Drought Cuts Winter Wheat Yield Despite Surplus
Washington AP Secretary Henry A Wallace said drought and dust storms destroy about a million bushels of wheat daily in the Midwest but a 260 million bushel surplus remains in elevators. Winter wheat output falls 30 million below a month ago with total 1934 crop around 635 million bushels.
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Washington
America
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace
Middle‘west
Wallace
Agriculture Department
Harry, LL
Hopkins
Teld
Senate Labor
Northwest
Roosevelt
Hopas
Utah
Senate
House
Agricultural Department
Clergyman and shoemaker debate worth of work in town tale
In a small village Hiram the shoemaker rebukes a visiting minister, arguing that all honest labor serves God equally. He asserts that good shoes and noble sermons both earn heavenly credit, and they conclude that all service ranks the same before the Master.
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Hiram
Parson
Peracn
Tougo
John
Dust storms sweep across eastern Iowa
Dust storms continued to engulf Iowa with no change in intensity by noon. Winds were milder than Wednesday’s 50 mph gale. Federal Meteorologist Charles D. Reed said the storm had swept over all eastern Iowa, with fine grit blowing over buildings and surfaces.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Charles D. Reed
Towa
Scouts Show Indians How To Build Tepee
In Kansas City Missouri area scouts assisted a band of Pottawattamie Indians by demonstrating tepee construction techniques during a community good turn.
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Kansas City
Kan
Boy Scouts
Dowling Must Stand Trial For Kidnapping Woman He Married
Los Angeles film dance director R C Dowling nicknamed Dapper Danny was ordered to trial by Judge Fletcher Bowron on charges of kidnapping actress Marjorie Crawford to compel marriage. The pair had wed after the alleged kidnapping.
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Los Angeles
R. C
Danny” Dowling
Superior Court
Fletcher Bowron
Marjorie Crawford
Dickinson May Quit Over Snubbing Thorp
Assistant Secretary of Commerce John Dickinson hinted he may resign in protest after the senate refused to confirm Amherst economist Willard Thorp as head of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. He condemned charges as unfounded and partisan, saying the bureau risks destruction without a suitable replacement.
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Dickinson
Thorp
Washington
John Dickinson
Senate
Willard Thorp
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Hoover Administration
Bureau
Revenue Bill Becomes Law Under Roosevelt Action
President Roosevelt signed the 1934 revenue act, boosting annual levies to over 3.25 billion and adding new taxes on higher incomes gifts estates and corporations. The measure tightens evasion rules and introduces new taxes including a 3 cent a pound levy on coconut oil. Experts expect full effects in 1938 with 167 million projected for 1935 and 95 million yearly from capital stock earnings.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate Banking Committee
Congress
White House
Consolidated Corporation
Syeed Treasury
Patrolman's Death By Bandits Kept From Daughter
In Chicago at Jackson Park sanatorium 17 year old Patricia Redmond played happily awaiting her father. Her mother visited her Wednesday. The girl was unaware that Patrolman Patrick Redmond was killed Tuesday by four bandits in a currency exchange hold up. Physicians said the truth may be kept from her for years.
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Chicago
Jackson Park
Patricia Redmond
Patricia
Patrick Redmond
NRA Measure Passed By Illinois House
Illinois House passed a bill to make the national industrial recovery act and NRA code agreements part of state law. The measure, sponsored by Henry Horner, achieved the necessary 77 votes in a night session and moves to a Senate third reading likely Friday.
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Springfield
Ill
Ilp
Illinois
State
Senate
House
Guy. Henry Horner
Friay
Local Leader of Strikers Seeks Written Pact On Living Standards
Lewis Clark president of the Cedar Rapids meat cutters union explains the strike at the J M Sinclair plant. He calls for written collective bargaining guarantees, stable living conditions, and protection against revocation of privileges, noting broad union sympathy and external support.
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Cedar Rapids
Lewis Clark
Union of
Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen
Gazette
J. M. Sinclair Company
Clark
Workman
Oklahoma City
Des Moines
Waterloo
Insull again denied bond reduction in Chicago
Prisoner Samuel Insull faces arraignment Friday on mail fraud charges totaling about 102 million dollars. His lawyers press for bond relief as supporters seek to bail him out at the government’s 200000 dollar figure.
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Chicago
Samuel Insull
Marcus
Floyd E. Thompson
Insull
Thompson
Samuel, Jr
Will M. Sparks
Five Japanese killed in Brazil racial outbreak
Reports from Sao Paulo say five Japanese were killed and sixteen injured in Ticte as Brazilian workers attacked a Japanese colony after a Brazilian killed by a Japanese youth in reprisal for a seduction. The violence triggered widespread disorder in the area.
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Brazil
Sao Paulo
Ticte
Air Mail Volume Rises For United From West
United Airlines reports a sharp upturn in west coast air mail delivered to Chicago. Thursday arrivals total 3 047 pounds from San Francisco and other western cities, more than double Wednesday’s 1 300 pounds.
