Army Threatens To Stop Advance In Chinese Area
Printed dispatch reports Chinese frontiers near Inner Mongolia as communist forces push toward Shansi and Shensi provinces. Japanese officials warn of possible intervention and vow to take steps to maintain balance in north China as Chiang Kai-shek forces move to counter the invasion.
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Peiping
China
Inner Mongolia
Takeo Imai
Hepei
Chahar
Imai
Shansi Province
Nanking
Shansi
Chiang Kai-Shek
Yen Hsi-Shan
Explanation of Sudden Cotton Change
New Orleans report says Oscar Johnston of the government cotton pool explains the overnight price shift used to settle March futures. The pool liquidated remaining holdings at 11.45 cents a pound after stopping March contracts, citing carry of 7,400 open long contracts through New Orleans brokers and little prior liquidation.
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New Orleans
New Orleans Cotton Exchange
Oscar Johnston
Government Cotton Pool
Shorts
Johnston
Accident mars start of twin Zeppelin propaganda tour
In Friedrichshafen Germany March 26 a gust damaged the Hindenburg during the rollout of a planned double air tour for next Sundays Reichstag election. The Zeppelins began the flight over Lake Constance while the Graf Zeppelin headed toward Stuttgart after the incident.
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Friedrichshafen
Germany
Rhineland
Ernst A. Lehmann
Paul von Hindenburg
Constance
Graf Zeppelin
Stutt
Woman testifies no assault in Gebhardt shooting
Vera Stretz cried as a detective quoted her denial of any assault, while state testimony linked to the fatal shot of Dr. Fritz Gebhardt, a wealthy German importer, in New York. In Spain, 60 thousand farm laborers seized farms across 263 villages in Badajoz province rejecting government land measures.
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New York
Vera Stretz
Fritz Gebhardt
Spain
Badajoz
Lightning part wins praise from beauty shop owners
New York March 26 beauty shops hail a zig zag lightning part as a modern method for arranging hair. The novelty draws attention from stylists and customers in salons.
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New York
Mississippi Legislature to Adjourn Sine Die at Noon
Jackson Mississippi March 26 The legislature near end of a harmonious session prepared to adjourn sine die at noon today lawmakers have been in session since January Representing the end of a long term the body planned a quiet close to duties and votes as it wrapped up business before adjourning.
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Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Lenoir City Students Strike Over Superintendent Rehire
More than 300 high school students in Lenoir City Tennessee stage a strike protesting the board of education’s failure to re-elect superintendent C. M. Mitchell. The action follows their classmate remarks likening adults to sissies.
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Lenoir City
Tenn
Board of Education
C. M. Mitchell
Airport projects and air marking programs approved
Washington announces 21 additional airport projects and 8 air marking programs approved for potential development with WPA funds by the commerce department.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Italian forces intensify aviation in the north in Ethiopia
Marshal Pietro Badoglio reports heavy air activity by Italian armies in the north while the southern front remains without notable events.
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Rome
Pietro Badoglio
Ethiopia
Gloria Vanderbilt Recovers From Grippe After Custody Battle
Little Gloria Vanderbilt, a 13 year old heiress valued at 5 million dollars, is recovering from the grippe after days of treatment by doctors who previously testified against her mother in a custody case.
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New York
Gloria Vanderbilt
Houston oil executive jailed on gas tax evasion charge
J H Campbell general manager of a Houston oil company was held in Houston city jail in default of a 10000 bond after arrest Wednesday at the request of Nashville authorities on a felony gas tax evasion charge.
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Houston
Texas
J. H. Campbell
Nashville, Tenn
Iceland Seeks Answers on 44 Shipwrecked Fishermen
Authorities in Reykjavik strive to clarify the reported disappearance of 44 fishermen believed marooned at a lonely sand point on Iceland's south coast following a shipwreck.
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Reykjavik
Iceland
Regional Rehab Aid Counts Grow in Three States
Regional Director T Roy Reid reports the settlement administration oversees 37 215 standard rehabilitation families across Arkansas Louisiana and Mississippi. Emergency aid reaches an additional 14 802 families.
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Little Rock
Ark
T. Roy Reid
Resettlement Administration
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Shanghai moves to invalidate ballot and call new election
The Shanghai consular body, bowing to Japanese demands, held an emergency session and decided to invalidate Tuesday's ballot. It instructed the municipal council to schedule a new election on April for councilors.
