Freighter Volunteer Battles Sea as Rescue Fleet Rushes In
Honolulu dispatches report the American freighter Volunteer fighting a listing battle 840 miles off Japan. Express of Canada and British Fresno City race to aid, while Japanese freighters also join the rescue near latitude 25 35 north, longitude 153 45 east. Captain W W Geldert leads the 7717 ton Fresno City from New Orleans toward Kobe via Honolulu with cotton and merchandise.
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Honolulu
Pacific
Volunteer
Japan
Express
Canada
Fresno City
Empress of Canada
W.W. Geldert
Albiers
New Orleans
Kobe
aJpan
Sykes Brothers-Ripley Steamship Company
Theer
Senator Pope backs sit down for workers rights
Senator James P. Pope of Idaho calls the sit down strike effective labor action and urges legal machinery to safeguard both labor and management property rights and equities in industry. He says workers deserve the same legal protections used by capital in shaping policy and ownership.
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Washington
James P. Pope
Idaho
Candidate Gheliaberger Seeks City Electorate Seat
Mampa Idaho March 27 deputy Can assessor says today candidate for day municipal election. He was defeated 62 to another figure not clear in text.
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Mampa
Idaho
Gheliaberger
Tax Collections Are Summed Up
Treasury officials reported total tax collections through March 25 were 660,964 with expectations for the month around 700 million. They said the year’s estimates may be affected if the breakdown shows many payers only initial installments. Through March 25 collections were 8.7 percent ahead of the previous year.
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Washington
Treasury
Warship Bids To Be Called Washington
Navy to issue bids next week for a new 35 000 ton battleship armored for air and sea attack. The ship, costing about 60 million dollars, will be built for speedy power and is the first since twenty years. Construction may begin around July 1 with an award around June 2 to a private yard. A second battleship is planned with Philadelphia or New York yard as builders.
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Washington
Navy
Roosevelt
Philadelphia
New York Navy Yard
City Industry Tops to Allies Plans Industrial Center
The Alliance of Prometheus led by Gus Carr outlines a plan to make Po catello a hub for industry, home life, and tourism. The city would set aside land it owns or may acquire near the railroad to lure factories with concessions, spurs to loading lots, and other inducements as details are developed. A meeting to crystallize plans is set for Monday night in room 213.
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Alliance of Prometheus
Pocateno
Gus Carr
the Tribune
Pocatello
Anderson
Ttia
Valentinees
Stanford Grabs Coast Gonfalon
Stanford clinched the Pacific Coast Conference basketball championship with a 41 to 40 win over Washington State, led by Angelo Luisetti. The Cardinal also took the series 2 0 after winning 31-28 in the opener, in a spine-tingling north-south playoff at Pullman.
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Pullman
Wash
Angelo
Hank) Luisetti
Stanford
Washington State
Fighting Cougars
Oil firms plan two Oregon drilling ventures
Officials from two Portland oil companies announced plans to drill wells in central and southern Oregon. A 100000 acre tract was leased south of Burns in central Oregon, while a leasing survey proceeds in southern Malheur County near McDemitt Ney.
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Vale
Ore
Portland
Oregon
Burns
Malheur County
McDemitt, Ney
Dying General Tisseyre 98 Led French Army
General Justin Tisseyre aged 98, longtime dean of French army generals, died of pneumonia at Sourina near the Spanish border, Perpignan reports. His death closes a long career spanning World War II and postwar command.
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Perpignan
France
Justin Tisseyre
Sourina
Rebels Smash Back In Drive To Win Madrid
Government troops clung to positions on the Ponzoblanco front after repelling an insurgent charge in which hundreds of attackers were killed. Insurgents drove across the Sierra Morenas and gained control of the mountain watershed while militiamen held ground gained in the prior two days. Italian officials said Rome would honor non intervention and refrain from sending volunteers to Spain unless other nations act. A group of 13 plus five Canadians were detained by French authorities as suspected volunteers.
