Roosevelt radio address outlines new deal and praise for Congress
President Roosevelt in a radio speech lauded Congress as the most unpartisan since Washington and outlined broad gains in wages employment farm prices and consumer power. He defended his brain trust vowed to curb price gouging and reinforced his three fold security program for housing land and social insurance.
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Francis M. Stephenson
Washington
Roosevelt
Foe Allike
Congress
Thomases
NRA
Scorres
Timig
White House
Repubic
Kremlin
Potsdam Palace
U S Seaman Killed in Row With Trainman in Alabama
R T Greer, 19, a crew member of the U S S Idaho on furlough, was killed in Fayetteville Alabama in an early morning argument with Garland Branyon a Birmingham train man. Branyon struck Greer with a heavy club twice crushing his skull and fled. police pursued him. Greer was visiting his mother Mrs Ruth Greer during a 20 day leave.
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Fayette
Ala
R. T. Greer
U. S. S. Idaho
Garland Branyon
Birmingham
Branyon
Greer
Young Greer
Ruth Greer
Weather Outlook Tennessee and Alabama
Tennessee sees fair night and Saturday with scattered thundershowers and continued warmth. Alabama forecast partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with scattered thundershowers.
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Tennessee
Alabama
Johnson stands by Harriman Blue Eagle ruling in NRA dispute
In Washington on June 29 AP Hugh S Johnson said he would stand by his ruling taking the Blue Eagle from Harriman Hosiery Mill despite Attorney General Cummings finding insufficient evidence for prosecution. Johnson cited judgment of legal strategy and supportive counsel. The Harriman case prompted a second study on hours and wages to be released.
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Washington
Hugh
Johnson
Blue Eagle
Harriman Hosiery
Cummings
Conrad Richberg
NRA
Harriman Mills
George L. Berry
A. R. Graney
Harriman
Department of Justice
Nia
Marie Dressler Survives Crisis After Night of Peril
Santa Barbara California June 29 AP Marie Dressler the 62 year old actress passed a major crisis in illness early today after doctors at her bedside abandoned hope she would live to see dawn Five hours after Dr F R Nuzum head of the medical staff tending her expressed belief she would not live through the night Miss Dressler rallied so strongly that physicians announced the threat of death had passed at least until noon today Her vitality held against heart and kidney ailments At seven last night Dr Nuzum said We do not expect her to live through the night At eight o clock she sank low almost blue then slowly the blue pallor drained from her face By midnight her heart action was normal There was no fever Respiration was 60 to 100 Dr Nuzum then left the sick room to seek rest confident there would be no change until noon today
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Marie Dressler
F. R. Nuzum
Miss Dressler
Fees Assessed on NRA Stores by Code Authorities
Assessments of 1 for each employee of firms flying Blue Eagle are being collected to fund the NRA code authorities in Dothan. Claude T. Cotton serves as secretary treasurer for the local authority. The annual fee applies to department stores dry goods stores clothiers furnishers shoe stores hardware stores and furniture establishments.
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Dothan
NRA
Claude T. Cotton
Washington
Torture case defendant ends two day fast in Alabama
Mrs Earl Porter 57 wife of a tenant farmer. charged with mistreating 12 year old Mary Virginia Johnson in Jasper hospital. Porter jailed Wednesday for assault with intent to murder. Mary Virginia Johnson improves and may testify at Monday hearing. Child welfare program to place full time workers in every county announced in Montgomery.
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Fayette
Ala
Earl Porter
Jasper
Mary Virginia Johnson
A. M. Tunstall
State Child Welfare Bureau
Montgomery
Highwayman Nabbed After City Robbery and Car Theft
Albert Grimes, a Negro, is arrested by city police and handed to Sheriff O G Hardwick of Henry County on charges of robbery and likely automobile theft. He allegedly robbed Wil Kennedy of Abbeville of 68 dollars in cash and a 14 dollar check, wrecked the car in Headland while being chased, escaped, then rode to Dethan. He had 18.50 of the money at arrest and claimed the check was missing.
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Wil Kennedy
Abbeville
Albert Grimes
O. G. Hardwick
Henry County
Grimes
Dethan
New Cottonwood School Ready for Fall Opening
The Cottonwood new school building will be ready for occupancy at the start of the 1934 35 scholastic term. Solomon Baxter, Houston county superintendent of education, says the facility will serve elementary and high school pupils with about 17 rooms, an auditorium, workshop, chemical laboratory and principal's office. Previously county pupils were sent to Ashford or Columbia for high school and Cottonwood elementary classes met in an abandoned store.
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Cottonwood
Solomon Baxter
Houston County
Ashford
Columbia
War department awards bombing plane contracts to Glenn L. Martin and Wright
The War Department awarded Glenn L. Martin Company 81 bombing planes for 3,195,450 dollars and Wright Aeronautical Corporation 230 airplanes for 1,705,783 dollars. In Gibraltar the Spanish fleet sailed to Valencia after Madrid instructions amid Catalonia secession rumors and civil war fears.
