France And Britain In Agreement On Naval Pact
The United States Great Britain and France sign a new naval treaty in London. The accord removes size limits but the US and UK pledge to keep their navies at the same levels. Norman H. Davis and Anthony Eden sign exchange of letters outlining aims and limits.
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Albert W. Wilson
Associated Press
London
United States
Great Britain
France
Norman H. Davis
Anthony Eden
Davis
Hitler Rebuff Studied by British Cabinet
London March 25 Britain's cabinet discussed Adolf Hitler's rejection of Locarno power proposals as crisis over Rhineland occupation deepened. Sir Thomas Inskip attended as defense coordinator, and Joseph Boncour conferred with Anthony Eden before traveling to Paris. Ribbentrop met Eden after the meeting.
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Charles P. Nutter
Associated Press
London
Adolf Hitler
Rhineland
Stanley Baldwin
Thomas Inskip
Britain
Joseph Paul Boncour
Anthony Eden
Foreign Office
Paris
Hitler
World Court
Rmany
Locarno
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Eden
House of Commons
Unidentified Driver Drowns at Gretna Ferry Landing
In New Orleans on March 25 a truck driver, wearing glasses, fell asleep at Gretna ferry landing and drove into the Mississippi River. Witnesses say he was aroused, crossed onto the ferry boat, and his vehicle plummeted through the guard rail into the water. Search efforts led by Beauregard Miller continued for the missing man.
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New Orleans
Mississippi
Gretna Ferry
Beauregard Miller
Po; Gretna
Louisiana to assume parish relief operations April 1
Transfer of parish welfare units from federal relief to the Louisiana state emergency relief administration takes effect April 1. No interruption in welfare services is expected as same personnel continue aid to the unemployed and mothers’ aid without reapplication. Frank Peterman and James Crutcher have been involved in supervision. Harry J. Early is the new state relief director.
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Baton Rouge
Federal
State Emergency Relief Administration
Louisiana
Harry J. Early
State Emergency
Early
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Frank H. Peterman
James H. Crutcher
Peterman
James A. Noe
Last Minute Briefs From Washington and Tennessee
A Ways and Means subcommittee kept processing and other excise taxes out of a report as the full committee prepares to hear the new revenue program. Harris Reeder earns an eighth grade diploma after missing two weeks due to his wedding to the Independence School’s teacher. Postmaster General Farley reports January air mail volume at a record 1,177,753 pounds, up 337,467 from the prior year.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Livingston, Tenn
Harris Reeder
Independence Community
Farley
Roosevelt Enjoys First Day At Sea Aboard Potomac
President Roosevelt reports a pleasing first day of fishing off Great Inagua Island in the Bahamas and awaits a first look at the new presidential ship the U S S Potomac. The Potomac will replace the Mayflower and Sequoia for presidential use. The fishing party, including five members, sailed Monday evening aboard destroyers Monagan and Dale, now bound toward Mathewtown.
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Miami
Fla
Roosevelt
Mathewtown
Great Inagua Island
Bahamas
Coast Guard
Appointments by Noe Listed
E N Payne of Spring Hill named to state board of parole by Governor Noe to succeed the late Dillon of Many. Other selections include Robert H Hope for tax collector aid in Quachita parish T L Huber Norman F Anderson and Ernest F Clooney of Lake Charles as river port pilots board members and examiners. Dr J N Jones named to Morehouse parish school board ward 4 succeeding Ed Lofton. James FR Smith also named to the board.
Execution Date For Hauptmann Six Days Away
New York reports fear for Anna Hauptmann wife of the Lindbergh baby killer amid death by electric chair looming in six days. Governor Hoffman silent on threats she allegedly made to kill herself and her son if Hauptmann dies.
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New York
Anna Hauptmann
Lindbergh
Harold G. Hoffman
New Jersey
Associated Press
Gtaff
Trenton
N. J
Richard Hauptmann
C. Lloyd Fisher
State Court of Pardons
State Prison
Hauptmann
Charles Zied
Philadelphia
Camden
John F. Wassie Condon
Bronx
David T. Wilentz
Dr. Condon
Jassie
United States
Homer S. Cummings
Gaston B. Means
Miracle bolt of lightning aids crippled woman in Port Keyport
Miss Adeline Slover, 40, long crippled by arthritis, walked unaided after claiming a lightning strike outside her window gave her instant relief. She had suffered paralysis in hands and legs since age 25 and says strength has surged since the incident. Neighbors were astonished by her renewed mobility.
