Louisiana lawmakers weigh remaining measures tonight
Baton Rouge reports 14 measures still before legislators with 48 in the house and 26 on the senate calendar. Tonight’s expected actions include bills regulating state police dismissals and authorizing lease of mineral rights on levee lands, plus amendments to pension boards and the states printing law. Governor Leche has emergency bills on his desk for signature.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
House
Senate
State Mineral Board
Shreveport Firemen’s Pension Board
Richard W. Leche
Assembly
New Directory of Twin Cities Off Press
Initial deliveries of the 1938 direc tories of Monroe and West Monroe were made by C. B. Page publisher of the interstate city directories. The book, printed and bound by Monroe Printing, adds 40 pages and shows improved advertising support. Pink paper aids street location work in the directory section.
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Monroe
West Monroe
C. B. Page
Interstate City Directories
Twin Cities
Monroe Printing Company
Page
Eighteen Indicted in Espionage Probes Nationally
A federal grand jury returned three indictments naming eighteen individuals in the first extensive espionage probe since World War I. The indictments followed four weeks of hearings and months of inquiry. Witnesses Johanna Hofman, a 26 year old hairdresser aboard the Europa liner, and Private Erich Glasser of the Army Air Corps at Mitchel Field testified. Each faced $25,000 bail on espionage complaints. Neither had appeared before the grand jury previously.
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New York
Federal Grand Jury
Johanna Hofman
Erich Glasser
Army Air Corps
Mitchelfield
Body of Kenny found floating in Cross Bayou
The body of George Kenny a 32 year old Urania sawmill worker who fell into Cross Bayou after being struck by lightning Thursday afternoon was recovered Sunday morning by Monroe fire department at the scene after 48 hours of search. Captain Tom Dupree led the crew that found the body about a mile from the suspected strike point and the body was handed to his relatives.
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George Kenny
Urania
Cross Bayou
Ferriday
Monroe Fire Department
Kenny
Tom Dupree
American Legion
Dupree
Bayou
Kennedy Disclaims Run for 1940 Presidency
New York June 20 Kennedy United States ambassador to Britain disclaims any intention to seek the Democratic nomination in 1940. He calls such an aim a breach of faith with President Roosevelt and plans a White House meeting to report on economic and political observations. He will attend his son Joseph Jr.s Harvard graduation in Boston. James Roosevelt meets him on the Queen Mary.
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New York
Joseph P. Kennedy
United States
Court of St. James
Europe
Roosevelt
Kennedy
White House
Joseph Jr
Harvard University
Boston
James Roosevelt
Maine Primary Chooses Party Desig nates In Portland
Maine voters, in a biennial primary held in Portland, designate party nominees for major and lesser offices to be on the September 12 general election ballot.
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Maine
Portland
Navy weighs future of 3 million dirigible project
The U S Navy debates a 3 million dirigible after Congress funded a 590000 start. Planned 630 by 100 feet, with space for several planes, construction awaits Roosevelt's signature. Admirals differ on value, while Cook and Leahy push for testing feasibility as a carrier of aircraft.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Navy
Swanson
William D. Leahy
Naval Operations
Arthur B. Cook
Naval Aeronautics
Cook
Hypnotism Claims Pain Free Birth In Los Angeles
Mrs. Ethel Pardie Gaynor reports painless childbirth under her husband Dr. Leo Gaynor's hypnotic suggestion. An eight-pound daughter was born with two doctors certifying no pain and no anaesthetic used. The couple notes prior births were painful.
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Los Angeles
Ethel Pardie Gaynor
Four Mississippi fishermen die in storm crash
Four men flying home to Greenwood from a gulf coast trip were killed when their Beechcraft crashed into dense woods near Louin Mississippi during a thunderstorm. Pilot Forshner held a private license. Bodies sent to Greenwood and Yazoo City for burial.
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John Parker
Here
Forshner, Roe, Portwood
Stubblefield
Mobile
Ala
Greenwood
Forshner
Keyfield
Meridian
Miss
Louin
Boyd
William Terry
Five Agencies Outline Fast Start for Relief Program
Heads of five government spending agencies presented outlines for quickly launching a 3.753 billion relief and public works program. The plans cover hundreds of bridges sewers roads schools airports housing dams harbors flood control units with the president set to sign. Agriculture studied parity payments loans for farmers lacking credit and subsistence grants for low income growers. Hopkins notes 1.325 billion for WPA wages will enter living costs through trade channels.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Harry L. Hopkins
Works Progress Administrator
WPA
Barkley says business not to be hounded
Louisville June 20 Alben W Barkley Senate Majority Leader said the monopolys investigation by congress is not to be an attack on any business He called it an intelligent fact finding start toward preserving democracy in American business and said it will form the basis for permanent legislation He urged business to trust President Roosevelt and cooperate with him noting acts beneficial to agriculture labor and the public good.
