Swift Senate Approval For Bill Is Asked
The banking committee urged swift Senate action on the administration’s 2.49 billion dollar lending bill claiming it would create 500 000 jobs for carpenters bricklayers masons ditch diggers cement finishers and other workers. The report to the Senate said funds saved must be put to productive use and that the program would be self liquidating without increasing the public debt.
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Washington
Banking Committee
Senate
Barkley
D Ky
Congress
United States
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Labor Bills Drafted for Alabama Legislature
Labor federation leader James J. Mayfield announces a slate of AFL drafted bills in Montgomery. Proposals include a state wage hour law with staged minimums and hours, a ban on convict-made goods in intra state commerce, boiler inspections, and bond posting for contractors. The women work hours and maternity protections specify 50 hours weekly and a six day week. Mayfield said Sam Roper directs the plans.
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Montgomery
Ala
Pyne
Alabama
American Federation of Labor
James J. Mayfield
Tuscaloosa
Mayfield
State Labor Federation
Sam Roper
State Federation of Labor
Old Time Religion Top Theme In Dickinson Sermon
Detroit July 24 governor Loren D Dickinson urged that old time religion is the remedy for social evils, telling more than a thousand worshipers at Royal Oak that churches spend too much to draw crowds and promising a direct pipeline to God. He warned against high life and a rising tide of women’s drinking at public gatherings.
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Detroit
Loren D. Dickinson
National Conference of Governors
Royal Oak
Dickinson
Michigan
God
Baptists Ban Segregation at World Alliance Congress
At the Baptist World Alliance meeting in Atlanta the sixth congress announced removal of all race coded signs with the claim there is no color segregation. Secretary J H Rushbrooke said labels like National and Southern Baptist Convention would be removed to avoid division. A Chicago negro protest cited racial signage and a stadium seating dispute. A resolution to nominate Dr Williams for Alliance president was announced.
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Atlanta
Baptist World Alliance Convention
Alliance
J. H. Rushbrooke
Tendon
National Baptist Convention
Southern Baptist Convention
Congress
H. M. Smith
Chicago
I. Greer Hailey
Fulton
Rushbrooke
G. L. Ce
National Baptist Convention of America
Dr. Williams
Subsidy Plan to Boost Cotton Exports Will Start
Washington July 24 A federal subsidy of 112 cents a pound on cotton sold abroad will take effect Thursday to secure the U S share of world cotton trade Exports of cotton goods processed in the United States will receive an equivalent payment Wallace retains power to adjust the rate officials expect 6 000 000 to 10 00 0 bales exported this year vs 3 400 000 last season the wheat subsidy begun last August has paid about 27 4 cents a bushel on 93 000 000 bushels sold abroad
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Washington
Wallace
United States
Agriculture Department
CIO Meeting Opens Today in Chicago
The four day CIO SWOC meeting opens in Chicago with field and legal problem talks. Phillip Murray reports growth from nothing three years ago to 595 signed contracts across the United States and Canada. Attendees include Clinton S. Golden Van A. Bittner William Hitch Noel Beddow David J. McDonald Lee Pressman and Sulby Barrett.
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Chicago
GIO Steel Workers Organizing Committee
SWOC
Little Steel
Phillip Murray
CIO
United States
Canada
Clinton
Golden
Ohio
Baltimore
New England
van A. Bittner
William Hitch
Birmingham
Ala
Noel Beddow
David J. McDonald
Pittsburgh
Lee Pressman
Washington
Sulby Barrett
Attica murder case linked to golf course worker
Sheriff Ramsey announced that Thomas Boyce 26 confessed to strangling 11 year old Elizabeth Debrukker at the Harrison Hills area near the golf course. He described using a belt garrote and burying the body in a shallow grave after the Friday afternoon assault. The confession followed the girl’s disappearance after a 4 H club meeting and the body being found Saturday.
