Beadle County Rejects 16 On sale Beer Licenses
Beadle County commission voted to blanket reject 16 applications for class 0 on sale beer licenses aimed at improving safety and morals. The July session followed protests by the Huron Ministerial Fellowship and personal appeals by several applicants. Rejected tied to roadhouses taverns near Huron and other towns. two licenses had been granted in Bonilla earlier.
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Beadle County Commission
Huron
Cavaur
Wolsey
Virgil
Lake By
Roy Curtis
Lake Byron
Ernest E. Holfarty
H.C. Holtey
Stila Nickolich
J.C. Johnson
Moratorium Law Challenge Reaches Supreme Court
The Home Owners Loan Corporation appeals a Beadle County circuit ruling extending to March 1 1940 the redemption period on Oscar and Anna Edd’s Huron home. HOLC argues Senate Bill 9 is unconstitutional, impairing contracts and due process, claiming no genuine emergency exists and state conditions have improved, hindering HOLC duties.
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South Dakota
HOLC
Walter Conway
Efand
Chiang Kai-Shek Homeland Bombed in Chinese Raid
Hong Kong dispatch reports Fenghua Chiang Kai Shek birthplace and Kian Chiang Chin Ko town both bombed by Japanese air force along with several south China cities. Casualties were light but damage heavy as Shaoxing wine producing center faced raids.
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Chiang
Hong Kong
Fenghua
Chiang Kai-Shek
Kian
Chiang Chin-Ko
South China
Shaoshing
Chekiang
China
Uth
Shanghai
Britain weighs strong note on Danzig coup and arms aid
The British government contemplates a forceful note to Germany over a possible Danzig coup and annexation, with Chamberlain expected to declare Britain’s stance in Parliament. London also weighs extending arms credit to allies, discussions touching sums up to 150 million pounds. In the United States a Senate fight over arms sales to warring nations looms as Roosevelt’s July Fourth remark draws German press fire, with Hitler’s Voelkischer Beobachter accusing him of fanning war.
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Germany
Danzig
Roosevelt
Associated Press
London
Chamberlain
House of Commons
United States Senate
Senate
Europe
Adolf Hitler
Voelkischer Beobachter
Applicants rush to obtain marriage licenses under new law
Pierre reports that under South Dakota’s pure marriage act applicants can speed licenses via three health office sites Lions Falls Vermillion and Pierre. Blood tests take three to four hours in those labs, but tests on individual specimens are avoided due to solution costs. Results from any state source are returned within 24 hours.
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Pierre
South Dakota
Lions Falls
Vermillion
One Term Plan For President Loses In Senate Committee
The Senate judiciary committee rejected a proposed constitutional amendment to bar any President from serving again, voting 10 to 7. It also tied 7 to 7 on a six year term for future Presidents and Vice Presidents, with a record of votes to be reported. The panel indicated the measures would not prevent a potential third term for President Roosevelt.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate Judiciary Committee
Wiley
Wisconsin
Burke
Nebraska
Senate
Winner Man Sentenced in July 65 Case
Floyd B Frickey was sentenced in the penitentiary after conviction on charges. A second charge involving an older stepdaughter will not be tried. The case centers on a young stepdaughter with allegations linked to the earlier conviction.
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Floyd
Frickey
Ala
Woman Slain Man Shot In Rapid City Double Tragedy
Police investigate a double shooting on the old Hill City road near Ted Raymond ranch. A young woman was found dead in a car while her male companion, identified as Joe Blackie Hamman of Rapid City, lay critically wounded with a chest wound and was rushed to a local hospital. Arlene Hamman, his wife, stayed at Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
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Old Hill City
Ted Raymond
Joe
Blackie
Hamman
Rapid City
Arlene Hamman
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Continue Hunt For Bodies In Floods
Heavy rains across eastern Kentucky hampered rescuers as they searched debris for flood victims. Forty three bodies were recovered in Morehead and Jackson with nearly 100 still missing and feared drowned. Officials warn the death toll may reach 100 as communications and bridges fail and more communities report in. Red Cross and other agencies fear the tally will rise beyond seventy.
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Morehead
Astern Kentucky
Jackson
Licking
Kentucky Rivera
Walter Deaton
Breathitt County
Keck
W. S. Jones
Red Cross
Denton
Breathitt
W. E. Crutcher
Morehhead
Rowan County
Band Concert Program at Huron Municipal Band
Huron Municipal Band directed by H Christensen presents a concert at Park on Thursday at 7:45 PM featuring March Rand King, Don Kellet, The First Heart Throbs, E Ellenberg Overture Clement Marot, Serenade A Night in June, Hayfoot Strawfoot, Mazurka La Tzigane selection Over There, Intermezzo La Pepita and more under M Tobani and H Kling.
