Roosevelt names Jones and Carmody to lead new lending programs
President Roosevelt selected Jesse H. Jones and John M. Carmody for top posts in a proposed 3 billion dollar lending program. Jones would head the federal loan agency and Carmody the federal works agency, both needing Senate confirmation. The two would oversee multiple federal bodies shaping housing, roads, public works, and rural electrification. The appointments reflect broad Capitol Hill support and aim to solidify control over the new lending framework.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Jesse H. Jones
John M. Carmody
Garner Jones
Texas
Garner
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Federal Loan Agency
Carmody
Federal Works Agency
Rural Electrification Authority
Society of Industrial Engineers
Steel and Garment Industries
Senate
Congress
Loan Agency
Home Loan Bank Board
Federal Housing Administration, Export-Import Bank
Electric Home and Farm Authority
The
Works Agency
Public Works Administration
Works Progress Administration
U. S. Housing Authority
Bureau of Public Roads
Public Buildings Branch
Treasury
Building
National Park Service
Jones
Agriculture Department
Capitol Hill
Sen. George
D.-Ga
Interior Ickes
Ickes
Interior
New Works Agency
Mass Food Poisoning Erupts Across Staten Island Schools
More than 200 children from at least 10 Staten Island schools, including Tottenville New Dorp Grant City Port Richmond Travis and West New Brighton, fell ill after lunch. The Spanish rice pudding suspected. meals were prepared in a central kitchen and delivered islandwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. George
Staten Island
N. Y
INS
Tottenville
New Dorp
Grant City
Port Richmond
Travis
West New Brighton
Department of Education and Health Department
Public Utility Levies for 1939 Rise by 83000
The board of public works completed 1939 assessments showing tangible valuations up by 1,857,000 and an overall rise of 83,500 in public utility levies. Major increases affected Appalachian Electric Power and Monongahela West Penn Public Service, while several railroads and telephone companies saw varied changes. Several large firms held steady, including C and O Railway, Hope Natural Gas, United Fuel Gas, American Telephone and Telegraph, Postal, and Western Union Telegraph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Utilities
Board of Public Works
Electric and Electric Power Company
Big
Appalachian Electric Power Company
Monongahela West Penn Public Service Company
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
B. and O
C. and O. Railway Company
Hope Natural Gas Company
United Fuel Gas Company
Virginian Railway
Norfolk and Western
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Postal
Western Union Telegraph Company
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Dying Cop Rescues Arrest by Slaying Bandit in Detroit
In Detroit on June 23 Policeman Warren Raby, mortally wounded by bandit Anthony Hessler, drove home a final act of defense by thrusting his revolver into Hessler’s mouth and killing him before dying. Hessler alias Anthony Phillips, 29, from St Louis, had just robbed a finance company of 300 dollars. Raby and Patrolman Henry Lundt pursued Hessler’s car, halted it with gunfire, and Raby died at the scene. Aided by a suspecting woman Hildegard Sundell 31 she fled but was captured. Authorities say she aided Hessler in prior robberies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
INS
Warren Raby
Anthony Hessler
Anthony Phillips
St. Louis
Raby
Henry Lenndt
Hessler
Hessiler
Hildegard Sundell
Birth Rate Rises According to Census Figures
Washington dispatch reports final 1938 birth rate at 17.6 live births per 1,000, highest in years. Since 1915 peak at 25, rates declined to 16.5 in 1933, then rose to 17.1 in 1934 and 17.0 in 1937. New Mexico posted 33.7, New Jersey 12.9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Census Bureau
New Mexico
New Jersey
High Officials to Fly on Atlantic Clipper Flight
A dozen high government officials led by R Walton Moore and Stephen Early will depart New York on the Pan American Clipper for the first official U S England passenger flight along the great circle route to Southampton England. Four members of Congress and other officials will join the voyage via Nova Scotia Newfoundland and Ireland, with Capt Harold E Gray piloting the 41 ton flying boat on the three stop journey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
R. Walton Moore
State Department
Stephen Early
Roosevelt
New York
Congress
Ernest Undeen
Minnesota
Dennis Chavez
New Mexico
Carl E. Mapes
Michigan
Clarence Cannon
Mussouri
Nova Scotia
Newfoundland
Ireland
Pan-American
Port Washington
L. L
William S. McDuffee
Air Safety Board
Charles P. Gradwick
Air Mail
U. S. Post Office
Charles A. Lindbergh
New York Field
Southampton
England
Harold E. Gray
Atlantic
France and Turkey Sign Mutual Military Aid Pact
In Paris and Ankara today France ceded Hatay to Turkey and signed a seven point mutual military aid treaty. Foreign Minister Bonnet stressed France’s ongoing obligations in Syria and Lebanon. The pact promises aid if aggression threatens the Mediterranean and mirrors the British Turkish declaration of May 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
France
Syria
Republic of Hatay
Turkey
Anakara
George Bonnet
Lebanon
Bonnet
Mediterranean
Britain
Poland
Greece
Rumania
Russia
Roosevelt Presses Money Powers Squeeze in Senate
Washington bulletin reports President Roosevelt intends to push a $3.86 billion spend lead program through Congress next week. A compromise on silvers policy surfaces to end filibuster, with talks to set domestic silver at 77.50 cents per ounce and halt foreign silver purchases by June 30, a deadline Roosevelt warns may trigger a special message if not passed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Washington
