Agriculture Dept to coordinate land use in Dust Bowl areas
Washington reports the Agriculture Department will lead a program to develop sound land use in the Dust Bowl Southwest and study relief for drouth devastated northwestern plains states. Roy J. Kimmel is named to oversee southwest divisions, directing the land use program from Amarillo. The effort aims to broaden weather relief and assess funds for operations in Montana, the Dakotas, and beyond.
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Agriculture Department
Plains
Wallace
Roy J. Kimmel
Southwest
Kimmel
Resettlement Administration
Amarillo
Towa
Colorado
New Mortico
Kansas
Oklahoma
Wilson
Montana
Dakotas
Areig
Strike in Movies Ends with Agreement at Major Studios
In Wollywood California a strike among 10 major studios ended after unions IA TSE and I B Palat era reached a pact. Printers and related crafts in the industry return to duties though a night-long meeting left 640 to 27 votes to continue if needed. Disorder also erupts in Syria’s Ales andretta region as parliament rejects autonomy demand.
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Calif
Strickers
International Alliance of ‘Theatrical Stage
International Brotherhood of Palatera
Federated Motion Pieturs
Paiciers
Tax Evasion Data Debate Signals Limited Opens
Washington reports say a Roosevelt administration plan to use tax dodging data as a weapon against wealthy individuals faced edits. A proposed joint congressional committee would study returns and treasury documents but key secrecy provisions were removed. Open hearings may still be held.
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Washington
Congressional Committee
O'Connor
S. Y
Rules Committee
Senate
Whale House
Secon
Treasury
Edsel Ford Summoned in Probe of Plant Riot
A grand jury inquiry in Detroits Dearborn area pursued Edsel Ford president and son of Henry Ford as Ford Motor Company faced allegations of coercion. Attorney challenges to jurisdiction followed as officials from the Rouge plant area were questioned and unionists claimed intimidation to deter joining the United Auto Workers.
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Edsel Ford
Netvalt
Ford Motor Company
Taeman Grand Jory
Walon Eymnathin
Ford
Ralph W. Liddy
Jim
Auburban Dearborn
Frank M Smith former East Helena Smelter manager dies in Spokane
Frank Marshall Smith, 71, longtime mining executive and former manager of the East Helena plant of the American Smelting and Refining company, died Monday in Spokane after heart trouble. Born August 16, 1875 in Philadelphia, he studied at Columbia School of Mines and held federal geology posts before entering mining. He later served as superintendent for United Smelting and Refining in Great Falls and was a prominent figure in Montana’s metal industry.
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Frank Marshall Smith
East Helena
American Smelting and Refineing Company
Montana
Spokane
Friends
Nero
Hey
Mel Ter
Bunker HI Anid
Bullivan Mining Company
Philadelphia
Penns
Mr. Smith
School of Mines
Columbia University
Virginia
Maryland
U. S
Mitera Mining
United Smelting and Refining Company
Great Falla
Strikers In United Auto Workers Stand Firm At Pontiac
Pontiac Michigan June 2 The united automobile workers committee directing the nations flat strike claimed today its ranks were holding firm Chairman Charles Barker said several Janfords visited the headquarters and offered to reduce rents while some appeared fair indicating negotiations and rent relief prospects.
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Pontiac
Mich
United Automobile Workers
Pont
Charles Barker
Poor Man’s Paraga Conducts Duke Wally Church Wedding
Foreign Monts- Poor man s Paraga performs church wedding for Duke and Wally as Ferlin s Four submarines speed to Spanish waters to join German fleet. Tonion- Unified navy show aims to bring Germany Italy back into nonintervention. Trementic Youngstown- Food plane crashes during landing at picket relay plant. Petrait- Subpoena summons Ford to grand jury amid Rowse River plant riot labor board complaints.
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Ferlin
Tonion
Germany
Italy
Spain
Petrait
Sot Ford
Nor-Man Grand Jury
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Labor Board
New Jersey Cops Mobilized for Little Falls Laundry Strike
In Morristown nearly 100 state troopers were ordered to be ready for duty at a Little Falls laundry strike. A clash between about 100 pickets and workers left fifteen injured in an hour of fighting as agents tried to bar nonstriking employees from entering the laundry.
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Little Falls
N. J
Mark C. Tihinbering
Statis
Morristown
Windsor Will Not Be Forced To wed Outside Faith
Parson Ready Monts France June 2 A resolute English vicar without church approval will marry the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Warfield. The Rev R Anderson Jardine known as the Poor Man's Parson announced the ceremony would be religiously blessed, a fact said to be desired by the duke and bride and Queen Mary. The Anglican church frowns.
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Liverpool
Jardina
Edward
Queen Mary
Pecos River Flood Threat Shifts Toward Pecos Valley
In Aliquérane New Mexico flood waters from Rio Yumigree recede as Roswell area reports four days of inundation. Unofficial losses top ten lives and about two million dollars in damage with highway destruction pegged at half a million. Officials debate releasing floodwaters from Alamoporda dam to ease the Pecos flood stage over Ft Sumner and surrounding valleys.
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Aliquérane
New Mexico
Pecas River
Roswell
Pecos
Ft. Sumner
German freighter aflame at sea near Manila
A German freighter reported aflame about 120 miles southwest of Manila broadcast an appeal to the U S Navy for rescue. Two officers and three crew members were reportedly seriously burned as the stricken vessel fought for position. No passengers were aboard.
