Senate OKs 1 percent sales tax bill in Louisiana
The Louisiana Senate voted 34 to 2 to return the administration general sales tax bill to its house form. Amendments by Senator Coleman Lindsey were replaced, with Lindsey asserting he acted on his own and that laws reflect majority wishes. The bill becomes mandatory for merchants to pass the tax to consumers with penalties.
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Baton Rouge
State Senate
House
Coleman Lindsey
Senate
Lindsey
Britain Makes Peace Bid in Spain War
London reports Neville Chamberlain ordered renewed diplomatic push to end Spain's civil conflict and ease tensions in Czechoslovakia and Germany. Plan one seeks Spanish roundtable talks with insurgents. plan two pursues settlement with the Sudeten Germans under Hitler.
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London
Neville Chamberlain
Britain
Spain
Czechoslovakia
Germany
France
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Adolf Hitler
Bids Opened for Iberia Calcasieu Highway Projects
Louisiana highway commission announced bids received for two Iberia and Calcasieu parish road projects. Lydia Weeks Island route adds 8.177 miles of grading and drainage structures by McWilliams Dredging Co. at 997.949 dollars. Calcasieu project covers 4.229 miles of grading and surfacing by Robinson and Young at 29,175 dollars with June 29 bids set for Nane Parish routes C-1542 and C-1543 and a roadside section between Cheniere and other points.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana Highway Commission
Iberia Calcasieu Parishes
Gevem
Therish Parish
Lydia- Weeks Island
McWilliams Dredging Company
New Orleans
Acasieu Parish
Robinson and Young
Nane Parish
Parish
Cheniere
Store Serving Presidents 82 Years Closes
Washington reports the N. W. Burchwell company, in business 82 years, closed as Mrs. Norval Landon Burchell decided to convert the building. A padlock went on the door and inquiries poured in about White House groceries, with residents joking about potential dietary changes at the executive mansion.
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Washington
Abraham Lincoln
N. W. Burchwell Company
Norval Landon Burchell
White House
Increased Use of Farm Goods to Be Sought
President Roosevelt and advisers plan to use hundreds of millions in relief funds to raise domestic consumption of surplus farm products. The twofold aim is to bolster farm prices via the crop control law and to feed undernourished, low income families, expanding the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation's purchases and distributing through relief agencies.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Agriculture Department
White House
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
First Offense Is No Defense in Monroe Court
Judge W. M. Harper states that first offenders on traffic violations cannot be excused under city law. He warns that giving leniency would encourage repeat offenses and unsafe driving until a subsequent ticket highlights penalties for all drivers. He emphasizes that penalties await even first-time violators to deter risky behavior.
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Monroe
W. M. Harper
Impeachment Demanded for Quezon in Manila
On June 2 Carciso Lapus Filipino Socialist leader demanded the arrest and impeachment of Commonwealth President Manuel Quezon. He denounced Quezon after his remark that he would order killings to maintain order following 500 armed men who forced a hacienda manager to re hire dismissed tenant farmers.
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Manila
Carciso Lapus
Commonwealth
Manuel Quezon
Lapus
Quezon
Japanese Restitution Talks Follow Air Shelling Near Lunghai
Japan agreed to return American missionaries to Nanking and issued passes, while in central China war planes pressed the Lunghai railway corridor. Japanese forces claimed progress near Lanfeng and Kihsien as Chinese units fought to defend positions 20 to 75 miles south and west of Lunghai rail towns.
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Washington
Japan
China
State Department
Shanghai
Southern Baptist Mission
Chapei
Nanking
Army of Nippon
Lunghai
Kihsien
Lanfeng
Chengchow
Hankow
Luyi
Pohsien
Kenji Deihara
Kweiteh
Henan
South
Canton Railway
Mill to start newsprint plant July 15 at Lufkin
Edgewater Park Mississippi June 2 Ground breaking set for July 15 for a four unit newsprint mill at Lufkin Texas under plans announced by James G. Stahlman publisher of the Nashville Banner and chair of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association committee on newsprint manufacture The $7 500 000 project was announced at the association convention with stock purchased by publisher members and anticipated financing approval following technical checks Stahlman predicted southern mills and a billion dollar annual turnover as the industry forerunner
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Edgewater Park
Miss
Lufkin
Tex
James G. Stahlman
Nashville Banner
Southern Newspaper Publishers Association
Stahlman
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Cranston Williams
13 Oil Concerns And Executives Fined $385,000
Philadelphia report on Morris Nash a janitor who won a $50,000 sweep stakes joke and learned the telegram was fake. Kansas City service station owner Andy Collins freed a sparrow nest from a grease rack. Memphis clerk Albert H. Johnson says he has issued 20 licenses this year.
