Worst Flood in Manhattan Kansas Ravages Town
Manhattan Kansas reports the worst flood in history exceeding 1903 levels. Rivers Raw and Blue surround about a third of homes as water intrudes 13 blocks west of the city limits on Piney Avenue. Refugees and livestock camp in the city park while main business districts flood. Fort Riley soldiers aid rescues as water recedes three miles west of town.
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Manhattan
Kas
Hlstery
Pyntz Avenue
Kansas State College
Fort Riley
Morning Chronicle
Huey Long Quietly Tightens State Gambling Policy
Louisiana Senator Huey P. Long said gamblers must keep quiet and be discreet. He defended limiting open gambling and raiding houses while proposing police focus locally and claim gambling will drop to about ten percent of former levels.
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Baton Rouge
Theia
Two severely hurt when car explodes near Newburg
Springfield dispatch reports Robert Robinson, 50, farmer from Marshfield, died in a car explosion near Newburg. His son Lloyd, 17, was severely injured, stating the vehicle suddenly burst into flames as he drove, his father asleep inside. Lloyd escaped, sought help, and returned with neighbors.
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Springfield
Robert Robinson
Marshfield
Lloyd
Newburg
King Carol Completes Tour of Territories in Poland
King Carol concludes a tour of territories with statements that Bee dia is firmly part of Bo. He warns against other nations attempting to interfere while asserting Romania will make sacrifices to retain the land as its own amid tense meetings and vows.
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Carol
Beedia
Rumania
Rumenis
River Flood Dangers Prompt Hard Rescue Efforts and Evacuations
U S engineers keep 24 hour readiness with towboats and skiffs to respond to river emergencies as Missouri floodwaters rise. Levees around Osage City held firm with minor seepage while towns like Wainwright Tebbertts Mokane and Cedar faced abandonment except for a few residents on high ground. A Morrison bank charter was issued amid rising water and a farmer refused rescue, citing safety concerns as river levels threaten homes and farms along the Osage and Missouri rivers.
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Hermann
Rocheport
Osage City
Missouri River
Bocnetts Mill
Osage
Missouri
Wainwright
Tebbertts
Mokane
Cedar
Morrison
Osage County
Bank
State Finance Department
Community Bank of Morrison
Callaway County
Potters
Here
U. S. Engineer Department
Howard Harsh
Cole County
Cedar Creek
RFC to Extend Large Railroad Loan for Chicago Milwaukee Line
Washington June 4. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation offers to continue a loan of 11.5 million dollars and send 24 million more to the Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul and Pacific railroad to enable its reorganization. The plan includes 12 million at 4 percent secured by bonds and 12 million at 4 percent on equipment trust certificates with terms to be set later. Existing RFC indebtedness extended for 16 years at 4 percent upon current security, with two thirds of interest fixed for 10 years and one third payable only as earned.
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Washington
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
ICC
RFC
40-Hour Week and Wages Live On in Nationwide Shakeup
The nation maintains the 40 hour week and wage standards as multiple industries from oil to retail pledge to uphold code provisions. Reports show scattered discards of blue eagle requirements but most sectors defend current hours and pay. Strikes in Des Moines and Lebanon arose over wage and hour changes while Cookeville faced a 128 worker walkout over longer hours with wage cuts.
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Finley, C
Salt Lake City
Georgia
Tennessee
Carolinas
New England
Texas
California
St. Joseph
Chambers of Commerce
Henry
Harriman
United States Chamber of Commerce
Congress
Labor and Trade Association
Des Moines
Iowa
Ccackeville
Tenn
Lebanon
Cookeville, Tenn
Fourteen MU grads invited to Phi Beta Kappa in Columbia
Fourteen University of Missouri graduates are invited to join Phi Beta Kappa, the highest scholastic honor society, as of June 4 1935 in Columbia. The newly elected members include Ester Nadine Borenstine, Lester Silbernagel, William L. Cochran, Cornelia Ellis, John Harper Simms, Robert Malmo, Dorothy Peterson, Burns Winfred Brewer Jr, William Alfred Jey, Evelyn Lee Milligan, Mary Alice Jones, Howard Albert Stamper, Robert Gale Berry and others from Kansas City, Columbia, Springfield, Joplin, Moberly and Pawnee Oxle. Potential confusion in names but confirms list of inductees.
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Columbia
University of Missouri
Phi Beta Kappa
Ester Nadine Borenstine
Kansas City
Lester Silbernagel
Fine Bluff
Ark
William L. Cochran
Cornealia Ellis
John Harper Simms
Robert Malmo
Robert Hubbard Green
Springfield
Dorothy Peterson
Kansas
Burns Winfred Brewer, Jr
Je Me
Wis
William Alfred Jey
Moberly
Evelyn Lee Milligan
Joplin
Mary Alice Jones
Land
Howard Albert Stamper
Robert Gale Berry
Pawnee
Oxle
Old Age Pension Bill Signed by Governor Park
The governor signed an old age pension bill authorizing up to thirty dollars a month for eligible elderly residents aged sixty five and over. The measure marks a key state aid expansion and sets eligibility guidelines for monthly payments.
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Governor Park
Golden 1885 Graduates Attend MU Commencement Reunion
University of Missouri alumni of the class of 1935 welcomed six members of the class of 1885 who traveled to Columbia to celebrate their fifty year milestone. The 1885 graduates joined veterans at a dinner tonight and will attend a reception hosted by the board of curators and university faculty in honor of the 1936 graduates and visitors.