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Madrid
Ponsoblanco
Sierra Morenas
Rome
Great Britain
Spain
Dino Grandi
Anthony Eden
London
Perpignan
France
Mae Mica Penigts
Armty
Idaho motor license rush as deadline nears
Boise March 27 Less than a third of Idaho’s motorists have secured 1937 license plates that must be attached by next Thursday. Commissioner J L Balderston remains confident, citing legislative uncertainty but expects heavy registrations in the final days.
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Boise
Idaho
J. L. Balderston
Idaho announces six year public school language book selections
The State textbook commission chose language books for Idaho public grade schools for six years but did not reveal the titles. The State Board of Education, meeting in Moscow next Monday, will consider the selections.
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Boils
Idaho
State Textbook Commission
State Board of Education
Moscow
Resurrection Hymn Promotes Christ's Rising Joy
A damaged OCR fragment celebrates Jesus Christ's resurrection with triumphant religious verse. It greets Jerusalem and believers with praise for light, life, and liberation from death, mentioning the Holy Trinity and the Damascus prophet, Job of Damascus, in eighth century phrasing.
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Jerusalem
Jesus
Christ
Day of Resurrection Dawned Over Troubled Easter World
The morning brought mixed Easter observances across lands and cultures. In Germany pagan challenges stirred debate while crusade-like self flagellation appeared in the southwest. Pope Pius greeted pilgrims in Rome and urged steadfast faith amid conflict. In Jerusalem, celebrations occurred with ongoing peace concerns.
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Tigmark
York
Fifth Avenue
Germany
Gemany
Pope Pius
Rome
St. Peter
Soain
Mexico
Jerusalem
Plane hearing set Tuesday on Pittsburgh crash
Inspector Byron M. Jacobs of the bureau of air commerce will conduct a hearing Tuesday on the cause of the Trans continental and Western Airlines crash that killed 13 near Pittsburgh. Coroner W. J. McGregor will hold an inquest soon. Investigations agree ice on the wings caused the plunge into a corn field five miles from Allegheny airport. TWA officials cite localized severe icing formations. Dr. John McClean also supports this theory.
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Pittburgh
Byron M. Jacobs
Bureau of Air Commerce
Western Airlines
Pittsburgh
Washington
W. J. McGregor
Allegheny
TWA
John McClean
CCC Youth Is Killed In Roadster Crash Near McCall
A roadster overturned after hitting a snowbank five miles south of McCall Idaho killing Alfred Horn 20 Burley and injuring six others including George Pulley 24 Cald well state forest service employee and five CCC enrollees Verlaine Laurson 22 Blackfoot Virgil Eldridge 24 Carey Bernard Wilks 21 Paris Rex Jones 23 Preston and Kenneth Strain 20 Boise all not critically hurt
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Mccall
Idaho
CCC
Here
Alfred Horn
Burley
George Pulley
Caldwell
State Forest Service
Verlaine Laurson
Blackfoot
Virgil Eldridge
Carey
Bernard Wilks
Paris
Rex Jones
Preston
Kenneth Strain
Boise
Metropolitan Back To Good Old Days At 54th Season
New York March 27 opera officials said the Metropolitan’s fifty fourth season closed with winter business as strong as in the good old days. Crause and Farrar were noted in recollections as box office favorites.
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New York
Crause
Farrar
Metropolitan
Four Southern Governors Back Roosevelt Court Plan
Four southern governors Bibb Graves Alabama Ford Rivers Delaware Louisiana Richard Leche Louisiana Olin Johnston South Carolina spoke on a nationwide hook up urging enactment of President Roosevelt’s court reorganization plan. Rivers defended the program saying the court’s rulings thwart efforts to fix social and economic evils. Graves cited Chief Justice Hughes’ letter arguing more justices won’t speed cases. Leche tied the issue to federal relief funding and constitutional strain. Johnston said the matter must be decided this session of Congress.