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Shanghai
President Is Now Fishing In Earnest
President Roosevelt and companions fish in the Atlantic near Great Inagua aboard the navy’s small presidential ship. The U S S Potomac hoisted the blue and white flag at Matthewtown as Roosevelt begins big game fishing with barra cuda and marlin expected. Frederic A Delano, uncle of the president, is noted as accompanying the party.
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Miami
Fla
Roosevelt
Atlantic
Great Inagua Island
U. S. S. Potomac
Matthewtown
Frederic A. Delano
America
Flood Waters Drive More West Virginians From Homes
Protracted flood conditions in West Virginia and Ohio forced hundreds from homes as rivers surged. In Wheeling West Virginia residents digging out debris faced a second crest, threatening Wheeling Island even as Pittsburgh escaped the latest flooding. The Monongahela and Allegheny rivers fed into the Ohio River, with Pennsylvania seeing improving conditions.
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Associated Press
West Virginia
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Monongahela
Allegheny
Ohio River
Pittsburgh
Wheeling
W. Va
Wheeling Island
Explosion Kills 20 in Tuletenango Mexico
In Tuletenango, a railroad town 125 miles northwest of Mexico City, a coal car catching fire rolled into a dynamite laden car, causing a blast that killed twenty people and injured around sixty. The explosion destroyed the railroad station complex, water tank, freight cars, and several houses.
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Mexico City
Tuletenango
Mexico
Hoffman Rejects Further Reprieve for Hauptmann
Officials for Governor Hoffman went to the Hauptmann home to test witness claims about rail ladder holes matching attic joints. The governor refused further reprieve unless the attorney general agreed, leaving Hauptmann’s fate to the court of pardons and potential judicial intervention.
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Associated Press
Trenton
N. J
Harold G. Hoffman
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Bronx
John Ferris
Hoffman
Court of Pardons
Lindbergh
David T. Wilentz
Hauptmann
Six-Million-Dollar Glass Heads for California Telescope
A six-million dollar 200 inch telescope mirror begins a 3,300 mile journey from Corning New York to Pasadena California aboard a specially equipped freight train. Dr George W Mc Cauley and his family witnessed the departure as railroad crews and officials join the move of the worlds largest piece of glass bound for the California Institute of Technology observatory.
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Corning
N. Y
California Institute of Technology Observatory
Pasadena
Cal
George W. McCauley
Corning Glass Works
McCauley
Woman Arrested in Lord Slaying in Port Gibson
Mrs. Evelyn Cliburn, 25, mother of three, held without bond in Claiborne county jail on murder charges tied to the killing of Joseph E. Lord, 50, a Hermanville planter. Sheriff Mack Jones says she was a friend of Jack Curtis Early, 33, a federal soil conservation worker who disappeared before Lord’s body was found in a shallow grave about 200 yards away.
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Port Gibson
Miss
Evelyn Cliburn
Claiborne County
Joseph E. Lord
Hermanville
One of World's Tiniest Babies Dies Suddenly
Nancy Lee Vogt died at 53 days in a California hospital incubator after fragile growth and illness linked to immaturity and organ issues. Weighing about 15 ounces at birth, she reached three pounds three and three quarters ounces before a rapid decline following a feeding.
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Oakland
Calif
Nancy Lee Vogt
John W. Sherrick
Anne Vogt
Death cuts nine year term to three days
Randolph Foote a 36 year old New Orleans prisoner had his nine year penitentiary sentence for embezzlement cut to three days after dying in a penal farm field at Angola three days after admission. Officials cited sunstroke or heart attack as the cause. Foote had complained of illness but worked on for exercise per a field foreman's report.
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Baton Rouge
Randolph Foote
New Orleans
Angola
R. L. Himes
Tax Plan In House Advances Open Hearings Basis
The house ways and means committee accepted the subcommittee tax program as a basis for hearings. It calls for a new corporation tax on net income kept in reserves, aiming for 591 million dollars, plus a 90 percent windfall tax on unpaid old processing taxes. Railroads would face the tax on undistributed income but may file consolidated returns.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Administration Revenue
AAA
Coughton
North Carolina
Roosevelt
State to supply highway labor under WPA plan
Louisiana will provide labor for state bond highway projects under an agreement between the highway commission and the state employment service. Chairman A P Tugwell said the move would save hundreds of thousands and allow up to 1,600,000 man-hours on state and federal aid jobs to apply to the WPA program. The state earns 90 cents per man hour on each project from the $6 million WPA road allocation.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana State Employment Service
Highway Commission
The
Employment Service
A. P. Tugwell
Mississippians Kill Quick Divorce Bill
Mississippi House shot down the six weeks' divorce bill 58 to 27, ending a bid to lure out of state divorces by Gulf Coast courts. Lawmakers rejected the plan to attract marital malcontents, insisting Mississippi would apply its own laws to all cases.
