Wallace program payments lag as 1938 crop outlook worsens
Washington June 23 reports show farm payments for the Wallace administration’s program are far behind estimates. Officials warned the 100 million dollar pledge would not materialize as expected, with payments to farmers staggered through July and August. The deficit may be offset by Commodity Credit Corporation loans, while political calculations loom over an election year.
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Qushington
AAA
Wallace
Many & Jerser
Commodity Credit Corporation
Killed Hours Before Graduation In York Car Crash
Miss Catherine Guy eighteen died at York hospital after a car rollover near York Corner while returning from a Wells Beach dance. Three other Somersworth youths, Catherine Sharps, Thomas Mullen and Benjamin Berube, were involved. Sharps injured, Mullen and Berube unhurt. State Trooper J W Littlefield investigated.
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Catherine Guy
Somersworth
York Corner
Somersworth High School
York Hospital
Ncident
Guy
Wells Beach
Miss Guy
Former Barbara Hutton Seeks Protection Amid Custody Dispute
London reports: Barbara Hutton obtained a court order to pursue restraining steps against her husband Count Haugwitz-Reventlow to safeguard herself and their two year old son Lance. Police and Croydon Airport were mentioned as potential service points if he returns from Paris amid kidnapping and education disputes.
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London
Barbara Hutton
Count Haugwitz- Reventlow
Paris
Scot Land Yard
Croydon
Count Haugwitz-Reventlow
Lance
Hir
London Daily Mail
Seven Army Fliers Die In Plane Crash Near Tours France
Seven Army fliers including officers and a radio operator died when a twin engine military plane crashed during a night training flight over central France near Tours on June 23. The wreckage was found with a mechanic among the casualties, and reports say the aircraft exploded at low altitude.
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Tours
France
Army Fliers
Cenplana
Tral
Hames
Two Lawyers Shot to Death in Court in Los Angeles
In Los Angeles a Superior Courtroom shooting left two lawyers, R. D. McLaughlin and J. Irving Hancock, dead. Arthur Emil Hansen, 38, was taken into custody after admitting the killings as Court Commissioner Kurtz Kauffman had issued an adverse decision in a sand case involving Hansen. The commissioner narrowly escaped being shot.
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Los Angeles
Hall of Records
William Penprase
Arthur “Emil Hansen
R. D. McLaughlin
J. Irving Hancock
Penprose
Hansen
Kurtz Kauffman
Kauffman
Countess of Strathmore, Queen Elizabeth’s mother, dies
London May 23 The Countess of Strathmore mother of Queen Elizabeth died at her London home aged 76. She was wife of the Scottish Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and had been gravely ill. King George VI and the Queen were at her bedside. A second daughter Lady Rose Leverton-Gower arrived from the Isle of Man due to the Countess condition.
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London
Countess of Strathmore
Elizabeth
Court Decides for Plaintiff in Smith Case
New Hampshire Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled for the plaintiff in David R. Smith vs Hadden Hooper. Adella Smith, minor child, injured riding a horse in a balloon game at Rye on Sept 1, 1934, with the case appealed from Rockingham County Superior Court. The court also sided with the defendant in Salisbury Beach Association vs Russell Littlefield involving a writ of entry to recover lands in Seabrook.
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New Hampshire Supreme Court
David R. Smith
Hadden Hooper
Adella Smith
Rye
Rockingham County
Black Given Death Sentence In Tex Insurance Plot
Francia Marion Black Jr. was convicted of pushing 13 year old Marvin Noblitt to death from a 40 foot cliff in an insurance murder. A West Texas jury swiftly sentenced the 25 year old to the electric chair after a brief deliberation. The defendant confessed to plotting the kill on behalf of the boy’s widowed mother, Mrs. Bobbie Smith.
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Alpine
Tex
Francia Marion Black, Jr
Marvin Noblitt
West Texas
Uity
University, of Kansas
Bobbie Smith
Albany Murder Mystery In Carroll County Shrugged By Lime Burial
Authorities report a grave found in a swamp near 8 Old Woods Road, Albany, Carroll County. A crude homemade coffin was located nearby, but only lime mixed with gravel remained in the grave. A roughly four feet ten inch tall person is named as the victim. Sheriff James Welch and State Trooper Ralph H Marsh led the investigation with Ezra Nickerson assisting.
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Albany
Carroll County
Ezra Nickerson
Old Woods
Nickerson
James Welch
Tamworth
Ralph H. Marsh
Conway
Griffin outlines New Hampshire car insurance law at Rotary
Jona F Griffin commissioner of motor vehicles addressed Portsmouth Rotary noting the recent insurance law. He urged filing accident reports with security certificates and cautioned against driving without insurance. He blamed pedestrians for many crashes and urged parental duty with children. He warned against speeds over 45 miles an hour and condemned drunken driving, stressing safety and enforcement.
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Jona F. Griffin
Motor’ Vehicles
Portsmouth Rotary Club
New Hampshire
Griffin
New Hamp
Jeremy R. Waldron
John Sprague
Rotary
Rufus E. Ross
William C. Walton
Escaped Prisoners Recaptured in Sterling Mountain Wood Lot
St Albans Vermont June 23 AP Sheriff James C Finn announced the capture of Carl Fredericks 86 and Norman Frost 19 in a Sterling Mountain wood lot after their Friday night escape from Franklin County jail.
