Broad Street Station Fire Destroys Tracks, $250000 Loss
A four hour blaze at Philadelphia Broad Street station wrecked 16 tracks and caused an estimated $250000 in damage. More than 350 people, mainly fire and protection workers, were injured. Fire investigators from FBI and city, railroad, army and navy offices began probing the incident as trains diverted to nearby stations.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Broad Street
Pennsylvania
Congressional Limited
Federal Bureau of Investigation
City Fire Bureau
Railroad Fire and
Army and Navy Inference Offices
Harry Burke
City Detective Squad
30Th Street
New York
Harrisburg
R. C. Morse
Eastern Division
Central City
City Hall
High Point
Red Cross
Japan
J. F. Robbins
Liberty Street
Solon Sees 50 Billion War Budget
Washington reports Rep. Snyder predicts the war department will need 50 billion dollars for next year's operations. He notes current appropriations total about 59.9 billion cash and 12.001 billion in unexpended balances for the current fiscal year, with additional funds bringing total wartime appropriations near a quarter trillion since July 1, 1940.
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Washington
Rep. Synder
D-Pa
War Department
Snyder
Sapjes
Marshall
North Africa
Lemon and water wake up your digestion
A health ad promotes lemon and water as a natural remedy for constipation and fatigue. It urges drinking juice of one Sunkist lemon in morning water to promote prompt elimination, boost vitamin C intake, and improve appetite and digestion. It endorses California Sunkist lemons.
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Sunkist
California Sunkistons
Postwar planning programs offered towns by commerce dept
The commerce department unveiled a plan titled Community Action for Post War Jobs and Profits to help towns prepare for peacetime production and jobs. Aimed at chambers of commerce and local businessmen, it outlines five steps from creating a work-pile plan to surveying opportunities, pooling orders, building reserves, and strengthening existing business, with guidance through the local CED.
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James Marlow
George Zielke
Washington
Commerce Department
Chambers of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Committee For Economic Developmnt
CED
Com
Merce Department
Chamber of
Department of Commerce
Bachelors May Face Droopy Underwear Rules
The Office of Price Administration authorizes laundries to stop sewing on buttons for underwear or pajamas to conserve manpower. Outer shirts keep buttons. trouser cuffs and other frills are trimmed. Mechanical ironing may replace hand ironing. minimal starching and reduced deliveries are allowed with set minimum charges.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Editorial squabble over New Deal milk aid politics
Winchell notes partisan heat over timing of a aid plank. GOP backs feeding the hungry, while Wallace and Luce draw jokes about milk for Hottentots. A Trib editor laments Calabria strategy as a poor war move, questioning future political vindication.
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GOP
Wallace
Luce
Italy
Found money in couch shopper case ties to Chumley estate
In Homer Gilpin's furniture store two women found a handkerchief with 430 dollars in a sofa. Circuit Judge James G. Burnside ordered Gilpin to hand the money to the administrator of the Lillie Chumley state since the sofa came from the Chumley estate via Gilpin.
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Taylorsville
Ill
Homer Gilpin
James G. Burnside
Gilpin
Lillie Chumley
Chumley
Labor Board to Hear Farm Unions Case This Week
War Labor Board will hear a test case on jurisdiction over agricultural labor disputes involving California Packing Corp Midwest division at Rochelle and DeKalb Illinois and the CIO united cannery agricultural packing allied workers. The NLRB had certified the union but excluded agricultural labor from Wagner Act coverage. The panel majority supports extending WLB authority, citing wartime executive powers, while a dissenter warns limits.
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Joseph A. Lopatus
Washington
War Labor Board
WLB
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
Congress
California Packing Corporation
Midwest
Rochelle and DeKalb
III
CIO United Cannery, Agricultural Packing Allied Workers
National Labor Relations
Arthur Raper
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
John B. Easton
West Virginia Industrial Union Council
Walter T. Margetts
Margetts
News of Colored People by F. Yokely
Column item titled News of Colored People by F. Yokely appears with contact line Phone 5220, signaling a periodical focus on African American community topics. Content visible is fragmentary and highlights a recurring feature name and author rather than a full report.
Musical Parade Tonight at St Mark Church
Circle 3 of St Mark Church sponsors a Musical Parade tonight at 8 15 p m at the church. The event invites public attendance as part of church activities and community share.
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Circle 3 of
St. Mark Church
Esquire Mailing Privileges Face Suspension Hearing
The publisher of Esquire must show cause why its second class mailing permit should not be suspended for obscene material. The Post Office objects to certain drawings and to an article titled Those Star and Garter Blues. A hearing is set for Sept. 28 in Washington.
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Washington
Esquire
Post Office Department
Runaway Denver Coach Carries 15 Sightseers in Wild Ride
In Denver on September 13 a stage coach with 15 sight-seeing passengers ran wild after the driver was hurt while trying to stop the runaway. Walter Higgins was critically injured, thrown and dragged about 200 feet. Two passengers jumped to safety and were cut and bruised, while the rest held on as the horses bolted until halted on a steep grade. A wartime sales note mentions barbed wire offered for two War savings stamps.
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Denver
Walter Higgins
Mount Vernon Canyon
Fighting Flares In Dodecanese Amid Axis Tensions
Reports from Turkish towns indicate intensified German Italian fighting across the Dodecanese as Axis forces vie for control. Islands show separate flareups with mixed garrisons resisting a broader campaign. In Rhodes, three days of bitter fighting followed the Italian surrender, with German forces claiming control. An evacuation of German civilians from Samos hints Italians still mounting resistance. Italian troops reportedly outnumber Nazism on Samos by about three to one. Emperor penguins can knock a man down with a blow of their flippers.
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Ankara
Aegean
Dodecanese
Istanbul
Rhodes
Athens
Berlin
Samos
Turkey
Local notables in North Caroina as of September 1933
Local figures take roles in business and civic life. Jack Burris named director of local auto dealers. Byron Abels returns from Chicago aiding tennis instructor John F Renfield. Civitans picnic at George Hutchens farm. Giant Condor airplane to arrive at Friendship airport signaling Eastern Air Lines night flying debut. Mrs John N Paul and children visit Washington and Baltimore. Bill Smoot attends events for sister Mrs James McAlwee. Hoover reunion held at Mt Zion Church with R L Pope as speaker. Roosevelt to seek higher farm prices. repeal of 18th Amendment up to seven states. NC Grange to meet Lexington Sept 27-28. Twelve steel towers planned along NC coast for observing coast line changes.
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Jack Burris
Byron Abels
Chicago
John F. Renfield
Civitans
George Hutchens
High Point
Friendship Airport
Condor
Atlanta
New York
Eastern Airlines
John N. Paul
Washington, D. C
Baltimore
Bill Smoot
James McAlwee
Hoover
Mt. Zion Church
Randolph County
R. L. Pope
Thomasville
Roosevelt
North Carolina Grange
Lexington
Tewlve
North Carolina
War Effort Boosts Steel Industry Manpower
The steel industry has contributed manpower as well as material to the war fronts. Almost 165,000 former steel workers serve in the armed forces, a figure that would equal about 10 full army divisions.
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Armed Services
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