Court rules federal government cannot condemn land for public housing
In a Cincinnati decision the sixth district United States circuit court of appeals held the federal government lacks power to condemn land for public housing projects. The ruling supports Louisville 460 family project and questions the broader 160 million housing program in about 40 cities. Judge Allen dissented.
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Cincinnati
Sixth District
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Charles J. Dawson
Louisville
Ickes
Supreme Court
Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works
Dawson
Edward J. Gernert
Charles H. Moorman
Xenophon Hicks
Florence Allen
Allen
United States
Business Gains for Small Towns in June Sales
Washington July 15. Commerce department reports increased general merchandise sales in small towns and rural areas for June. Dollar volume rose 38 percent from June 1934 and 51 percent from June 1933, with average daily sales 7.5 percent higher than May. First six months of 1935 show 22.5 percent higher sales than 1934.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Commerce Department
Stockyards Fees Reduced in Fort Worth Order
Secretary Wallace issued a 10 percent cut in livestock buying and selling rates at the Fort Worth stockyards, affecting about three commission firms. The change takes effect August 9 after a May hearing. Reductions at Sioux City and St. Louis were uncontested, while Wichita Oklahoma City St Joseph and St Paul firms cut rates voluntarily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wallace
Livestock Commission
Fort W-th
Tex
Department of Agriculture
Sioux City
St. Louis
Wichita
Oklahoma City
St. Joseph
St. Paul, Minn
Packers and Stockyards Act
Gore Opens Re election Campaign Amid Oklahoma Gubernatorial Tones
Senator Thomas P. Gore announces informal bid for re election in Washington. He counters Governor Marland's signals on support while listing potential rivals in Oklahoma including Disney Lee and Rogers. Mrs. George A. Waters is noted as in the field. Gore touts the 1932 Democratic platform and reflects on his past votes including World Court and Prohibition repeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Young Washington
Thomas P. Gore
D-Okla
E. W. Marland
Oklahoma
Marland
Gore
Senate
Congress
Disney
Lee
Rogers
Alfalfa
Bill’ Murray
Hugh Johnson
Blue Eagle
New York
Works Progress
Scott Ferris
George A. Waters
Granite Reformatory
Black Widow Defeated In Beetle Fight At Seminole Yard
A black widow spider fought a larger black beetle in a glass bottle at the Seminole Producer Tank yard. The beetle bit off the spider’s legs and survived while the spider died. referee Sherman Barclay declared the beetle winner. Jim Brown backed the spider and J C McGee supported the winning beetle. C P Robert witnessed.
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Sherman Barclay
Jim Brown
J. C. McGee
C. P. Robert
Producer Tank Company
Greatest returns for the amount invested
Classified ad highlights value investments and money saving offers. A concise roundup of practical opportunities, including price deals and potential returns for readers seeking affordable purchases and efficient spending.
Woman Convicted in $200,000 Weyerhaeuser Kidnapping
Margaret Waley, 19, convicted on Lindbergh law and conspiracy charges in Tacoma for her role in the George Weyerhaeuser kidnaping. Jury found she helped transport the boy across state lines and conspired with Harmon Waley and William Dainard. Trial lasted under five hours with judge's instructions on conspiracy. The case follows her husband’s earlier guilty plea and separate sentencing.
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Tacoma
Wash
Margaret Waley
George Weyerhaeuser
Washington-Idaho
Harmon M. Waley
William Dainard
Mahan
U. S
A. J. Chitty
Cushman
United States
J. Charles Dennis
Department of Justice
Bill Mahan
Hughes
Dore
Spokane
Issquah
J. P. Weyerheauser
Kanasket
Waley
McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary
George
Gore Gallo Defends Loyalty Amid Political Attacks
Senator Gore of Oklahoma rebutted critics over his support for President Roosevelt and his 1930 platform, saying he stood by the administration on four of five key votes and never shunned a fight. He criticized “lip service friends” and noted his lone break with the party was voting against the world court.
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Washington
E. W. Marland
Oklahoma
Gore
D-Okla
Marland
Roosevelt
Thomas Jefferson
World Court
America
Europe
Chinese Flood Sweeps Hankow Area Killing Thousands
A Chinese motor boat crew reported a dike burst on the Han river near Hanyang as the flood floodwaters wrecked a wide rural region. Two thirds of Hanyang were underwater with authorities rushing to reinforce dikes and mobilize workers for a last stand to save Hankow.
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Hankow
China
Han River
Hanyang
Changkung
Associated Press
Hopkins Couple Mark 70 Years of Marriage in Williamstown
Williamstown, July 15. George Mortimer Hopkins, age 92, and his wife, also 92, celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary. They wed seventy years ago and cite courtesy, charity and tolerance as the key to a happy marriage.
