Behind The Scenes In Washington
Washington insiders debate how the relief program can place millions at work by August. Plans center on CWA payroll strategies while lawmakers probe past graft and payroll padding tied to Hopkins and FERA investigations. Senator Couzens seeks unredacted reports on abuses.
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General Johnson
NRA
James Offett
CWA
Jim Cousens
Harry Hopkins
FERA
Couzens
PWA
Louis Glagis
Cousens
NWA Service, Inc
Spring luncheon party menu from Sister Mary’s Kitchen
A 1930s style recipe feature by Mary E. Dague offers a make ahead spring luncheon plan. It covers a jellied vegetable salad, sliced cold meats, and a chicken breast plate with stock, plus minty garnish ideas and two dessert options strawberry ice box cake and pineapple charlotte. It emphasizes advance prep and ice box chilling.
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Mary E. Dague
Daily Menus Include Breakfast Lunch And Dinner
An old menu lists breakfast items such as shredded fresh pineapple cereal with dates cream frizzled dried beef and toast with milk coffee. Luncheon features waffies creamed salmon buttered peas rhubarb compote cottage cheese toasted crackers milk tea. Dinner offers roast shoulder of lamb browned new potatoes gravy mint sauce asparagus on toast tomato salad Spanish cream milk and coffee.
Golfers vie for berths in national open on Belle Meade
In Nashville on May 13 fifteen golfers contend in a 36 hole qualify over Belle Meade to win two berths for the national open next month. Amateurs include Henderson Tupper and Peek of Nashville Wright of Knoxville Montedonico of Memphis. Pros include Mears Livingstone Danis Goss Hall Smith Fondren Ackerbloom Gann and Nathan Smith from various cities.
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Nashville
Tenn
Belle Meade Course
Tommy Henderson
Jimmy Tupper
W. ®. Peek
Tommy Wright
Knoxville
Louis Montedonico
Memphis
Arnold Mears
George Livingstone
C. E. Danis
Dan Goss
Charley Hall
Doyle Smith
Birmingham
Ala
J. C. Fondren
Jules Ackerbloom
Red Gann
Nathan Smith
Chattanooga
Steel Production Dips to 43.4 Percent of Capacity
The American Iron and Steel Institute reports current week steel operations at an estimated 43.4 percent of capacity, reversing recent declines from 42.2 percent the prior week. The update covers steel production in the New York area and nationwide.
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New York
American Iron & Steel Institute
Death of Polish Leader Alters Peace Outlook and Alliances
The 67 year old Marshal Jozef Pilsudski died after a three day illness. His burial will be at Krakow's Wawel Cathedral with heart interred in Wilno and brain given to science. He shaped Poland's stance between France Russia and German rapprochement. mourners gathered outside Belweder Palace as Warsaw learned of the internal hemorrhage from stomach and liver cancer.
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France
Poland
Russia
Pilsudski
Wawel Castle
Krakow
Wilno
John Sobieski
Thaddeus Kosciuszko
Adam Mickewicz
Julius Slowacki
Marshal Pilsudski
Johns
Vienna
Warsaw
Belvedere Palace
Pilsud
Polish dictator Pilsudski dies and nation mourns
The Polish leader Pilsudski, once minister of war, held near-absolute control over state affairs. After constitutional reforms, a presidency may succeed him with Ed ward Rudy Smigly Joseph Beck or Kasimir Sosnowski named as possible heirs. A national funeral plan is underway as his body lies on a catafalque at Belvedere Castle.
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Ski
Pilsudski
Ignace Moscicki
Edward Rudy Smigly
Joseph Beck
Kasimir Sosnowski
Laval explores eastern Europe security pact expansion
French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval and Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff discussed extending Franco Russian cooperation to eastern Europe. They explored a non aggression and mutual assistance framework to supplement the Franco Soviet pact, with Poland and Germany noted as potential participants.
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Moscow
Pierre Laval
France
Europe
Maxim Litvinoff
Foreign Office
Laval
Litvinoff
Litvinoffs
Nicolai Krestinsky
Vladimir Potemkin
Paris
Charles Alphande
Alex Leger
M. Rochard
Warsaw
Poland
Germany
Stresa
Local Briefs From the Brownville Area
DecatTur's DIARY W. F. Douglas was removed from his home on 1316 Fifth Avenue South by Brown's ambulance to Benevolent Society hospital for treatment. Miss Cathleen McRae, recently operated on, was taken home Sunday in Brown's ambulance. Miss Julia Lovin will return to Scarritt College, Nashville, Tuesday after a weekend with her parents. B. T. Sheppard is recuperating from an operation at the veterans hospital in Tuscaloosa. R. T. Sheppard spent the weekend in Birmingham with Mrs. J. A. Bacon, whose condition has improved after a critical illness.
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W. F. Douglas
Fifth Avenue, South
Brown’s Ambulance
Benevolent Society Hospital
Cathleen McRae
Danville Road
Brown's Ambulance
Julia Lovin
Scarritt College
Nashville
B. T. Sheppard
Veterans Hosital
Tuscaloosa
R. T. Sheppard
Birmingham
Sheppard
J. A. Bacon
Thurman Murphree Suffers Broken Leg
Morgan county farmer Thurman Murphree is in Benevolent Society Hospital with a broken leg after a car backed over him at his home east of Decatur. A family member aimed to turn the car around when it rolled backward, striking him and passing over the limb.
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Thurman Murphree
Morgan County
Benevolent Society Hospital
Decatur
John S Thompson Dies at Rural Home
John S Thompson aged 64 died Sunday night at his home on Cullman Route 2. Funeral rites were held this afternoon at Etna church near Eva with Rev Edgar Jeans and Rev Virgil Sizemore officiating. Drinkard Howell of nearby communities attended.
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John S. Thompson
Cullman
Route 2
Etna Church
Eva
Edgar Jeans
Virgil Sizemore
Drinkard Howell
Parkville Burial Notice for Thompson Family
Mr. Thompson is survived by his widow and children Herman of Randolph county Hoyt Akron Ohio Ellis of Baileytown Route 1 Mrs Dewey Arrington of Cullman Route 2 Mrs William Eddieman Baileytown Route 2 Mrs Garney Lackey Cullman a brother William Thompson Cullman Route 2 two sisters Mrs Macy Daniel Randolph county and Mrs May Davis of Trade Ala.
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di Stasio
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