U S Condemns Bombings in Spain and China
Sumner Welles, acting secretary of state, called the bombings barbarous in a strong statement after a Roosevelt briefing. He urged humane conduct and criticized aerial attacks on civilians, linking the violence to broader hostilities affecting U S interests. The note preceded Hull's Nashville speech on humane warfare.
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Sumner Welles
Department of State
China
Spain
United States
Roosevelt
Ae East
Europe
Valley States
Welles
Hull
Nashville
FBI Nabbed Leads In Florida Boynapping Case
Federal agents and state police expanded the search for 5 year old James B Cash Jr in Indiana and Florida. J Edgar Hoover directed the probe while 3 ransom notes and a shoebox tied to the $10 000 demand were examined. A dead woman found in a burlap sack prompted renewed urgency in the mangrove swamps and Everglades search areas.
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Indiana
James B
Skeegie) Cash, Jr
Princeton
Fla
Fowler
Benton County
Little Jimmy Cash
Mangrove Keys
Miami Reserve
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Willard
John Campbell
John Manuel
FBI
Miami
J. Edgar Hoover
James Bailey Cash
Hoover
Cash
Bec
Windsors Remembered On First Anniversary
Antibes France June 3 Two long distance calls from London indicated the British royal family remembered the former Edward VIII in exile. Messages were believed to include congrats from the duke’s mother and brother to Mary and King George. Mr and Mrs Herman H Rogers American friends also telephoned. Otherwise the anniversary was a routine day for the duke and his American born duchess.
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France
London
Edward VIII
Mary
George
Herman H. Rogers
the Windsors
Ecuador cabinet resigns amid Grista crisis
Quito reports the Ecuadorian cabinet comprised of army officers resigning during a border crisis with Peru after a soldier was killed and another wounded. President Gualberto Enríque aims to form a civilian cabinet while Peru says no attack occurred and five Ecuadorian soldiers were arrested for entering Peruvian territory.
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Ecuador
Peru
Juez
G. Alberto Enriq Preme
Jorge Quintana
Guillermo Freire
Lima
Foreign Office
Rocafuerte
Napo
Abelardo Aguirre
Alberto Figueroa
County Fights Parking Meters At Courthouse
Taylor county drafted a petition for an injunction to stop parking meters in front of the courthouse in Grafton. Prosecutor Warder said it would be presented to a neighboring circuit judge, noting Circuit Judge Dent is a property owner on the street. Mayor Gillespie ordered work halted until a restraining order ruling.
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Grafton
W. Va
Taylor County
Francis L. Warder
Herbert Dent
P. F. Gillespie
Government to Buy Surplus Farm Goods for Relief
Washington reports the government will purchase larger amounts of surplus farm products for relief distributions under the president’s leadership. Secretary Alsace of the Agriculture Department says the emergency program aims to ease urban unemployment and price pressures while supplementing regular relief channels. Funds passed by the Senate provide $50,000,000 for June purchases and $73,000,000 for the fiscal year starting July 1.
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Alsace
Agriculture Department
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
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Corporessee
Senate
McAdoo
Slovaks Seek Autonomy Added to Sudeten Demands
The Slovak Catholic party presented autonomy demands at Pressburg joining Konrad Henlein’s Sudeten motion. It called for a Slovak legislative body, transfer of executive power, a Slovak government, and a supreme court in Czechoslovakia. A massive Pressburg rally was planned for Sunday. A German protest over border incidents included the seizure of a swastika from a Sudeten couple and alleged ill treatment by Czech troops.
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Czechoslovakia
Slovak Catholic People’s Party
Konrad Henlein
Pressburg
Andreas Et
Supreme Co’ of Justice
Peter Hletko
Chicago
Ernst Eisenlohr
Foreign Office
Niederallersdorf
Lightning Kills 2 at Kansas City Golf Tournament
A thunderstorm struck spectators at the Hillcrest Country club during the Kansas City's $5,000 golf tournament. William D. Boyle and E. M Critchfield were killed. six others were injured, one seriously. The round was halted and the event trimmed to 54 holes. Lester Allen and Thomas J. Cunningham suffered burns, with others shocked or singed as pros Horton Smith Leonard Dodson and Leonard Gibson neared the ninth fairway.
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William D. Boyle
E. M Critchfield
Hillcrest Country Club
Thomas J. Cunningham
Board of Trade
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Critchfield
Cunningham
Lester Allen
Horton Smith
Chicago
Leonard Dodson
Springfield
Leonard Gibson
Insurgent air raid on Taragona destroys 15 buildings
Madrid reports ten killed and twenty five wounded in an insurgent air raid on Taragona, a Spanish government seaport on the Mediterranean. Incendiaries reportedly used for the first time.
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Tarragona
Mediterranean
Flying Laboratory Lands in Honolulu on 8000 Mile Trip
The flying boat Guba with Archbold and five associates landed in Honolulu after an 18 hour flight covering 2,624 miles. Plans include a Wake Island hop, then a southern leg to New Guinea, and two years of jungle camps to study flora and fauna with parachute drops where landings are impossible.
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Pearl Harbor
Archbold
Wake Island
Wake
New Guiana
Hollandia
New Guinea
Lake Habbema
Lewis Boycotts British Survey
Washington reports President Roosevelt announced a study of the British trade union act but John L. Lewis refused to participate. He said the Committee for Industrial Organization cannot sanction modification of the Wagner act and opposes any amendment. The AFL agreed to join with Robert Watt named as labor delegate to the Geneva ILO meeting.