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Attica
Ind
William Henry Ramsey
Thomas Boyce
Elizabeth Debrukker
Harrison Hills Country Club
Ramsey
Fountain County
R. C. Fenters
Paul Rule
Robert Bowman
George W. Keller
West Lafayette
Boyce
Debrukker
West Lafayette Barracks
Indianapolis
Marion County
Fenters
Meinee
Rule
Elizabeth
Roosevelt Farley talks spark third term question
President Roosevelt described talks with James A. Farley as ongoing since 1928 and refused to speculate on a third term. Farley planned to sail to Europe this week, while reporters pressed for clarity on whether the discussions touched the issue.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
James A. Farley
Farley
Democratic Party
Illness Victim Arthur May Neely Dies at 59
Arthur May Neely of Union Hill dies at Benevolent Society hospital Sunday morning at 10 20. Funeral rites held at Friendship Church with Rev. General Gill and Rev. Plunkitt officiating. Burial by Brown in Friendship Cemetery. Survived by widow five daughters Mrs Pruett Rowland Willey McKenzie Waters and William. four sons Glinton Clifford William and Harold. Neely was a well known east Morgan county farmer.
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Arthur May Neely
Union Hill
Friendship
General Gilland
Plunkitt
Brown
Friendship Cemetery
Mr. Neely
Benevolent Society Hospital
C. ©. Pruett
C. Rowland
L. C. Willey
J. P. McKenzie
William Waters
Glinton, Clifford
William
Harold
Neelly
Morgan County
Ruling Bans Gas Tax Funds for Highway Beautification RightsofWay
Attorney General Lawson issues an opinion for Probate Judge J F Posey of Autauga County holding counties may not spend gasoline tax funds to obtain rights of way for a highway beautification program. The ruling clarifies permissible uses of tax revenue.
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Montgomery
Ala
T. 5. Lawson
J. F. Posey
Aulauga County
No Estimates on WPA Farm Aid Demand in Alabama
WPA offices showed no figures on how many farmers might join the rolls to aid low farm incomes. Last year Alabama's program employed about 70 000 farmers briefly, with 1 200 to 1 500 in area one for 30 days across nine counties. About 300 were placed in Morgan county. An order from WPA headquarters directs layoff of workers who have been on continuous WPA service for 16 months. Rolls in area one are being checked with uncertain replacements from the waiting list.
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WPA
Area One
North Alabama
Morgan County
Works Progress Administration
WPA In Alabama Faces Deluge Of Farm Applicants
W G Henderson, Alabama WPA administrator, warns of a flood of farm job applications as 70,000 eligible families compete for part time work this year. He stresses aid will go to those most destitute under a needs basis, amid 1939 relief quota cuts and layoffs.
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Montgomery
Ala
W. G. Henderson
Alabama
WPA
Henderson
June Production Holds Gains into Mid July
Federal Reserve Board figures show industrial output remained higher into mid July with the seasonally adjusted index at 97 for June, up from 92 in May and 77 a year ago. The report notes more workers employed and rising payrolls as factory and mine activity increased, aided by output growth in bituminous coal.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Chamberlain Recognizes Japan’s Special Wartime Needs
London reports Prime Minister Chamberlain formally recognizing Japan’s special requirements in the China war while denying any plan to negotiate with Germany to appease Hitler. He addressed opposition concerns in separate statements, saying Britain would not hinder Japan’s security aims or regional stability.
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China
Britain
Japan
Germany
Overseas Trade
London
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Hitler
Far East
Steel operations in New York rise to year high
Operations in the steel industry for the current week will advance 42 points to 60.6 percent of capacity, the highest for the year, the American Iron & Steel Institute estimated today. Compared with 56.4 percent last week, the market shows continued strength in New York.
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New York
American Iron & Steel Institute
Weather Summary for Tennessee River Region
The Tennessee river gauge stood at 19 feet with a 96 and 71 degree temperature range over 24 hours. Trace rainfall affected Alabama and extreme northwest Florida as clouds thinned tonight with a chance of afternoon showers on Tuesday. Southerly winds remain gentle to moderate along the coast with small temperature changes.
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Tennessee
Alabama
Florida
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