Reform plan faces victory as foes fail in rejection vote
Congress adjournment looms as President Roosevelt advances a June 24 deadline for three new federal public works welfare and lending agencies. The House defeated Taber’s resolution 264 to 128, with Democrats backing the plan and Warren of North Carolina praising it as a move to cut waste and overlap.
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Taber
Washington
Congress
Representative Tabor
New York
Ulepresint
Arerlain
House
Perat
Warren
Orth Carolina
Fedworks
Poland braces for Beck speech on Danzig crisis
In Warsaw and Berlin the looming address by Foreign Minister Joseph Beck is seen as pivotal. If Beck adopts a moderate tone and opens room for talks with Germany, war fears may ease. an uncompromising stance could push Hitler toward immediate action regarding Danzig Free City and the Polish corridor Pomorze.
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Warsaw
Joseph Beck
Danzig Free City
Pomorze
Beck
Poland
Berlin
Europe
Adolf Hitler
Danzig
Germany
Rotary Banquet Promises Noted Speaker and Guests
The Monroe Rotary Club plans a banquet at Hotel Virginia roof on Thursday at 7 30 p m with members from Jalluiah Newellton St Joseph Winnfield Ferriday and Lake Providence to attend. Dr Jaybrook Cottingham of Louisiana College Pineville will speak on Rotary service to the world along with music and entertainment by club members and guests.
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Monroe
Uisiana College
Pineville
Cotingham
Alexandria
Prophit
W. L. Bendel
G. B. Cooley
L. Keenan
Victor Davis
Elmer Jagie
Murray Hudson
Herman Sternack
Iicaraguan Chief to Visit President
President Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua heads to Washington to meet President Roosevelt for a three day stay. The Somozas plan a stop in Atlanta for several hours before continuing by train to the national capital arriving Friday morning. Somoza was welcomed in New Orleans with round of functions and in Baton Rouge.
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New Orleans
Anastasio Somoza
Nicaragua
Washidd Ce
Roosevelt
Somoza
Hir
Atta
Navnal
Baton Rouge
Stahlman Urges Unity Between Press Business and Government
James G. Stahlman, former president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, called at the Chamber of Commerce of the United States for a unity of understanding among government, business, and the press. He warned that free enterprise and a free press depend on cooperation to avoid the fate of nations where press freedom is curtailed. He challenged President Roosevelt’s claim that press freedom is not threatened.
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Washington
James G. Stahlman
American Newspaper Publishers’ Assoiation
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Nashville, Tenn
America
Russia
Germany
Italy
Spain
Stahlman
Roosevelt
Germany to Expel Six British Subjects in Retaliation
Berlin May 4 British subjects including Hugh Carleton Greene Berlin correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph were ordered to leave Germany by May 24 in what sources call a reprisal for Britain’s expulsion of 50 Nazis. Five businessmen also receive orders. Greene is the 22nd foreign correspondent expelled since 1933.
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Berlin
London Daily Telegraph
Germany
Britain
Hugh Carleton Greene
Greene
Ferry capsizing near Akita claims twelve young lives
A ferry capsized at Akita, about 300 miles north of Tokyo, on Monday causing twelve minors to drown and twenty eight reported missing after the disaster tied to the area’s earthquake.
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Tokyo
Akita
Ickes Hopes Soon To Be Papa Again
Secretary Ickes hinted he hopes to become a father, replying with a blush and a brief remark at a Chamber dinner. He noted the value of public life and then commented on liberty from the press.
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Ickes
Papa
Washington
United States Chamber of Commerce
Clark
Democrat
Missouri
Dublin
Ireland
Jane Dahlman
Milwaukee
John
Poison Ring Linked to Hemlock Slayings in Philadelphia
Philadelphia police chemists tied ancient hemlock poison to a murder ring that may have killed about 100 people for insurance. Dr Horace D Perlman, a 28 year Philadelphia practitioner, was arrested after the discovery of poison and records at his home. Investigators name Morris Bolber Louie the Rabbi as a ring boss, with 14 arrests and at least one conviction and a confession to poisoning three.
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Philadelphia
Socrates
Edward Burke
Charles Lampert
Pietro Stea
Horace D. Perlman
Vincent P. McDevitt
Perlman
James Kelly
Morris Bolber
Louie the Rabbi
Bolber
Pennsylvania
New York
New Jersey
Delaware
Porterire Acts As Judge In Liquor Trial
Federal Judge Gaston L Porterie acted as judge and defense attorney when the court appointed lawyer failed to appear. A negro defendant was found guilty on liquor law violations and the jury recommended probation. The judge sentenced him to six months in jail but suspended the sentence.
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Alexandria
Gaston L. Porterie
Porterie
Goering Resumes Post After Hitler Birthday Session
Field Marshal Hermann Goering and Mrs Goering left Berlin to resume duties in San Reno Italy after a tour that included Libya and a return for the Hitler birthday celebration on April 20 and the Reichstag session last Friday.
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Berlin
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
UK US Open Talks To Swap Raw Materials In Wartime
Prime Minister Chamberlain announced negotiations between the United States and Britain to exchange certain raw materials for strategic reserves. The talks aim to swap cotton and wheat for rubber and tin, with world price safeguards and no formal commerce, prompted by US initiative.
