Flood kills 21 as Texas rail line wrecks
San Antonio Texas reports a devastating flood sweeping from southwest Texas. At least 21 people dead with 14 missing and $1,000,000 in damage. Affected area between San Antonio and Austin saw torrents over two days. Plum Creek toll dominates, train wreck near Kyle adds more deaths. cattle drown and farms ruined. Labor dispute flares as Mason-Dixon Lines trucks operate under highway patrol escort amid unionization moves and local strikes.
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San Antonio
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Missouri-Pacific
Kyle
Mason-Dixon Line
Kingsport
New York
Mason-Dixon Lines
American Federation of Labor
Boy Climber Rescued From 65 Foot Cliff
Warren Jackson, seven, chose a 65 foot cliff to test his mountain climbing. Thirty five feet up he could not go further or return. Fireman William Haas and a rescuer ended the expedition safely.
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Philadelphia
Warren Jackson
William Haas
City declines teen firecracker request in July hearing
Fifteen year old Avard Booth told the Salt Lake City commission his cousin sent him several firecrackers and asked to shoot them off. The commission denied the petition.
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Salt Lake City
Avard Booth
City Commission
Commission
Lincoln mayor opposes banning fireworks on Fourth
Lincoln Nebraska July 2 Mayor Charles W Bryan brother of William Jennings Bryan voiced opposition to Nebraska’s fireworks ban efforts. He argued fireworks symbolize celebrates the day more than Fourth of July newspaper items and sermons, urging allowance of public displays.
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Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
Charles W. Bryan
William Jennings Bryan
Weather notes from Tennessee to North Carolina
Weather overview reports fair and warmer conditions in Tennessee and parts of Kentucky and the Carolinas. Virginia sees cloudy skies with light showers, warmer in the north. Central readings show yesterday’s high, last night’s low of 68 and 0.191 inches of rain, with 7 am daily readings for the prior 24 hours.
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Drought Affects President's Georgia Farm
Franklin D Roosevelt faces severe drought impact at Pine Mountain farm in Warm Springs Georgia. Last rainfall was April 8, hindering crops and turning pastures lifeless. Superintendent Otis Moore warns the farm may yield only a fraction of a crop, risking substantial losses as drought stretches on.
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Kenneth Gregory
Associated Press
Warm Springs
Franklin Delano Hoosevelt
Georgia
Pine Mountain
Roosevelt
Washington
Florida
Otis Moore
Businessmen urged to present views to government
Secretary of Commerce Roper told a Chattanooga Chamber banquet that business has a duty and opportunity to voice views to Washington on public welfare matters. He praised Cordell Hull and others, urged constructive action, and called for education over vituperation in tariff policy debates.
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Roper
Cordell Hull
Joseph W. Burns
False Security Is Created by Group
WADE WERNER reports from Geneva that the League of Nations has given a false sense of security and must be remedied or the League will be destroyed. Stanley M. Bruce of Australia warned that sanctions against Italy require military action none desire, and urged rekindling hope among millions. Alberto Guani of Uruguay supported adapting the system to realities and urged American nations to uphold non recognition of forceful territorial gains.
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Associated Press
Fereira
Geneva
League of Nations
Stanley M. Bruce
Australia
Assembly
Bruce
Italy
Alberto Guani
Uruguay
Argentina
Probation Sought for Youth in Auto Theft Case
In Memphis a 16 year old from Philadelphia, George Broadwick, pled guilty to transporting a stolen auto with five others. U S Attorney William McClanahan urged probation to place him with a farm job, school, and a home. Judge John D Martin approved the request, sending Broadwick to a relative's Covington Tennessee farm. the boy began living at the McClanahan residence.
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Memphis
George Broadwick
Philadelphia
Federal District Court
John D. Martin
National Training School
William McClanahan
U. S
MacArthur Testifies In Frink Heart Balm Suit
Reporter Charles MacArthur testified in a $100,000 heart balm suit in Chicago as he identified letters and telegrams written to Carol Frink. The case involves Helen Hayes and MacArthur with Frink a Chicago dramatic critic, noting prior marriage and divorce history.
