Democratic convention debates over two thirds nominating rule
At Philadelphia June 24 delegates debated amending the constitution to require a two thirds Supreme Court ruling to annul laws. Alben Barkley opened with vigor while Homer Bone and William Granfield headed key committees amid talks of platform changes and New Deal harmony.
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Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Alben W. Barkley
Bone
Homer T. Bone
Washington
William J. Granfield
Massachusetts
Franklin Field
Garner
Weather Bureau
Carter Glass
Virginia
Associated Press
Philadelphia
Aiden W. Barkley
Joseph T. Robinson
Arkansas
New Deal
Platform Fight at Democratic Convention Over Old Age Plan
Washington state delegation pressed for a Townsend plan offering 200 dollars monthly to the elderly and aimed at using production for use. Barkley signaled constitutional reinterpretation on interstate commerce while New Dealers held sway at the platform committee. Wad Martin urged continued federal waterway aid and permanent flood control funding before the resolutions panel in Philadelphia.
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Washington State
Lewis B. Schwellenbach
Roosevelt
Robert Wagner
New York
Barkley
High Court
Herbert Hoover
Alf M. Landon
Wade Martin
Resolutions Committee
Philadelphia
Wad Martin
Louisiana
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
Martin
Marriages Reported in Hico and Urania Louisiana
In Hico Miss Myrtle Rhodes of Hico wed Fred Lawrence of Ruston in a ceremony led by Rev. Emmett Jones. The bride taught at Hico High School and they reside in Ruston. In Urania Douglas Cook and Marie O Neal of Urania were married. Marie is Zeb O Neal’s daughter and Douglas is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cook of Urania.
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Hico
Myrtle Rhodes
Fred Lawrence
Ruston
R. W. Rhodes
Emmett Jones
Lawrence
Hico High School
Urania, la
Douglas Cook
Marie O'Neal
Urania
Cook
Zeb O'Neal
Mr. Cook
Henry Cook
Nanette Garrett
Cecil Garrett
J. H. Jones
Nanette
Betty Lou
Billy Jean Walsworth
Betty
Joan Walker
Alice
Charles Gunn
Snell Charles
Barbara Nell Lindsey
Charles Garr
June
David Garrett
Betty Lou Garrett
Ann Eskew
Hodge
Sherman Jones
Margaret Byner
Charles Garrett
Weaver Bucklew tied in Good Pine wedding ceremony
Claude Weaver and Miss Lillian Bucklew wed Saturday with Rev. W. D. Milton officiating. The couple plans to reside in San Diego California. Noted financial summary records no Swedish bank failures in 1931 with two banks raising and six reducing dividends.
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Good Pine
Claude Weaver
Lillian Bucklew
W. D. Milton
San Diego
Calif
Memorial fund seeks Edison Living Memorial support in Monroe
Monroe to raise 3000 dollars for the Edison Living Memorial to aid exceptional youth in industrial science education. Mayor Arnold Bernstein urges city aid and has Barkdull Faulk Post No 13 to sponsor the subscription plan with William Perhamus as chair and Sam Rubin as co chair.
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America
Thomas Alva Edison
Monroe
Edison
Arnold Bernstein
Barkdull Faulk
American Legion
William Perhamus
Sam Rubin
Roosevelt plans action on ship subsidy measure
President Roosevelt weighed the ship subsidy proposal after a Sweden inspired report. Congress passed the measure moving subsidies from ocean mail contracts to direct payments and construction aid. borrowing and operating subsidies were included. The president would act before leaving for a Philadelphia speech, then return to Hyde Park.
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Sweden
Congress
Roosevelt
Capital
Philadelphia
Hyde Park
Washington
Five Boys Seized Torpedoes After Railroad Yard Prank
In Augusta Georgia on June 24 a pre holiday prank left five boys with 20 signal torpedoes stolen from a caboose in a railroad yard. Police urged the youths to dump the loot in water as torpedoes can explode on impact and could maim or kill.
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Augusta
Brown Paper Mill Chief Visits Brownville Plant
H. L. Brown, president of the Brown Paper Mill, paid a weekend visit to the Brownville plant. He arrived Sunday and departed Tuesday night.
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H. L. Brown
Brown Paper Mill Company
Brownville
Roy W Howard retires as Scripps-Howard chairman
New York June 24 Roy W Howard announced retirement as chairman of the board of directors of the Scripps Howard newspapers.
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New York
Roy W. Howard
Scripps-Howard Newspapers
Black and White Ointment Promises Clear Skin
For over two decades the product claims to dry pimples rashes and skin blemishes safely and scientifically. A trial size costs 10 cents while a large can is 25 cents. Sold with Black and White Soap by all druggists.
Perkins Cites Laws to Aid Working Women and Labor
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins asserts the New Deal prioritizes welfare of working women across private industry. She cites gains in employment payrolls and earnings in major factories, along with NRA improvements in conditions and U S employment service jobs reaching 688 offices since 1933.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
Federal
Departments of Labor
NRA
United States Employment Service
Communist leader calls for front against reaction and fascism
New York June 24 Chairman William Z Foster opening the ninth national convention of the Communist party urged the development of a mighty people's front against reaction fascism and war in a farmer labor party context.
