New Orleans Storm Leaves Hundreds Homeless and Struck by Tornado
About 400 people were rendered homeless as a sudden fierce thunderstorm and tornado ripped through downtown New Orleans. Red Cross led relief with 200 federal workers aiding recovery while Mayor Pratt promised city support.
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New Orleans
Red Cross
A. Miles Pratt
California
T. Semmes Walmsley
Mr. Pratt
Washington
George Myer
National Disaster Relief Staff
I. M. Cline
United States Weather Bureau
Almonaster
Eads Street
Upper
Franklin Avenue
Rivers Daily Stages Flood Present 24-Hour Stage
Flood stage updates show River levels rising across the system with a 24 hour outlook. Authorities issue staged flood alerts as water courses crest and predictions call for continued high flows through the period.
Colder weather to spread east after Midwest rains
Colder air following rains in the Midwest was forecast to move eastward on Tuesday. Snow and freezing temperatures were seen from Missouri to Michigan with several inches in Chicago and Springfield Missouri. Temperatures varied widely across the region from 12 degree Winnipeg to 66 in Charleston and 62 in Norfolk.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Mississippi
Richmond
Missouri
Michigan
Chicago
Springfield
Alabama
Georgia
Kentucky
Maine
Texas
Dallas
St. Louis
Kansas City
Des Moines
Minneapolis
Boston
New York
Washington
Winnipeg Canada
Southeast
Norfolk
Charlotte
Charleston
Savannah
Atlanta
Macon
Nashville
Louisville
Kite Fever and Bar Name Wins Highlight Town Antics
Winds lift kite fever among Twin Cities youth with District Judge Garrett among the flyers. Virginia hotel manager J L Keenan awards Blanche G Oliver for naming the new bar Cheerio Bar. A Barkdull Faulk pupil writes Rain no game in a football essay. A southern Senator accused of publicity shunning it and Mary Jones seeks navy insight by visiting a sailor.
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Twin Cities
David I. Garrett
J. L. Keenan
Virginia
Blanche G. Oliver
Keenan
Barkdull Faulk School
Disorders Mark Municipal Election In Kansas City
Chaos marked the Kansas City municipal election as the Democratic organization clashed with the fusionist ticket. A black election worker, William Findley, was shot and killed at a polling place, reportedly from a bullet aimed at a Republican judge. Douglas Gregg was badly beaten, and reporter Justin Bowersock was slugged while gunfire rang out near a first district polling site.
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Kansas City
Citizens’ Fusionist
William Findley
Douglas Gregg
Justin Bowersock
Kansas City Star
Citizens Fusion
First
Missouri River
Bankhead cotton control bill faces final Senate vote
The Bankhead compulsory cotton measure advances amid heated Senate debate described as among the Roosevelt administration's most far reaching actions. An amendment lifts the tax on excess production to 75 percent of market value, while Bailey seeks to exempt the first eight bales per farm.
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Washington
Senate
Bankhead
Alabama
Bailey
North Carolina
Roosevelt
Senate probes seek specific allegations on Long and Overton
Washington March 27 The senate elections committee resumed consideration of petitions to remove Senators Long and Overton of Louisiana and asked petitioners for more precise charges The chair said the group would request names witnesses and nature of evidence allegedly suppressed from New Orleans hearings on Overton's 1932 election If specifics can be provided hearings may proceed otherwise a report to the senate will follow The petitions from Louisiana anti Long women’s committee seek swift details within about ten days
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Washington
Senate Elections Committee
Louisiana
Senate
Long
Overton
George
Georgia
New Orleans
Edwin S. Broussard
Judiciary Committee
Women's Committee of Louisiana
Jury To Try High Seas Murder Case Sworn In
A jury to try Andrew Donaldson Kirwan for alleged murder on the high seas was sworn in the court of Federal Judge Robert A Inch shortly before noon today in New York.
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New York
Andrew Donaldson Kirwan
High Seas
Robert A. Inch
Plan to Boost Workers Wages and Labor Board Appointments
Washington March 27. Leo Wolman of Columbia University is named neutral member of the automobile labor board to be seated in Detroit to implement the settlement run by President Roosevelt. Nicholas Kelly and Richard Byrd join as industry and labor representatives respectively.
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Washington
Leo Wolman
Columbia University
Automobile Labor Board
Detroit
Roosevelt
Wolman
Nicholas Kelly
Richard Byrd
Pontiac
Mich
NRA
Associated Press
Corrigan-McKinney Steel Company
Wagner
New York
Naval Strength To Be Increased By New Measure
President Roosevelt proposed further reductions in naval strength while signing the bill authorizing construction up to treaty limits. The measure plans 65 destroyers 32 submarines four cruisers and over 1100 airplanes with expenditures estimated at 500 to 750 million dollars over seven years and final ship plane decisions left to the budget bureau.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Budget Bureau
Roosevelt Veto Upheld on Veterans Benefit Bill
President Roosevelt rejected the money bill that would liberalize veterans allowances. A veto message was ready for Congress, targeting the veterans amendments and the independent offices measure. House expected to vote soon. Senate vote likely later as the bill stalled on the veto.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
House
Senate
Independent Offices
State Capitol Upkeep Costs Soar in Louisiana
Baton Rouge prepares for the new seven and half million dollar state house as maintenance costs surge. In twenty years Louisiana’s capitol expenses rose 1,523 percent from 1914 to 1934, reaching 217,160 with 100 staff members. A lack of supervision and legal disregard are blamed for high costs under Huey Long.
