Relief politics in WPA hearing Hopkins vows to probe charges
Washington April 3 WPA Administrator Harry L Hopking defended his relief program before a house appropriation subcommittee. He promised to investigate charges against Pennsylvania WPA administrator Edward N Jones. Republicans pressed about relief funding and alleged political manipulation in WPA payrolls as Hopkins faced claims tied to Governor Curley’s Massachusetts politics to obtain relief work.
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House
Pennsylvania Works Progress
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Prosident
Toonsvelt
Bropher Ranabeuush
Senate Munitions Committee
Edward N Jones
Pennsylvania
Wow
Ben Hopkins
Veltet
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Wopkins” Promings
Cad Welded
Nin Alden Dawn Fown
Joseph Gronsman
James Curley
Massachusetts
World News In Gist From Fragile Letters And Notices
A garbled international brief notes debates over corporate tax tactics in Washington. Mentions Roosevelts, Tokyo air reports, and border tensions with vague references to a league delegate and relief talks. Obscured by OCR errors, the item references tornadoes, weather, and a homeward journey amid unrest and negotiations.
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Hopking
Gaineatie
Atese
Geneva
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League
Wmpecial League
Tokyo
Zeppelin
Hindenburg
Filipinos Begin Voluntary Repatriation Train Departure
Waskington reports the first Filipino voluntary repatriation train departed today with Labor Department officials and Resident Commissioner Quintyn Paredes confirming small groups would board at points between New York and San Francisco.
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Waskington
New York
Labor Department
Quintyn. Paredes
San Frapelacs
King Edward Revives Maundy Thursday Alms Ceremony
King Edward personally participated in the Maundy Thursday rite at Werat minater Abbey. He distributed gifts to 142 recipients aged 60 or older from across the country, matching the age of his late father King George. The ceremony honors washing of feet and included royal attendants and ceremonial items.
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Weratminater Abbey
Hing Edward
Tratesty
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Howard
Coina
Jesus
James II
Edward Wan
Mary
Canterbury
Vatican Holy Thursday Ceremonies Mark Solemn Evening
Vatican City observes Holy Thursday rites at St. Peter's with the altar annotation and water symbolism tied to Christ's passion. Eugenio Pacelli leads the service as hundreds of worshippers attend while relics are blessed. All bells fall silent for mourning until Saturday noon when Pope Pius XII and cardinals attend the Mass in the Sistine Chapel.
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St. Peter's
Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli
St Peter's
Prieata
Christa
Pope Pius
Cardinele
Co Masa
Siatine Chapel
Busy Bunny Eggs Easter Demand Across Major Markets
Chicago apr 9 america s aingal Easter gorge of eget floods of eggs raise concern as Paul Mandeville vp Poultry Industries notes rising egg demand. Figures from four major markets including New York Chicago Philadelphia and Boston show 334,060,000 eggs sold in the past four weeks, up over the prior year.
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Chicago
America
Paul Mandeville
New York
Philadelphia
Beston
Future war profiteers push for massive loan support
March 17 protestors urged Oregon's congressional delegation to back a $20,000,000,000 loan to the organization. The letter asked the loan be granted on the "name banca" basis, echoing World War I loans to foreign countries that were not repaid.
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Oregon
Banja
Girl of 4515 Heroine of Fire in Cincinnati
An orphan girl at El Aloyaiue orphanage in Cincinnati helped avert a disaster by sounding the fire alarm. Seventeen-year-old Reve Mery Warrelbacher alerted dormitory mates to the danger and aided the evacuation of ten boys and girls from the kindergarten area.
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el Aloyaiue
Mery Warrelbacher
Hindenburg Signals Spur Coasts Near France
Reports from Marseilles and Beviie indicate German Zeppelin Hindenburg sent messages to stations as it neared the French coast after battling winds over Gibraltar. A weather report request was noted from Tublada aerodrome in Spain as the craft faced reported motor trouble.
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France
French
Gibraltar
Beviie
Spain
Tublada Aerdroma
Hindenburg
Peace efforts in league in Geneva
In Geneva April, Italy's Adegate declined to discuss sanctions terms with League delegates. Salvador De Madarings, Spain's delegate, was tasked to secure terms but met a cold reception. Plans to reform the League committees to empower Madarinku ta Ro to Rome sparked anger and led to unclear instructions on war settlement, as British foreign secretary Anthony Foley caused a split.
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Italy
League of Nations
Prentice Sownee
East Africa
Salvador de Madarings
Baton Pompen Alotai
Teague
Madarinku Ta Ro
Rome
Aloisi
Anthony Foley
Arizona Coeds Fear Prowler on Campus
Tempe reports say an unidentified man has been terrorizing Arizona State Teachers College coeds on campus at night. Police and college officials launched a search as several women reported being accosted. President Grady Gammage urged students not to walk alone after dark while authorities investigate the prowler.
