Roosevelt warns martial law risk if labor and coal bills fail
President Roosevelt reportedly warned that martial law could be necessary to handle unrest unless the Wagner labor disputes and the Guffey Snyder coal stabilization bills are enacted. Leaders indicated the measures are atop the administration's must list as the United Mine Workers plan a June 17 strike involving about 459,000 workers.
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Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
United Mine Workers
White House
House
Robinson
Arnsas
Harrison
Misssippi
Wagner
Senate
House Rules Committee
Labor Relations Board
Guffey-Snyder
Connery
Massachusetts
House Labor Committee
Guffey
Pennsylvania
Attorney General
Solicitor General
Congress
Wheeler
Montana
Frontier Air
Ways and Means
War Department
Senate Drops Contest Against Late Member
The senate adopted without discussion a resolution by the elections committee dismissing the contest against the late Senator Cutting Republican New Mexico by his appointed successor Dennis Chavez.
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Washington
Senate Today
Elections Committee
Senator Cutting
New Mexico
Dennis Chavez
Thousands Flee Flood Threat as Rivers Rise Near Kansas City
Kansas City residents evacuate to high ground as the Missouri and Kaw rivers flood threat looms. Dwellers move livestock and valuables to upper floors while workers shore up dikes and embankments. The Kaw crest lies about 75 miles west toward Topeka, and the Missouri flood nears the St Louis corridor.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Topeka
Kere
St. Charles
Kansas
North
Jury Panel for Orleans to Open Again
Judge William J. O Hara signed an order allowing the Orleans parish jury wheel to be reopened to check compliance with the Scottsboro ruling on excluding Negroes. The move, urged by members of the Orleans parish jury commission, aims to determine if the wheel of 700 names contains any Negro names. Trials in New Orleans have used all white juries and the Scottsboro remand called retrials for two Black defendants in Alabama.
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New Orleans
William J. O'Hara
Criminal District Court Today
Orleans Parish
United States Supreme Court
Scottsboro
William P. Dillon
Frank Soser
Jules Moustier
Supreme Court
Alabama
Parish of
Orleans
Laval Named French Premier Try Fails to Form Cabinet
Paris June 5 Pierre Laval foreign minister failed today to form a new French government after Bouisson cabinet fell Laval agreed to attempt to form a cabinet but had previously refused the premiership Laval finally acceded after Lebrun pressed him and Jeanneney declined to lead the government
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Associated Press
Paris
Pierre Laval
Fernand Bouisson
Laval
Albert Lebrun
Foreign Office
Jules Jeanneney
Senate
Lebrun
Orleans Man Drowns Near Milneburg Lighthouse
Walter E. Bothmann aged 25 drowned during a swimming party in Lake Pontchartrain near Milneburg lighthouse. He disappeared in about eight feet of water and was recovered by a lifeguard. The coroner ruled the death accidental. he had lost his job as a cab driver the day before.
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Orleans
New Orleans
Walter E. Bothmann
Lake Pontchartrain
Milneburg
Bothmann
Union Electric Workers Strike Shuts Toledo Power Plant
Toledo Ohio June 5 strike by Electrical Workers union at Toledo Edison cuts power to 20 towns and city factories. Officials report 450 of 535 Edison workers join a wage dispute walkout crippling street cars, bridges and light, threatening 30,000 idle workers and a city already short on electricity.
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Union Electric Workers
Toledo
Ohio
Electrical Workers Union
Toledo Edison Company
Oliver Myers
The
Union
Carter Murder Case Placed Before Jurors in Laurel
The case of W. M. Carter a 68 year old Laurel business executive charged with murder in the mutilation slaying of Mrs Daisy Keeton 52 was given to a Jones county circuit court jury. Summations were heard yesterday and final arguments set after the lunch break. Ouida Keeton sister of the dead woman testified Carter entered her bedroom window and killed Mrs Keeton though Carter denied the charge and testified about their relationship. Ouida has been convicted and is serving a life sentence.
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Laurel
Miss
W. M. Carter
Daisy Keeton
Jones County
Carter
Quida Keeton
Ouida
Fifteen Arrested After Wedding Reception Fight
In New Orleans on June 5 a free-for-all fight broke out at a wedding reception when about 20 uninvited guests tried to crash the party. Fifteen people were arrested as invited guests clashed with intruders inside the Druids home and outside. Patrolman Fred Lorenzen helped restore order until police squads arrived. The celebration honored newlyweds John Bua and Miss Antoinette Olanda.
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New Orleans
Fred Lorenzen
John Bua
Antoinette Olanda
Key Brothers Extend Flight In Meridian Record Attempt
Al and Fred Key, managers of Meridian Municipal Airport, push past 20 hours of continuous flight aboard the Ole Miss aiming to surpass the world endurance record of 22 days 7 hours 30 minutes. Their first attempt ended after 123 hours due to a broken cylinder head while a storm halted their second try after 170 hours last year.
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Meridian
Miss
Key Brothers
Fred
Ole Miss
Man Fatally Injured After Being Knocked From Truck
Vernon H. Kenney of Taylortown was killed last night on a highway near Taylortown when he was knocked from a parked truck by an unidentified motorist. The coroner said the driver likely did not know of the crash. Kenney traveled from Hatten Arkansas to New Orleans in the truck with his parents and six siblings.
