Roosevelt program widens farm plan during six months
Washington reports a half year of Roosevelt administration policy aimed at farm relief. Taxes on cotton and wheat will fund subsidies to farmers, with payments projected around $400 to $500 million. Programs seek parity prices, acreage cuts, and market schemes across grains and livestock, including hogs and corn adjustments.
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Ashington
Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Henry A.ce
Iowa
Secretary of Agriculture
Farm Adjustment Administration
California
Chicago
Detroit
Philadelphia
Minneapolis- Paul
Vermont Votes on Repeal Issue
Vermont voters began polling on repeal of the 18th amendment with clear skies aiding pro prohibitionists. western cities and rural areas split, with rural districts favoring retention and larger towns in western Vermont seen as key in the statewide repeal effort.
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Montpelier
Vermont
E. S
Ermont
Burlington
Ruthland
St. Albans
Bennington
Ramblin Irvelee Humble and local curiosities in town
A child prodigy Miss Irvelee Humble performs piano selections at a Kiddies party at Capitol theater. A worm specimen with ten horns and green body is donated for a local zoo. Aviator Herb Dickard Jr. earns praise after three hours of flight training. A rural NRA pay joke follows, illustrating racial humor of the era.
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Irvelee Humble
J. L. Humble
Capitol Theater
Miss Irvelee
Mae McIntosh
Miss McIntosh
Mama
R. FE. Autrey
South Grand Street
News- Star—World
Joe's Bayou Lake
Delhi
Jess Ramblin
Jessie Grandberry
Herb Dickard, Jr
Selman Field
C. E. Woolman
Herb
Dickard
Mrs J Collens Dies After Long Illness at 54
Amalia Louise Collens 54 wife of John W Collens a local druggist died at 401 Bros avenue after a lingering illness. Funeral at home with Rev. Ernest Holloway officiating. Interment Riverview Burial Park. She was a Beaver Falls native maiden Teets nurse and Monroe hospital superintendent. Surviving are her husband and two daughters. Active and honorary pallbearers named.
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Amalia Louise Collens
John W. Collens
Bros Avenue
Ernest Holloway
the First Presbyterian Church
Riverview Burial Park
New Orleans
Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Beaver County
Penn
Amalia L. Teets
Adam Teets
Beaver Falls Hospital
Monroe
Jackson Street
O. W. Cosby
Blackman
Collens
First Presbyterian Church
Order of the Eastern Star
P. O. Clark
West Monroe
Marie Collens
R. F. Thompson
S. M. McReynolds
W. B. Clarke
J. S. Washburn
J. M. Breard
M. L. Gill
C. W. Wallace
W. M. Washburn
George Hyle
L. H. Peevy
Louis Hullum
Ben C. Dawkins
Four Scientists Ordered to St Louis to Fight Sleeping Sickness
Four noted scientists from Washington join federal state and city health officials to study the sleeping sickness outbreak. Doctors M V Veldee L F Badger J O Dean and W G Workmen will conduct field research as a second encephalitis ward opens at the isolation hospital to treat about 50 more patients, bringing the caseload to over 90.
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ST. Louis
Washington
M. V. Veldee
L. F. Badger
J. O. Dean
W. G. Workmen
Ford Absent from NRA Membership Becomes Key Issue
Washington reports public opinion acts as jury in Henry Ford's absence from the NRA program. Johnson tackles coal negotiations and enforcement, aiming to boost buying power around September 20. Roosevelt weighs the Ford case and the unionization dispute while pushing for broader recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Recovery Administration
Henry Ford
NRA
Blue Eagle
Nature
Ford
Detroit
Johnson
American Federation of
Brownsville Is Isolated By Big Tropical Storm
A tropical hurricane roared inland isolating Brownsville Texas and causing coast damage. Two lives were lost when a small boat sank at San Antonio on Lake Medina. Fortified by the storm, Corpus Christi faced surge and wind as 8 foot tide concerns lingered. Communication cut off to Brownsville. flights and roads disrupted. other Texas towns endured building damage and power outages. One negro was killed as another hurricane battered Florida.
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Gulf of Mexico
Brownsville
Texas
Lake Medina
San Antonio
Gulf
Winter Garden
Corpus Christi
Harlingen
McAllen
Edinburg
Rio Grande Valley
Florida
Public Kept in Dark Over State Finances
A Louisiana series argues state funds from taxes and licenses are handled without complete supervision. It notes no constitutional mandate or statute requires ongoing audit of the treasurer by a dedicated supervisor, beyond occasional checks by the supervisor of public accounts. The piece argues this lack of oversight limits accountability for large fiduciary sums.
