Senate Filibuster Fights Roosevelt Five Point Plan
Washington May 11 A sharp Republican bid to trim Roosevelt five point program met firm opposition from administration leaders. Senator McNary Oregon urged action on NRA extension social security and appropriations while scrapping utility and other bills. Roosevelt aides discussed next steps as Patman bonus veto looms and NRA and TVA provisions edge toward floor action.
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Congress
McNary
Oregon
Roosevelt
Public Utility Holding Company
Capitol
Senate
Patman
Cannet
Vinson
Farley
Tennessee Valley Authority
Norris
NRA
House
Harrison
Finance Committee
Fletcher
Banking Committee
Federal Board
Knitters Defeat Fordtown in High-Scoring Baseball Game
The Kingsport Knitters crushed Fordtown 20 to 3 in a Saturday afternoon Mead diamond game. Both teams combined for hits in a lopsided contest with doubles and triples frequent. Wexler of Fordtown belted the lone homer. Pitchers were Blizzard for the Knitters and Wexler for Fordtown.
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Kingsport
Fordtown
Mead Diamond
Wexler
Cunningham
A. Blizzard
Pescreary
FP. Wealer
C. Wexer
Weather outlook for Tennessee Kentucky and neighboring states
Local thundershowers Sunday and Monday showers with cooler air in Tennessee and Kentucky. Virginia to see increasing cloudiness with light showers from Sunday afternoon or night, plus Monday's occasional showers and little temperature change. North Carolina mostly cloudy with possible local thundershowers Sunday and Monday and a minor temperature shift.
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Tennessee
Kentucky
Virginia
North Carolina
Girls Scoff At Preacher In English Parish
In Sedgley Worcestershire on May 11 Rev Harold Marley faces ridicule from young women in his parish after ordering church doors closed to bare legged and lipsticked visitors. A comely shopper calls the vicar's talk about modesty ridiculous, noting the human form. The parish magazine notes he would eject girls without hosiery as the male mind is easily diverted. Continued on page ten.
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Sedgley
Worcestershire
Eng
Harold Marley
Merley
Relief Office in Illinois Is Closed
Chicago May 11 The Illinois emergency relief commission faced closure due to funding exhaustion. At noon today 1509 central headquarters employees were reduced to 147 retained to wind up affairs. About 30 percent of the laid-off staff were rehired briefly to finish duties, while volunteers will receive pay on or before May 15 after lifting restrictions on 1.2 million dollars in federal funds for special projects.
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Chicago
Illinois Emergency Relief Commission
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Wallace speaks in Kingfisher State rally in Louisiana
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace urged Louisianans to support Roosevelt farm relief policies at a statewide rally in Alexandria. He defended the New Deal against critics including Huey Long, praising the administration as strengthened and the processing tax as a farmer tariff against big business.
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Alexandria
Henry A. Wallace
Huey Long
Louisiana
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Wallace
Washington
New Currency Bonus Bill Is Ready for FDR
A Senate clash over the Patman currency bonus bill intensifies as Sen Borah and Huey Long press for passage over a presidential veto. Supporters argue the $2.5 billion issue would flood commerce with beneficial funds and spur nationwide business.
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Nathan Robertson
Associated Press
Washington
Senator Borah
Senate
Borah
Huey Long
Charles E. Coughlin
Detroit
Esch
Ustenere
Senator Long
Long
Jury Deadlocked in Lamson Murder Case at Stanford
San Jose Calif May 11 the jury in David Lamson second wife murder case remained divided after new evidence was shown including a blood stained clothes hamper a skull and a rubber dot used in explaining the wound jurors eyed a possible verdict of first degree murder with death or life imprisonment or second degree murder manslaughter or acquittal Lamson 32 has waited in the county jail as his sisters and defense counsel lingered near the courthouse during the 12 weeks trial over the bathtub death of Allene Thorpe in 1933 Stanford Campus home Memorial Day.
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San Jose
Calif
David Lamégon
Lamson
Allene Thorpe
Stanford University
Edwin V. McKenzie
Lamison
California Supreme Court
Margaret Lamson
Willis Hoits
Drastic action to suppress rioting in St John’s taken
May 12 St John’s N F I 9 rioters injured many citizens as extraoordinary meeting of the commission government led by Governor Sir David Murray Anderson decided actions to quell rioting while police arrested Pierce Power and three associates. Helmeted officers patrolled debris filled streets after last night’s clashes.
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ST. John’s
ST. John's
N. OF
Commission
David Murray Anderson
Pierce Power
Herbert Saunders
Joe Milley
George Wilkinson
King Greets Subjects in Jubilee as Banner ProtestS
King George and Queen arrived for a jubilee ceremony in London amid a banner protesting war and unemployment. The banner was torn down after a brief, lighthearted remark by the King. Tens of thousands lined routes as royal celebrations extend into July with royal sons visiting Cardiff Edinburgh and Belfast.
