Roosevelt orders southern economic study by emergency council
President Roosevelt has asked the national emergency council to report on economic conditions in the south. The effort may determine future surveys in New England and the industrial east, the far west, the farm belt, or other regions with similar interests. An advisory Southern group will gather data and report findings to guide wage hour and broader economic programs.
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Washington
Roosevelt
National Emergency Council
South
New England
Far West
Farm
Lowell Melfett
Council
Mellett
Carl Bailey
Arkana
A. F. of L
CIO
Congress
Government moves to boost wartime economy and finance
The air corps will buy more planes as both army and navy expand. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation speeds loan machinery, lending $80 million in four months and offering large-scale funds for private utilities and railroads amid federal state project challenges. Treasury plans $70 million for federal buildings. Encouragement stems from stock gains, rail freight, and lower steel prices.
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Air Corps
Army
Navy Air Corps
Reconstruction Finance ‘Corporation
RFC 3
TVA
The
Treasury
Man Fires Gun At Motorists Near Troy Mills
Report states Souis and Wilfred Millard of Den City were targets of a shooter while walking along the road near Troy Mills about 2 am Friday. Sheriff James H. Smith and deputies investigated after the Millards, who were on foot while their car had trouble on the way home from Walker, reported the incident.
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Troy Mills
Souis
Wilfred Millard
Den‘City
James H. Smith
Millards
Walker
Bund Leader Fritz Kuhn Under Spy Probe
New York political figures discuss Fritz Julius Kuhn,Bund leader, and whether he is the German spy held in an American camp during the Cold War era. The inquiry connects Kuhn to Nazi leadership in the United States and references a past 1917 camp detention.
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B. Dickstein
N. Y
Fritz Kuhn
Bund
Fritz Julius Kuhn
Tein
Albany
Fled Austria Plans to Join Husband in Cedar Rapids
Mrs. Herbert Gerstman a young German woman fled Vienna with fears of Nazi persecution to avoid an enforced divorce from her Jewish husband Dr. Gerstman now an interne at Mercy hospital Cedar Rapids preparing for examinations to practice here. She teaches arts and crafts at Camp Wildwood Missouri and previously taught near Vienna Baden. She plans to join him in Cedar Rapids next September.
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Herbert Gerstman
Vienna
Dr. Gerstman
Mercy Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Gerstman
Austria
Hitler
Camp Wildwood
Baden
WPA Chief Defends Relief Funds From Political Bias Claims
Hopkins said the WPA would act quickly on proven political coercion charges and promptly expose baseless accusations aimed at opposing the administration. He cited two of twenty two charges as substantiated and noted straw boss warnings and punitive actions in Kentucky amid political nomination battles. Stokes argued his reports reflected facts found and denied infallibility, asserting investigators faced bias and the conflict in versions of individual cases.
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Roosevelt
Walsh
Hopkins
WPA
Kentucky
Alben W. Barkley
A. B. Chandler
Thomas L. Stokes
Scripps- Howard
Stokes
Washington
Jury Deliberates In Murder Trial Of W. B. Aycock
In Savannah Georgia on Friday jurors weighed if W B Aycock murdered Martha Sikes. Aycock testified he loved her and would not harm her. A disturbance occurred as Mrs Aycock cried I killed that woman and fainted brought from the courtroom by attendants.
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Savannah
W. B. Aycock
Aycock
Martha Sikes
Mrs. Aycock
New Exchange Head Sees Upturn as Normal Times Return
William McChesney Martin Jr, 31, newly named president of the New York Stock Exchange, says the current market upswing signals a return to normal times. He notes liberalism on Wall Street will endure and cites cooperative spirit with the government spreading to big business including utilities. He adds I feel my responsibility to the public and the exchange shares that responsibility.
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ST. Louis
INS
William McChesney Martin, Jr
Martin
St. Louisan
New York Stock Exchange
Wall Street
The
Stock Exchange
Body of Medill McCormick Found Near Sandia Peak
A mountain search team located a body on a cliff north of Sandia Peak, confirmed as Medill McCormick after days of perilous rescue work. Mrs Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, his mother, and family members awaited news as 350 veterans CCC workers and Indians aided the massive expedition.
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McCormick
Whitmer
Sandias
Shield
Rockies
CCC
Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms
Medill
Johnny
Cortland Barnes, Jr
Frank C. W. Pooler
U.S
Sandia Peak
Medill McCormick
Maytag Strike Talks Open as Gov Insists on Settlement
Conference on the Maytag strike focuses on wage cuts and a possible closed shop. Governor Kraschel urges all parties to negotiate to reopen the plant, while company attorney Ford defends a ten percent wage cut and resists a closed shop. Connolly challenges the monopoly of the union as talks proceed.
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Iowa
Towa
Connolly
Ood
W. Ford
Ford
Kraschel
No Wage Cut Planned at Republic Steel Says Girdler
Washington based Inquirer News Service reports Tom Girdler, board chairman of Republic Steel, Friday denied plans to reduce workers' wages, stating no wage cut is in prospect for the firm.
