Landon Knox Plan Drive On Vital Issues In Campaign
Governor Alf M Landon and Colonel Frank Knox outlined a joint plan to spotlight vital issues and lead the Republican ticket to victory. They met at the Kansas Capitol with a cheering crowd, signaling a two day strategy meeting with party leaders to map speeches, campaign roles, funding, and possible stops from Pennsylvania to New York and the Pacific Coast.
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Knox
Topeka
Eas
Alf M. Landon
Frank Knox
Kansas
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Chicago
Herbert Hoover
Idaho
Senator Borah
Borah
West Middlesex
Madison Square Garden
New York
New York State
New England
Pennsylvania
Pacific Coast
WPA workers shift to private industry in Seneca County
Samuel Matthews county works engineer said the exodus of WPA workers to private industry has reduced Seneca County's WPA forces to 435. The June report notes many workers left for private industrial jobs in the area, affecting ongoing public works programs.
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WPA
Tiffin
Samuel Matthews
Seneca County
Congress Debates Housing Bill and Harbor Airport Plan
Today the Senate debates the Wagner housing bill while the Military Affairs Committee studies a proposal to erect an airport in New York harbor. The House considers the Vinson bill regulating the coal industry and the Rules Committee meets on the Walsh Healey bill setting minimum labor standards in government contracts. Yesterday the inter state commerce committee approved a substitute for the Guffey bill and the Military affairs committee heard Mayor La Guardia discuss harbor airport plans. Conference reports on the Interior Department appropriation bill and the chain store regulatory measure were adopted and sent to the White House along with a bill for a material tax reduction on wines. The Agriculture Committee approved a bill to discount large AAA benefit payments.
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Military Affairs Committee
New York Harbor
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Walsh-Healey
Senate
Interstate Commerce Committee
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la Guardia
New York
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Interior Department
White House
Agriculture Committee
Bonus bonds paid to veterans in county totals $100000
About 175 World War II veterans in Wilmington and Clinton County received roughly $100000 in soldier’s bonus bonds. Postmaster Will F. Hains said most bonds were delivered Tuesday by city and rural carriers with the average payment above $500. Bond recipients spent the funds on debts, apparel, furnishings and necessities, while local merchants reported sales increases across many lines.
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Wilmington
Clinton County
Will F. Hains
Hains
Federal power in commodities trade boosted
Washington June 16. President Roosevelt signed the Jones Smith commodity exchange bill to curb speculative trading in grains cotton rice mill feeds potatoes butter and eggs. It imposes trading limits and bans wash sales with a new Grain Futures Administration soon renamed the Community Exchange Commission. Exchanges will be licensed and floor brokers registered. Regulations take effect in 90 days.
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Roosevelt
Jones-Smith Commodity Exchange Bill
Stock Exchange Control
Grain Futures Administration
Community Exchange Commission
Federal regulation eyed for all transportation
Urbana Ill June 16 Joseph B Eastman federal coordinator of transportation predicted government regulation would extend to all forms of transportation He told the American Institute of Cooperation at the University of Illinois that the regulation field must be as broad as the transportation field with implications for future policy.
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Urbana
Ill
Joseph B. Eastman
American Institute of Cooperation
University of Illinois
United States
Eastman
Truck Driver James Needham Dies After Crash Near Salem
Salem reports the death of 19 year old James Needham of Washingtonville after his truck overturned on a curve near town. He died in a local hospital about four hours after the accident.
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Salem
James Needham
Washingtonville
Republicans Plan State Convention in Ohio
Columbus June 16 The Republican state convention will be an all Ohio affair starting July 1 with no national tinge. James Garfield Stewart of Cincinnati is likely to deliver the keynote and Attorney General John W. Bricker will give the principal address at the evening session. William Schneider of Columbus has been named convention arrangements chairman. Delegations will report selections for convention committees and the resolutions committee will prepare the platform for July 2 morning session.
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Columbus
Ed. D. Schorr
James Garfield Stewart
Cincinnati
John W. Bricker
Stewart
William Schneider
Franklin County
Bricker
Resolutions
W C Fields Fights Pneumonia Held In Riverside
Riverside California June 16 W C Fields veteran film comedian endured a restless night yet held his ground against pneumonia his nurse said He has been in an oxygen tent at Riverside Community Hospital since last Friday with a temperature between 101 and 102 degrees.
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Riverside
Calif
W. C. Fields
Riverside Community Hospital
Price discrimination bill moves to Senate action
Washington June 16 The Robinson-Patman anti price discrimination bill with a conference report approved by the House would ban price differences by manufacturers for large buyers and assign enforcement to the Federal Trade Commission.
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House
Senate
Federal Trade Commission
Dudley Adams Sentenced for Christmas Holdup Killing
Lisbon June 16 Dudley Adams 22 convicted of first degree murder for the slaying last Christmas of Clarence Dickey 25 a milk wagon driver's assistant. He was sent to the Ohio State Penitentiary to begin a life term.