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Philadelphia
Morris Nash
Telegraph
Nash
Kansas City
Andy Collins
Collins
Memphis
Albert H. Johnson
Johnson
Sentences Imposed For Il legally Fixing Margin Of Profit
Federal Judge Patrick T. Stone in Madison assesses fines totaling $960,000 and $25,000 costs against 12 major oil companies and an official for illegally fixing the margin of profit for wholesale gasoline. Defendants pleading nolo contendere accept penalties without trial. Eight other companies and several officials refuse nolo contendere and face trial September 23. Each accepting plea faces a $15,000 fine.
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Madison
Wis
Patrick T. Stone
Midwest
Stone
Mrs W S Hodges Funeral Friday
Mrs Hodges aged 73 died after a six week illness in a local hospital. Funeral at 3 p.m. Friday at 2762 South Grand Street with Rev Ernest Holloway officiating. Interment Riverview Burial Park. Active pallbearers include W E Zinameister Fred Hightower W L Rothermel E F Jones R M Gorman H H Brinsmade. Honorary pallbearers are her friends. Native of La Plata Missouri she spent much of married life near there as her husband farmed before selling in 1918.
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W. S. Hodges
South Grand Street
Ernest Duncan Holloway
First Presbyterian Church
Riverview Burial Park
W. E. Zinameister
Fred Hightower
W. L. Rothermel
E. F. Jones
R. M
Louisiana Products Month extended through June
Governor Richard W. Leche announced that Louisiana Products month would continue through June following a successful start in May. The program began in spring to counter summer recession by designating each month as a focus for promoting the state's products.
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Baton Rouge
Richard W. Leche
May
Dewey Indicts Six In $16 Million Investment Trust Loot
District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey announced six indictments in a case he described as the biggest financial steal in years. The scheme involved seven investment trusts valued at about 16 million dollars with a $5 inception token. Indicted leaders allegedly looted roughly 10 million of assets via wasteful shifting of securities.
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New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Fiscal Management Company, Ltd
Continental Securities Corporation
Mother Appeals for Tot's Return
Bradford Pa June 2 14 To day the fifth birthday of Marjory West who disappeared 25 days ago on a Mother's day picnic prompted a desperate plea from her mother Mrs Shirley M West She asked the kidnapper to return the child safely or drop her on a Bradford street with a note revealing her name and address Police will pursue all clues until Marjory is found despite a large search led by state motor police and volunteers Friends say there are no tangible clues linking to a kidnapping and the parents vow to keep seeking the child.
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Bradford
Marjory West
Uinstersly
Marjory
Shirley M. West
F B I Chief in Florida Directs Search for Abductor
J Edgar Hoover, head of the F B I, took charge of the James Bailey Cash Jr kidnapping case in Princeton Florida as a vast posse combs the rain soaked area. Agents questioned suspects while hundreds of veterans and legionnaires join the hunt extending north through palmetto thickets and farm lands for the missing five year old. The ransom was paid but no trace of the boy or proof of life has emerged.
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Princeton
Fla
James Bailey Cash, Jr
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
James Bailey Cash
Miami
Washington
Hoover
Palmetto
Sam Bennett
Fort Pierce
American Legion
IT. B. L
Rose Long Weds Dr Osmyn McFarland in Baton Rouge Ceremony
Rose Lolita Long daughter of Huey P Long and her surgeon husband Dr Osmyn William McFarland wed at First Presbyterian Church in Baton Rouge in a ceremony attended by Governor Richard W Leche and state leaders. The couple, 21 and a physician formerly from Hebron Nebraska, planned a New York to Europe honeymoon after a reception at the governor's mansion.
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Baton Rouge
Pi— Rose Lolita Long
Huey P Long
Osmyn
William McFarland
New York
Mel Farland
Hebron
Neb
First Presbyterian Church
Richard W. Leche
Louisiana
Politcal Organization
Roosevelt Awards Naval Diplomas at Annapolis
President Roosevelt traveled to Annapolis Maryland to award diplomas to 499 Naval Academy graduates and offer seasense advice. It marked his second graduation visit as president and he teased that he would say little of national or international import, calling the ceremony the day’s important news. The party included aides and Rear Admiral Wilson Brown.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Annapolis
Naval Academy
Wilson Brown
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