Showers Bring Relief in Parching Midwest and Plains
June rains cooled the drought struck Midwest and Plains as governors acted to shield grazing lands. North Dakota and Wisconsin imposed livestock embargoes while Minnesota mobilized the national guard. railroads offered emergency rate cuts for cattle and feed. Donations from Arkansas aided South Dakota farmers as weather forecasts promised more rain in June.
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Roosevelt
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Neb
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Weather Bureau
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Leadville
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Prairie Provinces
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Alf "M. Landon
Kansas
Minnesota National Guard
William B. Langer
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C. A. Donnel
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Macon
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Government Moves To Aid Drouth Stricken Area
Washington June 4 report says famine may prevail in at least one drouth stricken region unless early rain or federal aid arrives. The item notes continuing coverage on the drought situation with federal relief measures under consideration.
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Washington
Davis to Lead U S Naval Talks in London Prelims
Norman H. Davis, head American delegate to the Geneva disarmament conference, will lead the United States in preliminary bilateral naval discussions in London starting June 15. Admiral Leigh and Commander Wilkinson will join as advisor and technical aide, with Davis sailing aboard the Leviathan on June 9.
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Norman H. Davis
United States
London
State Department
Richard H. Leigh
Theodore Wilkinson
Davis
Geneva
Robert W. Bingham
Great Britain
Brownlow Hastings Stands in for Pastor at First Baptist
In Rev L T Hastings absence Brownlow Hastings, a recent high school grad now in a North Carolina college, preached at the First Baptist church and received praise from congregants. Jess Ramblin notes the silver anniversary gift to Mrs Minnie Ruffin from Neville High donors, and nominates J W Turley as a top radish grower with oversized specimens including a 14 inch radish weighing two pounds.
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First Baptist Church
Farmerville
Brownlow Hastings
Brownlow
North Carolina
Jess Ramblin
Neville High School
Minnie Ruffin
Ruffin
Jes’ “Amblin
J. W. Turley
Coleman Avenue
West Monroe
J. R
Mistrial Declared in Floyd Assault Case
In Jackson Mississippi a mistrial was declared in the case of C N Floyd charged with assault and battery with intent to kill his wife. The jury could not reach a verdict after multiple ballots. Floyd had previously been convicted at an earlier trial in Raymond, later reversed by the state Supreme Court. Mrs Nannie Bishop Floyd, divorced.
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C. N. Floyd
Jackson
Flora
Hinds
Julian Alexander
W. S. Sims, Jr
Floyd
Hinds County
Raymond
Madison County
Mississippi Supreme Court
Nannie Bishop Floyd
Supreme Court backs ICC railroad office closure ruling
The Supreme Court sustained the Interstate Commerce Commission order allowing Texarkana and Fort Smith railway to close its general offices and shops in Texas. The ruling leaves intact a Texas requirement to maintain a stock office and records in the state.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Texarkana and
Fort Smith
Texas
Supreme Court
Labor troubles ease in United States on Monday
President Roosevelt was told by Governor Pinchot that steel companies are arming as a potential strike looms. NRA chief Hugh S. Johnson, in talks with W. A. Irvin, signals efforts to avert a walkout. The Electric Auto-Lite clash in Toledo ends with a 5 percent wage gain and union recognition.
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Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Hugh S. Johnson
NRA
W. A. Irvin
U. S. Steel
White House
Associated Press
Toledo
Ohio
National Guard
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Ouachita Parish Voters Decide Road Levy Tuesday
Ouachita parish property owners head to the polls Tuesday to decide a one and a half mill road levy for maintenance and rural road construction, down from two mills as part of a government cost-cutting policy. Only parish property owners may vote.
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Ouachita Parish
Britain proposes token war debt payment to Roosevelt
The British government cabled its war debt note to Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay in Washington and plans to deliver it to President Roosevelt tonight. It proposes a token payment to avoid default stigma, with public release after Neville Chamberlain’s Commons statement tomorrow.
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Ronald Lindsay
Washington
Roosevelt
Great Britain
Nevill Chamberlain
House of Commons
Electrical Contractors Convene To Form Code Group In Louisiana
W. S. Adcock announces a meeting of electrical contractors to perfect a code authority for 13 northeast Louisiana parishes. The session will be held tonight at 8 in the city hall courtroom. Parishes include Ouachita Caldwell Franklin Tensas Madison Richland East Carroll West Carroll Morehouse Union Lincoln Jackson Winn.
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W. S. Adcock
Ouachita
Caldwell
Franklin
Tensas
Madison
Richland
East Carroll
West Carroll
Morehouse Union
Lincoln
Jackson
Winn
Ouachita Parish Junior College Grants 75 Diplomas
Seventy five graduates received diplomas at the Ouachita parish junior college commencement in the college auditorium. Dr. A L Crabb of Peabody College delivered the address on Social and Educational Change. Edward Reeves and Miss Clarissa Davis spoke on Democracy and Patriotism. Fred Williamson won the Monroe Kiwanis silver cup for best short story.
