Greece Declares War in Civil Conflict with Rebels
Government bombing planes and loyal troops attack rebel forces in Salonika Struma region as a mass offensive drives toward surrender. Twenty one planes depart Sedes airfield to coordinate northward strikes while rebels retreat and shipments are harassed as Venizelos status remains uncertain. Public life halts as authorities seal air traffic and commerce amid escalating fighting.
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Associated Press
Athens
Mar
Struma
Salonika
Greece
Sedes
Batalion
Poros
Nigritta
Panayoti Tsaldaris
Eleutherios Constantine Venizelos
Crete
Venizelos
Helles
Broad Rural Electrification Authority Created in New Mexico
Santa Fe March 5 AP Operation of the El Paso Electric Company plant on New Mexico soil may be lawfully carried out under chapter 55 of the 1935 session laws. The act creates a rural electrification authority with sweeping powers and a governor appointed three member board to acquire by purchase lease or eminent domain. The system is defined to include plants works and properties used in electricity service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Fe
el Paso Electric Company
New Mexico
Senate
House
Rural Electrification Authority
Legion Opposes Patman Bill To Pay The Bonus
The American Legion, led by national commander Frank N. Belgrano Jr., rejects any compromise on the $2,000,000,000 bonus payment. He urges Congress to adopt the Vinson bill with currency expansion and states the Legion will not accept deductions or reduced face value. Belgrano warns that compromise is unacceptable and believes full payment will pass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mar
American Legion
Congress
Frank N. Belgrano
Legion National
House
Ways and Means Committee
Vinson
Belgrano
Representative Treadway
R-Mass
Legion
Adams
D-Cole
Hale
R-Me
Senate
Glass
McCarran
Holmes Death Matter Only Hours
Washington AP reports Oliver Wendell Holmes has lapsed into a coma and is sinking steadily. Former secretary Mark Howe says death is hours away as doctors attend and Nutrition ceases. Next physician visit at 5 o clock, Howe notes Holmes is not suffering and sleeps most of the time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Mark Howe
Supreme Court
Howe
Thomas Claytor
Holmes
Mr. Holmes
Aggies and Teachers to Meet in Spring Grid Game
Albuquerque notes a historic spring football tilt likely between New Mexico Agricultural College Aggies and State Teachers College on March 30 at State College. Both teams opened spring practice as New Mexico grid history eyes a first ever spring clash between state elevens.
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Albuquerque
N. M
New Mexico
New Mexico Agricultural College
Aggies
State Teachers College
State College
Woidl Rogers Recalls Greek Visit and Venizelos Friendship
In January 32, Woidl Rogers describes a stopover in Athens from India where he met Venizelos, noting the Greek statesman’s sharp English, humor, and long association with Wilson. Rogers calls Venizelos the grand old man of Greece and places him near Lloyd George among wartime peers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Monica
Calif
Greece
Athens
India
Venizelos
Lloyd George
England
Wilson
Versailles
California Governor Endorses Townsend Plan
Governor Frank Merriam backed the Townsend old age pension proposal offering 200 dollars monthly for all adults over 60. He said Townsend presents the only workable financing for old age relief in a radio address. Legislators in Sacramento weighed the reaction as observers noted a petition filed in Washington to force a House vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Mar
Frank F. Merriam
California
Sacramento
Washington
Georgia Guards Reinforce Textile Strike Centers
Seven Georgia national guards companies deployed to La Grange and Manchester to keep order amid a textile labor walkout. Martial law had been proclaimed after petitions from public officials and 1,069 mill workers. About 300 guardsmen left Atlanta. the Callaway mills employ around 3,000 with only 55.5 percent on duty per mill officials while labor leaders claim 15 to 20 percent.
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Lagrance
Georgia National Guardsmen
la Grange
Manchester
Georgia
Eugene Talmadge
Atlanta
Barnesville
Callaway Mills
Lagrange
Fierce Hunt After Slayer Two Stockmen
Kanab Utah March 5 AP persistent chase for James Cecil Palmer 35 sheep herder and his 18 year old wife Johnny Ray Montgomery Palmer after Palmer allegedly killed two cattlemen in a range feud near Bluff Utah. Authorities and ranchmen pressed south from Arizona and Utah as bodies were found yesterday amid the southwestern Utah badlands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kanab
Utah
Arizona
James Cecil Palmer
Bluff
San Juan River
Johnny Ray Montgomery Palmer
Palmer
Harry J. Goulding
Goulding
Huey Long and Coughlin Labeled Pied Pipers of Revolution
General Hugh S. Johnson denounces Huey P. Long and Charles E. Coughlin as wreckers preaching revolution. He contrasts return to Roosevelt era ideals with dictatorship, calling them “plausible punchinellos” and predicting backlash from Long.
