Relief Group Will Replace CWA Ending Today
Washington March 31 The Civil Works Administration folds its tent ending the 4,000,000 man program as relief workers shift to new rolls. About 1.5 million displaced workers may return Monday as non CWA relief staff with hours and pay limited by budgets. Harry L. Hopkins lauds the completed projects and total costs around 1 billion dollars.
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Washington
GWA
Civil Works Administration
CWA
Harry L. Hopkins
Bakerton Boy Kidnapped but Later Is Freed
An orphaned 12 year old boy Marshall Bischoff was kidnapped near Bakerton West Virginia by two men posing as cattle buyers. They bound his hands, drove him away and later threw him from the car when they realized he could not fetch a ransom. A motorist found him in a ditch ten miles from home with hands tied behind his back.
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Marshall Bischoff
Bakerton
W. Va
Bischoff
Snowstorm Delays Arctic Rescue Effort Near Nome
An Arctic snowstorm halted an aerial rescue attempt for 90 Russians marooned on an ice pack 350 miles northwest of Nome Alaska. A wireless message said the Soviet rescue plane had been forced down 40 miles from Cape Van Karen Siberia. The marooned group has faced limited food since their steamer sank February 15.
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Nome
Alaska
Here
Cape van Karen
Siberia
Lancaster Father of Six Dies in House Fire
A kerosene lamp reading mishap caused a small blaze that burned 45 year old Bleecher to death in his Lancaster home. A boy passerby alerted the fire squad as the rest of the family stood outside, stunned by the tragedy.
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Bleecher
Hubbard Medal To Mrs Lindbergh For Flight Help
Washington March 31 The National Geographic Society planned to present its Hubbard gold medal today to Mrs Charles A Lindbergh for assisting Lindbergh during the Europe and return flight. Mrs Lindbergh and her mother Mrs Dwight W Marrow were expected to arrive in the afternoon for the award.
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Washington
National Geographic Society
Hubbard
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Dwight W. Marrow
Quota Fixed for Veterans in Washington County Corps
The Conservation Corps Camps quota for Washington county was set at nine veterans. Harry Kiery was notified today. Veterans may obtain application blanks at 627 West Washington Street or Fiery indicated quotas may rise as other counties have underfilled in prior years.
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Conservation Corps
Washington County
Harry Kiery
Fiery
Perry's Pact With Japan Recalled by Hull on 80th Anniversary
Secretary Hull marks eighty years since Commodore Perry opened U S relations with Japan with a new peace statement. He notes that March 3, 1851 treaty remains a basis for friendly conduct toward the Far East.
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Hull
Japan
United States
Commodore Perry
Far
Intelligence tests for cops meet opposition
Pittsburgh officials debate a council plan by John J. Kane to test police with a university style exam and an intelligence exercise. Mayor William N. McNair opposes, calling the proposal baloney and arguing that a cop should not be graded by moon distance questions or Arctic animal lists.
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Pittsburgh
John J. Kane
Baloney
All Coded Industries Ordered To Establish A Labor Board Of Own
Washington march 31 the NRA chief ordered that every coded industry now 874 establish a labor board of its own to solve labor disputes. the move follows years of closed shop practice and mirrors the cotton textile board. george s berry heads the effort aiding the plan with administration work within the NRA structure. a promise to add labor and consumer advisers to each code authority accompanied the order.
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Washington
NRA
Hugh S. Johnson
Roosevelt
Johnson
George S. Berry
Cotton “Textile Industrial Board
Labor
Jury Finds Him Guilty in Brutal Baxter Slaying
Wash Daily and four Washington county farmers faced a brutal murder case in Alabama. Daily was convicted in Washington circuit court and sentenced to life imprisonment after the jury reconvened this morning. Eugene Mizelle identified Daily as a participant in the slaying, robbery, and desecration of Abe Baxter’s body.
