Mitchell Charges Face Senate Probe Over Commerce Dept Graft
Washington June 18 The senate commerce committee voted to investigate charges by Ewing Y Mitchell of favoritism and graft in the commerce department He offered to serve for $1 a year as special assistant to the attorney general to clean up graft and waste He claimed Missouri political machine pressure helped remove him and faced opposition from Truman and Clark while Truman said no deal exists The probe was to begin the next day
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Washington
Senate Commerce Committee
Ewing Y. Mitchell
Department of Commerce
Mitchell
Pendergast Machine
Missouri
Roosevelt
Roper
Truman
D.-Mo
Pendergast Organization
Administration
Clark
Senate
Senate investigates Mitchell charges as commerce and ocean mail panels clash
Washington reports a Commerce Committee probe into Ewing Y. Mitchell accusations of graft in government programs while an Ocean Mail Committee report blasts past ship subsidy policies as taxpayers get robbed. Roosevelt orders NRA vigilance and a new federal alcohol control program with occupational taxes in place.
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Senate
New Deal
Ewing Y. Mitchell
Commerce Committee
Ocean Mail Committee
Mitchell
Commerce
Roosevelt
Ocean Mall
House
House Interstate Commerce
NRA
NRA Directed to Study Changes on Code Abolition
President Roosevelt orders the new NRA to examine how labor standards and fair trade practices change after code abolition. He urges an impartial committee with management and labor representatives, plus designations from commerce and labor departments, to collect verify and publish information.
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NRA
Roosevelt
Washington
James L. O'Neil
Departments of Commerce and Labor
Management
Labor
Department of Commerce
Department of Labor
Colonel House Predicts Roosevelt Will Run Again
Col Edward Mandell House, wartime adviser to Wilson, predicts FDR will be renominated and the Democratic standard bearer in 1936. House, who turns 77 on July 26, spoke in Manchester Massachusetts on June 1.
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House
Roosevelt
Manchester
Mass
Edward Mandell
Wilson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Ten Parisian police injured amid labor protest in Paris
Paris on June 18 reports say ten police were injured as 250 laborers demonstrated outside the Polish embassy against France's expulsion of foreign workers. The riot echoed a Lille consulate clash where one gendarme was hurt. demonstrators used clubs and bottles and sixteen people were arrested.
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Paris
France
Lille
Endurance fliers recount near fatal fall over Mississippi
Meridian, June 18. Fred Key, while aboard the plane Ole Miss with Al Key, narrowly escaped a 3000 foot plunge as he was greasing rock er rams on the motor. His safety belt loosened, his brother pilot steadied the craft, saving Fred who had his feet secured on the walk. They mark 14th straight day in the air.
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Meridian
Miss
Fred Key
Fred
Ole Miss
Storms and floods devastate large swaths of the West and Midwest
Tornadoes and floods sweep nine midwestern states causing injuries and widespread damage. Dams broken rivers flood farms and towns across Texas Colorado Oklahoma Nebraska Arkansas Missouri Iowa Illinois Kansas South Dakota and North Dakota with deaths and hundreds of homes ruined.
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Associated Press
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Colorado
Neuces
Rio Grande
Guadalupe
Austin
Oklahoma
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Verdigris
Arkansas
Nebraska
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Arkansas River
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Black
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North Fork
Iowa
Grand River
Kansas
Republican
Hughes-Sully County
Benton County
Siloam Springs
Muskogee
Erath County
Beepapeille
Young Woman Electrocuted Near Car in Brookline
Brookline Mass June 1 Jeanette Gow daughter of Colonel Charles E Gow former Boston postmaster and noted engineer was electrocuted early today as she stepped into her automobile A broken electric light wire fell near the car and the current reached the vehicle through a puddle of water noting a fatal accident by electric wiring failure and a live wire near the vehicle
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Mass
Jeanette Gow
Charles E. Gow
Boston
Weather Outlook Across States With Showers And Cooler Spells
Georgia schemed for showers tonight and Wednesday with cooler air in the north. Florida expected partly cloudy skies and local showers later. South Carolina listed as partly cloudy with possible showers Wednesday. Louisiana and Mississippi forecast partly cloudy to tonight and Wednesday with cooling in some areas. Alabama noted cloudy with local showers and cooler conditions in the north. Extreme Northwest Florida forecast similar showers with a note of a world record attempt reaching 332 hours in progress.
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Senate set to vote on Roosevelt social security plan
The Roosevelt social security program nears Senate final passage with major provisions intact. Administration taxes would fund old age pensions and unemployment insurance, with grants of 15 dollars monthly for needy seniors and blind individuals, plus payroll taxes and state matching. Amendments to curb or expand the plan are under debate, including Borah and Clark proposals affecting state matching and company exemptions.
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Nathan Robertson
Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt Social Security
Senate
House
Clark
D. Mo
GENERAL CHEH YUAN DISMISSED AS CAHAR GOVERNOR GENERAL
The Nanking government dismissed Sung Cheh Yuan as governor of Chahar province. Chin Teh Chuan was named acting civil commissioner. Japanese withdrew most of Tientsin garrison, but buildup along the Great Wall continues. Shanghai reports Kwantung army agreed to settle the Changpei incident, though Tientsin papers say broader Chahar issues remain unsettled.
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Associated Press
Nanking
Chahar
Sung Cheh-Yuah
Chin Teh-Chuan
Tientsin
Great Wall
Shanghai
Kwantung
Changpei
Sino-Japanese Crisis Claimed Relieved by Officials
Japanese military officials in Tientsin announced the Sino-Japanese crisis in north China had reached a stage of amicable negotiation. Maj. Gen. Kenji Doihara said the Changpesi incident involving the arrest of several Japanese had been settled, mainly through the dismissal of Governor Sung Cheh Yuan of Chahar Province.
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Associated Presa
Tientsin
China
Kenji Doihaha
Special Service Division
Kwantunps Army
Changpesi
Sung Cheh-Yuan
Chhar
City Council Defers Beer Action While Targeting Bootleggers
The Thomasville city council again defers a beer decision for two weeks and targets bootleggers by moving to send liquor cases to federal court in Valdosta. Officials also plan to collect past due taxes and instruct police to hearings for license delinquents next Monday.
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Ardis MccDougald
Valdosta
W.A. Watt
B. S. Inman
McDougald
Watt
Feinberg
Chastain
Powell
Dixon
Smith and Key
C. C. Pittman
J. M. Hancock
P. C. Andrews
Frank Ward
U. S. Department of Air Commerce
Vose Field
Southern Flying Service
Flying Service
Ward
Prison Mutiny at Kansas State Prison Coal Mine
In Lansing Kansas June 18 striking convict miners took hostages and tried to seize a gun cage manned by five prison officials on the 730 foot level. Deputy Warden Graham reported no injuries and said the mutiny involved 380 convicts with guards holding the air shaft cage as the surface learned details.
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Kas
Kansas State Prison
R. G. Brown
Associated Press
Kansas Penitentiary
O. A. Johnson
John Christian
Fred Murray
John Stewart
Robert Murray
Murray
Johnson
A. J. Graham
O.K
Graham
O. K
Tavey Simpson
Albert J. Graham
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