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Washington
War Department
Glenn L. Martin Company
Baltimore
Wright Aeronautical Corporation
Patterson
N. J
Gibraltar
Madrid
Valencia
Catalonia
Repub Hc
Board named to settle steel controversy under wartime act
A three member board appointed by President Roosevelt began work to settle the steel dispute. Justice Walter P. Tacey Rear Admiral Henry E. Wiley and Judge James Mullennbach will arbitrate with consent, mediate, and oversee elections for collective bargaining. Union leaders complain of discrimination against workers joining unions.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Walter P. Tacey
North Carolina Supreme Court
Henry E. Wiley
James Mullenbach
Chicago
Perkins
William Green
American Federation of Labor
National Steel Labor Relations Board
Green
Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel and Tin Workers
A. F. of L
Russell County Judge Wins Election Contest
In Seale Alabama the Russell County Democratic executive committee ruled Probate Judge H R Dudley was reelected in the June 12 primary by a wide 159 vote margin over C B Gurlatt Jr. after a recount following an initial 83 vote lead by Gurlatt.
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Seale
Ala
Russell County
Democratic Executive Committee
H. R. Dudley
C. B. Gurlatt, Jr
Phenix City
Gullat
Dudley
Will Introduce Bill to Abolish Absentee Balloting
Floyd H Mooneyharn will seek a 1335 Legislature bill to end absentee ballots in Montgomery County Alabama. He says absentee ballots bring shame and will follow Montgomery County grand jury recommendations to abolish them. Deputies sought capiases for J M Boatner M T Ingle Jerry Rudder and Phil Kreis indicted for soliciting or buying absentee ballots in recent primaries.
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Montgomery
Ala
Floyd H. Mooneyharn
Montgomery County
State Senate
Manneyhur
Grand Jury
J. M. Boatner
M. T. Ingle
Jerry Rudder
Phil Kreis
Grand
Batner
Ingle
Court of Common Pleas
Last Minute Story Delays Doom Of Anna Antonio Trio
A condemned trio including Anna Antonio receives a one day reprieve after Vincent Saetta tells Governor Lehman a dying confession. Warden Lawes and Saetta relay the story at Sing Sing, delaying the electric chair while Lehman studies its truth. The fate of the three rests on tonight’s decision.
Payroll theft nets two bandits up to 30000 in Missouri
Two armed men robbed payroll money from the Missouri Pacific Railroad during transfer to a post office at Osawatomie Kansas. The haul totaled between 25000 and 30000 dollars in a mall sack guarded by a postal employee who was forced to the getaway car four blocks away.
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Missouri Pacific Railroad
Liocal Bank
Missouri Pacific Division
Directors Take Action on Passes in Local League
Directors of the Incal club and city park commission cancelled all home game passes for the Time Amateur Baseball League effective at halftime. New passes will be issued at the start of the second half to individuals with verifiable service, signed by Rollins and Brennan. Unauthorized groups and past abuses will be barred.
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Ordiareq
Metimz
Incal Club
City Park Commission
Ine Rollins
Jim Brennan
Park Commission
Jasued
Persnt
Berviere
Officers Help Recover Meat Stolen From Ex-Policeman
Arthur Frith, a former city police member, reported 66 pounds of meat stolen. He phoned the station and learned detectives Draughon and Hicka had halted a frightened man near the cemetery who dropped a heavy bundle containing the meat.
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Arthur Frith
Frith
Draughon
Hicka
Death Arrives For Zara Agha World’s Oldest Turk Dies in Istanbul
Zara Agha once claimed 160 years and fame from obscurity to Broadway as the world’s oldest man. He died in a children's hospital in Istanbul after months of illness including Bright's disease and gland and bladder disorders.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Zara Agha
Methuselah
Children’s Hospital
Broadway
Bright
American
Great Britain
Zara
Number 11
New York
London
Spectatista
May business gains reported for six-state district
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta notes May increases across department stores wholesale trade textiles pig iron and coal production and building permits. Contract awards decline from April but remain above May 1933 levels while cotton consumption rises. Georgia peach crop outlook up 15.6 percent to 6,220,000.
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Atlanta
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Alabama
Sixth Federal Reserve District
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
Tennesase
Bank
Ats
World War veteran hanged for Kansas City murder
Paul H. Kauffman, 345, a World War veteran and former minor league baseball player, was hanged at the county jail in Kansas City for the murder and assault of 17 year old Avix Wonlery of Webb City Missouri four years earlier. He proclaimed his innocence from Mescafeld as the trap sprung at 6.34 am.
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Kansas City
Paul H. Kauffman
Avix Wonlery
Webb City
Swope Park
Columbia
Kauffman
Committee votes to hear May contest of Sheriff Rol lins
Houston County Democratic Executive Committee in special session votes to hear Alex H. May's contest of C. J. Rollins' sheriff nomination. The panel agrees to a July 6 hearing and opens about 20 of 34 June primary ballot boxes to aid May's lawyers with voter lists.
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Houston County Democratic Executive Committee
Alex H. May
C. J. Rollins
May
D. C. Halstead
Headland
Rollins
Remembering pilot Jimmy Wedell and aviation progress
Beverly Hills memoir recalls Jimmy Wedell, the pilot killed while teaching others to fly, as a modest, brave innovator who spurred rapid aircraft development with private funding from Mr Williams. The letter laments government delays and honors Wedell’s contribution to aviation progress.
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