New GM Breakin Talks Set For Toledo Conference
In Petroit May 10 AP a new plan seeks to end a three week old General Motors strike involving over 30,000 workers. A Toledo conference is agreed with GM and Chevrolet leaders, Federal mediators and AFL CIO officials. Secretary Perkins remains hopeful for a settlement as AFL leaders warn of a widespread strike if talks fail.
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General Motors
Chevrolet Motor Co
Toledo
Washington
Peridas
Francis J. Dilen
A. F. of
McGrady
Messages ask Okeh or veto on bonus act
The White House was flooded with telegrams urging the President to sign or veto the Patman cash bonus bill. Veterans’ leaders pushed followers to send messages to Capitol Hill, while Roosevelt prepared to veto if required, and Mrs. Roosevelt met with financial advisers to discuss taxes if the veto is overridden.
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Okeh
Veto
Washington
White House
White Hose
Capitol
Roosevelt
Senate
Tennessee Valley Authority
Marriner S. Eeeles
Federal Reserve Board
Eight CCC camps to push erosion control plans
Washington May 10 APAllocation of 605 Civilian Conservation Corps camps mainly in the south east will back a national soil erosion campaign. The effort targets sloping gully banks, erosion resisting vegetation, check dams, moisture conservation, tree planting and forest conservation. Of 605 camps, 55 persist from the old program and 150 previously run by the Forest Service, with 300 newly created. Southeastern sites include Pike Pickens Hale Chilton Calhoun Lee Butler and surrounding counties.
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Washington
Teln
Robert Fechner
CCC
H. H. Bennett
Soil Erosion Service
For Service
Ama
Pike
Pickens
Hale
Chilton
Calhoun
Lee
Butler
Relief canning work preparations complete
Relief authorities announce preparations for Houston area canning program to run four months starting May 15. Roger F. Hall relief director says ten community leaders will supervise in homes of relief families. county supervisor named as Mrs Claude Cotton.
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Houston
Como
Roger F. Hall
Editorial: Navy Vessels and Air Power Stir Public Thought
Will Rogers riffs on May editorial press run about naval planes headed to Midway Island. He argues military air power shapes geography and public minds, noting Catalina craft and joint training with the Navy and Army. He voices wartime sentiment and national resolve amid looming confrontation with Japan.
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Catt
Elulu
Midway
Navy
Army
Vanderbilt Post Wins Carmichael From Montevallo
Vanderbilt University announces Dr. Oliver Cromwell Carmichael of Montevallo Alabama as dean of the graduate school and senior college. A Rhodes scholar and veteran, he has led Alabama College for Women since 1934 and will join Vanderbilt after a career spanning Oxford Howard College and World War service with Hoover relief and the British Army.
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Nashville
Tenn
James H. Kirkland
Vanderbilt University
Oliver Cromwell Carmichael
Vanderbilt
Oxford University
England
Rhodes
University of Alabama
Oxford
Howard College
Birmingham
Woodlawn High School
Carmichael
Montevallo
Hoover Relief Commission
Belgium
India
East
Africa
Princeton
United States Army
321St Infantry
General Staff
Phi Beta Kappa
Possible successor named for Montevallo college president
Montgomery May 10 AP reports two names as likely successors if Dr Carmichael leaves Alabama College for Women at Montevallo. The candidates are Dr A F Harman, former state superintendent, and Dr T H Napier, current Montevallo dean under Carmichael. A board meeting late this month may announce the new president.
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Montgomery
O. C. Carmichael
Alabama College For Women
Montevallo
Vanderbilt University
A. F. Harman
T. H. Napier
Carmichael
Wallace Cheered For Cotton Control Over Georgia Fight
A Birmingham meeting on May 10 saw resolutions commending Secretary Wallace for directing the cotton control plan approved by a coalition of cotton industry groups despite objections from Georgia. The 10-point plan urged continued tax measures, parity guarantees, and net-weight cotton sales, with Georgia’s Tom Linder leading the attack and suggesting federal guarantees if loans are trimmed.
