County Tightens Aid Rules After May Session
County commissioners adopted a stricter relief policy banning aid to those misusing WPA or private wages for liquor, to newly married couples for one year, and to recipients of federal or state aid or cohabiting couples. The board also authorized purchase of a new highway department car, with bids to open May 17, and moved to transfer the old vehicle to the county sanitarium and farm.
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County Commission
T. H. Luby
Commission
Highway Department
County Sanitarium
Social Security Revision Drafted
The Houseways and Means committee outlined a broad social security revision to aid employers and workers. Key proposals include unemployment tax relief for states with reserves, freezing old age insurance taxes at 1 percent, capping taxable wages at 3,000 dollars, starting benefits in 1940, excluding some agricultural workers, and increasing federal aid for dependent children. Chairman Doughton announced the decisions.
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Washington
Houseways
Toacans
Social Security Board
Doughton
North Carolina
Prospective Bill For Defense Reaches Peacetime Peak
The navy appropriation pushed the peacetime defense bill to about 31.8 billion dollars. The 12 month navy cash and contract authorizations total 821,191,291 with broader sums approved or requested for the War Department and Army Air Corps expansion. Contract authorizations mirror cash in effect, letting war and navy agencies place orders now and pay later, with Congress pledging future funding.
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Washington
Navy
House
Congress
Roosevelt
War Department
Army Air Corps
Wolal
War and Navy Departments
Lewis Assures Coal Shutdown Plans by Friday Night
John L. Lewis, CIO chief and UMWA president, announced that a near total shutdown of soft coal would proceed by midnight Friday with few exceptions. The eight week bargaining impasse between miners and bituminous operators leaves 396,000 idle and risks the largest coal strike since 1922.
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New York
John L. Lewis
CIO
United Mine Workers of America
Lewis
Appalachian
W. L. Robison
Appalachian Conference
John Steelman
U. S. Labor Department
James F. Dewey
United Mines Workers of America
John JL. Lewis
CLO
Henderson confirmed to Securities Commission
Washington May 4 The Senate confirmed without dissent the nomination of Leon Henderson a 44 year old economist to be a member of the Securities Commission.
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Henderson
Washington
Senate
Leon Henderson
The
Securities Commission
Navy supply bill okayed to grant 770 million dollars
The House appropriations committee advanced a 770,473,241 dollar navy bill adding funds to start 23 new warships and 590 planes. The measure, set for quick debate with final action likely Monday, also authorizes contracts totaling 50,708,050 dollars.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
House Appropriations Committee
Congress
Army
Navy
Leahy
William D. Leahy
Britain
France
Germany
Italy
Japan
Samson Named Publicity Man for South Dakota
Sioux Falls newspaperman York Sampson was named state public relations manager by Governor Bushfield. He will prepare publicity stories for daily newspapers and magazines to acquaint citizens of nearby states with South Dakota. Salary is 100 dollars monthly from a 10,000 dollar advertising fund, hired for six months as an experimental program.
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Sioux Falls
Bushfield
South Dakota
Pierre
York Sampson
Sampson
Middle West
South Daota
Draft Opposed By British Labor Cries Over Conscription Plan
London May 4 Prime Minister Chamberlain urged passage of the military training bill as Labor and the Trades Union Council opposed conscription for 20-year-olds. He argued the measure could mobilize about 800000 men over three years. Britain weighed Poland and Soviet Russia amid shifts after Litvinov's resignation.
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London
Chamberlain
House of Commons
Labor
Poland
Soviet
Russia
Joseph Beck
Hitler
Danzig
Germany
Maxim Litvinoff
Soviet Russia
British Labor Party and Trades Union Council
Huron Musicians Join Mitchell Fest By Special Train
Two hundred fifty Huron High School musicians entrain at 6:00 am for Mitchell to join with Brookings Madison and Mitchell students in the annual four school music event. About 1,000 students will rehearse then perform a large mass ensemble at 7 pm with a return train scheduled to leave Mitchell at midnight. Two northwest music figures direct rehearsals and performances.
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Huron High School
Mitchell
Brookings
Madison
Corn Palace
Tas
Huron
Iroquois
Salem
Scandinavians Likely to Reject Hitler Nonaggression Pact
Scandinavian foreign ministers from Sweden Finland Norway and Denmark prepared to meet in Stockholm on May 9 to craft a common reply to Adolf Hitler's non‑aggression pledge proposal. Early reports suggested the nations would decline to accept any pact, fearing it would abandon their neutrality.
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Copenhagen
Sweden
Finland
Norway
Denmark
Stockholm
Adolf Hitler
Senate panel approves farm program funding increase
A Senate subcommittee authorized a 378 million dollar rise in farm appropriations, adding to the House approved 835 million, with 225 million for parity payments, 113 million for surplus removal, 25 million for tenancy act, and 15 million for other ag department activities. The full committee will meet to review the increases, which keep the next year’s farm spending only 72 million above the current year.
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Washington
Senate
Russell
Georgia
House
Senate Appropriations Committee
Nye
Republican
North Dakota
Bureau of Entomology
Budget Bureau
Senate Appropriations
Molotov Succeeds Litvinov as Soviet Foreign Minister
In Moscow on May 4 Vyacheslav Molotov aged 49, a close ally of Stalin, assumed control of Soviet foreign affairs replacing Maxim Litvinov who has headed the policy of collective security for nearly two decades. Litvinov was released from duty, with diplomats divided on Moscow’s possible tilt toward Germany or a broader effort to curb Nazi expansion.
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Moscow
Vyaches Jaf
Litvinov
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Reich
Molotoff
Litvinoff
Molotoft
Mostow- Morning
Warsaw
Sir Nevile
Charmberlain
Cr cho-Slovakia
Britain
Russia
Duce
International
Case Urges Wheat Farmers To Consider Acreage Minimum
Representative Francis H. Case of South Dakota urges wheat growers to weigh setting a 55 million acre minimum under the Agricultural Adjustment Act. He notes 79 million acres in 1938 and cites a prior bill proposing 52 million acres, with the current amendment making 55 million permanent, urging farmers to decide before the vote.
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Wwapmnw
Francis H. Case
South Dakota
Republican
Moderation Urged By Britain Italy On Eve Of Speech
A Berlin based diplomat predicts Polish Foreign Minister Beck will seek compromise in his speech to avoid renewed war fears. Britain and Italy press Beck to concede while German troop readiness signals possible action on Danzig and Pomorze. East Prussia stores heavy weapons as Berlin aims to deter escalation.
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Poland
Danzig
Adolf Hiller
Roosevelt
Berlin
Joseph Beck
Britain
Italy
Louis P. Lochner
Europe
Adolf Hitler
Pomorze
Beck
Germany
Pormorse
East Prussia
Park
London
Johannes Vom Welczeeck
Herbert von Dirksey
Czecho-Slovakia
Maxim Litvinoff
Russia
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Count Galeazzo Ciano
Free City
Nevile Henderson
Marshal Surzynski
Sejm
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North Ireland
Northwest
Dirgebe
Wonder
Noble Cain
Chicago
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Cain
Case
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