White House backs Texas senator amid primary tensions
The Roosevelt White House signals quiet backing for Sen. Connally in Texas Democratic primaries while Joe Bailey disputes administration influence. Connally, a Spanish American War veteran, boosts his standing by backing the veteran allowances veto. The saga hints at broader intraparty strategy and loyalties shaping the race.
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Connally
White House
Mr. Connally
Joe Bailey
Tsident
Roosevelt
Weather Summary for East Gull and The Weather
Thunder and shouty clouds signal unsettled conditions with scattered showers likely. Warmer temperatures early in the week give way to cooler spells toward the latter part as a new front moves in.
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East Gull
Mine Leaders Confer as Alabama Union Officials Fail to Arrive
In Washington on April 21 AP reports a two hour recess of Hugh S Johnson's conference on NRA hours and wages in coal. Alabama operators met with the administrator then left without disclosing progress toward raising miners' base pay from 3.40 to 4.60. United Mine Workers officials later followed, with Alabama leaders already en route by plane.
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Washington
Hugh S. Johnson
NRA
Alabama
United Mine Workers of America
William Mitch
United Mine Workers In
Birmingham
Strikes Loom in Birmingham Amid Labor Turmoil
In Birmingham on April 21 the district awaited National Recovery Administration action that could resume coal production as smaller strikes threatened locally. Negro pickets dwindled to a few orderly groups guiding returning workers while Edgewater saw a marching demonstration turned back from company property. Retail grocery clerks and soda fountain employees weighed joining the meat cutters on a four day strike. Rep Steel labor board elections were tabulated to decide if the company union would prevail at East Thomas Plant.
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Birmingham
National Recovery Administration
Edgewater
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
Clrks
Soda Fountain
Republic Steel Corporation
American Federation of Labor
Frank Coffee
Regional Labor Board
Coffee
East Thomas
Republic Corporation
Attorneys Named to Defend Slayer in Shreveport Case
In Shreveport Louisiana attorneys L C Blanchard and W A Mabry were appointed to defend D B Napier alias Fred Lockhart charged with criminal attack and murder of 16 year old Mae Giffin. Lockhart pleaded guilty at arraignment but was denied by Judge Roberts who ordered district court trial. He had been saved from a mob by National Guard troops after a rapid indictment and arraignment following lynch threats. He confessed to luring the girl from her mother’s home under a job ruse then stabbing her. He claimed past identity as D B Bunce Napier and involvement in Leo Frank lynching. Lockhart, emaciated from jail ordeal, said he expects the death penalty.
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Shreveport
D. B. Napier
Fred Lockhart
Mae Giffin
Lockhart
Roberts
L. C. Blanchard
W. A. Mabry
National Guard
Georgia
D. B. (Bunce) Napier
Leo Frank
Mary Phagan
Arrests Made In Montgomery Ballot Absentee Conspiracy
Two Montgomery County road foremen W E Gerald and C E McLaney were released on $2500 bond after being indicted by a U S District grand jury for conspiring to violate postal laws to obtain and cast absentee ballots for the May 1 Democratic Primary. The indictment charges McLaney with soliciting 42 ballots to Sprague and intending to bribe voters and falsify marks for certain candidates. Gerald, a justice of the peace, would certify affidavits for signatures.
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Montgomery
Ala
Montgomery County
Liberty
W. E. Gerald
C. E. McLaney
U. S. District Grand Jury
McLaney
Sam D. Stearns
Sprague
Here
Gerald
Pardoned convicts vow to make good in Georgia
Milledgeville Ga April 21 AP happy over pardon after sentences totaling 255 years Landon Harvey and Aubrey Smith planned to make good. Governor Eugene Talmadge pardoned Georgia escape artists yesterday and urged them to go in peace and sin no more. Both said they would show gratitude by their conduct as they head to Macon to seek work. Harvey had 110 years reduced to 10 years. Smith 145 years. They had been convicted of robberies on highways and theft with multiple escapes, even confined in the state prison death cell at times.
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Milledgeville, Ga
Leland Harvey
Aubrey Smith
Eugene Talmadge
Georgia
Macon
Harvey
Talmadge
Smith
County Farmers Meet to Organize Corn Hog Association
A meeting for all Houston County farmers who signed corn hog reduction contracts is set for Friday morning April 27 at ten o'clock with County Agent Stapp. Only 30 contracts have been executed locally, and the agent urges each signer to attend to organize the Corn Hog Association.
