One Million May Strike in Poland and U.S. Economic Worries
A front page analysis notes a potential one million steel and textile workers may strike as the president seeks to prevent widespread disruption. Wheat prices rise as farmers regret government planting limits. The piece also notes Polish Nazi Grey Shirts and anti Jewish rhetoric amid Poland's political climate and a planned US west coast trip by Russian and Japanese diplomats.
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Poland
Germany
France
Nazi Party
Ku Klux Issue Rises in Alabama Gubernatorial Race
In Birmingham, the Ku Klux Klan becomes a political issue in the Democratic gubernatorial contest between former Governor Bibb Graves and Birmingham mayor Frank M. Dixon. Dixon accuses Graves of Klan support. Graves calls it a smoke screen and says maskedParade era won’t return if he is elected.
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Birmingham
Ala
Ku Klux Klan
Bibb Graves
Frank M. Dixon
Major Dixon
Graves
Dixon
Italy To Fight Next War For Self Alone
Rome June 2 Premier Mussolini told 19000 war volunteers Italy will fight her next war for herself alone not for other nations posing as allies. He warned volunteers blood shed only for Italy and criticized allies who failed to honor promises including France over colonial territory in the London treaty of 1915.
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Rome
Mussolini
Italy
France
Serbia
Yugoslavia
Monroe West Monroe Chamber opposes any new taxes
The Chamber of Commerce of Monroe and West Monroe adopted a resolution opposing any new taxes by the Louisiana legislature. A citizen committee led by Mayor Arnold Bernstein will travel to Baton Rouge to speak before the ways and means committee at the Tuesday hearing. The action aims to relieve the tax burden on all Louisianans.
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Louisiana
Chamber of Commerce of
Monroe
West Monroe
House of Representatives
Arnold Bernstein
Baton Rouge
Ways and Means Committee
Bernstein
Chamber of Commerce Board
A. W. Miller
Miller
Chamber
Huey Long Draws Foreign Criticism Over Chaco Speech
Bolivian Minister to the United States Dr. Enrique Finot direct writes to Senator Huey Long calling his senate remarks on the Chaco conflict offensive and a distortion of the truth He denies the claim that the United States backed Paraguay and that Standard Oil supported Bolivia in the war Finot attributes blame to Paraguay for the conflict.
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Washington
Huey Long
Enrique Finot
United States
Long
Senate
Chaco
South America
Finot
Paraguay
Standard Oil Company
Bolivia
Miss Unknown Sister Claim Stirs Houston Case
Mrs. Davie Beavers argues that the patient known as Miss Unknown in a Houston hospital is her sister Grace Bryant who left for Hot Springs Arkansas a month ago. Doctors planned to use truth serum to recover memories and identify the patient’s past.
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Houston
Texas
Davie Beavers
Vernon Street
Associated Press
Hamilton freed in Crockett on bond in guard slaying case
Floyd Hamilton brother of Raymond Hamilton was released on 5000 dollar bond and left for Dallas. He will return August 13 to face a grand jury charged with aiding convicts to escape and as an accessory in the slaying of Major Crowson, a prison guard, on January 1.
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Crockett
Texas
Floyd Hamilton
Raymond Hamilton
Dallas
Major Crowson
Strikers Add to Ranks in Broad Walkout Wave
In South Bend and Mishawaka Indiana transport crews quit buses and surface cars halting service as strikers swell. Union demands include seniority for street car men over interurban workers, a 42 cent hourly raise and shorter hours as other industries face threatened walks out. Roughly 1,000 workers gathered in St Louis as nationwide labor actions unfold.
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South Bend
Ind
Northern Indiana Railways, Inc
Mishawaka
St. Louis
Dan Beard Calls Dillinger a Sissy at Scout Convention
83 year old Dan Beard known as Uncle Dan criticized John Dillinger as a bluffing gangster. He said if given power he would end the gangsters quickly and urged tougher enforcement and harsher penalties, comparing modern lawmen unfavorably to older sheriffs.
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Buffalo
N. Y
John Dillinger
America
Dan Beard
Dan
Dillinger
Bill Cody
Jim Hugo
Yeggs
City Swelters Again As Mercury Hits 91
Monroe sweltered as the Saturday high reached 91 degrees, lower than 95 on Friday and 97 on Thursday when a new seasonal high was set. Humidity felt heavy with a 71 degree low, and a brief morning rain shower produced 0.15 inch, per Miss Katie Key, government weather recorder.
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Monroe
Katie Key
Government Weather Recorder
President Roosevelt Returns to Hyde Park After Groton Visit
President Roosevelt arrived in Worcester at 11 45 p m after a rainy trip from Groton School aboard his special train He motored through the downpour along a three mile path and soon left for Hyde Park to spend Sunday at the family home in New York state.
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Worcester
Mass
Roosevelt
Groton School
Hyde Park
N. Y
Eight‑mill LaSalle School Tax Vote Planned
Jena La June 2 Special voters in LaSalle parish number about 1 500 expected for the June 29 eight mill school tax election. Registrar Clarence Paul reported books closed May 29, about half the parish’s usual voting strength.
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Jena
LaSalle Parish
Clarence Paul
College to Hold Baccalaureate and Commencement in Monroe
Ouachita Parish Junior College wraps its third year with a two day set of rites. Baccalaureate services begin today at 3 PM in the college auditorium with Rabbi F K Hirsch delivering the sermon and a program featuring Victor Herbert and Thome pieces. Commencement follows Monday at 10 AM with diplomas for about 75 graduates.
