Pacific Flight Tests Radio Compass Robot Plane
Oakland California March 15. Weather delays postpone the Pacific test flight of the government’s new radio compass robot plane. Captain Clayton Bissell said conditions were not ideal and the 24,000 pound monoplane may wait months before attempting a 800 mile to 2,400 mile ocean crossing toward Honolulu. Major Chester Snow leads the tests with plans to rely on triangulation to keep the course.
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Oakland
Calif
Pacific
Honolulu
Clayton Bissell
United States Weather Bureau
Bissell
Army
Chester Snow
Federal
Republic
Hawaii
Orient
Pan- American Airways
Jeffrey Kieusin
Wright Field
Measure to guard the Dionne quintuplets debated in Ontario
Five famous Dionne quintuplets near guardianship by Ontario minister of welfare David A. Croll as third reading of the Dionne guardianship act of 1935 advances in the provincial legislature. Liberal Premier Hepburn government pushes bill amid two hour debate.
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Toronto
David A. Croll
Ontario
Mitchell F. Hepburn
Faith Child Taken by Death in Shreveport Case
Mildred Anderson eleven known as faith child died after two weeks without medical care. Juvenile court sent her to a hospital. death blamed on acute rheumatic fever weakened heart and pneumonia. Parents of Cedar Grove Pentecost church blamed court for removal. five siblings survive.
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Shreveport
Mildred Anderson
Faith
L. K. Barney
Mildred
Cedar Grove Pentecost Church
Harry Anderson
Oklahoma Representative Gassaway Attacks Huey Long Plan
Oklahoma Democrat Representative Gassaway demanded a national program to share wealth and boost family income to $10,000 while capping individual earnings at $100,000. He described Huey Long as backing bankers and argued for a slogan driven network of plan clubs to promote his tax plan.
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P. L. Gassaway
Oklahoma
House of Representatives
Congress
Huey
Gassaway
Associated Press
Washington
Huey Long
Representative Gassaway
Democrat
Southwest
Wall Street
Europe
Long
Secretary Howe Seriously Ill at the White House
Louis M. Howe secretary to President Roosevelt is gravely ill at the White House. The 64 year old, who joined the Roosevelt staff in 1914, is suffering from a bronchial recurrence with cardiac weakness, Mrs. Howe at his side as doctors report improvement this week.
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Washington
Louis M. Howe
Roosevelt
White House
Howe
Boston
Ross T. McIntire
State rests case against alleged slayer of child Grace Budd
In White Plains New York the prosecution finished presenting its evidence against Albert H Fish in the Grace Budd slaying case. A Columbia University anatomist reconstructed the bones of a young girl to aid the trial. Defense counsel moved for dismissal on insanity and lack of prima facie proof, which the judge denied.
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White Plains
N. Y
Albert H. Fish
Grace Budd
Supreme Court
Columbia University
Dudly J. Morton
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Elbert T. Gallagher
James E. Dempsey, Jr
Frederick P. Close
Dempsey
Albert Fish, Jr
Relief measure backers poised to win in senate battle
In Washington on March 15, Democratic leaders predicted passage of the 4 880 000 000 work and relief bill. Senator Robinson urged approval of the Russell compromise on wage scales as Roosevelt forces prepared to push the measure through amid opposition from McCarran wage amendments and Huey Long.
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Roosevelt
Senate
Washington
Robinson
McCarran
Indictment In France Sees Two Americans Charged In Spy Ring
Paris reports Mr and Mrs Robert Gordon Switz of East Orange New Jersey and New York among 34 people indicted as members of a Soviet spy ring. Magistrate Benon sent the cases to the corrective court for trial likely in early April. Ten suspects are fugitives. A secret trial may be held for the Switzes who have been jailed 15 months.
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Paris
Robert Gordon Switz
East Orange
N. J
New York
Michel Benon
Correctional Court
Switz
Thirteenth Tribunal of
The
Criminal Court
Shul Levinson
Michel Perilman
Switzes
Benjamin Bercowitz
Clara Levitan Bercowitz
Lydia Tchekaloff Stahl
Thousands Flee Before Floods Across Three States
Across three states thousands flee rising waters as battered levees hold in stricken areas. Evacuations intensify along swollen rivers with residents seeking safety amid anxious communities and deteriorating flood defenses.
