Code Proposes Hire in Wages and Less Hours
Washington reports the first code of fair competition under President Roosevelt's recovery program targets the cotton textile industry. It sets minimum weekly wages at 10 dollars in the south and 11 in the north, a 40 hour maximum work week, and wage gains for many workers while excluding apprentices cleaners and outside staff. Public hearings begin June 27 with industry labor and consumer input, as national recovery advances.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Hugh S. Johnson
Navy
George A. Sloan
The
Cotton Textile Institute, Inc
T. M. Marchant
American Cotton Manufactur
Rose Pastor Stokes Dies in Germany at 54
Rose Pastor Stokes longtime radical leader dies in Frankfort on the Main after a cancer operation. Cause listed as heart ailment she had been hospitalized since April 15. Born 1879 in Russia she earned the nickname Rose of the Ghetto and once faced draft obstruction charges later commuted by Wilson.
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Frankfort- On- the- Maine
Germany
Rose Pastor Stokes
Municipalital
New York
Vito Schmieden
Stokes
Leavenworth
Wilson
Augustova
Suwark
Russia
London
America
Ohio
Rose
James Graham Phelps Stokes
Two Stories of Slaying Repudiated in Alabama Case
In Tuscaloosa on June 20 A. T. Harden a 15 year old negro recanted his earlier statements about the slaying of 21 year old Miss Vaudine Maddox near the city last week. Earlier accounts claimed Dan Pippen Jr 18 and Harden witnessed the crime. Harden now says the stories were fabrications and that he did not witness the attack. The grand jury will be convened to consider indictments as the case develops further with Dan Pippen Sr. held in connection with the affair.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
Vaudine Maddox
Here
A. T. Harden
Dan Pippen, Jr
Edward DeGraffenreid
Dan Pippen
Cape
Record of laughter and motoring mischief around Monroe
Paramount theater manager Jess Ramblin Harry Rice reports a new laughter mishap after a play, an appendix found in a seat, and a plan to return it if ownership is proven. L. M. Calhoun, president of La Del Oil Properties, Inc., practices driving early mornings near Gilbert and Monroe. A tutor explains the origin of SMACK OVER from CHEMIN COUVERT. Joe Anders, toll collector, helps a Monroe groom pay a clergyman’s fee after a sunset wedding on the bride’s home grounds.
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Harry W. Rice
Paramount Theater
Rice
Monroe
L. M. Calhoun
la del Oil Properties, Inc
Gilbert
Calhoun
Joe Anders
Ruston
Anders
GE workers to get 5 percent wage hike
Schenectady June 20 Five percent wage increase for General Electric employees nationwide will take effect July 1. Announcement made at company offices in Schenectady on Tuesday.
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Schenectady
N. Y
General Electric Company
Midwest Heatwave Expands Across Major States
Heat waves push temperatures near 100 degrees from Ohio to Nebraska as Indiana reports eight deaths mostly by drowning. Officials forecast relief with cooling showers for Tuesday and statewide cooling by Wednesday, while crops suffer under the scorching conditions.
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Associated Press
Middlewest
Ohio
Nebraska
Upper Michigan
Wisconsin
Iowa
South Dakota
Indiana
Michigan
Illinois
Cincinnati
Fatal Burns End El Dorado Leader Bodenhamer
Major O. L. Bodenhamer 40 formerly commanding the American Legion was fatally burned in an oil field near Henderson Texas when a match lit to light a cigarette ignited gases. He died Monday night in a Shreveport hospital. His assistant R C Cook was burned but expected to recover.
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Shreveport
O. L. Bodenhamer
el Dorado
Ark
American Legion
Henderson
Texas
Bodenhamer
Mr. Bodenhamer
Houston
East Texas
R. C. Cook
Mr. Cook
Thomas J. Bush
State highway bridge work in Monroe delayed pending funds
The state highway commission plans resuming road projects in Louisiana using a $5 828 000 federal grant but the Ouachita river bridge at Monroe likely won’t restart for months. Shafer of Stevens Bros and Shafer says steel orders take about three months after funding arrives and work will start once money is received.
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State Highway Commission
Louisiana
Ouachita River
Monroe
C. B. Shafer
Stevens Bros
Shafer
No Stabilization Foreseen by U S Treasury
Washington reports no immediate plan to stabilize currencies. The treasury states conditions in the United States are satisfactory without stabilization and that any move would depend on future developments toward a normal level.
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Washington
United States
Treasury
Outlaw Seen as Paid Killer in Kansas City Slayings
Police weigh if Charles Pretty Boy Floyd acted as a hired killer after five men were shot and four officers killed near Union Station. A witness identified Floyd from a photo during the investigation into the Nash case, amid rumors of a $ payoff and prior liquor war violence.
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Kansas City
R. I. Vetterli
Federal Bureau of Investigation
F. J. Lackey
Associated Press
Charles
Pretty Boy) Floyd
Oklahoma
Frank Nash
Floyd
Jack Dalton
Lottie West
Travelers’ Aid Society
Union Station
Heat Wave In Dixie Brings Record Southern Highs
A second heat wave settles over the south pushing temperatures higher than a week earlier. Atlanta topped 99 degrees, tied to a heart attack death. Augusta reached 104, Birmingham tied in heat at 104, Raleigh 94, New Orleans 91, Chattanooga 98, Vicksburg 94, while Miami was 82.
