Perkins Defends $1 a Day Forest Work Plan in Congress
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, first woman in a U.S. cabinet, defends the Roosevelt 1 dollar a day forest work program before a joint Congressional committee. She rejects claims it creates sweat shops and backs a 30 hour week, warning wage cuts would destroy purchasing power.
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Washington
U.P
Frances Perkins
Perkins
Woods
Miss Perkins
R. ¥. Stuart
U.S. Forest Service
House
Burns
Walsh and Connery
Senate
House Labor
Connery
Roosevelt
Secretary of Treasury
Woodin
Congress
Rainey
Bill Rainey
Henry Agard Wallace
President Roosevelt
Administration Farm
Betrayal of State Denied by Baillie-Stewart Trial
London March 23 Norman Baillie-Stewart of the Seaforth Highlanders denied before a court martial that he disclosed military secrets to a foreign agent. He claimed funds from a German girl in Berlin were payment for nothing illegal and said memoranda were notes on army mechanization. His attorney argued the money came from infatuation and hints of larger payments were used to pressure a return to Germany.
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London
Norman Baillie-Stewart
Seaforth Highlanders
Berlin
Baillie-Stewart
Germany
Norman Parkes
Marie Louise
Furlouch
Lake District
Parkes
Holland
Ballle-Stewart
Otto Waldemar Obst
Texas Judiciary Budget Is Cut Sharply In Legislature
The Texas Senate and House approved a major two year cut to judiciary funding, reducing last biennium levels by over 25 percent. The final appropriation totals 3 912 675 for two years, with House concurrence vote 79 to 41 and Senate vote 26 to 1.
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Austin
U.P
Texas
House
Senate
Judiciary
Walter Woodul
Houston
Puzzle as 10 Brew in Texas
Austin March 23 U.P The beer legality question in Texas plays like a cross word and Jig Saw puzzle. It weighs constitutional provisions, the liquor statute, and 42 sections of two bills. If solved, it could allow advertising beer and 3.2 brew as non intoxicating. Rep Preston Anderson said amendments may be added to authorize ads if the right remains doubtful.
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Gordon K. Shearer Austin
U.P
Texas
Preston Anderson
San Antonio
Webb Wants to Talk at State Helring
Dr Atti cus Webb state superintendent of the Anti Saloon League sent word he plans to address officials at the state capital. He aims to push for prohibition support and discuss legislative avenues.
Midgets on Parade First Show Opens in Amarillo
The world famous Singer's Midgets opened in Amarillo with a parade through the business district. Led by the Amarillo High School Band, 30 performers rode in new Chevrolets as crowds lined the sidewalks for the first glimpse.
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Amarillo
Community Kitchens Benefit at Municipal Auditorium
Ten percent of all box office receipts benefit the Thrift Room with the rest supporting Community Kitchens. Shows run Thursday through Saturday at 8 30 p m with matinees Friday and Saturday at 3 p m Tickets sold at City Drug Store on Polk or at the auditorium box office before shows Adults 40 cents nights 30 cents matinee Children 25 15 cents.
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Municipal Auditorium
City Drug Store
Polk Street
Thrift Room
Touring midgets set five city performances
The visiting troupe includes three elephants and ponies in a parade. At 8 30 Thursday night in the Municipal Auditorium the first of five performances will be held. Two shows, matinee and evening, Friday and Saturday, with tickets at City Drug Store and Auditorium.
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Municipal Auditorium
City Drug Store
Wilbur Hawk
Soviet demand for release of four British prisoners in Moscow
London reports confirm the government directed ambassador Sir Esmond Ovey to demand unconditional release without trial of four Britons held on sabotage charges. Bail amounts were set for three, while William L. MacDonald was not mentioned in Soviet notices.
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London
U.P
Esmond Ovey
Moscow
Maxim Litvinoff
William H. Thornton
Metropolitan-Vickers, Ltd
Johnny Cushng
Gregory
William L. MacDonald
Doctors Say Milady Now More Beautiful
North and South American women are deemed increasingly beautiful by dermatologists at the Pan American Medical Congress. Experts cite broader study of individual needs in cosmetics and acceptance of properly marketed products as driving esthetic progress for both Anglo-Saxon and Latin complexions.
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Dallas
U.p
North
South America
Dominion of Canada
Cape Horn
Chile
Milady
Pan-American Medical Congress
Chinese Resistance Leader Vows Continued Fight in Manchuria
General Ho Ying Ching, new north China overlord, pledges ongoing Chinese resistance against Japan in Manchuria and Jehol. He says the war will continue along the Great Wall and until the Chinese flag flies again in those territories.
