Senate panel probes Georgia labor racketeering cases
Georgia labor racketeering charges are being investigated by a Senate committee. Secretary Ickes cites multiple projects with workers allegedly forced to kick back part of their wages. Cases include Byck Electric of Savannah and a PWA project at Lake Park with foreman T B Carroll accused of wage deductions for transportation.
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Wellington
Georgia
Senate
Ickes
Public Works
Byck Electric Company
Savannah
CCC
Reidsville
Sylvania
S. M. Byck
PWA
Lake Park
T. B. Carroll
General Accounting Office
Carroll
Justice Department weighs military role in Dillinger hunt
Washington reports the Justice Department discussed army and National Guard support for the pursuit of John Dillinger. Officials kept details guarded while preparing to coordinate federal state and local authorities. Rewards include 10000 dollars for Dillinger, 5000 for Baby Face Nelson, and 2500 for information. charges include transporting a stolen car across state lines and Nelson implicated in the murder of DOJ agent W Carter Baum near Rhinelander Wisconsin.
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Washington
Army
National Guard
John Dillinger
Justice Department
Dillinger
Cummings
Lester McGinnis
Baby Face Nelson
Dilinger
Nelson
W. Carter Baum
Department of Justice
Rhinelander
Wisconsin
Marie Dressler Improves in Santa Barbara Hospital
Marie Dressler's condition has shown improvement, according to her physician Dr. F R Nuzum. The actress had been seriously ill with heart and kidney ailments and was reported to be in no immediate danger.
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Santa Barbara
Cal
Marie Dressler
F.R. Nuzum
Weather forecast for Southeast states clears skies
Fair conditions across South Carolina Tuesday night. Georgia expects fair weather with a chance of scattered afternoon thunderstorms in extreme south areas. Florida remains partly cloudy with possible scattered thunderstorms Tuesday afternoon. Alabama mostly fair with coastal showers tonight and Tuesday. Extreme Northwest Florida shows partly cloudy conditions with possible thunder showers tonight and Tuesday.
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South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
New Commissions to Be Selected by Roosevelt
President Roosevelt conferred with Postmaster General Farley to arrange the selection of the new stock exchange and communications commissions and fill other government vacancies before departing for Hawaii. Farley, also Democratic chairman, carried names of candidates and planned to return to Washington with the president on the special train.
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Hyde Park
Roosevelt
Farley
Hawaii
Roosefelt
Congress
Mad hermit killer shoots two dead in Wolcott town
John Crowe 65 fled after firing on Clarence Yukis Jr and Julius Karvaukas on the Yukis property. A large posse with machine guns and tear gas searched woods and a shack, while Mrs Yukis was wounded and later discharged from hospital. Police linked jealousy and boundary disputes to the crime.
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Wolcott, Conn
John Crowe
Wolcott Woods
Crowe
Clarence Yukis, Jr
Yukiz Grounds
Julius Karvaukas
Yukis
Crewe
Litchfield
Wolcott
Karvaukas
Waterbury
Walcott
Georgia gasoline and kerosene tax rise in first half 1934
Atlanta report shows gasoline tax six cents per gallon brought in $6,707,079 for January through June 1934, up from $5,693,702 a year earlier. Kerosene tax one cent per gallon totaled $104,009 in the period, vs $95,717 last year, with total receipts up by $1,021,667.
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Atlanta
William B. Harrison
German experts to confer with Britain over moratorium
A German delegation of three experts will arrive in London to negotiate with Britain on the debt moratorium. Talks open Wednesday at the British treasury with aims to ease German debts, possibly lowering interest rates in Great Britain. Neville Chamberlain leads the British side. Dr Fritz Berger heads the German team with Karl Blessing and Robert Ulrich. British preparations include a quota clearing house bill in Parliament.
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London
Great Britain
Germany
Neville Chamberlin
Fritz Berger
Karl Blessing
Reichsbank
Robert Ulrich
Foreign Office
House of Commons
Browning in Critical Condition After Cerebral Hemorrhage
Edward W. Browning aged 63 wealthy New York real estate operator and estranged husband of Frances Browning was hospitalized in critical condition at the Hospital for Joint Diseases after being found unconscious in his hotel suite last Friday. His left side is paralyzed and his physician said recovery is possible.
