Losses and Looting in Flooded New England States
Floods across New England grow worse with 136 known dead, more missing, and damage near 300 million as relief services mobilize across six states. National guards patrol cities like Hartford and Springfield to curb looting while vast numbers flee homes and transit halts amid rising rivers such as the Connecticut and Merrimack.
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Northampton
Lowell
Mass
Hartford
Conn
Connecticut River
New England
Tillman
Boston
Maloney
Merrimack River
Fred Vanderschmidt
Associated Press
Ohio Valley
America
Oshkosh Urges Aid for Flood Victims Campaign
Oshkosh chapter launches emergency fund drive to aid thousands homeless across flood regions. Chairwoman Mrs. R. H. Bitter urges $740 quota, with funds routed via Earl J. Fuller. Red Cross warns 38,000 families in 11 states need relief. nationwide effort to provide shelter, food, clothing, medical care. Deaths and damages tallied by state. New England cities under guard as floods sweep Ohio to the Potomac.
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Red Cross
Oshkosh
R. H. Bitter
Earl
Chamber of Commerce
Flood Picture By States Cities Towns
Recap of the flood situation in Ohio Kentucky Virginia and West Virginia with hundreds of homes flooded thousands homeless several towns reporting deaths and disease spread Bridgeport and West Wheeling flooded Richland and Parkersburg among hard hit areas relief efforts food and water shortages and dam concerns across the tri state region Continuous coverage notes rising James River and high Ohio River level with widespread disruption and evacuations.
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Cincinnati
Weather Bureau
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Red Cross
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Martin’s Ferry
Steubenville
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Wellesville
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Tristate
Virginia
Richmond
James River
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Wellsburg
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Wheeling Island
Ohio River
Smith Hall
Bloomsburg
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Sunbury
Harrisburg
Wildwood
Huntingdon
Johnstown
New Sugar Beet Program Expected After Wallace Meeting
Ohio Indiana and Michigan representatives said a satisfactory new sugar beet program would be formed within days after a conference with Secretary Wallace. Attendees urged an early announcement under the soil conservation and domestic allotment act replacing the AAA as only a few beet acreage contracts have been signed while growers await the impact of new farm programs.
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Indiana
Wallace
Sherman Minton
James I. Farley
Prentiss Brown
Frank C. Kniffin
Frank Oberst
Farmers and Manufacturers Beet Sugar Association
AAA
Three Are Killed in $75,000 Explosion in Texarkana
In Texarkana Tex seven explosion and fire destroyed six Sandflat district businesses. Three people died including a fortune teller named Van Zan found above a grocery store. Firemen searched the ruins for other possible victims as flames swept the area at 1:55 a.m.
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Sandflat
van Zan
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Breas
Senate stalls WPA probe as committee report withdrawn
Washington reports that Senate Democratic Leader Joseph T. Robinson urged changes and withdrew a favorable report on a Davis led Republican bid to probe the Works Progress Administration. New lineup adds Pittman and Barkley to the committee, expanding Democratic control and delaying action on the investigation. Davis urged nonpartisan citizen committees to review WPA appointments and pressed for a full inquiry before Congress considers Roosevelt’s $1.5 billion relief request.
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U.P
Senate
Joseph T. Robinson
Works Progress Administration
Robinson
J. Hamilton Lewis
Illinois
Executive Department
Key Pittman
Nevada
Aiden W. Barkley
Kentucky
James J. Davis
Pennsylvania
Lewis
Robert F. Wagner
New York
Frederick van Nuys
Indiana
Davis
Daniel O. Hastings
Delaware
WPA
Harry L. Hopkins
Hopkins
Congress
Roosevelt
Strikers Demand Aid For Families In Wisconsin
A Madison delegation of WPA strikers pressed Alfred W Briggs for family relief as state capitol encampment of over 100 continues. Briggs sought an attorney general opinion on whether WPA counts as employment or relief and if wages in Fox River valley are reasonable. The attorney general noted it is unfair to taxpay ers to support idle people but also unfair to pay unreason able wages. food for strikers’ families was ordered.
