Extra Session Urged On Farm Bills by Southern Delegation
Southern senators and representatives pressed for a special session to urge passage of farm legislation. A petition led by Rep Ford urged Roosevelt to call a session and gain priority for a general farm bill, focusing on cotton loans while touching wheat and corn. Senate backers, led by Bleck, Pittman and LaFollette, warned of price declines and urged timely action to avoid broader economic disaster.
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Congress
Farmers of America
House
V House
Roosevelt
Ford
Miss
Roosevvelt
Bankhead
Rayburn
Jones
Texas
House Agriculture Committee
Senate
Seneter Bleck
Ala
Seneter Pittman
Borah R
Idaho
Smith
5. C
Senate Agriculture Committee
Barkley
Hatch
N. M
Department of Agriculture
LaFollette
Wis
Mrs Theodore Roosevelt Celebrates 76th Birthday Today
In Oyster Bay New York residents gather for the annual cake event honoring Edith Kermit Roosevelt widow of Theodore Roosevelt. Col Theodore Roosevelt Assemblyman Leonard Hall and J Russell Sprague will deliver addresses as the elderly former first lady remains active after recovering from a hip fracture that briefly hospitalized her two years ago.
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Oyster Bay
Long Island
Edith Kermit Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Col
Leonard Hall
J. Russell Sprague
Oh Nuts Term Not An Insult By Official
NEWARK N J Aug 5 AP The expression Oh Nuts is frustration not an insult. State Beverage Commission member Burnett ruled in response to a complaint against a bartender who threw money and muttered nuts to you when asked for money owed. He said he does not censor bar room language unless it becomes a nuisance.
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Newark
N. J
Burnett
Questioned by G-Men Man Swallows Poison
ST LOUIS Aug 5 AP As FBI declined to discuss the case Chief of Police Jonny J Glassco said Lester Buahte 37 year old chauffeur swallowed poison while two government agents were talking to him Last Friday Barbara Elizabeth Bird of Charles Bird an escaped Missouri convict held in Cleveland for three bank robberies was arrested at Bohle's home where he and his wife run a roaming house Two FBI agents went to a match company where Bohle works plant superintendent told them Bohle then went to the plant laboratory where a clerk heard him collapse An acid bottle lay beside him He was admitted to hospital in serious condition with a badly burned throat
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ST. Louis
Federal Bureau of Union
Jonny J. Glassco
Lester Buahte
Irs
Barbara Elizabeth Bird
Charles Bird
Missouri
Cleveland
Bohle
FBI
Glassee
Two Die In Auto Train Crash Near St Joseph
In Mound City Missouri at a grade crossing near St Joseph a passenger train collided with a motor car killing Artman thirty and Carli LaVelle about thirty five instantly. Two others Clarence Cobb twenty eight and Ed Bacon thirty two sustained scalp wounds and were treated at a St Joseph hospital.
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Mound City
tTra
Escaped Convict Jeff Harris Killed by Officers
Federal agents and Colbert County deputies killed Jeff Harris in Tuscumbia Alabama while pursuing an escaped convict in a motor car theft case. Harris faced charges of illicit disarming kidnapping his own baby and arson. Sheriff John B. Lockwell said Harris fired a shotgun when approached and resisted arrest. the dead man was also suspected in beating his wife and abducting the child.
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Tuscumbia
Ala
Colbert County
Jeff Harryé
John B. Lockwell
Lockwell
Harris
Against Policy to Sign Union Pact
ST LOUIS Aug 2 fpj While union officers said workers at the Poplar Bluff Mo plant of the Hamilton Brown Shoe Co will stay on strike pending a contract Luxe E Hart president of the company declared today no contract will be signed as in the companys labor policy The strike was called Monday The United Shoe Workers of America CLO affiliate eliminated a majority of the workers as members
China War Fears Rise As Jap Assault Intensifies
Chiang Kai shek acknowledged long odds but vowed plans to strike when time comes, while Tokyo pressed for peace via diplomacy. Reports say Japanese air power battered Paotingfu and areas along the Tientsin–Pukow line, with Chinese morale reportedly broken and troops withdrawing toward Chahar. Domei said Tokyo may protest U S enlistment of Chinese airmen, as Hirota reiterated desire for peace with honor.
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China
Kuling
Chiang
Generalissimia
Japan
Peiping-Tientsin
Nanking
Tokyo
Koki Hirota
Nippin
Paotingfu
Peiping
Tientsin-Pukow
Tientsin
Kalgan
Chahar Province
Domei
United States
Los Angeles
Hearn
Chang Tso-lin
Manchuria
Man Rescued After 40 Hours on Narrow Ledge
Humphrey Cooper, a Calgary climber, was saved after more than 40 hours on a narrow End mountain ledge in Morley Alberta. Austrian guide Vietor Kutschera performed a perilous descent, secured a rope sling, and brought Cooper to the summit. Cooper fell 700 feet to the ledge Tuesday night and is believed to have concussion and rib fractures. He was placed on a stretcher for the 15 mile trek to the base cabin.