INS
Roosevelt
White House
Senate
FDR Plans Hyde Park Rest Before Senate Fight
President Roosevelt to travel by special train for a week at Hyde Park before returning to Washington to push passage of the administration's neutrality bill. He will also sign tax, WPA appropriation, and monetary powers bills by June 30. A major revolt against Bloom neutrality looms in Congress as filibuster threats arise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Congress
White House
WPA
Senate
Neglected Child Taken From Father in Vaccination Dispute
Carlisle news reports Eugene Marsh nine adjudged a neglected child after his father John Marsh refused vaccination. Eugene, kept from school, was committed to Cumberland County welfare service until further order. The father has previously jailed for contempt over vaccination enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlisle
John Marsh
Eugene Marsh
Cumberland County Welfare Service
Marsh
Eugene
Auditor Directed To Pay Accounts In WV U athletic dept
Auditor Edgar B. Sims was directed by Attorney General Clarence W. Meadows to honor all unpaid accounts and obligations of the West Virginia University athletic department under the 1937 and 1939 amended legislative appropriation. Meadows said the state supreme court ruled the auditor cannot inquire into claim validity, and the legislature's finding should be accepted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar B. Sims
Clarence W. Meadows
West Virginia University Athletic Department
Meadows
State Supreme Court
Asst
Ira J. Partlow
Barter Deal With Britain Is Signed
The United States and Great Britain signed a wartime barter pact trading 600000 bales of American cotton for about 175000000 pounds of rubber. The materials would be stored by governments against a future war emergency, with Senate approval required like other treaties. Senator Byrnes praised Ambassador Kennedy for the deal, noting rubber stocks in the U.S. are low and the arrangement would defend supply security and stabilize prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U. S
Great Britain
Herbert Feis
State Department
Senate
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
Sen. Byrnes
D S. C
Kennedy
Byrnes
Lie detector clears Velma West's mother and brother
In Cleveland on June 23, police say a lie detector test cleared Velma West's mother Mrs Catherine Van Woert and her brother Kenneth of any knowledge of Velma's whereabouts after her escape from Marysville reformatory. Velma, a blonde hammer slayer, killed her husband in Painesville eleven years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
INS
Velma West
Marysville
Catherine van Woert
Kenneth
Velma
L. G. Corlett
East Cleveland
Painesville
Women on Big Business Boards Urged by Speaker
Mrs. Mary G. Roebling urged 450 women executives to push for representation on boards of utilities, insurance firms, and industrial companies. She cited 2,674 women millionaires in 1938 and 419 multi millionaires, saying women have earned the right to a place in American business management. Dora E. Neun urged married women to explore new enterprise avenues and create new markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Big Business
White Sulphur Springs
Mary G. Roebling
Trenton
N. J
Roebling
Trenton Trust Company
New Jersey Unemployment Compensation Commission
Wall Street
America
Soviet and Japanese clash escalate on frontier
Reports from Moscow speak of large scale land and air hostilities between Soviet sponsored Outer Mongolian forces and Japanese Manchukuoan troops. The week long fighting began June 17 with heavy casualties and massive air and tank engagement. A Japanese communique claims 49 Soviet planes down and five Japanese planes lost amid widespread clashes along the Outer Mongolia Manchukuo frontier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Hsinking
Manchukuo
Law Plays Havoc With Marriages in West Virginia
The marriage license business in West Virginia has collapsed as clerks report calendar checks and delays. Since May 26 applicants must present a physician’s certificate proving no infectious syphilis, pushing couples to wed outside the state. The 1939 health test rule and 1937 three day notice have reduced marriages, with Wellsburg noting a former mail order system’s collapse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Wellsburg
Gretna Green
Britain Warns Japan Over Concession Stripping At Tientsin
London warns Japan that acts against British concessions in Tientsin must stop or action will follow. Lord Halifax pressed Ambassador Shigemitsu for clarification of Japan's intentions as blockade grievances rise. In Swatow, Allied naval forces guarded missions amid ongoing fighting with confirmed casualties and Chinese dead estimated by Japanese sources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Great Britain
Japan
Tientsin
Chamberlain
Mamoru Shigemitsu
Lord Halifax
Cecil Davis
New Zealand
China
Tokyo
House of Comemons
Hong Kong
Scout
Swatow
Norewegian
Hongkong
Italy Pledges Full Cooperation in North China Crisis
Tokyo dispatch quotes Rear Admiral Gonzaga. He pledged Italy will fully cooperate with Japanese military authorities in North China and delivered the pledge to General Sugiyama. The report ties this to the crisis with Western democracies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Tokyo
INS
North
China
Japan
Peiping
Gonzaga
Far East
Sugiyama
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Willie Willis
Robert Quillen
Desay
Public Board
C & O Railway
B & O Road
FDR
Mandate
Suad Davaz
Joseph P. Kennedy
Oliver Stanley
British Board of Trade
New Jersey Bank
Mongolia
Outer Mongolia
Europe
Ivan Maisky
Charles Corbin
Pillsbury
Thanet
K. G. Hosbart
Crawfordsville
Indiana
Pope
Asheville
Kulangsu
Amoy
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