other communities reporting wrecked homes and injured residents. Reports from the area describe a wide path tearing through towns collapsing houses and crippling communications while no large cities were hit and Tennessee Wade area damage remained unconfirmed.
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Associated Press
Texas
Louisiana
Arkansas
Huntington
George Knight
EF. S$. Woodrum
Alonso Linton
R. E. Welch
Oscar Roehsyk
Lindale
Lovell Shaw
Megress
Luella Wimbery
Shelbyville Center
Jessie Vale
el Passmore
Miss Graves
San Augustine
Ferris Andrews
Andrews
Russell Jones
Jones
Joges
Floyd Boyett
Mount Mo
Smith County
Shelbyville
Hall Summit
Mount Holly
el Dorado
Center
Tennessee Wade
Nesra
Seward
Treasury receipts and expenditures for March 29
Treasury receipts for March 29 were 104 million dollars with expenditures of 104.89 million, leaving a net balance of 506 million. Customs duties for the 29 days amounted to about 15.91 million.
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Treasury
Washington
Mar
Blood donor saves patients with repeated transfusions
Rome Umberto Anselmi a male nurse has donated blood in 38 transfusions. Hospital officials estimate he has given about five gallons of red blood cells to help weakening patients.
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Rome
Umberto Anselmi
Changing World at UC News Recounts Old Salem Rules
The University of Cincinnati News recalls Salem College rules from 1772 in Winston-Salem North Carolina. It notes baths requiring special permission and instructor timing, strict embroidery room order, and pupils never to be out of sight or hearing of the instructor while walking.
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Cincinnati
University of Cincinnati News
Salem College
Winston-Salem
N. C
Leas habeas corpus ruling delayed by motions in Clarksville
The case of Gol. Luke Leg and Luke Les dn of Nashville on bank law charges tied to the Asheville collapse is under habeas corpus review in Clarksville with Judge John W Cunningham set to rule on April 1. North Carolina seeks their return under a governor’s warrant while Leas face prison terms ranging from two to ten years and fines. A separate Maryland marriage clause appears in the text.
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Clarksville
Tenn
Luke Leg
Luke Les Dn
Nashville
John VT Cunninghan
Clark
North Carolina
Lear
Leas
Central Bank and Trust Company
Asheville
Hheir
Lea
Cunningham
Tennessee senators debate beer tax plan in senate
Nashville March 31 A bill would tax beer at 1.20 per barrel and divide revenue among state counties and cities. Senator David Rhea said the proposal does not legalize beer and is not a beer bill, but a provision for windation of beer if sold in the state. Fifty percent to counties, fifty percent to cities by population, with 20 percent to the state.
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Nashville
Tennessee
David Rhea
Giles
Mar
House
R. E. Little
Dyer
T. L. Coleman
Marshall
Little
Coleman
Walter Haynes
Franklin
Senate
W.C. Smith
Hamilton
College
John Murphy
Davidson
Senate Today
W. P. Monroe
Union
W. W. Craig
Lauderdale
H. E. Sherrell
Lincoln
Craig
P. J. Mooney
Shelby
Mooney
Winnie Ruth Judd Denied Clemency in Arizona Execution
Phoenix reports Judge Tampered clemency denied by Arizona Board of Pardons and Paroles. Winnie Ruth Judd, slated for execution on April 21 by Governor B. B. Moore, awaits possible US Supreme Court appeal or a sanity hearing as warden Walker offers no definite plan.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Winnie Ruth Judd
Florence
B. O
Arizona Board of Pardons and Paroles
Judd
United States
Supreme Court
Superior Court
A. G. Walker
Board of Pardons and Paroles
Mrs. Judd
Ruth Judd
Anse Levoi
Lerois
Hedvig Samuelson
Lerots Tommnate
Jack Halloran
Los Angeles
Halloran
Minister Expected To Take Stand To Deny Girl's Story
In Muncie Indiana on March 31 the Rev G Lemuel Conway was anticipated to testify in a Delaware Circuit Court trial charging him with attempted assault on an 18 year old Sunday school teacher Miss Helen Huffman. The defense aimed to close their case as jurors heard testimony about an alleged December automobile ride.