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New York
Edward W
Daddy) Browning
Frances (Peaches) Browning
Browning
Fida
Woman and daughter killed in accident near Moultrie GA
A mule was struck by a car near Moultrie Georgia last night and crushed Mrs. George Wills and her four year old daughter. Four others on the wagon were hurt. George Wills filed a murder warrant against Jack Hokan 40 claiming he was the driver. Authorities cited a rain slick road and noted Holan was arrested after reporting the crash. Hokan is linked to a prominent local family.
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Moultrie
George Wills
Jack Hokan
Wills
Hokan
Willswee
Church
Hollan
Holan
G. A
South Georgia
Twenty Nine Yachts Head South Toward Bermuda
New London Conn June 25 1938. Scattered over the open sea twenty nine staunch sailing yachts entered in the tenth biennial 650 mile race to Bermuda head southward. Most entrants were from New England and the New York area. The fleet started yesterday in southerly air. The only woman in the race Whittlesey of Greenwich Conn signed on Stormy Weather from New York just before the start.
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New London
Conn
Bermuda
New Tongland
New York
Whittlesey
Greenwich
Philip Lebontillier
Police cry scene at Augusta HQ ends in tears
Police headquarters officers in Augusta Georgia shed tears in a curious episode described as a good cry. The scene involved tear gas shells stored at the station, with most personnel unsure of the exact trigger but sharing strong emotion amid the quiet aftermath.
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Augusta
Five spectators killed as plane crashes at aviation meet
Five spectators died when an airplane crashed into a crowd at a Yugoslav aviation meet near Bemisce on the Hungarian border. Three other people were injured and reported dying.
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Vienna
Bemisce
CCC Worker Held in Death of 14 Year Old Girl
In Saranac Lake New York a 25 year old Civilian Conservation Corps truck driver Truman Showers of Syracuse is held for questioning in the murder and assault of Cleo Tellstone 14. The girl whose nude body was found near Bloomingdale yesterday died after a struggle. Police gave no charges as crowds gathered outside the barracks during questioning.
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Saranac Lake
N. Y
New York
Civilian Conservation Corps
Cleo Tellstone
Mark E. Monaghan
Truman Showers
Syracuse
CCC
Wilbur
Showers
Tellstones
Adirondack
Bloomingdale
Saranac Lake Barracks
Public Service Board resumes hearing on Georgia railroads
The Georgia Public Service Commission reopened hearings on railroad rate structures in Georgia after a federal court halted a 27 percent cut. The six day session follows requests for delay and cites earlier federal decisions upholding the commission’s power to lower rates. Separately, a federal court order forced about 17 percent telephone rate reductions for ten small Georgia companies.
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Public Service Board
Atlanta
Georgia Public Service Commission
Georgia
Smal
Georgia Telephone
Georgia Continental
Thomaston
Cairo
Statesboro
Consolidated
Douglas
Dalton
Chattsworth
Southeastern
Central
Commission
Violent clashes erupt in six cities across France
Paris reports sterner police measures after violent political clashes in six French cities. Demonstrators arrested in Lorient and other locations were not released and face prompt trials with jail terms likely if convicted. The government views the actions as a response to rising nationwide disorder.
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Paris
Lorient
NRA official appeals to avert wool strike
Washington reports NRA deputy administrator F. S. Blanchard asked United Textile Workers leaders to call off the woolen textile strike set for next Monday. He disclosed a proposal for an industrial relations board to handle labor disputes in the wool textile industry.
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Washington
PH F. S. Blanchard
NRA
United Textile Workers of America
Blanchard
Wool
Leaking Steel Cabinet Shelters in Sunlit Morning
In a cluttered room a steel cabinet leaked from warped surfaces as the morning sun beat down on scattered shells. The scene conveys a quiet, tense moment amid dusty tools and bright light.
Evidence Sent To America In Poderjay Case
New York reports two packages of evidence traveling from London and Vienna to decide extradition of Captain Ivan Tranovitch Poderjay. Police inspect White Star liner Olympic cabin 86, linked to Poderjay and missing Agnes Turverson, while Poderjay remains detained in Vienna.
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New York
London
Vienna
Ivan Tranovitch Poderjay
Agnes Turverson
Olympic
Poderjay
Miss Turverson
Positive Identification of Photo in Boston
Boston reports positive ID of photographs of missing attorney Agnes Turverson by a Boston garment cleaner. Ruth Hall identified images supplied by New York police as the May and early June visits, noting the dress matched the one sent for cleaning. The case has drawn international attention after items linked to Turverson surfaced in Vienna and a trunk body in Brighton was not hers.