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Manila
Olivia
Just A Minute With Invin Cobb
A Santa Monica scribe recalls pugi lists and the old time boxing era. He muses that Fitzsimmons could have knocked out Braddock with Schmeling behind him and recalls how heavyweight legends would have fit into the hero tale of an earlier champion.
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Santa Monica
Cal
Bob Fitzsimmons
Braddock
Schmeling
Joe Louis
Mr. Fitzsimmons
Ruby Robert
John L
Tom Sharkey
Peter Maher
Rome and Berlin Press Unity on Spanish Aid and Spain
Italy will keep Russia from aiding the Madrid Valencia government and its insurgents, with Mussolini ordering warship action if needed. Germany also strengthens its fleet as it quits the neutrality plank, seeking a shared military view with Italy on Spain. France and Britain concede to a German demand to unify patrol fleets around Spain, while Roosevelt in Washington studies the European crisis with no clear policy shift indicated.
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Benite Mussolini
Werner von Blomberg
Spain
Germany
Russia
Madrid-Valencia
Italy
Mussolini
Armas
Twitter Air
Jane
France
Great Britain
Coermany
Principia
Spain Tehanene
Neutschland
Appp
Razor Slaying Blamed on Fall, A. O'Neill Death
Joseph J. McGinley, retired publisher, recounts a family dispute in Norristown Pa where attorney A O Neill fatally gashed his throat on a dropped razor during a quarrel with his wife Eleanore G Neill. The statement links the fatal injury to the fall amid a domestic confrontation.
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A. O'Neill
Joseph J. McGinley
McGinley
Kegan
Eleanore G’neill
Norristown
Expansion of Airmail Service Authorized
The House paused to approve a bill authorizing further expansion of the nations airmail service. It would raise airmail route mileage allowances from 2 000 to 24 000 and annual miles from 46 000 000 to 62 000 000.
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Whahington
Postoffice Department
Senate to Probe Need for Relief
Washington June 2 An economy wounded senate committee summoned Harry L Hopkins to appear tomorrow to explain why 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 000 000 is necessary for next year s relief The WPA administrator faced searching questioning by the senate group after winning a sweeping victory in the house which approved the relief fund last night Senator Byrnes urged cutting the appropriation to 1 000 000 000 and to require local governments to cover 40 percent of relief project costs A house demand for an investigation of the WPA was voiced by Maverick D Texas with a committee to probe relief grants denials and political influence in WPA appointments
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Senate
Harry L. Hopkins
Fomorrow
W.P.A
House
Hopkins
Byrnes
PD. 8. C
Loral
Vrobe
WIA
Maverick D
Texas
Roosevelt to propose regional power and flood control plan
Washington June 2. President Roosevelt will send a message tomorrow that may be his last major recommendation of the session. It proposes a network of regional power and food control with national planning authority. A central Washington agency would coordinate projects and federal dam power use, water conservation, and flood control programs.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Tennessee Valley Authority
Capitol
Murdered Montanan 13 Fung Body Found Near Downey
The body of Patrick J. McCarthy, a Montana miner and Idaho farm worker, was identified beyond doubt after his blood stained car was found near Downey on May 20. Sheriff Pace said the man was killed in his car and the body dumped in sagebrush east of Rupert. Officers were asked to watch for two men who had traveled with McCarthy from Botss toward Montana.
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Vwurlor
Idaho
Rupert
Patrick J. McCarthy
Montana
Downey
P. D. Pace
Pace
McCarthy
Botss
Hopeful Davey Pushes For Early Steel Strike End
Gov. Martin L. Davey held talks with Republic Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube officials and said he was hopeful for an early settlement of the steel strike. The conflict, now in its second week, involves about 73,000 workers across seven states and centers on factory walkouts and proposed bargaining terms. A separate incident in Warren, Ohio, saw a plant crash land without injuries. Van A. Hittner urged Independent Producers to present strike issues to President Roosevelt.
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Columbus
Ohio
Martin L. Davey
Republic Steel
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
Youngstown
Jonn L. Lewin
Steel Afrika
Republic Steel Corporation
Chicago
van A. Hittner
Steel Workers Organizing
Roosevelt
Body of a woman found on highway near Warn Springs
Anaconda officers probed the death of an elderly woman whose mangled body was found on the Butte Deer Trail highway about five miles southwest of Warn Springs. They believe the victim is Mrs. Annie McDonough of Butte, age about 50, with a severed left leg and bruised body. A shoe lay 64 feet away. broken glass and scene fragments suggest a hit and run by a driver.
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Anaconda
Montana
Butte-Deer Tadge
Warn Springs
Annie McDonough
Butte
Bherif Barney Larsen
Deer Lodge County
Jwne
Earhart Reaches Venezuelan Port In Four Hour Flight
Amelia Earhart completes a four hour hop from Port Leon to Caracas after leaving Miami to begin leg two of her world flight. She will press toward Park Maribo and then undertake a 1,200 mile leg to Fortaleza Brasil, continuing the bold journey.
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Venezuelan
Miami
Flo
Amelia Earhart
South America
Antiche Ster
South Atlantic
Natal
Oinca
Carlpoto
Venezuela
Ban Jean
Puerto Leon
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