Italian German Premiers Meet in Venice Amid High Hopes
In Venice Hitler and Mussolini met to seek an Italo German disarmament accord and discuss the eastern European situation. Hitler arrived by plane with von Neurath. crowds cheered as the pair waved from the Grand Hotel balcony and aboard a motorboat on the lagoon.
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Venice
Europe
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Hitler
Konstantin von Neurath
der Fuhhrer
Il Duce
Austria
Nicelli Airfield
Mussolini
Fulvio Sovich
Berlin
Duce
Gorman
van Neurath
Sovich
Adriatic
Piazza San Marco
Grand Hotel
Huey Long Unshaken by Capital Mass Meeting Dissents
Washington June 14 senator Huey P Long appeared not greatly disturbed by a capital city mass meeting where his leadership was denounced and state legislators were warned by speeches and resolutions against passing new taxes.
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Washington
Huey P. Long
Two Police Officers Kidnapped in Davenport
Davenport Iowa June 14 Two men abducted Elmer Schlueter a Davenport police officer and Al Schultze secretary of the Davenport Western league baseball club after approach. The pair were forced into a car and driven away with no further details or trace of them found as police recovered Schultze's car 12 miles west of Davenport.
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Davenport
Elmer Schlueter
al Schultze
Union Station
Schlueter
Schultze
Rambling Anecdotes and Rural Humor From a Banquet Tale
A North Carolina governor recalls a tale of a weather prophet jackass as a parable on politics. A farmer predicts rain by his jackass ears, prompting the king to appoint the jackass as weather prophet. The column weaves in quips about political hype, a black chick among red hatchlings, and a joke about state legislatures.
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North Carolina
Thess
Jackass
West Monroe
Rhode Island
Hamilton meted death sentence in Texas prison killing
In Huntsville Texas on June 14 Raymond Hamilton once linked with Clyde Barrow was condemned to die in the electric chair for killing Major Crowson a penitentiary guard during a prison escape. The jury led by a Baptist minister announced the penalty as Hamilton vowed he would not die in the chair and his attorney planned a new trial.
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Huntsville
Tex
Raymond Hamilton
Clyde Barrow
Southwest
George C. Montgomery
Hamilton
Major Crowson
Crowson
Eastham
Navy seizes secret crash papers in Last Chance Mountain wreck
Liberty New York June 14 The Navy Department announced it recovered from the Last Chance mountain airliner crash a document labeled Formula for explosives. A naval intelligence officer his aide and a chauffeur left with papers and chemicals from William Baxter Bader Buffalo chemical engineer and one of the seven victims. Coroner Bourke turned over the evidence after a conference with naval officials and the county district attorney noting a higher authority requested it. Continued on Fourth Page.
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Morris Watson
Associated Press
Liberty
N. Y
United States Navy Department
Last Chance Mountain
Naval Intelligence Department
Naval
Victor G. Bourke
William Baxter Bader
Buffalo Chemical Engineer
Bourke
Nations face war debt defaults at zero hour
Italy Poland Romania and Hungary told the State Department they will default on their war debt payments due tomorrow. Great Britain France Belgium and Czechoslovakia also warned of default on over 425 million dollars. Czechoslovakia proposed paying in kind to protect its finances as talks on readjustment begin.
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Washington
Italy
Poland
Rumania
Hungary
State Department
Picayune
United States
Great Britain
France
Belgium
Czechoslovakia
Ferdinand Veverka
Charles A. Davila
Estonia
Latvia
One Man War Against Bolshevists Staged in Finland
Helisnkfors Finland June 14 British legation denied Brown is a British subject He is Henry Wilson Brown 25 who forced entry into the Russian legation and fired 20 shots Police said he conceived a one man war against Soviet Russia He told hospital staff he sought revenge for Bolshevists killing his uncle and taking his fortune He was stopped by a bullet to the chin and is under observation The case of his identity progresses slowly
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Helsingfors
Finland
Henry Wilson Brown
Russia
Brown
Postponed Action on Burns-Duke Chain Store Tax Measure
Baton Rouge lawmakers postpone consideration of the Burns-Duke chain store tax bill after an 8 to 6 vote to defer and an amendment to align with the tax reform commission proposal was rejected by 7 to 6. The bill would levy up to 500 dollars on chains over 21 stores, with debate over basing tax on stores or locations and distribution by parish.
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Baton Rouge
House
Ways and Means Committee
Louisiana Tax Reform Commission
J. Porter Burgess
Ouachita
L. M. Wimberly
Bienville
Commission
Tax Reform Commission
Wimberly
Henriques
Picciola
Cole
Monette Jones
Meaux
McGrath
Hoffpaulr
Burgess
Guillory
Dehass
Williamson
Dicharry
Burke
Burns
New Orleans
Murray Hudson
Monroe
A. Nunez
T. Bernard
Ben J. Haney
Burgess and Wimberly
Earl Long
Huey P. Long
Picture seen as clue in old abduction case
New York police and the navy pursue a possible link to Grace Budd's 1928 kidnapping after a newspaper photo shows a young woman with two sailors on Riverside Drive. Edward Fitzgibbons, a former policeman, wrote to Admiral Sellers alleging likeness to Grace Budd and may be questioned along with the girl’s mother.
