Italian and German Premiers Meet in Venice
In Venice on June 14 1938 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini greeted crowds as they met to discuss Europe disarmament and the eastern European situation. Hitler arrived by tri motor plane accompanied by Konstan tin von Neurath and diplomats.
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Venice
Europe
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Hitler
Konstantin von Neurath
der Fuehrer
Il Duce
Austria
Nicelli Air Field
Mussolini
Fulvio Sovich
Berlin
van Neurath
Sovich
Adriatic
Piazza San Marco
Grand Hotel
Huey Long Unbothered by Capital Mass Meeting
Washington June 14. Senator Huey P. Long appeared not greatly disturbed by the Tuesday night capital mass meeting where his leadership was denounced and state legislators were warned by speeches and resolutions not to pass new taxes.
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Washington
Huey P. Long
Rivers Daily Stages Flood Present 24 Hour Stage
A flood stage is in effect along the river with a 24 hour outlook. Officials warn of rising water levels and urge residents to monitor stages and heed evacuation alerts as conditions change.
Davenport Officials Reported Kidnapped Near Union Station
Davenport Iowa June 14 two men, Elmer Schlueter a Davenport police officer and Al Schultze secretary of the Davenport Western league baseball club were kidnapped by bandits near Union station. They were forced into a car after confronting suspected thieves and driven away. Schultze's car was found later twelve miles west of Davenport with no sign of the two men. Details were not immediately available.
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Davenport
Elmer Schlueter
al Schultze
Union Station
Schlueter
Schultze
Rambling Town Judgments and Farmyard Folklore
Local column offers a string of jokes and vignettes from North Carolina politics and rural life. A king, a jackass, and a weather prophet frame a tale on weather wisdom and misrule, followed by quips about party loyalty, a black chick amid red hens, and a boy’s question about the state legislature.
Hamilton Given Death Sentence for Prison Guard Killing
In Huntsville Texas on June 14 a jury led by Rev George C Montgomery recommended the electric chair for Raymond Hamilton the young outlaw once linked with Clyde Barrow. Convicted of killing Major Crowson during a prison raid Crowson died in January at Eastham prison farm prompting the death verdict and Hamilton vowed he would not die in the chair. His attorney said a new trial would be sought.
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Huntsville
Tex
Raymond Hamilton
Clyde Barrow
George C. Montgomery
Hamilton
Major Crowson
Crowson
Eastham
Navy Seizes Explosive Formula Papers From Plane Crash Victim
A naval intelligence officer and aides retrieved documents labeled Formula for explosives from the Last Chance mountain airliner wreck. Coroner Bourke handed over the papers after a higher authority ordered release, ahead of the scheduled inquest.
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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
War debt default expected as zero hour nears
Nations including Italy Poland Romania and Hungary notify Washington they will default on war debt payments due tomorrow. Great Britain France Belgium and Czechoslovakia also signal larger defaults totaling over 425 million dollars. Czechoslovakia proposes paying in goods and services to protect its finances.
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Washington
Italy
Poland
Romania
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 Helsinki
Henry Wilson Brown, 25, forced his way into a Russian legation in Helsinki and fired 20 shots in a rambling bid to wage a one man war against Soviet Russia. He was stopped by a bullet to the chin and hospitalized, claiming Bolshevist vengeance for slain relatives and lost fortune. The British legation denied Brown is British.
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Helsingfors
Finland
Henry Wilson Brown
Legation
Russia
Brown
Bolshevists
Great Britain
Soviet Russia
Postponed Action On Burns Duke Chain Store Tax Measure
Baton Rouge Louisiana June 14 The house ways and means committee deferred action on the Burns Duke chain store tax bill after an amendment to conform to the Louisiana tax reform commission proposal was rejected 7 to 6. The bill would tax stores in chains over 21 towns up to 500 dollars, while the reform plan caps at 200 dollars for more than 50 stores.
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Ways and Means
Louisiana Tax Reform Commission
J. Porter Burgess
Ouachita
Louisiana Tax Reform
L. M. Wimberly
Bienville
Commission
Burgess
Tax Reform Commission
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Burke
Henriques
Picciola
Cole
Monette Jones
Meaux
McGrath
Hoffpaulr
Guillory
Dehass
Williamson
Dicharry
Picture Seen as Clue in Old Abduction Case
New York June 13 A newspaper picture of a young woman with two sailors is viewed as a clue in a six year old kidnapping case. The photo resembles Grace Budd, kidnapped in June 1928 at age ten. Police and Navy seek to identify the woman and the sailors.
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New York
David Foote Sellers
Grace Budd
Navy
Riverside Drive
Edward Fitzgibbons
Delia Budd
Manhattan
Admiral Sellers
William King
The
Missing Persons Bureau
Fitzgibbons
Lower Manhattan
Frank Howard
Long Island
Flag Birthday Observed Across the Nation
Old Glory’s birthday celebrated with flag furling nationwide. The Stars and Stripes became the flag in 1777 after Betsy Ross and a Philadelphia needleworker. Navy grand fleet parade in New York and Fort Niagara flies historical flags alongside the 1812 American flag. Admiral Sellers spoke on the Empire State Building observatory.
