Hopkins Cleared By Senate Panel On WPA Comments
Harry L Hopkins head of the WPA was given a clean bill of health by the Senate campaign investigating committee after ruling his remark that 90 percent of relief workers favor Roosevelt was not coercive. The panel found no indication of dictation to workers and noted the statement arose from a press conference question. The committee also weighed charges of a 5 percent kickback scheme to reelect McGadoo in California and indicated hearings could follow if substantiated. The Indiana complaints added to the review as seven residents accused WPA supervisors of political intimidation.
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Washington
INS
Harry L. Hopkins
Senate Campaign
WPA
Roosevelt
Hopkins
U. S
Indiana
Sheppard
Texas
Walsh
Massachusetts
White
Maine
California
William G. Mcgadoo
James W. Mellen
Los Angeles
Golden State
You Can Rent Your Apartment Descriptive Want Ad
A historic want ad explains how a well worded listing can attract tenants. B E Dunham at 849 Third Ave SE notes 25 calls and a quick rental after placing the ad. The sample describes an August lat newly remodeled first floor apartment with heat and air conditioning at an excellent location and lists contact numbers.
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B. E. Dunham
Third Ave
the Gazette
Dunham
16Th St. SE
Radium Poison Takes Another Woman Victim
Ottawa news reports Radium poisoning claiming the life of Catherine Donohue, 35, the tenth of fifteen so called doomed women from the Radium Dial case. Attorneys name doctors from Illinois and Chicago involved in confirming her death as radium poisoning.
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Ottawa
Catherine Donohue
Leonard J. Grossman
Grossman
Walter William Dalitsch
S. R. Weiner
University of Ilinois
Charles Lassler
Chicago
R. M. Dunn
Spring Valley
Walter Dalitsch
University of Illinois
Ilinois Industrial Commission
Illinois Industrial Commission
Radium Dial Company
Donahue
Espionage System At Republic Steel Reported
Washington based Republic Steel police superintendent James L. Williams told the Senate Civil Liberties Committee that the company ran an espionage network before the Little Steel strike, but all records were destroyed. He also said the police force ran an exchange system to collect information from other steel firms on union activities of employees.
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Washington
INS
Republic Steel Corporation
Senate Civil Liberties Committee
Little Steel
James L. Williams
Cleveland
Senator la Follette
Wisconsin
Republic
Government army gains in Catalonia clash near Gandesa
Spain's government troops win a major offensive along the Mediterranean coast. Twenty positions around the insurgent stronghold of Gandesa are said to have fallen as Barcelona tightens pressure to relieve Valencia. Franco dispatches reinforcements from Lerida Balaguer to slow the advance.
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Hendaye
France
INS
Catalonia
Mediterranean
Teruel
Barcelona
Gandesa
Valencia
Asco
Cora
Francisco Franco
Lerida- Balaguer
Pick-A-Back Airplane Back Home in England
Mercury the British pick-a-back sea plane arrived in Southampton from Lisbon on the penultimate leg of its Atlantic crossing. The craft is to fly to its base at Foynes Ireland, completing the survey flight from New York and back that began July 20.
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Southampton
England
Mercury
Lisbon
Foynes
Ireland
New York
Martial law continues at Maytag plant Newton
National guard troops keep the Maytag Washing Machine factory closed under martial law amid a demand to reopen. Governor Kraschel says the plant will stay shut until peaceful settlement is reached. CIO union and back-to-work groups face Montana-like tensions as labor board probes unfair labor practices.
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Military Commission
CIO Union
National Labor Relations Board
CIO
Back To Work Movement
Newton
Rainfall Totals In Cedar Rapids After Storms
Rainfall in Cedar Rapids neared 1.5 inches for a 24 hour period ending 7 am Wednesday, with .48 inch from early night rain and .60 inch from Tuesday noon storm. Highs reached 89 degrees after a 68 degree low, as warm, sunny weather followed. Transportation restoration followed storm damage as Milwaukee trolley lines and power lines were repaired and interurban services resumed to Cedar Rapids.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Milwaukee Railroad
Cedar River
Shaver
Milwaukee
Marion
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Little John Smoter And Big John Become Friends
In Chicago a pair named John Smoter, the large Big John and the smaller Little John, meet by chance when Little John seeks help after a past fraud and robbery. They form an unlikely duo, living together, with Big John mentoring the smaller man who grows bolder and more confident as they share meals and barroom moments.
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Little John Smoter
Big John
New Oxygen Device Tested In Flight Above Clouds
A Northwest Airlines transport on a non stop flight to Los Angeles carried five men including pilots and Mayo clinic doctors to test a new lightweight oxygen system. The equipment, devised by Drs Lovelace and Boothby, uses partial face masks fed from a central container and proved very light and efficient.
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Minneapolis Minn
Northwest Airlines
Los Angeles
Mayo Clinic
W. R Lovelace
Walter M. Boothby
Rochester
Lovelace
Mal Freeberg
Mel Swanson
Lou Coerner
Emil Heideck
Death for man who murdered his son in Georgia
Harvey Nelson 35 roadhouse owner faces the death penalty after a jury found him guilty of first degree murder for killing his 12 year old son J. C. Nelson to cash in a $900 double indemnity policy. He testified that Verna Mae Fowler and Mary Kent helped, with Fowler drawing the fatal straw. Fowler denied shooting.
