Welles Calls For Revision Of Neutrality Law
Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles urged revising the neutrality act to keep domestic laws from aiding military conquest while staying within neutrality. He outlined a three phase policy including strong defense and international cooperation aligned with Roosevelt's peace appeals.
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New York
Sumner Welles
Alumni Federation of
Columbia University
Roosevelt
Hitler
Mussolini
Welles
Car Payments Reduced and Cash Loaned While You Wait
A local inquiry promises reduced car payments and cash loans with on‑site service at 500 Walnut Street. No signature required, and service is claimed available to residents regardless of location.
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500 Walnut Street
Effort Made to Level Out Pension Plans
Washington dispatch notes revisions to the social security act aimed at tempering the growth of old age pension movements. The House backed administration measures while Townsend plan opponents rally, with new benefits and tax relief seen as curbing big pension groups and expanding aid to the aged, dependent children, and mothers.
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Washington
Townsend
Francis E. Townsend
House
Ways and Means Committee
Federal Reserve
Social Security Board
Umbrella Follows Sun For Traffic Cops
Greenfield Massachusetts police report nearly finished a new umbrella design with a swinging arm to shade traffic officers from the sun. The device aims to improve comfort for police on duty in sunny conditions.
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SUN
Deaths Last Night Llewellyn D. Scott
Llewellyn Davis Scott aged 67 principal of Washington seminary a fashionable girls school and former president of the Southern Lawn Tennis association died last night in Atlanta.
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Atlanta
Llewellyn Davis Scott 67
Washington Seminary
Fashionable Girls’ School
The
Southern Lawn Tennis Association
Bartlesville Oil Pioneer Henry Vernon Foster
Henry Vernon Foster aged 63 of Bartlesville Oklahoma was a pioneer in the oil industry and previously acknowledged a fortune exceeding 120 million dollars. He was a noted Oklahoma oilman with substantial early prosperity.
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Los Angeles
Henry Vernon Foster
Bartlesville
Okla
Flo
Oklahoma
Mass Meeting Planned in Jersey City After Court Ruling
In Jersey City the ACLU and allied groups map a Friday mass meeting in Journal Square after a Supreme Court ruling ended official ostracism. Norman Thomas, evicted from Journal Square 14 months ago, will speak. Mayor Hague says he will comply with the court's nullification of a city ordinance barring C I O mass meetings.
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Jersey City
N. J
United States Supreme Court
American Civil Liberties Union
Frank Hague
Journal Square
Hague
Norman Thomas
ACLU
New Band Master Takes Post at Eudora High
Chester Allen Hall Jr arrives as director of Eudora High School band succeeding Mrs Loata Johnson White. He has added members to reach 60 total with plans for 50 in the first band when school reopens. The class C band won a first and two thirds at the Arkansas high school meet.
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Eudora
Ark
Chester Allen Hall, Jr
Tulsa
Okla
Loata Johnson White
Eudora High
Hall
Poland Cools To Germany and Russia
New York June 6. Count Jerzy Potocki Polish ambassador to the United States told bankers and businessmen that Poland cannot favor either Russia or Germany. He said choosing between the two is like asking a man to pick between measles and smallpox due to Poland’s strategic position and need to keep borders secure.
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New York
Poland
Russia
Germany
Jerzy Potocki
United States
City Court Dispositions Include Fines and Jailed Defendants
Yesterday in city court ten defendants faced fines and brief jail terms for offenses including anti vice profanity and disturbing the peace. Specifics show Sam Anderson Louise Honor and others fined or jailed, with several listed as habitually drunk and disorderly, and traffic violators fined a total of twelve dollars fifty cents.
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Sam Anderson
Louise Honor
Jack Carter
van Wilson
Harry Bateman
Paul Benson
Murphy Kennedy
House passes bill establishing Chalmette National Historical Park
The House approved a bill to establish Chalmette National Historical Park in Louisiana and sent it to the Senate. A House committee cut the acreage limit from 1000 to 500 acres, including the Chalmette monument land and the national cemetery, on the New Orleans battle site from the War Department jurisdiction.
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Washington
House
Senate
Chalmette National Historical Park
Louisiana
Chalmette National Monument
Chalmette
War Department
New Orleans
Local Fireman and Colleague Attend National Aquatic School
Jack W. Blanks, city fireman, and George Bubb of Southern Carbon depart for Camp Kittie Wake near Pass Christian Mississippi to take part in a 10 day Red Cross life saving first aid and swimming course labeled National Aquatic School. Instruction begins Wednesday at 10 a.m.
