South recovery program urged to balance economy
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins told Alabama College graduates that recovery measures will boost purchasing power and industrial balance in the South. She cited NRA AAA and Public Works, TVA, and rising manufacturing employment as signs of progress, noting rail orders and PWA work add jobs across the region.
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Montevallo
Ala
South
Frances Perking
Alabama College
Visa Parkins
Miss ‘Perkins
NRA
AAA
Miss Perkins
PWA
Migs Perkins
Alabama
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Tennessee Valley
Secretary of Labor
Ieee
Rosin
Dixon Crashes Graves Record in Wiregrass Speeches
Frank M. Dixon, a new deal candidate for governor, toured the Wiregrass delivering speeches from Geneva to Ashford. He attacked Col. Bibb Graves’ record, warned of job promises, and accused Feagin of backing Graves. Dixon urged a modern economical government and highlighted the short ballot controversy. Continued on page two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank M. Dixon
New Deal
Dothan
Geneva
Hartford
Slocomb
Malvern
Ashford
Abbeville
Ozark
Major Dixon
Col
Bibb Graves
Col. Graves
Dixon
Alabama Power Company
Alabama
Graves
Weather forecast mixed readings for Florida and west
The text reports fair skies with warmer conditions in the west tonight and Tuesday. Somewhat warmer weather is noted overall with generally fair to Tuesday and slightly warm temperatures tonight in portions, indicating a mild regional forecast with no heavy precipitation expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westee
Florida
Canadian woman gives birth to five girls in Ontario
In North Bay Ontario on May 28 Mrs Oliva Dionne delivered five girls near Callander. The attending Dr A R Dafoe said all five babies are healthy and “chirping.” Mrs Dionne aged 26 has six older children.
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North Bay
Ont
Oliva Dionne
Callander
Here
A. R. Dafoe
President clears deck for NRA by new code order
Washington May 28 AP The president orders local self government for service industries under NRA rules suspending price fixing while hour and wage provisions stay. Hugh S Johnson to decide affected sectors hotels restaurants barber laundries and dyeing plants. The move signals NRA policy clarification and local autonomy under certain codes with Blue Eagle still in force. If 85 percent of a local group agrees a local code could cover prices and other suspended terms.
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Washington
NRA
Recovery Administration
Hugh S. Johnson
Roosevelt
Johnson
Plaa
Graves to Speak at Courthouse Tuesday
Bibb Graves, candidate for governor, will speak at the Houston County Courthouse Tuesday night at 7:39. The event is part of an extensive state tour, with stops through this Alabama section following earlier duties in nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bibb Graves
Houston County Court House
Alabama
Poultry Truck to Be Loaded Across County This Week
Houston county farm agent C M Ling announced loading of a poultry truck at Ashford Columbia and Dothan this week. The loading is under the direction of the Houston County Farmers Exchange.
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C. M. Ling
Houston County
Ashford
Columbia
Dothan
Houston County Farmers’ Exchange
Alabama's unique AAA diplomat Patterson rises from sharecropper roots
Francis Le May profiles Lafayette L. Patterson, an Alabama man chosen as field representative for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Once a 20 year old sharecropper with only one year of schooling, he quickly transformed into a educated official backed by a financing connection that enabled him to finish high school, attend Birmingham Southern College, and rise within the New Deal farm relief program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis LE May Washington
Farm Recovery Administration
Lafayette L. Patterson
Patterton
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Patterson
Birmingham Southern College
Page
Negro Slayers and Kidnappers Sought by Texas Police
Galveston May 28 AP A tense waterfront search as officers hunted Negro slayers of a white man and kidnappers who abducted Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hansford of Bryan. Hansford was choked and robbed. 40 dollars taken. About 200 Negro longshoremen and several hundred Negro cotton workers are on strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galveston
Tex
Ralph W. Hardy
J. C. Hansford
Bryan
Hansford
Clyde-Mallory Lines
Judge U. S. Lewis Radio Speech For Dixon Campaign
Judge U S Lewis Houston county campaign manager for Maj Frank M Dixon will speak over WHET at 12 30 tomorrow in support of Dixon for governor. The 15 minute address aims to boost the candidacy and extend exposure on the station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Lewis
Lewis
Houston County
Frank M. Dixon
WHET
Dixon
Funeral for William B. Wilson Held at Blossburg Home
Funeral services for William B. Wilson, the nation s first secretary of labor, will be held at his Blossburg home at 2 p m tomorrow. The body arrived with relatives from Washington earlier today and will be interred in a nearby cemetery. Wilson died Friday night on a railroad train while returning from Florida where he had been seeking rest and health.
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Blossburg
William B. Wilson
Washington
Wilson
Savannah
Florida
South
Newsp ap er Reporter Beaten in Home Invasion
San ta Barbara Press publisher posts a 500 reward as officers search for a man who entered the Selover home and beat press reporter Staley Selover and his wife while they slept. Authorities suspect revenge for a story on a local police scandal with four former officers, three on trial for bribery. The intruder struck Mrs Selover, cutting her forehead.
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Santa Barbara
Staley Selover
Selover
Kidnap Plot Reported To Reward Actress
Hollywood, May 28. A man Colum McConaster, 24, confessed to inventing a kidnapping plot against actress Maureen O Sullivan. He told the actress of the alleged plan hoping she would reward him after reporting it to police. Police arrested him about 12 hours after the claim.
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Hollywood
Calif
Maureen O'Sullivan
Colum McConaster
McConanter
Five hurt in two Dothan auto wrecks near Webb
Five persons treated for minor injuries after two accidents near Webb, Dothan Sunday. Alma Cox 14 and Gladys Paulk 14 of Columbia and Ples Kelly 21 of Columbia were among eight occupants of a car that struck a bridge abutment and overturned. Cox suffered a knee laceration, Paulk a scalp laceration, Kelly minor bruises and cuts. Lois Conley 20 and Mary Nell Riley 18 of Dothan also treated for slight injuries with Conley later reporting lip abrasions and Riley only minor abrasions.
