First Lady Mrs Roosevelt visits Haiti and Puerto Rico
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt and party arrive at San Pedro de Macoris Haiti aboard the American Clipper after a flight from Port au Prince. The trip marks the first ocean crossing by a president's wife with Mrs Roosevelt journaling and chatting with Professor Tugwell en route to Puerto Rico to study its problems.
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Santo Domingo
D. R
Franklin D. Roosevelt
San Pedro de Macoris
Port-Au-Prince
Haiti
Gold Turned to Cement at London Bank
London report describes a bank discovery where a box labeled to contain 980 fine ounces of gold from Cape Town proved empty of gold and filled with cement. The box weighed 930 fine ounces but its monetary value dropped to $2.89 while the box itself was worth $2.30, illustrating a modern miracle of gold turning into cement.
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London
Cape Town
South Africa
Surprise Anticipated At NRA Conclave Tonight
Washington March 7 Gen Hugh S Johnson to close NRA roundup with potential announcement of a presidential order to cut working hours and raise wages He reserves final decisions for last minute and weighs a 10 percent hours cut with proportional wage boosts as feasible beyond capital goods industry Labor and industrialists await the main plan to put more men to work Continued on Page 10.
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Washington
Hugh S. Johnson
NRA
Johnson
Roosevelt
Peril Mounts After Ice Cracks in Bering Sea
A new crack in ice threatens nine men stranded on an ice floe in sub zero conditions off Wrangel Island. A wooden barge split as the Cheluiskin sank during the Wrangel expedition led by Prof Otto Schmidt. Ten women and two children were rescued.
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Moscow
Bering
Government Relief Commission
Cheluiskin
Wrangel Island
Otto Schmidt
National banks reopenings rise in February figures
Washington March 7 J F T O Connor Comptroller of Currency announced 63 National banks with 62 953 000 frozen and 6 568 000 unrestricted deposits were opened or reopened during February This compared with 69 licensed in January and 77 in December
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Washington
J. F. T. O'Connor
Comptroller of Currency
Ground broken for State Memorial Hall of Records at St Johns
Annapolis March 7 construction began on the State Memorial Hall of Records at Saint John’s College with Senator Ridgely P. Melvin, sponsor of the project, breaking the ground.
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Annapolis
State Memorial Hall of Records
Saint John’s College
Ridgely P. Melvin
Two ballots decide Wynekoop verdict in Chicago trial
Dr. Alice Wynekoop is found guilty of slaying her daughter in law Rheta on her operating table. The jury's two ballots set a 25 year penitentiary sentence. Judge Miller called for a jail physician. Wynekoop proclaimed her innocence as she was wheeled from the courtroom.
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Chicago
Alice Wynekoop
Rheta
Rheta’s Body Was Found, A Bullet In the Back, On Dr. Wynekoop
Harry
Walker
Catherine Wynekoop
Mishap Fails To Stop Her From Finishing Work
Mrs. Jeanette Kreps of Kemp's Mill was thrown from a car on the Greencastle pike after a skid. She landed on her head with a deep scalp wound and a badly bruised hip but reentered the vehicle and continued to work, later visiting a physician.
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Jeanette Kreps
Kemp’s Mill
Seven County Residents to Be Paroled This Week
Seven Washington County residents will be released from state penal institutions on paroles this week. The seven are among fifty recommended for paroles last week. Emmett W. Hawbaker and Theodore Miller, Williamsport youths, were sentenced for stealing chickens. Also paroled are Ross Hamilton, Thomas Shipper, Leander Peck, John Toms, and Chester Smith, with crimes ranging from larceny to non-support. Hamilton’s parole cites tuberculosis. Peck had earlier thefts and track tampering. Shipper nearly finished his term. Toms has four and a half months remaining.
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Washington County
Emmett W. Hawbaker
Theodore Miller
Williamsport
Ross Hamilton
Thomas Shipper
Leander Peck
John Toms
Chester Smith
Hamilton
Jim Saylor
Peck
Maryland
Big Pool
Shipper
Toms
Handwriting Expert Testifies in ONeill Kidnapping Case
Albert S. Osborn of New York testified in Albany that several ransom notes in the John J. O'Connell Jr. kidnapping were written by Manny Strewl. He said he compared Strewl's writing to the notes and found matching letters and markings.
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Albany
N. Y
Albert S. Osborn
New York
John J. O'Connell, Jr
Manny Strewl
Osborn
Strewl
River floods strand 54 on Missouri border farms
A swollen Missouri river inundated 10 000 acres of bottom lands at the Kansas Missouri border marooning 54 people this morning with five reported missing as farmers abandon low lands along the river frontier.
