Proposed wage and hour limits for women and youth
Baton Rouge June 3 Bills on labor reform were set for Senate public hearing. Craнор sponsors measures to regulate hours and set minimum wages for women and children with one day of rest weekly, while exempting domestic servants and farm laborers. Minimums $19 weekly for ages 14-16 and $12 weekly for over 16, eight-hour day, with some job exemptions. Also back in the House are rail crew, street crossing safety, and freight/passenger train length limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Senate Committee On Capital and Labor
Roscoe C. Cranor
Shreveport
Japanese say north China cities taken
Japanese advices from Canton claim south China armies advancing northward captured north China cities along the Hunan frontier. No exact number or resistance details are given. Earlier reports said 240,000 Canton troops moved toward Fukien and Kiangsi as Nanking denied the hostilities. A Hong Kong source offered uncertain troop movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris J. Harris
Associated Press Foreign Staff
Shanghai
Canton
South China
North China
Hunan
Fukien
Kiangsi
Nanking
Black Legion Slayer Takes Stand In Poole Murder Case
Dayton Dayon Dean testified he fired the shots that killed Charles A Poole a WPA worker, revealing the Black Legion hooded order. He described a one way ride planned for Poole and a meeting where Punishment was decided as Davis the organizer urged Poole be taken out despite defense counsel objections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Dayton An
Charles A. Poole
WPA
Black Legion
Poole
Dean
Harvey Davis
Black Hooded
Duncan C. McCrea
Republicans to Hear Grievances Over Seating Color
At Cleveland on June 3 the Republican national committee began a round of hearings for 57 contested convention seats with color and race as central issues. Delegations from Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, the District of Columbia, and Alaska contested full or partial seats amid claims of negro discrimination and other voting rights disputes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Republican National Committee
South
Alaska
Florida
Louisiana
Mississippi
South Carolina
District of Columbia
Georgia
Illinois
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Memphis
Robert R
Bob) Church
Yale
John E. Me
Day on stand in Loeb slaying case at Joliet prison
James Day a 21 year old Stateville inmate on trial for the slaying of Richard Loeb during a bloody penitentiary fight testified he would tell the whole sordid story of prison vice and events leading to Loeb's death. Day admitted slashing Loeb with his own razor claiming self defense as his attorneys said the tale would reveal prison life and motive. Direct and cross examination dominated the proceedings with a jury verdict not expected until tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loeb
Nathan Leopold
Bobby Franks
Chicago
Day
Levy
Demonstrations Planned in Arkansas Cotton Strike
Memphis June 3 reports the Southern Tenant Farmers union planning new demonstrations in the east Arkansas cotton chopper strike zone. Secretary ALU Mitchell defends the strike, denying it is losing ground and citing calls to organize in Crittenden and Cross counties despite an organizer arrest at Forrest City Arkansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Tenn
East
Arkansas
Southern Tenant Farmers Union
Alu. Mitchell
Ands, Crittenden and Cross
Forrest City
Ark
Atkinson
Mitchell
Fairbury mother awaits triple birth as twins grow curious
Mrs. M. O. Bennett of Fairbury Nebraska, 31, is awaiting the arrival of a triplet when twins already born more than a week ago look on. The doctor notes the third baby is due in the first week of June, while the twins seem indignant at the delay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. O. Bennett
Fairbury
Neb
Bennetts
Tax Bill Faces Senate Vote Amid Chamber Opposition
Senate leaders push a revised tax bill toward passage as the Chamber of Commerce of the United States attacks the measure saying it is open to serious objections and could harm companies. A possible presidential compromise looms, drifting away from House proposals for tougher corporate undistributed profit taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Chamber
House
Capitol Hill
Senate
House Hill
Former movie actor William Haines mob attack in California
William Haines, former film star, says a mob of about 100 chased him and four friends from a beach area after a friendly gesture to a six year old boy sparked false gossip. Legal action was dropped for lack of evidence. no complaint was issued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
William Haines
Haines
Jimmy Shields
Jimmy
V. O. Walker
el Norte Beach
John Doe
James Walker
Shore
Justice of the Peace
A. F. Monroe
Hollywood
Train Death Unsolved Near Monroe
Coroner investigates a train strike that killed 21 year old Carson Humphries, a Millhaven farm worker, three miles east of Monroe.Witnesses say Humphries rode a mule beside Illinois Central tracks when the passenger train struck him. engineers Hammons and Harrison deny noticing the fatal impact as the coroner seeks more details before reporting to the district attorney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carson Humphries
