Clash Over WPA Funds Sparks Senate Fight
Washington (INS) a coalition of Democrats and Republicans closed ranks for a major senate battle over banning WPA funds from political use in the $3.247 billion recovery act. Relief head Hopkins endorsed Wearin over Gillette in Iowa race, shaping the broader contest as Ickes funding is debated. A gag rule limits debate with a final vote likely by Friday.
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Wage Hour Plan Scrutiny Amid Pay Debate
Senate and House conferees debate slashing Roosevelt wage and hour program to hours only while fights over monetary policy and public works funding continue. Senators Hatch Thomas Byrd push changes amid administration plans to finalize recovery and wage hour bills by June 10 with adjournment aimed ten days later.
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Drunken driving charges for three in city car incident
James Casey 34 of 620 Fifth Avenue SE was charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated after a 7 pm Saturday arrest by Patrolman J H Weiland. Two passengers Fritz Helming 316 First Avenue E and Dave Apton 33 of the Delavan hotel were charged with intoxication. Helming was near unconsciousness on arrival. Welland cited erratic driving and faulty brakes on the vehicle on First Avenue E at Twenty third Street.
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Chinese Claim Key To Former Capital In War News
Chinese and Japanese forces battled around Lanfeng with Canton reporting 1500 casualties from a severe air raid. China claimed recapture of Lanfeng near Kaifeng and Lowang while Japan said it seized Kweiteh. Canton counts 600 dead and 900 injured. foreign letters warned Shanghai residents of possible air raids amid shifting munitions routes.
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Rebels Report Easy Road Into Valencia From Hendaye Front
Nationalist lines under General Jose Varela claim a breakthrough on the lower Aragon front giving an easy road to Valencia. They say Puerto Escandon fell near the Teruel Sagunto railroad once held as a key position. Loyalist forces deploy 120000 near the French border to target Catalonia and power plants.
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Endeavor To Prove Betty Crabb Could Not Have Shot Self
In Pekin Illinois a prosecution team in the Crabb murder case contends Betty Crabb could not have self-inflicted the gunshot wound. Dr Harold Vonachen testified the wound would cause immediate collapse and loss of motor control. The pistol was hidden between the mattress and bed head, supporting the theory of another shooter.
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Mount Vernon High Alumni Banquet Held at Presbyterian Church
About 130 Mount Vernon high school alumni and friends attended the Friday evening banquet in the Presbyterian church parlors. Garden flowers decorated tables with white carnations for the class of 1938 and yellow roses for the class of 1888. New alumni officers were elected: President Mrs Burt Neal Vice president Mrs John Kirkpatrick Jr Secretary Miss Dorothy Beach Treasurer Laurence McKay Jay Fordyce led the organization this year.
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Czechs and Sudeten Germans Restart Talks Ahead of Elections
In Prague the pro German minority and government resumed talks after a week of tension. A renewed meeting between Prime Minister Milan Hodza and Sudeten leaders aims to negotiate a peaceful settlement while municipal elections approach across 2,740 communities with 7 million voters.
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Czechoslovakia Vows Self Defense Amid Tense Politics
Foreign Minister Kamil Krofta said Czechoslovakia will defend itself against aggression if needed. In an interview with United Press on the eve of municipal elections he credited Britain for a disinterested stance and noted improved tension in central Europe.
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Slovak Autonomy Demands Slated For Premier Hodza
Slovak leaders plan to press for autonomy with Premier Hodza after a Bratislava meeting. Father Hlinka of the Slovak Catholic People's Party will unveil a five point self rule plan similar to Konrad Henlein's Sudeten program.
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Incendiarism Alleged Ahead of Nazi Coast Convention
In San Francisco the German American League for Culture accuses two unknown men of firebombing the entrance to its headquarters as tension rises over the German American Bund coast convention. Erich Rix, league secretary, says the blaze was quickly extinguished and unionists pledge support if clashes occur at California Hall on Sunday evening.
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Rathbone Son Weds Chicago Actress in Hollywood Wedding
Basil Riodon Rathbone son of the screen star wed Caroline Blake Fisher of Chicago in a high profile ceremony at the Rathbone home. The couple left for their honeymoon on Saturday after a brilliant wedding.
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Gillette Disputes Wearin Statements In Iowa Primary
Senator Guy M. Gillette returns to Iowa to campaign for renomination disputing Otha Wearin and his White House support. He accuses Wearin backers of contradicting party leaders and asserts neutrality from national figures. Gillette plans Davenport speechs including Memorial Day address and a patriotic society event.
