War Admiral Wins Preakness in Slow Track Thriller
Samuel Riddle's War Admiral defeats Pompoon to capture the $50,000 Preakness at Baltimore with 40,900 to 45,000 onlookers. In a race that mirrored the Kentucky Derby finish, War Admiral overcomes a sluggish track to win by a length and a half, paying $2.30 to place and $2.40 to show. Pompoon paid $2.70 for runner up, with Flying Beet and Fixing Seat also among top finishers.
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J. H. Louchheim
Pompoon
Jumilee Rlassic
Pemnonn
Ming
Tyara Jung
Quest
Jeprage
Macnels
Ucket
Rhow
Pormpoon
Mace
Etle
Lofts
Monartre
Mra. W. VW. Furnt
Walter MM. Jettard
Matey
Eunice G. Qrand
Merry Maker
Jewell Dorsett
Drive for CIO union at five independent steel firms
Union leaders authorized Primp Murray to call strikes if needed to secure sole bargaining rights for CIO units at five large independents. The move follows a major 27,000 employee Jones & Laughlin dispute and targets Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, Inland, Carnegie, and 260,000 total workers. The CIO already represents U S Steel plants and seeks broader coverage.
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Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Murray
Steel Workers Organising Committee
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation
I She Auto
United States Steel Corporaton
Wnion
Proposal to Revamp Courts Sparks Senate Clash
Washington May 15 The administration’s no compromise edict on the Roosevelt court bill set the stage for a Senate battle likely to be historic or dissolved by a surprise turn. Opponents and administration leaders traded hard lines with moderates considering a straight out vote amid talk of a possible compromise. The showdown focused on the Supreme Court retirement and the constitutionality of the social security act as Justice Van Devanter’s fate loomed.
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Nev
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Congress
McCurran Saliff
Fem
House
Plato
Steel
Muang
Pete Ceak
Wheeler
Mout
Pope
Thabil
Settta
Sunremis
Justice van DeVanter
Vocational Bureau expands program with extra funds
The vocational bureau gains an additional 82000 supplemental appropriation from the last legislature enabling expanded training for over 20 physically handicapped individuals. Since 1926 the department has averaged 115 trainees, with state and federal funds covering costs while the rest is borne by the state. Fredricks notes deeper funding will boost enrollments over the next two years as more students receive training and place into jobs in trades such as mechanics, creamery work, and related fields.
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Scomerslay
Department Hag
Fredericks
Mr. Fredericks
Yeesterday
Montana
Fredericka
Maxwell Defends Edwardian Set in Cosmopolitan Style
Miss Maxwell argues in Cosmopolitan that Edward VII’s Windsor circle shaped modern society, praising its wit and social influence while contrasting it with Elizabethan circles. She portrays the Windsor group as respectable yet entertaining, noting many members were American-born and predicting their impact on British culture.
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Edward
Wannot
Ming Edward
Elizabeth
England
Mian Maxwell
Windsor
Adele Aataire
Fran Oman
Ming Astrire
Maxwell
Liatho
Britain
Lady Furness
Lady Mead
Lady Cunard
Chips
Channan
World News In Gist: Riots, Rifts, and Relocation Abroad
The report notes a Pittsburgh leader ceding authority to call assemblies against large independent steel firms. Eight major hotels workers strike amid demands. A Spanish royalist cabinet forms as Valencian insurgents bomb targets. The U S State Department says the cruiser Raleigh evacuated 66 refugees from Allé canto, Spain, to land at Marseille.
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Rittsburgh
C.S0
Atenees
Mt. Loulis
Washington
Fairbanks Floods Immense in Alaska Panics City
Pairhunks Alaska May 11 flood waters engulfed Fairbanks and the Chena River area. Mayor Holling urged federal flood relief while residents sought shelter in public buildings and hotels as homes were abandoned. Temperature plunged near zero and melting snow maintained flood danger. Clearing Anterial survey showed some relief near the Yukon and Tanana tributaries but Threats of overflow remained for other sections.