Millhaven Road
Illinois Central Railroad
Monroe
Irving J Wolff
Hammons
Harrison
Humphries
Tech Breaks Ground for New Administration Building
Ruston La June 3 President G W Bond of Louisiana Tech prepared to turn the first shovel for the campus administration building costing 421000. The event capped the 41st commencement with 165 degrees awarded, E L Stephens of Southwestern Louisiana Institute delivering the address. J Pollard Sealy was elected Louisiana Tech Alumni Association president with officers including Mrs Gussie Ayers and J W Evans. Judge EB Walker of Ruston completed his four year term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruston
G. W. Bond
Louisiana Tech
Tech
E. L. Stephens
Southwestern Louisiana Institute
Lafayette
J. Pollard Sealy
Shreveport
Louisiana Tech Alumni Association
Gussie Ayers
J. W. Evans
W. Poole Robison
Ruse Tan
EB. L. Walker
Mrs Armour Stays At Son’s Bedside Amid Dread Disease
Mrs Philip D Armour III visited the hospital bedside of her 19 year old son Philip D Armour IV who lies ill with infantile paralysis after returning from St Marks Preparatory in Southboro Massachusetts. She wore a hospital gown and read to him as nurses and doctors monitor his condition. The Armour family traces to the founder of a major packing company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Philip D. Armour
ITI
Philip
Gwendolyn
Big airliner crashes near Chicago airport
The large airliner struck a house roof and crashed a half mile from Chicago Municipal Airport. Propeller engine and tail were badly damaged but 12 passengers and a crew of three escaped with minor injuries. The craft had been en route from New York and landed upright. Cause remains undetermined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
New York
Zioncheck Divorce Talk: Wife Visits Mental Hospital
Washington dispatch reports Rep Marion Zioncheck under mental observation at Gal linger Hospital. His wife says talk of divorce is off, visits cheer him as a chain letter urging resignation circulates. Separately in Baton Rouge, La the House shifts property tax postponement decisions to police juries with New Orleans excluded. A substitute resolution allows suspending collections to October 14 1936.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington State
Gallinger Municipal Hospital
Marion Zioncheck
Baton Rouge
I/P
House of Representatives
New Orleans
Senate
J. T. Curry
Tensas
New Attacks Create Uncertainty Over New Police Chief
Trenton N J June 3 Flank attacks on Gov Harold G Hoffman rose as Senate fate of Col Mark O Kimberling, named to replace Lindbergh case lead Schwarzkopf, remained uncertain. Spaulding Frazer of University of Newark law school demanded Hoffmans rebuke and Senator Lester H Clee led opposition among Essex Republican ranks with 12 Republicans in the chamber and 11 votes needed for confirmation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenton
N. J
Harold G. Hoffman
Senate
Hoffman
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
New Jersey State Police
Spaulding Frazer
University of Newark
Law School
Lester H. Clee
Schwarzkopf
Clee
Essex County
Mark O. Kimberling
UW Coed Jailed After Threats to Registrar
Seattle police report University of Washington junior Ruth B E Naughton 36 was jailed after allegedly threatening to kill Registrar E R Stevens with dynamite over grade concerns. Deputy prosecutors charged the co ed with threat to kill after she resisted deputies at her apartment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Wash
University of Washington
E. R. Stevens
Ruth BE. Naughton
John M. Schermer
Lindbergh to Get Ransom Money Back
New Jersey Attorney General David T. Wilentz announced that fourteen thousand eight hundred sixty dollars of the Lindbergh ransom bills recovered with Bruno Hauptmann would be returned to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. The decision followed a New York conference with J. Edgar Hoover and other officials. The funds are kept in a safe deposit box in a Trenton bank awaiting Lindbergh’s instructions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenton
N. J
Dune Ba-Atttorney
David T. Wilentz
Lindbergh
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Charles A. Lindbergh
Wilentz
New York
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
Colonel Lindbergh
Roosevelt May Talk To Louisiana Solons At Dallas
Baton Rouge June 3. Governor Richard Leche said President Roosevelt may address Louisiana's legislature in Dallas on June 13 during the Texas Centennial visit. A special train will carry 139 lawmakers and officials, with Louisiana State University band joining in Shreveport for pickup, returning June 14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Huey P. Long
Roosevelt
Long
Richard Lewhe
Texas
Dallas
Louisiana State University
Shreveport
Fatal Fire Claims Three In Marion Home Explosion
In Marion Indiana on June 3 a mother Mrs Carl Stratton 21 and her two young children Robert and Elsie perished when an oil stove exploded triggering a deadly blaze destroying their home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Ind
Carl Stratton
Robert
Elsie
Grange to Demand Party Recognition in 1936 Platforms