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Chicago
United Airlines
West Coast
San Francisco
Senate Finalizes Bill Limiting Rate Appeal Reviews
The Senate completed action on the Johnson bill to close federal district courts to publicity utility rate contests and sent it to the President for approval. A minor amendment prevents appeals from rate making bodies of any political subdivision from being heard in federal courts. Senator Hiram Johnson urged swift action to avoid an early adjournment.
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Washington
Senate
Johnson
House
United States
Hiram Johnson
Calif
Nye to Seek Probe of NRA Over Darrow Report Delay
Senator Gerald Nye says he will press a senate investigation into the NRA unless the Darrow board report on NRA practices is made public. Nye links the move to his broader attack on recovery administration price fixing and urges immediate publication of the report.
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Nye
NRA
Darrow
Washington
ULP
Gerald P. Nye
North Dakota
Senate
Darrow Board
Recovery Administration
Woman Sought in California Millionaire Kidnapping
A middle aged, well dressed woman was sought as a key clue in the kidnapping of William F. Gettle a 47 year old Arcadia millionaire seized from his estate by two masked gunmen. His wife and four children waited with authorities for a ransom note as police widened a dragnet from the palatial estate ten miles from Pasadena and twenty five miles from Beverly Hills.
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Los Angeles
William F. Gettle
Arcadia
W. George Lutz
Gettie
Gettles
Gettle
James P. Wolf
Wolf
Pasadena
Beverly’ Hilla
Loretta Turnbull
Monrovia
Note delivered fuels hope in Robles kidnapping case
Tangible proof that June Robles six year old heiress remains alive surfaced when a note was delivered to the county attorney's office Monday night. The note's contents became known Thursday drawing renewed attention to the kidnapping investigation in Tucson Arizona.
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Tucson
Ariz
June Robles
Father lacks funds to raise ransom for kidnapped child
In Tucson Arizona Fernando Robles father of June Robles told her kidnapers he cannot raise more than 10000 dollars to secure his child. The amount is the second formal appeal issued Thursday afternoon seeking the release of June Robles who is being held for 15000 dollars.
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Tucson
Ariz
Fernando Robles
Little June Robles
Camp Good Health Opens As Cedar Rapids Seeks Help
The Cedar Rapids Gazette reports Camp Good Health opens in mid June to aid undernourished and underprivileged children from Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas. Donations from local clubs and citizens support housing medical care meals and staff. About 200 children may benefit if funds rise. appeal emphasizes hardship of kids like Jimmy needing recovery and milk.
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Camp Good Health
Public Health Nursing Association
Cedar Rapids
Camp Good Health Fund
Vernon
Jimmy
Major League Results Thursday Baseball Summary
Boston and Cincinnati faced defeats with low scoring lines while Brooklyn and New York posted wins in varied tallies. Chicago beat New York by a wide margin as St Louis and Philadelphia split results amid rain in both leagues.
Reed Declares Senate Bid Attacks New Deal in Chicago
Former Missouri Senator Jim Reed announced plans to run again for the U S Senate while launching a sharp critique of the Roosevelt administration. He ridiculed NRA code rules and the New Deal, warned of drought and famine, and urged Missouri citizens to weigh his stance in the national forum.
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Chicago
INS
James A. Reed
Missouri
United States Senate
Washington
Jim" Reed
NRA
Roosevelt
Moscow
AAA
Wallace
Reed
House Passes Air Mail Bill to Conference
The House approved an administration bill authorizing the postmaster general to enter one year contracts with private firms to carry air mail. The measure now goes to conference with the Senate which had passed a different version. Roosevelt would appoint a Special expert commission to set a national aviation policy.
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Washington
House
Senate
Roosevelt
United States
Berle seeks $10,000 job cut to $1 year
Adolph A. Berle, former Roosevelt adviser and New York City chamberlain, asked to reduce his $10,000 annual post to a token one dollar. He proposed consolidating his duties with the finance department to save money.
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New York
Adolph A. Berle
Roosevelt
Berle
Chamberlain
Finance Department
Truce Reaches Enduring Settlement at Sinclair Packing Plant
Chicago regional labor board official Carl Steffensen announced that a truce was reached between Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen and Wilson and Company packing plant operators. Union members await signed agreement before returning to work as operations resume.
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Carl Steffensen
Chicago Regional Labor Board
T. M. Sinclair and Company Packing Plant
Wilson and Company
J.2d. Cooney
Jef
Wilson
Zrethe
Steffensen
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen’s Union
Sinclair and Company
James D. Cooney
Lewis Clark
Clark
J. ©. McCoy
St. Paul
Mike Pietrzak
St. Louis
Cooney
Gazette
Garbo's Double Ends Life Over Stardom Disappointment
Hollywood report states Greta Garbo's lookalike Sigrun Solvason, 28, a film extra, killed herself by swallowing poison after frustration at not achieving star status in pictures. Police confirmed the Thursday death.
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Hollywood
INL
Greta Garbo
Sigrun Solvason
Movie Extra
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