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Louisiana Capitol
Baton Rouge
Louisiana State House
Huey Long
True Tabloid Tales on the Sixth District War Chest
The Baton Rouge New Orleans fund drive shows voluntary contributors giving twenty percent of pay last payday to a war chest for the sixth congressional district. Huey Long faces a hostile anti Long district while state employees fear the political payoff and tax the public.
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Baton Rouge
Klover
New Orleans
Huey
Broussard
Ransdell
Public Service Commission
Dudley LeBlanc
Roosevelt Restores Air Mail Service to Private Lines
President Roosevelt moves to open immediate bidding by private lines for air mail and transfer operations during a temporary period before new legislation. He met with post office officials, plans to announce details on return from a ten day vacation. Senate hearing on the Sheppard bill drew war and navy opposition to training subsidies amid aviation design funding proposals.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Post Office Department
Senate Commerce Committee
War and Navy Departments
Commerce Department
Navy Department
Inside story of Julian death told by secretary
Miss Leona Levy, Julian's secretary, describes his final days and the alleged motive behind his death. She says he was broke, faced eviction, and proposed marriage she refused, leading him to check out. She recalls her own suicide attempt and condemns doctors for saving her.
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Associated Press
Shanghai
Leonora Levy
C. C. Julian
Miss Levy
Julian
California
Oklahoma
Astor House
Parker Exonerated in Fatal Altercation in Arkansas Lumber Yard
A coroner's investigation in Little Rock exonerated J. E. Parker in a fatal altercation that left K. M. Hall, 54, a noted Arkansas lumberman, dead from a head injury after an earlier clash in a lumber yard. Parker was stabbed in the back during the incident, and both men resided in Little Rock.
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Little Rock
Ark
J. E. Parker
K. M. Hall
Arkansas
Hall
Parker
Shushan Resigns as New Orleans Levee Board Chief
Abe L. Shushan, longtime president of the Orleans parish levee board and Huey P. Long ally, resigns citing ill health. He has served since 1920 and oversaw the $4,000,000 Shushan land and sea airport project on Lake Pontchartrain, whose model airport was recently dedicated.
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Shushan
New Orleans
Abe L. Shushan
Orleans Parish
Huey P. Long
Levee Board
Touro Infirmary
John M. Parker
O. K. Allen
Baton Rouge
Shushan Land and Sea
Lake Pontchartrain
Extortion Plot Fails In Thomasville Trap
Thomasville Georgia March 27 extortionists tried to collect ten thousand dollars from Howard M Hanna Cleveland financier and Mark Hanna relative but the plan collapsed as both plotters and a large team of officers failed to secure any payoff. Notes had warned of a trap and officers monitored the dummy package at the second rendezvous while Hanna stayed on his estate.
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Thomasville
Howard M. Hanna
Cleveland
Mark Hanna
Hanna
Valdosta
Albany
Eddie
Great River On Steady Rise In Mississippi Valley
Memphis reports rising Mississippi waters as flood stage nears at Cairo and Memphis. Meteorologist Brist says a substantial rise is expected but no cause for alarm, with levees built to withstand crests well above flood stages.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi Valley
Mississippi
U. S
Cairo
F. W. Brist
Mississippi River
Man slays woman and kills himself in Dallas apartment
In East Dallas Mrs. Rachael Stefano, 30, was shot in the head three times by Alva Sweeney, 30, who then fatally shot himself with the same pistol. No witnesses. coroner investigation starts to determine motive.
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Dallas
Tex
Rachael Stefano
Alva Sweeney
Bridges at Monroe and Alexandria to be finished
Louisiana highway board authorized Governor O K Allen to advertise sale of 500000 dollars of five percent bonds to finish Monroe and Alexandria bridge projects. He said 7000000 dollar Baton Rouge PWA bridge contracts would be advertised within 40 days. Bond sales were improving with highway bonds near 98 and a half.
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New Orleans
Louisiana State Highway Advisory Board
O. K. Allen
Monroe
Alexandria
Allen
Baton Rouge
Supreme Court
The
Highway Commission
Public Works Administration
PWA
Kenner
Gulf Coast
A. P. Tugwell
Federal Bureau of Public Roads
Monroe Bridge Project Nears Completion
J M Breard of the state highway commission advisory board reports by long distance call that the Monroe Quachita river bridge is assuredly to be completed. The move hinges on Governor Allen authorized to sell 500000 in five percent bonds for bridge work at Monroe Alexandria and other sites. Atkins and Breard, Monroe board members, have pushed for finishing the new span.
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Quachita River
Monroe
J. M. Breard
State Highway Commission Advisory Board
New Orleans
Alexandria
Breard
Atkins
reader letters argue about timing of war
In Santa Monica March 27 a reader complains that many Suns day writers emphasize war. He doubts the urgency of fighting now and suggests that Germany, France, United States, and Japan have not fought in years or yet, arguing for delaying conflict.
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Santa Monica
Cal
Germany
France
United States
Japan
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