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MacArthur
Chicago
Charles MacArthur
Helen Hayes
Carol Frink
Miss Frink
Sam Golan
New Deal Tactics Discussed by FDR and Farley
Washington July 2047 President Roosevelt and National Chairman James A Farley discussed new deal tactics shaping campaign strategy and Farleys possible shift from postmaster general to focus on Democratic chairmanship. Republicans ridiculed Philadelphia platforms while Wallace defended farm plank coherence. Roper urged business leaders to keep campaign focused on education not vitriol. Union party threads surfaced in farm ers holiday association as Lemke supporters battle for influence while a compromise voting plan emerged.
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Roosevelt
James A. Farley
White House
Farley
John D. M. Hamilton
Ohio
Philadelphia
Wallace
Iowa
Commerce Roper
Chattanooga
Tenn
Union Party
William Lemke
North Dakota
National Farmers Holiday Association
St. Paul
Lemkre
John Bosch
Lemke
Borah
Idaho
County sets 1.65 tax rate for 1837 fiscal year
County tax committee agrees on a 1.65 rate unchanged from last year despite a two day wrangle. Four cent cut hits the interest fund while the highway budget and Holston Valley high school levy see adjustments for 1837-38. No new school appropriations. highway rights of way funding consumes 25,000 of highway funds.
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W. D. Lyon
Highway Department
Holston Valley
Bristol
Litz Manor
Lyne Garden
Prie
Fordtown
Dossett Campaign Pushes Tested Tax Plans In Tennessee
Burgin E B Dossett campaigned in Lafayette Hartsville Gainesboro urging economy and a top to bottom reorganization of state finance and taxation. He said his plan had been tested by 36 states and attacked Gordon Browning’s TVA record and past positions including school textbooks. Browning warned of corruption and urged clean elections as he spoke in Gainesboro Byrdstown Livingston and other towns.
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Burgin EB. Dossett
Lafayette
Dossett
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Browning
Gordon Browning
TVA
Congress
Tennessee
J. S. McMurray
Hartsville
Gainesboro
L. D. Bohannon
Overton County
Byrdstown
Livingston
Chicago police question Jimmy Thompson tale in mother death
Police express skepticism over parts of the story told by 9 year old Jimmy Thompson about the fatal attack on his mother Florence in a Chicago hotel apartment. He claimed a huge black man beat her as he lay in bed beside her, while investigators consider the possibility he was angry about the summer move from Pennsylvania to stay with his mother.
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Jimmy Thompson
Florence. Thompson Castle
Jimmy
Pennsylvania
Water conservation efforts amid a broad drought drive
WPA officials announced water conservation projects across Minnesota Montana Wyoming and the Dakotas to curb drought impacts and assess potential climate shifts. The note details a nationwide drought belt tour by Agriculture Secretary Wallace and reports on weather and crop conditions across several regions including Chicago St Paul Atlanta and San Antonio with flood losses and heat stress noted.
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WPA
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Wallace
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Burvan
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Roosevelt
Warm Springs
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Dakotas
Entombed miner rescued in Shamokin after 22 hours
In Shamokin Pennsylvania on July 2 rescuers brought 22 hour entombed miner Wnech Kuklinskie Jr. to the surface with no serious injuries. The 5 year old gasped for air under a towel while strapped to a plank and hoisted from a 30 foot coal hole as his father, 60, watched nearby. A nearby bank of refuse coal held the rescue machine ready.
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Wnech Kuklinskie, Jr
Kuklinskie
Tenn. drought prompts relief on farm program rules
Tennessee farmers may sow forage crops after July 1 without affecting base payments. UT extension director C E Brehm said J B Hutson approved rulings due to severe drought, allowing extra plantings of millet sudan grass sorghum small grain soybeans and cowpeas to offset pasture losses while keeping base payments intact. About 90 000 farmers participate in the program.
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Knoxville
Tennessee
C E. Brehm
University of Tennessee
Brehm
J. B. Hutson
Washington
Hutson
Farma
Governor demands Choate resigns over reform school abuse
Nashville reports Governor McAlister calls for the resignation of reform school superintendent G Newt Choate after a grand jury findings describe brutal lashings of boys and inhumane operation. Choate denies abuse, says measures were like disciplining a child and plans to quit soon. Mendzler named to run the Tennessee Industrial School.
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G. Newt Chase
McAlister
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Sakyngtone
Menddler
Tennessee Industrial School
Menzler
Trenton
Grand
State Reform School
Davidson County Grand Jury
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Reformatory
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Pace
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