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Atchison, Kas
Missouri
Kansas Missouri
Ambassador Buitt Sees No War Risk in Far East
In Moscow on March 7, William C. Bullitt the first US ambassador to Soviet Russia returned and said there will be no war in the Far East. He predicted the US must raise purchases here to win many commercial orders from the Soviet Union.
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Moscow
William C. Builitt
United States
Russia
Far East
America
Racket Chief Slain in Chicago Hotel
West Side gambling boss Frankie Pope was shot six times and killed in a hotel at 758 West Jackson Boulevard. A maid heard a woman cry out Dont do that as two revolvers lay near the body. Pope had just left Leavenworth after liquor conspiracy and was living at the hotel. police found $96 on him.
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Chicago
West Side
Frankie Pope
West Jackson Boulevard
Pope
Leavenworth Penitentiary
Manslaughter Verdict in Maxwell Case
Edwin L. Maxwell was found guilty of manslaughter by a Howard County circuit court jury for killing William Glenn Fisher on January 14. Judge William H. Forsythe Jr. adjourned court without sentence as defense seeks a new-trial motion within two days.
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Ellicott City
Edwin L. Maxwell
Howard County
William Glenn Fisher
William H. Forsythe, Jr
Forsythe
Valerie Von Stroheim receives $125000 in burns case
In Los Angeles Valerie Von Stroheim was awarded 125000 for facial disfiguration from a shampoo preparation explosion last September. The superior court verdict reflected about half of the 275000 total damages sought by the film director’s wife. She said the burns left her eyes closed for five weeks and forced her to sleep with her eyes open, while defendants James P. Simonello and Berry Schweitzer denied negligence.
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Los Angeles
Valerie von Stroheim
Eric von Stro
James Simoniello
Berry Schweitzer
Concentration Sends Youth To Hospital
Jimmy Smith a 13 year old son of J P Smith of 141 Bay street was concentrating on a lesson when a rubber from the end of a pencil lodged in his ear. He could not remove it and the rubber slipped farther back causing pain. He was taken to Washington Count Hospital for removal.
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Jimmy Smith
J. P. Smith
Bay Street
Washington Count Hospital
Four Die As Ice Coated Ship Crashes
A blizzard glazed wings with ice and caused an American Airways plane bound for Chicago to crash near Petersburg Illinois. Four men died including Hugh Sexton aviation editor of the Chicago Tribune and Walter Hallgren veteran pilot who cut his switch to prevent a fire.
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Petersburg
Ill
Hugh Sexton
Chicago Tribune
G. H. Waetjen
East 41St Street
New York
Walter Hallgreen
W. N. Bell
Chicago
Columbus
Jeffrey Manufacturing Company
American Airways
Here
Hallgren
Norman B. Scott Dies Suddenly
Norman B. Scott died in his sleep at 110 West Washington Street from a heart attack. A 46 year old World War II veteran and Meuse-Argonne veteran with the A E F, he was former manager of Pittsburg Timestone quarries and retired same due to ill health. Survived by widow Elizabeth Woodard Scott, son Norman R. Scott Jr, a brother William Ryland, and sisters Mrs. Stewart B. Playfair and Mrs. S R Bradley. funeral announcements to follow.
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Norman B. Scott
J. McPherson Scott
Hagerstown
West Washington Street
Mr. Scott
Meuse-Arisonne
Pittsburg Timestone Company
U. S. Steel Corp
Elizabeth Woodard Scott
Norman R., Jr
William Ryland
New Jersey
Stewart B. Playfair
Toronto
Canada
S. R. Bradley
Nyack
New York
Planes Help in Hunt for Bank Bandits
South Dakota and Iowa authorities hunted the machine gun bandits who robbed the Security National Bank and Trust Company of 46000. Police wounded, 1000 townspeople held at bay as the robbers used four women as shields. Names of released hostages and a teller were given. officials discounted any link to John Dillinger.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
South Dakota
Iowa
Security National Bank and Trust Company
Citi
Alice Blegen
Mildred Bostwick
Emma Knaback
Mary Lucas
Leon Olson
Teller
John Dillinger
Dillinger
Water board resigns. council takes over town water plan
Clearspring's water board resigned last night after failing to agree on the system type. The Town Council assumes control of the proposed water project, planning to proceed within the $23,000 PWA approval and seek permission to build a reservoir instead of a standpipe.
