Sugar Bill Chiefs Stand Firm Amid Veto Threat
Sugar bloc leaders in Congress, about 50 lawmakers from sugar producing states, pledged to press ahead with a sugar control bill despite President Roosevelt's veto warning. The administration objects to restricting refined sugar imports from Hawaii and Puerto Rico, though Senator O Mahoney says the issue is not crucial to the bill.
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Washington
Roosevelt
House
Nebraska
Jones
Texas
House Agriculture Committee
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
O'Mahoney
Wyoming
Janitor claims Amelia Earhart alive hoax exposed
Bronx janitor Wilbur Rothar is jailed on extortion charges after a signed confession shows he invented a rescue tale about Amelia Earhart. He allegedly sought $2,000 from George Palmer Putnam by claiming a cargo ship saved Earhart near New Guinea and staged a Panama voyage with a supposed rescue crew.
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New York
Amelia Earhart
George Palmer Putnam
New Guinea
Wilbur Rothar
Bronx
Harold W. Hastings
Rhea Whitley
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Rothar
Putnam
Roosevelt Field
Miss Earhart
Hastings
Spain
Fred Noonan
Pacific
Life Term Begun By Triple Slayer
Albert Lea Minnesota August 5 Jens Thompson a 34 year old farmer began life imprisonment for the slaying of three Lukes brothers in their harvest fields near town He was captured indicted and convicted within 24 hours and sent to Stillwater state prison after a 12 day man hunt Thompson pleaded guilty to first degree murder saying they done me dirt and now I am satisfied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Lea
Minn
Jens Thompson
Thompson
Stillwater State Prison
Louis
Anton Lukes
Faye
Joe Lukes
Court battle in sight over Donald Horst custody
Otto and Martha Horst seek permanent custody of 30 month old Donald taken Tuesday in a dispute with John Regan and Lydia Nelson who claim the child as theirs. Donald is in a Catholic orphanage while prosecutors consider charges against the abductors and driver Fred Ewert.
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Donald Horst
Chicago
Otto
Martha Horst
Donald
St. Vincent's Orphanage
Horsts
Horst
Four Pajamaed Men Use Louisiana Capitol as Dressing Room
Four pajama clad men who said they were North Carolinians forced open a capitol basement dressing area in Baton Rouge after summoning Watchman Mitchner. They asked to dress because it was too hot in New Orleans and left in street clothes saying the governor of Louisiana would be grateful to the governor of North Carolina.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
State Capitol
C. C. Mitchner
New Orleans
Ae Carolina
Bankhead urges fall special session for farm bill
Senator Bankhead proposed a fall special session of Congress to enact farm legislation after addressing about 1 000 ruralists during Alabama farmers week in Auburn. He urged a production control law with teeth and said quotas by acreage could adjust cotton supply to world demand.
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Auburn
Ala
Congress
Senator Bankhead
Alabama
Bankhead
Senate
Department of Agriculture
Ten Injured in Chrysler Plymouth Plant Strike
Detroit August 5 The Chrysler corporation Plymouth plant stayed closed as rival unions clashed yesterday leaving ten injured and police called. U A W A and management met after a noon attack on two Chrysler Employer officials while the U A W A demanded reinstatement of four discharged men amid tensions over a 26 000 member Independent Association claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Chrysler Corporation
Plymouth
United Automobile Workers
Leches to Host Farm Tour Picnic Spread for LSU Visitors
Baton Rouge officials outline an eight thousand sandwich menu plus ice cream cake drinks and beer for a visiting group of about fifteen hundred farmers and wives. Governors Leche and wife will greet guests at a lawn picnic following a week long farm and domestic sciences course at Louisiana State University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Leche
Louisiana State University
Booers' Club Campaign Targets Theater Advertisements
In Little Rock, about 30 members of the Society for the Booing of Commercial Advertisements in Motion Picture Theaters urged boo conscious viewing. Police guarded the rear as ads flashed, and theater officials cut several sequences after a chorus of boos. Secretary M C Blackman hailed a claimed victory noting the advertising segment was curtailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Ark
Society
Justy
M. C. Blackman
War of fishermen at Bayou LaBarre spurs security watch
In Pascagoula Mississippi a clash over mullet fishing sparked a woundings incident. Deputies manned Bayou LaBarre near the Alabama line while talks with union and non union fishermen continued. Mayor Krebs expects potential trouble if non union cargoes move inland.
