Spuds and dairy hit hard by weather and drought
Freakish weather across regions drove up commodity prices as shortages hit potatos and dairy. In Chicago new potatoes sold at five dollars per hundred pounds, butter and egg futures rose to seasonal highs. Northern Alabama Georgia and Tennessee faced drought threats to cotton tobacco and corn with fires adding risk.
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Canada
Chicago
New York
Maine
Nova Scotia
Alabama
Georgia
Tennessee
Blum seeks new laws to end strike in France
Paris June 6 Leon Blum new premier of France faced uproar in the Chamber of Deputies as he unveiled a socialist program to revive industry raise purchasing power and restore stability. He also moved to break a nationwide strike involving nearly one million workers while warning against threats to democratic institutions. Strikes spread in Versailles Saint Germain Meudon St Cloud and other Paris suburbs with Rouen coal miners affected.
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Paris
Leon Blum
France
Chamber of Deputies
Europe
Blum
Versailles
Saint Germain
Meuden
St. Cloud
Rouen
Arras
Weekly Weather Outlook Begins Monday Becomes Cooler
Weather outlook covers North and Middle Atlantic regions with showers at the start of the week and again late in the week. Cool temperatures expected in the first half, with near normal readings later.
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North and Middle Atlantic States
Weather forecast for Maryland and coastal areas
Fair tonight in Maryland with Sunday mostly cloudy and warmer in the east, with possible showers in the west. From Sandy Hook to Cape Hatteras north winds shift to variable and southeast with fair weather tonight and Sunday. Chesapeake Bay appears clear to partly cloudy tonight, Sunday partly cloudy to cloudy and warmer with probable thundershowers and thunder squalls Sunday night under moderating southerly winds.
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Maryland
Sandy Hook
Cape Hatteras
Chesapeake Bay
City Finances Discussed At Club Meeting
Democrats at a regular session denounced Republican city finance claims as wild. They noted the recent ten cent city tax cut should have been about 35 cents and urged relief for burdensome taxpayers. Attendees recalled liquor board transfers totaling twenty thousand dollars and winter snow removal costs covered by federal funds.
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Ballyhooers
Board of Liquor License Commissioners
Punchboard Owner Fined in City Court
George Nixon lunchroom owner at 306 West Washington street paid a $10 fine and costs for operating a punchboard. The charge cited was maintaining a gaming device. Officers declined to discuss a broader campaign against punch boards, noting they are found in scores of establishments and have been openly displayed for years.
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George Nixon
West Washington Street
Olson hatless after souvenir miscue in Minneapolis
Governor Floyd B Olson did not join any political race as he left a dinner without his hat after a souvenir hunter took his Panama. He attempted to wear it but ended up bareheaded when the hat vanished.
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Minneapolis
Floyd B. Olson
Panama
China Girding To Strike Back In Growing Crisis
China strengthens its national army under Dr Sun Yat Sen's legacy. Nationalism democracy and socialism guide the Kuomintang as Japan expands in North China. Chiang Kai Shek may field about 500000 troops while Nanking eyes northern garrisons and Canton forces moving northward.
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Associated Press
China
Nanking
Sun Yat-Sen
Chinese Republic
Japan
North
Dr. Sun
Koomintang
Peoples Party
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chiang
Canton
Administration Forces Begin Last Ditch Fight On Tax Bill
Washington June 6 The administration fights for a high graduated tax on undistributed corporate profits as the Senate approves a 38 to 24 vote on a bill aimed to raise 829 million with a 151⁄2 to 18 per cent corporate tax and a 7 per cent undistributed profits levy, while appetite for a higher rate persists and conference action looms.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate House
Senate
Can't Go To Ball Games
Durham June 6 by the judge orders 19 year old Paul Mangum must stay away from baseball games for 30 days after admitting in Recorder's court via his attorney that he stasis a baseball a player knocked over a fence during practice.
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Durham
N. C
Paul Mangum
Recorder's Court
Truck Hits Gas Tanks at Huyetts Cross Roads
A truck from a transportation company left National Highway at Huyetts Cross Roads this morning carrying gasoline tanks in front of the Hoover Neikirk garage. The truck was damaged but no injuries were reported. A second collision occurred on the Conococheague bridge at Rowe's Park around 7 o clock between a truck and a car with no injuries.
