Senate Knocks 310 Million From Loan Bill As RFC Funds Cited
Senate banking committee trims the administration lending bill by 310 million, leaving a 2.8 billion proposal. Taft and others remain unsatisfied as Jones insists RFC cannot fund the program with existing authority. Major changes include toll road funds cut to 500 million and railroad equipment funds reduced to 350 million, with 90 million added for western reclamation projects.
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Washington
Senate
New Administration
Senate Banking Committee
Sen
Taft
Ohio
RFC
House Banking Committee
Jesse H. Jones
Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Roosevelt
Sen. Barkley
Kingston Mines Prepare for Reopening After Settlement
Maintenance crews at four Kingston Pocahontas Coal mines begin cleanup work to restart operations after a settlement with the United Mine Workers. The Kingston Harewood Hemp Hill and Springton sites idle since shutdowns. G E Brandon says the settlement does not imply union acceptance or a closed shop.
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Kingston-Pocahontas Coal Company
United Mine Workers
Kingston
Harewood
Fayette County
Hemphill
McDowell
Springton
Mercer
G. E. Brandon
New York
Kingston-Pocahontas
Union
Quote by Willie Willis on youths and gang size
Willie Willis asserts that children of a certain stature fit gang standards. He argues smaller youths lack appeal while taller ones are drawn to romance, framing age and size as factors in gang dynamics.
Teachers Hired by Board in Kanawha County
Kanawha county board of education approved employment of 80 teachers to fill vacancies with assignments to schools next month per Supt. Virgil L. Flinn. The board also approved $65,113.86 in contracts for the building program, including Cline Brothers of Logan for Bridge school plumbing and electrical work at $12,875 and Riverview school at $11,900, and Don J. Byrum of Wheeling for Edison junior high plumbing and electrical work at $20,800, with Meyers Brothers of Charleston for Washington project at $13,259.86.
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Kanawha County Board of Education
Virgil L. Flinn
Citizens’ Advisory Committee
Cline Brothers of
Logan
Bridge School
Edison Junior High School
Don J. Byrum
Wheeling
Cline Brothers
Riverview
Meyers Brothers of
Charleston
Washington
Pontoons Collapse Dooming Thetis Sinking
In Liverpool on July 22 a rescue effort to raise the sunken British submarine Thetis failed when pontoons used to tow the vessel collapsed. The Thetis sank June 1 near Liverpool bay during a practice dive, with 99 men perishing and four of 103 aboard escaping.
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Liverpool
INS
Anglesey
Liverpool Bay
Senate Passes Amended Hatch Political Bill
The Senate approves the Hatch bill barring federal employees from political activity and sends it to the White House. President Roosevelt’s stance remains unclear as House revisions spark debate and a conference is considered to reconcile differences. Senator Hatch denounces moving to a conference as sending the measure to the graveyard.
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Senate
Washington
Hatch
White House
Sen. Hatch
D. N.M
Roosevelt
House Judiciary Committee
House
Senate-House Conference Committee
Sen. Minton
D.-Ind
Boy Missing Feud Feared In Armenian Murder Fallout
New York July 21 A missing 16 year old boy, Dickran Dadourian of Yonkers, is suspected of being kidnapped amid fear of a blood feud tied to nine Armenians convicted for the Archbishop Leon Tourian slaying on Christmas Eve 1933. Police search and family notes of modest funds raise questions about motive amid a broad pursuit. The case follows the Tourian murder and a wide church roundup.
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New York
Hovannes Dadourian
Leon Tourian
Dickran Dadourian
Yonkers
Tourian
Scientists Speculate Anew About Human Life on Mars
Scientists react to Dr. Earl C. Slipher’s color photographs from Bloemfontein showing green patches on Mars. The images suggest vegetation on a vast area previously believed barren, renewing debate about life on the red planet and referencing Percival Lowell’s canal theory.
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Mars
New York
INS
Earl C. Slipher
Covey Centre
Slipher
Vesto M. Slipher
Lowell Observatory
Flagstaff
Ariz
Harvard Observatory
Bloemfontein
South Africa
U. S
Solis Lucas
Percival Lowell
Harvard
Charleston Seeks State WPA HQ Site With Chamber Backing
The Charleston chamber of commerce will present one or more proposals for the West Virginia state Works Progress Administration headquarters to State Administrator Joseph N. Alderson. Mayor Dawson urged unity among business interests to block relocation, with Cyrus H. Gadd stating plans to submit for WPA quarters before noon Saturday. Alderson also announced movements on WPA rolls in West Virginia.