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Washington
INS
Tom Girdler
Republic Steel Corporation
FERA Ends as New Deal Agency Turns to History
In Washington a ledger shows FERA winding down as its assets drop from a peak of 1 billion dollars to 250 thousand. Created May 22 1933 under Harry Hopkins, it distributed federal funds for relief until Congress ordered orderly wind up on June 22 1936 as work relief shifted to WPA.
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Washington
WPA
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Treasury
FERA
New York
Harry Hopkins
Congress
Presbyterians Oppose Coe Military Training and Endorse Local Liquor Rules
The synod urges abstinence from alcohol and supports local option plans for licensed private sale under strict restrictions. It calls for notice before marriage and medical fitness certificates, and proposes to bar military training at Coe College Cedar Rapids Iowa, arguing Christian colleges should witness against such training.
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Coe
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
Synod
Board of Trustees
Presbyterian College
Litvinoff Put Under Supervision By Stalin Orders
Warsaw dispatch reports Soviet foreign policy purge continues as Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff is placed under supervision by Gregory Dimitroff secretary of the communist international. Dimitroff assumed his post after acquittal in the Reichstag fire trial.
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Warsaw
INS
Joseph Stalin
Maxim Litvinoff
Gregory Dimitroff
Communist International
Dimitroff
Slain Hitch-Hiker Identified as Des Moines Area Woman
Lawrence Kansas AP report identifies Fay Kyle 24 as the hitch-hiker slain near here on May 10. Police say the victim's mother is Mrs. Birdie Brown of McHenry Illinois and her father is Charles Kyle of Des Moines Indiana. A diary listed the name Marlene O'Brien and noted a trip from New York to California. No murder clue yet.
F D R Has Cinders Removed From Eye
President Roosevelt required eye cleansing after cinders entered his eyes during an automobile ride from Hyde Park to New York. A medical aide applied eye wash as a billow of cinder laden smoke drifted across his car while waiting for a freight train to pass at a grade crossing.
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New York
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
More Than 1 000 Killed Wounded In Japanese Raid
In Swatow China Friday a Japanese air raid left more than 1 000 wounded or killed as nine planes dropped 71 bombs. The railway station water works and business districts were bombed. Fire spread through the city with no Chinese anti-aircraft guns replying. An American resident Walter Berger reported his property hit.
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Swatow
China
Walter Berger
City Briefs and Personals Notebook Item
Mr and Mrs Ludwig Rubek will motor to Chicago to spend the Fourth of July. Loyal G Meek son of C W Meek will travel to Los Angeles to visit his brother and sister Thomas and Dorothy Meek. The Revs Ruby and Warren Johnson former Cedar Rapids Foursquare Gospel church members now ordained ministers will lead the evening service at Foursquare Gospel tabernacle today at 7 45 PM. The former local people have recently served as ministers in Texas.
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Ludwig Rubek
First Street
Chicago
Loyal G. Meek
C. W. Meek
Jeff Friday
Los Angeles
Thomas and
Dorothy Meek
Ruby
Warren Johnson
Cedar Rapids
Fire Found Under Grandstand At Hill Park
A rubbish fire of undetermined cause was discovered beneath the Hill baseball park grandstand at 144 p.m. Friday. Firemen extinguished the blaze before it damaged the wooden structure.
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Hill Baseball Park
Man Held for Investigation in Marion After Door Cut Incident
Walter McCluskey 34, listed Racine Wisconsin, was held in the county jail for investigation Friday after being picked up about 7 am by Patrolman Jerry Munn in Marion. A man matching his description was seen cutting a rear screen door at the Harold Ballard home. McCluskey was taken to Cedar Rapids by Deputy Sheriff Larry Condon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter McCluskey
Racine
Wis
McCluskey
Jerry Munn
Marion
Harold Ballard
Cedar Rapids
Larry Condon
Patrolman Burke Hurt In Fall Third Officer Injured
Patrolman Carl Burke sprained his back Thursday afternoon becoming the third officer on the police injury list. Sergt. George Connell has a sprained knee for over a week and Patrolman Frank Novak is home with an ankle injury. Novak will have X ray tests on Tuesday. Burke fell while stepping from a high curb.
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Carl Burke
George Connell
Frank Novak
Burke
Syrian church leaders guests at Abodeely home
His Grace Archbishop Samuel David of Toledo and Raphael Hossin dean of St. George's Cathedral Charleston are visiting Mr. and Mrs. George A. Abodeely at 818 Ninth Street SE. Archbishop David is selected as godfather for the baptism of their daughter Georgeena. The Rev. Father Hossin will officiate the baptism and Archbishop David will lead the Sunday liturgy and deliver a noon sermon at St. John's Syrian Orthodox Church.
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Samuel David
Toledo
Ohio
Raphael Hossin
St. George's Cathedral
Charleston
W. Va
George A. Abodeely
Ninth Street
David
Abodeely
Georgeena
Hossin
St. John's Syrian Orthodox Church
Thief Snatches $18,100 In Sioux City Cash And Checks
In Sioux City a bankside holdup at noon saw Ruth Orlikoff lose a bank book with $9,100 cash and $9,000 in endorsed checks to a robber. Hotel bellboy Robert B Brownlee chased the thief through alleys as the suspect threatened with a revolver and fled in a car toward the Missouri River bridge. A $9,000 check was later found in an alley.
