Income Tax Collections Jump 45.6 Per Cent Gain Revealed
Treasury reports show income tax receipts for the first 16 days of March at $281,758,032 boosting the year total to $361,428,990 a 45.6 percent rise from last year. Districts nationwide report gains with January and February figures also higher than 1935, while New York collectors tally about $45 million from metropolitan districts.
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Washington
The
Treasury
Associated Press
New York
Ireland Quietly Honors St Patrick Day Amid Mournful Mood
In Dublin Irish Free State on St Patrick day, shops closed and the flag flew as people wore shamrock and costumes. A lone morning procession appeared, described as formal with little excitement, recalling how twenty five years ago large crowds joined the celebrations.
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Denis O'Connell
Associated Press
Dublin
Irish Free State
Ireland
St. Patrick
Erin
Annual St Patrick's Day Grave Visit Paid
Reading Pennsylvania reports Alvin Schaeffer, 71, keeps a 40 year pledge to visit the grave of Tom Hannahoe at midnight on St Patrick's Day. Authorities ordered extra police for cemetery traffic as crowds around 20 000 have gathered for the vigil.
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Reading
Alvin Schaeffer
Tom Hannahoe
Schaeffer
Hannahoe
Glalt
Storm Warnings Hit Gulf Coast as Weather Bureau Alerts
New Orleans reports high winds and rain as storm warnings are hoisted from Carabelle Florida to Mobile Alabama. A disturbance travels south from Alabama and Georgia as officials prepare for worsening conditions. Also in New Orleans Alvan M. Stewart a Navy recruiter dies from injuries in a March 11 motor accident near Luling Louisiana. In Austin Texas the railroad commission reduces allowable oil from 509 to 400 barrels per well daily in the Rodessa field after cooperation with Louisiana authorities.
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New Orleans
Gulf of Mexico
Mobile
Ala
Weather Bureau
Carrabelle
Fla
Alabama
Georgia
Alvan M. Stewart
United States Navy
Luling
Austin
Texas
The
Railroad Commission
Louisiana
Rodessa
Texas and Pacific to abandon Pleasant Hill branch
The Interstate Commerce Commission authorized the Texas and Pacific Railway to abandon its Pleasant Hill branch in Beiser Louisiana. The action emerges amid other Washington notices including a proposed Democratic convention keynoter and a campus satire group at Princeton.
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Washington
Texas and Pacific Railway Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pleasant Hill
Beiser
Two Men Wounded After Saloon Shooting in Grant Parish
Walter Hawthorne of Georgetown and Louis White of Rochelle were shot in front of a Grant parish saloon early Sunday and remained in serious condition at a local hospital.
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Alexandria
Walter Hawthorne
Georgetown
Louis White
Rochelle
Grant Parish
Rains Swell Rivers in Northeast States
Heavy overnight rains swollen rivers in New York Pennsylvania and New England threaten renewed floods after last week’s disaster. Local authorities monitor conditions as rivers rise and precautions are taken for potential evacuations and road closures.
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Associated Press
New York
Pennsylvania
New England
Judge seeks reopen to save son in Gorrell slaying case
Federal Judge Franklin E Kennamer of Tulsa said he would ask the reopening of an investigation into the slaying of John Gorrell Jr to save his son Phil Kennamer from a 25 year prison term.
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Oklahoma City
Franklin E. Kennamer
Tulsa
John Gorrell, Jr
Phil Kennamer
Bogalusa Team Upsets Seeded Gilmore Oilers in N A A U Tourney
In Denver on March 11 the Bogalusa Louisiana Gaylords upset the seeded Gilmore Oilers of Aberdeen Washington 53 to 44. DeWitt scored 14 and Russell 13 for Gaylord while Gilmore forward John H Fuller led with 16 points.