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Associated Press
Old Glory
Continental Congress
George Ross
Robert Morris
Betsy Ross
Philadelphia
Quaker City
Navy
Grand Fleet
New York
Empire State Building
David F. Sellers
Fort Niagara
N. Y
United States Army
France
Cotton Use In May Shows Slump In 1934
Census bureau reports May 1934 cotton consumption at 519 765 bales of lint and 63 878 bales of linters down from April and well below May 1933 levels. May on hand totals show lint and linters in consuming establishments and storage, with public storage and compresses also lower than a year ago. Imports for May reached 15 052 bales. Continued on Seventh Page.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Germany halts state loan payments in moratorium order
Berlin reports a government moratorium on payments of all medium and long term foreign obligations and a Reichsbank halt on cash transfers for six months. Finance Minister Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk said interest and amortization on state loans would be suspended for now, saving hundreds of millions in foreign exchange for late 1934. Estimates cite large savings on private and state loan servicing.
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Berlin
Reichsbank
Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk
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 was killed when he fell between a truck and trailer as the vehicle struck a bridge on the old Spanish Trail at West Jennings. The driver Henry Lee was unhurt. Donaldson had dozed on the trailer after delivering water well pipe to Amite.
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Lake Charles
Robert Lee Donaldson
Uncle Lee
West Jennings
Donaldson
Amite
Henry Lee
Public accounts debate on tax basis for store localities
Burns argues using number of localities as tax base favors larger centers like New Orleans. Defenders include deferring Burk, Henriques, Picciola, Monette Jones, Meaux, McGrath. opponents cite chains and retail merchants. Murray Hudson and others press the objection while Burgess and Wimberly back the provision.
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Hoffpaulr
Cole
Wimberly
Guillory
Dehass
Williamson
Dicharry
Burke
Henriques
Picciola
Monette Jones
Meaux
McGrath
Burns
New Orleans
Murray Hudson
Monroe
A. Nunez
T. Bernard
Ben J. Haney
Burgess and Wimberly
Earl Long
Huey P. Long
Coal and Ice Firms Seek Injunction Against TVA
Alabama coal producers and ice manufacturers filed two petitions in U S district court seeking temporary injunctions against the Tennessee Valley Authority and Alabama Power Company. The suits aim to halt TVA and related entities from selling electric appliances using public funds and to block any agreements with others that promote such sales. Plaintiffs seek to restrain TVA from further hydroelectric projects and from competing in coal and ice markets pending 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 free from Texas jail in bold kidnapping spree
Four escaping inmates plus a fifth who calmly walked out took hostages Wade Cunningham and C R Dehm of Southern Pacific, forcing them to drive to back roads near Purdon Navarro County. Hubert Hulen sparked the break after a jail conference and pistol whipped jailer T H Foster. The fugitives Bryant O Neal George Brimfield E W Spencer and Alvin James Baggett fled toward Corsicana.
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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 Baggett
Steel workers vote on big walkout over labor dispute
In Pittsburgh a convention proposed an administration substitute to Wagner bill giving the president power to set up boards to settle labor issues with force equal to FTC orders. Officials say government action could avert a 12 hour steel walkout while mills prepare for possible strike actions elsewhere.
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Associated Press
Congress
Pittsburgh
Federal Trade Commission
New fever cure awarded medal by medical body
The American Medical Association awards its gold medal to a new typhoid fever medicine and highlights a novel antitoxin serum method by Dr Gregory Shwartzman of Mt Sinai Hospital New York City. The process uses a bacterial filtrate tested first in rabbit skin then in blood, with surprising results. Continued on second page.
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Cleveland
American Medical Association
Gregory Shwartzman
Mt. Sinai Hospital
New York City
Fighting Plane Crashes. Test Pilot Injured in Lancaster
A Curtiss fighting plane during a high altitude test up to 12 000 feet crashed in Lancaster Buffalo suburb. Pilot Paul Hovgard 31 Philadelphia bailed out with a fractured arm and leg. parts fell in streets and a man near a car narrowly escaped injury.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, Inc
Lancaster
Paul Hovgard
Philadelphia
Hovgard
Louisiana Appropriations Bill Moves Through Committee
The house appropriations committee approved the general department bill for 1934-36 totaling 112 million dollars, 32 million above the tax commission budget. It adds a property tax relief fund of 15.75 million annually drawn from as yet unvoted taxes, with other amendments boosting state agency budgets by about 800 thousand for the biennium.
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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 in Hollywood Debt Debate
In Hollywood June H- notes no real progress on repaying old loans as debate on repayment resurfaces before the upcoming congressional election. The author mocks past ideas and repeats a slogan blaming Europe for unpaid debts, arguing for new leadership to compel payment.
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Hollywood
Cal
Washington
Europe
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