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Boston
Agnes Turverson
Ruth Hall
Tulverson
Bureau of Missing Persons
New York Police Department
19 Year Old Model Student Held In Extortion Plots
Clinton Ill June 25 A 19 year old high school graduate Francis Goodrich described as a model student faced arraignment under the Lindbergh law for sending extortion letters via mail. He allegedly threatened Cornelius Vanderbilt II Walter Gifford and Gov Horner asking 25000 under threat of bombing and claimed to have a destroyer machine.
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Clinton, Ill
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Walter Gifford
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Francis Goodrich
Leslie ©. Orr
Gov. Horner
Illinois
Gifford
U. S
Frank K. Lemon
Vanderbilt A
Catholic Prelates Tug With Nazis Over Concordat
The Berlin fighting between Nazi authorities and Catholic prelates over the Reich concordat intensified as they dispute how the agreement should impact Roman Catholic youth.
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Berlin
Roosevelt decries rising highway death toll at AAA convention
President Roosevelt wrote to Thomas P. Henry of Detroit at the American Automobile Association convention expressing deep concern over the staggering deaths injuries and property damage from highway accidents. He urged safer travel conditions and praised the AAA for its leadership and programs to solve the crash problem.
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Washington
Roosevelt
American Automobile Association
Thomas P. Henry
Detroit
Association
Nation's Great Athletes Begin Trek to Milwaukee
Milwaukee on June 25 reports that athletes from the national scene travel by train, plane and car caravan toward Milwaukee for the forty seventh annual outdoor track and field championships. The trip includes champions from the NCAA meet in Los Angeles and a 20 man squad from the Olympic Club of San Francisco, with the New York A C arriving on a special train. Only two NCAA winners, Al Olson and Jack Rand, remain unentered but entries are expected.
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Milwaukee
Wis
National Collegiate Athletic Association
Los Angeles
Olympic Club of
San Francisco
New York
al Olson
Southern California
Jack Rand
San Diego State
Eight Farmers Jailed in Tennessee Slaying Case
In Coffee County near Manchester Tennessee eight white farmers are jailed on murder charges after Dick Wilerson a 35 year old black man was found slain in an oat field. Authorities say a white crowd attacked him following a dance incident and continued the assault at his home. The arrestees include William Peel Elijah Peel Edwin Peel Lewis Garner John Gibson John B Hanley Wilburn Sherrill and Leonard Warren. A 14 year old stepson of one suspect led to the arrests. A hearing is set for tomorrow at 10 a m.
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Manchester
Tenn
Here
Dick Wilerson
Coffee County
C. Db. Huffman
Huffman
Wilkerson
Sheriff Huffman
Willam
Elijah
Edwin Peel
Lewis Garner
John Gibson
John B. Hanley
Wilburn Sherrill
Leonard Warren
Robert Richardson
Gibson
Hyman
Five Aviators Die in Sunday Plane Crashes
Five men died in separate plane crashes Sunday. Wedell, 34, Worcester speed pilot and designer, perished near Patterson Louisiana while instructing a student. W. J. McCulen 32 and R. L. Oakes 30 of Roosevelt Field New York died when a midair collision near Rutland Vermont occurred during airport dedication. James Carl Ryan 23 of Yates City Illinois and Dr. Robert Thomas Plummer 29 of Trivoli Iowa died when their plane crashed in flames near Trivoli Iowa. Dr. Plummer was at the controls as a student pilot.
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Associated Press
Jimmy Weddell
Wedell
Patterson
Rutland, Vt
W. J. McCulen
R. L. Oakes
Roosevelt Field
N. Y
James Carl Ryan
Yates City
Robert Thomas Plummer
Trivoli
Plummer
Monticello Road Seal Coat Completed for First Section
The first four and one tenth miles of Monticello Road received a seal coat after dry weather allowed fast work. The operation used heated blacktop in a tank car, spraying one road side in smooth, even jets. Officials plan asphalt and slag spreading next week with no road closure, aiming to finish the five and a half mile project before year end.
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Monticello
Florida Line
Boston Road
McMillen
Beverly
Highway Department
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Chamberlain
Browning IN
America
Miss Tufverson
Ivan Poderjay
Europe
Brighton
England
Miss Tulverson
Cornelius Vanderbilt, II
Mtlwaukee
Tennessee
Jimmy Wedell
New Rutland, VI
Jimmie Wedell
Aviaton
California
New Orleans
Wedel
Tat,feld
Col
Roscoe Turner
Turner
Wewell
Monticello Road
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