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Louisville
Senate
Alben W. Barkley
Congress
Barkley
Roosevelt
Outstanding member of 1938 agriculture class named
Dean J G Lee Jr of Louisiana State University announces James E Bryan Jr, forestry graduate, named most outstanding member of the 1938 agriculture class by a college faculty committee based on scholastic standing character leadership and departmental participation. Bryan, Calhoun High School 1934 graduate.
Flashes In The News Report Of Downtown Assault And Robbery
In Indianapolis two Good Samaritans rushed John Casey to hospital after he was slugged by an unidentified man. He later returned with a broken nose and bruised jaw claiming the Samaritans had robbed him of a billfold and a diamond ring before ejecting him. In Beckley, prosecutors said horses do not fall under the parking meter law and declined to apply it.
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Indianapolis
Priming the federal pump for $3.753 billion relief plan
Washington outlines steps after the bill becomes law to release the $3,753,000,000 relief program. A White House messenger delivers copies to the state department and lawyers verify against four copies. Morgenthau drafts warrants, the comptroller signs, and letters of allocation authorize agencies. When ready, agencies get accounts and draw funds via a treasury requisition and federal reserve disbursement. The pump then begins to splash.
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Washington
White House
State Department
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau
General Accounting Office
Comptroller
Treasury
Federal Reserve Bank
Financial Marts Take Upward Turn
New York June 20 leading stocks moved higher by about 1 to 4 a share as markets rally. Brokers cite oversold conditions and improving business indices along with hopes for a large scale government lending spending program. Bonds and commodities fell but shares gained on quiet turnover.
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New York
Tragedy Deepens In Montana River Train Crash
Rescue crews fear the death toll will rise as Custer Creek floods recede and debris are cut away to recover bodies from the wreck of Milwaukee railroad’s Olympian train after a washout on a bridge near Miles City Montana. Sixteen bodies have been recovered, eleven identified, with one unidentified woman later pulled from the Yellowstone River. The coroner delayed inquest as recovery continues and the Interstate Commerce Commission opens an inquiry.
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Miles City
Mont
Olympian
Chicago, Milwaukee and
Custer Creek
Milwaukee Railroad
Stanley Guy
Prairie County
Montana
The
Interstate Commerce Commission
Yellowstone River
Custer Creels
Britain Italy may hurry up peace treaty
London reports Britain and Italy began discussing immediate effect of their Rome April 16 accord, skipping the Spanish war settlement condition. Discussion with Count Galeazzo Ciano and Britain's Earl of Perth seeks to bypass obstacles, amid PM Neville Chamberlain’s vague “settlement” meaning. News notes renewed Nazi persecution and Bolshevik purges shaping world events as Japanese forces address Hankow and Yangtze actions.
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London
Britain
Italy
Rome
Spain
Count Galeazzo Ciamo
Earl of Perth
Germany
Yangtze River
Hankow
John Roosevelts on Canadian Isle
John Roosevelt son of the president and his bride Anne Lindsay Clark sought seclusion on Campobello Island in New Brunswick after a fashionable wedding at Nahant Massachusetts. They arrived by crude scow ferry from Labecon to the island facing Passamaquoddy Bay and greeted a welcoming committee. The couple asked for privacy as they settled in at the president’s cottage and offered no immediate plans.
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Campobello Island
N. B
Roosevelts
John Roosevelt
Anne Lindsay Clark
Franklin, Jr
Ethel du Pont Roosevelt
Passamaquoddy Bay
John
Anne
Nahant
Maas
Labec
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U.S
Dirigible
L. 5
Ouachita Man
James E. Bryan, Jr
Associated Press
Samaritans
Clark-Roosevelt
Mass
Nancy Cassels
Elizabeth Jaques
Sally Clark
Anne Clark
Joan Clark
John Boettiger
Ledlie Laughlin
Concord
Charles R. L. Sturgis
John L. Lyman
Elliot Bacon
Westbury
L. I
John Drayton
Newport
D. Eldrige Jackson
Providence
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Chicago
Nathaniel Clark
Dover
Marshall Field, Jr
John Graham
Financial
Custer Bridge
Neville A
House of Mans
John Roosevelts
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