Rural slums found in one third of U S farms report
The Agriculture Department and Farm Security Administration released a study calling rural poverty widespread. It maps regions with low incomes, substandard housing, poor sanitation, and limited access to goods. The report highlights Appalachians, Blue Ridge, Smokies, Ozarks, cotton belt, and Great Lakes areas with 75 to 80 percent of families below adequate means.
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Michigan
Lnsin
Minnesota
Bureau of Agural Economics
Disappearance of Betty Hobbs Eases as Suspect Held
Betty Hobbs four years old believed alive in Ohio after police arrest Mrs Anna LeGarde forty one for kidnapping. Hobbs father Ellsworth WPA worker joins search. case shifts to Coolville Ohio as authorities verify the girl's identity and prove a visit excuse.
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North Tonawanda
N. Y
Betty Hobba
Ohio
Frederick A. Hoefert
Anna LeGarde
Hoefert
Betty
Coolville
Agor
Luther C. Bradford
LeGore
Ellsworth Hobbs
WPA
Rockefeller Center Labor Pact Seen as Peace Key
May 28 report from New York describes the Rockefeller Center labor contract between CIO and AFL unions as a potential peace key. The pact, signed by the Building and Construction Trades Council, covers all center maintenance crafts while preserving each craft’s identity. It aims to prevent work stoppages by settling jurisdictional disputes and ensuring three years of uninterrupted work amid widespread industry tensions.
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Schefeller Center Labor Union
Bn York
Amer- Jabor
Feller Center
John L. Lewis
Green
Federation of Labor
Arses
A. F
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Rockfeller Censis Sons
Sons
Fiftieth Street
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CIO
Building and Construction Trades Council
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United States
Boy Makes First Parachute Jump From Balloon
Chester Nephew 17 of Batavia New York leaped from a home made hot air balloon that burned during inflation. The chute fouled but opened in time, saving him as Warren Allen, a noted balloonist, lent the professional balloon used in the jump.
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Lady Luck
Chester Nephew
Batavia
N. Y
Warren Allen
DeJournette Sentenced For Slaying Of Mangum
A Guilford County jury found Bat DeJournette guilty of first degree murder in the slaying of Garland Mangum and sentenced him to die in the gas chamber. Kate DeJournette was found guilty as an accessory after the fact and given six to eight years with suspension and probation. Elmer Williams pled guilty to being an accessory before the fact and received life at hard labor.
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Greensboro
Guilford County
DeJournette
P. McLendon
Cedillo Still Evades Capture in Mexico Rebel Hunt
In Mexico City on May 28 the federal government deployed infantry cavalry and airplanes to find General Saturnino Cedillo age 45 a Mexican Indian who rose against President Lazaro Cardenas eight days earlier. Officials said capture was imminent though Cedillo and a few followers fled by plane abandoning their craft in a cornfield near Matlazuela eight miles northwest of San Luis Potosí city.
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Mexico City
Saturnino Cedillo
Cedillo
Lazaro Cardenas
San Luis Potosi
United States
War Ministry
Matanzuela
San Luis Po- Loni
Court To Adjourn After Upholding FDR Laws
The Supreme Court will adjourn for summer next Tuesday after an eight month term that produced opinions sustaining Roosevelt administration laws. Few cases remain as justices scatter for vacations in the United States, Canada and abroad. One issue tests whether the National Labor Relations Board can withdraw litigation to adopt new procedure in line with Supreme Court views.
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James Douth
Washington
Supreme Court
United States
Canada
National Labor Relations Board
Landon Urges GOP to Free Nation from Dictation
Niagara Falls N Y May 28 Former Governor Alf M Landon of Kansas urged the Republican party at the New York state Young Republicans clubs convention to free the country from dictation by government industry finance or labor He said the party derives from Jefferson the decentralist and opponent of oppression and omnipotent planning and must oppose both government and economic oppression.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Republican Party
New York State
Young Republicans Clubs
Landon
Democratic Party
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson
Grady Pledges Roosevelt Spirit in NC Utilities Campaign
Grady promised to bring the spirit of President Roosevelt to the utilities office if elected. He accused opponent Stanley Winborne of failing to cooperate with the great power program and failing to regulate rates and power companies in North Carolina.
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Rocky Mount
N. C
Paul D. Grady
Roosevelt
Stanley Winborne
North Carolina
Grady
United States Again Urges Peace Pact Adherence in Europe
Secretary Hull held a press conference to remind central European powers of the Kellogg Briand Pact ten year pledge to renounce war as a national policy. He warned that any outbreak anywhere would affect all nations and urged pacific settlement amid the Sudeten crisis.
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United States
Europe
Czechoslovakia
Hull
Paris
ANT
Germany
France
Great Britain
Russia
Italy
Germany Holds Strong Weapon Over Czechs
In Prague May 28 the article notes Czechoslovakia with no sea outlet is dependent on Germany for access to ports. It describes how postwar treaties and the Rome protocols tied Czech exports to Hamburg Stettin and Trieste, but German actions after absorbing Austria threaten those routes and diminish any Versailles guarantees.
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Czechoslovakia
Germany
Austria
Hamburg
Stettin
Trieste
Italy
Hungary
Appropriations Top 10 Billion
Washington reports current indications show total appropriations for the session exceed 10.35 billion dollars, with 10,355,131,879 already enacted or pending in Congress. Administration and Republican leaders debate recession effects and political motives behind the surge.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Roosevelt
Negotiations Resume On Eve Of Czech Municipal Elections
In Prague on May 28 pro-Nazi Sudeten German leaders and the Czechoslovak government resumed talks after a week of tensions. Premier Hodza and Sudeten representatives agreed to regular meetings to seek a peaceful compromise on autonomy while easing border tensions and trade concerns tied to German ports. Tomorrow's nationwide ballots in 2,740 communities proceed amid cautious optimism.
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Praha
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslokia
Germany
Milan Hodza
Hamburg
Stettin
Hodza
Ernst Kundt
Franz Peters
Witness Flies to Escape Probe in Spy Ring
Federal agents sought French help to intercept Werner G. Gudenberg in Cherbourg after he slipped away aboard the Hamburg as a key witness in the Rumrich spy ring case. U S attorney Lamar Hardy cited the escape and noted Hoover trips to New York amid broadening espionage probes.
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Cherbourg
United States
Lamar Hardy
Werner G. Gudenberg
Hamburg
Bremen
Wilhelm Boehnke
Fuehrer
Hardy
Gudenberg
Janatz T. Griebl
Gunther Gustav Rumrich
Giebl
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Washington, D. C
Rodinke
Gierman Nazi Party
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