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Tempe Arie Apel
Arizona State Teachers College
Rirm
Grady Gammage
Tax plan stalled in subcommittee amid complex revisions
Democratic members of the House Ways and Means Committee handed a $799 million administration tax program to four subcommittee members to draft as a bill. They aim to simplify by mid-April but warn passage for debate may slip. Proposals include a graduated rate on undivided corporate income, windfall taxes on processors, withholding on foreign dividends, and targeted rates for foreign stockholders.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Notreen
United States
Jevies Thorna
Girl Found After 12 Days Lost In Forest
Eight year old Lucy Hayrin was found in Newfoundland after twelve days missing from New Melbourne. She described lying in the woods fearing she would not wake, while neighbors and searchers, aided by her uncle Chesley Warrie, carried her from the forest on an improvised stretcher to a hospital bed. Doctors said she survived but may be maimed from exposure and cold.
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Melbourne
Newfoundland
Lucy Hayrin
Ake
Lita Lo Waent
Hiffie White
Chesley Warrie
Just a Minute with Kentucky Colonels and Mall Orders
Beverly Hills dispatch parodies religious mall orders that grant powers to preach christen marry bury for ten dollars. It recalls Kentucky colonel titles and comic misuses, noting a man’s vanity and a humor-filled take on inflated ranks.
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Calif
Mall Order
Mickey Mouse
Joe Penner
Duck
Drake Googoo
Deadlock on copper prices may end soon in market shift
Reports indicate a potential end to the copper price stalemate as major producers consider higher quotes. Phelps-Dodge Anaconda and others plan to raise bare and magnet wire prices by 4 cents per pound, signaling a move toward 9.44 cents with tighter domestic stocks and rising exports.
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Ant Almont
Phelps- Dodge Corporation
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Kennecott Copper Company
American Smelting & Na ‘Ining Company
Kennesott
American Smelting
Phelna-Dodge Copper Products Corporation
Anaconda Wire & Cable
Conviction of Mitton Upheld in High Court
San Francisco court upholds A A Mitton conviction for selling 72 percent beer to an Indian on Fort Peck Indian Reservation Montana. Mitton argued 22 beer not intoxicating. appeal failed as lower court record did not raise that point.
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Circult Court of Appeals
A A Mitton
Fort Peck
Mitton
Montana farmer receives large benefit payments in 1930s drive
Washington reports secretaries Wallace and Ickes facing questions as Senator Vandenberg seeks publication of AAA benefit payments. Thomas D Campbell, a Montana wheat farmer, received about 55000 under a trap control contract tied to Indian rentals. Indians to receive 3 percent per event under the same arrangements. In New Orleans, James Gordon McPherson, 67, known as Black Billy Hunday, died.
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Oscar G Johnston
Atte Johnatan
Henry A Wallace
Arthur Vandenberg
Washington
Wallace
Vandenbere
M Minh
New Orleans
James Gordon McPherson
Billy Hunday
Roosevelt Tours storm wreck in Georgia after tornado
President Roosevelt rode toward Washington tonight after a hands on inspection of Georgia's tornado devastated area. He boarded relief officials in Gainesville and Atlanta for a conference with Major General Van Horn Moseley and other federal war relief staff as funds of 2.6 million dollars for Southeast emergency work were noted. The presidential special train was delayed by floods as it moved from Warm Springs toward the capital. Georgia Democratic leaders here urged a state presidential preference primary if the Talmadge controlled state committee fails to call one next Wednesday.
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Washington
White Hoase
Georgia
Gaberville
Reliefantta
van Horn Moseley
Fourth Corps
Atlanta
Roosevel
Oateaville
Frank Walker
New York
Walker
Farley
Democratic National Committee
National Compaten
Gainesville
Warm Springs
Impeachment case rests against Judge Halsted Ritter
Washington reports the house prosecution rested its impeachment case against Federal Judge Halsted Ritter of Florida. Counsel on both sides were to meet overnight to discuss stipulations on what evidence could be entered about Ritter and Rankin finances and dissolution, and about related matters leading to the Whitehall hotel incident.
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House
Halsted
Ritter
Florida
Witness in Holley trial tells of butcher's death
Martin Planlah testified in the Rudolph Holley murder trial at Antigo that Holley allegedly grabbed with Albert Namete over possession, heard shots, and tied the case to the slaying of Columbus butcher on August 19, 1634 in Montana. Corroboration came from Donald Bergin, who testified about aiding in a fire at Grobe for Gen Finnish.
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Martin
Planlah
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South
Rudolph Holley
Antigo
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Albert
Hollay
Columbus Butcher
Montana
Donald Bergin Yerterday
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