Bitter fight looms over Wagner bill in drought relief context
In a dramatic Washington scene, a bitter fight looms as Britain delays a debt payment while FDR requests half a billion for drought relief. A dynamite magazine explosion near Okla causes seven deaths among a seismograph crew, scattering remains across a field.
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Preston Barnes
Guthrie
Lloyd B. Mood
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Donal McDonald
San Antonio
Tex
Dave McClelland
Santa Anna
Herman Voigt
Perry
Hos Fannin
May
Ail
Seismograph Sounding Crew
Hope for Adjournment Fades With New Demands for Legislation
White House faces renewed push from Congress to pass the Wagner labor bill and other measures. After talks with President Roosevelt, sources say adjournment depends on immediate enactment of key items including the silver bill the Wagner bill the AAA licensing amendments the housing program the deficiency bill and drought relief. Senate delays could extend session while House negotiates gag rules.
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Senate
Lewlers
Roosevelt
White Halls
He House
Believe Boy Murder Theory Arose In West Virginia
United Press reports a 10 year old Dale Jones was believed murdered to hide crimes by two suspects. A search party found his body near his grandfather's home. He had been beaten and left beneath stones and leaves while still alive. Investigators questioned Gonlon Blais and his pal, both locals, amid fears in the neighborhood. Local residents feared speaking out as police pursued leads in Titusville.
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United Press
Philipet
W. Va
Dale Jones
Toda Jane
Gonlon Blais
Clenis Fown
Counel
Ee Baie
Dale
City to Seek Repair of Rail Crossings Here
City Council last evening directed a survey of hazardous local railroad crossings and will forward the list to railroad agents requesting immediate improvements. The meeting covered routine business, with transfers of funds approved, bills paid, and the May treasurer’s report showing a May 1 balance of 14 063.59.
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Sinclair and Workers in Labor Agreement
New York June announces a one year labor agreement between Sinclair Oil Companies and the International Association of West Gas Well and Refinery Workers. The pact bans strikes and lockouts during its term and calls for arbitration to resolve disputes if unresolved by company and union.
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Britain to suspend war debt payments to United States
London June 5 Neville Chamberlain announced in the House of Commons that Britain will suspend further war debt payments to the United States until intergovernmental debt settlements can be discussed with real prospects of agreement. He warned that full payment would revive the old debt system and hinder recovery, offering a token acknowledgment on June 5 if accepted without default stigma.
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London
Neville Chamberlain
House of Commons
Britain
United States
Chamberlain
Cal. A.J. K. Todd
Rabbi Currick Club Speaker at Rotary Meeting
Rabbi Max Currick spoke to the Rotary Club at the Hotel Corry on The International Situation. He blamed munitions manufacturers and unscrupulous leaders for blocking world peace, denounced the Versailles settlement and Hitlerism, and urged unity in outlawing war. President Cook and Dr. Moales presided.
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Max Currick
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Rabbi Carrick
United States
Service Club
Carrick
Germany
Cook
Westfield Club
Chhira
Dr. Moales
Corry Ohh
Seek concessions to avert steel strike
Washington June 5 The Iron and Steel Institute was invited to make concessions for settlement of the threatened steel strike Recovery Administrator Hugh S Johnson said today Simultaneously leaders of the automobile industry called on President Roosevelt to suggest some method of arbitration A steel strike would demoralize or paralyze motor car production Walter Chrysler Alfred P Sloan Jr Alwin McCauley and Roy D Chapin might back adoption of the automotive industry strike plan described by Johnson as a shining example to every industry in the country Under this plan employers and labor leaders would adopt a proportional representation system in which each group gains a place at negotiating table
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United Press
Washington
Iron and Steel Institute
Hugh
Johnson
Roosevelt
Walter Chrysler
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr
Alwin McCauley
Roy D. Chapin
Hunt Gunmen Surrounded After Fatal Sheriff Deputy Shooting
Police and posses believed they had surrounded four gunmen in the hill country near Henryville Indiana after a night gun battle left Deputy Sheriff Harold Amick of Underwood dead and Patrolman Joli Patten Derger wounded in Saynmny Saynmny, about 20 miles away, as two officers were shot.
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Underwood
Scott County
Stotion
Joli Ptatten
Derger
Saynmny
Legion Rally Set in City Park for Saturday Night
American Legion rally planned in City Park with band concert bugle and drum corps drills and talks by Stave Sormander Messner. Amplified sound will let the near 3,000 visitors hear the program as posts from northwestern Pennsylvania converge for what may be the largest veterans gathering Corry has seen in years.