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Roosevelt
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
American Federation of Labor
CLO
Robert Watt
Massachusetts
International Labor Organization
Geneva
Gerard Swope
General Electric Company
Lloyd Garrison
Old
Labor Relations Board
England
Fancy liquor store opens in West Virginia with high prices
Charleston announces a new state liquor store offering imported liquors and cordials at premium prices. Chairman R E Kelly calls it an experiment to test demand outside the White Sulphur Springs hotel stock.
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W. Va
R. E. Kelly
The
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Commission
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White
Lly
Hull outlines four point program for world order
Secretary of State Cordell Hull told the Bar Association of Tennessee that the United States must lead in a new world order based on law. He proposed four points: strengthen international economic ties, push for arms limitation agreements, and renew vigorous global cooperation through peaceful means, urging strong public opinion to support these goals.
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Tennessee Bar Association
U. S
Nashville
Tenn
Cordell Hull
United States
Bar Association of Tennessee
Chinese retreat from Lanfeng in Hankow theater
Chinese troops begin withdrawing from Lans to prepare for a showdown at Chengchow near the Lunghai and Peiping Hankow rail lines.Japanese advances concentrate 200 central army units under Hu Tsung nan at Chengchow amid renewed attacks on Chenliu and Tatung as forces move toward Hankow.
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Lans
Chengchow
Lunghai
Peiping-Hankow
Lanfeng
Hankow
China
C Kai-shek
Hu Tsung-nan
Chenliu
Kaifeng
Warshi
Tatung
Yangtze River
Whum
Kweichih
Pararde
Veteran Teacher Dons Academic Robes at 73 to March With Grads
Jason Raines, 73, march with Concord State Teachers College graduates in Athens to receive his A B degree. Oldest degree recipient at Concord, Raines taught one room schools in Mingo county for 52 years, began at Concord in 1921, majoring in elementary education, with plans to teach 25 rural pupils in Lenore next session. He earns the diploma in August.
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Raines
Hale and Hardy
Concord State Teachers College
Athens
L. McGraw
Concord
Mingo County
Lenore
W. Va
Schuschnigg Weds Countess Amid Uncertain Detention
Vienna June 3 Kurt Schuschnigg former Austrian chancellor, held by Nazi authorities since March 13, wed Countess Vera Pugger Von Babenhausen in a private ceremony with proxy Dr. Arthur Schuschnigg. The bride, 34, a noted Viennese beauty, took an apartment in central Vienna while the groom remains imprisoned.
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Kurt Schuschnigg
Austria
Vera Pugger von
Babenhausen
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Schuschnigg
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Wage groups set 25 cent wage floor in interstate work
A joint congressional committee decided to set 25 cents an hour as the lowest wage for interstate industries and ban certain child labor. Aimed to build toward 40 cents with gradual increases, the plan would also limit 16 year olds to non full time interstate work and ban hazardous occupations for under 18. Debate on wage differentials to follow.
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Congressional
House
Senate
Rock Bottom
App
Thomas
Utah
Federal conciliator steps into Pittsburgh bakery strike
A federal labor conciliator entered negotiations in a Pittsburgh area strike involving 1,400 truck drivers from 35 bakeries. Union and management remain deadlocked on closed shop, seniority, and use of the union label on wrappers, though committees agreed to meet.
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Southwestern Pennsylvania
John A. Moffitt
F. of L. Bakery Drivers
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Federal agents renew Levine case activity in New Rochelle
Federal agents renewed activity today in the Peter Levine kidnapping murder case. They searched for the occupant of a shack on a nearby island and planned to inspect a motor boat tied nearby for possible blood stains.
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N. Y
Peter Levine
Peter
Long Island Sound
Spanish Insurgents Fight Desperate at Frontier
Spanish insurgents waged a desperate defense at Hendaye near the frontier as heavy casualties and scarce munitions marked their stubborn hold on positions won in a prior offensive. Galician troops under Gen Jose Varela pressed to enter western Castellan province but advanced little. Government claims pinned the defense on Mount Castelar and the village of Sarratella near Albocacer, with contested efforts west of Albocacer.
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France
Jose Varela
Castellan
Albocacer
Josefa
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Sarratella
Senate OKs 3.723 Billion Spending Bill Despite Proposals
The Senate approved a 3.723 billion dollar public works spending measure by a 60 to 10 vote. The bill, larger than the House version by about 600 million, moves to a conference committee. Debate included blocking two bids to bar political activity by relief workers and a Byrd amendment to strike PWA provisions.
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Senate
House
Senate kills relief bill amendment on PWA funding limits
The Senate rejected a relief bill amendment by Senator Neely that would have let the Public Works Administration cover all project costs in states with constitutional bars on local funding. West Virginia and Florida backed the amendment, while Byrd of Virginia opposed it and Glass of Virginia was paired against the measure.
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Senate
Aoe
Florida
Public Works Administration
Neely
PWA
West Virginia
Adams Wd
Cole
Holt
Byrd
Virginia
Senator Glass
Administration aid bill faces amendment battle in Senate
Lawmakers previously adopted a voice vote on relief outlay limits with a five percent administration cap. Critics pressed to set aside PWA funds for the chamber, while Copeland offered earmarking amendments that were defeated by administration supporters.
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PWA
Chamber
Copeland
Coal Board Cuts Down Activities in West Virginia District
Bad business in the coal fields and price uncertainty led to sharp curtailment of the bituminous producers board in District No. 3 Fairment West Virginia. Chairman Buckley will move executive secretary Shinnamon to Washington and furlough six staff for up to 60 days. The coal commission may be asked to convene delinquent producers to show cause for suspending their assessments. A three million ton assessment was ordered to aid power and staff, with some personnel suspended temporarily.
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W. Va
West Virginia
Buckley
Tron
Powe
Corte Seine 5
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