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Rand King
Don Kellet
E. Ellenberg
Clement Marot-P
Kelsen
K. L. King Hayfoot
Strawfoot
M. L. Lake Intérmezzo
la Pepita
M. Tobani
Choca Dos
H. Kling
Senate Puts Okay On Administration Monetary Measure
In Washington the Senate approved two year extension of monetary powers restoring Treasury foreign silver purchases and dollar devaluation authority. The vote of 43 to 39 shifted factions, with several silverites joining administration backers as Attorney General Murphy and Morgenthau defended legality and anticipated automatic force of the law upon continuation. Treasury planned noon resumption of silver purchases with no immediate curbs.
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Senate
Treasury
Roosevelt
Murphy
Morgenthau
Rooosevelt
House
Borah
Republican
Idaho
LaFollette
Progressive
Wisconsin
Norris
Independent
Nebraska
Optimistic Corn Development Seen Marvelous in South Dakota
Federal meteorologist B R Laskowski reports corn development remains favorable with much of the crop over hip to shoulder high and tassels widespread. Turners County notes the highest icotn in county history, but grasshopper damage is reported in Aurora County. Summer weather described as favorable with gardens potatoes and cane growing rapidly and pasture and range improving. Grasshoppers and Mormon crickets noted in Washabaugh County. Cutting winter grains moves steadily while spring grains fill better than expected in the north. More rain would help southern crops. insect pressure heavy across many areas.
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B. R Laskowski
South Dakota
Turner County
Icotn
Aurora
Washabaugh
Laskowski
Lee Crops
Olav and Martha Say Farewell After U S Tour
Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha of Norway bid farewell in New York after a 15,000 mile journey through 34 states. They boarded the Stavangerfjord for Norway praising America while noting the troubled international climate and confirming hopes to return someday. They spent the last hour unveiling a Leif Erikson monument and inspecting the Norwegian training ship Christian Radich moored at a Brooklyn pier.
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New York
Prince Olav
Martha of
Norway
United States
Stavangerfjord
Leif Erickson
Norwregian
Christian Radichn
Brooklyn
Bushfield Aligns Employment Plan With FDR Recommendation
Governor Bushfield informed Oscar Powell of the federal social security board that South Dakota’s plan for handling employment service work follows Roosevelt administration recommendations. He offered to cooperate on details as funds and the 1939 legislature’s $26,000 appropriation issue delay continued operation.
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Pierre
Bushfield
Oscar M. Powell
Federal Social Security Board
South Dakota
Roosevelt
Powell
Ola
Federal ‘Board
Pediabekils
Quiet South Dakota Stays Calm Amid WPA Protests
Mitchell July 6 South Dakota remains calm as nationwide WPA walkouts press for lower hours. Only one isolated protest at Exhan involved three carpenters. Beadle County reports normal WPA operations. County social security director C H Cotton notes no strikes locally and confirms workers are certified to projects while Beadle County maintains the old 120 hours at 40 cents wage schedule.
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Mitchell
South Dakota
WPA
Mo AL Kennedy
Exhan
WYA
Beadle County
C. H. Cotton
Geert Mitchell
Cotton
Workers debate skilled labor wage rule in union dispute
Kennedy says foreman consulted state WPA officials about carpenters choosing to stay as skilled laborers or quit the project. WPA later believed carpenters kept working. Kennedy notes no need to transfer workers to unskilled ranks to dodge union pay, but expects South Dakota to face little trouble from the new rule requiring 130 hours of labor for all classifications to earn the monthly security wage.
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Ing
Kennedy
WPA
Ethan
South Dakota
Possible national strike called by WPA workers
The Associated Press reports a likely nationwide strike among WPA construction workers after walkouts over a reduced 130 hour month under the new relief bill. Widespread stoppages threaten payroll reductions, with skilled, semi skilled, and common laborers facing lower rates and a projected July payroll cut of about 200,000 from 2.6 million. Thomas A. Murray of the AFL Building Trades Council of Greater New York warned the strike could spread to AFL construction workers.
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WPA
Lastmonth
Thomas A. Murray
Building and Estruction Trades Council
AFL
Greater New York
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