Flood crisis drives 13000 homeless as Mississippi rises
Red Cross says 13,000 people in Missouri Arkansas and southern Illinois face homelessness as floodwaters surge. Levees near Kennett and Moark are under threat while Poplar Bluff shelters 3000 refugees and Newport levee may fail. Crests slow but danger remains amid evacuations and rescues.
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Associated Press
Mississippi
Missouri
Illinois
Arkansas
Great River
Red Cross
Little River
Sikeston
Kennett
Poplar Bluff
St. Francis
Moark
Ark
Newport
Murphysboro
East
Mt. Carmel
Ill
Georgia enacts referendum on repealing 28 year dry law
In Atlanta on March 15, the Georgia senate after a stormy session with a one man filibuster approved a bill for a statewide liquor referendum. The vote was 32 to 13 and the date set is July 2 for the vote, with the house setting May 15.
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Atlanta
House
Senate
Georgia
Nine Senators Accused Before Munitions Probers
Washington March 15 An assertion by William B Shearer that nine senators were recorded in Justice Department files with past communist affiliations was read into the Senate munitions committee record He cited a 1929 letter to Homer L Ferguson of Newport News Shipbuilding detailing his push for more naval appropriations and a cruiser bill listing twelve opponents including nine with alleged communist ties The list named McKellar Tennessee Frazier North Dakota Ashurst Arizona Kendrick Nebraska Howell and others with several noted as deceased
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Washington
William B. Shearer
Department of Justice
Communist Party
Senate Munitions Committee
Shearer
Geneva
Homer L. Ferguson
Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Bone
America
R. M. Whitney
National Defense Society
McKellar
Tennessee
Frazier
North Dakota
Ashurst
Arizona
Kendrick
Wyoming
Howell
Nebraska
Sena
Attempt on Arabian King Thwarted at Mecca Mosque
Three assassins armed with daggers attacked King Ibn Saud and his son Emir Saud at El Haram Mosque in Mecca. Guards killed the attackers as Emir Saud wrestled with the ringleader to shield the monarch. two accomplices were also shot dead.
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Mecca
Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia
Ibn Saud
Emir Saud
el Haram
Kaaba
Futrell Praises Arkansas Solons as Session Ends
Little Rock March 15 The Arkansas legislature closes as Governor Futrell lauds the lawmakers and indicates he will sign liquor legalization and likely approve dog racing and Sunday baseball repeal bills. The session backs a 2 percent sales tax, funds schools, relief for 490,000 dependents, parks and centennial plans.
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Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas
J. Marion Futrell
General Assembly
Hot Springs
Youth confesses abduction hoax in Delaware
Chester Hyde, 19, admitted the abduction report was a fake. He said he wrote to his stepfather asking for money and had recently quarreled with a Woodbridge NJ girlfriend. Hyde was found bound beside a road in Wilmington after being reported missing from Woodbridge last week.
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Wilmington
Del
Public Safety
George Black
Chester Hyde
N. J
Hyde
Woodbridge
William Lella
16 Hurt In Battle At Bohdan Clash
In Bohdan Czechoslovakia police faced 2000 villagers while 12 foresters and 4 gendarmes were seriously wounded in a gun battle over alleged economic and social inequalities.
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Bohdan
Czechoslovakia
Post aims for sub eight hour cross country flight
Wiley Post launches from Union Air terminal in Burbank on a second attempt to fly 2 447 miles to New York City in the Winnie Mae. He plans to maintain 32 500 to 40 000 feet with a tail wind and says the trip will prove the feasibility of fast passenger air travel.
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Los Angeles
Wiley Post
Union Air Terminal
Burbank
New York City
Oklahoma
Winnie Mae
Post
Mojave Desert
Floyd Bennett Field
tMe
Pacific Ocean
Roscoe Turner
Desert
United States Aeronautical
Senate Group Favors Cotton Break Inquiry
The Senate agriculture committee voted to investigate the recent break in cotton prices and to report favorably a resolution by Senator Smith of South Carolina proposing the inquiry.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Senate
Smith
South Carolina
Rogers Has His Say On State Bonding And Relief
In Santa Monica March 14 a reader argues that many states rely on federal aid for relief while not funding their own shares. He warns this cannot continue and predicts a political backlash at the 1936 ballot box.
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Santa Monica
Cal
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