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Atlanta
Roosevelt
Bibb Graves
Alabama
F Pd Rivers
Deorktia
Richard W. Leche
Louisiana
Olin Johnston
South Carolina
Governor Rivers
Supreme Court
Iow
Graves
Egehes
Leche
Johnston
Congress
Miners Entombed in Clay Mine Near Golden
Three miners Roy Towles 42 Denver W J Foreman Pleasant View and Peter Bayler Golden are trapped after a rock fall 200 feet from the portal and 75 feet below the surface in a Golden Colorado clay mine. Rescue teams work through tons of rock awaiting access and hope to reach them tomorrow.
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Golden
Colo
Roy Towles
Denver
W. J. Foreman
Pleasant View
Peter Bayler
Towles
Foreman
Tomorro
Governor Huxman Signs 3.2 Percent Beer Bill in Kansas
Gov Walter A Huxman signs Plummer Schrepel bill defining beverages up to 3 2 percent alcohol as non intoxicating. Effective May 1 the law bans sale to anyone under 18 and prohibits under 18 employment in beer establishments. Strict regulations appear in a second signed measure.
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Topeka
Kas
Walter A. Huxman
Plummer- Schrepel
Huxman
Local airline merger eyed by Western Air and National Parks
Salt Lake City March 27 negotiations for a merger of Western Air Express and National Parks Airways were disclosed. Shareholders meet April 12 to discuss the plan and potential sublet of the airmail contract. If completed, National Parks assets would convert to cash with stockholders receiving cash settlements and one Western Air share per National Parks share. Western Air organized 1826 and National Parks in 1928.
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Salt Lake City
Western Air Express
National Parks Airways, Inc
Pioneer Western
Western Air
Los Angeles
National Parks
Great Falls
Montroel Nibley
Nibley
National Parks Air Mail
Park Line
National Parka
Sheriff suspects trapline death linked to missing rancher
Mayfield Idaho March 27 an abandoned trapline may yield the body of Frank Miller missing since November Sheriff George Hendricks says he suspects William Hix a 23 year old forger held at the Idaho penitentiary and recently returned from Utah will be questioned after a mapped horse back survey of the Miller farm to search hills and snow free traps Miller’s son Jack aided in the search and was pardoned.
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Mayfield
Idaho
Idaho Hills
Here
Frank Miller
Miller
George Hendricks
Elmore County
Miller Ranch
Hendricks
Willam Hix
Price
Utah
Hix
Jack
Duke Cuts Down On His Servants
The Duke of Windsor reduced his staff by nearly two thirds as he plans to relocate to the Tyrol. He will employ six servants at Appelbach in St Wolgang, Austria, instead of the 17 he used at Rambling Enzesfeld Castle, saving money in the move.
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Vienna
Duke of Windsor
Austrian Tyrol
Utah Idaho Sugar Pays Beet Growers in Utah and Idaho
Salt Lake City report says the Utah Idaho Sugar Company ordered payments totaling about 200000 dollars to Utah and Idaho beet growers for beets delivered recently. Vice president and general manager W T Cannon noted previous payments reached 9000000 dollars.
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Salt Lake City
Utah-Idaho Sugar Company
Utah
Idaho
W. T. Cannon
Negotiations resume as Chrysler strike continues
In Lansing mid March, negotiators for Chrysler and the United Automobile Workers resume talks after a 12:30 a m to 1 pm recess. Gov. Murphy remains optimistic that a settlement is near while leaders Walter Chrysler and John L Lewis lead the talks. Federal officials consider possible injunctive action if no agreement is reached.
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Lansing
Chrysler Corporation
Walter P. Chrysler
Automotive Concern
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Gov
Murphy
New York
Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Utah Idaho Press Group elects officers at Ogden convention
The Associated Press Utah and Idaho members elected R C Tofflemire of Twin Falls News and Times as chairman Will W Bowman of Salt Lake Telegram was re elected secretary and Nephi C Christensen of Salt Lake Tribune Telegram named vice chairman All items approved unanimously They plan to press AP headquarters in New York for bigger better news pictures and discuss elocution coverage and regional news.
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Ogden
Utah
Idaho
Associated Press
R. C. Tofflemire
Twin Falls
New York
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