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New York
David Fonie Sellers
Grace Budd
Navy
Riverside Drive
Edward Fitzgibbons
Delia Budd
Manhattan
Admiral Sellers
William King
Missing Persons Bureau
Fitzgibbons
Lower Manhattan
Frank Howard
Long Island
Flag’s Birthday Observed Across Nation on Flag Day
Associated Press notes Old Glory’s birthday marked by flags furling coast to coast. The 1777 flag design guided by Betsy Ross era ties, with Navy displays in New York and Fort Niagara’s mixed historical banners on view. Admiral Sellers spoke in New York while Fort Niagara historically celebrates civil flags.
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Associated Press
Old Glory
Continental Congress
George Ross
Robert Morris
Betsy Ross
Philadelphia
Quaker City
Navy
New York
Empire State Building
David F. Sellers
Fort Niagara
N. Y
United States Army
France
Cotton Used In May Slumps From Last Year
The census bureau reports May cotton consumption at 519 765 bales of lint and 63 878 bales of linters, down from April and well below May last year. May 31 stocks show lint and linters in consuming establishments and public storage and compresses, with year over year declines overall. Imports for May totaled 15 052 bales.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Linters
Germany orders moratorium on state loans
Berlin reports the German government halted payments on Young and Dawes loans and extended a Reichsbank moratorium on all medium and long term foreign obligations from July 1 to December 31. Finance Minister Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk said interest and amortization on state loans will be suspended for now.
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Berlin
Young and Dawes
Reichs~ Bank
Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk
Reichsbank
Germany
German Institute of Business Research
Young Or Dawes
Man Killed as Truck Hits Bridge in Lake Charles
Robert Lee Donaldson 63 known as Uncle Lee died when he fell between a truck and trailer after the truck struck a bridge on the old Spanish trail at West Jennings. The driver Henry Lee was unhurt though the truck remained undamaged.
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Lake Charles
Robert Lee Donaldson
Uncle Lee
West Jennings
Donaldson
Amite
Henry Lee
Coal and Ice Firms Seek Injunctions Against TVA
Two petitions filed in U S district court seek temporary injunctions to block the Tennessee Valley Authority and Alabama Power from selling electric appliances and motors using public funds. Plaintiffs ask to prevent TVA from further hydro and power activities and from entering into agreements seen as competing with coal and ice producers. The filings aim to restrain TVA from distributing utility business and from continuing hydroelectric construction pending a final hearing.
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Birmingham
Ala
Tennessee Valley Authority
U. S. District Court
Alabama
Alabama Power Company
Electric Home and Farm Authority, Inc
TVA
Jailbreakers fled with kidnaping in Texas escape
Four convicts who abducted Wade Cunningham and C. R. Dehm and a fifth prisoner who walked free led a statewide manhunt across central Texas. The group forced the railroad officials to drive them to secrecy before eluding capture near Purdon, Navarro County, after a jailer was threatened with a pistol. The escapees were Bryant O Neal, George Brimfield, E W Spencer and Alvin James Bagget.
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Waco
Tex
Texas
Wade Cunningham
C. R. Dehm
Southern Pacific Railroad
Corsicana
Dehm
Cunningham
Pistol Point
Purdon
Navarro County
Hubert Hulen
T. H. Foster
Hulen
Foster
Bryant O'Neal
George Brimfield
E. W. Spencer
Alvin James Bagget
Authority proposes anti strike boards to avert steel walkout
In Pittsburgh a convention of steel workers pressed for government action as a 72 hour strike deadline loomed. An administration substitute to the Wagner bill would empower a president to set up boards with force equal to federal trade commission orders. Gary Indiana mills prepared for a walkout with cots in plant. New York's steel institute said 85 percent of employees rejected a strike in a recent vote. San Francisco hosts a Pacific coast mariners plan to end their strike. Joseph
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Associated Press
Congress
Pittsburgh
Federal Trade Commission
Gary
Ind
Steel Mills
New York
American Iron and Steel Institute
San Francisco
Joseph
New Fever Cure Awarded Medal by Medical Body
The American Medical Association awards its gold medal to a typhoid fever medicine and credits the accompanying antitoxin serum process. Gregory Shwartzman of Mt. Sinai Hospital New York originates the method promising remedies for infectious diseases. The award was given at the scientific exhibit after demonstrating a filtrate used in rabbit skin then blood experiments.
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Cleveland
American Medical Association
Gregory Shwartzman
Mt. Sinai Hospital
New York City
Fighting Plane Crashes. Pilot Injured in Test Flight
Curtiss test plane crashed in Lancaster Buffalo suburb during a 12,000 foot test. Pilot Paul Hovgard, 31, of Philadelphia, bailed out with a fractured arm and leg after the tail failed and the motor quit. Debris damaged property and a nearby car as the plane broke up.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, Inc
Lancaster
Paul Hovgard
Philadelphia
Hovgard
Louisiana House Appropriations Committee Advances 1934 36 Budget
The Louisiana house appropriations committee approved a general appropriations bill totaling 112 million for 1934 36, surpassing the tax commission budget by about 32 million and adding a property tax relief fund funded by yet-to-be-passed tax bills. Gov. O K Allen attended as the committee limited speakers to five minutes each, and the session wrapped in under two hours amid crowd pressure.
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Baton Rouge
House Appropriations Committee
State Tax Commission
Louisiana Tax Reform Commission
Tax Reform Commission
O. K. Allen
Delesdernier
Plaquemines Parish
Commission
Capitol
Leuissier
Catahoula
Appropriations Committee
Secretary of State
Rogers Has His Say on Debts and Europe
Hollywood, June H special column criticizes recurring debt proposals and unpaid loans, noting political posturing before elections. The writer parries: elect me and I will make Europe pay, framing the debt issue as a perpetual campaign argument.
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Washington
Europe
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