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Williamstown
Mass
George Mortimer Hopkins
Hopkins
Two Accused In Liquor Charges
Albert Threat 24 was jailed on internal revenue charges after a gallon of moonshine was found in a hidden store room under an outhouse at Otis Van Buskirk's West Twelfth Street home. Threat pleaded guilty, Van Buskirk not guilty. Threat’s brother faces related jail time. Mary Chapman, described as mature, pleaded guilty to possession of whiskey and minor dispensing equipment and was committed to federal jail.
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Albert Threat
Muskogee
Otis van Buskirk
U.S. Internal Revenue
van Buskirk
West Twelfth Street
Threat
U. S
W. C. Edwards
Edwards
Allen Stanfield
Frank Threat
Centrahoma
Mary Chapman
Internal Revenue
Roland Rooms
Sleepless baker dies at 76 in Kinsale
Jack MacCarthy a lifelong baker who slept little died aged 76 in Kinsale Ireland. He spent decades reducing sleep claiming he could forgo slumber entirely and boasted he slept less in 50 years than the average man in six months. He refused to explain his method.
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Kinsale
Irish Free State
Jack MacCarthy
MacCarthy
Murray County seeks ouster of Sheriff Rose Johnson
Sulphur July 12. County commissioners filed a district court petition charging excessive drunkenness and failure to enforce the prohibition law. A hearing was set for July 19 before Judge W. G. Long.
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Murray County
Rose Johnson
iJudge
W. G. Long
Hammonton man becomes kin to own step family via newborn
In Hammonton New Jersey Thomas B Delker 65 celebrated as the father of his step great grandchild Emma Mae Delker born to his daughter and her husband Emma Messner 22. The unusual kin web links Delker to his son in law and makes his step grandmother and step sister in law to the child.
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Hammonton
N. J
Thomas B. Delker
Delkner
Emma Messner
Joseph Messner
Delker
Emma Mae Delker
Four Measures To Be Voted On Sept. 24
Oklahoma City July 15 Governor Marland said he does not expect to place on the September 24 ballot four proposed constitutional amendments. He would also not call a vote on a liquor repeal measure or the petition to authorize city revenue bonds for utilities. He fears voter confusion with pension and tax proposals already before voters and notes the legislature set four measures for the election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Marland
School Land Commission
Restiveness in Congress grows amid business opposition and tax dispute
Washington observers report intensifying hostility from organized business toward the New Deal as Congress nears adjournment. Roosevelt and aides, including critics of the Guffey coal bill, retreat to Chesapeake Bay for a weekend, while letters urging policy decisions complicate lawmakers tasks.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Chesapeake Bay
Ada to open first class public library in months
Ada plans a public library within months if the Pontotoc county excise board approves the 1935 36 budget estimate. A one mill levy to raise about 4500 for the next year is included and will be submitted for approval after a conference.
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Ada
Pontotoc County
J. D. Willoughby
Willoughby
Chamberlain
Public Library Board
Percy Armstrong
Public Works and Property
Edmon Low
R. W. Huff
Emma K. Keller
O. B. Lee
E. H. Schroeder
Tom D. McKeown
Congressmman
Roy Robison Here in County for Visit after Tucson Death
Prof. Roy Robison of Tucson is in the county with relatives for a few days. He returned with the body of his brother in law Carl Bolin who died in Tucson from a heart attack. Bolin survived by Mrs. Bolin and son Harold of Wetumka and his Tucson mother. his home was Wetumka. He had worked as a meat cutter in the west after growing up in this county and teaching in Arizona for more than ten years.
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Roy Robison
Tucson
Ariz
Carl Bolin
Bolin
Harold
Wetumka
Robison
West
Mr. Robison
Fast Central
Arizona
Two Black Men Lynched Near Columbus Mississippi
In Columbus Mississippi two young Black farmers Bert Moore and Dooley Morton about 26 were seized from Deputy Sheriff Parker Harris eight miles south of Columbus by a mob of about 35 white men and hanged from a giant oak near Zion church after alleged attempts on a white woman. Bodies left hanging as the mob dispersed.
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Columbus
Miss
Bert Moore
Dooley Morton
Parker Harris
Lowndes County
Zion Negro Church
Harris
Aberdeen
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Joseph W. Burns
Byrns
Jack
Jack Garner
Ferris Silent
Ferris
Democratic Party
Black Widow
Beetle
Little George Weyerhaeuser
Chitty
John F. Dore
Gore Gallo
Minnesota
Salt Lake City
Utah City
Federal Building
Margaret Thulin Waley
United States Marshal’s Office
Marshall A. J. Chitty
Great City
Mississippi
Huey Long
S. T. W. Plan
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