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Denver
Bogalusa
Gilmore Oilers
Aberdeen
Wash
Oilers
Northwestern
Gilmore
Gaylords
DeWitt
Russell
Gaylord
John H. Fuller
Landon Drive Gathers Steam as Oklahoma Backing Grows
Supporters of Alf M. Landon push toward the Republican convention after Oklahoma grants unit-rule backing to Landon. A heated intra-party dispute erupts as Louis Levand accuses Senator Borah of making baseless insinuations about Landon and Standard Oil. Borah denies targeting Landon and calls for an apology.
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Leonard B. Shubert
Associated Press Star
Washington
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Oklahoma
Kansan
Louis Levand
Wichita i
Senator Borah
Idaho
Landon
Borah
Levand
Standard Oil Company
Oklahoma Oil
Reorganization of AAA Effected Mercy Death Talk Disturbs
In Salem Oregon March 17 1934 anxieties rose as talk of mercy death at the Oregon home for feeble minded prompted fear of chloroforming. Four of five fled patients were returned while 969 residents heard no implication that doctors would kill children with mental deficiencies. Dr S B Laughlin of Willamette University regretted misread proposals. The head psychologist Mrs Idleman said persistent fears of chloroforming were unfounded.
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Salem
Ore
Mercy
Oregon
Five Districts For Administering Soil Act Created
Secretary Wallace announces reorganization of the AAA and five regions for the new soil conservation farm program. Senate and House conferees approve the $2.8897 billion independent offices supply bill with allocations for initial farm subsidy operation and soldiers' bonus prepayment. Senator Byrnes is among the conferees.
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Washington
Wallace
AAA
Senate
House
Byrnes
South Carolina
Senator Holland Funeral Tuesday
Green'sburg La March 17 Funeral services for State Senator Thomas M Holland 35 who died yesterday of a heart ailment will be held here today He served one term in the state senate won renomination in the January Democratic primary He was editor of the St Helena Echo for seven years He was appointed state commissioner of the Louisiana state debt moratorium for the sixth congressional district by Governor C K Allen He was a graduate of LSU Law School and a member of the Louisiana Press Association and the National Editorial Association He represented the flat district in the state senate
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Greensburg
Thomas M. Holland
State Senate
St. Helena
C. K. Allen
Louisiana
Louisiana State University Law School
Louisiana Press Association
National Editorial Association
Par
Lockwood Webb Dies Suddenly at Home
Lockwood Webb 49 of 213 E street died suddenly at his residence at 10:30 Tuesday morning after a recent illness and operation. The death was from a heart seizure. Interment likely at Batesville Arkansas. Webb was state agent for Fidelity and Guaranty Fire for Louisiana and Arkansas based in Monroe, with five years in post. He previously led the Louisiana Rating and Fire Prevention bureau and was active in Grace Episcopal church and Masonry. Surviving are his widow Myrtle Boyles of Batesville and son Martin Webb, a United States Military Academy candidate.
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Lockwood Webb
E. Street
Batesville
Ark
Webb
Louisiana
Arkansas
Fidelity and Guaranty Fire Corporation
Monroe
Louisiana Rating and Fire Prevention Bureau
Grace Episcopal Church
Myrtle Boyles
Martin Webb
United States
West. Point, N.Y
Pony Caught In Mine 19 Days Rescued by Family
Crooksville Ohio story: Guy Brown and his three sons rescued their five year old pony Fannie after 19 days trapped in a family mine in Louis Hollow. They dug a tunnel through 20 feet of coal despite cave-ins, bringing the pony to the surface and home to warm shelter.
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Crooksville
Guy Brown
Fannie
Louis Hollow
Brown
Eight Killed in Riots in Spain
Eight people died as scattered political clashes escalated in Spain after Premier Azana extended the nationwide state of alarm for a month. Bombing lynching gun battles and demonstrations marked renewed Left versus Right violence following the February 16 elections. President Alcala Zamora signed a decree to revise Jesuit property restorations.
