Huey Long and Walmsley Lead Baton Rouge Protests
Huey Long and Mayor Walmsley spoke at a mass demonstration under guarded city hall as officials faced a civil court fight over police power and a new city police board. The protest urged relief for destitute workers cut off from federal aid while state and city leaders clashed over authority and funding.
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Orleans
Huey P. Long
Jor T. Semmes
Walmsley
City Hall
G’s
Gwiis City Hall
O. K. Allen
New Orleans
Worleans
T. Semmes Walmsley
Walmsleyan
Walmsely
Discourt
Ivor Walmsley
Nator Long
Allen appears in office but Huey Long absent in Orleans
In Baton Rouge O K Allen arrived at executive offices but said he does not know where Senator Huey Long is or details about the Orleans situation. The governor announced the update on Saturday with continuation noted for the third page.
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Len
Aton Rouge
O. K. Allen
Huey Long
Orleans
Plot to Blow Up Hospital Tied to Tri-State Gang
Washington dispatch reports a thwarted plot to dynamite Upper Darby Hospital aimed at killing a female patient, Elizabeth Fontaine. Police said a gang member provided names of conspirators, with Arthur Misanas and John Kendrick held for later trial alongside others in a related bank robbery case.
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Washington
Upper Darby
Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Fontaine
Frank S. W. Burke
Fontaine
Arthur Misanas
John Kendrick
Misanas
Richmond
Virginia
Robert Mains
William Davis
Watermelons With Sun Moon and Stars Markings Grow On Hancock Farm
In Lincoln parish near Vienna John Hancock raises watermelons with rinds bearing sun moon and star shapes. He began after getting seeds from a German four years ago and keeps seeds to perpetuate the odd markings. Also shared are light anecdotes about coincidences among families and a reader’s letter advocating motor car driving education. A Monroe man recalls a court moment where a witness requested to change testimony after blurting her bust measurement.
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John Hancock
Vienna
Lincoln Parish
Hancock
Monroe
Jackson
Refinery Blast Injures Eight at Shell Houston Plant
Eight men were seriously burned or injured in an explosion at the Shell Refinery on the Houston ship channel. Workers around a cracking unit were affected as flames spread from a trench to the B furnace during shutdown. Ambulances rushed victims to a Houston hospital.
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Houston
Shell
Robert Graham
F. C. Waggoner
Louis Cloutier
W. Domaschk
John Manning
W. J
Pat’ Rhynes
L. E. Jordan
Alec Vincent
Jordan
Hitler Pays Tribute to Hindenburg as Protector of Germany
Berlin, Aug 6. Adolf Hitler spoke from the rostrum honoring Paul von Hindenburg, calling him not dead but an eternal patron of the Reich and nation. He asserted Hindenburg was innocent of starting World War I, while noting Germany’s belief in its sacred duty and the need for unity beyond the moment.
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Berlin
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Paul von Hindenburg
Reichstag
von Hindenburg
Senate group urges purge of investment banking abuses
A Senate committee called for a house cleaning to purge Wall Street investment banking of abuses. It cited shocking methods that sold public securities worth billions and left many near worthless since 1929. The report names J P Morgan and Company Kuhn Loeb National City Dillon Read and others.
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Washington
Senate
Wall Street
Banking Committee
J. P. Morgan and Company
Kuhn, Loeb and Company
The
National City Company
Dillon, Read and Company
Stiff Breezes Push Temperatures Down Across East
A stiff breeze drops temperatures across eastern states. Portland Maine records 48.8 at 4 am, Boston 52 at 6 am, Mount Washington 27 above with 72 mph gale, New York City 12 above normal. Weather forecast calls for fair and warmer tomorrow.
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Associated Press
Mercury
Portland
Boston
Mount Washington
New England
New York City
Weather Bureau
Roosevelt outlines war on selfishness during western tour
President Roosevelt travels from Glacier National Park to Glasgow Montana to inspect Fort Peck dam as part of a broad plan to develop the Columbia and Missouri rivers. He urges public support in an election year for national needs, stressing power, navigation, flood control, forestry, and diversified farming.
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Two Medicine Lake
Glacier National Park
Roosevelt
Glasgow
Mont
Fort Peck
Missouri
Columbia
Northwest
Cotton control continuance likely decision
The farm administration nears a decision to keep compulsory cotton production control in operation for the remainder of the crop year. Officials note potential extension through 1934 as a test of compulsion while debate centers on market effects and tax exemptions for excess production.
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Washington
Farm Administration
Drouth costs Texas millions as crops suffer across state
Texas farmers report drought losses in the millions as heat and dryness cripple cotton and wheat. Panhandle pastures fail, counties on drought lists rise, and an emergency bond plan is urged after Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson requests a special August legislature session to authorize new state bonds to ease unemployment amid the crisis.
