Funds sought to pursue James Bailey Cash kidnapers
Washington reports a Senate appropriations subcommittee backing a $50 600 grant to the FBI for the Cash kidnapping probe. President Roosevelt backs the move and urges inclusion in the deficiency bill, while FBI efforts focus on ransom trace and suspect elimination after the Florida boy was abducted May 28 and later found dead. Reward money rises to 5 000 with Miami News and local authorities adding others to aid arrests.
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Washington
Adams
D-Cole
Senate Appropriations
Little James Bailey Cash
Roosevelt
Garner
Budget Bureau
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Senate
Princeton
Fla
FBI
Matson
Cumamings
Appropriations Committee
Charles Matson
Tacoma
Wash
James Bailey Cash
Miami Daily News
County Commission
Miami Beach
Redlands
Palm Beach
Ana to Vary Federal Loans on Wheat Crop
Washington reports AAA officials anticipate wheat loan rates will vary by grade and distance from central markets. The base rate near 60 cents a bushel could rise to about 75 to 86 cents for better grades, with lower grades below 60 cents. Rates decline with greater distance. eligibility requires compliance with the 1938 soil conservation program.
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Washington
AP -Agricultural Adjustment Administration
AAA
Chicago
Minneapolis
Kansas City
U. S. Medals to Four British Panay Heroes
Roosevelt signs measure authorizing medals for four British officers in Panay disaster relief. Holt and O'Donnell to receive Distinguished Service Medals. Crabbe and Barlow to receive Navy Cross for aiding survivors during the Panay bombing on the Yangtze River in China.
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U. S
Washington
Roosevelt
Panay
Reginald Vesey Holt
George Eric Maxia O'Donnell
Lewis Gonne Eyre Crabbe
Harry Douglas Barlow
Holt
O'Donnell
China
Crabbe
Low-Voltage Brain Waves Reveal New Links in Mind
San Francisco the American Psychiatric Association discussed long low voltage direct current waves in gray matter. Positive during consciousness negative in unconsciousness these brain dynamos link like a power grid forming networks that shift with health and disease.
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Psychiatric Association
Howard W. Blakeslee
Associated Press
San Francisco
American Psychiatric Association
Robert Conn
M. D
Carl Lagenstrass
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Wash
Weather slows corn growth in Missouri crops
Wet and cool nights slowed Missouri corn growth this past week, the USDA weather bureau reported. Early corn remained in good to excellent condition, while late planted corn lagged with about 10 percent still unplanted. Wheat progress was fair, with full heads and some lodging. Rainfall was frequent and above normal statewide, totaling 1.32 inches for the week. Since April 1, Missouri has measured 11.38 inches of rain.
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ST. Louis
Missouri
United States Department of Agriculture
Weather Bureau
Rural press award to Oxlaroma woman
Edna Eaton Wilson of Ripley Oklahoma named best country newspaper correspondent of 1934. She writes for Stillwater Weekly Gazette and will receive 500 dollars plus trips to New York Washington and White Sulphur Springs. Award announced by Wheeler McMillen of Country Home Magazine. Wilson helps run a 270 acre dairy farm. Pensions tax exemption ruling follows.
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New York
Edna Eaton Wilson
Ripley
Okla
Stillwater
Weekly
Gazette
Washington
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
National Editorial Association
Wheeler McMillen
Country Home Magazine
R. S. Wilson
Payne County
Digestive Aid Claim Ad with Harmless Quick Relief
An old advertisement hawks Meidesh 56 H DIG Ween as a miracle stomach remedy. It promises rapid relief from indigestion and bloating, claims laxative effects, and advertises a 25 cent price. The copy urges readers to try the product for fast results and refers to “Indigestion tas harmlen” with bold marketing language.
GAR-TRUCK CRASH AT OT. LOUIS KILLS TWO
Two men die and both wives are critically injured when a light car collides with a heavy transport truck near St Louis. The driver, Lee Webb of Springfield, escaped with minor injuries. Butter cargo weighs about 9450 pounds as the truck eastbound on Highway 66 swerved to avoid the sedan.
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ST. Louis
Frank Rauscher
Otto Wanek
St Louis
Lee Webb
Springfield
Highway 66
Webb
Missouri to get refund on job tax action
Washington AP June 8 The House Appropriations Committee recommended approval of a 340 561 686 43 refund of unemployment compensation taxes collected in 15 states that did not enact unemployment compensation laws until last year Missouri would receive 53 394 668
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Missouri
Rebels Reach Defense Lines Near Valencia
Rebels push toward the Spanish government's main defense lines guarding Valencia as heavy air raids strike Barcelona Valencia and Alicante. Franco's troops regroup with reinforcements, while government forces hold and counterattack along the Valencian Madrid front. Insurgent aviators captured 144 since the war began, including Italians and Germans.
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Hendaye
France
Valencia
Barcelona
Alicante
Stelor
Albsencer
Adzaneta
Castello de la Plana
Albovater
Albo
Cacer
Mora de Rubielos
Jose Miaja
Valencian Madrid
Franco
Barcelona Valencia
Seville
Gonzalo Quiepo di Llano
Spain
Police Slayings At Loop Rialto Scene Stirring Chaos
Hundreds of theatergoers watched as a man shot two in a car at Randolph and Wabash. Police officer William McCarthy confronted the shooter who claimed the victims were his wife Phyllis Lowe and lover Harry Johnson. Johnson, 40, a motor technician, and Lowe’s wife, 40, died. The incident sparked a mass panic as bystanders fled the scene.
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Chicago
June
Loop Rialto
Randolph Street
Wabash Avenue
William McCarthy
Policeman McCarthy
John Lowe
Phyllis Lowe
Harry Johnson
Spanish Battlefield Tours for Tourists
In Trun Spain AP reports the insurgent government will run nine day tours through northern Spanish battlefields as its first tourist drive. Sightseeing buses with guides will depart from the French and Portuguese frontiers to regions including Bilbao Santander Gijon and Oviedo. The tours aim to show visitors scenes from the Civil War fronts.
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Trun
Spain
Bilbao
Santander
Gijon
Oviedo
Ministry of Interior
Definition of the nautical mile in imperial terms
The text states that the nautical mile used by U S forces equals 6080.27 feet and is defined as one sixtieth of a degree of a great circle on a sphere whose surface matches Earth's area. It connects naval measurement to geographic scale.
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U. 8 S
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University of Michigan
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Internal Revenue Bureau
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Andalusia
Gandia
Mediterranean
Edwin Apfei
Madrid
Figueras
Raihyway
Pennsylvania
Clinton
Seventh Avenue AT
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Robert J. Glenn
Hudson
Detroit
Federel Foxes
Blaser Auto Service
Adams Street
Jefferson City
Dr. Scholl
Scholls
M. Tol
Rt. Shaver
Wvith
Tolson Drug CO
High St
America
G-E
General Electric
Missouri Power & Light Company
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