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Atlanta
Mercury
Augusta
Birmingham
Ala
Raleigh
N. C
New Orleans
Chattanooga
Tenn
Vicksburg
Miss
Miami, Fla
Highway Payroll Surge Under Long-Allen Regime in Louisiana
This installment traces highway payroll growth during the 1931-32 campaign, noting a rise from about 5,826 to 8,000 employees by March 1932. It argues that highway spending and political leverage expanded under Huey P. Long and the Long-Allen administration, beyond earlier rolls.
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Long
Louisiana
Baton Rouge
Simpson-Payne Highway Administration
Long-Allen
BOG. AB
Casiccsessons Cabennas
Georgia Governor uses martial law to seize highway board
Governor Eugene Talmadge, with state troopers, dissolved the highway board leaving one member in place after budget clashes. He sought a method to pay 1,300 employees since April 1 while amid an injunction over firing five engineers and seizure of highway funds.
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Atlanta
Eugene Talmadge
Capitol
New York
National Guard
Highway Department
Government farm tax aims to spare consumer costs
Secretary Wallace and farm act chief administrator George Peek say a four cent per pound tax on cotton processing and a thirty cent per bushel levy on wheat will cut production and keep consumer prices low. They claim costs should be absorbed before reaching buyers of finished goods.
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Washington
Wallace
George N. Peek
Wiggins Blast Kills Employee and Harms Manager
A blast at the Superior Oil bulk gasoline and oil plant in Wiggins Mississippi killed Joe Lewis a Black plant worker and seriously burned L L Stewart manager of a nearby Standard Oil filling station. The explosions sparked a fire threatening the town’s business district and drew aid from nearby fire departments.
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Wiggins
Miss
Joe Lewis
L. L. Stewart
Standard Oil
Superior Oil Company
Lewis
Monroe Woman Tries Poison Overdose
Mrs. Lillie Mae Wilburn 23 of 1010 Oak Street attempted suicide by poison tablets about 10 30 Tuesday morning. She was rushed to St Francis sanitarium by ambulance and after treatment her physician said a good chance for recovery. She would not speak about her motive and is mother of two children.
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Lillie Mae Wilburn
Oak Street
St. Francis Sanitarium
Rogers Has His Say on Princes and Privacy
Beverly Hills column mocks foreign titled royals and asks if a prince would marry a poor girl to prove his status. It recalls Theodore Roosevelt's quiet cruise being swarmed by battleship and media, urging a rare moment of privacy.
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Beverly Hills
Cal
Mr. Roosevelt
Coast Guard
Cotton Farmers Await Decision on Plan to Curb Cotton Acreage
New Orleans June 20. Farmers across Dixie discussed the administration plan to cut cotton acreage and boost prices. Officials praised Secretary Wallace s scheme to remove about 10 million acres from production via land leases and a government carry over pool, while farmers hold the final say on this year s farm price.
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Wallace
New Orleans
Dixie's
Plaw
Dixie
Solon Almon Suffers Severe Heart Attack in Washington
Edward B. Almon 78 year old Democratic representative of Alabama's eighth district fell ill in Washington described as critical. He has been confined to a hotel room for days with recovery labeled problematical by his attending physician. Almon, from Tuscumbia, active in Muscle Shoals government operation, serves in the 64th Congress.
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Washington
Edward B. Almon
Alabama
Almon
State Tax Load Facts for Louisiana Readers
The News-Star and Morning World publish a series on state tax matters every Tuesday Thursday and Sunday. An expert author explains how state agencies collect and disburse revenues from taxes licenses and more.
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Louisiana
News-Star
Morning World
Roosevelt approves prudent path before returning to gold standard
London June 20 Senate money resolution led by Key Pittman to rehabilitate silver dominates world economic conference. United States insists gold standard will not return until proven workable and supported by Hull and Warburg speaking from floor. France and gold bloc nations challenge clause calling for gold as international measure of exchange values.
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DeWitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
London
Key Pittman
Cordell Hull
United States
Pittman
James P. Warburg
Mr. Warburg
America
Weather Smiles On Roosevelt Schooner Voyage Off Cape Cod
The Roosevelt presidential schooner Skipper, with Ellis and Navy yacht Cuyahoga nearby, rode an easterly wind from Nantucket toward Provincetown. A nor'easter that threatened Monday vanished as the sun broke through, guiding an 85 mile course past Cape Cod near Chatham toward Provincetown with a naval detail aboard.
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Chatham
Mass
Roosevelt
Cape Cod
Provincetown
Nantucket
Ellis
Cuyahoga
Navy
Secret Service
Mr. Roosevelt
City of
Birmingham
Provencetown
Three States Vote on Repeal of Prohibition Amendment
Iowa and New Hampshire joined Connecticut in voting on repeal Tuesday. Prohibitionists claimed defeat in Connecticut, while Iowa and New Hampshire were seen as more divided. Eleven states thus far have backed repeal, with Minnesota conspicuously absent from the tally.
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Associated Press
Iowa
New England
New Hampshire
Connecticut
Michigan
Wisconsin
Winois
Diana
New York
Nevada
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Wyoming
Rhode Island
Delaware
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