Economy Savings Balance With New Roosevelt Expenditures
United Press canvass finds that current savings from drastic economies are largely offset by new spending totaling around 760 million dollars. Net savings depend on further executive cuts, with funds redirected to relief, reforestation, timber sales, Muscle Shoals power, and naval building. Major cuts include veterans, justice, commerce, salaries, post office, and navy. large public works bond aims possible.
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Raymond Clapper
Washington
United Press
Roosevelt
Muscle Shoals
Justice Department
Commerce Department
Post Office Department
Navy
Federal Trade Commission
Treasury
Show Houses in Kansas City Closed After Wage Dispute
Kansas City's largest downtown motion picture houses closed today after owners and union operators failed to agree on wages and staffing. Officials reported ongoing negotiations at a standstill while six non union houses continued operations. Owners said they would resume talks at any time.
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Kansas City
Blytheville Votes to Legalize Beer
Blytheville city council voted 4 to 2 to permit sale of 32 percent beer with a $25 annual license fee, despite state prohibition. Officials declined to say if sales would face state enforcement, leaving action by authorities uncertain. Blytheville lies near Missouri where beer is legal.
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Blytheville
Ark
Missouri
Dry law violators in Michigan freed
Lansing, Mich. April 12 AP All liquor law violators with no other crime records have been paroled from state prisons, Governor William A. Comstock said. More than 200 paroles granted those serving terms solely for liquor law offenses and without bad records.
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Lansing
Mich
William A. Comstock
Kansas Real Estate Tax Cut Ordered by State Commission
The State Tax Commission announced a 16.23 percent reduction in Kansas real estate values for this year. The cut applies to all farm and agricultural land city and village lots platted tracts outside cities and all improvements on real estate.
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Peka
State Tax Commission
Kansas
Garland
Named to State Athletic Commission in Kansas City
Garrett L. Smiley of Kansas City was appointed as a member of the State Athletic Commission to succeed William Levy, also of Kansas City. Smiley is a Democrat.
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Garrett L. Smiley
Kansas City
Oday
State Athletic Commission
William Levy
Kansa City
Smalley Tee Democrat
Akron search continues after disaster at sea
Lieutenant Stewart Lindsey, communications officer aboard the Portland, has led search efforts eight days nonstop after the Akron disaster off the New Jersey coast. He oversees over 30 vessels and planes patrolling 35,000 square miles, sleeping only an hour daily. Lindsey, 33, hails from Scranton Pennsylvania and is a World War II veteran who previously guided the Arkansas to SOS from a polar expedition.
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U. S. &. Portland
New Jersey
Akron
Stewart Lindsey
Fortland
Portland
Atlantic
Lindsey
I Scranton
Lehigh University
Naval Academy
Arkansas
Biography Column Quotes Shaw on Keller and Death
The column reports a heated exchange featuring Bernard Shaw and Helen Keller with Shaw denying a claim about Americans being blind deaf and dumb and noting Keller’s abilities. He jokes that his death would be the end of him and compares himself to Napoleon, expressing disbelief that he would continue endlessly.
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Helen Keller
Shaw
Miss Keller
Mr. Shaw
Napoleon
Bernard Shaw
Sabotage Trial Testimony Ties Russian Espionage to London Officials
The transcript shows Kutuzaya stating that in 1930 a Metropolitan-Vickers official named Richards visited Monkhouse Cushny and Thornton. She alleged that Monkhouse Cushny Thornton MacDonald met with Russian citizens several times to collect political and economic information for delivery to England. Thornton reportedly spoke of espionage activity.
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Kutuzaya
Richards
Metropolitan-Vickers
Monkhouse
Cushny
Thornton
MacDonald
England
Missouri Farmers Prepare For Spring Crops
St Louis April 12 AP A weekly Missouri weather bulletin notes warmer days boosting plowing and field work while temperatures fluctuated near freezing. Rainfall was below normal but ground remains wet. peaches and cherries show blooms. wheat and corn planting progress in southern counties amid favorable growing conditions.
