Council Buys Five Buses For Lee Avenue Line
Miles City Montana June 21 With 31 known dead fatigue worn searchers worked to lift a tourist sleeper from Custer creek bed. railroad officials estimate 12 more victims in the nation s worst railroad tragedy in a decade. Twenty three of the 31 victims identified.
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Miles City
Mont
Custer Creek
Milwaukee Railroad
Chicago
Milwaukee and St. Paul
Holy Rosary Hospital
City to replace trolley line with new buses
The city commission approved five new Reo buses to replace Lee avenue and Jackson street trolleys. A 3 ton street flusher was ordered for parks and streets. Delivery is expected in six to eight weeks. The move fulfills a promise to the south end and aims for safer, easier maintenance through improved inspection and repair capabilities.
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Lee Avenue
Jackson Street
City Commission Council
H. H. Benoit
Reo Motor Car Company
Lansing
Michigan
Parks and Streets Department
William Rodriguez
Finance and Public Utilities
Rodriguez
Commission Council
President Roosevelt Acts on 43 Measures at Once
President Roosevelt, briefly off clean-up duties, met with Joseph P. Kennedy in Hyde Park to discuss the Anglo American trade treaty and Kennedy’s six months as diplomat. He then signed 36 bills, vetoed seven, including a measure to raise wheat acreage allotments and a rivers and harbors project. The action covered 52 construction projects and 66 surveys, with funds not appropriated for the rivers work in one vetoed bill.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Congress
Europe
Joseph P. Kennedy
London
White House
Kennedy
New England
Hudson River
Vetoed Bills Kill Bridge Tax Exemption Plans
Hyde Park New York June 21 Two bills exempting bridges and bonds for bridges from taxation died by President Roosevelt’s veto He rejected a White County bridge commission for the Wabash near New Harmony Indiana and an Arkansas Mississippi bridge commission for the Mississippi between Friar Point Mississippi and Helena Arkansas Both measures would issue bonds and fund construction but carried tax exemptions Roosevelt cited the tax exemption clause as the reason for veto.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
White County
Wabash River
New Harmony
Ind
Independence Act Praised in Independence Square
Philadelphia June 21 Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles praised the Independence Act as the most vital force in advancing human liberties in the nineteenth century He spoke at Independence Square closing a four day celebration of the day New Hampshire ratified the Constitution and helped unite the 13 colonies He urged a revival of international law and humanity to sustain modern civilization and democracy.
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Philadelphia
Independence Hall
Sumner Welles
Independence Square
New Hampshire
Welles
England Declared Ready For Defense
London June 21 Leslie Hore Belisha secretary for war declared confidently that the country is ready to defend itself We ve done wonders in rearrment He estimated the government is spending nearly 1 000 000 pounds a day for armaments to wage defense efforts and strengthen the nation s armed forces
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London
Leslie Hore-Belisha
Council
Progovernment
Liberal National Party
Relatives Seek 20 Year Missing Man Ventricelli
In Buffalo New York relatives ask police to trace Mario Ventricelli last heard from twenty years ago. They provided his Buffalo address a favorite restaurant theater and friends homes. Police located his former home now city hall the restaurant now an office building and a railroad terminal once visited by friends.
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Associated Press
Buffalo
N. Y
New York
Mario Ventricelli
City Hall
Benson Holds Slight Margin in Minnesota
Governor Elmer A. Benson leads Hjalmar Petersen for the Farmer Labor nomination in Minnesota's Monday primary as returns come in. With 1,512 of 3,739 precincts reporting, Benson shows a growing 3,279 vote edge. urban precincts in Minneapolis St Paul boost Petersen's rural-sapped margin.