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Peiping
Manchuria
Jehol
Ho Ying- Ching
China
Chang Hsiao-Liang
Great Wall
Here
Insull Hearing Resumes in Toronto on Extradition Case
Extradition proceedings against Martin J. Insull, former utilities official, were resumed before Justice A C Kingstone of the Ontario Supreme Court. He faces indictment in Cook County Illinois on charges of larceny embezzlement and theft by bailee tied to the Middle West Utilities collapse.
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Insull
Toronto
Martin J. Insull
A. C. Kingstone
Ontario Supreme Court
Cook County
Ilinois
Middle West Utilities Company
Today By Arthur Brisbane Today
This excerpt discusses the war’s economic strain on nations and societies. It notes depressions, bank failures, and idle men in the United States while highlighting autocratic rule in Russia Turkey Italy and Germany. It comments on rising dictator ideas even in the United States.
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Stalin
Russia
Turkey
Italy
Hitler
Mussolini
Germany
Ohio River crest drives flood fears across midwest
Rains push Ohio River toward Mississippi raising flood threats in Western Kentucky Illinois Missouri as communities brace. The river receded along 150 miles of waterfront yet remained above flood stage at Paducah Owensboro and Louisville with at least 12 deaths linked to the floods. Water from Ohio drove thousands from homes across West Virginia Ohio Kentucky and Indiana as Mississippi swelled upstream and prompted regional evacuations.
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Louisville
Ohio
Mississippi
Kentucky
Tinois
Missouri
Ohio Valley
Weather Bureau
Ashland
Cincinnati
West Virginia
Indiana
Owensboro
Paducah
Mississppi
Illinois
Innocent Motorist Found Too Late
Charlies Liederman a 34 year old candy salesman who struck Phillip Coniglio in Brooklyn January 31 did not stop His body was found in New York Bay police believe he killed himself after the fatal accident The police broadcast his license number and traced him to death by suicide.
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New York
Charlies Liederman
Liederman
Little Phillip Coniglio
Brooklyn
New York Bay
Hitler seeks four years of dictatorial power in Reichstag
Berlin reports that March 23, Chancellor Adolf Hitler demanded four years of emergency rule from the Reichstag as Nazis cheered. He called for a purge against traitors, praised public decapitation for arsonists, and vowed bar baric severity while relegating the monarchy and opposing the 1918 revolution.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Reichstag
Conference denies adjournment for four power talks in Mussolini plan
World disarmament conference rejects delaying to four power talks among Britain France Germany and Italy. France insists on equal treatment for Poland Czechoslovakia Romania and Yugoslavia and within the League of Nations framework to prevent an Italo German bloc.
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Geneva
France
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Rumania
Jugoslavia
League of Nations
New Order of Humanity Seen by Economist Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann warned at the University of California that a new economic social and political order is forming. He said the old 19th century democratic order is gone and a highly integrated socially conscious system will replace it due to history invention and laissez faire failing in war revolutions and economic turmoil.
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Berkeley
Cal
Walter Lippmann
University of California Today
Oklahoma City oil guard removal urged in Senate report
Recommendations call for withdrawing national guardsmen from the Oklahoma City oil field and removing Col. Cicero S. Murray from command. The report was drafted for presentation to the State Senate by the oil investigating committee.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City Oil Field
Cicero S. Murray
State Senate
Drug policies urged by Southwestern Drug Corp chief
James M. Penland president of Southwestern Drug Corporation urged druggists to enforce policies and undergo extensive training to uplift business. He spoke before the West Texas Pharmaceutical Association in Amarillo stressing cooperation and eliminating bad practices as essential for protection.
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James M. Penland
Southwestern Drug Corporation
West Texas Pharmaceutical Association
Amarillo Hotel
Penland
Pen
Jigsaws That Would Not Fit Cost Him $160,396
Oklahoma City March 23 UP Jigsaw puzzles that wouldn't fit cost him 160 396 George T Goodnight charged today in a district court suit for damages The puzzles he bought from Pioneer Paper Box Company were ragged and the pictures peeled off causing him to lose his jig saw puzzle business in the Southwest.
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Oklahoma City
George T. Goodnight
Pioneer Paper Box Company
Weather Outlook for Amarillo and West Texas
Partly cloudy and warmer tonight and Friday. West of 100th meridian partly cloudy with possible showers southeast and warmer north and west portions. New Mexico unsettled with showers north and east, warmer southeast and extreme east, colder north Friday. Temperatures today range from 30 to 49 degrees.
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Amarillo
Vicineity
West Texas
100Th Meridian
New Mexico
Battered Robin Resumes Fight With Own Image
In Kansas City a robin, exhausted from 14 days of attacking a doctor's window, again assaults its reflection. Snow melted and light returned as the bird persisted on a telephone wire while observers watched eagerly.
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Don Quixote
Kansas City
U.P
Steet
H. E. Songer
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