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Madrid
Manuel Azana
Azana
Spain
Niceto Alcala Zamora
Woman wins custody in Chicago court in plea for baby
Juanita Borg 19 pleads she would scrub floors to keep her child George Marshall Borg Jr 13 months as she gains custody from George W Borg her millionaire father in law and former guardian. She had sued her 21 year old husband for separate maintenance.
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Pretty Juanita Borg
George Marshall Borg, Jr
Chicago
George W. Borg
Arrests Of Ten On West Side May Solve Pay Truck Robbery
Police on March 17 detained seven men and three women after an early morning raid on an upper West Side apartment seizing a small arsenal. William Brien, 25, linked to the 427000 armored pay truck holdup two years earlier, matching fingerprints. Arrests may also tie to other bank robberies on out of town routes and Fifth Avenue hijackings. Shotguns and various weapons were recovered.
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New York
Upper West Side
Polce
Wiliam Brien
Brookie
Rubellee Company
Fifth Avenue
Condon Says Hoffman Should Visit Him at Home
Dr. John F. Condon, returning from a Panama trip, told a fellow Santa Inez passenger he would be glad to discuss the Lindbergh case with New Jersey Gov. Harold G Hoffman at Condon’s Bronx home. He declined further comment on Hauptmann’s execution efforts, while Rev. Henry Beets relayed Condon’s invitation for Hoffman to visit the Bronx residence.
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New York
John F. Condon
Panama
Santa Inez
Creng
Harold G Hoffman
New Jersey
Henry Beets
Presbyterian Missions
South America
Valparaiso
Chile
Gov. Hoffman
Bronx
Physician Called When Girl Talks Nonstop in La.
In Shreveport on March 17 doctors treated Ruby Poole a 16 year old Haynesville honor student to halt incessant talking after influenza. Her parents J H Poole and Mrs Poole report she talks coherently but cannot stop. Physicians tried keeping visitors away and she remains under observation.
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Shreveport
Ruby Pooole
Honor
Ralking
Ruby
J. H. Poole
Haynesville
Haynesville High School
Lost Girl Reunited With Family After Homer Search Night Trip
Bessie Shaw, 13, daughter of Mrs. W. C. Price, found safe after a several hour search by CCC personnel, police, and firemen near Homer. She had wandered seven miles from Homer while chasing a sow, rode a night bus back home by 10:15 p.m.
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Homer
Bessie Shaw
W. C. Price
CCC
Police and Fire Department
Homer citieTh
R Ming
Germany to attend League of Nations council meeting
Berlin reports Germany will be represented at the League of Nations council in London as Reich denounces the Locarno pact. Joachim von Ribbentrop leads the German delegation in response to an invitation for full equality among delegates. Britain faces renewed pressure to uphold Locarno obligations amid Franco German tensions over remilitarization of the Rhineland.
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Melvin K. Whiteleather
Berlin
Germany
London
League of Nations Council
Reich
Foreign Office
J. A. C. Avenol
League
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Adolf Hitler
Devon Francis
Associated Press
Great Britain
France
Rhineland
Britain
Graw
Nee
Frankfort-on-Main
Geremany
New York Faces Trouble Over Strike Question
J Bambrick of the International Building Trades warned 35 labor leaders and about 300 400 workers that building operators refuse to restate all union workers after a two week walkout ended in arbitration. He said workers may call a two hour stoppage and then a general city stoppage as organized labor expresses resentment. Bambrick cited a $3,000 agreement for workers for the stoppage planning.
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Tin City
J. Bambrick
International Buildce Upon
Bambrock
Bambrick
Retired Hammond Lumber President John B Nalty Dies
Funeral services were scheduled in Brookhaven Miss for John B Nalty 78 who died at his Hammond La home. He led Hammond Lumber Co for 18 years before retirement and is survived by his widow six sons Lewis D W H Bernar Nalty Eugene A Nalty Raymond J Leonard A Nalty and a daughter Mrs C A Provost plus grandchildren.
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C. A Provost
New Theria
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