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St. Albans
James C. Finn
Sterling Mountain
Carl Fredericks
Norman Frost
Franklin County
Convention at Crawford Notch features national speaker
Mrs La cily Buchdawn Oliver of New York City will speak at the 14th annual New Hampshire Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs convention at Crawford House Crawford Notch. Dr Norme M Studley Rochester state president presides with reports, round tables, and a banquet. Gladys Hasty Carroll will close with From Among My Books and Papers.
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Crawford Notch
Lacily Buchdawn’ Oliver
National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc
New York City
N. H. Federation of Business and Professional ‘Women’s Clubs
Crawford House
Norme M. Studley
Rochester
Marion FP
Holmes
Eva A. Speare
Plymouth
New Hampshire
Oliver
Rdchester Club
Resolutions Committee
Helen T. Meehan
Manchester
Mabel T. Cooper
Nashua
New Hamp Shire
Phyllis ‘Bliss
R. Rath
University of New Hampshire
Misa Jessie Doe
Concord
William J. Neal
Meredith
Richard T. Gardner
Warren
Eva Chase
Dover
Lucy
L Dickittson
Keane
Gerald Wheeler
Laconia
Willey Slide
Misa
Marjorie Greene
Man killed by cave-in at Rumney
Rumney June 23 Ashley 45 was killed yesterday afternoon while helping workmen dig a water pipe near Hanley s garage. A cave-in wedged him in and a rock fell. Workers summoned aid. Dr. Leon M. Orton of Ashland was called. Body taken to Ernest M. Nichols funeral home Plymouth. Born Lawrence Mass 1893 son of Alfred and Mrs Ashley now Cheever. He had been living locally and was a fireman on the Boston and Maine Railroad. He was separated from his wife at death.
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Ernest M. Nichols
Plymouth
Mr. Ashley
Lawrence
Mass
Alfred W. Ashley
Cheever
Boston & Maine
Woman Pleads Innocent in Calais Arson Case
Ofdlais Me June 23 AP Mary S Colpitts of Calais pleaded innocent in Superior Court to an indictment charging her with setting fire to the house where her sister Christina Jameson aged 78 was suffocated on May 15. The arson charge was continued to the October term.
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Ofdlais
Mary
Colpitts
Calais
Christiana Jameson
Portsmouth High School Brings Largest Graduation Class
234 graduates will receive diplomas at Portsmouth High School in the largest class in the school's history. The program includes an invocation by Rev. Philip S. Nason, performances by the High School Orchestra and soloists, class history, medal readings, and the diplomas conferred by Mayor Kennard E. Goldsmith. A class reception closes the commencement.
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Portsmouth High School
Philip S. Nason
Methodist Church
Panella
Wil
Barnes
Hazel Mildred Segars
Edward F. Johnson
Harry W. Peyser
Board of Education
Chopin
Frances Eleanor Caswell
Haven
William Safford Jones
Marjorie
Cecelia Ham
Kennard E. Goldsmith
Thomas Hailey Aldrich
Eoward Franklin Johnson
Margaret Wilmot Ward
Shirley Goodrich Blake
Charles Raymond Claus
William Walden Wilson
Probing Murder Mystery At South Hadley Mass
A badly decomposed male body found in the Connecticut River near South Hadley Falls is linked to foul play. A belt buckle with initials Oo M N provides a clue. The body may have been in the water about two years. investigators consider river drift from New Hampshire while no missing men are reported locally.
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Connecticut
New Hampshire
South Hadley
Mass
Connecticut River
South Hadley Falls
Henry J. Doonan
Holyoke Bridge
Newton Junction Woman Killed Crossing Train
Mrs. Mary Rancourt, 68, of Newton Junction, died at Hale Hospital after being struck by the Boston bound Flying Yankee at the Boston and Maine station crossing. Witnesses said the siren sounded, brakes screeched, and she misjudged the distance as the train approached.
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Mary Rancourt
Railroad
St. Newton Junction
Hale Hospital
Haverhill
Mass
Boston & Maine
Newton Junction
Junction
Rancourt
Henry Rancourt
Newton
Oliver Beckford
Dover Man Held for Trial on Break In Case
Dover June 23 Charged with breaking and entering an apartment in May Charles Verenbeck 32 of Haverhill Mass held in county jail for appearance before September term Superior court Plea of guilty waived examination bail impossible returned to Strafford county farm Leonard Cronin alias William Sullivan 26 arraigned on similar charge not pressed but held on other charge from Haverhill Two watches recovered but a diamond ring missing
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Dover
Charles Verenbeck
Haverhill
Mass
Verenbeck
Strafford
Leonard Cronin
William Sullivan
George Vennard
Central Avenue
Schmeling Hospitalized After Louis Bout Injury
New York reports Max Schmeling remains under observation in a Polyclinia hospital after a heavyweight bout with Louis. Schmeling suffered a back injury from a right hand in the first round, with a fracture of the transverse process likely, while Louis delivered decisive blows and won the match.
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New York
Polyclinia
Max
Schmeling
Jay Lox
Louis
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