Roosevelt May Not Name Three New Assistants Yet
President Roosevelt may delay naming the three additional administrative assistants under the government reorganization act. Currie, McReynolds, and Rowe, aged 37, 57, and 20, will work from temporary offices near the White House with direct lines to the president, handling detail and preparing comprehensive reports before presenting options to the chief executive.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Lauchlin Currie
William H. McReynolds
James H. Rowe, Jr
State Department
Executive Mansion
War Woodring
Johnson
Army
War Department
Currie
Federal Reserve Board
McReynolds
Secretary of the Treasury
Howe
Edwin M. Watson
Omnipresent Man's Smaller Self in June Library Forecast
In Baltimore Mrs. Margaret Poole, a public library executive, says the end of June weddings signals a July August surge in cook book demands as brides learn husbands cannot live on love. Circulation records show the pattern. In Salem Oregon Elks numbers rise from 3,441 in 1934 to 16,702 with annual kills averaging 698.
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Baltimore, Md
Margaret Poole
Public Library
Oregon
Salem
Ore
Man Refuses Surgery for Bullet Wound in Hanford
L H Cardwell a 58-year-old grocer at Hanford Calif refuses doctors attempt to operate after a personal safety related bullet wound. Attorney General Warren advised surgery only with his consent. Doctors warn complications could prove fatal if the bullet punctured the stomach. District Attorney Walch calls the wound personal safety related. Cardwell says if he survives he will do it again. Authorities seek his wife who is touring Northern California with another woman.
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Hanford
Calif
Ajug
Law of
California
L. H. Cardwell
Cardwell
Bar] Warren
Roger Walch
Hanford Sanitarium
Aesop’s Fables Twist Captures Crow in Virginia Field
In Tazewell Virginia the 1939 fable scene shifts as a turtle nets a crow rather than the crow’s usual prize. Harold Jones found the pair in a field while the crow wailed, the turtle maintaining a bulldog grip on the crow’s leg.
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Tazewell
Reynard
Harold Jones
Wick Seen As Favorite For Lee Birthday Oration
Richmond Virginia senator Henry T. Wick of Hanover, president pro tem and Lee friend, is the likely speaker for Robert E. Lee birthday ceremonies on January 19. Wick turns 90 December 17, three weeks before the legislature convenes.
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Richmond
Virginia Senate
Robert E. Lee
Henry T. Wick
Hanover
Lee
Mets
Settlement Hopes Dim in Mexican Oil Dispute
Washington Aug 4 Diplomatic circles grow pessimistic over Mexico's new oil settlement proposals. Ownership of expropriated fields not disputed. aim is a 50 year contract giving U.S. companies operating rights under Mexican supervision with salaries, profits, and eventual return of properties to Mexico. Talks since 1938 exproation have dragged on for 17 months.
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Washington
Mexico
Cardenas
Mexico City
Castillo Najera
Donald BR. Richberg
Man appeals tax assessment amid noisy industrial hazards
In Miami Florida a apartment-building owner complains to the tax board about constant noise and dust from nearby operations. He cites a mattress factory, a stone-processing plant, and a blaring used car lot loudspeaker as factors reducing living quality while seeking a reassessment.
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Miami
Fla
Renner’s 18th operation looms for hopeful teen record
Middletown Virginia reports Wilmer Renner, age 17, may set an operations record after enduring 17 bone infection surgeries in three years. He recently recovered from his 17th operation for bone infection and then had his appendix removed.
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Middletown
Apj
Wilmer Renner
HOS FADO PROGRAM Saturday August 5 Radio Schedule
Radio day schedule lists KWK and KWH programs from signing on at 5 38 to good night at midnight with news shows sports concerts dances and a Phillies game against the Cardinals. Multiple time slots feature hosts bands and music segments across morning to midnight.
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KWK
Grady Cantrell
Wilson Ames
Bert Castle Orch
Philadelphia Phillies
ST. Louis Cardinals
Santaella
KWE
Ray Selmidt
Youngest Actress in Moving Pictures Dies
Hollywood reports the death of Bea the baby elephant at a studio back lot. Discovered in Detroit, Bea appeared in Tarzan Finds a Son and became the pet of Johnny Sheffield. She worked with trainer George Emerson and elephant stars Queenie and Sally, following him everywhere and crying when apart.
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Hollywood
Todey
Bea
Detroit
Tarzan
Johnny Sheffield
George Emerson
Queenie
Sally
Emerson
Gala fisher nets three pound James River catfish
A Gala Virginia report details veteran bass fisherman Bert Rudasill praising a fighting bronze back, then unexpectedly landing a three pound James River catfish that struck an artificial lure, a wooden minnow, ending a notable fishing moment.
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Gala
Herbert Rudasill
Terms for Ending GM Walkout Reach Agreement
Federal conciliator James F. Dewey announced that terms to end the month long General Motors skilled workers strike were agreed pending ratification by the UAW CIO international board, strikers, and plant workers. If approved, production of 1940 automobiles could resume soon, ending the walkout that halted tool and die workers and disrupted output for 150,000 production workers. Cleveland was the scene of the talks.
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Detroit
General Motors
James F. Dewey
CIO
United Automobile
Dewey
International Executive
Uawcio
Uaw-Cio
Cleveland
Strike Violence Sparks Skirmishes in Michigan Cities
The strike produced the worst violence with skirmishes in Detroit and lesser disorders at Saginaw. It also affected Sat plants in Pontiac and Flint, indicating widespread disturbances across multiple Michigan locations.
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Detroit
Saginaw
Mich
Pontiac
Flint
Box reserved for Galvin at Lexington trots
Lexington Kentucky AP report notes harness race veteran W J Galvin from Wilmington Ohio wrote a line about a box for the trots. Miss Minnie Stevenson, secretary of the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders association, reserved a box for Galvin in the forthcoming Lexington trots program.
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Lexington
Minnie Stevenson
Kentucky
Third wedding at 71 Sonoma Cal prompts unusual nuptials
Mrs. Sarah Deeds, 71, begins her third marriage while William H. Preston, 77, marries for the second time in Sonoma California. The ceremony marks notable life milestones as both individuals wed in the same town.
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Sonoma
Cal
Sarah Deeds
William H. Preston
Hot Foot Fatal To Stevedore Carl Allers
Philadelphia August 4 AP A deadly prank nicknamed hot foot killed 21 year old stevedore Carl Allers who fell asleep in his room with three friends last month. They poured cleaning fluid on his shoe and touched a match to it causing burns that led to his death last night.
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Philadelphia
Carl Aller
Allen
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