Record-Setting Air Flight Ends With Public Celebration
Al Key and Fred Key landed after an endurance flight that set a new record. The crowd lifted the brothers from the ship as Meridian officials praised the feat. Governor J. D. Sellers and Colonel Roscoe Turner lauded the achievement while Mrs Key and family celebrated at the ground.
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al Key
Fred
Sonny
James H. Skewes
As Colonels
Mississippi National Guard
Meridian
Clint Vinson
Roscoe Turner
Key
J. D. Sellers
Mississippi
National Aeronautic Association
Assoc
Washington
Relief huddle on WPA start dates at regional parley
In Orlmane on July 3 officials from southern states met to outline the Works Progress Administration goals and staffing. Lawrence Westbrook and Alan Johnstone spoke as regional leaders discussed placing relief recipients into suitable jobs and the tentative launch within weeks.
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Orlmane
Works Progress Administration
WPA
Lawrence Westbrook
Washington
Alan Johnstone
FERA
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Oklahoma
Georgia
Texas
Virginia
North
South Carolina
Tennessee
Alabama
Florida
Pe gged Cotton Plan Advocated by New York Broker
Washington reports a fifteen cent price peg for cotton and abolition of processing taxes urged by James J. Joseph O'Donnell, a New York broker. His plan seeks to end government crop controls, quotas, and processing taxes, with a 15 percent loan on the 1935 36 crop and creation of an American cotton council to aid the president and secretary in cotton issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
James J. Joseph O'Donnell
New Y Cotton Broker
Reece Believed Held in Tampa As Search Continues
Nashville reports a criminal court officer, Gus Kiger, departed for Tampa to locate Joseph I. Reece, former state insurance commissioner, believed detained there. Reece faces appeals from two criminal convictions and has a three to ten year sentence for bond theft, plus a three to six year term for another trust violation.
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Nashville
Tenn
Gus Kiger
Tampa
Joseph I. Reece
Kiger
Sam Hall
Reece
Supreme Court
Pensions Cut Planned by Paris Government
The government planned to readjust pensions for World War veterans except those wounded at the front as part of a campaign to reduce the 11 billion franc national deficit.
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Paris
Timely Farm Facts on Spring to Fall Garden Steps
The article outlines seasonal gardening, advising planting in low moisture areas, deep seed placement, and loose seed beds for late summer. It emphasizes light cultivation to control weeds, firm seed bed packing, and higher seed rates to ensure stands in challenging seasons. It also notes selecting cold resistant varieties for winter gardens and timing to reach maximum development before cold temperatures.
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China
Cala
Fervice, Inc
CTS
New Yorker
Joseph Reece
Miami, Fla
Cadena A Idecen
Ance Department
Sesepmh
Albany Grain & Coal CO
Davis ST
Imariz Me
Ayo
Wilder
NAVY
Amy White
Penney
Penney’s
Regetiten Ag
Charles G Segres
Hinz
Second Avenue
Goodrich
Silvertown
Lee and
Oak Streets
E. W. Kennedy
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