Planned economy explored in three Washington Daybook pieces
Preston Grover analyzes the idea of a national planed economy, outlining how a central planning board might set quotas and prices to match demand, the risks of misjudging weather, styles, and public mood, and the potential conflict with profit incentives and markets. The piece notes fragments from NEA AAA and the Guffey plan and teases future discussion on wage and cost regulation.
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Preston Grover
Washington
Preston Grover Washington
NEA
AAA
Guffey
National Planning Board
Youth Model Congress to Be Held in Milwaukee
Milwaukee hosts a four day youth model congress July 2 to 5 with over 2000 young people acting as senators and representatives. The event aims to study unemployment war threats slums crime and other issues, with 11 senators and 32 representatives backing it and six committees to hear proposals. William H. Hinckley calls the project a practical democracy training for youth.
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Milwaukee
United States
Hey
Arthur Capper
Kas
Dennis Chavez
N. M
Edwin C. Johnson
Colc
Robert M. LaFolleite
Wis
Marvelf
Logan
Ernest Lundeen
Minn
Gerald P. Nye
Claude Pepper
Fig
James P. Pope
Ida
Harry H. Schwartz
Wyo
Elbert D. Thomas
Utah
John T. Berard
Henry C. Teigan
Paul John Xvale
Gerald G. Boileau
B. J. Gehrmann
John McSweeney
Byron N. Scott
Cal
Matthew A. Dunn
Penn
Senate
Congress
William H. Hinckley
The
Vice President Garner Leaves Washington to Fish
The paper speculates on John Nance Garner quitting Washington for Texas fishing. It suggests boredom with politics and possible aims at party leadership, while noting Garner insists the trip is only to fish during the season. The write up treats motives as conjecture and asks readers to consider an ulterior purpose.
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Nance Garner
Washington Walle
Texas
Garner
Washington
Vallette Death Still Unsolved in Chicago
June 24 AP report says hopes to solve the Audrey Vallette slaying dimmed after witnesses failed to identify Ruth Freed from a police showup. Mrs Freed, wife of Eddie Freed of a near north side honky tonk, was paraded with seven other women. four saw a woman flee a north side hotel after the murder. Assistant State's Attorney Mal Coughlin called the showup outcome nearly terminal for prosecution. Detectives linked Miss Vallette to a diary detailing drinking bouts and affairs with many men, mentioning an Eddie. Freuds admitted intimacy. blackmail and underworld ties loom as possible motives. Freed seeks release by habeas corpus as attorneys argue.
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Chicago
Audrey Vallette
Ruth Freed
Mal Coughlin
Freed
Miss Vallette
Fourth of July Fireworks Warned By Press and Public
The article laments the yearly surge of toy pistols firecrackers and torpedoes as Independence Day approaches. It notes warnings from parents teachers and the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness about injuries and calls on authorities to curb explosive displays on July 3 and 4.
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America
National Society For the Prevention of
Keeping the Iron Horse steam power stays primary
An Atlantic City speech by W. M. Winterland of Franklin Railway Supply Co. defends the steam locomotive as the backbone of railroad transport, noting lower costs, reliability, and flexibility. The piece also muses on public sentiment for steam and includes unrelated quips about urban policy and drawing.
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W. M. Winterland
Chicago
Franklin Railway Supply Co
Association of American Railroads
Atlantic City
Winterrowd
The Precocious Child and Its Lively Paradoxes
A public notice prompts a study of child prodigies and their futures. Dr. L G Guthrie cautions that precocity does not guarantee happiness or success, while Pepys era anecdotes contrast early brilliance with late outcomes. Noted prodigies like Goethe and Byron show early talent, yet many gifted youths fade from prominence.
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L. G. Guthrie
Samuel Pepys
Clench
Pepys
Evelyn
Tom
Boston
Goethe
Mavau
Jay
Byron
Pope
Coleridge
Heine
John Stuart Mill
Milton
What Others Say editor quotes and quotes mix
A collection of quotations from public figures and commentators including H G Caverly Alfred E Smith Lady Astor Bernard Baruch Sanford Bales Leon Blum Robt Bearle and Dr Ray L Wilbur on Americanism government, wages, rights and society. The passages reflect prewar and interwar views.
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Post-Tribune
Police guard assigned to New York doctor in Orangeburg case
A bodyguard was assigned to Dr. George Etling staff physician and psychiatrist at Rockland State hospital after a series of threatening calls and a telegram. Police Chief Fred Kennedy said the doctor, involved with Robert Irwin the East River murders case, is in a nervous state as investigators trace a call to a Manhattan grocery store while doubting Irwin’s involvement.
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Orangeburg
N. Y
Tune
George Etling
Rockland State Hospital
Fred Kennedy
Elling
Robert Irwin
Veronica Gedeon
New York
Kennedy
New Orleans grain elevator shifts to Argentine imports
New Orleans public grain elevator, a $4 million facility built to export 16 million bushels a year, now sees a reverse flow as Argentine grain floods in. Since January 1935 about 16.3 million bushels of corn wheat and oats have passed through, with ships importing 500 to 1,000 ton lots and a single ship discharging 300,000 bushels.
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New Orleans
United States
Latin Republic
Ar. Bzenlina
French Mayor Bans Nudism in Fontainebleau Forest
Fontainebleau France June 24 AP Mayor Jacques Louis Dusmesnil issued an order forbidding nudism in the Fontainebleau forest noting the practice is becoming too evident. He warned visitors they would be prosecuted unless clothing covers the hips abdomen chest and back.
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Fontanebleau
France
Jacques Louis Dusmesnil
Fontainebleau Forrest
Judges Talk Indicting Idle Workers in Georgia
Two Georgia judges urged grand juries to charge as vagrants those able to work who rely on relief. Superior Judge W M Harper said idleness harms society and many eligible for labor are idle, warning relief programs may foster unwholesome conditions. Judge Paul S Etheridge backed the call, urging clarification if able-bodied workers remain on relief rolls.
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Atlanta, Ga
Georgia
W.M. Harper
Sumpter County Grand Jury
Americus
Atlanta
Paul S. Etheridge
Harper
Fulton County
High Taxes Do Not Boost Charity Despite Rates Rise
New York June 24 AP Rising tax rates are cutting the cost of charitable gifts in the United States attorney Ralph E Lum former president of the New Jersey Bar Association told a convention of the American Library Association today He noted estate taxes have climbed sharply while highlighting a tax exempt clause allowing gifts up to 15 percent of annual net income He illustrated with a net income of 80000 a donor could gift 12000 but net cost to him would be only 6600 after tax savings.
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New York
United States
American Library Association
Ralph E. Lum
New Jersey Bar Association
Mrs Mary Blair elected president of Missouri Spanish War Veterans Auxiliary
In Lexington Missouri on June 24 the Women's Auxiliary of the Missouri United Spanish War Veterans elected Mrs Mary Blair of St Louis as president at the close of their annual convention held yesterday.
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Vets
Lexington
Mary Blair
St. Louis
Women’s Auxiliary
Missouri United
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