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A. L. Crabb
Department of Education
Peabody College
Nashville
Edward Reeves
Clarissa Davis
Mr. Reeves
Miss Davis
Monroe Kiwanis Club
Fred Williamson
Body of Youth Found in Cave Suspects Held
Police believe 15 year old Dale Jones was abducted and murdered. His body was found in a mountain cave near Moatsville covered with rocks and leaves. Two suspects Lawrence Carroll and Gordon Blake, both locals, are held in Philippi jail pending questioning by Prosecuting Attorney Forest B. Poling.
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W. Va
Dale Jones
Lawrence Carroll
Gordon Blake
Forest B. Poling
Carroll
Blake
Moatsville
Dale
Barbara Hoffman
A. M. Dyer
Dallas Jones
Grafton
Rupert Peyton Proposes Royal Louisiana Tax and Honors Ode
In Baton Rouge on June 4, Representative Rupert Peyton of Caddo parish introduced an ode titled an act. The bill proposes every Louisiana citizen be addressed as king or queen with crowns castles and emoluments. Taxes on Wall Street and Standard Oil would fund the royalty, linking to Huey Long era politics.
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Louisiana
Hamiter Resolution Adopted For Tax Relief Action
Baton Rouge report says the Louisiana House adopted without dissent the Hamiter resolution to give government economy prime consideration in any tax relief action. An amendment by Rep Hamiter of Caddo aligned the measure with prior actions by the tax reforms commission to ensure no clash of verbiage.
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House of Representatives
Hamiter
Louisiana Tax Reforms Commission
State police bill dies in Louisiana legislature
Baton Rouge June 4 State con stabulary measure failed after Representative W J Hammon Jackson withdrew his bill to create a Louisiana state police force.
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Baton Rouge
W. J. Hammon Jackson
Hamiter Seeks Tax Relief Pledge in Louisiana House
Baton Rouge June 4 With hundreds of bills awaiting committee action Representative Joe B Hamiter of Caddo called up a resolution urging the legislature to retrench and practice economy rather than raise new taxes to provide property tax relief and greater public school support A sharp debate followed with Representative Lorris Wimberly of Bienville opposing the measure.
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Joe B. Hamiter
Caddo
House
Lorris Wimberly
Bienville
Louisiana
Extortionist Slain as FBI Seizes $3500 in Phoenix
In Phoenix a federal and local raid ends with the deaths of extortionist Louis Walsh and an unexpected civilian, Robert Perkins, as Walsh attempts a $3500 payoff from Diamond department store owner. Ambush rifles and ambush fire followed as agents intervene.
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Ariz
Robert Perkins
Louis Walsh
Walsh
Perkins Yard
Man Takes Girl On Trip Fatally Shot By Father
In Hagerstown Maryland George Saum a 22 year old mechanic died after being shot yesterday by Allen Hollar the father of a high school girl Saum admitted taking the girl on a weekend trip to Washington DC The suspect Hollar is jailed without bail the girl Jane Host 16 was missing five days before being found in Washington Saum said he accompanied the girl on Saturday May 26 and returned Monday Saum a married man with three children was shot as he returned home last night.
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George Saum
Washington
Allen Hollar
Saum
Jane Host
Cuban Public Works Office Attacked. Officials Killed
In Camaguey Cuba on June 4 a mob of recently discharged workers attacked the public works office killing chief Serapio Recio and two other officials. Luis Alvarez Pargas and Serapio Quesada were shot dead while Odilio Olazabal and Jose Alvarez Rigas were seriously wounded as police and soldiers pursued the assailants into the countryside.
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Cuba
Serapio Recio
Public Works
Recio
Luis Alvarez Pargas
Serapio Quesada
Odilio Olazabal
Jose Alvarez Rigas
Roosevelt press on adjournment as Congress slows
President Roosevelt and congressional leaders say no final adjournment date until administration programs advance. Talks point to ten days to adjourn at earliest, with tariff, silver, housing and Wagner labor bills pending. Amendments to agriculture adjustment act and oil control may be tabled. Rex Tugwell nominated for under secretary of agriculture.
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Roosevelt
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Robinson
Rexford Guy Tugwell
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White House
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Rainey
Senate
Reapportionment Measure Entered in Louisiana Legislature
A bill introduced by Representative Anderson seeks to reapportion the Louisiana House of Representatives based on the 1930 census. The plan shrinks the total to 96 seats from 100 and shifts seats among parishes including gains for Caddo and East Baton Rouge and losses for St Landry Orleans Lafayette Avoyelles Lafourche and Natchitoches with ward adjustments in New Orleans. Calcasieu Ouachita Rapides and others would stay the same.
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St. Landry Parish
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Lafourche
Natchitoches
New Orleans
Calcasieu
Ouachita
Rapides
Westwood double homicide suspect confesses to hatchet killings
Louis Payne 21 confessed to murdering his mother Carrie L. Payne 45 and brother Robert 14 in their Spanish type Payne residence near UCLA. He told detectives I killed them last Tuesday night and later described how he killed them. He surrendered to Huntington Beach police, then returned to Los Angeles for booking on suspicion of murder.
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Louis. Rude Payne
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Carrie L. Payne
Robert
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University of Callifornia At
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Here
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Young Payne
Beverly Hills High School
Mussolini's hard times plea echoed to nations
Santa Monica dispatch notes Mussolini, hailed as sire of the present dictator epidemic, loudly asking soldiers if they are ready to fight. He claims to keep out of war by force of will, then urges his people to accept hard times and get used to them.
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