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Dothan
Alma Cox
Gladys Paulk
Columbia
Ples Kelly
Webb
Cox
Paulk
Kelly
Lois Conley
Mary Nell Riley
Miss Conley
Miss Riley
Police kill 10 to 15 stray dogs over weekend
City police shot between ten and fifteen roaming and mangy dogs during the weekend to curb an apparent mad dog outbreak. Chief Tatum said muzzled or at home ownership is required. any other vicious stray dogs will be shot on sight by officers.
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M Tatum
Tatum
Man and Wife Swept From Barge in Norfolk Storm
Two lives were lost from the barge Thuro when its deckhorse was washed away in a storm off Barnegat. The Thuro was being towed by the barge Mars. The deceased are Charles W. Thompson and his wife Florence Thompson, both of Portafrouth, N H.
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Norfolk
Thuro
Barnegat
J. P. Martin
Mars
Charles W. Thompson
Florence Thompson
Portafrouth
N. H
City Warrants Remainder Held After Call
City warrants amounting to about $1,000 issued before March 31 remain held after being called three times. Interest on the warrants stopped the day they were called in, as reported by City Auditor Treasurer J. L. Vaughn.
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J. L. Vaughn
Grass Menace Crops Across Alabama Cotton And Corn
In Auburn May 28 AP reports rains greened fields causing weeds to rear between cotton and corn rows, threatening crops especially in South and Central Alabama. Farmers labor to weed while crops like oats farmers harvest hay and grain. Potatoes cabbage and strawberries shift markets and fertilizer firms discuss dolomite fillers and acid or alkaline tags to aid soil suitability. A Montgomery meeting plans a June follow up to decide on fertilizer proposals.
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Auburn
Ala
Alabama
Baldwin
Arcambia
Seth P. Storrs
Montgomery
Special session set to approve six notes for stokers
City council meets at 8 AM to authorize W F Martin to issue six notes to Hoffman Combustion Eng Co as a 3600 down payment on stokers bought April 19. Notes total 3600, each 60 dollars, maturing every 320 days from Sept 10, with six percent interest. Council silent on contract arrival, some deny awareness, Hoffman sales rep seen after. Total project cost 22200, plus monthly 800 payments, labor and materials largely city responsibility. Six members urge waiving license for Hoffman engineers to install stokers.
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W. F. Martin
Hoffman Combustion Engineering Co
B. H. Linenby
J. J. Newton
Martin
FE. W. Bullock
Atoker
Atokera
T. P. Scarborough
Hoffman Company
Witness for Bonnie Parker's Sister Missing in Dallas
Fort Worth Texas May 2 AP The whereabouts of Henry Methvin a convict fugitive remained uncertain after he was subpoenaed as a defense witness at a habeas corpus hearing for Bonnie Parker's sister in the Easter slayings of two State Highway patrolmen Methvin longtime associate of Clyde Barrow and Ronnie Parker was summoned along with Frank Hamer and Bob Alcorn who had helped kill Barrow and the Parker woman in Louisiana last Wednesday
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Fort Worth
Texas
Henry Methvin
Attempted assassination of U S Ambassador to Cuba
Four gunmen attempted to kill Jefferson Caffery, U S Ambassador to Cuba, in Havana. An attack included a car window smashed with a pistol butt and two bombs exploding near midnight as police launched a citywide search for the attackers.
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Caffery
Havana
Motor trouble forces fliers to land in New York
French aviators Ros al and Cetoa landed the Joseph Le Brix at Floyd Bennett Field Brooklyn at 1 33 p m after 38 1 2 hours aloft from Le Bourget Paris They reported trouble but the plane landed safely amid a tense setup as Paul Codon and Maurice Roxall topped a nonstop flight toward San Diego observers followed the jet as it neared Maine and New England
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Floyd Bennett Field
Brooklyn
N. Y
Rosal and
Cetoa
Joseph le Brix
le Bourget Field
Paris
New York
Atlantic Ocean
Fers
Paul Codos
Maurice Roral
New England
San Diego
Calif
Maine
Joseph LeBrix
Eastport
Rockland
Bar Harbour
Floyd Bennett, Field
Chatham
Massa
Radin-Marine Corporation
Floyd Bennett
Maurice Rosat
United States
Atlantic
Roosevelt
Ottawa
Paul Codon
Maurice Roxall
Canadian Marine Department
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Washington
America
Newfoundland
Nova Scotia
Field
Rosai
Battle near Santanho claims Japanese casualties
A Ren go dispatch from Hsinking reports 12 Japanese soldiers were killed and 26 wounded in a battle with irregular forces near Santanho on the branch line of the Chinese Eastern railway north of Muleng.
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Tokyo
Rengo
Hsinking
Manchukuo
Santanho
Chinese Eastern Railway
Muleng
Two Frenchmen Seek Direct Flight From France to California
Santa Monica reports two French aviators attempting a direct cross from France to California. The piece notes rapid progress in aviation and criticizes railroads for lagging behind, comparing current speeds to a 30 year old train and accusing railroads of prioritizing stock sales over speed.
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Santa Monica
Cal
France
California
New York
U. S. France
Denver
Chicago
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Feagin
Klan
Alabamian
What Nra
Toledo
T. M. Storke
Stoker
Hoffman Equipment
Hoffman Machinery
Hoffman Firm
Bonnie Parker
Dallas
U.S
Cuba
H. Freeman Matthews
M Matthews
Matthewat
By Edmund A. Chester
Associated Press
Cuban National Police
Jefferson Caffery
North America
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