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Works Progress Administration
Joseph N. Alderson
Charleston Chamber of Commerce
Dawson
Charleston
Alderson
Cyrus H. Gadd
Chamber
West Virginia
Minister Urges Ransom Payment for Kidnapped Pastor
In Jerusalem on July 21 Arabs and Grecian monks pressed to mediate with kidnappers holding Rev. Gerould R. Goldner of Mogadore Ohio. The father, Dr. Jacob Goldner of Cleveland, received a note urging payment of 5000 dollars today. U S Consul General George Wadsworth worked to secure the preacher’s release as the 29 year old American remains in captivity after a Holy Land tour.
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Jerusalem
Gerould R. Goldner
Mogadore
Jacob Goldner
Cleveland
U. S
George Wadsworth
Holy Land
A Blonde for Bait Opens on the Woman’s Page
Ellen Anvers, a government agent, is sent to trap a young airplane designer to prove him a spy but falls in love with him. The tale titled A Blonde for Bait by Rob Eden debuts today on the women’s page.
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Ellen Anvers
Rob Eden
Japan strengthens fleet to counter Soviet oil claims
Japan moves warships to northern waters to back its stand over oil and coal sources amid a border clash with Soviet Russia on Sakhalin. Foreign talks with Britain at Tientsin inch toward a settlement as Japan appeals against Soviet labor charges. Shigenori Togo leads Tokyo’s diplomacy as tensions map fuel concessions and regional disputes.
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Tokyo
Japan
Russia
Manchukuo-Outer Mongolia
Sakhalin Island
Britain
Tientsin
Hachiro Arita
Robert Leslie Craigie
Foreign Office
China
Shigenori Togo
Piccolo Gang Leader Slain in South Philadelphia
Philadelphia dispatch reports South Philadelphia gangsters killed Frank Piccolo, a 52-year-old figure tied to narcotics and a 1929 murder. Two men in a coupe fired at a truck on South Broad Street, ending Piccolo’s life and continuing a yearlong string of unsolved gangland killings.
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Philadelphia
Patsy Livey
James Ryan
Detective Bureau
Piccolo
Danny
Willie Lanzetti
Poland vows Danzig stand may spark war
Warsaw rejects Germany's demand for peaceful surrender of Danzig warning that only Hitler and Reich leaders can decide peace or war. A Polish spokesman says Poland will defend Danzig by force if needed while seeking a peaceful solution and warns against reading concessions into Warsaw's resolve.
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Poland
Germany
Danzig
Free City
Adolf Hitler
Reich
Berlin
Great Britain
Europe
Britain
France
Sudetenland
Czechoslovakia
Russia
Russia and Germany Resume Trade and Credit Talks in Berlin
The Soviet government said negotiations for a trade and credit agreement with Germany have been resumed in Berlin. Observers link the move to possible strain or stalemate in Anglo French Russian military entente talks and suggest Moscow may seek concessions from Britain and France.
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Moscow
INS
Russia
Germany
Berlin
Reich
Britain
France
U. S. Trade Boom Blamed On Senators Says FDR
President Roosevelt warned that trade gains are killed by Senate inaction on neutrality legislation. He cited European capitols preparing for possible conflict and said business hesitates to commit until a new neutrality bill is decided next year. He blamed senators for postponing a showdown until January.
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U. S
Fdr
Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Europe
Congress
White House
Senate
Hitler signals no August crisis as peace seen in Danzig
Berlin reports Adolf Hitler’s spokesman says war is unnecessary and that Britain will pressure Poland to hand over Danzig peacefully. Germany insists on unconditional surrender of the Free City, while warning it will defend if unavoidably forced to cut with the sword.
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Berlin
INS
Adolf Hitler
Danzig
Great Britain
Poland
Free City
Germany
Sudetenland
Britain
Russia
Europe
Moscow
Hitler
Roosevelt
Warsaw
London
Reich
Bohemia
Moravia
Czech
Czechoslovakia
Fuehrer
Neville Chamberlain
Munich
Edouard Daladier
England
Memel
Nuremberg
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