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Pairhunks
Alaska
Ever
Tani
Yukon
Caballero Forms New Spanish War Cabinet Amid Turmoil
Francisco Largo Caballero, gray haired, attempts to form a new wartime Spanish government after his cabinet collapses, while Valencia endures bombing and insurgent advances press Madrid. Reports note continued civil conflict and evacuation plans as factions clash across the country.
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Frontern
Francisco Largo Caballero
Valencia
Spain
Oon
Mhab
Nadqne
Munguia
Iin
Nowherk
Amorebietr
Young Drivers Test Ground at Patrol Office
Aspirants practice at a traffic ground under supervision with tiny cars using a five by ten grid of signs. They will show knowledge of rules on a mini course around the grounds, without actually driving real vehicles.
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Nice Avian
Teattia
Lew Vorterker
Walter
Just a Minute with Irvin and Cobb on Humor
Damon Runyon weighs in on humor defining it as tragedy upside down. He argues true humor comes from laughing at ourselves, not others, and notes many women lack it due to seriousness. He praises English wit and Punch but lauds U S Congress as a paradoxical source of unconscious humor.
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Calif
Damon Runyon
Wetter
Puck
Mark Twain
Punch
United States Congress
America
Irvin S
Cobb
May Old Age Assistance Payments Authorized By Public Welfare Board
The Public Welfare Board authorized May old age assistance payments averaging $40.77 per person for 1,482 recipients. Thousands of checks were issued yesterday with more to follow. federal aid may offset 9 percent of costs. Food shipments from the Surplus Commodities Corporation will aid needy families, valued over $40,000, with fish distributed to Montana, Idaho, and nearby states. The board also approved aid for 1,422 dependent children averaging $10.67 each, as certified by county offices.
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Qmblic Welfare
T. M. Brandjond
Tumburka
State Department
Great Falla Fay
Communnilties Corporation
Thease Ab Eountiva
Hsta Crom
Department of Labor
Broad new federal farm program framed in Washington
Farm leaders said they will urge Congress next week to pass a broad federal agricultural program designed to stabilize prices and supplies. The plan, called the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1937, would set parity price and support levels for major crops and pay farmers only when market prices fall below those levels. It blends features of the old AAA and the over normal granary, with payments tied to stored surplus and adjustable by inventory.
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Congress
Edward S. O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
Tie
O'Neal
Ier Wallace
Tolley Auld
O' Neal
Offer on peace in movie strike fails
Hollywood May 14 The striking Federated Motion Pictures crafts council refused an offer of peace from film producers who would return workers next Monday Casey Inhar councilor for the producers said the producers are willing to negotiate a union shop and other demands with federation leaders tonight.
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Hollywood
Calif
Federated Motion Pictures
Crafin Tonlytt
Casey
Butte Clerks Vote to Strike Over Wage Increase
The Butte Clerk's union voted to strike Monday morning after rejecting a 10 percent wage raise offer. The walkout affects food store clerks at o'clock and textile division clerks at 9 30, with filling stations to stay open. The action involves several hundred Butte clerks and will not close filling stations.
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Butte
Truck overturn injures 11 students near Bassett Ark
A truck carrying 38 Cardwell Missouri schoolchildren overturned in a ditch north of Bassett Arkansas on Midway 61. One teacher Miss Vesta Jackigo, 28, and 11 children were injured. Driver Edgar Green reportedly lost control while steering. Doctor R L Johnson assisted at the scene.
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Memphis
Tenn
Cardwell
Bassett
Ark
Vesta Jackigo
R. L. Johnson
Edgar Green
Witness sees blast on dirigible to testify
Inkeburet New Jersey May 16 Investigators of the Hinienburg Amastor found a man who can describe the stern explosion that tore the dirigible. Hang Freund a tying officer on duty near the tail told the Commerce department board he witnessed the moment of danger. Freund was withdrawn from the stand as the commission postponed his examination until Monday. The airliner disaster has raised death toll to 36 with Otto Tage a German passenger among the injured in nearby Lakehurst.
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N. J
Hinienburg Amastor
Hang Freund
Commerce Department
Ita Ataft
Auddenly
Freund
Lothar
Witnen
Danster
Otto Tage
Hamburg “Cotton Lanereeys Ges
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