New York Walkout Expands Into Nationwide WPA Protest
Organized labor's strike against the security wage on federal Works Progress Administration jobs gains support from relief groups and white workers. Officials report 4,447 workers on strike with claims of 2,800 additional walkouts. most New York WPA workers could be out by Monday as organizers announce broad participation and plan for a nationwide protest coordinated with labor councils.
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Works Progress
Joby Way
Reanwavelt
Ugh 8 Johuann
Thormd Murray
Tle Executiva Nt Elke
Prth
WPA
Joba Lic
Atenogriphera Ainda
WEA
Lalor Counell
Siti Iit
Karma Thoms
Hengher
Stra
Atria
Andor
World News Roundup of Washington Policy and Agriculture
In a broad briefing a White House report outlines Senate approval actions and aspirational reforms. Agriculture notes crop estimates 228 million bushels corn and wheat at 124 million. domestic labor debates about white collar work under WPA era security. Foreign dispatch from Tokyo cites wartime credits and policy shifts as Japan tightens grip on markets while transport and immigration enforcement feature in domestic discourse.
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Nba Finnen
Animatiien Reportoily
Levion
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Wiz
Witare
Magrevelt
Ratle
Warkarn
Ile
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Mameda
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Conan
Penlor Taval
Tokyo
Sananuno Kewermont
Japan
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Perseid Meteors to Light Sky This Weekend
Astronomical chatter predicts the Perseid meteor shower will be visible as Earth passes through a rich belt of debris. Expect up to 60 to 70 meteors per hour after midnight Saturday through Monday with meteors radiating from the Perseus constellation.
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Earth
Gardon
Kollen
Berwin
Indictment in Mutilation Murder Tenge Case
Chicago reports a grand jury indicted Marterlilo We Zenge, 20, Missouri, for the mutilation murder of Walter J. Haver Zone. Haver Zone remains in county jail with a first degree murder warrant as prosecutors push a chain of circumstantial evidence.
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Chicago
Marterlilo We Zenge
Missouri
Camputer
Walter J. Haver Zone
Train derailment injures man in Great Falls
Aug 1 Great Falls report of a partial derailment of a passenger train near the city yard. Locomotive, tender, and cars derailed from a switch plate fault before rejoining the track. Fireman Hubert Nronnan and engineer John Fogreba escaped through a cab opening with minor injuries.
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Great Falls
Great Falla
Pammenger
Went
Mia
Tondar
Maranes
Alla Whan & Switch Plate Railroad
Aiyfodgerd
Ratwaadar
John Fogreba
Hubert Nronnan
Great Falix
Fragmentary political vent from Alanka dialect and phrases
The fragment references Duncan Alanka and a governor described as a nice fellow. It mentions congressmen eight, fifteen Democrats, and senators, with garbled spellings. The text hints at political talk, a chamber of commerce, and plans to travel to Bhagway and Chiilknot, with a vague note about pioneering time.
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Duncan
Alanka
Roosevelt backs wage standard on relief work
President Roosevelt endorsed warnings by Hugh S. Johnson and Harry L. Hopkins that workers refusing to take security wages on relief projects will receive no further federal aid. He said he had not heard reports of planned wage rates for skilled urban workers and stressed relief cannot be diverted. The issues affect about 2.5 million of the unemployed reliant on work relief and federal funding.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Hugh S. Johnson
Harry L. Hopkins
Wals
Metropolian
Roosevelt Weld
Todd Dinjoda
Roosevelt Hopey
Mr. Roosevelt
Pioneers Honor Lincoln Aides At Montana Reunion
Anaconda reports the Montana Pioneers and Daughters of Montana Pioneers at Helen, honoring a resolution to pursue PWA aid. The Montana Pioneer Society and the Daughters group praise unity in seeking support, while noting the legislature authorized bonds for Capitol lands but practical issues blocked sales. The group mourns Miles J. Cavanaugh, past president, as the meeting closes.
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Anaconda
Sunyad Daughters of Montana Pioneers
Helen Tetany
Montana Pioneera Society
Lana and Daughters
PWA
Montana
Ota Tun
Stowan
Miles J. Cavanaugh
Butte
Auciaty
Tha Lone
Vaughtera
Special Message on Land Gas Compacts
Washington Aug 9 President Roosevelt mailed Congress a 19 word message urging consent to a broad compact to conserve gas and oil to support pending legislation. Supporters say the president would also take action on a wide program creating a federal petroleum board.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Alleged Plot to Kill Him Told by Sen Long
Washington report recounts Senator Long’s claim of a half suggested plot to kill him in the Senate. He cites three New Orleans meetings on July 21 and 32 with anti-Long figures including Mayor T Semmes Walmsley and Rep Monnet. He names participants and describes alleged blackmail and job coercion tied to federal matters.
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Sen. Long
Washington
Long
Senate
de Soto
New Orleans
Moreland Meadows
T. Semmes Walmsley
Moniet
John Bandling
M.oh. Sandlin
Oscar Wihilston
Warren Jefferson
Louthfont
Rufus Fontenot
Internal Revenue
Frank Peter
FERA
Ted Off
Lane
Whilden
Skilling
Man Volunteers for Cold Death Freeze Experiment
Hollywood Aug 9 Stephen Simkhavitch 34 writer signed to be frozen solid for possible revival in medical science. Dr Ralph Willard says he has frozen and revived animals for six years and hopes tuberculosis or disease might be beaten. Simkhavitch seeks humanity’s benefit and to test if there is any life after death.