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Minneapolis
Elmer A. Benson
Minnesota
Hjalmar Petersen
Farmer- Labor
Benson
Petersen
Hennepin County
Bensen
Farmer-Labor
St. Paul
Man Hurt As Car Overturns In Arkansas
Clarence Nelson a 35 year old resident of Huttig Ark badly hurt when the car he is said to have driven overturned on the highway between Spencer and Sterlington about 3 Tuesday morning. His two companions escaped injury and Nelson was taken to St Francis Sanitarium then moved to Monroe by passing motorists. The crash occurred after hitting loose gravel while Nelson slept at the wheel and left him with multiple fractures and injured nerves in the left arm. Attending physicians deem his condition undetermined and expect a long hospital stay.
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Clarence Nelson
Huttig
Ark
Nelson
Spencer
Sterlington
St. Francis Sanitarium
Monroe
Eye Bank Idea Proposed in Philadelphia
Philadelphia discussions consider storing donated eyes like blood for transfusions. Dr Louis Lehrfeld of the County Medical Society suggested an eye bank after corneas were transplanted into two women. He proposed preserving eye tissue for at least 24 hours after death.
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Philadelphia
Louis Lehrfeld
Eye Division
The
County Medical Society
Lehrfeld
Amazing spy ring tale indicts 18 in U S case
Federal grand jury indicts 18 for conspiring over the last three years to steal U S defense secrets for Germany. Indictments cover thefts at Seversky plant Farmingdale and an army navy code book. Only four defendants remain jailed. others, including German officers, are charged.
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New York
United States Defense
Germany
Seversky
Farmingdale
Long Island
Navy
Europa
United States Army
Erich Pfeiffer
Secret Service
Last Rites for Copeland Today
Suffern N Y June 21 In the Ramapo foothills the funeral for Senator Royal S Copeland was held with a private Masonic service in Mahwah New Jersey and a large turnout of national and New York politicians. The delegation included Wagner George Burke Townsend Snell Sullivan Cullen Boylan and others. Copeland died in Washington last Friday at age 69 prompting talk of two New York Senate seats in the fall and a broader test of Roosevelt policies.
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Suffern
N. Y
Ramapo Mountain
Royal S. Copeland
Congress
Washington
Capitol Hill
Charles P. Bispham
Christ Episcopal Church
Mahwah
New Jersey
New York City
Garner
Bankhead
Copeland
Wagner
New York
George
Georgia
Burke
Nebraska
Townsend
Delaware
Snell
Sullivan
Cullen
Boylan
Tammany Hall
Roosevelt
New York State
Big check presented at Hyde Park for infantile paralysis drive
Officials of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis presented to President Roosevelt a yard long check for 1,010,000 dollars to fund the nationwide drive. Most funds came from the president's birthday balls on January 3 and 80,000 dollars from the march of dimes to the White House.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Roosevelt
White House
Flood Permits China to Make Defense Moves
Shanghai dispatch reports China reorganized and strengthened Hankow defenses as Japan’s offensive stalls amid Yellow River floods. China claims 60 new divisions about 500,000 men ready for Hankow’s last line, plus large Soviet aircraft and 1,200 Russian tanks. Japanese retreat from Henan and two-pronged plans to Hankow and Shensi are noted.
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Shanghai
China
Japan
Yellow River
Hankow
Russia
Henan Province
Chengchow
Peiping-Hankow
Sunghai
Yangtze River
Shensi Province
Chen Chien
Lunghai
Kaifeng
Lanferg
Woman bitten by snake back home
Hammond La June 21 Mrs Joe Rushing 56 returned to her Crystal Springs Mississippi home after being bitten twice on the left hand by a cottonmouth while handling a snake during a faith demonstration. She refused medical treatment and sect members prayed for her recovery.
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Hammond
Joe Rushing
Crystal Springs
Miss
Rushing
Louisiana
Holiness
Church of God
American Owned Property Bombed in Wuchow China
June 21 report says eighteen Japanese air raiders bombed American owned Texas Oil property in Wuchow Kwangsi province with one bomb in Texas grounds and another on Asiatic Petroleum property. Three bombs missed Standard Oil near a Chinese air field. Damage slight, no casualties. A seaplane bombed Swatow injuring six.
