House Group Starts Work On Relief Bill
A House appropriations subcommittee began drafting a $1.75 billion relief bill as demand for earmarks to the Public Works Administration grows. The plan aims for an air tight bill to curb WPA waste, regulate salaries, and limit white collar jobs while Republicans push to bar funds for Communist dominated projects. House members expect some WPA funds to be shifted to the PWA, with a push to make the PWA permanent gaining support.
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Washington
House Appropriations
Public Works
Works Progress Administration
Taylor
Colo
WPA
Workers Alliance
PWA
Roosevelt
Congress
Clifford Woodrum
Rep
Starnes
Ala
Appropriations Committee
Pickets Attacked In Briggs Strike
Detroit May 30 CIO pickets in the Briggs Manufacturing strike faced a new round of attacks as a man was shot and another severely beaten. Briggs officials and UAW leaders had agreed to follow mediator James F. Dewey’s decision. Ferris 40 was hospitalized with a broken leg from a pistol shot and Grain 49 was badly beaten.
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Detroit
INS
CIO
Briggs Manufacturing Company
Briggs
United Automobile Workers Union
James F. Dewey
U. S. Department of Labor
Homer Martin
Joseph Ferris
William Grain
Willie Willis Christmas Bible Gift Quoted
A fragment notes Willie Willis mentioning Mary reading a Bible gift for Christmas and starting at the end to see how it turns out. The line hints at a family or community tone with conversational storytelling. No further details are provided.
Sleepy Eye School Fire Becomes Arson Case
Two men Edwin H. Wilcox former Sleepy Eye superintendent and Arthur Brannae music instructor face sentencing after being convicted or pleading guilty to arson for setting the Sleepy Eye high school fire. Prosecutors said they sought to spur taxpayers to fund a new school but instead burned the old building.
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New Ulm
Minn
INS
Sleepy Eye High School
Edwin H. Wilcox
Sleepy Eye School
Arthur Brannae
Soviet Silent On Battle Talk In Europe Far East
Moscow reports a silent Soviet stance on battle rumors along the Manchoukuo frontier and on Anglo-French efforts to draw Russia into a mutual defense pact. Molotov discussed the revised proposals with the British ambassador but gave no clear signal, while Moscow opened direct telephone links to Khabarovsk near Manchoukuo.
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Moscow
Manchoukuo
Britain
Russia
Tokyo
Manchukuo
Outer Mongolia
Vyacheslaff Molotoff
Molotoff
William Leeds
Kremlin
Supreme Soviet
Joseph Stalin
Soviet Far East
Khabarovsk
Red Army
Changkufeng
Boy lassoes train lands in hospital in California
Sacramento. May 30. Twelve year old Marvin Smith lassoed a freight train and was dragged several blocks before an unknown spectator cut the rope. He remains in hospital with serious head injuries. A spectator acted quickly to save his life.
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Sacramento
Calif
Marvin Smith
Smith
Death by own action flight may trigger aviation limits
Civil Aeronautics Authority weighed drastic revisions to experimental and distance flight rules to curb “death by own action” attempts. Ground workers and aircraft makers could be held responsible for dangerous preparations as Tommy Smith’s perilous Atlantic crossing faded, with authorities ready to tighten experimental certs and monitor equipment such as extra fuel tanks.
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Washington
INS
Atlantic
Pacific
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Aeronautics Authority
Government Aviation Board
Great Britain
America
Thomas H
Tommy) Smith
Los Angeles
Smith
CAA
Ireland
Mem
King Casts Canada In Mediator Role
King Georg VI urges Canada to act as mediator between east and west during a British Columbia luncheon. He envisions Canada as interpreter and go-between for old world and United States, and between Europe and Asia, as science shrinks distance. Page reference noted.
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Victoria
B. C
Georgie VI
Canada
Arctic
British Columbia
North American
U. S
Europe
Pacific
Asia
Far East
Roosevelt urges Dutchess County two acres for deprived families
President Roosevelt proposed that his home county lead a program to provide the deprived one third of Americans with at least two acres of land and 100 feet of frontage. He said one acre could suffice, two acres near Hyde Park should cost 200 to 500 dollars, and urged local funding for road work over PWA spending.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Dutchess
Poughkeepsie
Dutchess County
U.S
U. S
PWA
Last Year's Winner Killed in Auto Race Shaw Finishes First
Wilbur Shaw of Indianapolis won the 27th Indianapolis 500 with an average 115.035 mph and a time of 4 hours 20 minutes 47.41 seconds. Floyd Roberts, the previous year’s champ, was fatally injured in a three-car crash. 145,000 spectators attended the Derby of automotive sport.
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Shaw
Indianapolis
Wilbur Shaw
Floyd Roberts
Roberts
Jimmy Snyder
Chicago
Cliff Bergere
Hollywood
Lou Meyer
Huntington Park
Cal
Meyer
Automotive World
Ted Horn
Burbank
Babe Stapp
Los Angeles
George Barringer
Houston
Tex
Joel Thorne
Young
New York
Pope Pius Sends Message to Snite
Pope Pius XII sent a telegram of benediction to Fred Snite Jr a Chicago infantile paralysis victim whose Lourdes pilgrimage drew global attention. The message from Rome expressed solicitude and prayer granting paternal encouragement and divine grace to Snite and his parents.
