Congress backs embargo on Japanese cotton to save mills
South and New England lawmakers demand Roosevelt intervene to curb Japanese cotton imports. Massachusetts Democrat Berator Walk notes Georgia and New England delegations unite for embargo or quota, aiming to protect U S mills and textile jobs amid NRA tax impact and rising warehouse stock. Senator George says 36,000 textile workers lost jobs in days. He urges relaxing NRA restrictions and seeking an alternate tax method to save the industry.
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D. C
South
New England
Knt
Roosevelt
Demmcrat
Massachusetts
Georgia
Walsh
NRA
George
Democrat
Harlem Riot Sentence Sparks Controversy
In New York on March 24, Margaret Mitchell a 14 year old Negro girl blamed for triggering the Harlem race riot was fined ten dollars for disorderly conduct. Five white detainees received thirty day sentences.
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Harlem
New York
TNS
Margaret Mitchell
No- Bay
INS
Edward Lawrie
Nezdie
Hariam
Mass marriages drive spreads in Shanghai China
In Shanghai on March 23 a mass marriages drive gains support from fathers urging their children to wed collectively to save costs. Instead of private ceremonies, couples will marry en masse on major holidays with municipal officials marking the unions and a total cost around £3 per couple.
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Shanghat
Sun Yat-sen
Confucius
Injury Ends Dietrichs Concert Violin Career
Marlette Dietrich sustains a wrist injury that ends her career as a concert violinist. She pivots to dance and dramatic training to continue in the performing arts.
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Marlette Dietrich
Honor Slaying Under Fire in Mississippi Case
In Pascagoula Mississippi a bond default awaited as authorities weighed two versions of the midnight honor killing of Adelbert Ewing 54 of North Fairfield Ohio. The accused are Ohio residents wife Vivian Payne 34 and the minister Rev J J Payne. The 15 year old girl testified she had no affair with Ewing and was guarding cars at the camp when confronted.
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Pascagoula
Miss
Ohio
Adelbert
Ewing
North Fairfield
Vivian Laville’ Payne
Glasys MacKelly
J. J Payne
Teaas
Golf Widow Granted Divorce in Courts
Utica court grants divorce to Mrs Anna Yaeger who claimed to be a golf widow as grounds, noting her husband left after her talk spoiled his game. The separation was granted in Supreme Court.
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Utica
Sabinal Trustee Election Slated for April First
Sabinal voters face an April 1 election to fill three school trustee seats. Incumbents Allen W. E. Huddieston and H W Reilly are due to depart, with Cecil Arnim and Erwin Sayars challenging incumbent James Allen?
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Sabinal
Allen
W. E. Huddieston
H.W. Reilly
Cecil Arnim
Erwin Sayars
Oil and Liquor Debates Dominate Texas Legislature
Austin lawmakers return to a crowded calendar with oil and liquor issues looming. A repeal push to end prohibition faces a possible Monday House debate after Senate action, while an overhaul of oil laws seeks to modernize production rules. Constitutional amendments still take priority as oil measures await potential Wednesday consideration. Weekend trips to Hartsville College Station and Galveston were planned for lawmakers.
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Austin
Cecil Lotiel
Crasy Plains
House
Senate
James Young
Cueta
Texas
Hartsville
College Station
Galveston
Mauretania to Be British Show Ship
The Mauretania will end service as a show ship in Southampton after 28 years of peak Atlantic crossings. Cunard-White Star plans to part with the vessel to a foreign buyer, as the aging liner can no longer operate commercially, and she will tour Britain as a traveling exhibition of British wares.
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London
Britain
Southampton
Cunard-White Star Company
Woman Ties Husband to Bed in North Portland Disturbance
Portland police responded to a disturbance call in North Portland and found a woman who reported her husband had been intoxicated all day. She had tied him to his bed when officers arrived to take control of the situation.
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Portland
Ore
Hunt
Camibas
Reprisal in Jail Over Stolen Cap Noted in Pa Report
In Williamsport Pennsylvania in March 1922 prisoners faced extended confinement in the jail corridors while a cap theft was investigated. They secured release by ordering a replacement cap after the original could not be located.
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Williamsport
Ners
Roosevelt Asked to Stone Memorial Dedication
President Roosevelt will be invited to dedicate a memorial monument in Nevada Missouri to Senator William T. Stone who served thirteen years in the Senate and died in 1918. Stone was one of the 127 in the Senate who opposed United States entry into the war.
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Stone Services
Nevada
Missouri
Congress
Senate
United States
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