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ST. Louis
Missouri Weekly
Weather Bureau
Tavorah
Feather Pillow Plant Explosion Burns Four People
In St Louis four workers were burned, with one seriously, when feathers in a pillow stuffing machine exploded at W. L. Clark, Inc. Mrs Minnie Dietz, 52, the operator, sustained severe burns. Firemen think the blast came from a foreign metal object striking a spark or from static electricity.
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ST. Louis
W. L. Clark, Inc
Minnie Dietz
New Treaty Cruiser Launched by Navy at Brooklyn Yard
The 10,000-ton treaty cruiser New Orleans was launched at the Brooklyn Navy Yard as Miss Cora Stanton Jahneke christened it with Mississippi River water. Also reported a fatal hunting accident near Joplin Mo. Tommy Goodman, 17, died after his shotgun discharged while he hunted fox, he had married last December.
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New York
New Orleans
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Cora Stanton Jahneke
Young Hunter
Joseph, Moo
Tommy Goodman
Fox
Goodman
Bandit Suspect James Coleman Dies in Jail
James C. Coleman, linked to a 14,000 North Kansas City bank robbery, died in Clay County jail after an unsuccessful operation to remove a bullet from his hip. Wound at chin noted earlier. No autopsy planned.
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Liberty
James C. Coleman
Kansas City
Clay County
F. T. Matthews
Goleman
Coleman
Coffeyville, Kas
Elderly prowler arrested in Kansas City home
An elderly intruder armed with a club was captured today in the home of R A Long head of Long Bell Lumber after retreating to a locked bathroom. Captain Hugh Dougherty was struck on the head upon entry and the prowler was held for investigation. Long was not home.
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Kansas City
R. A. Long
Long-Bell Lumber Corporation
Hugh Dougherty
Mr. Long
Calls to Save Law Ends in Women Leaders Revolt
Mrs. Jesse W. Nicholson, president of the National Woman's Democratic Law Enforcement League, urged organizers to fight to retain the eighteenth amendment at the league convention in Washington. She declared war to push the repeal fight in states, predicting 26 states support and a new political party. She targeted Congress members who voted for beer over constitutional repeal.
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Washington
Jesse W. Nicholson
National Woman’s Democratic Law Enforcement League
League
Nicholaon
Meyer Resigns as Fed Governor to Return to Private Business
Washington April 12 Eugene Meyer resigns as governor of the Federal Reserve Board and informs President Roosevelt he wishes to return to private business. Meyer has told the president he seeks a successor and will step down from the post.
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Meyer
Washington
Eugene Meyer
Federal Reserve Board
Roosevelt
The
New Yorker
Privat
Missouri Prohibition Bill Kept By House Despite Debate
After tense Democratic caucus sessions the House decided not to repeal or majorly alter Missouri’s prohibition enforcement act. A motion to reconsider the June Senate measure to wipe out the McCawley Act failed 62 to 36. A late bill to lift the limit on number of prescriptions a physician may write, and to let pharmacists fill them unlimitedly, was introduced but likely to fail in the rush. Proponents of repeal saw little gain as amendments to the Brogan Doran Nolte actions followed caucus action yesterday.
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House
Missouri
Senate
McCawley
Edgar J. Keening
Wrule
R. M. Talbert
Gape Girardeau
War pensions sparking renewed constitutional debate
In a legislative session Speaker Meredith struck down amendments aimed at challenging the original bill’s purpose as unconstitutional. The debate focused on the status of pensions for seven widows from the War of 1912 who are still alive and receiving benefits.
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Meredith
Wes On
New Treatment for Expectant and Nursing Mothers
Advice warns against laxatives for pregnant or nursing women. Doctors caution laxatives may harm the baby, promoting Cream of Nujol as a gentle, drug free alternative. The product is described as safe, tasty, and inexpensive, recommended for night and morning use to maintain regularity and protect the child’s health.
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