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Eugene Mizelle
Frank Poole
Baxter
Theody
Mississippi
Local Man Held For Jury Action
Robert H. Socks, of this city, is jailed in Frederick awaiting grand jury action on a charge of passing a fraudulent check for £15 on Em ory Kelbaugh near Wolfsville. Socks was arrested Thursday in Bedford Pennsylvania and returned to Frederick for the alleged September loss.
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Robert HH. Socks
Frederick
Emory Kelbaugh
Wolfsville
Socks
Bedford
Weekly Weather Outlook for Atlantic States
Weather outlook for North and Middle Atlantic states shows warmer start of week, with rain likely Tuesday or Wednesday. Colder temperatures expected Thursday and Friday.
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North
Middle Atlantic
Man in Cumberland jail serves time in advance
Paul Edward Jones of Pennville is in the Cumberland county jail serving part of his sentence in advance after being arrested on a driving while intoxicated charge. He asked Sheriff James C. Lindsey to lock him up, and with District Attorney Fred J. Templeton’s approval, he hopes the judge will be sent out to expedite justice.
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Paul Edward Jones
Cumberland County
Pennville
Jones
James C. Lindsey
Lindsey
Fred J. Templeton
Harmless garter snake bites man in Philadelphia
In Philadelphia on March 31 William McManus, 21, was bitten ten times after a passerby handed him a snake. He ran to a hospital and the physician identified it as a garter snake, not a copperhead or rattler, then treated him. The snake was killed.
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William McManus
Germany settlement payment notice to United States
Washington reports the United States will receive a partial payment of 1.25 million dollars from Germany toward the 50 million dollars due today for mixed claims and army of occupation costs with most of the funds expected in April.
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Washington
Germany
State Department
North Carolina Young Democrats host Jackson Day dinner
Raleigh March Step reports North Carolina young Democrats will dine at their Jackson Day event. The menu includes Recovery Hors D Oeurves NRA Entree PWA Dressing CWA Gravy ANA Vegetables NRA Sonfiles ROLC Saiad Congressional Ross and Senatorial Cream in a nod to New Deal agencies and figures.
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Raleigh
Noc
North Carolina
Farmer Held After Woman Dies in Blaze
Vineland New Jersey March 31 Mrs Louisa Bausch 53 was burned to death in a home fire in Landis township early today police took into custody her husband Charles 58 after finding the woman's skull crushed police said Bausch chest was badly scratched but the man said he was injured leaping through a window to escape the flames Bausch a farmer described as fairly prosperous
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Vineland
N. J
Louisa Bausch
Landis Township
Charles
Bausch
Neck Broken Suit Filed For $100000
Joseph E. Stotler, 32, of Guilford avenue, filed a $100,000 damage suit against Blue Ridge Transportation Company through attorney J. Lloyd Harshman. Stotler, operator of a tower supply business, broke his neck on February 3 when his car collided with a Blue Ridge bus near Taneytown. He has worn a plaster cast since the accident.
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Joseph E. Stotler
Guilford Avenue
Blue Ridge Transportation Company
J. Lloyd Harshman
Stotler
Blue Ridge
Taneytown
Second suicide attempt cited in Barker case
Mrs Lillian Barker 21 of Madison avenue is seriously ill after an attempted poisoning with mercurial compounds. Police report this is her second attempt in six months. she previously poisoned herself in West Washington street, while her husband Zachariah Barker 65 faced a one year sentence for passing worthless checks. The family, with three children, recently moved from the middle west to the Lena area.
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Lillian Barker
Madison Avenue
West Washington Street
Zachariah Barker
House of Correction
Orphans’ Home
Middle West
Lena
Riots Hit Paris Hard Amid Cold Prices and Fears
Riots and political unrest depress business in France with tourists fleeing Paris. Police clash with anti-government demonstrators as conditions worsen, and many visitors vanish from the capital, fearing no quick improvement.