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New York
William Z. Foster
Communist Party
People's Front
Farmer-Labor
Zioncheck Transferred to Private Hospital for Indefinite Treatment
District officials consented to move Zioncheck to a private institution after doctors confirmed examinations. Dr. Bocock stated Zioncheck would proceed from Gallinger to Sheppard and Enoch Pratt hospitals for further care. A petition calling him dangerous faced a motion to strike from the calendar.
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Thorities
Ziencheck
Edgar A. Bocock
Gallinger
Zioncheck
Bocock
Gallinger Hospital
Sheppard and
Enoch Pratt Hospital
T. Gillespie Walsh
Last-Minute Briefs From Washington to Hyde Park
Stanley Baldwin's government won House approval to urge suspension of war penalties to the League of Nations. Mrs. James Roosevelt, 81, stays near the radio at Hyde Park as Democratic National Convention proceedings unfold. Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. announces paid vacations for 7,400 hourly workers across six plants in Toledo and beyond.
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Stanley Baldwin
House of Commons
League of Nations
Hyde Park
N. Y
James Roosevelt
Toledo
Ohio
Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co
W M S of Corinth Baptist Church Meet at Hico
The W M S of Corinth Baptist Church at Hico held a recent gathering. Attendees included Mrs. J. H. Stevenson, Mrs. Dora Hood, Mrs. Ernest Hood, Mrs. Elbert Wilkerson, Miss Vera Burgess, Rev E A Burgess and family, with visitors Mr and Mrs Will Burgess. A kitchen and linen shower honored Mrs Ezell Fowler with many gifts.
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J. C. Shows
E. W. Stewart
Norman Dickson
John Michaud
W. C. McDonald
David Bell
Charles Kelley
G. T Littlefield
Paul Stinson
T. D. Callaway
Douglas McLean
Lena Mae Ross
W. C. McDonald, Jr
Corinth
Ezell Fowler
Ernest Fowler
S. E. Wise
J. W Hendrix
C. Fowler
John Fowler
Elmer Hood
Wade Carter
Nolan Carter
Clyde Enloe
Opal Tubbs
Billy Rives
Cutten, Noted Speculator in Market, Dies
Cutten, famed in market circles as a dominant figure in grain futures, died after a career marked by a government ban from pit trading and a landmark Supreme Court ruling. He faced a 1935 charge for failing to report 116 million bushels of wheat futures, with fortunes estimated up to 100 million, yet he remained reticent and highly influential in finance.
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Tares Commission
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
United States Supreme Court
High Tribunal
Cutten
Louisianians Select Weiss for Delegation Chair
Weiss elected delegation chairman at caucus with Governor Leche credentials. Allen Ellender named to platform committee and seeks farm plank details. Delegation holds 20 unpledged votes under unit rule and will back Roosevelt Garner renomination. Mrs Pilsbury and Mrs Bywater among few Louisiana delegates seated in convention.
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Weiss
Richard Leche
Allen Ellender
United States
Ellender
Roosevelt
Garner
Edward Pilsbury
George Bywater
Louisiana
G Man Urges Kiwanis Aid To Fight Crime
J Edgar Hoover appealed to 2000 Kiwanis delegates at a Washington convention to break up alliances of criminals and crooked politicians. He urged college trained police forces and vigilance against parole abuse, urging better citizens to enter politics as a duty.
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Washington
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hoover
Rev R L Ross to The Clarks Springs Baptist Church Sermon
Rev R L Ross newly appointed pastor of the Clarks Springs Baptist church near Old Cadeville will deliver his first sermon next Sunday June 28 according to W E Leckie a church member Marsha Hunt rides horseback and plays tennis on alternate days says lots of exercise keeps her healthy
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R. L. Ross
Clarks Springs Baptist Church
Old Cadevile
W. E. Leckie
Marsha Hunt
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WNRN
TERCO
Lawrenceburg
Phomar
Saag
Edison Fund
F. Strauss & Son, Inc
Howard
Miss Perkins
Jonesboro
Julia
Ethel Gossett
Bearden
Ark
J. H. Jones, Sr
G. §. Stovall
Roy Lee Scoggin
R. J. Jones
Pineville
M. L. Dickerson
William Klen
Jack Wyatt
University of Arkansas At
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Waco, Texas
J. C. Thomas
Art Club
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H. W Ayers
J. Carmen Thomas
Silas Moore
D. D. McDonald
Brown Traylor
Stanley Lewis
T. H. Sills
Robert Dean
W. M. S. of the Baptist Church
W. L. Caughlen
Circle Two
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FE. L. Thompson
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The
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J. J. Briehn
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A. A. Meredith
W. L. Brumfield
J. F. Sneed
E. L. Thompson
T. D. Calloway
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Lioncheck
New Hospital
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Elvin
Will Burgess
W. W. Bennett
Mont and Eloise Daily
Betty Jean Wood
Winnfield
Queen Louis
E. Louis
Frank Bennett
Louisianians
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Kiwanis Club
Jackson, Miss
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Britt Davis
OLD Merchants Bank
Jackson Miss
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Louisville
Harrison St
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Downes Brokerage CO
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Republic Production
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Walnut St
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