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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1938
Page
1
John L. Lewis pressed House Democratic leaders for a second vote on the Walsh Healey bill but Speaker Bankhead refused. Lewis called the committee decision cowardly and accused it of favoring corporations over labor as the election looms.
Andrea Luckenbach, 18, daughter of Commodore Edgar F. Luckenbach, marries William Dobbs, 22, a butter and egg salesman, in a Manhasset farmhouse ceremony. The couple honeymooned on a yacht borrowed from Andrea’s half-brother as the commodore disapproves citing her youth and a $1,000,000 inheritance in three years. The Grace Line and Luckenbach ships compete in intercoastal trade.
Shanghai dispatches report massive floods from the Yellow River breach between Chengchow and Kaifeng. About 300,000 Chinese civilians homeless and 150,000 dead, with ships and rafts built by both sides to rescue stranded peasants as troops retreat. Foreign missionaries assist locals in Kaifeng while Japan drives toward Hankow along the Yangtze.
The forecast for South Carolina and Georgia calls for generally fair conditions tonight and Thursday with moderate temperatures. Florida expected to be generally fair with a warmer trend in the extreme northeast and partly cloudy, unsettled conditions in the extreme south. Alabama and extreme northwest Florida should see fair nights and Thursdays with gentle to moderate easterly to southerly coastal winds.
Meigs Georgia June 15 a small barn on Mack Wilkes property near the highway was destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. The building burned to the ground in a short time with possible feedstuffs and equipment inside. Insurance status unknown and the loss runs into several hundred dollars.
Surveyors on the Pelham Georgia site for the new post office have taken soil samples to fifteen feet and will send them to Washington for analysis. Foundation depths will be determined to guide building requirements as work is expected to rush ahead.
Matt McWhorter of the Georgia Public Service Commission heads to Valdosta to confer with Paul Carpenter and local officials on a proposed railroad siding at the Valdosta farmers market and a public or team track for independent buyers. McDonald notes G S & F representatives will attend. McWhorter will then meet in Thomasville with Atlanta Birmingham and Coast Railroad officials on a similar proposal.
The note indicates that time required for bid advertising and laboratory work may delay the actual construction work. It cautions that procurement steps could push back the start and progress of the project.
Valencia amid a flood of 15 000 refugees from Castellon De La Plana and province. The crowded city shelters report hours of terror from bombings and machine gun fire by insurgent warplanes. Families recount grave losses as they fled along the death road.
Late tabulations show W Clint Harrison extending his margin over Arthur Heustess for the state Public Service Commission with 80 993 to 75 979 as 1594 of 2274 boxes report. In the third district unofficial results give Henry B Steagall a victory over J Hubert Farmer 15 425 to 11 325 with Steagall chairman of the banking and currency committee and a 23 year House member.
In Media Pennsylvania Mrs Ethel R Hollenbaugh 24 testifies she kept a score of her husband's abuse reading 30 facial strikes 12 kicks 25 choke incidents 2 bed removals. She wins divorce.
Washington June 15 Only President Roosevelt's signature needed to start a federal program regulating wages and hours for 2 25 million workers. Congress approved compromise legislation to set minimum pay and 44 hour weeks with scale rising to 40 cents over five years. The act creates regional committees, 120 days to take effect, and faces possible constitutional tests in court.
In the United Provinces region of northern India 12 000 people have died in seven weeks from a severe cholera outbreak. Two thousand per week at the peak as British and Indian medical authorities mobilize hundreds of physicians to combat the disease.
A Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau report dated Atlanta June 15 notes the week ending June 14 was generally good for Georgia crops. Moisture was adequate to excess in parts, with over four inches of rain at Griffin and Millen. Cotton squares and bolls appeared in the south, but rains slowed cultivation elsewhere. some rice and weevil activity reported. Corn, sweet potatoes, tobacco, and truck crops in good shape, though central and eastern counties saw too much rain for truck crops and Vienna area had excess rain for peanuts. peanuts progressed elsewhere.
In Ashland Pennsylvania on June 15 a father Peter Shinskowsky aged 48 and his son Peter Jr aged 17 were rescued from a makeshift mine shaft where they had been trapped since Monday. A physician said both appeared in good condition and the father’s first words were I am out of there. The son was too weary to speak.
From Hendaye France June 15 insurgents strike two routes in Spain. In the east Franco forces push government militiamen south of the Mijares river near Castellon de la Plana while another insurgent army advances toward Cordoba in the south. Prisoners reported as captured and towns such as Blazques fell. Franco's troops moved toward Valencia with Villareal occupied on the Mijares south bank.
William W. Tharpe of Moultrie Georgia died from a brain concussion and internal injuries after leaping from a fourth floor hotel window in Pensacola Florida. Coroner R L Kendrick found no crime and no inquest. Tharpe’s body to be sent to Moultrie. He reportedly told a maid he would take his own life if his ear pain did not stop.
Franklin Pierce McCall, 21, was found guilty of kidnapping James Bailey Cash Sr. in Miami. Judge S F Atkinson scheduled sentencing for the next morning. The case included McCall’s signed confession about taking the boy May 28 for a $10 000 ransom. the boy died accidentally.
Washington reports the Senate backed a $375 million flood control measure but a faction led by Senator O Mahoney resisted provisions seen as infringing state rights. Debates over dam and reservoir condemnation costs persisted as adjournment loomed.
Valdosta Ga June 5 State Senator L L Patten of Lakeland announced he has withdrawn from the race for United States Congress in the eighth year.
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