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Paris
France
Fair Weather Forecast for Easter Across Regions
Washington reports the Weather Bureau expects fair skies at least part of Easter day across the East. A rain and windstorm moved from the South, but forecasters say it will clear, leaving warmer weather. New England may see rain in the morning, then sunshine, with the South Atlantic also forecast to brighten in the afternoon.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
East
South Atlantic
Buffalo opens campaign against white slave racket
Five men and two women were held after a roundup in Buffalo as authorities launch a campaign against the white slave racket in Buffalo and western New York. A letter found on Thomas Amigone links the case to Chicago white slave interests, mentioning a girl sent from Buffalo.
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Buffalo
N. Y
New York
Chicago
Thomas Amigone
Students View World Trade Map Display
Several groups of high school students this week viewed the Worlds Trade Relations Map recently considered by junior high students and planned to be hung in the Chamber of Commerce headquarters The map debuted at the chambers annual banquet and has since been on display in the Hotel Alexander hall.
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Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Alexander
Two Wheatcraft Sisters Die in Indiana Interurban Crash
In Greenwood Indiana on March I Miss Wilma Wheatcraft and her sister Pauline both school teachers were killed when their automobile was struck by an Indiana railroad interurban at a crossing.
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Greenwood, Ind
March &I. P
Wilma Wheatcraft
Pauline
Courthouse Addition to Complete in Four Months
The Board of County Commissioners announced that the courthouse addition and interior improvements funded as a CWA project will be completed by the county if the government does not set up a new work relief organization. Labor was provided by the government and materials by the county. With CWA ending today, finishing work depends on government provisions, but once under roof, carpenters have been busy inside and about four months of work remain to finish all planned improvements.
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Board of County Commissioners
Court House
Confessed Escapee James Fahey Revealed as Frank Grigware
Edmonton reports that James Fahey, known in Jasper as a model citizen, confessed in a signed statement to being Frank Grigware, an ex convict who escaped Leavenworth in 1910 while serving a life term for mail robbery. He fled to Canada and rebuilt his life, with his wife defending him.
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Edmonton
Alta
The
Edmonton Bulletin
Jasper
James Fahey
Frank Grigware
Fahey
United States Penitentiary
Leavenworth
Kans
Canada
Insull Arrest Order Shocks Greek Turkish Tensions
Istanbul dispatch reports Turkey ordered the arrest of Samuel Insull, the 74 year old Chicago fugitive, aboard the Maiotis a Greek flagged tramp steamer. He refused to disembark while Greece asylum granted him hangs on Turko Greek dispute. Captain Mousouris said agents sought entry to Insull's cabin to guard against a possible act of desperation.
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Instanbul
Turkey
Samuel Insull
Chicago
Maiotis
Greece
United States
Insull
Ioannis Monsouris
Straits of the Bosphorus
Danube
Mousouris
U S Completes Step To Have Insull Held
Washington reports that the United States secured the final step for immediate arrest of Samuel Insull in Istanbul. Ambassador Skinner received a certified indictment copy from Ankara. Turkish authorities promised arrest on receipt of warrant and indictment texts. Extradition treaty ratification is expected, but Insull will be arrested under Turkish penal code and handed to American authorities upon deportation.
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Washington
United States
Samuel Insull
Istanbul
Robert P. Skinner
Insull
Ankara
Athens
Skinner
Turkey
Chicago
Clark Will Not Be Tied Again in Embezzlement Case
ROCKVILLE Md March 31 State's Attorney Prescott Montgomery county said he would not call another trial for Berry FE Clark former Montgomery county clerk on 187 charges of embezzlement. The fourth jury failed to agree during trials for Clark.
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Rockville
Stedman Prescott
Montgomery County
Berry FE. Clark
Clark
Handsome Cop Voted New York's Handsomest Policeman
A group of women artists selected Bernard Jeppson as New York's handsomest policeman and plan to have his portrait painted. His charm and police service are highlighted as the centerpiece of the feature.
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Bernard Jeppson
New York
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