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Columbia
University of Missouri
Kansas Farmers Talk of Wheat Half Crops
DONGE CITY Kan June 4 UP Southwest Kansas farmers who a month ago faced a 10 to 15 percent wheat crop are now forecasting a half crop May rains that flooded eastern Kansas revived fields once thought dead The wheat belt in the southwest shows renewed life making a profitable wheat harvest seem likely after previous predictions of near total loss and a shift to spring crops
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Donge City
Kan
Kansas
40 Hour Week Setback at Geneva Conference
At the international labor conference in Geneva representatives of 48 nations watched as the employers group opposed a universal 40 hour week in five key industries including public yards iron and steel building and contracting coal mining and glass bottle making. United States delegate Sam A Lewisohn and Italian Gino Olivetti broke with the group to back a 46 hour week and to draft a convention for it.
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Geneva
United States
Sam A. Lewisohn
New York
Gino Olivetti
Flooded Missouri River Threatens Crops Across Missouri
The muddy Missouri River rises from Waverly to St. Charles with crest forecasts into the 34 to 35 foot range. Crops in St. Louis and St. Charles counties face about 1.5 million dollars in damage. farms and CCC crews defend the Centaur levee as floodwaters threaten 10,000 acres of wheat and corn. The Mississippi runs at flood stage from Hannibal to Cape Girardeau while Osage and Grand rivers rise amid heavy rain.
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Missouri
Waverly
St. Charles
Boonville
Herman
Hermann
Mississippi
Mississippi River
Hannibal
Cape Girardeau
Alton
Tfl
St. Louis
Crewe
St. Louis County
CCC
Centaur
St. Charles County
Missouri River
Grand River
Chillicothe
Osage
Kansas
Osceola
Platte River
Nodaway
Heda Way
Kansas City
Roosevelt 10 Resurrect New Program
A White House plan to preserve NRA features without confirming a new program aims to satisfy lawmakers. The proposed legislation would include utilities holding, social security, banking, transport, TVA, and labor rules, with changes to Wagner and Guffey-Snyder bills. Officials say bipartisan talks continue as executives seek to protect labor standards via interstate compacts.
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Era Trade Commission
White House
Congressional Teader
Utilities
Social Security
Omnibus
Tennessee Valley Authority
House
Senate
Transportation
TVA
Utilities Holding Company
National Labor Relations ‘Board
NRA
Guffey-Snyder Coal
Clergyman Who Wooed Wife Repentant Says Forgiveness Sought
John B. Cramer testified that Rev. Neal Dow Kelley twice begged forgiveness for wooing and winning Cramer’s wife Hazel Mary in Camden. Kelley, then a pastor, denied the allegations as Cramer recounted meetings and letters from 1933, including prayers with the couple.
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Camden
N. J
John B. Cramer
Neal Dow Kelley
Hazel Mary Cramer
Lang Branch
Kelley
Cramer
Walter Keown
Quetta Quake Death Toll Estimated at 56000
Official estimates place total deaths at 56,000 from last Friday's earthquake in the region. Rescue teams quickly organized to keep the figure from rising, with 10,500 saved in Quetta within two hours of the main shocks. About 7,000 survivors remain in makeshift tents on the local racecourse.
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Quetta
India
Fights for School Fund in Big Estate
Topeka June 4 Attorney General Clarence Beck today began his fight to protect the state school fund in the million dollar estate of Miss Ellen Doyie Florence spinster who died last March Beck said he would seek a ruling from the state supreme court on financing the state's battle against claimants to the estate The 1935 legislature provided that the state and county protect the fund but did not provide for expenses Beck estimates costs may reach 50000 Bonds worth 700000 and a large amount of cash and other property comprise the estate Many claimants have appeared including a woman enroute from Ireland to press a claim.
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Topeka
Kan
Clarence Beck Itoday
Ellen Doyie
Florence Spin‘ster
Beck
State Supreme Court
Ireland
Mohair Plush Workers Strike at Massachusetts Mill
About 450 workers at the Massachusetts Mohair Plush company walked out in Lowell today after the UTWA demanded a 15 percent raise and a closed shop. Mill officials did not concede, making the strike official, though some workers continued to report for duty but stayed idle in their rooms. Observers say the push for a closed shop may outweigh wage gains.
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Lowell
Mass
Massachusetts Mohair Plush Company
UTWA
Man Recounts Betrayal After Front Door Stabbing
A speaker recalls a betrayal accusing an associate of betraying trust by stabbing him in the back after shaking hands at the front door. The account frames the incident as personal and revelatory in nature.
Labor groups meet in secret conferences in New York
In secret talks across labor organizations, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers board representing 35,000 New York members voted to raise 1,096,006 dollars to fund strikes against non union employers resisting NRA wage and hour standards. Sources note growing unrest among mid size manufacturers and plans for a strike on five minutes notice if needed.
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New York
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
New York City
P. L. Bergoff
Bergoff
James Wu
Pamerick
Building Service Employees Union
World War shell blast kills six children in Poland
Six children aged nine to twelve were killed in Storgon near Vilna when they found a World War shell in a brook. They dragged it out and attempted to disarm it, triggering a fatal explosion that hurled one victim hundreds of feet and caused instant death.
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Warsaw
Poland
Storgon
Vilna
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