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Morley
Alta
Humphrey Cooper
Calgary
End Mountain
Vietor Kutschera
Cooper
Here
Lipper Flies Daylight Ocean Crossing from Foynes
The Pan American Clipper departed Foynes Ireland at 4 19 am for its first daylight nonstop Atlantic crossing to Botwood Newfoundland selecting favorable weather. The giant flying boat lifted from the water early Friday signaling a historic early flight.
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Foynes
Irish Free State
Aug
Noviy Atlantic
Botwood
Newfoundland
Labor Board May Election in Inter-Union Row
Detroit August 5 AP An inter union fight idleing 21,000 workers may bring the first national labor relations board election for Chrysler workers United Automobile Workers petitions for an election at Chrysler Plymouth plant after ten men were injured in a clash with independent Chrysler employes union. UAW leaders and Chrysler officials met seeking reopening of the Plymouth plant. no arbitration agreement reached. Police guarded gates after riot call. In Lowell Mass the state federation of labor backed a war against the CIO seeking probes of CIO bias by the labor board and rejecting peace with CIO at the convention which challenged impartiality of Wagner Connery act adjudication. The federation's executive council to investigate officers of the New England regional labor board. The convention later rejected a peace overture toward CIO 208 to 28.
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Detroit
National Labor Relations Board
Richard T. Frankensteen
United Automobile Workers of America
Chrysler Corporation
Plymouth
Association of
Chrysler
Committee For Industrial Organization
Homer Martin
UAW
U. A
Independent Union
Lowell
Mass
State Federation of Labor
Labor Board
Youth Spends Five Days In a Refrigerator Car
Paul Whitaker of Salt Lake City survived five days in the ice compartment of a railroad refrigerator car after boarding at Butte Montana. He was found by a railway worker and rushed to a hospital where Dr. T. C. Horton said he will recover.
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Nampa
Idaho
Butte
Mont
Paul Whitaker
Salt Lake City
Paul
T. C. Horton
Whitaker
Million Watchers Needed To Count Perseid Meteors
Philadelphia August 5 AP A million volunteers are sought to count the Perseid meteors on the nights of August 11 and 12. Prof Charles P Olivier of the University of Pennsylvania calls for observers to report hourly counts to the American Meteor Society, aiding study of meteors as dust or stones roaming space.
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Philadelphia
Charles P. Olivier
University of Pennsylvania
American Meteor Society
Olivier
Paula Stone Plans to Wed Cafe Man in Santa Barbara
Hollywood report says Paula Stone daughter of Fred Stone and Walter Mason cafe operator filed notice in Santa Barbara of plans to wed. Paula’s mother commented on the surprise while Mason disclosed prior marriage history as part of license application.
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Paula Stone
Cafe Man
Hollywood
Fred Stone
Walter Mason
Santa Barbara
Paula
Mason
Surrender Near as Insurgents Advance Toward Cuenca
Reports say Santander surrender may occur soon with insurgents threatening Teruel to Soria communications. Government notes gunfire in Salabrena Aragon and Motril. Two Frenchmen condemned by insurgent court for spreading disease germs may gain pardon. Insurgent radio claims 2,000 government troops surrendered in Albarracin sector. Insurgents press forward toward Cuenca with advance in Teruel.
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Teruel-Soria
Salabrena
Aragon
Motril
Irun
Bilbaos
Albarracin
Teruel
Madrid
Cuen- Ca
Sugar Bloc Resents Veto Warning by FDR
President Roosevelt warned he would veto the pending sugar control bill unless unfair provisions limiting refined sugar from Hawaii and Puerto Rico were removed. Sugar bloc leaders, angered by the advance veto, called a meeting to stand firm behind the measure. The item also notes a historical note about army epaulets replaced by shoulder knots in 1872 for all but general officers.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
Capitol
U. S Army
GMC Price Increases Announced Across Major Lines
Detroit dispatch reports General Motors plans to raise prices on all car lines effective mid August with Oldsmobile up $45 after August 9 and Cadillac and LaSalle higher by $100 and $60 respectively after August 14 Buick up about 3 to 4 percent while Pontiac and Chevrolet dates remain unsettled. Sloan cites higher wages and materials costs as causes.
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Detroit
General Motors
Ford Motor Company
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr
Cadillac
la Salle
Oldsmobile
Pontiac
Chevrolet
Buick
Corporation
Ford
Sloan
Olds Motor Works
Ford to restart production after three-week shutdown
Ford Motor Company will resume production next Monday after a three week closure, announcing a program to build 6,000 cars daily.
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Ford Motor Company
Color Line Sentiment Divides Opinions Over Capitol Uniforms
White watchmen and guides share mixed views on a proposed Capitol uniform change. An elective official opposes the move while others mock the idea, expressing derision and resentment as the plan faced public scrutiny.
Armour Employees Back CIO in Union Vote
Kansas City August 5 AP Readers report Armour and Company employees voted to designate the CIO affiliated United Packing House Workers Union as their bargaining representative in the collective bargaining election. The CIO group won 1,049 votes to 768 for the Employer Bargaining Association of Armour and Company as tallying by the National Labor Relations Board showed.
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Kansas City, Kas
Armour and Company
Lohose
United Packing House Workers Union
Committee For Industrial Organization
Employer
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