Heated talks in Louisiana demand tax relief and restraint
A mass meeting in Baton Rouge denounces Senator Huey Long and his administration with threats of force if tax goals are not met. Resolutions demand economy, school funding, property tax relief, and nonpolitical state institutions as the legislature debates ad valorem reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Huey P. Long
Long
George Hardy, Jr
Shreveport
Hardy
River flood stages show 24 hour changes
Flood stage readings along the river rose over the last 24 hours with several sites reporting rising water levels. Officials warned residents near low-lying areas to monitor gauges and prepare for possible evacuations if conditions worsen.
Thompson resigns from NRA review board over fascism charge
W O Thompson quits as a member of the Darrow NRA review board at the White House, arguing the Recovery Administration trends toward monopoly capitalism and calling for a government by workers and farmers to plan production and raise living standards.
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Washington
NRA
United States
W. O. Thompson
Darrow Nra Review Board
White House
National Recovery Administration
Clarence Darrow
Thompson
Nightclub Salute Sparks Wild Scene
Patrons at a night club saw a Keystone Comedy reenactment end with a young woman tossing dishes and pulling tablecloths. A two tailed lizard with a snake head was spotted on a Missouri Pacific baseball diamond by Jerry Mays. Nemo Valdes tried to start a car, only to find he had been attempting another vehicle's key.
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Keystone
Jerry Mays
South Second Street
Missouri Pacific
Jerry
Ripley
Nemo
Valdes
Daniel
Boone
Rescue of Knut Hamsun Crew After Ship Burns Offshore
United Fruit lines received a wireless from the Zacapa reporting the rescue of Captain Frick and 16 crewmen of the Norwegian freighter Knut Hamsun, which burned and sank 120 miles off Honduras. Seventeen crew members remained missing. 33 total aboard. The Knut Hamsun, of 3234 tons net, carried Chilean nitrate from Iquique to Jacksonville and Newport News.
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New York
United Fruit Lines
Zacapa
Knut Hamsun
Honduras
George McBride
Frick
Quita Suena Bank
Iquique
Chile
Jacksonville
Bragman Bluff
Colon
Panama
McBride
Port Limon
Costa Rica
New Orleans
Newport News
Panama Canal
Pay in goods opens new avenues in war debt impasse
The Hull note proposes partial payments in kind as a possible solution to the $12 billion war debt dispute with Europe. Hull says any mutual benefit plan will be considered, naming tin rubber jute and silver as potential commodities. France, Belgium, and Czechoslovakia face default dates while Finland plans to pay.
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Washington
United States
Europe
Great Britain
Hull
Andre de Laboulaye
France
Czechoslovakia
Belgium
Finland
Estonia
Hungary
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Rumania
Poland
Jugoslavia
Cotton Acreages to be Measured by Cobb
Washington June 13. Cully Cobb farm administration cotton chief said field men are being instructed to measure every acre in the cotton acreage retirement contract to ensure compliance. He noted the county breakdown of lease allotments under Bankhead legislation will be announced soon. The voluntary reduction program and compulsory baleage control are kept separate. The check of voluntary contract compliance is already under way in some states with supervisors and contract signers assigned.
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Washington
Cully Cobb
Farm Administration
Cobb
Murderers Try Dillinger Gun Stunt in Texas Jail
Bernard La Coume and Glenn Warren, Galveston convicts sentenced to death for the Zavalla murder, plotted to escape using a wooden pistol. Sheriff H C Billingsley seized a black jack hacksaw file and a dummy pistol from their cell, thwarting the plan at the county jail in Lafkin Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lafkin
Tex
Bernard la Coume
Glenn Warren
Galveston
John Dillinger
H. C. Billingsley
C. E B. Cansler, Sr
Zavalla
Sudden Electric Storms Halt Atlantic Air Traffic
Sudden electrical storms paralyzed air traffic along the Atlantic seaboard on Tuesday. Dozens of planes were held in hangars delaying mail and passenger flights. A Chicago to Newark transport with seven passengers circled Manhattan for 20 minutes before landing. another plane from Atlantic City to Newark set down at Brigantine Beach with a pilot and two passengers.
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Associated Press
Atlantic Seaboard
Chicago-Newark
Upper Manhattan
Newark Airport
Atlantic City
Newark
Brigantine Beach
N. J
Tomato accord quickly broken in Mississippi and Texas
A short lived gentlemen's agreement to stabilize tomato prices across Mississippi and east Texas collapsed hours after going into effect. Texas Commissioner J E McDonald informed Mississippi Commissioner J C Holton that farm leaders urged farmers to market all tomatoes at any price. Mississippi shippers echoed the reaction. Some growers had attempted to ship only in sixes as part of the price fix.
