Bomb attacks in Chicago area injure none of victims
In Lombard a labor union official's garage was targeted by a sixth bomb in 24 hours. Earl H. Reick and his family were unharmed. Other blasts hit a Wilmette residence, Lake Shore Country club area, Kedely Creamery, and two union officials' homes. Dozens faced danger but no injuries reported. Washington debate over U S citizenship for 12000 American Samoa natives heats up as Swanson opposes.
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Chicago
Lombard
North Shore
Earl H. Reick
DuPage County
Reick
Perry Smithorn
Wilmette
Lake Shore Country Club
Glenroe
Kedely Creamery Co
Anton Imhaho
International Operating Engineers Union
A. J. Landvogt
Koki
Heyworth
C.F. Grovey
Willard Conley
Confey
House seeks relief appropriation boost to 2.52 billion
Washington April 21 A group of representatives backed by 50 to 1008 Democrats tentatively agreed to push a relief appropriation totaling 2.52 billion for work relief and unemployment surveys for the fiscal year starting July 1 The plan aims to exceed President Roosevelt’s 1.4 billion request while senators and Democratic leaders warn against widening the deficit.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Maverick
Tex
Representive Voorhis
Cag
Voorhis
Wberal
Belleau
Tog
Wis
Princess Elizabeth Nmiras Her Birthday at Windsor
Windsor England April 21 Princess Elizabeth received gifts for her 11th birthday from family and international guests. A pair of tennis racquets a wristwatch from Duke of Windsor a white pony named Snowball from King George VI and riding gear from Queen Elizabeth accompanied the royal presents.
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Windsor
Eng
David
Duke of
Budget crisis as Roosevelt faces tax and spending balance
Walter Lippmann argues the revised budget will reveal the fate of Roosevelt's Progressive cause as deficits loom. With incomes below projections and rising expenditures, the administration may need further borrowing into a recovery era, prompting questions about commitment to tax increases and fiscal restraint. Continued borrowing risks eroding public trust in government finance.
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Noosevalt
Treasury
United States
Lot
Roosevelt
Moover
Hoosavelt
Federal highway project seeks approval for Montana
A $2,140,588 WPA backed highway program for Montana seeks federal approval. Plans by WPA engineers, in cooperation with Wetway and state officials, aim to improve over 600 miles of roads, create thousands of jobs, and expand bituminous surfaces across the system.
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Wila
Montana
Washington
Montana Works Progress Administration
W.P.A. Field and District
W.P.A
Emil Sandmillist
D. A. McKinnon
George Penrce
Scott P
Webway Department
Ita
Parker
Tam
World News In Brief From The Front Lines And Hopes For Aid
A terse digest reports domestic unrest in Taviston Maine with clashes between troops and striking workers. Washington blocs push a further relief package of one billion dollars. In Boston a man named Vahoo is convicted of assaulting a photographer. A major new front opens in the Baltic theater as the Moldavian conflict worsens. An Oshawa strike conference ends with no interference from C I O, per union leadership.
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Domeatic
Lewiston Auburn Zone Scene of Lively Fight
In Lewiston Auburn Maine street clashes erupted amid a shoe strike with eight companies of Maine National Guardsmen ordered in by Governor Barrows after police dispersed about 1 000 strikers near the Cushman and Corbin factories. Tear gas sparked a mass retreat as officers faced rocks and clubs on Court Street and the Lewiston Auburn bridge.
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Lewiston
Auburn Zone
Lewiston, Me
Maine I National Guardsmen
Lewiston-Auburn
Lewis C. Barrows
Deargis
Court Street
Charles Cushman
B. A. Corbin
Auburn
George Fowler
Fowler
Hupgood
New England
Committee For Industrial Organization
Meloo
DAA Opposed To Proposal On Court
Washington April 21 The Daughters of the American Revolution oppose the Roosevelt court plan urging changes be drafted into a constitutional amendment. Senate judiciary hearings continued as witnesses testified against expanding the Supreme Court membership. Army orders note Major George F R Wells to Fort Wauchuca Arizona.
