Government Intervenes as Steel Union Drive Grows
Washington reports warn that industrial warfare endangers the nation as the National Labor Relations Board moves to enforce the Wagner act against Jones and Laughlin Steel in New Orleans. John L Lewis leads 590000 steel workers toward a single national union amid employer opposition. The case tests the act’s legality while signaling broader labor peace efforts.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
National Labor Relations Board
Federal Circuit Court of Appeals
New Orleans
Big Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
Col Sullivan Rites Set In New Orleans
Funeral services are planned in New Orleans for Col John P Sullivan 61 a Louisiana political figure tied to Huey Long era He died in a Touro infirmary from sunstroke suffered while fishing on June 27 Sullivan aided Longs 1928 gubernatorial bid later opposed him and held federal patronage ties He helped develop the fairgrounds race track and served as assistant city attorney after earning a law degree at Tulane University.
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New Orleans
John P. Sullivan
Louisiana
Huey Long
Sullivan
Touro
Long
Roosevelt
Andrew J. McShane
McShane
Fairgrounds
E. R. Bradley
Kentucky
Tulane Unversity
Stranded Sima Receives Aid From Russian Vessel
The Sima with 900 aboard was aided by the Russian ship Orochon after grounding off Onnekotan Island in the Kurile group north of Japan. The Soviet embassy said rescue boats were granted entry by Japan, highlighting strategic northern areas.
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Tokyo
Sima
Onnekotan Isand
Kirile Group
Japan
Onnekotan
North Kurile Islands
Japanese Rebels Executed and Others Jailed in 1932 Coup
A special court martial sentenced 17 leaders of the February 26 rebellion to death and five others to life imprisonment. The coup attempted to assassinate top statesmen including Premier Admiral Keisuke Okada. three elderly officials were killed in their Tokyo homes.
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Tokyo
Keisuke Okada
Azabu
Japan
Count Makoto Saito
Jotaro Watanabe
Korekiyo Takahashi
Okada
Alabama Paralysis Outbreak Fought
Dr. J N Baker, state health officer, sent three physicians to north Alabama to control an infantile paralysis outbreak. Fourty two children across eight counties are affected. no deaths reported. Citizens are urged to limit intermingling of children and avoid mixing from noninfested areas with those in affected counties.
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Montgomery
Ala
J. N. Baker
Health Department
North
Alabama
Canada
Baker
Morgan
Colbert
Lawrence
Franklin
Lauderdale
Madison
Winston
Limestone
Fatalities in Louisiana during holiday weekend toll tops twelve
Associated Press reports at least twelve people killed and many injured across Louisiana and Mississippi in holiday weekend accidents. Four died in auto crashes, four drowned, three fatally hurt by trains, and one died after a fall. In Donaldsonville a 35 year old man and his 14 year old nephew drowned when the boy fell from a log and the uncle tried to rescue him.
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Associated Press
Louisiana
Mississippi
Wilbur Curso
Joseph Clay Qurso
Donaldsonville
R. B. Wimberly
Ringgold
Coushatta
Freed Surrenders in Slaying Case at Hudson Avenue Station
Edward Freed part owner of the Nut House on Chicago's north side turned himself in with attorney Abraham Marovitz at 9 45 am EST to be questioned about the death of Audrey Vallette, 31, a platinum blonde. Freed will be held as a witness by Police Captain Andrew Barry. Ruth Freed, his wife, is sought as a possible connection to the case.
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Chicago
Edward Freed
North Side
Audrey Vallette
Freed
Hudson Avenue
Abraham Marovitz
Ruth
League to Suspend Sanctions Against Italy Set for July 15
In Geneva the League of Nations coordinating committee adopted a resolution announcing July 15 as the date to suspend economic and financial sanctions against Italy. The vote on the motion was unanimous.
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Geneva
League of Nations Coordinating Committee
Italy
Four Injured When Train Sections Collide Near Cleveland
Four people suffered minor injuries when the second section of the Big Four Missourian rear ended the first near North Eaton, southwest of Cleveland. The injured were taken to a hospital. four major league players and one umpire aboard the train were uninjured.
