House Passes Women’s Wage and Pay Bills
Baton Rouge legislators or winded by a flurry over inheritance tax fees, the Senate killed Noe’s investigation resolution 31 to 2. Legislature approved funds for a junior college branch at Lake Charles and $100,000 toward Beeges construction with a 15 million bond issue for a New Orleans rail depot project.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
James Noe
Richard Lloche
Earl Lang
Senate
Noe
Louisiana State University
Lake Charles
New Orleans
Hand proposes bill to repeal cotton futures tax in New Orleans
Baton Rouge June 1 The measure introduced by Representative Hand and Edmund Burke would repeal the tax on cotton futures sales in New Orleans and prevent shifts of business to New York exchange. The bill faced opposition from a state leader in the House and was ready for final passage when stalled by debate.
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Baton Rouge
Peter Hand
New Today
New Orleans
New York
Orleans Exchange
Representative Hand
Edmund Burke
France Restores Death Penalty for Espionage
In 1937 spies faced 30 convictions. this year convictions rise to nearly four weekly. France reestablishes the death penalty in peacetime via a decree law to curb espionage, empowering authorities to restrict foreigners near forts and defense workers. The deuxieme bureau, under the army general staff, leads counter espionage, infiltrating rings by catching the “little fellows” at the base of spy networks.
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Deuxieme (Second
France
Deuxieme Bureau
Army
Germany
Life in Spain and local district improvements noted
Wartime life in Spain shows food shortages with rationed bread and dwindling wine beer and meat while peseta value falls. In Linville district WPA NYA funds support a $25 000 gym auditorium and science building project with Salley Ellis contractors and a $25 500 bond last summer.
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WPA
Linville
Salley and Ellis
Bernice
NYA
S. M. Jackson
Union Parish Plans School Campuses and Improvements
Union Parish school plans graphic expansions at Marion including a principal’s residence, gymnasium, auditorium, and agricultural facilities with a total fund of 50 000 dollars. Bids for a new home cottage, agricultural center, and additions to the existing plant were set for regular Union parish school board meeting Friday July 1. A tax election was ordered in the district for July 18 to support the project.
Strahan Resigns Ouachita Parish Agent Post
Strahan leaves as Ouachita parish agricultural agent and is replaced by D L Bornman Jr of Washington parish who will serve from the courthouse third floor. Strahan expresses gratitude to the Ouachita police jury for removing an April 13 resolution and to parish farmers for 260 percent cooperation during his 16 years in office.
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Mr. Strahan
Strahan
D. L. Bornman, Jr
Washington Parish
Ouachita Parish
Monroe
Ouachita Perish
State Extension Service
Coopera
Moderation Called in Attacks on Ships in Spanish Waters
The report urges restraint in raiding British ships and urges that the British flag be respected in Spanish ports. It notes Franco’s offer to designate free ports in western Spain where “honest traffic” would enter. The Perth-Ciano talks spark speculation of halting air raids on British merchant ships in Spanish waters.
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Franco
Spain
British destroyers move to Mallorca amid anti-piracy patrol
London reports two Royal Navy destroyers Imogen and Isis ordered from Gibraltar to Mallorca as a routine measure linked to the Nyon anti piracy patrol. Observers say Mussolini pressed Franco to halt attacks on British shipping, with critics in Parliament urging action as ships are sunk.
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London
Imogen
Isis
Mallorca
Gibraltar
Admiralty
Nyon
Palma
Spain
Rome
Mussolini
Francisco Franco
Neville Chamberlain
Sandys Says Secrets Act Threat Used Against Him
Britain’s political storm over the official secrets act deepened as Dun can Sandys, Churchill’s son in law and Conservative MP, told the House he was ordered to appear before a military court. He called it a gross breach of parliamentary privilege after alleging the attorney general pressed him to reveal a source behind leaked information on Britain’s defenses. The military court opened yesterday to probe the leakage.
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London
Britain
Duncan Sandys
House of Commons
Sandys
Winston Churchill
Commons
Japan Feels Pinch as War Demands Cut Imports
A wartime decree aims to shift Japan toward munitions and war supplies while cutting imports to save foreign exchange. Officials joke about a coming long-haired nation as razors and scissors grow scarce, and feminine hairdressing tools become jokes of the shortage.