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Lisbon
Dudley Adams
Clarence Dickey
Ohio State Penitentiary
Davey Plea 10 Halt Tax Hit as Politics
Columbus reports two controversial bills on the calendar as lawmakers return for a resumption of the special session. Gov. Martin L. Davey seeks a quick repeal of the 3 percent sales levy on home food, deemed political by GOP leaders while lawmakers study revenue effects for schools and local governments. The session also grapples with a $6.5 million relief measure and unemployment insurance, with farm interests clashing with welfare workers over relief criteria and enforcement. A Senate panel was instructed to report by Wednesday on unemployment insurance amid ongoing debate.
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Columbus
Martin L. Davey
Jank Whittemore
Akron
Senate
J. Harry Asmann
Cincinnati
Ohio
General Assembly
J. Freer Bittinger
Veterans face cash bonus option as bonds go out
Washington reports the $1.65 billion World War II veteran bond program ends. About 3,000,000 vets receive bonds while some 500 to 600 members of the American Veterans Association opt to donate their bonds to aid wounded ex servicemen and widows. Mayors and judges note they did not claim the bonus. Distribution wraps up by week’s end amid a few shipping and duplicate application hiccups.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Donald A. Hobart
American Veterans’ Association
New York
F. H. LaGuardia
United States
Leon Yankwich
Los Angeles
Power Turned On In Rural Project Piqua
Power flowed through lines today to the country s first Rural Electrification Administration cooperative unit. Last night electricity reached 190 farm homes in Miami County. By week’s end lights will illuminate all 385 members in Miami and Shelby counties, completing a $500 000 project.
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Rural Electrification Administration
Pioneer Rural Electrification Cooperative
Miami County
Miami
Shelby
Farm Fork Accident Wounds Boy In ey e
A hay fork flung by Floyd King of near Mechanicsburg pierced his son William’s eye, age 2, in Urbana. The injured child was taken to a Columbus hospital for treatment.
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Floyd King
Mechanicsburg
William
Columbus
NLRB loses in court battle over actions
Washington dispatch reports June 16 that Secretary Ickes cancelled a 40086 dollar contract with Jones and Laughlin Steel of Pittsburgh after the company was found guilty by the National Labor Relations Board of unfair labor practices. The Fifth Circuit in New Orleans ruled the federal government lacks power to regulate the employment relationship in production and manufacture, in a decision related to the board against Jones and Laughlin. The court refused to enforce an order to reinstate workers at the Aliquippa plant who claimed dismissal for labor activities.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
Alquippa, Pa
Copeland to Spurn Democratic Meet in 1932 Walkout Mention
Senator Copeland of New York said he would skip the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia to attend the National Medical Society convention in Cleveland. He cited expected personal benefit and did not discuss any joint walkout with former Governor Alfred E. Smith.
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Copeland
N. Y
National Medical Society Convention
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Medical Society
Alfred E. Smith
New York
Coughlin Plans Third National Ticket in Split with Roosevelt
In New York on June 16 Rev. Charles E. Coughlin announced he and the National Union for Social Justice would back neither Franklin D. Roosevelt nor Al Smith and signaled the creation of a third national ticket amid party realignment.
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New York
Charles E. Coughlin
National Union For Social Justice
Roosevelt
Landon
Bloominghurst postmaster to be sentenced for embezzlement
Columbus report says Federal District Judge Mell G Underwood deferred until Friday the sentencing of Homer P Emery postmaster at Bloominghurs Fayette County who pleaded guilty to embezzling 551 dollars from post office funds.
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Columbus
Mell G. Underwood
Homer P. Emery
Bloominghurs
Fayette County
Big boost seen in collections of income tax
Secretary Morgenthau announced that income tax receipts in the first 15 days of June rose about 18 percent from the same period last year. Estimated second installment payments for 1935 totaled $276,953,610 versus $233,967,894 the prior year, with June receipts expected near $375 million.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Treasury
Landon Urged to Open Campaign in Columbus
An invitation to Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas to open his presidential campaign in Columbus was expected to receive consideration today at a conference of Republican leaders in Topeka Kansas. The invitation was telegraphed from London yesterday by William Schneider Franklin County Republican chairman.
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Columbus
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Topeka
Kan
London
William Schneider
Franklin County
Motorist Saved From Fire Then Jailed in Marion
C E Graff 28 of Marion was rescued from a burning automobile after cigarette mischief lit his front seat and trousers. Highway Patrolman H R Curtis stopped his car near here, extinguished the blaze, and arrested Graff for driving while intoxicated, serving 10 days in jail.
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Marion
C. E. Graff
H. R. Curtis
Graff
Curtis
Graffitor
Postmaster Appointment Seen for Wilmington Ohio
A long stalemate ends as Senator Bulkley and Senator Donahey back M. D. Barns for Postmaster of Wilmington Ohio. Barns has strong Democratic ties and local party support, while rival Stanley Tiler faded. Postmaster W. F. Hains has served over a year past his term.
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Robert Bulkley
A. V
Stanley Tiler
New Martin Hotel
Donahey
Bulkley
Barns
Tiler
Washington
Crop Failures In Spring Wheat Seen
Drouth scorches spring wheat across parts of North and South Dakota threatening third straight year of poor yields. North Dakota, a leading producer, sees a repeat of 1934 drought. rust last year ruined many acres. Nebraska reports fine shape, Minnesota and Iowa prospects fair to good.
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Drouth
North
South Dakota
North Dakota
Nebraska
Minnesota
Iowa
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