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Cal
Stephen Simpkhovitch
Ralph 8. Willard
Simkhaviteh
Ife
G.simkhavlich
Columbia University
Mres-Mary—K. Simkhovitch
Greenwich House
New York
Wilimr
Jekal
Matilda
Navor
Clipper Airplane Starts Third Pacific Flight
Alameda Calif Aug 9 Above cloud cover the Pan American Airways clipper plane glided westward on the third voyage to pioneer air routes for passenger and mail service to the Orient. The crew of Bav er hovered to San Francisco bay base at 3 p.m. and then departed over the Golden Gate bound for Honolulu on a 7 000 mile leg toward Wake Island at about 130 miles an hour.
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Calif
pan-American Airways
Aroper
Pacific
Poneer
Paenenger
Mai
Oriant
San Francisco Bay
Poelife
Golden Gate
Honolulu
Bay
Wake Island
President Roosevelt Heads Weekend Fishing Trip
Washington reports President Roosevelt cleared his desk and left for a weekend fishing cruise on Chesapeake Bay. He is joined by Senator Byrnes of South Carolina and Mrs Byrnes, Senator Barkley of Kentucky, Harry L. Mopking Works Progress Administrator Allan Marguerite Ta Wand and Captain Wilson Brown Naval Able.
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Roosevelt
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Chesapeake Bay
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South Carolina
Byrnes
Senator Barkley
Kentucky
Harry Ly Mopking
Works Progress Administrator
Allan Marguerite Ta Wand
Wilson Brown
Naval Able
Defensive air bases not to be installed soon
Washington reports a rational policy toward powerful defensive air bases with no immediate construction prospects. President Roosevelt rejected the Wilcox bill authorizing new bases costing about 60 million dollars and upgrading existing facilities at similar potential cost. The plan would entail a continental chain of bases across the Pacific Northwest to the Atlantic and Caribbean regions adjacent to the Panama canal.
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Imine Saicly
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Fanama Canal
Roosevelt taxation plan rejected in Senate committee
Wrabligton Aus AP reports the Roosevelt plan faced splits in committee. A 10 percent corporate net income tax rate was debated, with House proposals for 11 to 14 percent on higher incomes. The committee altered excess profits taxes and raised some rates, while discussions of inheritance and gift taxes continued.
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Postmasters Hold Section In Bozeman
Bozeman Montana hosts the first annual Montana Postmasters convention with talks by Charles Ho Wen rich and George W Starr. Officers will be elected by-laws adopted and the 1936 convention city chosen tomorrow.
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Postmasters of
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Atute Association
Charles Ho Wenrich
Patomaster
Washington, D. C
George W. Starr
Seattle
National Association of Festmastars
Convention City
Suit Hangs Over Cleveland Star In Matrimonial Suit
Jon Vormik, star Cleveland outfielder, faces a $100000 breach of promise suit filed by Miss Minuio Bahr. The claim alleges an agreement to wed in October 1628, with delays into 1924 and subsequent refusal to marry.
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Jon Vormik
Cleveland
Minuio Bahr
Uuit
Jon
Illinois Central Engine Bombed Near Springfield
A locomotive and six freight cars on the Illinois Central line were blown off the tracks near Springfield when a bomb is believed planted on the right of way. Three crew members were injured. two were taken to a hospital. Engineer W. H. Hoff of Clinton was not reported injured. Traffic was halted as the blast tore up tracks and disrupted service in both directions.
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W. H. Hoff
Clinton
Vatican Organ Attacks Sterilization Plan
The Vatican newspaper Ophervatore Romato denounces Germany's sterilization program as a wrong method to control populations. It argues the Catholic Church supports education to improve races rather than forced sterilization and race-based policies.
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Vatican City
Vatican
Ophervatore Romata
Germany
Congress Grants Authority for Vast Social Security Plan
Washington August 9 Congress approved a sweeping social security measure to create a nationwide pension and unemployment system. The plan funds old age and disability benefits for about 25 million workers, financed by a 3 percent tax on employers and employees. Debate focused on constitutionality and the scope of the tax, with the Clark amendment to curb private pension plans dropped. Roosevelt hailed the move as a major social program shift.
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Congress
Roosevelt
Senate
Hin
Benator Clark
Onid Fixes Loss at Five Million Flood Toll Rise
Vanesville Kin Aig reports flood damage rising to about 5 million dollars after the disaster. Red Cross and federal relief, plus National Guard aid, helped authorities shelter homeless residents as river floodwaters receded, with five deaths confirmed as waters fell.
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ONID
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Aig
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Clus
National Guard
Cnring
Young Republicans Face Hard Problem at Western Meeting
Des Moines tows Angland notes the national Young Republicans struggle to balance industrial East and agrarian Midwest on a farm plank. National chairman George Olmsted proposed that votes may show Attent ion to reform, yet Republicans remain loyal to fair efforts for farmers.
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Ang
National Young Republicana
George Olmatond
Fodtentad Today
Olmatond
AAA
Edatori Republicana Ara
Catholics Urged to Battle Control of Birth
Archbishop Murray in St Paul orders Catholics in the Archdiocese of St Paul to avoid any cooperation with birth control movements and to halt activities by physicians nurses and others he calls Mantinodink. The archdiocese covers Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota and part of Montana.
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St. Paul Orehitrocess Foray
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Minnesota
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