PWA Officials Highlight 600 Million Supply Orders
Washington officials outlined 322 million dollars in PWA orders for heavy industry and 150 million federal works in the pipeline as part of the lending spending program. The release lists material types and values including iron and steel, machinery, lumber, brick, heating and plumbing materials for the first 2,000 1938 projects, with Ickes and Gray declining official comment on price implications.
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Washington
PWA
Ickes
High Command
Howard A. Gray
Cattle Thief Ring Snares Four West Monroe Men
Sheriff Milton Coverdale said northeast Louisiana parishes are jointly pursuing one of the region’s largest cattle rustling rings. Four West Monroe men O C Avant 28 ring leader Carl Bonnett 34 W L Whittington 21 and Carlton Rooster Bledsoe 22 are jailed Ouachita Parish or Catahoula Parish Harrisonburg. Bonnett Whittington and Bledsoe face cattle larceny charges in Ouachita Parish with bonds not yet set.
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Louisiana
Milton Coverdale
Coverdale
West Monroe
O. C. Avant
Carl Bonnett
W. L. Whittington
Carlton “Rooster
Bledsoe
Bonnett
Whittington
Ouachita Parish
Avant
Catahoula Parish
Harrisonburg
Millions In Shanghai Take Cholera Serum Inoculations
Cholera causes a wide epidemic across the Shanghai international settlement and French concession where authorities report more than 4 million inoculations over two months. The coast of China sees rising deaths, including 200 at Swatow, as serum campaigns set a world-record vaccination pace.
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Shanghai
China Coast
Swatow
South China Treaty Port
McCormick heir missing on Sandia climb near Albuquerque
Medill McCormick, 21, heir to the McCormick publishing fortune, remains missing after four days on a climbing expedition atop Sandia Peak. Richard Whitmer, his companion, was found dead as searchers comb inaccessible ledges. Governor Tingley and Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms direct the extensive hunt with 200 searchers, while climbers from Colorado assist.
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Sandia Mountains
Albuquerque
N. M
Medill McCormick
Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms
Chicago
CCC
Richard Whitmer
McCormick
Mile
Sandia Peak
McCormick Publishing
Colorado
Olympian CCC collision near Ingomar kills one
A head on crash a mile west of Ingomar Mont killed a CCC enrollee and injured 13 others as the Olympian freight collided with a CCC train. Robert Eckert of Portageville New York died. Edward Kohlbrechner of Buffalo was seriously hurt. The CCC train was en route to Camp Dix New Jersey from Fort Wright Washington.
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Ingomar
Mont
Olympian
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
CCC
Here
Robert Eckert
Portageville
N. Y
Edward Kollbrenner
Buffalo
Kohlbrenner
Camp Dix
N. J
Fort Wright
Spokane
Meridian Boy Drowns in Pool Incident at Meridian
Theodore Roberson, 10, son of Mr and Mrs W B Roberson, died after a pool accident in Meridian Mississippi. About fifty other persons were in the pool at the time and a respirator crew could not resuscitate him.
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Meridian
Miss
Theodore Roberson
W. B. Roberson
States report budget balanced for 1937 38 in most
New York June 25 The United States balances the budget from the bottom up. A survey of 48 state capitals shows most states will end the 1937 38 fiscal year with better finances than a year earlier. Only about six face deficits. Michigan and Oklahoma grow red. Many will pare down debt from the 1929 1933 downturn and some may be debt free.
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New York
United States
Michigan
Oklahoma
Washington
Frank Knox
Roosevelt
Republican National Committee
Chicago
Knox
Department of Commerce
Spectators see dressing of ship in New Orleans
Seventy five sailors from the Argentine naval training frigate Presidente Sarmiento, barefoot in white uniforms, staged a vivid rigging exhibit for a large crowd in New Orleans. The 40 year old ship, on its last cruise, will be replaced by the cruiser La Argentina undergoing tests. Built in 1898 in England, the Sarmiento is on its 39th goodwill cruise.
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New Orleans
Presidente Sarmiento
Luis S. Malerba
United States
Rodolfo A. Calderon
la Argentina
England
Argentina
New Deal and Steel Split Over Wages Spark Market Rise
The stock market closed higher for a sixth straight session as wage policy splits between the New Deal and business leaders surface. United States Steel says none of its officials promised wages would stay intact after price cuts, while Roosevelt urged a united front against wage slashing.
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Claude A. Jagger
Associated Press
New York
Wall Street
New Deal
United States Steel Corporation
Roosevelt
United
United States Steel
White House
Wall Street Financial News
Corporation
Bloody battles widen struggle on Yangtze river frontier
On June 26 in Shanghai the Chinese and Japanese forces fought for control of the Yangtze valley about 200 miles from Hankow. Reports describe fierce clashes on the south bank near Shiangkowchang and near the sunken-boat barrier at Matowchen, as Japanese gunboats advance toward Hankow with infantry aid from Anhwei.
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Shanghai
Yangtze River
Hankew
Shiangkowchang
Matowchen
Hankow
Anhwei Province
Picket Shooting In New Orleans Sparks Raids On CIO HQ
In New Orleans on June 3 a pistol shot wounded CIO picket George Hymes as police raided CIO headquarters for the second time in two days. Officer John Grosch vowed to remove CIO and AFL clash participants while 26 were seized in secret custody and many held on vagrancy charges.