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Muncie
Ind
G. Lemuel Conway
Delaware Circuit Court
Madison Street
M. E
Conway
Helen Huffman
Huffman
Harriet Pardue
Burl Huffman
Perdue
O. M. Rearick
Weather Update For Tennessee and Virginia
Cloudy and colder with rain in east and central portions tonight. Saturday generally fair, colder in east and central portions. Occasional rain tonight and Saturday in Virginia, warmer tonight and on the coast Saturday, colder Saturday night and in the west in the afternoon.
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Virginia
War on Jews of World Nazi Aim Stands Boycott
Amid reports from Berlin, a Nazi proclamation defined a nationwide boycott of Jewish and Christian Jewish businesses to begin at 10 am tomorrow, framing it as the start of a campaign against Jews worldwide. The central committee urged steadfast action as brownshirt squads mobilize to picket establishments nationwide.
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Party Declara ‘Tion
Chancendy Hitler
Central Boycott Committee
Judah
Germany
United States
Joereph Goebbels
Hitjar
Toilers Plane Crash Kills 4 Canada Team Members
A big triemovered private airplane carrying the Canadian Toilers basketball team crashes near Neodesha Kansas on a flight from Tulsa to Winnipeg. Four dead. ten injured, including team manager and players. Pilot and co-pilot among the deceased. The wreck occurred after motor trouble and a wing drop. Injured moved to hospital with serious and critical injuries. The Tulsa series had been in progress, with Winnipeg next month.
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Neopesha
Kans
Chempionship
Canada
Fran Tulex
Okla
Winnipeg
A. H. Hakes
H. E. Fgeem
Mike’ Shea
Jack H. O’brien
Col
A. C. Sampson
Winniper
George Wilson
Senes
Drade Dodds
al Silverthorne
United States
Sinclair OU Company
Here
Silverthorne
Map Jobless Aid as Work Bill is Signed
Washington reports deadline for income tax returns at midnight. Taxpayers faced with penalties for late filing and first quarter payment. extensions granted due to banking emergency. New rates apply with reduced deductions and no earned income credit. surtaxes begin at $6,000. current returns total $13,009,000 versus last year.
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Washington
Mar
Printers Agree on Wage Cuts in Knoxville
Members of the Knoxville Typographers Union and publishers signed an agreement in conciliation reducing the wage scale by seven to ten percent. The reduction was awarded in arbitration in April 1932, and affects Knoxville printers and related publishers.
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Knoxville
Mar
Knoxville Typographies Union and
Publishers Today
Alabama retrial delayed in Scottsboro case race jury inquiry
In Decatur Alabama an inquiry into racial discrimination in Alabama jury selection delays the retrial of Haywood Patterson one of nine Negroes charged with attacking two white women in the Scottsboro case. The court has been debating whether Negroes are excluded from jury service for racial reasons since it began hearings Monday.
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Decatur
Ala
Alabama
Haywood Patterson
Scottsboro
United States Supreme ‘Court
Ruth Bryan Owen poised as Madame Minister in Denmark
Ruth Bryan Owen, former Florida congresswoman and daughter of William Jennings Bryan, is slated for the post of envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Denmark. If confirmed, she would be the first American woman diplomat to a foreign nation, with a Danish court welcome anticipated.
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Ruth Bryan Owen
Washington
Mar
Florida
State Department
Denmark
Frances Perkins
Owen
Roosevelt
Europe
Evik
Foreign Diplomat Service
William Jennings Bryan
Germany
Egypt
Hex Hus
Perkins outlines unemployment relief plan at labor conference
Secretary Frances Perkins presented a four page summary of labor’s demands and relief needs to a large labor conference. The plan calls for a two billion dollar appropriation and a major public works program, with labor on relief boards and standards for eligibility and funding. 1.0 million families and 600,000 singles receive federal relief across areas with federal funds, with $52 million slated for March relief.
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Washington
Mar
Frances Perkins
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Miss Perkins
United States
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Beer Tax Battle and Tobacco Confiscation Move in Tennessee
Nashville reports a beer legalization push sparks House fights over a $2.20 per gallon tax, while Senate approves confiscation of unstamped tobacco in evasion of state tax. Lawmakers also move refined tax provisions, a May 1 budget shift, and stricter truck speed limits.
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