National Grange master Louis J. Taber says the group will seek a farm plank in both Democratic and Republican platforms. The executive committee will attend the conventions and press for definite commitments. A Cleveland meeting is planned to perfect the plank for the GOP committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Louis J. Taber
National Grange
The
Grange
Taber
Cleveland
Last Minute Briefs Show Senate Soil Plan and Tariff Debate
Secretary Wallace urged amendments to the soil conservation act to curb large producers' benefit payments. The House Rules Committee advanced a relief-deficiency bill worth 2.43 billion dollars to final passage. Observers expect a possible adjournment by Saturday night. W H Jassoon pressed tariff hikes on oils and fats at the National Cottonseed Products Association. Duncan Renaldo, once stateless, reentered the United States from Mexico and will seek citizenship after filing his declaration next Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wallace
Senate Agriculture Committee
New Orleans
W. H. Jassoon
Memphis
National Cottonseed Products Association, Inc
Hollywood
Calif
Duncan Renaldo
United States
Mexico
Prosperity Seen For Oil Industry As States Cooperate
Ernest O. Thompson chairman of the Texas railroad commission said demand and state cooperation in controlling production promise a continuing era of prosperity for the oil industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
Ernest O. Thompson
Texas Railroad Commission
Slain Forest Guard Eben Bethel Found Near Pilot Mountain
Waldr on Arkansas June 3 officers sought the killer of Eben Bethel a 41 year old Ouachita National Forest guard who was found shot to death on Pilot Mountain in the forest area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waldron
Ark
Eben Bethel
Ouachita National Forest Guard
Pilot Mountain
Presbyterian assembly faces social welfare clash and war issues
The 148th assembly of the Presbyterian Church faced bitter disputes over social welfare policies war and military training liquor and motion pictures as a week-long session neared its end. A War Department spokesman opposed any legislation abolishing compulsory military training in schools arguing it would undermine national defense. In Mexico City the powerful miners' syndicate, the country's strongest single union, split from the Confederation of Workers of Mexico amid plans for broad general strikes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Syracuse
N. Y
148Th Assembly of
The
Presbyterian Church of the
Washington
Senate
War Department
Mexico City
Miners’ Syndicate
Mexico
Confederation of Workers of Mexico
Paralysis Strikes St. Mark's School in Southboro
An outbreak of infantile paralysis affects eleven or more students at St. Mark's School in Southboro Mass. One student, Frederick W. Hubbel Jr of Des Moines Iowa, has died leaving authorities to investigate the cause and extent of the outbreak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southboro
Mass
St. Mark's School
Frederick W. Hubbel, Jr
Des Moines
Lowa
McCormick Funeral Services Planned for Cyrus Hall McCormick
Chicago dispatch reports funeral services will be held tomorrow for Cyrus Hall McCormick the millionaire industrialist whose life bridged an agricultural renaissance sparked by the reaper invented by his father.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Cyrus Hall McCormick
Lambeth names treasurer for Lake Junaluska foreclosure fund
Dr. W A Lambeth director of the Southern Methodists campaign to save Lake Junaluska from foreclosure appointed C Kirkman cashier of Wachovia Bank and Trust Co branch here as treasurer for the 105000 dollar fund to be sought.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point
N. C
W. A. Lambeth
Southern Methodists
Lake Junaluska
C. Kirkman
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
Arrest Notice for Ernest Desmond de Hagen
New York detectives advised New Orleans authorities to hold Ernest Desmond de Hagen, a suspect in an extortion case, if he arrived. The communication came as part of ongoing cross jurisdiction cooperation on the case.
Japan Watches Nanking Canton Hostilities Sour Turn
Tokyo officials say the serious situation between the Nanking and Canton Chinese governments worries Japan. They reject Canton's anti Japanese passages as mere declarations and report a Chinese union urged war against Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Japan
Nanking
Canton
Tri State Gang's Last Member Dies in New Jersey
Charles Zied, condemned for the Camden holdup killing of Detective William Feitz, was executed in the New Jersey electric chair after a reprieve, following fellow inmate Bruno Hauptmann who faced death for the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. The executions reflected a grim end to an infamous Camden gang saga.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenton
N. J
Charles Zied
New Jersey
Death
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Zied
William T. Feitz
Camden
Hauptmann
Doc
Ral
Abraham Holtzberg
Electrocu Ferrell
Frank Wise
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Dayton Dean
Attorney May
Davis
McCrea
Mrs. Armour
House Committee
Louisiana Solons
House Rules Committee
Renaldo
Fix
M'Cormick Rites
Tri-State Gang
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