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Crystal Springs
Miss
Mississippi
Texas
J. E. McDonald
J. C. Holton
Holton
Chandler Resolution Returns to House Calendar
Baton Rouge June 13 The Chandler resolution to create a house of representatives committee on whereases to meet nightly at a Baton Rouge suburb night club was returned to the calendar by author Rep W J B Chandler who said a special committee is needed to handle the volume as many resolutions whereases remain ahead of ordinary business and would let legislators discuss the matter with their wives over the weekend.
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Baton Rouge
Chandler
House of Representatives
W. J. B. Chandler
Caddo
Destruction Mounts After Central American Hurricane
Reports from Honduras and El Salvador describe wholesale ruin with villages wiped out by floods. The death toll is estimated around 3,000, with fears of higher figures as relief efforts assess Verapaz near the Chinchot volcano.
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Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Central America
el Salvador
Mexico
Texas
Gulf
Associated Press
San Salvador
Verapaz
Chinchot
Italian German Chiefs to Meet in Venice
Venice buzzes as Fascist and German officials arrive for a high profile summit between Chancellor Hitler and Premier Mussolini. The capital is filled with plainclothes officers, photographers and journalists ahead of the talks. Mussolini will reach the Pisani villa from Forli by car, with aides following.
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Venice
Hitler
Germany
Mussolini
Italy
Forli
Grace Coolidge Postage Bill Heads to President
Congress sent to the White House a bill granting Grace Coolidge widow of the late president the right to free mail. She would simply write her name on envelopes instead of using stamps.
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Washington
Congress
White House
Grace Coolidge
Industry Labor U S Government Seek End Row in Steel Strike
Delegates to the Amalgamated Association converge on Pittsburgh for a strike vote while Roosevelt aides draft new labor resolutions to empower the president. Industry leaders in Gary Indiana call a warning against a strike as Inland Steel workers report 90 percent opposition to striking.
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Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
Pittsburgh
Roosevelt
Washington
Gary
Ind
Youngstown
Inland Steel Company
Indiana Harbor
Illinois
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Amalgamated
Maritime Workers
Pacific
Intruder Slugs Young Woman During Sleep in City Home
Miss Lorena Bedsole, 25, woke to a blunt blow to the head and a suspected needle prick at her 417 Wood street home about 3 am. Doctors at St. Francis sanitarium found no serious injury and treated her for the head wound as police investigated intruder activity.
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Lorena Bedsole
Wood Street
Miss Bedsole
St. Francis Sanitarium
D. J Bedsole
A. P. Clower
E. N. LeVasseur
Sum
Three Prisoners Escape From Mobile Jail
Three ex convicts escaped from the Mobile county jail in Alabama with a suspected machine gunning bank robber. Genio Conway, indicted for the Atmore bank machine gun raid, was to stand trial June 25 for holding up a filling station. Olin Rayburn, also indicted in the same robbery, was on parole from a ten year murder sentence. Johnny Greek faced trial next week for burglary and grand larceny connected to a recent Elks club robbery.
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Mobile
Ala
Genio Conway
Atmore
Als
Olin Rayburn
Johnny Greek
Elks Club
Dillinger Reported Seen Sparks Manhunt In Midwest
Federal officers checked a report that the outlaw John Dillinger had been seen alive in Northfield Minnesota. Donald Murray a former Chicago taxicab driver said he saw Dillinger in a car with four men and described a tense encounter near a freight train.
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ST. Paul
Minn
John Dillinger
Indiana
Donald Murray
Chicago
Dillinger
Northfield
Here
Murray
Senate OKs Segregation Bill for School Funds
In Baton Rouge on June 13 the Senate Education Committee quickly approved the Boudreaux bill requiring segregation of school funds from other state accounts with penalties if not followed. Senator Gardiner chaired, with Dore and Terzia joining in support.
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Baton Rouge
Boudreaux
Senate Education Committee
Senate
A. C. Gardiner
Hugo Dore
Evangeline
Louisiana Tax Reform Commission
Gardiner
Dore
Leo Terzia
Madison
Joseph I. Boudreaux
Vermillion and St. Mary
Senate Leader Attacks Mass Meeting as Disgrace
In Baton Rouge the administration floor leader Coleman Lindsey denounced a statewide mass meeting as a disgrace to Louisiana, calling it a sponsored demonstration by the Old Regulars and comparing attendees to drunken jobholders. Other senators demanded apologies for the charges as the session opened.
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Jack Adams
Associated Press
State House
Baton Rouge
Senate
Coleman Lindsey
Minden
T. Semmes Walmsley
New Orleans
Huey P. Long
O. K. Allen
Lindsey
Louisiana
George W. Hardy, Jr
Shreveport
Shreve
Port
Allen
Paul E. Chasez
Chasez
Webster
New Orleans Association of Commerce
Oser
Tugwell Cleared After Trial At Hollywood
In Hollywood California June Mir reports Tugwell faced a trial where he was deemed not a menace. The piece suggests jurors showed mercy, noting Tugwell’s past as a dirt farmer and contrasting sympathy for soldiers returning from war with that for rural farmers.
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Hollywood
Cal
June Mir
Tugwell
O. K
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