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Cleveland
Big Four Railroad
Missourian
North Eaton
Here
St. Louis
New York
FE. A. Smiley
Boston
Leon “Goose” Goslin
Lynwood
Rowe
Charlie Gehringer
Detroit Tigers
Rollie Hemsley
St Louis Browns
Bill Summers
Brick
Rioting Nationalists Injure About 100 in Paris
In Paris crowds of 15,000 rightists surrounded the Arch of Triumph as Col Francois de la Rocque placed a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier. Police clashed with rioters wounding nearly 100 during street battles after a memorial ceremony for the unknown soldier. The unrest targets the Blum government and may echo Basille Day tensions.
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Paris
Francois de la Rocque
Croix de Feu
Jeague
Social
de la Rocque
Popular Front
Leon Blum
Blum
le Populaire
Veteran Educator Henry Chenet Dies in Orleans
Funeral services today for Professor Henry S. Chenet 13 veteran educator and conductor of the Chenet Institute in New Orleans He died yesterday at Mount Airy La He earned BA and MA from LSU taught there before starting Morgan City academy later building a school in St John parish and opening the Chenet Institute in 1905 He is survived by his widow a daughter Miss Aline Marie Chenet two sons Dr Elmore Chenet and Horace S Chenet two sisters Mrs D L Johness and Mrs George Bourgeois and two brothers Armand FE and Andre S Chenet all of New Orleans.
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New Orleans
Henry S. Chenet
Chenet Institute
Mount Airy
St. John Parish
Louisiana State University
Morgan City Academy
Morgan City
Aline Marie Chenet
Elmore Chenet
Horace S. Chenet
D. L. Johness
George Bourgeois
Armand FE
Andre S. Chenet
Louisiana Legislature Near End Of Session
Baton Rouge July 6 The legislature nears sine die adjournment with little to vote on four days remain. A concurrent resolution urged by Governor Leche would oppose dismissing veterans who have received the soldiers bonus or removed from relief rolls for that reason. The governor urged proper preparation and introduction of the resolution when the session reconvenes.
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Baton Rouge
At & Pm
Richard W Leche
Balloon Race Won by Frank Trotter in 24th National Event
Frank A. Trotter, veteran balloon pilot, won the 24th annual national balloon race piloting the Goodyear entry from Akron. He landed at Presho, South Dakota about 385 miles from Denver after favorable winds, with Major William J. Flood confirming the victory despite others drifting.
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Denver
Colo
Frank A. Trotter
Trotter
Goodyear
Akron
Ohio
Race
Presho
S. D
William J. Flood
Edgewood
Others Hunted in Big Thefts
Federal agents pursuing an international bond theft syndicate, tied to two phantom snatches totaling about 2 046 000 dollars, hunted today for two remaining men to bring total in custody to 18. Agents had hoped weekend swoops would net the pair, but only recovered two 100000 dollar treasury notes from a bag checked at Grand Central Terminal.
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New York
Federal Bureau of Investigation
William Hamm, Jr
St. Paul
Treasury
Grand Central Terminal
Rhea Whitley
Federal Bureau
Crawford denies guilt in alienation suit case
Kathryn Crawford Edgar testifies under cross examination denying improper relations with Lewis Mallory HI in a 200000 dollar alienation of affections suit filed by her former husband James Edgar Jr. The witness returns after a recess marked by a mysterious extortion call and reports of being shadowed for days.
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Lewis E. Mallory
J. K. Bovard
Miami
Fla
James Edgar, Jr
Edgar
Michigan
Mallory
Pennsylvania
Kathryn Crawford Edgar
Associated Press
Cir
Salesman Killed in Lake Charles Shooting
Martin I. Hamm sales supervisor for United Gas died in a hospital from a bullet wound in what police call a personal safety related incident. Chief E. E. Baggett said the shooting occurred last night in Lake Charles Louisiana.
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Lake Charles
Martin I. Hamm
United Gas Company
E. E. Baggett
Last Minute Briefs From Atlanta Weather Update
Moderate temperatures prevailed with highs ranging up to 96 degrees across the south. Rain in the past 24 hours confined to the Carolinas Virginia and a strip from Dallas to New Orleans. Norton Virginia reports a cloudburst flooding streets washing surf facing from them.