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Pascagoula
Miss
Sheriff's Deputies
Bayou LaBarre
Alabama Line
Guy Krebs
Bayou LaBatre
Mildred L
Henry LaFarce
LaFarce
Bayou LaBarte
John O'Keefe
Mississippi
Wheeler
Mobile Coast Guard
LaForce
Krebs
Alabama
Americans Aid Chinese Victims in Tumulted Tungchow
Two Americans, Harry Martin of Boston and James A. Hunter of Peoria Illinois, worked to aid Chinese victims in Tungchow a city torn by fierce fighting in the Sino Japanese war. The Chinese gen darmes revolted against the Japanese backed government, the garrison was surrounded and many were killed or executed.
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Tungchow
Harry §. Martin
Boston
James A. Hunter
Peoria
Ill
Japan
China
East Hopeh Autonomous
Mrs Edith Schabel Dies in Biloxi
Mrs Edith Farrar Schabel wife of August Schabel a former New Orleans city council member died in Biloxi Mississippi she was a Downers Grove Illinois native and had lived there eight years surviving sisters and brothers including Adelaide Meee Archie Farrar and Lynn Farrar with Chicago and California connections
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Biloxi
Miss
Edith Farrar Schabel
August Schabel
New Orleans
Downer’s Grove
Ill
Adelaide Meee
Chicago
Archie Farrar
Elcentro
Calif
Lynn Farrar
Chinese Will Fight to the Death as War Turmoil Spreads
United States consular officers mobilize to guide Americans from danger zones in China while Chiang Kai-Shek proclaims resistance to the Japanese advance even at the cost of fighting in inadequately prepared conditions. American residents form emergency committees in Shanghai Chekiang and Anhwei to safeguard 4,000 people. Chiang meets with ministers and commanders in Nanking amid rapid war developments.
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Shanghai
United States
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Kuling
Clarence Gauss
Chekiang
Anhwei
Chiang
Nanking
Tokyo
United Gas Honors Trio For Life-Saving Gas Rescue
United Gas staff from the Monroe district and other southern districts, along with families, attended a 4 p.m. barbecue at McGowan clubhouse near Bastrop. Over 1000 guests heard that Fred Dupree F L Sinclair and T M Haire saved a gas victim near Haile Union Parish January 15 and received a McCarter medal and three 21-jeweled watches from the company and American Gas association.
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United Gas Company
Monroe
McGowan Clubhouse
Bastrop
W. J. Quigles
Haile
Union Parish
Fred Dupree
F. L. Sinclair
T. M Haire
American Gas Association
McCarter
United Gas Unit
Mooney Seriously Ill in San Quentin Prison Hospital
Tom Mooney aged 54 lay gravely ill at San Quentin with a gall bladder infection. Doctors said he should recover, despite prior stomach ulcer treatment. Mooney, jailed for the 1916 Preparedness Day bombing in San Francisco, has a habeas corpus appeal pending with the state supreme court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Rafael
Calif
Tom Mooney
San Quentin
Leo L. Stanley
Leo Bloesser
Stanford University Medical School
Mooney
San Francisco
Pay and Hour Bill Delayed by Farm Bloc
Washington August 5 The wage and hour bill passed by the Senate and approved by the House labor committee faced opposition from farm bloc members who threaten to block it in the rules committee unless a crop loans bill is considered. The measure emerged from the labor committee without the Wood amendment and with safeguards for collective bargaining.