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Gen. Johnson
New York
Huey P. Long
Charles E. Coughlin
Hugh S. Johnson
Roosevelt
NRA
Long
Father Coughlin
Johnson
Congress in Session Focuses on Bills and Confirmations
The Senate Appropriations committee may consider 4.88 billion dollars and debates John H. Russell’s confirmation as major general. Agriculture subcommittee studies the Bankhead farm tenancy bill while the Finance committee pushes NRA investigation and the Postoffice committee reviews Farley inquiry. Ways and Means continues bonus hearings and Banking questions the Reserve Board governor on a new banking bill. Interstate Commerce resumes work on utilities holding company legislation.
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Senate Appropriations Committee
John H. Russell
Agriculture Subcommittee
Finance
NRA
Postoffice Committee
Farley
HOUSE
Ways and Means
Banking Committee
Reserve Board
Interstate Commerce Committee
Communications Commission
Banking
Marriner Eccles
HOLC
John H. Fahey
Peacemaker injured in free-for-all fight at Nara Visa
Tucumcari New Mexico March 5 AP sheriff described a Sunday free for all at Nara Visa in which Lowell Corbin was shot in the leg by a gunman while trying to separate fighters Corbin is in a Dalhart Texas hospital two other participants are jailed at the county seat and Iran Ward and Marquez Levera suffer severe bruises and possible concussion Marquez Levera has a scalp wound and the district attorney will investigate with Iran Ward in recovery and Jose Levera in jail under dispute accounts
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Tucumcari
N. M
Fred White
Nara Visa
Dalhart
Tex
Lowell Corbin
Marquez
Jose Levera
Iran Ward
Marquez Levera
New Mexico Alternate Juror Law Not In Effect This Term
Santa Fe reports the alternate juror law passed by the 12th New Mexico legislature does not apply to current juries as there was no emergency clause. The measure becomes effective 90 days after adjournment, with applicability to future cases only, and was debated in Clayton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Fe
New Mexico
Two Killed in Gunfight at Mills College
Oakland Cal March 5 AP In a flash of gunfire a girl and a youth fell mortally wounded on the Mills College campus last night victims police said of a slaying and death by own action inspired by jealous despair Jury of notes found in a car indicated a romance and a note from the girl to her lover.
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Oakland
Calif
Mills College
Jean Marie Stahle
Walter A. Norris
Jules Steritzky
Frank Ressick
Stahle
Miss Stahle
Roland C. Stahle
San Francisco Bank
Norris
San Jose State Teachers College
Wilbur
Palo Alto
Jean
Pinehurst
Tuolumne County
FERA List of Employables in New Mexico
In this continuation from page five, the FERA roster outlines individuals eligible for federally funded employment programs across New Mexico. The list specifies names, job classifications, and the public works projects they are assigned to, reflecting the era's relief strategy and regional labor needs.
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FERA
New Mexico
Lady Margaret Young Found Safe After Jungle Flight
A search over an African jungle for Lady Margaret Young wife of the Northern Rhodesia Governor and her physician who were flying from Livingstone to Lusaka 300 miles away ended with her safe recovery on Monday. The party had descended in a thick jungle teeming with wildlife. Lady Young is an experienced pilot.
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Lady Margaret Young
Northern Rhodesia
Livingstone
Lusaka
Lady Young
Poe Bound Over For Robbery In Las Vegas Safe
Jim Poe, recently taken into custody in Las Vegas New Mexico in the Gross Kelly safe robbery of May 1934, waived preliminary hearing and was bound over to district court with bond set at 19000 dollars. He is charged with taking 1926.59 dollars after explosives opened the safe. Poe previously testified for the state in a Torrance county robbery case involving Early Miller and Carlos Green but was given a suspended sentence. Miller testified but was not called after the hearing was waived.
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Las Vegas
N. M
Jim Poe
Kelly
Poe
Gross-Kelily
Early Miller
Carlos Green
Torrance County
Miller
Mrs. Gonzales Serves as New Mexico Governor Today
Santa Fe report states Secretary of State Elizabeth Gonzales acted as governor while Governor Clyde Tingley and Lieutenant Governor Louis Co. De Baca were absent from the state. Tingley was in Texas and De Baca in Colorado.
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Santa Fe
Elizabeth Gonzales
New Mexico
Clyde Tingley
Louis Co. de Baca
Tingley
Texas
de Baca
Colorado
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Katherine Newhaus
Houston
Winthrop Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
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Justice
Vermont
Austin
Gibson
Appropriations Committee
Democrats
Copeland
Thomas
Okla
Overton
O'Mahoney
Truman
Woild, Rogers
Wee, McNaeaght Syndicate
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Lce
Townsend
Oliver
Son
Huey Long
Coughlin
Wall Street
Woodrow Wilson
Herbert Hoover
The
Associated Press Today
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Senator Long
White
Corbin
Ward
Severa
Clayton
N. C
H. Bradley Davidson, Jr
Statler Hotel
Chaves Co
Ables
Bernalillo
Catron
Chaves
Colfax
Cenee
Curry
Dona
Sierra
Secorro
Taos
Torrance
Vniokt
Valencia
Mrs. Gonzales
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