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France
INS
Pope Pius XII
Frederick B. Snite, Jr
Chicago
Lourdes
Rome
Cardinal Maglione
Snite
Father Dietz
Maryknoll Foreign Society
Fred Snite
Arms Race Threatens Labor Standards Warned by Winant
Geneva May 30 John G Winant director of the International Labor Office warned that rapid arming risks starvation for lower income groups as armament work diverts national income. He cited Bank of International Settlements figures of armament costs totaling about 1 billion dollars monthly and urged defense production cut living standards as little as possible through using unemployed resources.
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Geneva
John G. Winant
International Labor Office
New Hampshire
International Labor Conference
Bank of International Settlements
Winant
21-Gun Salutes For Squalus Aboard Submarine Dead
In Portsmouth New Hampshire on May 30 the navy conducted slow 21-gun salutes above the Squalus grave as 26 sailors died aboard the submarine. A wreath from a passing plane floated over the Atlantic as 33 survivors and relatives prayed for the fallen in the "supreme sacrifice" while salvage efforts continued at 240 feet amid freezing temperatures and high pressure.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Atlantic
Falcon
Nazi Occupy Archbishop’s Palace in Salzburg
The palace of Archbishop Sigismund Waitz in Salzburg was seized by the SS after the archbishop left on a mission. Furnishings were removed and stored, and Waitz has taken temporary residence in a seminary. Authorities cited the state property use and prior secularization of church lands in 1802.
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Salzburg
Germany
Sigismund Waitz
Hitler
Fuehrer
Waitz
S. S
Francis II of
Austria
Archbishopric of
Veterans honored in Memorial Day observance remarks
Gov Holt praised veterans as pillars of democracy during Memorial Day events in Charleston. He urged continued strides toward peaceful resolutions and civic welfare as a parade of military, civic, and youth groups moved down Quarrier Street led by Mayor Dawson and American Legion officials.
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America
Gov. Holt
Charleston
Quarrier Street
Dawson
C. Paul Heavener
John Brawley Post
American Legion
Feathers Hint at Chicago Pigeon Theft Value
Detectives hunted for pigeon feathers on Chicago's southside as clues in a case where 76 homing pigeons were stolen from Joseph Schwartz. He valued the birds at 750 dollars for one winner and noted the thief could not be a fellow fancier, since homing birds would return home. Police considered the feathers as potential evidence worth 1500 dollars in total.
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Chicago
INS
Joseph Schwartz
Schwartz
American Pigeon Union
Nazis and Denmark Sign Non aggression Pact in Berlin
Berlin announces that Germany and Denmark will sign a non aggression pact in Berlin tomorrow. Denmark sought the agreement after a Scandinavian foreign ministers conference with Finland Norway and Sweden rejecting involvement with Nazi and Anglo-French blocs. Chancellor Hitler and Foreign Minister Ribbentrop welcome a new bilateral treaty adding a small nation to Germanys growing list of pacts.
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Berlin
Germany
Denmark
Finland
Norway
Sweden
Hitler
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Lithuania
Esthenia
Hungary
Man, Tired and Old, Seeks Quiet At Wife’s Grave
An elderly man visits his wife’s grave at Mt. Hebron in New York on Memorial Day. After a quiet moment, a gunshot is heard. Henry Markoff, 68, of Richmond Virginia, is found wounded with notes indicating stress over the stock market. He is arrested for carrying an unlicensed firearm.
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New York
New York World’s Fair
Mt. Hebron
James Trumble
Henry Markoff
Richmond
Memorial Day Observances Across Nation and Seas
Across the United States Memorial Day honors those who died in service with guns, oratory, visits to graves, and ceremonies at Gettysburg Arlington National Cemetery and a New York parade. The Squalus memory is marked by a coast guard wreath drop. Roosevelt rests at Hyde Park as officials plan cottage improvements and a royal visit.
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America
Associated Press
Washington
Gettysburg
Arlington National Cemetery
New York
New Hampshire
Coast Guard
Navy
House of Representatives
Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Mrs. Roosevelt
England
Roosevelt Eyes Path for Action This Session
President Roosevelt warned Congress and Hull that neutrality act revision faces a fight as adjournment dates loom. He jetted plans for a Western trip contingent on July or August adjournment, and he pressed leaders to meet in Washington to discuss broader arms sales powers.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Garner
Bankhead
Senate
Barkley
House
Rayburn
White House
Oval Room
Hudson River
Hull
Hyde Park
West Coast
Asheville
N. C
District Demands Self Government in Washington D C
Washington May 30. House committee members including Randolph D W Vad signal they may resign from their posts over capital affairs as calls for home rule intensify. The milk probe under a sub committee prompts a spy device scandal with recordings in hotels hinting at a $20 000 payoff. Randolph cites local interest in Lake Asphalt sales to city officials.
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Washington
District of
Columbia
Randolph D
W. Vad
House
Randolph
Washington Evening Star
the Star
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