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New Orleans
A. F
John J. Grosch
George Hymes
Committee For Industrial Organization
David Morris
American Federation of Labor
Manny Moore
L. Labor
Target of Bullets Takes Photograph
Knoxville dated report says Ed McNew 64 head of a bonding house was charged with firing toward Howard Jones of the Knoxville Journal as a photographer aimed his camera outside city court McNew had just left his office to face traffic accident charges and told the cameraman I am no criminal Police Captain Howard Luster witnessed the shooting and officers disarmed McNew while bullets whistled nearby
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Knoxville
Tenn
Ed McNew
Howard Jones
The
Knoxville Journal
McNew
Jones
Howard Luster
Luster
Joe Washburn Starts The Shut Your Mouth Club
Joe Washburn vice-president and trust officer of Central Savings Bank writes an advertisement introducing the Shut Your Mouth club. The piece humorously narrates a chain letter style invitation sent in Atlanta and notes newspapers sending reporters to interview the originator.
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Joe Washburn
Central Savings Bank and Trust Company
Joe
Atlanta
Salaries Hiked for Legislators and Revenue Officials
Louisiana's 1938 legislature, though nominally opposed, approves raises for public officials. Proposals would boost the revenue collector's expense fund by 425000 annually, raise 50 tax collectors to 32050 yearly, and lift salaries for other state officials to 63350 yearly. The body's expense fund jumps from 175000 to 215000 to fund more clerical help, with the sales tax bill adding 400000 yearly for revenue collection.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Revenue Department
Norman Thomas speaks in Newark attack on Mayor Hague
Norman Thomas the nation’s top socialist spoke an hour at a peaceful rally in a park dedicated to George Washington in Newark New Jersey. He attacked Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City and the crowd turned the session into an open air forum with questions. More than a hundred officers were on duty and emergency equipment was nearby.
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Newark
WN. J
Norman Thomas
George Washington
Thomas
Frank Hague
Jersey City
Boy Drowns In Ouachita River
Pete Tornatore, 13, son of Mr and Mrs Carmelo Tornatore of 315 South Second street, drowned in the Ouachita River while fishing off South Grand street. Witness J W Barnett, 12, in a nearby boat, said Pete slipped from a log into six feet of water and disappeared. A white man tried to dive for the body but could not locate it. Firemen and American Legion emergency truck staff recovered the body after about an hour. Captain Blanks could not revive him. Survived by parents and brother Anthony, 11. Funeral scheduled for this afternoon.
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Pete Tornatore
Carmelo Tornatore
South Second Street
Ouachita River
South Grand Street
J. W. Barnett
South Third Street
Young Barnett
Pete
Central Fire Station
American Legion
J. W. Faler
Tom Dupree
J. W. Blanks
M. M. Smith
Joe Pizarro
Charlie Zagone
Monroe
Young Tornatore
Anthony Tornatore
Cotton shippers warn railroads over higher rates
Memphis Tennessee June 25 The warning from mid south cotton shippers warns rail freight hikes may push shippers to river transport. Memphis Cotton Exchange assistant secretary Vannah Alexander says the river would again be used to New Orleans coastwise to New England and Canada if marketing is endangered. Railroads Missouri Pacific Frisco and Cotton Belt seek raising mileage load charges from 3.25 to 8 cents on cotton originating more than 50 miles from Memphis and from certain Arkansas points north of St. Louis.
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Memphis
Tenn
Vannah Alexander
Memphis Cotton Exchange
New Orleans
New England
Canada
Missouri Pacific
Frisco
Cotton Belt
Arkansas
St. Louis
West Memphis
Little Rock
Pine Bluff
Earle
War scare grips Europe after threats of reprisals
European tension surged as Spain warned of bombing Italian towns in the Balearics and Italy threatened to erase Spanish government cities if reprisals occurred. Mussolini warned France that Italian forces would respond to Spanish attacks, while Barcelona claimed Italian and German air forces had aided civilian bombings behind lines.
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Paris
Europe
Italy
Rome
Barcelona
Balearic Islands
Spain
Benito Mussolini
France
Il Duce
London
Fsrs
Mussolini
Foreign Office
Renato Prunas
Costs of living vary greatly between Mobile and Detroit
A WPA study across 31 cities shows a manual laborer family of four spends $317 less in Mobile than in Detroit for a year based on March 15 prices. With three dependents, yearly living costs run $1,144.31 in Mobile versus $1,461.40 in Detroit, highlighting regional wage considerations under new wage and hour rules.
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Washington
Mobile
Detroit
WPA
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Accused Slayer Gains More Time in Maine Case
South Paris, Me June. Francis M Carroll 43 a World War II veteran is granted time to prepare defense against a grand jury indictment accusing him of murdering Dr James G Littlefield 67. Attorney Clyde H Chapman former attorney general seeking until July 25 to file the case while bail remains set at 20000 on morals charges involving his daughter Barbara 18.
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South Paris
Francis M. Carroll
Stoical
Paul N. Dwyer
Clyde H. Chapman
Carroll
James G. Littlefield
Barbara
Dwyer
Ades
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Harry L. Hopkins
SCION
Hunt
Wcormick
S and Steel
China
Husband
Lance
Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow
Woolworth
Orleans
Grosch
S. Y. M. Clubman
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