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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1936
Page
2
The column blends Lloyd George remarks on Britain and France and a stark warning of sending troops to German soil with a space and science section noting binary stars, cosmic timescales, and the Milky Way. It contrasts wartime policy with celestial phenomena and economic notes.
The article reports on a New Deal housing plan led by Senator Robert Wagner to create a new housing authority replacing the Public Works Administration housing division. It envisions up to 976 million dollars over several years for low rent and slum clearance, with loans and grants to public housing agencies, authority to issue bonds, and demonstration projects for rapid sale to agencies.
The Senate opened the impeachment trial of Federal Judge Halsted Ritter of Florida amid charges including receivership fees and tax evasion. Defense denied all charges, while prosecutors alleged improprieties connected to a former partner and Rankin. Ritter disputed the claims and asserted his court’s integrity.
F C Lowden of Illinois is tentatively chosen as temporary chairman and keynoter for the Republican convention in Cleveland. The plan indicates an Easterner will be permanent chairman, possibly Walter Edge of New Jersey. The piece notes possible Democratic choices for keynoter and a slate of convention dynamics in several states.
Adolf Hitler's proposals for peace in Europe and his rejection of the Locarno plan were handed to British Foreign Minister Eden by Joachim von Ribbetrop and sent to French and Belgian ambassadors. The British cabinet viewed the plan as worthy of consideration while France called it a cunning split. In Austria, the diet approved general military service for males 18 to 42 with Mussolini's support, signaling a united front with the Reich.
A violent tornado system swept across Mississippi Alabama Georgia Arkansas and Tennessee causing widespread destruction. About 400 killed and hundreds injured with Tupelo Mississippi and Gainesville Georgia sustaining heavy losses as dozens of communities report fatalities and property damage.
Mrs. Roosevelt christened the navy aircraft carrier Yorktown in Newport News aboard an army plane, breaking a champagne bottle on its bow. The Yorktown, costing about 2 million dollars, features a flying deck 109 feet 6 inches wide and 809 feet 6 inches long, speed over 35 mph, and accommodates 2,072 officers and men with about 142 airplanes. its sister ship Enterprise is due for completion a few months later.
Secretary Wallace discloses major cotton and crop program payments after pressure from Senator Vandenberg. The largest 1934 cotton payment, $123,747, went to Oscar Johnston's Mississippi company. Other large sums went to state prisons, Puerto Rican and Hawaiian producers, and California, Colorado, and Montana farms.
Brane Hauptmann received cremation in New York after a private funeral service. The condemned man, executed in Trenton for the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and murder, insisted on his innocence as ashes were to be sent to Germany.
Reports say Badoglio’s northern troops overwhelmed 20 000 Ethiopian soldiers at Mai Deu with 7 000 dead and 16 officers plus about 1 000 Eritrean Askaris killed. Ethiopians retreat toward 50 000 troops near Lake Ashangi eight miles away as negotiations with Italy loom.
After a massively destructive tornado hits Gainesville Georgia, residents search debris for survivors and bodies as Cordele Georgia and Greensboro North Carolina report prior damage from a tornado the week before. Photos credit The Atlanta Constitution.
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