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Keyport
N. J
Adeline Slover
Senator Pope Moves to Omit Cotton Provisions from Act
Senator Pope of Idaho announced he would try to strike the cotton provisions from the commodity exchange act to advance the grain features of the bill in this session. The move aims to secure congressional passage of the grain measures while removing cotton language.
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Washington
Pope
Idaho
Shorter College selects May queen Charlotte Powers
Students at Shorter college in Rome Georgia have chosen Charlotte Powers of Lindale Georgia as queen for the May day festival. The Associated Press photo accompanies the crowning story.
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Shorter College
Rome
Charlotte Powers
Lindale
Associated Press
Hirota Pledges No War While Premier
Tokyo March 25 Koki Hirota declared that Japan would not wage war during his tenure as premier. He asserted a peaceful stance amid mounting global tensions and emphasized Japan's commitment to diplomacy.
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Tokyo
Koki Hirota
Japan
Quachita Parish Red Cross Raises Flood Relief Quota
The Quachita parish chapter receives a telegram from Admiral Cary T. Grayson increasing its flood relief quota from 600 to 309. The first 600 was fully subscribed and mailed to national headquarters. Chapter chairman C R Tidwell says urgent subscription efforts will begin immediately.
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Quachita Parish
Red Cross
Cary T. Grayson
American Red Cross
Admiral Grayson
C.R Tidwell
Nationalist troops mass for drive in Shansi to oust communists
Four thousand nationalist government and provincial forces were assembling in southwestern Shansi for a planned offensive against 5,000 communist invaders in Hungtung and nearby districts, according to Chinese advices.
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Peiping
i-Pi
Shansi
Hungtung
Fire Chiefs Elect Roe President at Southwestern Meet
J. Ray Roe of Abilene Texas was chosen president of the Southwestern Association of Fire Chiefs at the closing session in Shreveport Louisiana. Dallas was selected as the 1937 convention city without opposition.
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Shreveport
J. Ray Roe
Abilene
Texas
Southwestern Association of Fire Chiefs
Dallas
Tiny Count Takes First Ride In Perambulator
London report says Little Count Haugwite Reventlow, son of Barbara Hutton heiress, enjoyed his first trip in a shiny limousine style perambulator. Two nurses accompanied him on a tour of private gardens at the Haugwitz Reventlow residence but they forgot the gate key, sending one nurse back to fetch it. The baby slept through the Bayswater road commotion as traffic swirled nearby.
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London
Count Haugwite-Reventlow
Barbara Hutton
Woolworth
Haugwitz Reventlow
Bayswater Road
Menige Yestery
Blonde Elva Cross Convicted of Manslaughter in New Orleans
Elva Cross, 25, a New Orleans bar room hostess, was found guilty of manslaughter in the knife slaying of Roland B. Steele, 24, an $40,000 Irish sweepstakes winner from Eutaw Alabama, in a French Quarter bar. The deal carried a 1 to 3 year minimum and up to 20 years maximum. Langhauser, jointly charged, faces separate outcome as defense notes defense of bartender friend. Paul McCullough, 52, famed humorist with Clark and McCullough, died in Medford Massachusetts.
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New Orleans
Blonde Elva Cross
Roland B. Steele
Eutaw
Ala
Steele
Henry Langhauser
Langhauser
Tax collections improve in Qua chita parish
Eighty percent of Qua chita parish property taxes for 1935 were paid by Wednesday marking a sharp early turnout. The $1,000 home tax exemption aided some, but most early payments came from large corporations and smaller firms with homeowners lagging on remaining assessments.
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Quachita Parish
Stansel Stricken With Heart Attack In Jackson
Horace Stansel state PWA director and speaker of the house of representatives was stricken with a heart attack at his Jackson hotel this morning and reported in critical condition.