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Birmingham
Wallace
AAA
Georgia
Commissioners of Agriculture
Tom Linder
J. T. Sanders
Oklahoma
Department of Agriculture
Charitanhie
Linder
White House
Cotton Control Act Legality Challenge Before Supreme Bar
Lee Moor a cotton planter from Clint Texas asked the Supreme Court to strike down the Bankhead cotton control act arguing it exceeds federal taxing power and targets ginning not all cotton. The case stems from a $49235 tax payment requirement and a railroad’s refusal to move Moor’s cotton for sale abroad after district and appeals courts backed the railroad.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Lee Moor
Clint
Texas
Moor
Texas and
New Orleans
Federal District Court
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
Danish Count Denies He's To Wed 5 and 10 Princess
New York May 10 AP Count Court Hauwitz-Re ventlow arrived in the United States denying plans to marry Princess Barbara Hutton or anyone else. The Daily News reports sources claim he would travel to Nevada to wed the Woolworth heiress as her divorce case with Prince Alexis Molivant nears. He said he would marry no one ever and has not seen her for months, maintaining he is not the man.
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New York
Court Hauwitz-Reventlow
United States
Barbara Hutton
Mdivani
Bremen
Princesa’ Barbara
The
Daily News
Hutton
Washington
Nevada
Woolworth Heiresa
Alexis Molivant
Reno
Fernley
Nev
Barbara
Talmadge to stump against renominating FDR in 1936 race
Gov. Eugene Talmadge plans to control Georgia's 24 delegates to the 1936 Democratic National Convention to block President Roosevelt's renomination. The governor and state chairman Hugh Howell have not disclosed plans. He warned the country is headed to hell if action is not taken, signaling a broad challenge to the New Deal.
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Georgia
W. F. Caldwell
Atlanta
Eugene Talmadge
United States
Roosevelt
Hugh Howell
Last Minute Bulletins from Selma and Beyond
Selma fireman George Crowder was briefly injured when a hose knocked him from a 24 foot ladder as a fire damaged the northeast wing of Selma county club. Ed Reid of Flomaton was named executive secretary of the Alabama League of Municipalities, assuming duties May 16 at the state capitol. Governor Sennet Conner reopened his third mercy court at Parchman prison, preparing to pardon about a dozen inmates. Joe McCarthy, convalescing from influenza, is expected to rejoin the New York Yankees next Friday after the western swing. A Singapore celebration for King George III saw fireworks explode into the sea, with twenty people rescued or missing and several injured.
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Selma
George Crowder
Selma County Club
Crowder
Montgomery
Ed Reid
Flomaton
Alabama League of Municipalities
State Capitol
Reid
Harry Walker
State Penitentiary
Parchman
Miss
Sennett Conner
Court of Mercy
New York
Joe McCarthy
New York Yankees
Yankees
Hugh Smith Named Housing Appraiser
Hugh D. Smith was appointed appraiser for the Federal Housing Administration by J.D. Griffin, chairman of the better housing committee. The committee disclosed city housing projects uncov ered total $99,065, with projections suggesting a possible $150,000. Griffin, returning from Cincinnati, reported improved business outlook and optimism from state housing officials in Birmingham.
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Hugh D. Smith
Federal Housing Administration
J.D. Griffin
Better Housing Committee
Griffin
Cincinnati
Ohio
Birmingham
Robinson search continues amid death rumors
Washington May 10 AP agents press a seven month hunt for Thomas H Robinson Jr alleged kidnapper despite police rumors he is dead. Hoover says search will continue until death is confirmed. His elusive lone wolf profile and past ransom payments complicate the case.
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Washington
Justice Department
Thomas H. Robinson, Jr
Robinson
Robinson Tate
Indianapolis
Alice Speed Stoll
Louisville
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hoover
Thomas J. Sparkes
Ballooning skin injury prompts Dothan hospital watch
Dothan medical circles monitor the condition of Fred Rodenbeck Jr., a Birmingham safety engineer, who lies seriously ill after an automobile crash near Newton. A broken rib punctured his left lung, allowing air to escape into tissues and cause a ballooning of the left side from neck to hip. Attendants say the lung perforation should heal with time and no puncture will be performed unless his condition worsens. If pneumonia is avoided, recovery is likely. doctors fear its development remains possible.
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Dothan
Fred Rodenheck
Birmingham
Rodenbeck
Newton
Tiine
Balloon man in Anniston listed in fair condition
Anniston May 10 AP reports 1 B Ragsdale 13 year old ice trucker left side inflated after punctured lung in a trick accident condition reported fair today The injury context and age are noted. The report states his status as fair.