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George
Town Hall
Marylebone
Wales
Scotland
Ulster
Prince of Wales
Cardiff
Duke of Gloucester
Belfast
Duke’ of York
Edinburgh
Buckingham Palace
Mint Juleps Boost Kentucky Colonel Roll Call
In Frankfort on May 11 a surge of Kentucky Colonel commissions swelled Governor Ruby Laffoon’s honorary army. From April 2 through May 3, 718 colonels along with 25 admirals, one commodore and one brigadier general were added, bringing the total to about 5,000, with prior commissions not included. Officials raced to process orders as derby season spurred demand, exhausting blue ribbons, gold seals, and parchment.
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Frankfort
Churchill Downs
Ruby Laffoon
Army
Laffoon
Secretary of
No Compromise Cannon's Stand in North Carolina
In Charlotte Joseph E. Cannon of Concord defends a no compromise stance as Superior Court Judge W. F. Harding orders a retrial of a lengthy alienation of affections suit against former son in law. The case produced a $125,000 verdict marked as excessive, with Cannon’s side rejecting settlements.
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Charlotte
N. C
Joseph E. Cannon
Concord
Kiancon Smith, Jr
Duge W. F. Harding
Superior Court
North Carolina
Cannon
Planes mass attack scare haunts Honolulu in maneuvers
AP dispatch from Honolulu reports Navy mid Pacific air maneuvers involve more than 400 enemy planes and a secret move of 45 fighters from Honolulu. The plan tests if American ships can retreat from Midway to defend Pearl Harbor against a surprise air assault from the West. Unofficial notes hint some planes may have landed at nearby islands for tactical reasons.
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William H. Ewing
Associated Press
Honolulu
Hawaii
mid-Pacific
Midway Island
Pearl Harbor
Midway
Washington
Washington Authority
Chavez Named to Cutting's Senate Seat in New Mexico
Dennis Chavez, a Roosevelt ally and two-term Democrat, was appointed by Gov. Clyde Tingley to fill the late Bronson Cutting’s Senate seat until 1936. He will drop his bid to contest Cutting’s 1,200 vote victory and may seek the remainder of Cutting’s term to 1940. The appointment shifts party balance to 69 Democrats and 24 Republicans, boosting the override vote against any presidential veto and aligning Chavez with Roosevelt policies.
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Senator Long
D-La
Post Office Committee
Long
Santa
Chaves
Cutting
Chavez
Eliet
Senate
Patman
Roosevelt
Senator Cutting
Rural Electrification Administration Created by FDR Order
President Roosevelt issued an executive order creating a rural electrification administration under the work relief program. The REA wields authority to initiate generate transmit and distribute electric energy in rural areas and may acquire property or interests by purchase or eminent domain while funneling projects through existing federal agencies.
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Rural Electrification Administration
Roosevelt
Frank C.walker
Walker
Harry L. Hopkins
Public Works Administration
Hopkins
Works Progress Division
Allotment Board
Electrification Administration
FDR
New Electrification Administration
REA
Tennemuec
Leorn
Morris L. Drake
Cooke
Congress
J. R. McCarl
McCerl
Ickes
Convict Woman in Bank Hearing
Miss Margaret Cheney, 41, former secretary of Tippecanoe Loan and Trust, must serve four years in the state women's prison for making false entries in bank accounts. A jury in Lafayette, Ind. convicted her after about eight hours of deliberation and imposed a $500 fine. maximum penalty is five years and a $1,000 fine. Defense petitioned for a new trial. judge said bond may remain.
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Lafayette
Ind
Margaret Cheney
Tippecanoe Loan and Trust Company
Charles M. Snyder
Bookkeeper Denies Killing Wife and Five Children
A 49 year old bookkeeper Frederick Gross, held without pay in Raymond Street jail, denies slaying his wife and four of their five children by poisoning cocoa. police question him after 24 hours of interrogation while authorities hold him for examination and guard against self harm. He admits only access to the lethal substance at his employer's chemical plant and stood in a police lineup denying responsibility.
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New York
Raymond Street
Frederick Gross
Gross
Frederick Swirz
Henderson records show Mother's Day origin in 1887
Henderson library files reveal the first Mother's Day observance occurred April 20, 1887 in a Center Street School led by Miss Mary Towles Sasseen. The note traces later publications and controversy over the event with Philadelphia's Anne Jarvis cited for national adoption.
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Henderson
Congress
Mary Towles Sasseen
Center Street
Willam Marshall Wilson
Jove
Philadelphia
Leigh Harris
The
Henderson Gleaner and Journal
Mother's Day, Inc
Mother's Day
Anne Jarvis
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