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American Legion
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Stave Sormander Messner
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Corry
Messner
Plant Ties Up in Protest at Kittanning Factory
In Kittanning Pennsylvania on June 5 Continental Gray Products Company was partly incapacitated after 120 employees voted for a holiday to back collective bargaining demands and protest alleged NRA wage violations.
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Continental Gray Products Company
Early Showers End Dry Spell Across County
Thunder showers may end a dry spell as storms roll through Crawford county with heavy rain and damaging lightning. In Titusville area a strong electrical storm damaged barns near Merchants Corners while crops gain slight relief from drought. In Pittsburgh a lightning and rain storm injured three and sparked fires, offering limited cooling after a heat wave. In Dubois a thunderstorm killed Arthur Brand, 6, near a field.
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Pittsburgh
Dubois
Thunderston
Pennsylvania
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Here
Ten of Eleven Escaped Convicts Recaptured in Mississippi
By United Press MISSISSIPPI June 5 All but one of the 11 convicts who rioted and escaped from state prison farm No 10 here have been recaptured today. Clifford Smith, who wooed his sweetheart a year ago, was still at large.
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Locust Plague Ravages Avalon Pennsylvania Village
Locust swarms swept through Avalon Pennsylvania destroying vegetation over five miles. Gardens and lawns were blanketed inch deep as trees bent under weight. Residents fought the horde with kerosene spray and trenches but to no effect. Birds, squirrels, and cats perished in the invasion while experts note wing markings resemble West coast swarms. Superstition links the event to war as wings roared and insects moved as a single mass.
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Avalon
Ballente
Westwood
Les Reveal
Henderson Angrily Demands French Proposal at Disarmament Talks
Geneva June 9 Arthur Henderson president of the disarmament conference warned France he would resign if no acceptable proposal was submitted. He slammed France for not presenting a workable plan and threatened to blame Paris for any failure as the conference prepared for a full session tomorrow.
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United Press
Geneva
Arthur Henderson
Ultima Tened
Prench
Bathou
Threatened Tear Gas Ends Tennessee Prison Mutiny
Tennessee convicts who seized a prison guard and barricaded themselves in the state prison yard surrendered after authorities threatened to use tear gas. Leader Lonnie Taylor along with Carl Pentecost and J. Raines were captured as guards and police surrounded the block. Taylor claimed he had been shot while trying to surrender.
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Nashville
Tenn
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Tirce
Mulinwers
Lonnie ‘Tayor
Carl Pentecost
J. Raines
Nise Vile
Hive
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Taylor
Iis
Pentecost
Raines
Smith
Blackmail Aimed at Political Jobs Revealed in Ickes Testimony
Secretary Harold L. Ickes testified in disbarment hearings in Chicago about alleged blackmail schemes targeting his power to secure political appointments. He identified Lucius Malmin, a former federal judge of the Virgin Islands, and W. Larzen, Chicago’s former assistant corporation counsel, as players in intimidation efforts to secure Malmin’s governorship. Ickes described Malmin's threats to trigger disbarment actions over fees from an estate retirement case to pressure Ickes.
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Interio
Harold L. Ickes
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the Virgin Islands
W. Larzen
Cicago
Malmin
Islands
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Hin
Roosevelt Eyes $525 Million Drought Relief Push
President Roosevelt is expected to propose more than half a billion dollars for drought relief in the west and Midwest. The plan includes $525,000,000 in new appropriations for relief programs, livestock purchases, feed, seed, and work programs to aid farmers, with CCC expansion and sub marginal land treatment. Weather forecasts show minimal rain, and officials warn only long soaking rains can save crops.
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Middlewest
White House
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Senate Agriculture
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South Dakota
CCC
Midwest
Sai Long
Shooting in McKeesport Ends in Fatality and Wounding
In McKeesport Pennsylvania on June 5 a burst of revolver fire in an Auburn Street home killed Eugene Sempter a visitor to Mrs Ethlen McCormack and critically wounded Mrs McCormack and Maurice McCormack 44 the brother-in-law police said.
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Auburn Street
Eugene Sempter
Ethlen McCormack
McCormack
Maurice McCormack
Mayor Miller Denies Knowledge Of East Main Raid
City officials report a raid on an East Main Street gambling operation with an alleged proprietor and others arraigned before Mayor Miller. The mayor claims no knowledge of the raid or police activity, while critics say the department has the worst record in city history.
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Veid Mehihers
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Plalitis
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Amos
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