Relief funds canceled for Hoover era aid program
International News Service reports the U S federal government has cancelled 900 million dollars in relief loans made to states counties and cities during the Hoover administration. Secretary Wallace says a hidden provision of the Hayden Campwright highway act, enacted June 18 1934, allowed the cancellation after Congress voted to loan 200 million for work relief. The move ends a long relief fight as the federal government now bears most of the needy relief burden and deductions from highway funds reimburse the government.
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International News Service
Washington
Wallace
Congress
Clinax
Destroyer to visit Galveston for Oleander festival
Representative J J Mansfield advised officials the US destroyer Blakely of the Atlantic Scouting fleet would be present in Galveston for the Oleander festival from June 19 to 23.
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Galveston
J.J. Mansfield
United States
Blakely
Atlantic Scouting Fleet
Comet to Come Into View at Lick Observatory
Lick Observatory California reports the Fellier comet will be visible to the naked eye in about nine years for a short period at midnight two months from now on August 4. Dr Paul Herget announces extensive computations show the comet will pass much closer to Earth than first estimated, at about fifteen million miles away traveling 2½ miles per second, faster than Earth's rotation.
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Lick Observatory
Calif
Paul Her Rel
Herget
Pellier
Delphos
Ohio
Missing Maj Howard Stark Report From Utah Wreck
In Morgan Utah search teams probed the Wasatch foothills for the fate of Maj Howard Stark after a wreck in a blizzarded 000 foot range. Official plans push on to locate Stark who vanished January 16 during a flight from Rock Springs Wyoming. Salt Lake City reporter Al Rock cited Stark likely walked away from the crash uninjured. a fragment of fabric, a compass and a map were noted as evidence.
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Morgan
Utah
Howard Stark
Wasatch Range
Department of Commerce
Rock Springs
Wye
al Rock
Salt Lake
Stark
Minister Tried in Police Chief's Death
The Rev Edgar Eskridge pastor of the First Baptist church at Orange is tried for the slaying of Chief of Police Fd O Reilly a congregation member. O Reilly was fatally wounded a year earlier by a shotgun fired from a passing car. Eskridge was arrested hours later at De Ridder Louisiana and may plead insanity per defense chief J M Gollins.
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Houston
Edgar Eskridge
Fd O'Rreilly
Orange
Oreilly
Eskridge
First Baptist Church
Orante
Deridder
J. M. Gollins
Defense Staff
Army
Doctor Acquitted in Poisoning Attack at Work
TIENTSIN June 1 Dr John Colbert former St Louis physician said in court he was knocked senseless by an unknown assailant after a man forced his way into the office. He was cleared of poisoning charges by a judge who cited reasonable doubt of guilt and reported the attack occurred last night.
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Tientsin
John Colbert
Polite
St. Louis
Bandera Road Entrance Marker Dedication in San Antonio
Bandera Road entrance on Cincinnati Avenue opened with a $3430 monument to Wi jima Barrett Travis. 200 civic leaders from Bandera and the Presidents' council, aided by federal funds, attended the ceremony with remarks by Mayor Quin and Lions club chairman Murray Winn.
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San Antonio
Wijima Barrett Travis
Bandera Road
Cincinnati Avenue
Bandera
Council of
Residents’ Council
Preston H. Dial
C. K. Quin
Murray Winn
The
Lions Club
Bandera’ Highway
Texas Engineer Burned at Plant
Texas engineer Driskill, 51, creamery engineer, was critically injured after attempting to move a gasoline bucket from a burning pump at an Abilene plant. His quick action likely saved five colleagues. A Mortis, Walter Archibald, Walter Cox and Roy Atkinson burned, Horace Brown unharmed.
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Texas
Abilene
RB. Driskill
A. Mortis
Walter Archibald
Walter Cox
Roy Lb. Atkinson
Horace Brown
Five Men Shot in Birmingham Strike Sparks Closures
In Birmingham Alabama three major mines serving the city’s steel plants were shut today as a strike escalated into gunfights. About two thousand International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers members walked out overnight in protest against switching from hourly wages to a tonnage basis, leaving the area without essential supply.
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Birmingham
Ala
International Union of Mul
Record Advertising Line Gain Found
The largest gain in 1936 occurred in retail advertising lines for the week ended May 25. Advertising Age reported that 65 major cities showed a 6 percent rise over 1935, with retail lines totaling 18,164,667 compared with 18,573,133 last year, a drop of 408,466 lines.
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Ghicago
Wheeler Pioneer Celebration Draws Otis Settlers
Early Otis settlers gather under towering trees at town edge on June 3 and 20 for a pioneer celebration. Rodeo events will be among the entertainments.
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Wheeler
Otis
North China defense push outlined by Gen Sung Cheh Yuah
Reports from Peiping say Gen Sung Cheh Yuah chairman of the Hopeh Chahar military Council decided to press a stronger policy against Japan's expansion in North China. The move followed all night conferences of North China mayors and draws inspiration from Great Wall defenders of 1933.
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Shanghat
Sung Cheh- Yuah
Hopeh- Chahar
Japan
Reminiscences and Local Names in San Antonio Scene
A mosaic of names and memories from San Antonio social life including FRANK LARD EARL ABEL MARY AUBREY KEATING and TOM McNAMARA. It notes cultural cues at Lake McQueeney references to the Empire theater and the M C A steam room along with anecdotes about HENRY LEE TAYLOR JUDGE S TAYLOR and BILL NUNN.
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Frank Lard Earl Abel
Mary Aubrey Keating
John Flogre
Empire Theater
Frank Lee Donoghue
Tom McNamara
Lake McQueeney
John Meeks
Andy Rivlin
Dewey Hudson
Singapore Sling
Frank Buck
Henry Lee Taylor
Padre Island
Wilson
West Coast
Lake Michigan Ife
Taylor
Lerman Goodman
Circus
Bill Nunn
Charles Ray
Sir Guy Stanaimg Sets Mahbu Take Lake Records
Sir Guy Stanaimg, Paramount actor and avid angler, holds Mahbu Take lake records for the largest blue ill and the largest bass ever caught.
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Guy Stanaimg
Paramount Ac
Tor
East Trains Cut Fares Under I C Order
Eastern railroads reduced coach and Pullman rates to two seats per mile for coaches and three cents per mile for Pullmans, the lowest in 20 years. The I C order prompted protests and legal challenges by most major eastern roads except the Baltimore and Ohio, with suits filed in federal court in New York.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Baltimore and Ohio
I. C
Fedral Court
New York
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M.C. A
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Frank Winererich
H. W. Green
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Harry S. Affleck
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