Drought Pushes Tennessee Food Prices to 1936 Peak
Drought drives sharp price hikes across Tennessee with beans and potatoes costing nearly double year earlier. Milk and dairy prices rise. shortages of homegrown vegetables reported in Nashville and Chattanooga. Some regions see limited rain but no immediate relief. Prices for pork and beef also climb. overall outlook remains tight.
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Nashville
Tennessee
Knoxville
Chattanooga
Memphis
California
Kingsport
Johnson City
Jackson
Dam work advances at Chickamauga project site
Work on the Coffer dam at Chickamauga dam will begin pumping water next week as builders proceed with pump installations. Crews started setting up pumps yesterday and will expand operations to the dam cells.
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Chattanooga
Chickamauga
Weather Brief Tennessee Virginia Kentucky North Carolina Outlook
Generally fair conditions with slight temperature changes across Tennessee Virginia Kentucky and North Carolina. Occasional showers possible on the coast and eastern portions with warmer spells in central regions and southeast areas.
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Tennessee
Virginia
Kentucky
North Carolina
New Cepheus Star Found During Solar Eclipse Across Asia
Astronomy experts tracking a solar eclipse across Asia Minor to Asia reported a third magnitude new star in Cepheus during the event. Expeditions along the eclipse path used new instruments aimed at a complete record, though Japan failed to observe due to a sudden rainstorm that blocked the one minute thirteen second occultation.
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Asia Minor
Asia
Cepheus
Japan
Drought Relief Follows Storm Across Southeast
Electrical storms crossed the southeast bringing drought relief and damage. From Mississippi to Virginia clouds cooled heat and revived crops while high winds and lightning caused property damage in Lynchburg Asheville Gainesville and Atlanta. Two people burned in a lightning fire near Macon.
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Atlanta
Mississippi
Virginia
Lynchburg
Asheville
Gainesville
Macon
The Cowards
Foreign staff reports labor leaders denounce government support for suspending sanctions on Italy. Clement Attlee plans to seek a parliamentary vote of criticism as campaign meetings are organized nationwide to oppose Baldwin’s policy amid fears of a League of Nations betrayal.
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London
League of Nations
Hoare- Laval
Kidnaper Hanged at Oklahoma Prison in Lindbergh Law Case
Arthur Gooch 27, convicted kidnapper of two Texas officers, was hanged at M Magazine State Prison in M'Alest er Oklahoma. witnessed by a crowd of 350 plus. He met death fifteen minutes after the trap sprung. His son Billy Joe, age six, asked not to hang Daddy as guards granted a final farewell. Roosevelt refused clemency after appeals reached the U S Supreme Court.
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Francis E. Barden
Associated Press
M’alester
Okla
Arthur Gooch
Texas
Rich Owen
Okmulgee
Gooch
Billy Joe
Paris
Tex
R. N. Baker
H. R. Marks
Oklahoma
U. S. Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Congress
Salt Used For Maintaining Road
Salt is applied to roads with a clay-sand-gravel mix to form tiny moving grains that act like robot workers, keeping the surface moist smooth and dense. At Cornell University during Sigma Xi events the method was described as rock salt mixed into the top three inches with two pounds per square yard, then compacted.
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Howard W. Blakeslee
Associated Press
Ithaca
N. Y
Cornell University
Sigma Xi
Honorary Scientific Society
Convention Fashion Plates of 1920 in Style Again
New York reports that fashion plates from past political conventions show tunic dresses and other styles seen in this year’s event. A Republican woman notes both parties’ women would not yet resume political status, while memories recall Dolly Madison breakfast objections and banners from suffrage advocates. Alice Roosevelt Longworth and Lady Astor are referenced with various convention roles.
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New York
Cox
Harding
Dolly Madison
Women's Democratic League
Astor Hotel
Lady Astor
Geneva
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Three Convicts Murder Guard at Texas Prison Farm
At the Texas prison farm three long term convicts killed Guard Felix Smith and escaped on a horse and two mules. The attackers were T. N. Atkinson serving life, Luke Trammell serving 25 years, and Forrest Gibson serving 10 years. They struck as a plowing squad moved to fields, disarmed Smith and shot him with two pistols.
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Prison Farm
Texas
Felix Smith
Smith
T. N. Atkinson
Luke Trammel
Forrest Gibson
Norris dam opens sluice to aid navigation on rivers
Norris Tenn June 19 a single sluice gate at Norris dam released water to begin a TVA program to regulate Tennessee river flows. The 1000 cubic feet per second discharge from the 25 000 acre reservoir will travel 80 miles to Clinch River then Tennessee river reaching Florence Alabama in six to seven days. Guntersville Alabama river discharge rose to 13800 cubic feet per second with expected increase past 14000.