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Anniston
B. Ragsdale
Rome Inspires Ethiopian Troop Mobilization Near Border
Rome reports Emperor Haile Selassin mobilizing tens of thousands of Ethiopian troops near Italy's African frontier. Giornale Italia notes large war materials, allegedly from Germany, and concentrations arranged for an offensive, with deposits of arms ammunition and aircraft hangars supplied.
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Rome
Giornnie Italia
Haile Selassin
Italy
Germany
Ethiopia
Dothan Business Women Attend State Conference Meet
A dozen members of the Dothan Business and Professional Women's club travel to Tuscaloosa for the Alabama Federation of Business and Professional Women clubs annual gathering. Delegates include Felina Baxter Ruth Timmerman Susie Younis Leonie Ree Holland Gladys Holland Lucille Willis Mildred Bracewell Evelyn Sewell Alice Elliott Martiel Sharpe Lilla Story W G Pruett Willis Story Baxter serve on the executive board.
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Dothan
Business and Professional Warmen's Club
Tuscaloosa
Alabama Federation of Business and Professional Women Clubs
Felina Baxter
Ruth Timmerman
Susie Younis
Leonie Ree Holland
Gladys Holland
Lucille Willis
Mildred Bracewell
Moros
Evelyn Sewell
Alice Elliott
Martiel Sharpe
Sholtz Signs Quick Florida Divorce Law
Governor Dave Sholtz signed the Frost divorce bill in Florida allowing divorce proceedings after 94 days of residence. The measure passed the Senate and House and was signed in Tallahassee.
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Sholtz
Florida
Tallahassef, Fla
Dave Sholtz
Senate
House
Sterilization bill passes Alabama House of Representatives
The Alabama House approved the Dominick bill by a 69 to 16 vote, mandating sterilization for the feeble minded, insane, habitual criminals, and degenerates before release. The measure outlines appeals to the state board or courts, and awaits Senate committee review next week.
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County Medical Society
Alnabamn
Knights of Columbus
Senate
Taylor
W. D. Partlow
Alabama
Sparks
Barbour
Arnold Bi
Hunger marchers leave as solons out for recess
Chicago May 10 Officials warn funds will run out as hunger marchers retreat from Springfield amid no action to raise the sales tax. Gov Horner hopes to pass a 3 percent sales tax with an emergency clause next week to supply about 3 million dollars monthly for relief, but a two thirds vote remains elusive.
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Chicago
Springfield
Hamnais Emer-geney Relief Commission
Richland County
Frank Downs
Alexander County Relief Organization
Teobert
J. Dunham
Henry Horner
House of Representatives
Fed
Marianna Seniors Help Fund School Term
Marianna Florida May 1. The Marianna senior class contributed 225 to the Parent Teacher association to sustain the nine month high school term. The association has secured funds for the full term through various means. The junior high and grammar parade closed the term with ceremonies.
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Matuaniia
Fla
Marianna
Hamilton Flashes Vicious Conceit But Dies Meekly
Raymond Hamilton, a notorious public enemy, died in the electric chair in Huntsville Texas after a life of crime from teen sneaking to bank robbery kidnapping and murder. He followed partner Joe Palmer to the execution chamber where Palmer was pronounced dead at 12 04 am and Hamilton at 12 27 am. He had boasted he would never be taken alive but surrendered when deputy sherif Decker faced him in a Fort Worth yard weeks earlier. His death contrasted with his swagger and he read a brief note thanking Decker for not shooting him that night.
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Washington
TWA
Norris
Nebraska
Austin
Vermont
Senate
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Harrell Feler
Huntsville
Tex
Raymond Hamilton
Joe Palmer
Crowson
Palmer
Hamilton
Snealthief
Alye
FB Decker
Vail
Sherif
Fort Worth
Decker
Texas
Deanita Fey
Ona An
Weather Outlook Sparks Cloudy, Showers in Deep South
Alabama remains cloudy with unsettled conditions Friday night into Saturday, with possible showers in the extreme north portion and near the coast. In extreme northwest Florida, expect cloudy skies with local showers Friday night or Saturday and a slight warmth spike in the western area Friday night.
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Alabama
Florida
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