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Shreveport
Vernon H. Kenney
Taylortown
Kenney
Hatten
Ark
New Orleans
Portland
Jack Keegan
Portland Police
Keegan
Department of Justice
Issaquah
Wash
George
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
Weyerhaeuser
Johnson foresees wage slash orgy after NRA end
General Hugh S. Johnson warned in Swampscott that the termination of the NRA would bring wage cuts, sweat shops, child labor, and a turbulent summer with strikes. He cited reports of longer hours and factory demands and urged a democratic consensus on NRA principles.
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Swampscott
Mass
Hugh S. Johnson
National Recovery Administration
NRA
Johnson
New England Bakers’ Association
Supreme Court
Roosevelt seeks congress approval to keep NRA in skeleton form
The Roosevelt administration moves to maintain the blue eagle in a skeletal structure for 9 to 12 months, dropping compulsory codes. Leaders skeptical the voluntary plan will work, with Roosevelt calling it a stop gap and no enforcement of old labor or trade rules in broad industry. The plan aims to collect business statistics and assess impacts.
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Washington
NRA
Roosevelt
Congress
Blue Eagle
Associated Press
Supreme Court
El Dorado Rampage Leaves Woman Dead In Home
At a El Dorado residence two families were involved in a shooting spree early today. Iver Tollifson age 30 killed Mrs Clifton McDaniels and wounded his wife and five year old son with knife and gunfire. Two other residents survived uninjured.
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EL Dorado
Ark
Iver Tollifson
Clifton McDaniels
Louisiana and Mississippi Receive Federal Highway Allocations
Louisiana and Mississippi were allotted a total of 12,802,923 from a 400 million federal works relief fund for highway road and street construction and grade crossing elimination. Louisiana got 6,103,896 with 2,890,429 for construction and 3,213,467 for grade crossings. Mississippi received 6,699,027 with 3,457,552 for construction and 3,242,475 for grade crossing elimination. BATON ROUGE officials plan to submit a program to use 6,193,896 allocated to the state.
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Washington
Louisiana
Mississippi
Federal Works Relief Fund
Wallace
Baton Rouge
Louisiana Highway Commission
United States Bureau of Public Roads
A. P. Tugwell
Delawares Mother and Son Face Gallows Nurtured by Faith
Mrs May H Carey aged 52 and her son Howard Carey face execution for the seven year old killing of her brother Robert Hitchens 55. The motive was a $2000 life policy. A second son is serving life. Clemency denied by the pardon board and Governor Buck. The pair study the Bible with ministers in Georgetown and Frankford.
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Georgetown
Del
Delaware
May H. Carey
Howard Carey
Robert Hitchens
Pardon Board
C. Douglass Buck
Carey and
Howard
Richard K. White
J. C. Bolton
Frankford
Sarah Jane Bradley
Governors Will Confer On Good Features Of NRA
Mississippi Governor Sennett Conner hosts the 1935 governors conference June 13 15 in Biloxi with discussion planned on continuing the NRA good features within states. Indiana Governor McNutt and South Carolina Governor Johnston expected to lead NRA talks as Harry Hopkins leads a Washington group. Relief budgets taxes and NRA top the agenda with President and Mrs. Roosevelt invited.
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Jackson
Miss
Sennett Conner
Mississippi
Biloxi
NRA
Nice
Maryland
Supreme Court
McNutt
Indiana
Johnston
South Carolina
Harry Hopkins
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Washington
Roosevelt
Hauptmann Busy Composing Music In Prison
Bruno Hauptmann, awaiting appeal from his conviction for the Lindbergh baby kidnapping murder, is composing music with words by him and part of several inmates in the Trenton death house. The death house quartet includes a singer of notable voice. authorities allow harmonizing if not boisterous. The attorney Egbert Rosecrans supplied the details.
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New York
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Lindbergh
Egbert Rosecrans
Hauptmann
Parade Scheduled Through Delta to Celebrate Uproar Ending
Washington county citizens prepared for a parade through Arkansas towns McGehee Dermott Montrose Portland Lake Village Eudora and Louisiana towns Oak Grove Lake Providence to mark the end of the delta's low mood.
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Greenville
Miss
Washington County
Arkansas
Louisiana
Delta
McGehee, Dermott
Montrose
Portland
Lake Village
Eudora
Oak Grove
Lake Providence
Identity of Men in Kidnap Plot Declared Known
Former bootlegger linked to the case is named a suspect as police declare the identities of the two men involved in the kidnapping plot. Authorities report progress in the investigation and plan further action.
Kidnapping Case Hunters Chase Pacific Northwest Rum Ring Tie
In Tacoma on June 5 authorities chased a possible link in the George Weyerhaeuser kidnapping. A $20 ransom note found in eastern Oregon suggested a Pacific Northwest bootlegger may be one of the abductors, with federal agents probing a wider gang nexus and tracking a passerby who paid a $200,000 ransom.
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Associated Press
Tacoma
Wash
George Weyerhaeuser
Oregon
Pacific Northwest
Department of Justice
San Francisco Federal Reserve
Huntington
D. FP. Weyerhaeuser, Jr
Blaine Coles
First National Bank
Portland
T. C. Hunter
Union Pacific System
C. E. Hannon
Salt Lake City
Hunter
Utah
Idaho
Will Rogers on Washington’s choice of advisors
Will Rogers jokes that Washington should ask the supreme court what could be done rather than big Democratic leaders, arguing that changing the constitution is unlikely and likening it to an old man changing his chewing tobacco. The piece reflects his humorous political commentary from HOLLYWOOD dated June 5.
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Hollywood
Washington
Supreme Court
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