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Waycross
Harvey Nelson
Nelson
Verna Mae Fowler
Mary Kent
J. C. Nelson
Miss Fowler
J. C
Don Barnes Narrow Escape From Lightning Storm
Cedar Raunds News reports that attorney Don Barnes of 308 Nassau street SE narrowly escaped injury when lightning struck a chimney during an electrical storm at about 3 a.m. A 200-pound mass of brick and mortar fell where he had been lying, damaging the roof and electrical fixtures and scattering bricks over a wide area. Barnes estimated $2,000 in damages are covered by insurance.
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Don Barnes
Nassau Street
Granddaughter of Carnegie Married in Dornoch Cathedral
Louise Carnegie Miller Andrew Carnegie's granddaughter 18 wed J F Gordon Thomson in Dornoch Scotland before 400 guests in the 700 year old cathedral ceremony described as the most lavish in northern Scotland Roswell Miller father of the bride gave her away while the late steel king's widow attended The total event including a 1000 guest reception reportedly cost at least 25000 dollars Miller said the wedding was conducted on American lines
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Dornoch
Scotland
Louise Carnegie Miller
Andrew Carnegie
J. F. Gordon Thomson
Roswell Miller
New York
Steel King
Miller
Leap climaxes eleven hours on a tiny ledge
John Ward, 26, spent 11 hours perched on a narrow ledge beyond the 16th floor of the Hotel Gotham in New York. He leapt to his death in front of about 100,000 onlookers as photographers flashed and police and rescue workers attempted to coax him down. Ward had previously attempted suicide and told bystanders he wished life were worth living before his final jump at 10:36 p.m. The crowd panicked, a marquee shattered, and Ward’s body was removed by police.
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Big John
Little John
John
John Smoter
New York
John Ward
Gotham
Ward
55Th Street
Czech espionage system against Hitler revealed in Prague report
Prague dispatch describes Czech intelligence as the best in Europe and details a feared German plan to unleash a Sudeten German legion and storm troops to spark clashes on the Czechoslovak border. The Czech mobilization allegedly thwarted the May scheme, with authorities warning of potential German intervention if violence escalated.
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H. BR
Germany
Sudeten Legionaires
Czechoslovakia
Nazi Regionaires
Gillette Denounces Election Class Warfare in Des Moines
United States Senator Guy Gillette told the Democratic state convention in Des Moines that claims of a class battle are pernicious. He rejected appeals to one class against another as destructive to national unity, urging equal opportunity tied to work, thrift, and enterprise rather than new inequities. He warned against shifting inequities by new laws that favor some groups over others.
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Des Moines
INS
United States
Guy Gillette
Roosevelt Cruiser At Charles Island
President Roosevelt and party reached Post Office bay on Charles Island aboard the USS Houston en route to Hood Island. Roosevelt did not ashore while guests explored the island famed as a Galapagos landing site. The ship pressed on to Gardner Bay for an overnight anchorage.
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U.S.S. Houston
Cocos Isle
Naval Radio
United Press
Roosevelt
Post Office Bay
Charles Island
Houston
Eloise Wehrborn
Admiral Porter
Gardner Bay
Hood Island
U S Gold Reserve Reaches New All Time High
United States gold holdings rose to an all time high of 13 000 339 409 dollars, accounting for about 55 percent of world supply. Treasury records show American assets totaling 371 million ounces valued at 35 dollars per ounce. Federal Reserve reports list world gold reserves at 23 945 billion dollars across 52 countries. European nations hold about 9 328 billion dollars of that total.
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Washington
INS
United States
Treasury
Federal Reserve Reports
Europe
New York Woman Rescued After Roof Pace Near 16 story Drop
Police saved Betty Vorunion, 24, of Irvington New Jersey, from a Fifth Avenue building roof after a witness saw her pacing on a narrow parapet following a 17 story death plunge nearby. She was taken to Bellevue Hospital’s psychiatric ward after questioning.
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New York
iIn
John Ward
Betty Vorunion
Irvington
N. J
Fifth Avenue
Bellevue Hospital
Publisher Warren Fairbanks Dies in Indianapolis Home
Warren C Fairbanks II publisher of the Indianapolis News died at his residence after a brief illness. He was the son of Charles Warren Fairbanks a former vice president of the United States and a noted political figure.
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Indianapolis
Warren Co. Fairbanks
The
Indianapolis News
Charles Warren Fairbanks
United States
Abolition of Agencies Criticized by Legal Group
The American Bar Association's House of Delegates endorsed a report calling governmental administrative agencies despotic and headed toward absolutism. It lists ten tendencies including hearings denied, biased evidence, imposes nonjurisdictional limits, and mixing rule making with prosecutions. Jerome N. Frank disputed the attack as defamatory.
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Cleveland
American Bar Association
Association
House of Delegates
Committee On Administrative Law
Security and Exchange Commission
inter= state commerce commission
Roscoe Pound
Harvard University Law School
Jerome N. Frank
SEC
Frank
Dean Pound
Hughes Party Plans West Coast Return
Howard Hughes and the four men who flew with him to a new round the world speed record will take off Friday for Los Angeles. Albert J. Lodwick, Hughes flight representative, said the millionaire sportsman would make brief stops en route at Chicago and Houston, Hughes’ home.
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New York
Howard Hughes
Los Angeles
Albert J. Lodwick
Hughes
Chicago
Houston
Tex
How Railroads Can End All Competition Until The Year 2000
Arthur Bugs Baer argues railroads hold prime advantage via right of way and could crush competition by removing tracks crossovers and grade crossings. He proposes light trough trains and minimal stops, claiming a safe yet slow locomotive could dominate until 2000, with patents sought for the concept.
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Neale
4. R. Knickerbocker
International News Service
Gillette
Harvard Law College
Arthur T. Vanderbilt
Pound
Joseph G. Hutcheson, Jr
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Arthur “Bugs” Baer
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