Senate Raises More Agri Bill Items Than It Cuts
The Senate boosted over 100 items in the agriculture appropriation while not cutting any, a shift from the House version totaling 835 million dollars to the Senate's 1.218 billion. Debate over taxes and spending continued as leaders weighed economic policy and proposed reforms, with figures like Alvin Hansen and Owen D. Young offering pointed testimony. The Navy halted plans for a new blimp after the K-2 airship collapsed at Lakehurst.
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House
Roosevelt
Congress
Northernlorida
AFL
Green
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Pat Harrison
Harvard
Alvin Hansen
U.S. Steel
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
General Electric
Owen D. Young
U.S. Navy
Navy
Lakehurst
N. J
AMA Delegates Back Public Health Plan And Baptist Talks
The AMA faced debate on Senator Wagner's health bill at St Louis. delegates urged local control of prevention and warned the plan could threaten private practitioners. Dr. Rock Sleyster praised medicine's progress amid low mood years. Distinguishing service medal went to Dr. James B. Herrick for heart thrombosis study. Baptist groups split, Presbyterians plan US church unification discussions in Cleveland. DA Kelley said Philadelphia insurance murder ringleaders are in custody as FBI chief Hoover was notified. A relief stamp scheme in Rochester aims to curb hunger and prices. Moral rearmament sessions call for a national rally led by Frank Buchman.
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MacDonald
Robert F. Wagner
American Medical Association
St. Louis
AMA
House of
Rock Sleyster
Wauwatosa
Wis
James B. Herrick
Chicago
Charles F. Kelley
Philadelphia
Harry S. McDevitt
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Notable 1943 Events Span Politics Crime and Entertainment
Baron Louis Rothschild, aged 56, freed after a year in a Nazi Vienna prison. Admiral William Leahy chosen to succeed Blanton Winship as governor of Puerto Rico. Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor wed in matrimony along with ex Senator Dill and Spokane resident Mabel Dickson. Patterson and McMahon resign from key posts. Nine killed in a Chicago granary fire. two local youths hurt. Fritz Kuhn and others accused of tax delinquencies. CIO merges Textile Workers Organizing Committee with United Textile Workers, totaling 325000 members. Obituaries note Rear Admiral Mark Bristol Bernard Merivale and Potter Palmer among the deceased.
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Baron Louis Rothschild
Vienna
William Leahy
Blanton Winship
Puerto Rico
Barbara Stanwyck
Robert Taylor
Clarence C. Dill
Mabel Aileen Dickson
Spokane
Richard C. Patterson, Jr
Brien McMahon
Chicago
Bund
Fritz Kuhn
New York City
CIO
Textile Workers Organizing Committee
United Textile Workers
Mark L. Bristol
U. S
Turkey
Bernard Merivale
Labor clash over coal strikes tightens as guards guard Harlan County
Labor leaders claim 300 000 United Mine Workers shift to union shop after a two year contract. Harlan County mines reopen without CIO pacts as national guardsmen patrol. Governor Chandler defies orders to work. Roosevelt declines to intervene as Labor Department adds conciliator and mediation ideas.
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United Mine Workers
Harlan County
West Virginia
National
A. B
Chandler
William Turnblazer
United Mine Workers District
Roosevelt
U. S. Labor Department
Kentucky
Publisher Putnam is kidnapped in California.
In Bakersfield a 52 year old publisher George Palmer Putnam was bound and gagged after disappearing from his North Hollywood home. He described two German speaking abductors who warned him to stop publishing the novel The Man Who Killed Hitler. He asserts the event is not a publicity stunt.
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George Palmer Putnam
Amelia Earhart
Bakersfield
Calif
North Hollywood
Hitler
Putnam
Wallace acts to set livestock handling fees amid court ruling
Agriculture Secretary Wallace fixed charges for commission men at Kansas City stockyards prompting opposition. The Supreme Court previously ruled his hearing inadequate, but this week refused to return impounded 586000 dollars to the commission men. Wallace also pursues a new order and wheat quota elections when needed. He authorized a 7000000 acre increase in wheat allotments for 1940 under the soil conservation act.
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Wallace
Kansas City Stockyards Commission
Commission
Supreme Court
Trans Atlantic travel and notable Atlantic crossings recounted
The article recalls the Titanic disaster on the Atlantic 27 years ago last month and notes recent Atlantic travel including the Empress of Australia with George VI and Queen Elizabeth landing at Quebec. It mentions Fred Snite Jr traveling in an iron lung toward Lourdes and historic flights by Lindbergh and a French airliner voyage toward America.
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Atlantic
Britain
George VI
Quebec
Scotland
Royal Northwest Mounties
Fred Snite, Jr
China
Chicago
Florida
Shrine of Miracles
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris
America
Azores
Carl Backman
Sweden
Abroa d Test Landings And Palestine Tensions
The piece notes Japan occupying Kulangsu near Amoy to probe international sentiment, with U S British and French warships reacting while Washington rejects Tokyo's demand for more Shanghai rights. It also covers Britain's Palestine policy shift toward an Arab-dominated plan, Jewish and Arab tensions, and outbreaks in Tel Aviv. Separate items mention Nazi crackdowns in Argentina, possible shifts in Bolivia and Brazil, and Romanian police killings near Bulgaria.
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Amoy
Kulangsu
U. S
Britain
France
Washington
Tokyo
America
China
Sam
Saito
Japan
Astoria
Palestine
Jerusalem
League of Nations
Holy Land
London
England
Tel Aviv
House of Commons
The New White War Across Europe and Britain’s Diplomacy
Benito Mussolini warned last Sunday that Europe does not face a world war while Britain and France pursue a white war of economic measures. London, Paris, and Ankara sought compromises and loans as Spain’s Franco rises, while Moscow sent Maisky to London and a League council meeting looms.
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Benito Mussolini
Europe
Il Duce
der Fuehrer
Britain
France
Russia
Poland
Rumania
Latvia
Estonia
London
Turkey
Berlin- Budapest
Greece
Bulgaria
Syria
Paris
Germany
Yugoslavia
Denmark
Berlin
Sweden
Norway
Finland
Warsaw
Hitler
League of Nations Council
Vyacheslaff Molotoff
Vladimir Potemkin
Geneva
Inste Moscow
Ivan Maisky
Taft and Murphy Clash Over Money and Liberty
Senator Robert Taft argues in Washington that the solution is not clear but demands more spending. Attorney General Frank Murphy counters that civil liberties must be protected with impartiality and without prejudice or favor.
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Robert A. Taft
Washington
Frank Murphy
Tulsa Girl Survives Lightning Strike In Rain Coat
A 14 year old Tulsa girl was struck by lightning but unharmed and continued to school. In Miami a woman barricaded herself. firefighters forced entry after she hid in a adjacent room. Three doors were forced before she was reached. She was deaf and unaware of the fire.
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Miami
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