Tornado devastates north Arkansas towns
A severe tornado outbreak across north Arkansas left 43 known dead and over a hundred injured. Swifton, Parkin, Guion, Torado, and Wynne reported heavy destruction as rescue teams, aided by the Red Cross and Arkansas National Guard planes, worked amid rain soaked roads to reach victims. Hospitals in Batesville and Newport treated the injured. Guion was described as totally demolished with many fatalities expected.
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Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas
Swifton
Newport
Parkin
Guion
Torado
Wynne
Red Cross
Arkansas National Guard
Batesville
Arkansas College
Bateville
Teton and
Newpay
Oxaica
Little
Tornado toll rises in Swifton area with many injured
A tornado near Swifton and Batesville left dozens injured and several dead as houses were crushed and a temporary morgue set up in Swifton. Hospitals received victims while volunteers and Red Cross workers aided the wounded and accounted for missing families. The storm carved a 50 mile wide path and moved slowly along a serpentine route.
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Arwin
Citte Newen
Newport HC
Swifton
Asemers
la O's
Prohibition Enforcment Shift eyed by Justice
Attorney General Mitchell hopes Congress will pass a law to move the prohibition enforcement unit from the Treasury to the Department of Justice. President Hoover proposed the transfer in his inaugural address as a step to streamline enforcement. Details are being finalized with an assistant attorney general to oversee the unit.
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Mitchell
Congress
Treasury Department
Department of Justice
Hoover
Treasury
Louisiana House Impeaches Governor Long on Bribery Charge
The Louisiana House votes 56 to 0 to impeach Governor Huey P. Long on bribery counts. The pending eighteen article indictment accuses long of offering aid to Iberville Parish’s Gueymard and St Charles Parish’s Del Laune in exchange for legislative support and aggressive pressuring against opponents. The Senate will set an early trial date as two charges are merged into a single count.
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Tolmazan
Baton Rouge
Lanigh
House of
Baves
Louisiana Legislati
H2lven Long
Ahd
the. Senate
Biolph Gueymard
Uisiana
Bove
Fiona
Poul Laiken
Huey P. der
Gueymard
Iberville
Felix del
St. Charles Parish
Senate
Uri Hison
Roug
Avemen
Charles A. O'Neil
Louisiana Senate
Huey P. Long
Mine Explosion at Yokosuka Kills and Wounds Several
A mine exploded at a Japanese base in Yokosuka today near Tokyo. Dozens were killed and about thirty injured in the blast involving a Soviet or Japanese mine layer, with unclear details and sources.
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Tokyo
Japan
Yokosuka
Frames Check For One Cent From Telephone Co
Dublin, Ga April 11. Bill Keither a druggist received a check for one cent from the Southern Bell Telephone Company offices in New York as payment for a long distance toll overcharge. He framed the check to avoid 15 cents exchange to cash it, noting it cost two cents to ship the check from New York. He joked about the overcharge and said they discovered it themselves.
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Dublin
Bill Keither
Southern Bell Telephone Company
New York
Bill
Two Textile Unions Organizing Support for Southern Strikers
New York April 11 two rival textile unions coordinate aid to the southern strike with plans for relief funds and an AFL organized unionization campaign while the Communist National Textile Workers Union attacks the AFL for late action and cites harsh strike conditions in Gastonia North Carolina with workers earning meager weekly wages.
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New York
South
National Textile Workers’ Union
North
South Carolina
Executive Council
United Textile Workers of America
American Federation of Labor
A. F. of U
Albert Weisbord
National Textile Workers Union
A. F. of L
Iva Fullbright
Violet Jones
Cecil Burger
Dewey Martin
Gastohia
North Carolina
Thomas M. McMahon
United Textile Workers
Weisbord
Gilkey to Speak at Georgia University Conference
Dr Charles W Gilkey dean of the University of Chicago Chapel and leading Bible student will be the principal speaker at the Fifth Annual Religious Welfare Conference and parents and pastors day at the University of Georgia Friday.
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Athens
Charles W. Gilkey
University of Chicago
University of Georgia
Murdered Woman Identified by Two Friends
Elizabeth New Jersey April 11 identification by two women acquaintances linked the February 23 torched body found on a Cranford roadside to Mrs. Richard M. Campbell of Greenville Pennsylvania who had disappeared February 1. The two female identifyers provided the sole identification and the husband, a physician, is under suspicion.