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Dallas
Texas
Panhandle
Amarillo
Miriam A. Ferguson
Dwight P. Reardan
Federal Intermediate Credit Bank At
Houston
Four Agricultural Commodities Show Gains in Chicago Market
Chicago market prices for wheat corn hogs and cotton rise sharply, up about 21 percent from last year and 83 percent from two years ago as government programs lift farm incomes. Wheat leads with roughly 93 percent higher than two years ago. corn gains exceed 125 percent year over year, with peppers of season peak noted and loan-backed prices cited.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
Nine Dead in Derby No. 3 Mine Blast in Virginia
A mine explosion at Derby No. 3 in Stonega Coke and Coal Co left nine dead by noon. Two men were rescued, many others unaccounted, as rescue teams led by J. D. Rogers and A. H. Reeder worked with the U.S. Bureau of Mines.
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Big Stone Gap
Derby No. 3
Stonega Coke and Coal Company
Stonega Hospital
Ralph Burchill
Charlie Milan
Ben Jinkins
Alex Payne
Clyde Doyle
Lafayette Blondell
Clarence Reed
Charlie Reece
Lawrence Fleener
Walter Bayless
J. D. Rogers
A. H. Reeder
C. A. Line
Joe Davies
U.S. Bureau of Mines
Registration Deadline For Democratic Primary
Voters who have not registered this year must register by August 11 to vote in the September 11 Democratic primary. This general registration year requires re registration to cast a ballot. Saturday August 11 is the final date to add names to the registration books before the congressional primary.
Lancaster Barber Returns to Work After Stab Wound
George Hampton of Lancaster Pennsylvania, a barber, returned to his chair after leaving a hospital where he recovered from a stab wound. His son Jack Hampton sat in the chair during the session in this Associated Press photo.
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George Hampton
Lancaster
Barber
Hampton
Jack
Associated Press
Four drown when car plunges off Bayou bank near Estherwood
Crowley Louisiana August 6 four residents were killed when their car fled from the Estherwood ferry and sank in 15 feet of water in Bayou Plaquemine. George Istre 22 and cousin Lucille Davy 18 were recovered. Mrs Istre and 18 month old Wilma remain missing. Sheriff Larcande said the car stalled on a grade and rolled backward into the bayou. Bystanders reported Istre warned his wife and child as the car disappeared.
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Crowley
GST
Bayou Plaquemine
Estherwood Ferry
George Istre
Lucille Davy
Wilma
Istre
Miss Davy
Walter V. Larcnde
Riots in Constantine Leave 25 Dead and Hundreds Hurt
In Algiers on August 6, reports say twenty five people were killed and hundreds injured in two days of sectarian rioting in Constantine. Moslems and Jews clashed across the city until troops arrived from Algiers. The unrest began after a Jewish French soldier desecrated a mosque.
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Algiers
Algeria
Constantine
Mussulmans
Ousted Fascist Official Sentenced to Five Years
Leandro Arpinati, former under secretary of the interior, was sentenced to five years confinement on Italy's Prison Islands for alleged efforts to sow discord within the Fascists. He has been in custody since July 26 after charges surfaced and two days earlier was expelled from the Fascist party.
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Rome
Leandro Arpinati
Interior
Italy
Alabama strike organizer freed after kidnapping
Five thousand textile workers in five Huntsville mill villages cooled after the abduction of John Dean, organizer of the Alabama textile strike. Dean was seized at pistol point in Fayetteville, Tenn., two men returned him Sunday, and authorities stepped up police guards as workers dispersed. A separate scene at Haleyville saw union and non union workers confront each other before a thunderstorm drove them away.
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Huntsville
Ala
John Dean
North
Alabama
Dean
Fayetteville
Tenn
Ben Giles
Madison County
H. F. Blakemore
Merrimac
James Conner
American Legion
Conner
Giles
Haleyville
Stockyards Strike Ends As Workers Return To Chicago
CHICAGO Aug. 6 UP reports handlers and commission merchants employees end a 12 day strike and return to work to meet a heavy livestock rush. Settlement arranged Saturday by Hugh S. John ends the disruption.
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Chicago
Hugh S. John
U S Flag Flown Over Haitian Marine Post Is Lowered
In Port au Prince Haiti on August 6 the U S flag over the Cape Haitian marine corps barracks is lowered amid a ceremony as Haitian officials raise their flag signaling the withdrawal of American forces from the post. Marines under Lt Col McClellan help oversee the transfer with final withdrawal planned August 15.
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Port-Au-Prince
Haiti
United States
Marine Corps
Cape Haitien
Col. McClellan
Port-Au
Prince
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