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Jackson
Miss
Horace Stansel
PWA
House of Representatives
Roosevelt forces open to Georgia preferential primary
Marion Allen campaign manager said Roosevelt forces in Georgia are willing to enter a state-wide preferential primary against Eugene Talmadge or any other candidate with as little as one week’s notice.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Eugene Talmadge
Marion Allen
Legislature awaits gasoline tax report before adjournment
Jackson Mississippi March 25. The legislature awaited the report of a joint conference committee on a compromise gasoline tax collection bill one of the few items left before adjournment anticipated tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Second cousin testifies on Vera Stretz visit to Gebhardt
In New York on March 25 a second cousin of slain Dr. Fritz Gebhardt testified that Vera Stretz visited Gebhardt and the doctor twice with her lover-employer. He said he treated Stretz cordially during those visits.
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New York
Fritz Gebhardt
Vera Stretz
Gebhardt
Louisiana flood threat remote in lower Mississippi valley
Anxious residents who endured 1927 flood were told by New Orleans weather observers and army engineers that spring flood risk is remote unless torrential rains persist in Mississippi tributaries. The flood control system now protects the valley better and would limit any recurrence of that catastrophe.
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New Orleans
Mississippi Valley
Mississippi
Death theory in Somerville killing sparks Ireland inquiry
Castletownshend March 25 The Irish Free State police search for the slayers of Vice-Admiral Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville rests on a theory he was killed over his recruiting work for the British navy.
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Castletownshend
Ireland
Irish Free State Police
Henry Boyle Townshend Somerville
Orleans Deputy Sheriff shoots self in legs
New Orleans March 25 Deputy Sheriff Sam Romano was responding to noises near his home when his holstered gun dropped and discharged wounding him in both legs. He saw flames on his pants, put out the fire, and was transported by ambulance to a hospital in stable condition.
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New Orleans
Sam Romano
Romano
Senate panel hears plea to run irrigation in Norris bill
Washington March 25 A senate agriculture sub committee heard a plea for the reclamation bureau to operate the irrigation phases of the Norris Mississippi Valley authority bill as part of the broad development.
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Washington
Reclamation Bureau
Norris Mississippi Valley Authority
Senate Agriculture
Transfer Sought Tampa Fl Joseph Shoemaker Flogging Case
Presiding Judge Robert T. Dowell weighed a defense motion to transfer the Joseph Shoemaker flogging trials to a neighboring county amid charges and counter charges of communism and Ku Klux Klan terrorism in Tampa Florida.
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Tampa
Fla
Robert T. Dowell
Joseph Shoemaker
Train Death Probe Near Vivian La
An investigation was begun into the death of A. P. Matthews about 38 who was crushed by the wheels of a southbound Kansas City Southern train a half mile south of Vivian Louisiana.
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Vivian
A. P. Matthews
Kansas City
Here
Flood Fears Rise as Ohio River Rises Across States
Heavy rains swell rivers and flood plains from Pennsylvania to Ohio. Damaging floods threaten western Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia as the Ohio River crests threaten Louisville and Evansville. Death toll climbs with more bodies recovered and new drownings reported.
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Associated Press
East
Middle West
Ohio
Portsmouth
Cincinnati
Mississippi
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Massachusetts
Vermont
Maine
Connecticut
Maryland
Virginia
Missouri
Wisconsin
New York
North Carolina
Georgia
New Hampshire
Tennessee
Monongahela
Cenetral
Pittsburgh
Cinccinnati
Louisville
Evansville
Ind
Viey
Hickman
Kidnap Plot Reported Against Toronto Baby Race Contender
Police investigate an alleged kidnapping attempt on five year old Mary Kenny daughter of contender for the Charles Vance Millar baby race. A woman threatened to force her into a car and a man tried to grab her as she walked home from school. The Millar will awards 500000 to the Toronto mother with the most children in ten years after his 1928 death.
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Toronto
Pollice
Mary Kenny
Matthew Kenny
Charles Vance Millar
Mary
Reward Offered for Arrest of Mississippi Suspect
Port Gibson Mississippi March 25 UP I A reward of 300 is posted for Jack Curtis Early 33 itinerant farmer sought for the slaying of Joseph E B Lord 53 Clareborne county farmer with whom Early lived Five other farm residents are held on related charges Mrs Gordon Emmerich Mrs on Cliburn Gaither Knee a named King and a black man are in custody Lord last was seen Feb 27 His body with skull fracture was found in a ravine behind the house last Sunday
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Port Gibson
Miss
UPI
Jack Curtis Early
Joseph EB. Lord
Clareborne County
Early
Knoxkeville
Tenn
Lord's Farm
Gordon Emmerich
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M'Cullough
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