Congress Ends Four Months Balking at Roosevelt Plans
Washington reports Congress has balked at New Deal measures four months in session. Planned summer recess after July 1 aims to relieve the backlog from the Supreme Court fight with possible reorganization of the executive branch and a trimmed relief appropriation.
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Public Works
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Office of Auditor General
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Auditor General
Treasury
Canada Exports Meat Worth 24 220000 in 1935
Canada reported meat exports valued at 24 220000 dollars for 1935. This figure highlights a year of notable trade in meat products with overseas markets.
Iowa woman stages sitdown strike on porch of statehouse
Katherine Rush a 41 year old former WPA sewing project worker from Leon Iowa staged a one woman sit down protest on the Des Moines statehouse west porch. She said she has not eaten since taking up her post and wants restoration of her WPA job. She hitchhiked to Des Moines after being dropped from WPA rolls March 4.
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Canada Admits Book Protested By Duke Of Windsor
Ottawa announces admission of Geoffrey Dennis book Coronation Commentary withdrawn in England after provocation by the Duke of Windsor. Revenue Minister Isley said the book will be released in Canada despite the suit filed by the duke against publishers. The work discusses Edward VIII and his abdication.
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Governor Demands Relief Donors Take Beet Field Work
Colorado Governor Teller Ammons said he would ask WPA officials to drop immediately any person on relief lists who refuses work on sugar beet fields or other seasonal jobs. Oscar Wood reported 303 laborers on relief have been offered beet work and 195 refused.
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Services For Vinton Infant Held Thursday
Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 1 30 at the Alcorn chapel in Vinton for Ruth Eileen Henkle six weeks old daughter of Mr and Mrs Rudolph Henkle farmers. She died Tuesday at Vinton hospital after erysipelas and pneumonia. Rev Theodore Schhepsiek of Trinity Lutheran church will conduct the service. Interment will be in Evergreen cemetery. The baby was born March 25 1937. There are three other children in the family two sons and a daughter.
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Theodore Schhepsiek
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Evergreen Cemetery
Wendel testifies Parker pressed false Lindbergh confession
Paul H Wendel testified at the Thomas Parker led Lindbergh kidnapping trial that Parker urged him to admit kidnapping the Lindbergh baby to help Gov. Harold Hoffman advance Hauptmann clemency. Wendel described Parker as a rural detective and Hoffman's ally who threatened him and claimed Hoffman's protection.
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Trenton
Ellis H. Parker
Lindbergh
Harold G. Hoffman
Wendel
Hoffman
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Charles A Lindbergh, Jr
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Wendels
New York City
Howard Eastwood
Court Hears Age Pension Argued In Contrast Setting
Washington AP reports the Supreme Court hears the old age pension case as nine justices age 62 to 80 weigh the Social Security Act. Edward McClennen argues against government taxation for annuities, while Robert Jackson Charles Edward Quzanski Jr and Thomas H Eiot defend it as aiding general welfare. Louis D Brandeis sits device also noting the court scene.
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Robert H Jackson
Charles Edward Quzanski, Jr
Thomas H Eriot
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Louis D. Brandeis
Ohio River Floods Hit Southwest Indiana Lands
The Ohio river rose to 362 feet in the southwest pocket of Indiana flooding over 1 000 acres of rich farmland as levees gave way. Evacuations occurred in Vanderburgh County and tent cities remained in Evansville Madison Aurora Rockport and other towns while Wabash river crested lower than predicted. Farmers optimistic Ohio may not reach 38 feet.
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Harlem High Students Strike Over Principal Dismissal
About 300 students at Harlem consolidated high protested the decision to remove Principal Ben A Hoffman. Deputies cleared the board meeting after disorder, and most students stayed on campus with peaceful picketing while teachers announced classes would be canceled.
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Coronation Etiquette Satire by Bugs Baer
In a 1937 satirical piece Arthur Baer mocks royal fashion and etiquette at coronations. It riffs on Pershing refusing short pants with long underwear and lists whimsical costs for court attire while lampooning aristocratic excess and American behavior at palaces.
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Rogers seeks probe of aluminum stock drop before anti trust suit
Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers introduces a House resolution calling for an investigation into the sharp fall in Aluminum Company of America stock before the government filed its anti trust suit. She cites a $27.50 drop per share over 31 trading days ahead of the suit and notes aluminum stock fell far more than the Dow averages.
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Passenger Killed in Bomb Explosion Aboard French Express
In Marseille a bomb aboard the Bordeaux Marseille Express exploded at speed, killing one passenger and wounding twenty. The device was tied to a coupling between cars and described as an incendiary explosive. Investigators note the blast occurred as the train neared its top speed, splintering glass and tossing baggage.
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Windsor to Wed After Coronation at Chateau de Candé
The Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Simpson plan a near-term wedding after King George VI's coronation. Spokesman Hermann L. Rogers warns no plans will be announced until after the ceremony. Guards, gendarmes, and secret police secure the chateau as romance circles the historic site.
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Catalan Rebel Drive Halted Amid Barcelona Tensions
In Barcelona the rebel advance stalled as loyalist and foreign forces moved nearby. Britain and France dispatched warships and marines while Valencia urged calm. A new Barcelona dictatorship under Companys pledged centralized power with ministers from CNT and other groups, though anarchists and communists failed to gain greater sway.
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Peasant Union Party
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Workers’ Federation Party
Carlos Marty
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Catalonia
McCarran Proposes 11 Justice Supreme Court Plan
Sen. Pat McCarran announces a substitute to President Roosevelt’s court bill creating an 11 member supreme court. The plan rotates future vacancies from unrepresented circuits and drops the proctor post and a large expansion of lower court judges.
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Judiciary Committee
La Follette Orders Witnesses To Report Whereabouts
Senator La Follette demanded weekly reports from all subpoenaed witnesses in the Harlan county case. He warned assailants of federal prosecution while pledging federal protection for those testifying about murders shootings and brutal attacks. Ted Creech faced a District of Columbia grand jury on perjury charges connected to intimidation of a key witness.
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