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Louisiana
Fisc
Maturities and Funds Report for State Bonds and Tax
State funds show maturities due January 1 including Confederate Pension Penitentiary Highway New Capitol and other bonds with total payments listed. Some maturities were paid in July and August. pension and penitentiary bonds may require general fund or other sources. Conservation tax receipts for second and third quarters remain unpaid, with $18,554.50 allegedly diverted from the sacred fund to other uses, while $187,554.50 awaits payment to parishes.
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New Capitol
Rabbi Hirsch Elected Leader of Kiwanis District
Nearly two hundred delegates from more than 15 clubs at the Louisiana Mississippi Kiwanis district convention in Bastrop Louisiana elect Rabbi F K Hirsch of Monroe district governor for the coming year and adopt a Roosevelt recovery program resolution. The meeting named A S Means Bastrop Rupert F Cisco Lake Charles Frank England Greenville Miss and J E Gray Hattiesburg Miss as lieutenant governors of respective regions.
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Bastrop
Louisiana-Mississippi Kiwanis
F. K. Hirsch
Monroe
President Roosevelt
A. S. Means
North
Louisiana
Rupert F. Cisco
Lake Charles
South Louisiana
Frank England
Greenville
Miss
North Mississippi
J. E. Gray
Hattiesburg
South Mississippi
Monroe Kiwanis Club
Rabbi Hirsch
J. K. McDowell
Jackson
Louis Hullum
Hadley Leavell
Regina Moffett
Blanche Oliver
Rescue Effort to Save Deer on Ledge Fails Again
In Watkins Glen New York a young buck stranded 11 days on a rocky ledge failed to be guided off by eight rescuers. They blocked a deadly plunge toward a torrent and tried to coax the deer toward a narrow path to a bridge but the animal repeatedly returned to the ledge and the attempt ended without success.
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Watkins Glen
N. Y
U.P
Desperado Harvey Bailey Guarded After Daring Jail Break
Oklahoma City reports state and federal authorities tightening security after the dramatic escape of Harvey Bailey from the Dallas jail. Bailey, linked to a $2 million Lincoln bank robbery, faces possible trial for kidnapping and may be tried in Kansas City for the Union Station massacre.
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Oklahoma City
U.P
Harvey Bailey
Dallas
Bailey
Ardmore
Enid
Here
Charles Urschel
Kansas City
Union Station
Lincoln
Neb
Chicago
Kansas State Penitentiary
Lansing
Nick Tresp
Tresp
Smoot Schmid
No Bids For Ouachita Bridge Backfilling Project
Louisiana highway commission opened bids for concrete approaches to the Industrial Canal and Chef Menteur bridges in Orleans parish and 9 302 miles of concrete surfacing on the Alexandria Glenmore highway. No bid was submitted for backfilling of the Ouachita river bridge site at Monroe. Tabulation of bids began with commission engineers.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana Highway Commission
Industrial Canal
Chef Menteur
Orleans Parish
Alexandria- Glenmore
Ouachita River
Monroe
Highway Commission
Bloodless coup seizes Cuba as radicals take over
Havana reports a bloodless coup d etat by radical groups. A five member commission was chosen to govern as President Carlos Manuel de Cespe des resigns after a brief tenure. The United States orders a cruiser and three destroyers to protect American property amid the upheaval. The revolt spreads from Havana to Santiago with the army rebelling.
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Associated Presa
Havana
Carlos Manuel de Cespedes
Associated Press
United States
Cuba
New Revolutionary Movement
Gerardo Machado
Santiago
Army Rebels At Santiago Overthrow Officials
In Santiago Cuba on September 5 rebels seized control imprisoning officers and freeing soldiers charged under Machado rule. The rebels ousted the governor and mayor amid heavy shooting with no injuries reported.
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Santiago
Cuba
Machado
Revoluetionaries
Warships Ordered To Island of Cuba
The United States ordered a cruiser and three destroyers to Cuba to protect American lives and property amid the coup d etat and threatened strife after the army challenged the provisional government. This follows earlier dispatches during Machado era disturbances as Secretary Hull was briefed in two phone calls.
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Washington
Ware
Cuba
Republic
Machado
Hull
Rogers Has His Say on Labor Day Vacations
A Santa Monica reader muses that every holiday should be Labor Day and jokes about vacations, spending, and taxes. The note also alludes to a yacht encounter involving the president and Vincent Astor and comments on yachting challenges and public grievances.
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Santa Monica
Cal
Vincent Astor
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Rastus
Ebery
Niggahg Relief Association
Caim
Lone Star State
Swanson
Orin G. Murfin
Navy
William H. Standley
Naval Operations
Kiwanis
C. Hippler
Eustis
Fla
Kiwanis International
John K. McDowall
Louisiana-Mississippi
John L
Ouachita Bridge
Island of
Rogers
Koper
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