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Houston County
Stapp
Commencement Sermon by Dr Toombs at Cottondale HS
Dr C B Toombs of Marianna Presbyterian Church will deliver the commencement sermon Sunday evening at Cottondale High School in Marianna.
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Marianna
C. B. Toombs
Marianna Presbyterian Church
Cottondale High School
300 Expected by Wednesday to Be on FERA Projects
Houston County FERA administration announces 300 men expected at work on road improvements tubercular cottages malaria control and sidewalk repairs by next Wednesday. About 100 begin Monday with payroll rising as workers are certified. Two boards wage scale and grievance will ensure fair treatment for all workers.
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Houston County
FERA
G. P. Morrison
Relief Office
CWA
Woman and son held for aiding Dillinger party in Sault Ste Marie
Mrs Isaac Steve and her son are jailed in Sault Ste. Marie on charges they harbored John Dillinger and John Hamilton at their home last Tuesday night. Federal agents say Dillinger, Hamilton and a female companion arrived in two cars, one left behind and seized. the other carried rifles machine guns and ammunition.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Isaac Steve
John Dillinger
Indiana
Desperado
John Hamilton
Steve
Dillinger
Hamilton
Department of Justice
Parties Worried About Finances in 1936 Election Year
Washington April 21 The two national parties face cash shortages as they hunt funds for congressional campaigns. Revolt brews in the Republican camp against Everett Sanders with a possible national committee meeting under Charles Hilles. Democrats rely on present leadership as Roosevelt agrees Farley may relinquish the chairmanship, but major changes seem unlikely until after the November elections.
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Francis M. Stephenson
Washington
Everett Sanders
Indiana
Charles Hilles
New York
Roosevelt
Farley
Railway Workers Reject Continued 10 Percent Wage Cut
Washington April 21 AP. Flat rejection by railroad labor of President Roosevelt's plea for a six month continuation of the 10 percent wage cut was indicated. Workers will seek a compromise: restoration on July 1 of half the pay slash from two years ago. Representatives of 21 unions met with federal coordinator Eastman as Roosevelt urged six months more. He also pressed carriers to improve conditions for those at the bottom.
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Washington
Milroad
Roosevelt
Standard Railroad
Joseph B. Eastman
Paris Riot Flares as 6,000 Demonstrators Clash in City Hall
Paris reports a fresh riot with 6,000 Communists and extremists clashing with police and mob violence after a decree cutting civil pay. About 200 injured, 940 detained then released, as authorities showcase a new riot-control system around the city hall amid preparations for May Day.
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Paris
Paria
Gro
Removal of Convict Mule Teams Creates Farm Labor Challenge
Little Rock April 21 AP Arkansas prison farm officials face arranging peatton erey planting without mies and finding work for convicts moved from Tucker State prison farm by Governor McFutred. The governor ordered an investigation into using convicts to pollocaton planters to kickstart crops, as Superintendent A G Stedman noted the work was not harsher than other farm tasks and should continue per Penal Board Chairman Walter Helms.
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Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas
Mc Futred
Tucker State Prison
A. G. Stedman
Walter Helms
State Penal Board
Field flowers blaze in Paris fashion shows
Paris fashion discusses field flowers as a trend with designers crafting butterfly scarves and gauntlets of white organdy embroidered with tiny field flowers in red blue and yellow. Another designer layers wild flower garlands around evening hairstyles just above the curls at the neck.
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Paris
Judge William Sheppard of Pensacola Dies in Jacksonville
Federal Judge William G. Sheppard, long time jurist of the Northern District of Florida, collapsed and died on a downtown Jacksonville street corner. He had come to preside for Judge Louie Strum, who was ill, and had appeared in good health earlier in the week.
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William Sheppard
Pensacola
Jacksonville Street
Jacksonville
Fla
William G. Sheppard
Pensacolla
Sheppard
Florida
Louie W. Strum
Judge Sheppard
Judge Strum
Insull Cheerful On Return Trip From Exile
An Associated Press report from the Exilona voyage to the Mediterranean portrays Samuel Insull as cheerful and engaged in conversation with reporters. While under detention and guarded by Burton Berry, Insull discusses politics, business, and society, avoiding specifics about his future attorney or exact travel plans. The group of 13 passengers maintains a calm, familylike atmosphere as the ship sails toward Istanbul.