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Jack W. Blanks
George Bubb
Southern Carbon Company
Camp Kittie Wake
Pass Christian
Miss
The
Red Cross
National Aquatic School
Marriage Still Holds Him Back
Elliot J. Jensen, head of a Western Reserve University fund raising drive, finds an alumnus who cannot donate because he is married. A 1936 invitation drew a reply saying unable to give anything due to marriage, and a follow up three years later echoed the same reason.
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Cleveland
Elliot J. Jensen
Western Reserve University
Jensen
Train Hits Mother in Oakland Fatality
In Oakland on June 6, Wyatt Urton found his 78 year old mother struck while crossing the street en route to a store after an electric train stopped short of its station. She died in his arms.
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Oakland
Calif
Wyatt Urton
Urton
Funeral for 10 year old Leon Stewmon in Ouachita
Funeral services were held at Dixie Funeral Home for Leon Stewmon 10 son of J R Stewmon city electrician who drowned in the Ouachita river Monday. Rev. R T Watson and Rev Ernest Holloway officiated with interment at Riverview Burial Park. Leon a pupil at Ouachita Grammar School swam alone while his brother Ray watched. Firemen located the body after a long search using a diving helmet. Survived by parents a sister Norma Jean and two brothers Ray and Clarence.
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Leon Stewmon
J. R
Jim) Stewmon
City Electrician
Ouachita
R. T. Watson
First Christian Church
Ernest Holloway
First Presbyterian Church
John McStravick
L. C. McClain
FE. C. Coleman
W. M. Love
M. L. Simmons
C. E. Cooper
Riverview Burial Park
Ray
Ray Stewman
Leon
Layton Place
South Grand Street
John McClain
Masur Place
American Legion
Frank J. Roddy
J. C. Brantley
Tom Dupree
McStravick
Atkinson Frank Roddy
Hoy
Atkinson
Irving J. Wolff
Parish
Norma Jean
Clarence
Ouachita Grammar School
Carrie Belle Camp
New Orleans Man Indicted for Fake Money Scheme
Irving Dehol alias Harold K. Keene indicted by a federal grand jury for obtaining money under false pretenses. He allegedly told a local woman to inform those interested in counterfeit money to send him a $10 bill and would return a genuine $5 bill as a sample, then continue at an 80 percent discount on the counterfeit.
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New Orleans
Irving Dehol
Dehol
Harold K. Keene
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic Promises Fast Malaria Relief
An advertisement touts Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a proven remedy for malaria chills and fever. It highlights tasteless quinidine and iron, claims rapid relief, and urges readers to buy at any drug store, with a larger size offering more value.
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Grove
Candid camera still holds all pictures on file
Delayed order cards will still be filled in within 14 days. Mrs Kien Anders won today’s candid camera honors and may claim a sepia enlargement at News Star World offices. In early 1939 Eagle Pass Tex saw more cattle entered from Mexico than in all of 1938.
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News- Star—World
Kiein Anders
News-Star -World
United States
Eagle Pass
Tex
Mexico
Ouachita Parish Announces Summer Band School Schedule
Walter C. Minniear directs summer band sessions at Calhoun High with 8 to 11 a.m. offerings Monday through Friday for beginner to concert bands. Private and group instructors include Walter Lane and Clarence Warmelin. Public concerts and a V. F. W. parade appearance are planned. Open to all students and former band members.
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Ouachita Parish
Walter C. Minniear
Calhoun High School
Minniear
Walter Lane
Sousa
Kryl
M Conway
Pryor
Kenneth Green
Clarence Warmelin
Chicago
Adam West
Oberlin, O
Conservatory of Music
OuachMa Parish
Pittsburgh WPA Worker Pleads Guilty to Murder
Paul Cervenak 31 pleaded guilty to murdering 79 year old Mrs. Naponocena Jaczynski after she told neighbors he planned to marry her. He described fatally beating her with his fists and praying, saying he pitied her. Judge Crichton set nine to eighteen years in prison.
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Pittsburgh
Paul Cervenak
WPA
Naponocena Jaczynski
Thomas W. Crichton
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