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Sioux City
Ruth Orlikoff
Cohen Wholesale Grocery Company
Brownlee
Missouri River
Woodring Welcomes Civil War Veterans at Gettysburg
Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring on the Gettysburg battlefield opens the 75th anniversary observance as 2,000 surviving veterans recall Civil War battles. Governor George H. Earle joins in prayers for fallen soldiers and a pledge of unity across past divisions.
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Woodring
Gettysburg
Harry H. Woodring
Lee
Virginia
Meade
Cemetery Ridge
Secretary of War
Pennsylvania
George H. Earle
Earle
Hague's Wife Enters Mayo Clinic for Exam
Mrs. Frank Hague wife of Jersey City's mayor entered the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota for examination of a stomach disorder. Mayor Hague arrived with his wife and may also undergo a general physical exam.
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Hague
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minn
Frank Hague
Jersey City
N. J
Wanted On Fraud Charge In Chicago
R B Collins age 37 of 109 Twelfth street SE was arrested by Police Detectives Bailey and Condon on a Cook County Illinois warrant. Collins is charged with defrauding a Chicago woman of 132 dollars in a confidence game.
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R B. Collins
Twelfth Street
Bailey and
Condon
Cook County
Ill
Collins
Chicago
Marriage Licenses Listed for Several Couples
Cyril R. Williams and Ferne G. Barkhurst both of Tipton. Edward Novak of Cedar Rapids and Darlyne Hill of Decorah. A Slutsky of Sioux City and Arinate Rettenbauer of Atlanta. Adrian T. Dautramont and Dorothy M. Snedden both of Cedar Rapids.
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Cyril R. Williams
Ferne G. Barkhurst
Tipton
Edward Novak
Cedar Rapids
Darlyne Hill
Decorah
A. Slutsky
Sioux City
Arinate Rettenbauer
Atlanta
A. Adrian T. Dautramont
Dorothy M. Snedden
Round Table Meetings Planned by GOP in Illinois
A GOP program committee will hold August 16 round table discussions at Northwestern University with about 150 committee members and 25 advisers. Topics include labor, agriculture, social security, finance, relief, civil service and political liberty as part of a threefold study to audit the New Deal, define national policy, and restate party philosophy.
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Chicago
Republican Program Committee
Glenn Frank
Great Britain
Republican National Committee
Republican Party
Hitler Aims New Nordic Faith Founder Says Report
London sources say Adolf Hitler is completing a new book expanding Mein Kampf with a religion for pure Nordic stock. The Daily Herald claims it would position Italy and Germany as leader nations splitting Europe and require others to submit to their influence.
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London
The
Daily Herald
Adolf Hitler
Europe
Italy
Germany
Hitlers Book on Aryan Religion Called Swindle
Foreign press briefed in Berlin on a London report claiming Hitler is composing a book that would set forth a new Aryan religion. The report labels the work a gross swindle and a deliberate anti German propaganda lie.
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Berlin
London
Fuehrer
Adolf Hitler
Gov Nice Seeks Second Term To Complete Plan
Baltimore dispatch reports Gov. Harry W. Nice a Republican, announced Friday he will ask voters to reelect him for a second term to complete the program outlined when he took office four years ago. Nice had previously said he would not seek a second term after defeating the late Albert C. Ritchie.
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Baltimore
INS
Harry W. Nice
Nice
Albert C. Ritchie
Slain Cameraman Gray Found Dead at Car Wheel
Hollywood mystery deepens as King Gray, 42, veteran cameraman on a Universal thriller, is shot and found slumped in his car. A .32 cartridge fragment, a mysterious letter from Newcastle Pa, a $63 wallet, and an untouched ring and watch raise questions. Police withhold the letter’s text and woman's name while neighbors recall a shy family man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Calif
King Gray
Universal Studio
Gray
Newcastle
Ietter
Flaherty
Wilcox Avenue
James N. Fisher
Easton Arraigned But Makes No Plea
Orelle Easton a 25 year old Valley City North Dakota farmhand was arraigned in Michigan City Indiana on a first degree murder indictment in the slaying of State Policeman W Raymond Dixon. He was lodged in LaPorte jail after an extradition from Kankakee Illinois.
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Michigan City
Ind
Orelle Easton
Valley City
N. D
W. Raymond Dixon
Easton
LaPorte
Kankakee
Ill
U S Housing Agency Allocates 68 Million for Slum Clearance
The U S housing authority earmarked 68 925 000 for slum clearance and low rent housing in seventeen localities, pushing total commitments past 400 million and totaling 118 facilities funded to date. Los Angeles led with 25 million, boosting California to the top with 50 million across four localities.
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Washington
INS
U.S. Housing Authority
Nathan Straus
USHA
Los Angeles
Calif
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L. C. Kaiser
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