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Japan
Vanderbilt capitalist Frederick William Vanderbilt dies at 83
Frederick William Vanderbilt 83, capitalist, railroad director and yacht enthusiast, died at his Hyde Park country home after a week of illness. He was the third son of William Vanderbilt and Maria Kissam Vanderbilt, born 1855. His wife, the former Mrs Alfred Torrence, whom he married in 1880, died twelve years ago.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Frederick William Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
William
Maria Louisa Kissam Vanhe
Alfred Torrence
Mary Belle Tevis On Leaving High Society For Art Model Life
Mary Belle Tevis, a member of a prominent New York family, explains in San Francisco why she chose to leave society and work as an artist’s model. She says she tired of waiting for a wealthy husband and of idle social pursuits and now pursues independence through her art.
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Mary Belle Tevis
New York
Miss Tevis
San Francisco
Nye Leads Langer in Republican Nomination Race
Across 38 precincts Burdick leads with 14 665 votes while Lemke trails at 13 613 Sivert W Thompson 8 069 Henry G Owen 7 879 C F Kelsch 7 217 and Joan Field 1 047. Democratic returns show regulars ahead of progressives with Nygaard Halvorson and Johanssen leading in various contests. North Dakota elects two at large representatives with two nominees per party.
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Burdick
Lemke
Sivert W. Thompson
Henry G. Owen
C. F. Kelsch
Joan Field
J. J. Nygaard
Halvor Halvorson
E. A. Johanssen
John Moses
Oliver Rorenberg
House of Representatives
Max Strehlow
H. J. Henry
Alfred S. Dale
North Dakota
Congress
Budge Dominates Puncee In Straight Sets To Net Final
Don Budge defeats Puncee in three straight sets 6-2 6-1 6-4 to reach the net final. He then teams with Alice Marble to beat Helen Wills Moody and Jean Borotra 6-1 6-4 to keep alive his bid for three championships.
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Puncee
Budge
Don
Love
Alice Marble
Helen Wills Moody
Jean Borotra
Marion and area relatives visit and host groups
A string of social visits is reported with Marion residents hosting and visiting relatives. Mrs. L D Keltner in Monroe, Miss Elizabeth Crow in Dumas, Mrs. Smith in Center, Mrs. Anna Allen in Sterlington, and others include Reeves, Bird, Powell, and Jordan families traveling between Marion Pensacola and Bernice with weekend and week end gatherings.
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Elizabeth Crow
Dumas
Tex
Anna Allen
Sterlington
Disappearance of McCormick Still a Mountain Mystery
A canyon sighting behind north Sandia was made as Froelicher and Albert Simms reconnoitered from the Sandia range crest. Despite 350-strong searches, no definite trace of publishing heir McCormick has been found. Mrs Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms leads the hunt amid unactionable theories of death injury or wandering.
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North Sandia
Froelicher
Albert Simms
McCormick
Sandia
Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms
Young McCormick
Vets Arrive for Gettysburg Reunion at White-Columned Hall
Veterans arrive for the Blue and Grey reunion at Gettysburg College as Secretary of War Woodring Governor Earle and Union and Confederate veterans prepare to speak at a welcoming ceremony. A 95 year old G A R veteran, Charles J. Rose of Miami, jokes about his dancing shoes failing him at a casual gathering.
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Gettysburg College
Harry H. Woodring
George H. Earle
Pennsylvania
Gettysburg
Charles J. Rose
Miami
Fla
Bathelt linked to old slaying in New York case
New York police tied John Bathelt, 26, to the 1937 South Hadley Falls murder of Charles Morris after tracing a sedan sold to a New York dealer and then to a Newark dealer for 800. Morris, dumped in the Connecticut River near South Hadley, was exhumed and found bound with hay wire.
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Northampton
Mass
Upi
New York
John Paul Bathelt
Charles Morris
Connecticut River
South Hadley
Martin Owens
Bathelt
Massachusetts
Morris
South Hadley Falls
Owens
Murray Levine
New Rochelle
Peter
Newark
Newark Concerni
Nazis Take Steel Business in Austria
Vienna June 29 4 The bulk of Austria s privately owned electrical steel and automobile industries passed to the government to form the Hermann Goering Steel works. Stock in Steyr Daimler and Puch works Simmering Railway Car factory Judenburg Steel works and Vienna Pauker works were transferred following the June 18 merger of Merkurbank Leenderbank and Zivnostenska under Dresdner bank control.
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Vienna
Austria
Hermann Goering Steelworks
Merkurbank
Leenderbank
Zivnostenska
Dresdner Bank
Steyr, Daimler and Puch Automobile Works
Simmering
Judenburg Steel Works
Vienna Pauker Works
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