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Ouachita Parish
Monroe
F. K. Hirsch
Victor Herbert
Nicaea
Roger C. Frisbie
Thome
Illness Fatal Ends California Governor James Rolph
California's Governor James Rolph Jr. died at 64 in Santa Clara Valley at his ranch home after months of illness. Lieut. Governor Frank Merriam, a Republican from Long Beach, assumed duties as governor.
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San Jose
Calif
California
James Rolph, Jr
Santa Clara Valley
Walter Sanforth
Ralph
J. M. Scanland
State Hospital
Agenew
Sunny Jim” Rolph
James Rolph
Rolph
Will
Ronald
Tom
Frank F. Merriam
Long Beach
Merriam
Iowa
Hopkinton
Beasley Undergoes Appendicitis Surgery in Orange Texas
Beasley, general superintendent of the Brown Paper mill, underwent an appendectomy in Orange Texas yesterday morning at 11 o'clock. He was visiting with his wife at the home of Mrs Beasley's mother and is confined in Lutcher hospital.
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Bun Beasley
Brown
Orange
Tex
Mr. Beasley
Citizens Call for Mass Meeting Over State Police Bill
In Orleans and Iberville Parish, labor leaders and civic figures urge Louisianans to gather at the capital in a peaceful assembly to protest a May 31, 1934 measure to create a statewide police force. They frame the bill as an attack on home rule and civil liberties, citing 1874 police abuses and urging wide participation at the municipal auditorium on June.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Senator Long
Allen
Metropolitan Police
Child Imprisoned in Chicken Coop in California
Seven year old Mary Ebarquarry was found emaciated and confined in a chicken pen by her mother in San Juan Capistrano. Investigators from the Orange County district attorney’s office said the child was rescued after a neighbor reported the situation. The case prompts an inquiry into alleged abuse and neglect. The girl was hospitalized in Santa Ana for care and observation.
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San Juan Capistrano
Calif
Mary Ebarquarry
Santa Ana Hospital
Robert Sandon
Orange County District Attorney's Office
Barney Ebarquarry
Sandon
Thomas Ramos
Ebarquarry
Tax Feast Looms as Louisiana Legislature Sets New Levy Menu
Special dispatch reports Baton Rouge lawmakers near finalizing a broad tax package. The plan includes an income tax, pipeline levy on natural gas, higher severance taxes, oil license taxes, whiskey and alcohol gallonage taxes, and a 2 percent gross receipts tax on public utilities. The measure aims to replace property taxes with a sales levy and must be ready by Sunday night.
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Louisiana Tax Reform Commission
Rogers Has His Say About Cowlick Humanity
Beverly Hills June 2 A Special item notes a Smithsonian professor’s finding that a cowlick proves humanity not ape ancestry. The columnist mocks credentials and urges readers to view the cowlick as a sign of human biology.
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Beverly Hills
Cal
Smithsonian Institute
Harvey Fields Denounces Budget Supervision Plan
Harvey G. Fields, chairman of the Louisiana Public Service Commission, condemned a proposed state board budget supervision measure. He argued it endangers local self government and would harm communities by centralizing control over municipal budgets and local finances.
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Harvey G. Fields
Farmerville
Louisiana Public Service Commission
Monroe
Man Charged With Threats Against President Roosevelt
A. L. Savage of Fish Kill New York is indicted by a federal grand jury in Miami for uttering threats against President Roosevelt. Savage, who winters in Largo Florida, allegedly spoke the threats in Ridnour’s presence and has been living with Ridnour for three years. He is about 50 and works in mortgage and loan business.
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Miami
Fla
Federal Grand Jury
Palmer Rosemond
A. L. Savage
Fish Kill
N. Y
Roosevelt
Savage
Largo
Florida
W. M. Ridnour
Ridnour
New Yorker
United States
John W. Holland
Princess Mdivani Suffered Stomach Ailment Recap
London June 2 A stomach ache was cited by the Hutton entourage as the reason for the stir over Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani. The princess ear1ier contracted a stomach complaint in China during her round the world wedding trip and was moved to a medical clinic. She and Prince Alexis stayed in a Rochester hotel near her parents and would travel back to the United States only if doctors approve.
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London
Hutton
Barbara Hutton Mdivani
Franklin L. Hutton
China
Prince Alexis
Rochester
United States
Solons Accused Of Hatch ing Scheme To Levy Outrageous Taxes
In Baton Rouge Governor Allen withdraws the constabulary bill amid widespread protest against a state police force plan. Meanwhile at Plaquemine a mass meeting condemns tax bills as a scheme to raise new levies and criticizes the Hammon bill. Local leaders denounce efforts to expand state taxation and question ad ministration policies.
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Solons
Hammon State Constabulary
Louisiana
Poison Gum Scheme Probed In Sacramento
Police investigate a plot to poison an entire family using gum. Gum sticks found at Mrs. Georgia McKenzie’s home bore a typewritten sample note. Similar packages were found at three other nearby houses, with at least one man chewing a stick without ill effects.
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Sacramento
Calif
Georgia McKenzie
L. C. Craven
Little Girl Quintuplet Not Progressing Well In Corbeil
In Corbeil Ontario on June 2 one of the Dionne quintuplets weighing about one pound twelve ounces is not progressing as well as her four sisters. Dr A R Dafoe said the infant has turned blue from lack of vitality and has been given rum to revive her. All five babies remain in danger of death each minute as doctors insist medicine can do only so much to keep them alive.
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Corbeil
Ont
A. R. DaFoe
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