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Hong Kong
Texas Oil Company
Wuchow
Kwangs Province
Texas Company
Asiatic Petroleum Company
Standard Oil Company
Swatow
Kwantung Province
Tungkin
White Calls Extra Session On Tax Free Homesteads
Governor Hugh White of Mississippi announced an extraordinary legislative session for July 6 to approve laws for his tax free homesteads program. The session was originally set for June 27 but delayed due to a Washington conference on a $26 million PWA road grant. White labeled critics as doubting Thomases and said the session will address exemptions from ad valorem taxes for homesteads with bond-retirement provisions.
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Jackson
Miss
Hugh White
Thomases
Washington
White
Quachita Woman Granted Pardon
Baton Rouge July 21 The governor commuted Willie Serena life sentence from 1931 for murder to 15 years. Hazel Walker received a full pardon for a February theft conviction with eight months in Ouachita parish jail. Ordan Thigpen’s manslaughter sentence in Washington parish, 1935, was cut to 18 months to five years.
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Baton Rouge
Willie Serena
Richard W. Lewhe
Hazel Walker
Ouachita Parish
Ordan Thigpen
Washington Parish
House Bolts Leadership 10 Vote Defeat Judicial Retirement Bill
In Baton Rouge the Louisiana house shocked administration leaders by defeating a retirement bill that would permit judges to retire after 25 years and alter age limits, failing to reach the two thirds needed for a constitutional amendment. The chamber then favored a state bounty plan for strawberry growers, despite the appropriations committee’s negative report.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
House of Representatives
Appropriations Committee
Burke, Morvant
Stich
A. D. Flowers
LaSalle Parish
Youth and Dog on Long River Trip
Pittsburgh dispatch details Theodore Sprague a 21 year old Carnegie Tech graduate sailing a homemade boat with his spitz along the Ohio River. He left North East Pennsylvania with $5, 30 cans of food, and prior work as a bartender gardener and window washer, aiming to reach New Orleans for possible employment despite a leak early on.
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Pittsburgh
Ohio
Theodore Sprague
New Orleans
Ted
Carnegie Institute of Technology
North East
Erie
Sprague
Emsworth Locks
Beaver
Britain Uses Pressure For Spain Treaty
Britain secures agreement from Europe’s major powers to send commissions into Spain to press for withdrawal of foreign troops and a possible truce in the 23 month civil war. Mussolini backs the insurgents and seeks the Anglo Italian pact. Valencia battles continue as insurgent air squadrons bomb coastal cities.
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Associated Press
Spain
China
London
Britain
Europe
France
Italy
Mussolini
England
Valencia
Mediterranean
Chamberlain pushes for Spain war truce through key committee
Britain Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain applied pressure in a crucial non intervention committee session aimed at delivering a truce in the Spanish civil war. A successful outcome would clear the way for a sweeping new series of maneuvers by foreign powers and shifts in policy.
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London
Britain
Neville Chamberlain
Spain
City Adopts New Stop Sign Design for Safety
Monroe police chief Frank V. Reitzell announced Tuesday that stop signs with gold and black coloring and the word Stop will be placed at all major intersections. The signs, recommended by the National Safety Council, aim to reduce accidents by replacing painted pavements. some call it a visual disfigurement, but officials say the device could save lives and will be tested citywide.
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Frank V. Reitzell
National Council of Safety
National Safety Council
Reitzell
Police Department of
Monroe
Farmers urged to fight 2 beetles in Louisiana
Louisiana farmers were urged to expand the war against the white fringed beetle to include the Mexican bean beetle. Entomologist C O Eddy of the state experiment station reported the bean beetle appeared at Bogalusa in Washington parish and warned it could become a serious menace unless controlled. He noted heat and drought had limited the beetle’s spread and urged farmers to keep a close lookout.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
C. O. Eddy
State Experiment Station
Bogalusa
Washington Parish
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