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Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
House
Senate
Mississippi Gulf Coast
Reno
Nev
Jimmie Ford
Jackson County
Thomas Bailey
Meridian
Mississipni
General Parker Named Commander of Eighth Corps Area
Maj. Gen. Frank Parker has been appointed commander of the army eighth corps area, succeeding Maj. Gen. Johnson Hagood who was relieved after criticizing New Deal relief work. They were West Point classmates.
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Frank Parker Fabove
Eighth Corps
Johnson Hagood
West Point
Associated Press
Proclaim Bowes Day as Honorary Mayor in Twin Cities
A joint proclamation by Monroe Mayor Arnold Bernstein and West Monroe Mayor C C Bell names Edward Bowes honorary mayor of the Twin Cities for sending Major Bowes radio unit to appear Sunday and Monday under American Legion auspices for G. B. Conley T. B. Sanatorium benefit. A telegram to Bowes will be read on NBC. Saturday March 28 designated Major Bowes Day in both cities. Unit No. 14 will perform Sunday and Monday at 3:30 and 9:59 in Parish High School Auditorium.
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Arnold Bernstein
Monroe
C C. Bell
West Monroe
Edward Bowes
Twin Cities
American Legion Post
G. B Conley T
Major Bowes Das
Major Bowes Radio Hour
Doctor F J Willey Dies Sudden in Arkansas
Word came of the sudden death of Dr. F. J. Willey of Mer Rouge in Little Rock Arkansas at 5 30 am Thursday from heart failure. He was a skilled physician often consulted at St Francis and Riverside sanitariums in Monroe. A Vanderbilt graduate of 1914 he trained at North Louisiana sanitarium Shreveport and studied ENT in Chicago before settling in Mer Rouge around 1922.
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Monroe
F. J. Willey
Mer Rouge
Little Rock
Ark
Met Rouge
Willey
St. Francis
Riverside
J. E. Walsworth
Vanderbilt University
North Louisiana Sanitarium
Shreveport
Chicago
Mer
Fatal Auto Crash Claims Louis D LeDoux in Lake Charles
Louis D LeDoux age 28, son of T A LeDoux of Jennings area, died from injuries after an early morning collision on the Old Spanish Trail east of Jennings. His car reportedly struck the rear of a truck after passing another truck. the truck driver was Rotbert.
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Lake Charles
Louis D. LeDoux
T. A. LeDoux
Jennings
Rot Burt
Eden vows to back Locarno pact amid European crisis
British foreign secretary Eden told the House of Commons Britain will honor the Locarno treaty and guarantee nonaggression among Germany France and Belgium while urging open minded response to Germany's forthcoming proposals. He warned against equating public sentiment with treaty terms and called for unity in policy to seek permanent pacification in Europe.
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London
Anthony Eden
House of Commons
Eden
Great Britain
Germany
France
Belgium
Locarno
Europe
United States and Britain follow London pact signing
London reports that the United States and Great Britain followed up the signing of the new London naval treaty with diplomatic exchanges. A British spokesman said the steps mark continued collaboration after the agreement.
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Japan
London
United States
Great Britain
Congress Opens Townsend Plan Investigation
Washington March 10 opening skirmishes in a Townsend plan probe show $50 000 allotted for hearings. Rep Bell of Missouri leads the House committee and vows startling revelations as Robert J Clements faces questioning over the $200 a month old age pension scheme.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Robert J Clements
House
Representative Bell
Missouri
Bell
Clements
Auto Crash Kills One and Injures Five on Mooringsport Road
SHREVEPORT La March 26 One person is dead and five injured after a head on collision on a concrete bridge on Mooringsport road eighteen miles from Shreveport. Victim Joe McLerran about 40 was killed instantly. Injured include A E Willis driver of the car containing McLerran and Willis Mrs J A Brown 34 riding with McLerran and Willis Murray Eastman 35 Mooringsport his wife and daughter Ellen Mrs Eastman was the most seriously hurt.
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Shreveport
Mooringsport Road
Joe McLerran
McLeran
A. E. Willis
McLerran
J. A. Brown
Willis
Murray Eastman
Mooringse
Ellen
Eastman
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Scotland
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Gloria
Bruno
Tugwell
Hagood
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Thord
G. H. Anderson
Associated Press Foreign Staff
Congress
Townsend
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