Wage Hour Legislation Debated By Joint Committee
A joint committee starts drafting compromise wage hour standards amid debate over uniform national rules. Walsh warns against small business impact. 68 percent of firms employ under 20 people. Senate favors flexible exceptions. Pepper presses for small remote-area relief. House may choose a bill with wage differentials if no agreement. Administration signals adjournment by June 10 as relief and public works bill moves. Senate allocates 50 million for potential doles. rejects 150 million for direct relief.
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Thomas
Senate Labor Committee
Senate
House
Senate-House Committee
Pepper
Rarnspeck
D-Ga
Adams
D-Cole
Doles
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Rebels Open Drive to Seize Valencia
Rebels under General Franco press a new offensive east of Teruel in the Valencia drive. Air and ground fighting intensify as insurgents bomb targets along the eastern coast and push government lines from north of the Teruel Sagunto corridor toward Valencia. Grandaollers wreckage and casualties mount while Madrid reports retaliatory raids on Mallorca bases and Palma harbor.
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Hendaye
France
Teruel
Valencia
Francisco Franco
Sagunto
Granollers
Barce Iona
Mallorey
St Palma
Fair Weather Forecast for Missouri Amid Rain and Heat
Missouri expected to dry after thundershowers moving eastward across the state. Light to heavy rains were reported yesterday with Lexington Maryville and Moberly over an inch. Temperatures to be lower today then rise in the west and north tomorrow. New forecast issued by W J Moxom succeeding Roscoe Nunn as St Louis bureau chief.
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ST. Louis
Missouri
Lexington
Maryville
Moberly
Mercury
W. J. Moxom
Roscoe Nunn
S& Louis
Vacation School for Whole Family Helps Parents Keep Up With Kids
Poughkeepsie New York parents join a six week progressive education program at the Eugenics Institute on the Vassar campus. Dr Ruth Wheeler leads 85 parents and 65 nursery school children through a student driven curriculum linking transportation discipline and field trips with child centered activities. Parents enjoy lectures and field trips while children explore a three acre playground and farm.
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Lydia Gray Shaw
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Jesson
Eujthenics Institute
Vassar College
Ruth Wheeler
Vassar
Wheelér
Acre
Dr. Wheler
New Missouri Radio Network Boosts Patrol Efficiency
A state police radio network linking about 20 states and police departments increases speed in patrol coordination. Missouri leads as a pioneer with a 1674 kilocycles system using 1,000 watt transmitters and auto receivers built at Capitol workshops. Construction delays occur for Kirkwood and Jefferson City HQs due to funding.
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Missouri
Wherritt
Oklahoma
State Patrol
Kirkwood
Jefferson City
Highway 50
Capital City
Highway Patrol
Lees Summit
KHPA
Macon
Springfield
Poplar Bluff
KHPC
Jefferson Cit
KIUK
KHPF
Capitol
Griffin Watkins Dies at 61 in Fairmount Suburbs
Griffin Watkins 61 longtime executive of the International Shoe Company and former manager of Roberts Johnson Rand Shoe in Washington Missouri died at his Fairmount home yesterday. He had led the Hartford II tannery since 1917.
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Griffin Watkins
Alton
International Shoe Company
Roberts, Johnson & Rand Shoe Company
Washington, Mo
Fairmount
Hartford, II
Communist party aims to spur unrest among workers says Massachusetts report
The commission to the Massachusetts legislature finds the Communist party seeks to mobilize youth and workers, aims to create class consciousness, and infiltrate WPA units and seamen ranks to win militant followers. It proposes education and legislation to counter subversive activity.
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Committee For Industrial Organization
CIO
Massachusetts
Communist Party
Bell bill seeks 1812 pension for McCannon daughter
Washington June 1 AP report Rep Bell introduces a bill to provide a $100 monthly pension for Buena Vista McCannon of Grandview Missouri 88 daughter of William Keatley a War of 1812 soldier. The item notes feathered coats misdirect shots of birds.
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Washington
Tolis
Representative Bell
D-Mo
Bell
Buena Vista McCannon
Grandview
Mmo
William Keatley
Hope Abandoned for Safe Return of Kidnapped Boy
A Florida kidnap case centers on James B Cash Jr, five, abducted after a ransom drop. His uncle, W P Cash, fears he will not be found alive as 24 hours pass with no word. A wallet with a child photo was found in Huntington New York, bearing a note from a gunmen claiming the boy is held by gunmen.
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W. P. Cash
Tve
Cash
James Cash
Princeton
Everglades
Miami
Key West
Biscayne Bay
Huntington
N. Y
Janes B
Cash, Jr
Florida
Long Island
Charles E. Price
Odessa Sees Third Drowning In Two Days
Odessa Massachusetts reports its third drowning in two days as seven year old Austin Russell Jr failed to cross Sniereck to reach a field where his father was plowing. Earlier two youths drowned Sunday when a raft tilted, spilling them into a railroad pond.
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Odessa
Austin Russell, Jr
Sniereck
Note on Shanghai University Return Demanded by U S
The United States demanded the return of the University of Shanghai to northern and southern Baptist Missionary societies. The campus has been occupied by Japanese military and naval units since shortly after hostilities began in August 1937.
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United States
University of Shanghai
Northern
Southern Baptist Missionary Societies
Patrie requests police find missing pet duck Jake
Fred Patrie of Lark Street asks Albany police to search for his missing two and a half year mallard Jake. He notes the duck brings the family joy and fears it may end up in a stew pot, despite Jake having laid an egg, suggesting possible doubts about the name fit.
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Albany
Fred Patrie
Lark Street
Jake
Patrie
Britain Finds Solution to Civilian Bombing Difficulty
AP report discusses the challenge of defining an international rule to spare civilians from bombing while military targets remain legitimate. It cites a 1917 German raid on a British base hospital, argues governments claim civilians are incidental, yet notes evidence of deliberate morale bombing. The piece notes debates by British leaders and ongoing civilian losses in Spain and the China Japan conflict.
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New York
Paids
Red Cross
Chamberlain
House of Commons
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