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Tansportation
Huyetts Crossroads
Hoover Neikirk
Rowe's Park
Priests Help Quell Fire at St Dominic Church
Baltimore June 6 three priests battled a church blaze at St Dominic's Catholic Church. Firemen credited the priests with preventing serious damage by confining the fire to a small wall section near the altar.
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Baltimore
St. Dominic's Catholic
Methodist Church Favors Anti Lynch Bill Report
The Baltimore Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church printed a social service report urging peace racial harmony and a service based social order. The conference did not adopt the report but agreed it be printed with a note that it reflects the commission not conference action.
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Westminster
Baltimore
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
H. W. Burgan
Washington
Social Service Commission
Larger loaves to grow in Chicago bakeries
Two major Chicago bakeries announced bigger 10 cent loaves with no price rise. One firm will increase loaf size by 15 percent, the other by 25 percent, effective Monday as reported from Chicago.
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Chicago
Teacher of Roosevelt Dies in Lelocle Neuchatel Area
Mme Rosa T. Sandoz aged 74, who claimed to have taught President Roosevelt, died today in Lelocle near Neuchatel.
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Berne
Mme
Rosa T. Sandoz
Roosevelt
Lelocle
Neuchatel
Fire damages outbuilding at Shupp residence
A rear outbuilding at the Shupp home on the Paper Mill road was damaged by fire this morning. The First Hose company responded but the blaze was under control upon arrival and the loss was slight.
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Shupp
Farewell for Tennessee House Speaker Burns in Nashville
Joseph W. Burns, longtime Tennessee congressman and House speaker, died in Washington and was returned to Nashville for burial. President Roosevelt attended a solemn funeral train as thousands gathered from Tennessee and nearby states. At Mount Olivet cemetery a vault awaited the 66 year old native of Robertson county who spent 27 years in Congress, with hundreds of officers coordinating the crowd along the funeral route.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
Joseph W. Burns
Washington
Roosevelt
Rich Valley
Robertson County
Burns
Mount Olivet
Congress
Memorial Auditorium
Aged Johnny Reb Enjoyed His Visit
A letter from G. W. Dellinger of Winchester to Ernest C. Rowe expresses pleasure at attending last Sundays joint memorial exercises on Hamilton boulevard. The 91 year old Confederate veteran, who calls himself Johnny Reb, says he stood the trip well and felt fine since. He enjoyed meeting Thomas C. Rowe and other Union veterans, hoping they shared the day with similar good feeling.
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Ernest C. Rowe
Hamilton Boulevard
G. W. Dellinger
Winchester
Mr. Dellinger
Johnny Reb
Mr. Rowe
Thomas C. Rowe
Ghezzi Sets a Fast Pace in Open Championship
Victor Ghezzi of Deal New Jersey shot a one over par 73 for his third round at Baltusrol to extend his lead to a 54 hole total of 213 in the United States Open finals.
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Baltusrol Golf Club
N. J
Victor Ghezzi
Deal
Siren Fails To Save Runners In Whiskey Chase
In Atlanta on June 6 a liquor car equipped with a police-type siren fled from officers. The siren wailed during a long chase but the car went into a ditch and the occupants fled on foot, losing 95 gallons of whiskey.
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Atlanta
Child Hit In Eye By Hook At Home
The four year old son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Talbert Funkstown was injured yesterday when a spring hook from a screen door snagged his eyelid. The spring flew back as the child removed it, cutting the flesh badly.
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Joseph Talbert
Funkstown
Roof torn from barn at Kreps farm by windstorm
A section of a barn roof on Stover E. Kreps farm in Wilsons was ripped away by Wednesday’s windstorm, causing structural damage and raising concerns about further storm impact on local farms.
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Stover E. Kreps
Wilsons
Nice Settles Barber Board Controversy in Maryland
Governor Harry W Nice ends the dispute over the state barber board by appointing the 1935 board under the 1904 law. The Court of Appeals voided the 1935 act, and Attorney General Herbert R OConor ruled against selling board furniture to pay salaries. The 1904 board takes over, keeping furniture and funds from licenses to settle all claims. Board members named: Arthur W Duer Snow Hill president Vincent A Cinquegrani Baltimore secretary Robert W Smith Barton treasurer.