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Iowa Democrats Await Patronage as June Primaries Near
Iowa Democrats eye federal patronage flows tied to postmaster appointments. In one district twenty four postmasters hold expiring four year terms. Des Moines and Sioux City houses figure in discussions as Hill and Cooch terms end. Additional posts and district counts listed.
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Harry A. Cooch
Bettendorf Fights Scott County Boxcar Village Plan
Bettendorf residents and Mayor Gus Lehmann oppose Scott County plans to create a boxcar village for relief housing on a 16 acre tract north of Bettendorf. Clarence P. Brown to rent land. county to buy about twenty five old railroad cars for the site this week. A county board meeting is planned to address relief housing for county families.
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Wallace Defends Beet Scale as Social Justice Aim
Secretary Wallace defended the agriculture department’s minimum wage scale for sugar beet labor as essential to social justice, stating its role in supporting workers and the crop’s production this year.
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President O Connell demands free speech clash with Jersey City
Representative Jerry OConnell says he was forcibly evicted from Jersey City while denouncing Mayor Frank Hague and calls on President Roosevelt to restore free speech. He plans White House talks with Roosevelt and Postmaster General Farley to seek Hague removal as Democratic vice chairman and notes his wife was injured during the visit.
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WPA controversy erupts over political funding
Bailey said the WPA would not take part in politics while endorsing Rep Wearin in Iowa against Sen Gillette. Senator Pope questioned cabinet officers on political questions. Senator King urged an inquiry into WPA use for political purposes after the lending bill passes.
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Probe 3 Mystery Fires In Harlan County Labor Row
Federal agents quietly investigated three fires at Black Mountain Coal in Evarts Kentucky amid the Harlan county labor trial. The first caused minor damage, the second damaged property valued in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the third endangered workers as slate fell. Elbert J Asbury testified as the government pressed criminal charges under the Wagner act.
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Nebraska sheriffs fail to link confessed bandits to 1937 killings
Three Nebraska town sheriffs and a former state sheriff could not tie Ernest McCarthy and Harry Korte to the Albion Nebraska officers slayings in June 1937. Dwight Brantley said the men admitted robbing 12 banks across four states, but Nebraska officers did not identify them.
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Louis Smoyer
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Plot Foiled Against Ecuador Government Arrests
In Quito 15 former army officers were arrested in a thwarted subversive plot against President Gen. Alberto Enriques government. Authorities sought Col. Benigno Andrade, former war minister, alleged to have instigated the plan.
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Cantigny Centenary Recalled by U S Army Leader
In 1918 the Twenty-eighth Infantry led the First Division in the Cantigny assault marking America's early big war advance. Major General Hanson E. Bly recalls the raid, trench holding, and success that boosted Allied morale and signaled US steadfastness in World War I.
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Landon Urges GOP Toward Freedom in Economic Role
The speaker framed a key issue as whether government should police or manage business. He claimed the President has driven the Democratic Party into divergent policies, forecasting its breakup and revealing deep factional divides behind Roosevelt’s program.
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Accuse 3 Youths Of Impersonating Federal Officers
Three young men Ralph Oglevie 24 Robert Heddington 23 and Clayton Benner 25 were held for grand jury action on bonds of 500 each charged with impersonating officers and intimidation. They allegedly went to a farmer’s home Thursday night claiming federal authority and threatening to kill his daughter and another girl if he did not drop assault charges against two other youths. The farmer had charged the two youths with assault the previous night, sheriff said.
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Forest lands approved for addition to national forests
The National Forest Reservation Commission approves the purchase of 215 933 acres to be added to forty eight national forests at a total cost of 1 790. Secretary of War Woodring signs the measure amid wartime context. Britain’s Royal Air Force plans a corps of “super men” to fly 400 mile per hour planes.
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Sheriff's Wife Chases Escaping Felons To Cells
In Worland Wyoming three prisoners escaped from a dumb waiter shaft but were chased back to their cells by Mrs Nicola wife of Sheriff John Nicola. The men John Adams Joe Stoper and Homer Martinez retreated into cells after a chase sparked by the 105 pound pursuer.
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Local Man Killed in Burlington Auto Crash
George L. Lake, 78, of West Burlington, was killed Saturday night when struck by a car driven by Rigby R. Bacher, 22, of New Garden, Long Island. Bacher was held for questioning but released after saying Lake walked into the car’s path making the accident unavoidable.
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