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John Lloyd
Associated Press Foreign Staff
U. S
Prisen
Insull
Chicago
Athens
Maintis
Tukey
Convicts slain as they tried to escape Tucker Prison Farm
Two convicts with long police and prison records, Claude Joger Hor and F. J. Newhert, were shot to death by trusty guards at Tucker prison farm Ark on April 21 as they attempted to escape. Names of the guards were withheld pending a coroner's investigation.
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Tucker Prison Farm
Ark
Claude Joger Hor
Toharen Company
Little Rock
F. J. Newhert
Fort Smith
SLAIN GUNMAN IDENTIFIED OKLAHOMA BANK ROBBER
Lincoln April 21 CAP A gunman killed by police was identified today by C A Wallace president of Farmers State Bank Bethany Okla as a robber who helped take 949 dollars from his bank Thursday The banker could not identify Sam Rivette a third gunman held Wallace said the bank robbers had a driver outside Deputy Sheriff John A Adama said the captured car did not match the robbers Meantime a 12 year old schoolboy Lanreen Marshall who was struck by a stray bullet lay near death in a hospital
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Lincoln
Neb
C. A. Wallace
Farmers State Bank
Bethany
Okla
Sam Rivette
Wallace
John A. Adama
Lanreen Marshall
Roosevelt Signs Bankhead Cotton Control Measure
A Houston county relief program under FERA starts next week to rehabilitate farms and farmers. Seventy five needy, experienced farmers will be staked to county land, receive all supplies and equipment, and repair buildings in return. Supervisors will manage groups of 25 and monitor progress throughout the year.
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Houston County
FERA
C. F. Stapp
Stapp
Hope Abandoned for A. B. Chilton
AP reports physicians have given up hope for Arthur B. Chilton district attorney, hospitalized after four days at a local hospital. Born 1890, a WWI Coast Artillery captain, he later taught at the University of Alabama and served as district attorney since 1931. He married in 1917 and leaves four sons.
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Montgomery
Ala
Arthur B. Chilton
A. S
Opelika
Starke
University of Alabama Law
Coast Artillery
University of Alabama Law School
Hoover
Grady Reynolds
Clanton
Alabama S Supreme Court
John T. Morgan
Newan
John Morgan
Horace Duval
Francia Wheeler Chilton
Four condemned Negroes gain respite in Florida
At Fort Lauderdale four men condemned to die in the electric chair were returned to their cells after recounting confessions they say were extorted by officers. The group, Izel Chambers Walter Woodward Charley Davis and Jack Williams, were sentenced for the Robbery murder of Robert M. Carary in Pompano Beach. A Supreme Court stay followed a petition detailing alleged beatings and threats. The case was remanded to the Broward Circuit Court for writ of error review.
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Fort Lauderdale
Fila
Robert M. Carary
Pompano
Vegroes
Ize
Walter Woodward
Charley Davia
Jack Williams
Supreme Court
Boward Circuit Court
Dirigible Macon Flew From California to Miami Flight Update
The U S Navy dirigible Macon sailing from Sunnyside California to Miami Fla passed over El Paso at 9 45 a m in clear weather and unlimited visibility The ship altered its course to avoid the Guadalupe Pass and the dangerous Guadalupe mountains after winds shifted its route The Dail Eireann in Dublin passed the second reading of a bill to abolish the Senate by a 70 to 51 vote.
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EL Paso
Tex
Macon
Sunnyside
Cali
Miami
Fla
Fl Paso
Tex- AB
Guadalupe Pass
Guadalupe Mountain
Dublin
Irish Free State
Dail Eireann
Senate
Bankhead cotton control bill signed by Roosevelt gains support
President Roosevelt signed the Bankhead cotton control bill to place the industry on a sound financial basis and limit 1934 sales to 10 million bales. He cited wide southern producer support and noted the act complements existing programs while aiming for enduring benefits, with court challenges anticipated and many contracts already signed.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senator Bankhead
Bankhead
Alabama
Mr. Roosevelt
LE Am
Backhead Brothers
Democrats
Senate
House
Wallace
Chester C. Davin
Oscar Johnston
Farm Administration
Arkansas
Texas
Will Rogers chides brain trusters on Wirt affair
Santa Monica CALIF April 21 Will Rogers says the brain trusters framed up a joke on him and questions if they aren’t joking about the taxpayer. He notes Japan’s claim to supervise China with all nations needing visas via Tokio and ends with a signature Yours Will Rogers.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Japan
China
Germany
Tokio
Will Rogers
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