A F L Opposes Roosevelt NRA Skeleton Plan In House
Washington June 7 The American Federation of Labor overturns the plan to expand the skeleton NRA program as New Deal leaders push it in the House. The A F L council calls for a new NRA act with licensing for interprovisor industries and a constitutional amendment to empower federal social and economic laws. It lists four bills to meet wage cuts and hour increases since the Supreme Court ruling, including Wagner, Black Connery, 30 hour week, and Guffey coal bills.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House of Representatives
Council of the American Federation of Labor
Supreme Court
William Green
A. F. of L
Rnment
Wagner
Black Connery
Guffey
NRA
Kidnaped Man's Lawyer Detained by Officials
Havana reports police and army forces ordered to Santos Suarez near Antonio San Miguel residence for a drive against kidnappers. Victim's lawyer Pedro Herrera Sotolongo was detained for questioning as authorities planned an encounter with the alleged kidnapers.
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Havana
Santos Suarez
Antonio San Miguel
Pedro Herrera Sotolongo
Parents Fear Young Son Is Kidnap Victim
New York parents John and Anna Kaul fear their five year old son John Kaul was abducted from a playground near Sutton Place after an all night search. More than 100 volunteers joined the frantic effort as police and residents combed the neighborhood, including vacant buildings and a brewery, with no trace found. The couple, from modest means, worried he may have been seized for ransom near the Hastings River retaining wall.
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New York
John Kaul
Sutton Place
Hunt
Hast
John
Anna Kaul
New Peddlers Law to Take Effect Tomorrow
Charleston reports new amendments to the state hawkers and peddlers law take effect tomorrow after the legislature passed them. The revised act requires traveling peddlers to obtain an annual license and imposes vehicle usage requirements, with details issued by police officials.
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Charleston
Montana
Har
Taawhihite
Sarazen Back in mix as U S Open round continues
Gene Sarazen, former champion, shoots 36 on the front nine to finish the first half at one under par in the U S Open second round at Oakmont. Jimmy Thomson maintains a 36 hole lead with 146, while Krueger of Beloit posts a solid 71.
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Oakmont
Country Club
Pittsburgh
Gene Sarazen
Thomson
Sarazens Sinx
Connecticut
Jimmy Thomson
California
Jimmy
Krueger
Alvin
Butch) Krueger
Belout
Wis
Dark Horse
Fairmont Seeks To Host Travelers Convention
Fairmont West Virginia, Harrisonburg and Lynchburg Virginia travel to Cumberland Maryland for the United Commercial Travelers convention of Kentucky Virginia West Virginia and Maryland. The convention city will be chosen at the closing session where officers also are to be elected.
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Cumberland
Fairmont
W. Va
Harrisonburg
Lynchburg
United Commercial Travelers of
Kentucky
Virginia
West Virginia
Maryland
Mellon Bank Refuses To Obey Board Order
Mellon Bank declines to follow a board directive issued in Washington on June 17. The action sets up a dispute over governance and regulatory expectations affecting the bank’s leadership and operations. Further details on the board’s order and potential repercussions are not provided in the readable text.
Cuppett's Store Targeted by Midnight Prowlers
Midnight prowlers forced a cellar window and used a skeleton key to enter A W Cuppett Co Walnut street store. They ransacked the shop but little was missing, with Mr Cuppett deeming the loss negligible to candy cookies weiners and cigarettes. Clues were left behind by the intruders.
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A. W. Cuppett & Co
Walnut Street
Bankers Hear Past and Present Ills at West Virginia Meet
White Sulphur Springs June 7 A West Virginia Bankers Association session heard about past and future banking issues. Phillips Lee Goldsborough former Maryland governor and FDIC director warned against opening too many new banks as conditions improve. Charles A Boone First Huntington National Bank warned of public attacks on bankers and urged broad banking education. Leslie S Baker FHA Washington and Francis White New York spoke during the opening program.
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White Sulphur Springs
Financial
West Virginia Bankers Association
Phillips Lee Goldsborough
Maryland
Federal Deposit Innsurance Corporation
Association
Committee On Public Education
Charles A. Boone
First
Huntington Nationalbank
Kemp
Leslie S. Baker
Federal Housing Administration
Washington
Francis White
New York
Baldwin New Nine Man Board to Study Premier
Stanley Baldwin accepted the prime ministership from King George after Ramsay MacDonald resigned due to ill health. Baldwin called on the king at Buckingham Palace and was summoned to No. 10 Downing Street. A crowd of onlookers watched as MacDonald left and Baldwin arrived to lead the government.
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Yondon
Stanley Baldwin
Great Britain
King George
Ramsay MacDonald
MacDonald
Baldwin
Buckingham Palace
No. 10
Downing Street
Donald
Flood Crest Pours Into Missouri River
Flood crest of the Kaw river began pouring into the Missouri River as Kansas City and eastern Missouri faced rising waters. Levee breaks in Kansas reduced the flood’s impact there, while officials warned of the wide muddy channel five miles across in eastern Missouri and expressed little alarm about the added burden.
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Kansas City
Kaw
Missouri
Kansas
Clive Smith
Con
Terror reign in Kentucky condemned in labor report
Frankfort, Ky. June 7. Gov. Ruby Laffoon withheld comment on his special commission report charging operators and officials with enforcing a reign of terror in Harlan county coal fields. The commission urged ousting Sheriff Theodore Middleton, faulted deputies, and cited dynamiting, arrests without bonds, and evictions.
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Frankfort
Ruby Laffoon
Special Commission
Harlan County
Harlan
Theodore Middleton
Adj
H. H. Denhardt
Laffoon
United States
Middleton
Cumberland
Commission Would Form Nine Member Study Panel
A proposal from Representative Rayburn calls for a special nine man commission to craft federal railroad retirement legislation. The group would include three senators, three house members, and three presidential appointees to investigate facts and report by March 1, 1936 on a sound retirement and annuity system for carriers in interstate commerce. The plan follows the Supreme Court ruling influencing any Railway Pension Act rewrite during this session.
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Washington
Rayburn
D-Tex
Roosevelt
Cummings
Supreme Court
Congress
Reyburn
Mother and son pay for seven year old murder
In Georgetown Delaware the first white woman hanged there, Mrs May H Carey, and her eldest son Howard 27 faced the gallows after a seven year old crime involving the slaying of her brother Robert Hitchens for a $2000 insurance payout. The mother died at 524 am the son at 6 am.
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Georgetown
Del
Delaware
May H. Carey
Howard
Carey
Frey Predicts Street Work Finishes Next Week
Frey says upper Maple avenue and lower West Main street projects should wrap in coming week. Acting FERA administrator W D Frey notes consolidation of crews may push one job to completion, with West Main finishing to Jones Street before shifting labor to Maple avenue in April.
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Maple Avenue
West Main Street
W. D. Frey
FERA
Taylor County
Frey
Jones Street
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