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Greenville
New York
Chester
Campbell
B.F. Mowry
PUNT FOR BERNARD ON AT LOS ANGELES
Police intensify hunt for Robert Bernard the jailed apprentice and suspect in the Los Angeles River torso case. Bernard, friend of missing Laura Bella Davis, is sought after his escape from jail and prior prohibition convictions. Over 1,000 photos and fingerprints circulated as investigators press the probe into possible foul play.
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Bernard
Los Angeles
Robert Bernard
Laura Bella Davis
Beeno
Charles Thornton
Denver
Miss Davis
Bank in Jacksonville Reopens After Cashier's Death
Jacksonville Bank, The Brotherhood State Bank, failed to open after acting cashier Thomas R. Hendricks died by his own hand. State Bank Commissioner Hawking, Ocala, will audit the bank and review records before stating the institution's condition.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Brotherhood State Bank
Thomas R. Hendricks
T. C. Hawking
Ocala
State Bank Examiner
Lindbergh Lands in Atlanta After Meridian Stop
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh touched down at Candler Field Atlanta shortly after noon after flying from Meridian Mississippi. He refueled and departed for an unannounced eastbound destination despite widespread southern weather disturbances.
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Atlanta
Charles A. Lindbergh
Candler Field
Meridian
Miss
Mexico City
Lindbergh Refuels in Meridian En Route to New York
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh lands at Meridian Mississippi airport for a ten minute stop to refuel after yesterday’s flight from Brownsville. He refuses to disclose next destination beyond continuing to New York for Myron T. Herrick funeral and notes he had spent the night somewhere between Brownsville and Meridian. He plans to depart at 9 25 a m after posing with officials and taking breakfast.
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Meridian
Miss
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Brownsville
Col. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
New York
Myron T. Herrick
Plot To Assassinate Calles Hit In Mexico City Move
Mexico City reports reveal a new plot to bomb the train carrying former president Plutarco Elias Calles in Jalisco. A man Santiago Perez and an unnamed woman were sent from the north to obtain hazardous materials. military officials say they will be arrested soon.
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Calles
Mexico City
Canes
Universal Today
Jalisco
Mexico
Pacific
Sinaloa
Universal
Santiago Perez
Torreon
Perez
Plutarco Elias Calles
Coahuila
Chiahuahua
Mazatlan
Colonia Station
Callies
Bermejillo
Catts makes bond but must repeat action in Florida
Sidney J. Catts former Florida governor was indicted for aiding and abetting a counterfeit ring. He tried to post 17500 bond before U S Commissioner Milton in Marianna but federal officials ruled the bond void due to no arrest warrant. Catts must surrender again and post a new bond.
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Pensacola
Fla
Sidney J. Catts
Florida
United States
Milton
Marianna
Catts
Bond
Indictment Reports Against Former Florida Governor Catts
In Jacksonville a federal grand jury indicted former governor Sidney J. Catts for alleged conspiracy to circulate counterfeit money. D. Stuart Gillis of Defuniah Springs, attorney and legislator, declined to comment.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Sidney J. Catts
D. Stuart Gillis
Defuniah Springs
Florida
Jacksonville
Last witness in Rothstein slaying freed on bail now
Bridget Farry, the last witness held in the Arnold Rothstein slaying, was released on a $1500 bail after 134 days as an involuntary guest of the city. She had been confined in jail a hospital and a Catholic institution while others posted higher bail. Her attorney secured the bail reduction and she returned to work as a scrubwoman.
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New York
Bridget Farry
Rothstein
Bridget
Park Central Hotel
Arnold Rothstein
Rebels overrun Mexican frontier near Naco as forces converge
Mexican rebels are reported converging on Naco Sonora from three directions. Federal troops hold the Nueco garrison with about 1,000 loyal soldiers under General Lucas Gonzalez. Revolutionary leader General J Gonzalo Escobar arrives to direct operations as rebels regroup after Chihuahua. The drive is said to total not less than 3,000 men.
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Naco
Arizona
Sonora
Nueco
Lucas Gonzalez
J. Gonzalo Escobar
Chihuahua
Pulpito Pass
Senate Committee Drafts Farm Relief Plan for Hoover Talks
A five member Senate agriculture committee delegation led by Chairman McNary will confer with President Hoover in Washington to discuss provisions of the farm relief bill and the export debenture plan favored by the National Grange. House subcommittee members have also agreed on a new farm relief measure.
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Washington, D. C
Senate Agricultural Committee
Hoover
McNary
Norbeck
South Dakota
Capper
Kansas
Ransdell
Louisiana
Heflin
Alabama
White House
National Grange
Senate Committee
Haugen
House Agriculture Committee
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