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Washington
Daughters of the American Revoluton
Supreme Court
Edward T. Lee
John Marshall Law School
Chicago
William F. Rosenblum
New York City
Francis H. Kinnicutt
al- Wed Patriotic Societies, Inc
Taula J. Ward
Detroit
Tkey
Charles FR. Cougtity
George FR. Wells
Inf
Minanula
Mont
Fort Wauchuca
Ariz
Just A Minute With Irvin S. Cobb Colloquial Travel Tale
In Santa Monica two writers compare stays at a modest wayside camp and a $25-a-day tourist hotel. The camp is neighborly though loud late at night. the hotel hosts stressed, dull guests, and social bragging rights follow the pricey stay. The piece preserves Cobb’s breezy, wry tone about travel oddities and social pretensions.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Ike
Advertising Value and Use in America’s Crisis
New York April 2. News paper advertising is urged to tell America’s industry story to build goodwill and public understanding to aid merchandise sales. Edward Friendly of the New York Sun warns and calls for front-line framing of industry messages. Earlier, Senator Bennett and Champ Clark defend press freedom as a basic right and criticize Roosevelt’s court reform plan.
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America
New York
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Edward
Friendly
The
New York Sun
Association
Bureau of Advertising
Partanto
Preaq
Bennett
Champ Clark
D. Ma
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Pension ruling stirs New Deal policy debate
A 2-1 U S circuit court decision from Boston overruled part of the social security program, holding old age pensions and unemployment benefits invalid as unconstitutional. Judge Scott Wilson wrote the majority opinion with Judge James M. Morton Jr concurring, both cited states rights. Judge George I. Bingham dissented.
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Suprama
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Noston Bavan
Scott Wilson
James M. Morton, Jr
George i, Bingham
Republican chief sued by spouse in Topeka district court
In Shawnee county, John D. M. Hamilton chairman of the Republican National Committee was named defendant in a suit for separate maintenance filed by his wife Laura Hall Hamilton. She alleges gross neglect of duty abandonment over a year and extreme cruelty. Alimony and custody of their son Daniel 20 and daughter Lait 14 are sought.
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Topeka
Kan
John D. M. Hamilton
Republican National
Wiewits
Laura Hall Mamitton
Shawnee County
Hamilton
Daniel
Gable Absent As Hearing Proceeds In Illicit Romance Case
Los Angeles April 21. Clark Gable, described as an unwed father, stayed behind locked doors in federal building as the trial of Violet Welly Norton and Gable moves forward. The government accuses Norton and Gable of a liaison producing daughter Gwendoline, now 13, and of demanding child support through letters.
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Los Angeles
Hearhy
Clark Cable
Federal
Mia
Violet Welly Norton
Britla
Remarks of Wheeler BD Back Into Film
Kansas City Kansas April 21 The Kansas state board of review featured film remarks of Senator Wheeler on Roosevelt court plan. Board chair Misa Mae Clausen announced the action apologized for the embarrassment. Gov. Walter A. Hamman at Topeka commented the action. Wheeler spoke in opposition to the plan.
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Kansas City
Kan
Kangay
Toyoka
Wheeler
Farmers in California Organizing
Stockton, Calif. April 21. Farmers around strike organized a semimilitary militia to aid in ending a crisis tied to the shutdown of four vegetable packing plants. About 250 agriculturists formed a force under Gus Schmaidt, while Minute Men assembled at Manteca prepared to mobilize within two hours’ notice to assist Sheriff Warvey Odell’s posse of 700. Governor Merriam met workers and employers in Sacramento to extend the truce and possibly name a mediation commission. the conference adjourned after four hours with no agreement, though Merriam called the talks very satisfactory. Workers have been striking over a week for union recognition, higher wages, and better conditions.
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Stockton
Calif
Gus Schmaidt
Manteca
Warvey Odell
Harold Angler
Associated Farmers
Aacramento
Frank W. Merriam
Alden
Madrid under hot bombardment in Spanish Civil War
The article reports Madrid enduring the fiercest artillery attack of the civil war, with ten days of shelling totaling about 200 deaths and over 260 shells hitting the city. It notes widespread casualties among noncombatants and ongoing destruction amid the siege. Meanwhile nearby Bilbao faces famine as British freighters prepare to run the blockade with food cargoes from St Jean de Luz.
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Spain
Madrid
Taslaga
Houtkado
St. Jean de Luz
Bilbao
Flaming skirt tragedy in San Pedro cafe fire kills dancer
In San Pedro a 22-year-old Portland dancer Miss Maay Perdoe died from burns after her flaxen skirt caught fire in a cafe. Matthew Donahue, 57, a machinist, is charged with suspicion of murder for allegedly applying a lit match to the skirt while the dancer passed a table. An eyewitness said Donahue did not pay for the match. Oscar O Reilly, a boat builder, is held as a material witness. Two cafe workers offered to donate blood for a transfusion as officers investigated the fatal incident.
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Maay Perdoe
Portland
Ore
Donahue
Mine Pordus
Oscar O'Reilly
Anto
Miss Pordue
Miss Pordus
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