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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1936
Page
2
Court testimony portrays the Black Legion as a secretive order ready to murder on command. From Paris to China, reports note socialist unrest, milk shortages, and widespread strikes affecting millions. Sloan predicts partial recovery this year while Roosevelt's tax plan and relief bills influence Senate timing.
A long quarrel over Quaramice river waters nears closure as the Supreme Court clarifies the 1922 decree and sides with Colorado where the river originates. Prolonged conflict over watershed rights grows quiet as the decision favors Colorado.
Minister of the Interior German Soler said several people were arrested in Asuncion, Paraguay as a prelude to suppress a revolutionary movement. He described those detained as extremists and fanatics and claimed reports of a subversive movement were greatly exaggerated.
Zioncheck quietly submitted to mental observation at Gallinger Hospital, a city institution. House and Senate committees agreed to a 50 percent sweet wine tax reduction placed by the Senate in the liquor tax bill. They also approved an amendment permitting manufacture of vermouth on bonded winery premises.
Exhaustion from prolonged sleeplessness and erratic encounters with police has raised concerns about a sitting representative's conduct and decision-making. Allies urge rest and medical evaluation amid public scrutiny and political tension.
The executive council of the American Federation of Labor reportedly plans to suspend its nine wealthiest and strongest unions with over a million members. Led by William Green the craft union faction aims to expel industrial unionists led by John Lewis and is ready to sacrifice a third of federation members and a large portion of finances rather than compromise.
Emperor Haile Selassie announced he felt much better and set sail for England. The Ethiopian ruler endured a sleepless night and handed detectives guarding him in Gibraltar gold coins bearing the image of Menelik the II as he left for Britain.
In the confusion after Italy's conquest of Ethiopia, the 1930 London naval treaty faces abandonment. The agreement, crucial to U S interests, is being pushed toward cancellation as nations reassess naval arms limits and security commitments.
A Reuters-like roundup notes Britain discarding a prior pact before ratification of a 1936 naval treaty, Nazi terror in Danzig amid conscription fears, 60,000 French metal workers evacuated after wage talks, Mussolini awarding valor medals to his sons and son-in-law for air force service, and violent clashes in Managua as rebels attack the Sacasa mansion atop Tiscapa Hill with machine gun fire.
Woondrow Lescaleet, a CCC youth, was rescued from a boiling pool near Old Faithful and reported to be recovering from serious burns. Harry K. Smith, a fellow CCC worker, responded to the screams and aided in the emergency.
A man pulled a friend from scalding water, stripped to his clothes, and half carried the boy to a camp infirmary half a mile away. Commander James Van Zandt criticized a veterans group as a tool for ridicule. Grace Leonard, 28, was granted divorce from William Leonard, 60, a Madison poet and professor who avoids leaving his home due to distance phobia.
Carol Padden, three, daughter of ranchers near Camp Crook South Dakota, was rushed by airplane from North Dakota to receive a tracheotomy tube as she suffocated from diphtheria. The incident highlights emergency medical transport and the peril faced by young children during outbreaks.
A wind and electric storm in Detroit caused thousands of dollars in property damage with a third of an inch of rain falling in nine minutes. President Roosevelt considered a proposed farm tenant betterment plank from six Iowa congressmen for the party platform. The British embassy noted insufficient evidence to confirm a Japanese claim of a killed soldier in British uniform. Gilbert H. Doane of the University of Nebraska librarian announced a nationwide cataloging effort of Nebraska newspaper files with the Bibliographical Society of America.
At the annual Wyoming stock growers association meeting Russell criticized the federal government's public domain policy, urging changes. The remarks highlighted tensions between ranchers and federal land management and called for reforms affecting grazing access and land use.
Thorp noted wild life forest reserves public domain and livestock depredations as chief worries of stockmen. Three men bound over to district court at York with bonds of 2500 each charged with stealing 90 pairs of silk hose from a department store.
Mrs. Flesher and daughter Kath leen of Kennewick Wash arrived Saturday to visit Clark Fuller and family. Families visit, dinners, and hospital notes fill this community page with multiple travel and guest mentions across Sunday and Friday. Pearl Hicks remains ill with pneumonia. Mrs. W. A. Bundy recovers from appendicitis. Edna Kennon and Grover Hatcher appear in several hosted gatherings in Sundl and Sidney Draw.
Bernie Cummins and his 16 artists will return with a nationally known NBC orchestra for a Mitchell dance on Saturday June 6. Gents 1 dollar and ladies 25 cents.
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