Six Hour Day Boosts Waverly Press Worker Efficiency
A three year test by Dr Vernon P Scheidt found a six hour day raised efficiency 15 to 30 percent over eight hours at Waverly Press Baltimore. Workers earned more and dividends rose while noise reduction and enforced rest lowered errors. executives did not improve.
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Moward W. Blakeslee
Associated Press
Minneapolis
American Association of Applied and Professional Psychology
Vernon P. Scheidt
Baltimore
Waverly Press
Mediva
Scheidt
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Dr. Scheldt
Cholera Threat As Shanghai War Flares Up
Japanese commanders report advancing forces north of Shanghai after a heavy bombardment near Kiangwan. 12,000 Chinese fled from Hongkew and Yangtsze districts as police urged escape or stay. Foreign authorities warn of cholera risk amid refugee crisis and strained water resources. American missionaries unaccounted as Japanese push toward mid Shanghai.
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Shanghai
Kiangwan
Hongkew
Yangtzepo
Japan
Liuho
Peiping
China
United States
Tsiwan
New Battle in Southern Spain Prompts Offense
Madrid reports a fresh offensive in southern Spain with government forces advancing in the Serra Nevada west of Almeria. Insurgents claim Franco’s Aragon forces breached Zaragoza front lines near Zuera, while fighting continues north and south of Zaragoza and government units push to sever the Madrid Valencia highway corridor.
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Madrid
Sierra Nevada Tange
Almeria
Spain
Serra Nevada
Hendaye
Francisco Franco
Aragon
Zaragoza
Franco
Zuera
Terue
Madrid-Valencia
Automobile Death Declared Accident Inquest At Alton
A coroner's jury ruled the death of 20 year old Lee Summers an automobile accident. Summers died at St Joseph's hospital after a skull fracture from a collision when a car driven by his brother O Kellie Summers of Harford UL left U S Highway and struck a tree while Summers visited.
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Alton
Lee Summers
Jonesboro
Ark
St. Joseph's Hospital
O’kellie Summers
Harford
U. S
Temperatures Stay Same While Weather Varies in Missouri
Government forecaster Roscoe Nunn predicts warm temperatures will persist across Missouri but weather will differ from fair to locally unsettled. showers were reported in the lower counties with Springfield recording 0.1 inch Arcadia 0.22 and West Plains 0.13 inches.
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ST. Louis
Missouri
Roscoe Nunn
Springfield
Arcadia
West Plains
Chinese warn of world action over Japan gains control
From Peiping and Tientsin reports a Japanese evacuation of Tsingtao may end today leaving a land route south as only escape. Generalissimo Chiang stresses responsibility of powers that created the Kellogg pact and the League to avert further Chinese disaster. Chinese delegates at the League blame Japan's expansion as aggression. The FiJi islands number more than 200.
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Peiping
Tientsin
Tsingtao
Chiang
China
United States
League of Nations
Gin Geneva
Japan
Two Injured in Wreck in Ozarks
In Ozarks early morning collision injures Dave Naule 52 of Springfield severely and Ly n N Ewing 50 a Tulsa insurance man with a fractured right knee. Mrs Ewing scratched on the right hand and Henry Matthews 50, the Ewings' houseman, bruised. The Ewings were returning to Tulsa from a vacation in Michigan.
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Springfield
Dave Naule
Lyn N. Ewing
Tulsa
Okla
27Th St
12 New Homes Planned on Houchin Street
Plans call for 12 brick homes on Houchin Street with construction by Pope Construction at about 6000 dollars. Easements granted to power and telephone firms rear of property, poles to be removed from front. First four houses to be built on Houchin with lots also facing Bald Hill road and Dunklin street.
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Steppleman
Houchin Street
Bald Hill Road
Dunklin Street
Houchin
Government cotton loans start soon with Sept 16 target
Secretary Wallace announced the 1937 government cotton loan program with loans up to ten cents a pound and subsidies up to three cents on 65 percent of base production. Eligibility requires selling cotton before next duty and complying with upcoming crop control measures.
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Wwashington
Wallace
Gouv
Jornament
Commodity Credit Corporation
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Congress
Dee Ee
Commodity‘credit Corporation
Anglers rodeo plan discussed at Versailles meeting
A committee in charge of the Lake of the Ozarks anglers rodeo, slated for October 4 through 9, will discuss details at a Versailles meeting led by chairman R. A. Johnson of Boonville. Also reported in local items are a bad check case against William Connor, jail terms for Harvey Campbell, license applications at the capitol, and various civic notes.
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Lake of the Ozarks
Versailles
R. A. Johnson
Boonville
Man describes killing wife in Armenia case at trial
Setrak Arefkian, a middle aged junk dealer, testified he killed his wife in what he claimed was self defense after she allegedly struck him with a knife during a dispute over a man she spoke with. He said he struck her with a hatchet as she sat at a mirror.
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Los Angeles
Setrak Arefkian
Armenia
Arefkian
Unemployment Census Under Way In North
The unemployment census directed by five officials will be planned after Labor Day. President Roosevelt signed a bill for voluntary jobless registration and data on part time work, with completion planned by April 1. WPA funds up to 5 million authorized, but likely under 4 million needed. Aimed to reconcile divergent estimates of unemployed numbers across sources and sectors. The June unusually named watermelon moon noted by Natchez Indians.
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Congress
Jsecretaries of Labor and Commerce
Works Progress Administration
Census Bureau
Central Statistical Board
Roosevelt
Byrnes
D. SC
Senate
WPA
Harry L. Hopkins
National Association of Manufacturers
Vandenberg
R. Mich
Secretary of
Perkins
American Federation of Labor
Hopkins
Aly
Mrs Delano Roosevelt says her son won’t seek third term
Paris August 31 Mrs Sara Delano Roosevelt mother of the President reiterates belief that her son does not want a third term In an exclusive interview she said she did not authorize any quotation of the President and that Miss Carew’s story represented her own opinion not a direct quote The remarks clarify her stance amid reports in Paris attached to an UP dispatch
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Paris
Sara Delano Roosevelt
United States
Miss.Carew
Butler calls for congress to withdraw troops overseas
Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler urged a special congressional session to cut protection for U S troops abroad and remove American forces from foreign wars. He spoke before the Veterans of Foreign Wars encampment in Buffalo urging a policy shift while criticizing current foreign policy and costly overseas involvement.
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Smedley
Butler
Buffalo
Smedley D. Butler
Congress
United States
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Beware of Berea and torpid liver in heat
In hot weather digestion and elimination slow, causing souring food, gas, belching, heartburn, restlessness and irritability. Headache, nausea, dizziness, coated tongue, bilious complexion, and sluggish bowels signal biliousness. Cala tabs promise calomel-like relief with trial and family packages sold at drug stores.
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Drue
Loy
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