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London
Chamberlain
United States
Great Britain
Britain
Clement R. Attlee
Labor
Geoffrey L. Mander
Cordell Hull
Belgium
Netherlands
Louisiana Farmers Forego 655000 Dollar Soil Funds
Louisiana farmers in 1938 passed up about 635000 in federal soil conservation funds though the state qualified for 1550 000 in payments from a 2215 000 allotment. Officials urged use of 1939 programs for terracing liming pasture establishment strip cropping seeding legumes and planting forest trees to improve land and production.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Floyd W. Spencer
Spencer
Soil Conservation Funds
Four Die in Head-On Crash Near Waco
Four people died in a dawn head-on collision two miles south of Waco on Highway 2. Killed instantly were Louise Tilley 52 of Dallas Kenneth Jensen 24 J F Hamil 36 and Talley B Hill 37 all of Temple. Delwyn Drummond of Paducah the southbound driver was hospitalized with a fractured skull but expected to recover. he was accompanied by a woman.
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Waco
Tex
Louise Tilley
Dallas
Kenneth Jensen
J. F. Hamil
Talley B. Hill
Temple
Delwyn Drummond
Paducah
Warrants Issued To Arrest Sandel Berry And John Whitlock
Warrants for the arrests of Sandel Berry Ouachita parish police juror and John Whitlock Brownville saloon keeper were issued after a mistrial in a traffic homicide case. Judge David I Garrett ordered the mistrial following claims of juror corruption.
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Sandel Berry
Ouachita Parish
Ward 8
John Whitlock
Brownville
Sheriff's Department
David I. Garrett
Berry
Whitlock
Frank W. Hawthorne
Milton Coverdale
Jimmy Rhodes
West Monroe
Sam Clark
Montgomery Avenue
George Wesley Smith
Smith
State Supreme Court
Frank Jones
Coverdale
Rhodes
Funerals Held for Airplane Victims in Grenada Crash
In Memphis Tennessee on May 4 funeral services were held for George Stokes Ted Northington and John Crump three Memphis Commercial Appeal staffers killed in a Grenada Mississippi plane crash Crump son of E H Crump was buried in Memphis Crump Stokes had a military funeral in Covington Tennessee Northington buried in Nashville Tennessee undertakers and flying overhead tributes marked the end of the careers of the three journalists.
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Memphis Commercial Appeal
Grenada
Miss
John Crump
E. H. Crump
Memphis
George Stokes
Ted Northington
South
Tenn
Shelby County
Comr Vcial Appeal
Crump
Stokes
Army Air Reserve
Covington
Rooster Hero of Night Fire Saves Henhouse Flock
In Winston-Salem Old Miles Tandish a Plymouth Rock rooster led 23 hens to safety when a night fire swept Rev. D. H. Wilcox henhouse. The minister praised the bird calling him steel‑nerve and too tough to eat. In Bridgeport itinerant musician Peter Michael McCoy faced city court on a charge of over imbibing after pulling a 10 cent flute and playing The Irish.
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Winston-Salem
N. C
Miles Tandish
D. H. Wilcox
Bridgeport
Conn
Peter Michael McCoy
WPA approves dozen projects for state plan
Louisiana state planning commission chair J Lester White announced 12 WPA project applications totaling 439 480 federal funds, with Southwestern Louisiana Institute Lafayette to receive 106 320 for campus improvements. Nine WPA projects already approved total 307 094 08 with items including Columbia sewer work and LSU campus facilities.
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Baton Rouge
Southwestern Louisiana Institute At Lafayette
Works Progress Administration
State Planning Commission
J. Lester White
Commission
Caldwell
Columbia
Claiborne
DeSoto
South Mansfield
East Baton Rouge
East Feliciana
Lafayette
Farm Appropriation Increase Approved by Senate Panel
A Senate subcommittee approved a 378 million dollar rise in farm appropriations. The total adds to 825 million already voted by the House. The panel backed 225 million for parity payments, 113 million for surplus removal, 25 million for tenancy act, and 15 million for other ag department activities.
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Washington
Senate
Russell
Georgia
House
Agricultural Department
Detroit arrests tied to Chicago tavern shooting
Detroit police say two men and a woman arrested after a high speed chase admitted involvement in a Chicago tavern shooting Tuesday night that left a patron dead and two officers wounded. Orville Watson, wounded in Chicago, and Edward Riley, both extradition to Chicago due today.
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Detroit
Chicago
Leon Doyle
Orville Watson
Watson
Edward Riley
Susanna Smith
Doyle
Riley
Dr. S. Hirschfield
Fourth death by own action linked to maritime strike
In Baton Rouge on May 4, sheriff officials said George Hildreth a Houston seaman attempted suicide by poison after failing to find work amid the National Maritime union strike against Standard Oil. He was hospitalized and jailed for observation. The sheriff noted this was the fourth such death attempt in a week, with another thwarted twice and a woman injuring herself leaping from a hotel window.
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Baton Rouge
Newman de Bretton
George Hildreth
Houston
Tex
de Bretton
Hildreth
National Maritime Union
Standard Oil Company
Resignation of Litvinoff Stirs Anxiety Across Europe
London reports Prime Minister Chamberlain urging a military training bill to muster about 800000 men over three years. News wires note Maxim Litvinoff’s resignation as foreign affairs commissar, with Vyacheslav Molotov succeeding him. Europe weighs Russia policy shifts and Nazi reactions amid upcoming talks with Italy.
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London
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Associated Press
Europe
Moscow
Russia
Maxim Litvinoff
Litvinoff
Vyacheslaff Molotoff
Joseph Stalin
Britain
Germany
Italy
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Count Galeazzo Ciano
Adolf Hitler
Elaine Barrie Refuses Comment on Divorce Suit
Elaine Barrie 24, wife of actor John Barrymore, isolates in her New York apartment and declines to discuss his separation and $300000 accounting suits. Barrymore charges she conspired to defraud him, she says reconciliation is impossible. He, famed as a Don Juan, tours with My Dear Children.
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New York
Elaine Barrie
John Barrymore
Sioux City
Barrymore
Don Juan
Miss Barrie
Children
St. Louis
Doris Dudley
Edna
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