France Moves Against Rightist Leagues Amid Tense Strikes
France confronts rising rightist agitation with firm action. The cabinet uses strict laws to dissolve armed leagues led by Croix de Feu while pursuing extreme leftists accused of turning labor disputes into economic upheaval. Premier Leon Jumes condemns the Croix de Feu as an "army of capital" seeking civil war.
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Croix de Feu
Croise de Feu
Army of Capital
Leon Jum
le Populaire
Jealousy Held Motive in Moore Slaying at East Orange
Police seek a tall thin inventor type as the possible killer of 67 year old Daniel McFarlan Moore in East Orange New Jersey. Detectives inspect Moore’s private papers while pursuing a lead from a plaster print and a stranger who visited nine hours before the murder.
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East Orange
WN. J
Daniel McFarlan Moore
Thomas A. Faison
Essex County
Moore
Park Avenue
Joseph Cocozza
Harrison
General Electric Co
Newark
Wellesley College
Carmichael bill passes congress creates new Alabama highway funds
Governor Bibb Graves announced from Montgomery that Congress passed the Carmichael bill and sent it to President Roosevelt, enabling Alabama to receive 1.89 million dollars in federal aid for highway construction without state matching. Alabama's plan to free 15 toll bridges on federal trunk highways would total about 3.78 million, with 1.89 million allocated for new construction.
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Montgomery
Ala
Bibb Graves
Washington
Carmichael
Congress
Roosevelt
A. H. Carmichael
Tuscumbia
Alabama
Walter B. Jones
Montgomery Circuit Court
Graves
Jittery Mules Stubborn Weather Drought Hits Georgia Fields
In Sparta Georgia farmers face a drought trick as early cottonseed failed and heavy rains sprout new growth. Mules trained to avoid cotton must now haul plows and tear out rows, disrupting fields and plans.
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Sparta
Runaway son escapes jail twice in Spokane
Ralph E. Adams from West Lafayette Indiana traveled 2000 miles to find his 14 year old son Richard at the juvenile detention quarters. He arrived too late to see him and after breakfast Sunday police learned Richard and two others had escaped.
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Spokane
Wash
Ralph E. Adams
West Lafayette
Ind
Richard
PWA Benefits to Alabama Highlight Major Projects
Alabama has received about 14 million dollars in PWA allotments, with an estimated 19 million dollars benefited through 134 projects and associated outside jobs. The plan includes 54 school buildings 47 waterworks sewer and drainage systems eight courthouses jails city halls and other buildings three hospitals and alms houses three street paving and road jobs five gas plants 10 electrical distribution systems three university buildings and improvements to the Alabama state docks at Mobile.
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Montgomery
Ala
Geismer
Public Works Administration
Alabama
PWA
Roosevelt
Alabama State
Moe
Pursley Buys Blackhawk Cafe Moves to Johnston Street
Cleve Pursley, former owner of Cleve's Coffee Shop, purchased the Blackhawk Sandwich Shop on Johnston Street and opened for business in the new location. A well known restaurant operator, he is predicted to find success in this new venture.
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Cleve Pursley
Cleve
Blackhawk
Johnston Street
Couple waits to save a day on hospital bill
In Kansas City at St. Luke's hospital a couple arrived at 9 p m and sat for three hours before entering at 12 05 am. The man said they waited to save a day on their bill. Dr Ed Whitee noted the scene and asked if the woman feared the hospital. She said no.
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Kansas City
Ed Whitee
St. Luke's Hospital
Public Service Commission defends rate cut. lawyers hired
The Alabama Public Service Commission said it hired Hill Hill Whiting and Rives to defend its rate reduction order against Southern Bell. Governor Bibb Graves approved the firm. Attorney General Carmichael and Horace Wilkinson appealed, calling the cut unjust and inadequate.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Public Service Commission
Southern Bell Telephone Company
A. A. Carmichael
Hill, Hill, Whiting and Rives
Bibb Graves
Carmichael
Horace Wilkinson
Birmingham
Steesting
Wilkinson
Graves
Comedian W. C. Fields Seriously Ill in Riverside Hospital
The screen comedian W. C. Fields is reported seriously ill with pneumonia at a Riverside California community hospital. Physicians say he had been in a run down condition prior to the illness.
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W. C. Fields
Riverside
Calif
Fields
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