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WPA
Alfred W. Briggs
State Welfare Department
Briggs
State Capitol
Fox River Valley
Henry Ohl Jr
Milwaukee
Wisconsin Federation of Labor
la Follette
M. W. Torkelson
Hagood to Confer With President on Fishing Jaunt
Maj Gen Hagood, relieved over remarks on WPA funds, will meet President Roosevelt during the Florida fishing trip. A hearing for the former Eighth Corps commander was arranged after protests in Congress. Hagood arrived in Atlanta en route to Warm Springs but turned back when the trip was postponed. He had no comment on the conference.
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Johnson Hefood
WPA
Roosevelt
Florida
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War Department
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Hagood
Atlanta
Westercay
Warm Springs
London naval treaty to be signed next Tuesday
The London naval treaty with the United States Great Britain and France will be signed next Tuesday at the state department. It will not omit ships but will impose restrictions on size and type and open for adherence by other powers.
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Washington
WU P
United States
Great Britain
France
State Department
U. C. Pending Oath Billion Spends Sixth Billion This Year
Washington reports the government has spent its sixth billion dollars for the fiscal year. The daily treasury statement through March 18 shows expenditures of 5.082 billion since July 1, up from 4.905 billion a year ago. Receipts total 2.796 billion, slightly ahead of last year, with deficits at 2.285 billion versus 2.264 billion last year. Some revenue items rose except for invalidated AAA processing taxes.
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Washington
Treasury
High Court Ends the Olson Ouster
The Minnesota Supreme Court affirmed a Hennepin County district court dismissal of ouster proceedings against Governor Floyd B. Olson. The ruling ends the bid to remove Olson and keeps the governor in office.
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High Court
OLSON
St. Paul
State Supreme Court
Hennepin County
Floyd B. Ol
Weather Man Explains Flood of the Century
Washington weather officials describe the disaster as the perfect storm. W P Day of the storm section says seven factors formed an unbroken chain that caused the flood, a rare event that may recur only once or twice a century if any factor were absent.
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Washington
W. P. Day
The
Weather Bureau
Search continues for second victim in Kaukauna fire
Authorities resumed the search of the burned farm home near Kaukauna Wisconsin for Al Mayley a farmhand missing after the Tuesday night fire that killed 74 year old Thomas Glashcen. Police organized a new search party and began sifting ashes to locate Mayley amid reports he had been away visiting friends and may have slept in the bachelor’s home.
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R. H. McCarty
Kaukauna
Hauptmann execution date set for March 21
Newark officials announce Bruno Richard Hauptmann’s execution for the Lindbergh baby murder will occur at 3 p.m. on March 21 in the state prison electric chair. Warden Kimberling mails invitations to witnesses while Gov. Hoffman seeks an interview with Dr. John F. Condon as last minute efforts unfold.
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N. J
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Mark O. Kimberling
Hauptmann
Charles A. Lindbergh Jr
Harold G. Hoffman
John F
Jassie) Condon
Lindbergh Ransom
Fall at Great Northern ore dock kills carpenter in Allouez
A 39 foot fall from the approach to Great Northern ore dock No 1 in Allouez yesterday killed Alfred Lee age 48 a carpenter. He fell while at the site prompting an investigation and authorities reported the death as accidental.
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Superior
Wis
Great Northern
Allouez
Alfred Lee
Tentative tax basis decided by committee
Washington lawmakers discuss a tentative 22 12 percent tax on net income of corporations limited in paying dividends due to state federal or contractual constraints. The plan would exempt those under the undistributed profits levy while aiming to curb capital avoidance. Details remain to be worked out and the number of affected firms is unknown.
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House
Ways and Means
Roosevelt
Samuel B. Hill
Hill
Treasury
Senate
War Department
Frederick Steiner
Oregon
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