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Clearspring
B. M. Kinsell
Albert Bell
Samuel Troupe
PWA
Ice Sweeps Off Motor Boat Pier in Potomac River
Ice breakup on the Potomac River lifts and tears away boat club piers on Homer Trees place near Bedington. Piers floated on barrels are a total loss estimated at 200 dollars as ice moves downstream. River height runs 3 to 4 feet above normal.
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Potomac River
Boat Club
Homer Trees Place
Bedington
Ambergris Found On Beach Near San Francisco
San Francisco reports a discovery of ambergris along Bolinas Bay attracting 200 to 300 pounds valued at about 27 dollars an ounce. An examiner says tests show roughly 70 percent purity, meaning a potential $100,000 share for six needy families if the average holds.
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San Francisco
Bolinas Bay
Here
Gasoline Tax Revenue Up in February
Annapolis reports February collections from the 4-cent per gallon gas tax at the state comptroller's office rose by 3502.22 over February 1833, indicating higher fuel tax intake for the month.
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Annapolis
State Comptroller’s Office
Father of Gil to Spring Trap Bill Reported Favorably
Jackson Miss March 7 A bill to allow the father of a high school girl to release the condemned when three Memphis negroes face execution March 16 for assaulting the girl has been favorably reported by the County Affairs Committee in the Mississippi Senate. The measure lets the county sheriff appoint a Mississippi citizen to carry out the death sentence. Committee members said the bill targets Hernando Miss and would let the girl's father spring the trap next week.
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Jackson, Miss
Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi Senate
Mississippi
Hernando,Miss
Outbreak of dysentery brings suit
A $600 000 damages suit over the amoebic dysentery epidemic tied to the World’s Fair has been filed against Dr. Herman Bundesen city health commissioner and the Congress Hotel. Dr Clarence Boren and his wife Gertrude of Marinette Wis ask $150 000 each from the defendants alleging willful withholding of information for hotel profits and Bundesen’s protection. The filing states Bundesen withheld details even after information disclosed its presence.
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Chicago
Herman Bundesen
Congress Hotel
Clarence Boren
Gertrude
Marinette
Wis
Dr. Bundesen
China Sees Giant Bomber Demonstration Arrives
SHANGHAT March 7 The penetration of China by American airplanes advanced another stage today. Frank Hawkes arrived with a giant American model bomber, the best the national government has seen. He will demonstrate it to the government as it builds up its air fleet for military and commercial purposes. The fleet already shows sizeable proportions and is made mostly of American aircraft. Hawkes bomber, with a two foot wing span and other large dimensions, drew much interest from Chinese officials.
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Hawkes
Texas Prison Break Fails Amid Guard Firefight
Huntsville Texas March 7 Three of five inmates attempting a prison break were critically wounded after overpowering an unarmed guard Howard Bass and were shot as they climbed a wall The wounded include Charley Frazier alias Eldridge Johnson serving two life terms and two others while two more convicts were shot during the escape attempt Ward said the three wounded remain very critical Thornton Hill and others were under guard Ready meanwhile Frazier previously led a failed escape weeks earlier
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Huntsville
Tex
State Penitentiary
Howard Bass
Bass
Killer
Charley Frazier
Eldridge Johnson
Hill
Santa Claus
Eastland
Saint Nick
W. W. Ward
Stavisky Jewel Hunt Amid Bayonne Scandal Sparks Tokyo Flair
In Paris on March 7 a search for Serge Stavisky’s missing jewels captivated observers as a young mannequin assisted in the Bayonne pawnshop probe. Police say the jewels were to fund a municipal pawn shop but vanished after being withdrawn. Investigators describe Stavisky as a master swindler who duped the public of millions. A court order seized the trunks of actress Rita Georg, though the reason remained undisclosed.
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Paris
Serge Stavisky
Bayonne
Stavisky
Rita Georg
Early Adjournment Of Congress Planned By Chief Executive
President Roosevelt plans to adjourn the 74th Congress at the earliest moment, aiming for mid day if possible. Only one more message to Capitol Hill remains, centering on war debts negotiations. The push prioritizes funding bills and major tax measures, with hearings on the reciprocal tariff bill set to begin, and Executive optimism persists about passage of a single commission for communications before adjournment.
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Capital Hill
Roosevelt
Washington
Capitol Hill
House
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New England
Pasquale J. de Cicco
Associated Press
RB. Miller
Says Strewl
William G. Fisher
Heim
Dr. J. McPherson Scott
Sioux Falls, S. D
Clearspring Body
Gil
China
Texas
Nervy
Congress
Congressional
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