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Washington
Senate
House Labor Committee
House
Farm Bloc
Rules Committee
Labor Committee
Labor Standards Board
Brookhaven Man Seeks Missing Daughter Rosalie Serio
Sheriff Hasterns in California told Sam Serio a girl resembling his missing 15 year old daughter Rosalie Serio is in a detention home in San Luis Obispo. The girl said she ran away. Serio, joined by J Walter Smith and Frank Tumillo and Joe Damico, heads to California and had offered a 500 dollar reward. Federal officers joined the kidnapping inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brookhaven
Miss
Harry E. Hasterns
San Luis Obispo
Calif
Sam Serio
Rosalie Serio
San Luis Obispo Calif
Serio
California
J. Walter Smith
Frank Tuminello
Joe Damico
Explosion at Paterson plant kills one and injures many
An explosion demolished a brick building at a brake lining plant in Paterson New Jersey killing John Lughrey and injuring about forty others. Several were in critical condition and about a dozen remained in hospital.
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Paterson
N. J
John Lughrey
Senators Seek Harmony Dinner Among Democratic Leaders
Democratic senators plan a stag banquet to heal party rifts from the court reorganization dispute and wage hour bill. President Roosevelt and Vice President Garner were invited. Hattie Caraway was not. Committee members include McKellar Truman Burke and Barkley as the focus of the gathering.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Garner
Hattie Caraway
Arkansas
Senator McKellar
Tennessee
Senator Lee
Oklahoma
Moore
New Jersey
Truman
Missouri
Burke
Nebraska
Senator Barkley
Kentucky
Senate
House
Jefferson Island
Chesapeake Bay
Roose
Retailers Rename Monroe Merchant
E. K. Van Aernam of Crossett Ark was reelected president of the American Retailers association as about 2900 members selected fair merchandise for stores in 26 states. Mahlon Garber of Columbia Tenn was among reelected vice presidents. new directors include W. B. Collins Lamesa Texas Joseph E. Chastain Guthrie Okla Mahlon Garber Columbia Tenn U S Kincaid Louisville IL W G Renfrow Monroe La John N Williams Jr Elkton Ky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
E. K. van Aernam
Crossett
Ark
American Retailers’ Association
Mahlon Garber
Columbia, Tenn
W. B. Collins
Lamesa
Tex
Joseph E. Chastain
Guthrie
Okla
Columbia
Tenn
U S. Kincaid
Louisville, IL
W. G Renfrow
Monroe
John N Williams, Jr
Elkton
Increases in Holding Firm Levies Sought by Committee
A senate house tax committee urged drastic rises in domestic personal holding company taxes to curb tax avoidance. It proposed an $100 million, eight point plan and a shift to include undistributed net income of foreign holding companies in the owners taxable gross. Officials say the package could raise federal revenues by about $100 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate-House
Treasury
Joint Committee
Georgia Delegation Pushes 12 Cent Cotton Return
Georgia's congressional delegation urged southern colleagues to press for a 12 cent per pound cotton return. They asked Senator Walter George to present to President Roosevelt a loan and adjustment plan funded by soil conservation payments to farmers meeting program requirements.
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Washington
Georgia
Walter George
Roosevelt
Soil Conservation
George
Insurgent Force Reported Crushed on Teruel Front
Gov't communique says Moors in khaki Franco troops were driven from the Puntal Lazaro sector near Arroyo Frio in the Javalon mountains southwest of Teruel. Heavy artillery followed the setback as the fight raged amid the eastern badlands. The Bay of Biscay front reports a Dato gunboat sinking a small trawler attempting to run Santander blockade.
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Hendaye
Teruel
Bay of Biscay
Dato
Santander
Javalon
Francisco Franco
Aragon
Puntal Lazaro
Arroyo Frio
Francos
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Crowley
Fred Ewert
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United Gas
Father
Colleen Sweeney
Hollywood
Gilberta Sweeney
I. A Sweeney
Econd
Monroe Merchant
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