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South
Carolinas
Virginia
Dallas
Abilene
Texas
Vicksburg
Miss
New Orleans
Norton
Two defendants seek trial delay in Tennessee conspiracy case
In Nashville counsel for W. H. Land of Memphis and G. G. Gean of Halls asked for a continuance in a conspiracy to defraud gasoline taxes case. They expect pleabargain when called again, reset for Sept. 21. In Washington the roads bureau reports Louisiana has 2,000,564 remaining from 16,673,358 allocated for highway work through 1936.
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Nashville
Tenn
W. H. Land
Memphis
G. G. Gean
Halls
Washington
Public Roads Bureau
Louisiana
Fondren Brothers Reconnect After Sixty Years
Willis Fondren 84 of Starkville and his brother W N Fondren 83 of Corpus Christi Texas exchange letters planning a visit after sixty years apart.
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Starkville
Miss
Willis Fondren
W N. Fondren
Corpus Christ
Texas
Cambridge Girl Dies After Swallowing Coin
Mary Sugrue, 11, of Cambridge, died at Massachusetts General Hospital after swallowing a quarter she was given to buy fireworks. The incident occurred in Boston on July 6.
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Boston
Mary Sugrue
Cambridge
Massachusetts General Hospital
British demand for unrestricted Black Sea warship passage
Great Britain pressed for unimpeded access for its warships to the Black Sea as the Dardanelles conference resumed. The proposal appeared in a 44‑document package of 24 articles distributed to all delegations at the meeting.
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Montreux
Switzerland
Great Britain
Black Sea
Louisiana To Share In New PWA Funds Amid Roosevelt Plan
Washington announces Louisiana may gain a substantial portion of new PWA money after the 300 000 100 allotment for public works and a state federal agreement. Ickes expects grants and loans totaling hundreds of millions to be available before summer’s end, with Louisiana already at 6.24 million in non federal PWA allotments and new projects approved totaling 11.73 million.
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Washington, D. C
Louisiana
Huey P. Long
PWA
Roosevelt
Interior Ickes
Ickes
Celebration Deaths Put At 441 Persons Over Holiday
The Associated Press reports 441 people died over the Independence Day weekend in the nation’s largest tally since 1981. Motor vehicle crashes caused 254 deaths, drownings 108, fireworks 7, with other fatal incidents across taverns, planes, and fires. Authorities reference prior years’ totals and note a massive pyrotechnics sales rise in 1936. A fire in Remsen, Iowa, sparked by a firecracker destroyed four blocks of business property, left fifteen families homeless.
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Associated Press
National Guardsmen
Remsen
Off icers Named by Foreign War Vets in Louisiana
In Baton Rouge the Veterans of Foreign Wars announced Edward Dinkelsplel of New Orleans as state commander succeeding J. C. Landry of Broussard. Dinkelsplel was elected at the encampment's closing session. Lake Charles was chosen as the 1937 convention site. Other officers include Ray V. Griffin Bastrap senior vice commander Fred C. Dent Baton Rouge junior vice commander J. W. Angers New Iberia quartermaster Raymond Parker Winnsboro judge-advocate Dr. Joseph C. Menendez New Orleans chaplain S Holliday Monroe and council members C N Finely Stidmann Ed win E. Connelly C W Wilson BE Miller A W Marlar Thomas Bingham and R Ransom, with locations listed for each.
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Baton Rouge
Edward Dinkelsplel
New Orleans
Veterans of Foreign Wars
J. C. Landry
Broussard
New Iberia
Raymond Parker
Winnsboro
Joseph C. Menendez
Thomas Bingham
Ae Dewey Haplin
St. Martinville
R. Ransom
Lake Charles
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Jones and Laughlin
Col. Sullivan
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Julius Stratman, Jr
Jefferson Parish
Blonde
Orleans
Audrey Valiette
Cere Beauty
Eddie
Frank Trotter
Miss Crawford
Atlanta
May
William F. X. Geoghan
Hiram C. Todd
Albany
Herbert H. Lehman
Drukman
Todd
Lehman
Geoghan
Lufkin
Charlie Newberry
J. B
Elmer
Willie Castle
0. T. Boatright
Jackson
Archie Speaks
Rankin County
Hinds County
Whiteville
N.C
Clarendon
George R. Hunt
Los Angels
Francis E. Townsend
Congress
Townsend Old Age
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