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Norris
Tenn
Norris Dam
Clinch
Tennessee
F. C. Schlemmer
Tennessee River
Florence
Ala
Tennessee Valley Authority
Tennssee
TVA
Wilson Dam
Guntersville
Stolen trawler Girl Pat captured by Guiana authorities
In Georgetown British Guiana on June 19 the English 25-ton trawler Girl Pat was rammed and captured by the government steamer Pomeroon after a long chase across seas from Grimsby. Her five crew members were arrested on marine theft charges as officials sought London guidance and kept the ship under observation.
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Georgetown
British Guiana
Guiana
Pat
Grimsby
Eng
North Sea
William Kidd
South Atlantic
Girl Pat
Geoffrey Northcote
London
Pomeroon
Lloyds
Rain helps Northwest and Southeast as middle plains hit 110
Rain spreads across the Pacific Northwest and drought-stricken Southeast easing heat in the middle plains where temperatures rose above 100. Kansas reports 110 while McPherson merchants battle grasshoppers and officials seek federal aid. records fall in Brawley 118 and Scottsbluff 104.
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Pacific Northwest
Southeastern States
Middle Plains
Washington
Murphy
D-Ia
Roosevelt
Resettlement Administration
Kansas
McPherson
Kas
Weather Bureau
New England
Middle Atlantic
Rocky Mountain Region
North Pacific States
Georgia
Carolinas
Brawley
Calif
Colby
Great Bend
Eldorado
Clinton
Okla
Scottsbluff
Neb
Pueblo
Colo
Manhunt for Needle Attacker Targets Children in Montreal
Police search intensified for a man accused of attacking six children with a hypodermic needle over ten days. Ten year old Armand Sarrazin of St Henri Orphanage reported being jabbed in the leg as he left the institution. Doctors conduct blood tests though officials doubt harmful injections occurred.
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Montreal
Armand Sarrazin
St. Henri
French franc to retain value amid tax fraud crackdown
Paris June 19 Vincent Auriol France’s Finance Minister told the Chamber of Deputies the franc will not be devalued and promised amnesty to exporters of abroad capital until July 15 for reported exemptions. He warned that discovered frauds would bring penalties including confiscation and civil rights deprivation and said talks would start with neighboring governments to curb evasions and tax frauds.
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Auriol
Richard G. Maslock
Associated Press
Paris
Vincent Auriol
Chamber of Deputies
France
Ghost hunt and flogging inquiry roil Arkansas sharecropper case
Memphis reports a ghost hunt and a flogging inquiry in the eastern Arkansas sharecropper dispute. Frank Weems, a 40 year old Negro sharecropper, is alleged dead from a beating by union supporters. Sheriff Carlin aims to prove his death was propaganda while officials review peonage charges and a separate beating report near Earle Arkansas involving a Memphis social worker and a Little Rock minister.
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Roosevelt
U. S. Department of Justice
Memphis
Tenn
Little Rock
Ark
Willie Sue Blagden
Claude C. Williams
Earle
Southern
Tenant Farmers’ Union
Norman Thomas
Arkansas
Tenant Farmers Union
East Arkansas
Frank Weems
Southern Tenant Farmers Union
Weems
Howard Carlin
Crittenden County
H. L. Mitchell
Sam E. Whitaker
U.S
Kansas
Church art move aims to shape modern civilization
In Chattanooga on June 19 the Protestant Episcopal church forward movement commission discussed making the church a center for creative modern art. Bishop W G McDowell cited music as a key example and urged a movement to produce music reflecting today’s religious life. Canon Gilbert Symons added that commercial art already borrows from the church and theater.
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Chattanooga
Protestant Episcopal Church
Forward Movement Commission
Rt. Rev
W. G. McDowell
Alabama
Gilbert Symons
Southern
Ohio
Night falls over Addis Ababa city of ruins
Edward J. Neil reports from Addis Ababa on June 19 as darkness deepens in a city scarred by looting after Haile Selassie’s flight and the Italian advance. Soldiers guard streets while wrecked lights and sandbag barricades reflect a shattered capital under military caution.
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Addis Ababa
Fid
Edward J. Neil
Associated Press
Djibouti, Jr
Somaliland
New York
Hale Selassie
Italy
Cione
New Tax Plan Aims to Raise 800 Million Dollars
Washington reports a revised tax bill designed to raise 800 million through penalties on undivided corporate profits and new levies. Administration backers expect passage by Saturday, with Roosevelt likely to sign. Senate opposition grows, House and Senate conferees push final compromise before adjournment.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Senate House
Senate
House
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Alf M. Landon
United States
Federal Crop Reporting Board
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