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Baltimore
Harry W. Nice
Court of Appeals
Herbert R. O’conor
O’conor
Nice
Oconor
Arthur W. Duer
Snow Hill
Vincent A. Cinquegrani
Robert W. Smith
Barton
First Recruits Joined Weed Gang Under Judge's Ten Day Penalty
Ed Hoffman and Ken Shirey, two recurrent offenders, were involuntarily enlisted in the weed gang this morning and each sentenced to ten days by Justice C. Edward Heard for drunkenness. Captain Emmett announced the gang would be reorganized Monday and enlistments were open.
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Ed. Hoffman
Ken Shirey
C. Edward Heard
Emmett
Frowns On County Fair Marriages By Methodist Conference
WESTMINSTER June 6 The Baltimore conference of the Methodist Episcopal church voted disapproval of performing marriage ceremonies at county fairs. The resolution records opposition to the use of marriage ceremonies for spectacular or commercial purposes. Resolutions committee members are Revs. W. G. McKinney Phillip C. Edwards and Vernon N. Ridgely.
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Westminster
Baltimore
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
W. G. McKinney
Phillip C. Edwards
Vernon N. Ridgely
Benj F Snyder Appointed To Washington County School Board
The commission of Benjamin F. Snyder of Smithsburg to the Washington County Board of Education was received from Annapolis. Governor Nice appointed him for a six year term starting May 1 1936. He succeeds Charles C Wirts. Snyder is a railway mail clerk and former teacher. Also received was Charles E Henson’s commission as justice of the peace for Fourth district Clearspring, announced days earlier.
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Benjamin F. Snyder
Smithsburg
Board of Education
Washington County
Annapolis
Snyder
Harry W. Nice
Charles C. Wirts
Charles E. Henson
The
Fourth District
Clearspring
Mr. Henson
Polite Fining for Fight in Charleston
In Charleston South Carolina on June 6 magistrate J R Stall fined John Polite ten dollars for engaging in a fight with William Green. The charge stemmed from a confrontation that day.
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Charleston
S. C
John Polite
J. R. Stall
Polite
William Green
Grace liner Cuzco holds in Corinto Bay for Exiled Sacasa
The Grace liner Cuzco was held in Corinto Bay on June 6 as President Juan B. Sacasa, who has governed Nicaragua for over three years, remained in exile.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Cuzco
Corinto Bay
Juan B. Sacasa
Bitterness Among Rival Candidates in Landon Camp
Cleveland June 6 The Republican contest grows tense as rival camps attack Alf Landon's supporters who claim 400 first ballot votes, 102 short of nominating. Landon managers mostly avoid retaliation while Knox and Borah camps reply. unsigned handbill urges delegates to consider the field and avoid grasshopper storms amid talks of second place prospects.
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Cleveland
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Landon
Kansan
Knox
Borah
John M. Hamilton
London
Arthur
Vandenberg Declines VP Bid Says Senate Service Best Use
Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan announced he would not accept the Republican nomination for Vice President. He said he could be of greater service on the Senate floor than on its rostrum, with his Senate term running through 1940.
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Washington
Arthur Vandenberg
Michigan
Senate
Sobeloff Recommends Civil Suits Against Bank Directors
In Baltimore on June 6 the special court investigator Simon E. Sobeloff urged civil suits against the directors of the bankrupt Baltimore Trust Co. He did not urge criminal action. The 650 page report was filed with Circuit Judge Eugene O Dunne.
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Baltimore
Simon E. Sobeloff
Baltimore Trust Company
Sobeloff
Eugene O'Dunne
Former Movie Player Stabbed in Downtown Los Angeles
Ay Tom Conlon, 20, a former juvenile film player, was stabbed and critically wounded in a cafe fight in downtown Los Angeles. Police say he quarrelled with two men at an adjoining table, who waited outside and slashed him in the abdomen with a knife before fleeing.
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Los Angeles
Tom Conlon
Conlon
Newburyport Mayor Gillis seeks Congress seat in igh Mass. district
Newburyport Mass June 8 Mayor Andrew J Gillis announced his candidacy for Congress from the high Massachusetts district, a seat that has been represented since 1921 by the late A site Andrew.
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Newburyport
Mass
Andrew J
Gillis
Congress
Igh
Massachusetts
Andrew
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