Thomasville High School graduation honors largest class in years
One of the largest Thomasville High School classes graduated at eight thirty in McIntyre Park High School auditorium. The ceremony honored 104 graduates with diplomas from President E R Jerger after speeches by Supt A G Cleveland of Valdosta. Bert Ausley led with 95.05 average, followed by Miss Dolore Melton and Miss Sarah Thorpe.
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Thomasville High School
McIntyre Park High School
Clagses
Faculte
At Am
Bessie Gibson
Anthony
Gibson
A. G. Cleveland
Valdosta
Cleveland
Thomasville
Pointlgl
A. B. Scaife
American Legion
Legion
Bert Ausley
Rose Estridge
P. I. Dixon
Daughters of the American Revolution
Tom Vann
Luten Teate
Fred Clarke
Dixon
E. R. Jerger
Board of Education
B. B
Broughton
East Side
Dolores Melton
Sarah Tjort
Compromise on Wage Hour Measure Reached by Congress
A joint congressional committee agreed to wage hour legislation setting a 25 cent minimum for year one, 30 cents in year two, and 40 cents within seven years for interstate industries unless unemployment would result. Boards would set industry minima and report to a central administrator under the labor department.
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Washington
Congressional
Pepper
D-Fla
Ellender
D-La
Thomas
Utah
Senate
Ramspeck
Dga
Labor Department
NRA
Weather Outlook for Southeast States With Showers
Weather forecast covers South Carolina Georgia Florida and Alabama. Scattered thundershowers are possible this afternoon tonight and on Thursday with slight to moderate warming in parts of the coast and north areas. Northwest Florida expects mostly cloudy skies with scattered thundershowers tonight and Thursday and gentle to moderate winds.
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South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Bombardment of Canton Escalates as Japan Strikes City
Canton's air defense faltered under a third raid of the day by Japanese warplanes. Incendiaries set fires in Lingnam University and a Standard Oil storage site, with 8,000 total casualties reported across 12 days of bombardment.
Canton Death Toll Estimated at 3,000 Dead and 5,000 Wounded
Canton China reports 12 days of Japanese air raids leave about 3,000 killed and 5,000 wounded. Lingnam University and Standard Oil oil tanks were hit, bursting into flames.
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China
Metropol
Canton-Hankow
Aiirmen
Wongsha Station
Taishatu Station
Hongkong
Shameen
Lingnam University
Standard Oil Company
Senators Urge Probe of Politics in Relief Campaign
Ten Democratic senators including Tydings proposed a three member committee to investigate charges of politics in relief during the 1938 campaign. The resolution, signed by Adams Bulkley Burke George Garry Hatch King McAdoo and Wagner, seeks to curb WPA politics in conventions and elections. President Roosevelt suggested officials might endorse in state primaries if born in the same situation.
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Harry L. Hopkins
Gillite
Iowa
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Gillette
Roosevelt
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Colorado
Bulkley
Ohio
Burke
Nebraska
George
Georgia
Garry
Rhode Island
Hatch
New Mexico
King
Utah
McAdoo
California
Wagner
New York
Ilette
Wheeler
D-Mont
Burks
Dneb
Slight Increase in Georgia Cotton Acreage Allotments
Athens June 8 The Agricultural Adjustment Administration estimated a four percent rise in Georgia cotton acreage allotments under the amended federal law about 73 000 acres. The increase will not be uniform by county or farm size with smaller farms receiving larger boosts. Original allotments for counties in districts 7 and 8 are listed, excluding the reserve held back for new growers.
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Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Georgia
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Calhoun
Clay
Decatur
Dougherty
Early
Grady
Lee
Miller
Mitchell
Quitman
R Rndolph
Seminole
Stewart
Sumter
Terrell
Thomas
Webster
Johnny Arbuthnot Day Honors Janesville High Physics Mentor
Johnny Arbuthnot, 70, retires after 41 years teaching physics at a Janesville high school. In a dinner honoring him, he quips about quitting to avoid becoming a jalopie as he reflects on teaching former pupils’ granddaughters. The event marked his retirement and featured a town proclamation.
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Wis
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Senate
Washington
Robert R. Reynolds
Bob
Rep
Frank W. Hancock, Jr
North Carolina
Vanderbilt Heir Weds California Attorney's Daughter
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, heir to a $20 000 000 fortune, married Manuel Hudson, auburn haired daughter of a San Francisco attorney. The ceremony at Sands Point on Long Island was performed by Rev Vincent McCarthy, linking the Vanderbilt line with the Hudson family amid Santa Anita Pimlico and Belmont romance.
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Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
America
Manuela Hudson
San Francisco
Santa Anita Park
Pimlico
Belmont Tracks
Sands Point
Long Island
Margaret Emerson
Vanderbilt
Vincent A. McCarthy
St. Mary’s
Manhasset
Discovery
Emerson
Rewards Raised in James Bailey Cash Jr Kidnap Case
Rewards totaling five thousand dollars are offered for information leading to the arrest of the abductors of five year old James Bailey Cash Jr. The FBI offers double the ransom bill value for the first hundred notes, a jeweler adds a $25 watch, and President Roosevelt seeks fifty thousand dollars for the search. The child was taken from Princeton Florida on May 28 and investigators pursue ransom trails.
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Princeton
Fla
Jacksonville
Roosevelt backs $50,000 for Cash kidnapping probe
Chairman Adams of the Senate appropriations subcommittee forecasted a $50,000 appropriation as a matter of course to hunt the kidnapers of James Bailey Cash. President Roosevelt told Vice President Garner he agreed with the request and attached a Budget Bureau report noting anticipated expenses for the investigation by the FBI.
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Adams
D-Coro
Senate Appropriations
Little James Bailey Cash
Roosevelt
Garner
Budget Bureau
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Editors Gather in Swainsboro for Georgia Convention
Editors from Georgia large and small newspapers assemble in Swainsboro for their annual convention. Speakers include Governor Rivers Lon Sullivan state safety education director Dr Herty Savannah scientist and Ike Hay assistant U S district attorney.
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Swainsboro
June
Georgia
E. D. Rivers
Lon Sullivan
Charles Herty
Savannah
Ike Hay
United States
British port Gandia bombed by insurgent planes near Valencia
Spanish insurgent planes bombed the British operated Port of Gandia near Valencia destroying two warehouses and a dredger. A British steamer was disabled and no casualties were reported. The attack raises tensions as Britain seeks action and neutral investigation in Spanish waters.
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Standard Oil Company
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Foreign Office
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Valencia
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Figueras
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Spain
Albocacer
China
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Hankow
Madrid
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Francisco Franca
Franco
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