Battle of budgets stalls as Roosevelt seeks savings
Washington reports fiscal experts say Roosevelt's appeal for extra economies through July 1 will hardly shrink the current year's budget below 7.78 billion. Department heads must respond by tomorrow, amid House Senate clashes over 1938 cuts. Debates center on a flat 10 percent reduction, impounded funds, and who guides the policy. The note details broader economic tensions, gold flows, and relief funding, with war-time naval actions and Basque region bombings interwoven in the day's coverage.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Treasury
House
Senate
Robinson
Arkansas
Speaker Bankhead
D-Ala
Rep. Cannon
D-Ma
Byrnes
D-S.c
Rooseaclt
Vandenberg
R-Mich
United States
United Itates
Barry L. Hopkins
Dioller
Wesleyan Choir Plans Anthem Sunday at First Methodist Church
The Wesleyan chorus of the First Methodist Church will sing By Babylon's Wave by Gounod during morning worship as part of Music Week. A trio will perform Praise the Lord from Attila by Verdi at the offertory. Dr. Hunt will preach A Thrilling World Drama as part of the May series. Friends are invited to attend.
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Wesleyan Chorus Choir
First Methodist Church
Babylon
Gounod
Jerusalem
Studen
Theo Ericsson
Ray Wricht
Lloyd Ericsson
Radcliffe Couple to Occupy Wood Crescent Home
Mr and Mrs Charles Radcliffe have purchased the Hold A Wood residence at 213 Massachusetts Street and will occupy it around June 1 The seven room structure has been remodeled inside and out with modern details A knotty nine recreation room is being built in the basement The home sits on a 2100 foot lot.
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Charles Radcliffe
Massachusettstreet
Test Your Knowledge Quiz on Classified Answers
A reader challenge asks seven questions from the classified page covering residuary legacy Kidron Valley Doll's House elonation astronomy University of Vermont Hiram Powers embalming Japanese currency Kate Smith true name cottonmouth snake and a dentist named Dr Alexander with 506dv suffix.
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Holy Land
Valley of
Kidron
University of Vermont
Hiram Powers
Japan
Kate Smith
Raid arrests Mrs Eva Guffin Anderson for liquor
Police raided 643 Rhode Island street finding 62 pints of alcohol in a locked garage room. Eva Guffin Anderson pled not guilty in Justice Beach's court, bond set at 200 dollars. Officers Dowers Ingalls Dicker Hayter conducted the raid. items included government and Missouri revenue stamps, 22 pints alcohol 12 pints gin 48 pints whiskey.
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Eva Guffin Anderson
Rhode Island Street
Milton P. Beach
Beach
Lilburn Dowers
John Ingalls
Ralph Dicker
William Hayter
Banquet Ends Scottish Rite Reunion Tonight
The four day Scottish Rite Masons reunion concludes with a banquet at the Masonic temple this evening at 0 30 oclock. The Kansas City Kansas valley will confer the thirty second degree after dinner. A help wanted line follows the ad copy in the page.
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Masonic Temple
Kansas City
Kan
Three More Apply for County Beer Licenses
Three additional beer license applications are filed with County Clerk T. R. Gerhart. Applicants include Oliver Guy of Indian Village Grant Township Grover Brumfield of Brumfield Service at Baldwin Junction Willow Springs Township and Jerry Curtis of Terry Curtis Service at Highway 60 Palmyra Township. The total on file reaches eight as county commissioners consider them. Sheriff Fred Vogler warns no sales will be allowed after the state law takes effect unless a license is obtained or applied for.
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T. R. Gerhart
Oliver Guy
Grant Township
Grover Brumfield
Brumfield
Baldwin Junction
Willow Springs
Jerry Curtis
Terry Curtis
Palmyra Township
Fred Vogler
Deaths and Funerals: Lorimer Desque Starr Notes
Mrs. Margaret Lorimer 86 dies in Eudora with funeral at Julian chapel Olathe. Survived by three sons and four daughters. Henry Desque dies at 72 in Topeka after heart attack. five sons and two daughters survive. Mrs. Robert Charles Starr 27 dies in Wis with infant Roberta Charlotte dead a day earlier. Starr previously taught at Haskell Institute. Hospital notes report birth of a daughter at Memorial Hospital.
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Margaret Lorimer
Olathe
C. B. Johnson
Eudora
Julian Chapel
Scott Lorimer
Sam Lorimer
W. F. Lorimer
Ft. Worth
Texas
Henry Desque
Michael Schutz
Topeka
Robert Charles Starr
Haskell Institute
Ashland
Wis
Roberta Charlotte
R. C. Starr
Haskell
Great Lakes Indian Agency
Starr
Lawrence
See Fire Truck Test Deliberations Over Engine Purchase
City council members and fire committee observed a Mack Jr pump er fire engine test at the water works. J W Biggins and George H Morgan of Mack conducted the test for evaluation of engines for out of city use in Wakarusa and Grant townships under a potential city contract. Fire Chief Paul Ingels to file a written test report to the council fire committee led by Mayor Alfred Lawrence and Councilmen Ralph E Pine and H W Edmondson. The purchase decision has stretched over more than two months with no agreement on the engine make.
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Wakarusa
Grant
J. W. Biggins
George H. Morgan
Mack International Motor Truck Corporation
Kansas City
Paul Ingels
Council
Alfred Lawrence
Ralph E. Pine
H. W. Edmondson
Modern four room residence rises on Ohio street
The home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Withers at 2100 Ohio street is under construction this week by T. G. Elliott, contractor. The one story frame dwelling will have a full cement basement a large garage and will feature modern fixtures and appliances in a four room efficiency and bath layout.
Oklahoma Boy Surpasses National Javelin Record
Bobby Peoples an 18 year old Classen high school star from Oklahoma City surpassed state and national high school javelin records at the Oklahoma interscholastic meet by throwing 21195 feet in preliminaries. Women vote for suffrage in Manila results show large support with 14281 for and 2489 against in early returns.
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Norman
Oklah Am
Bobby Peoples
Oklahoma City
Manila
Philippines
Department of the Interior
Communists Say Workers Have Checked Capitalism
The Comintern urged world capitalism overthrow by revolution and named United States and France as nations where workers have checked capitalism through organization. Pravda printed the manifesto calling for May Day unity against fascism and a shift to socialist government, with Spain as a key issue. General MacArthur wed Miss Jean Marie Faircloth in New York. Apr 30.
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Committee of the Communist Internationale
United States
France
Pravda
Comintern
Spain
Madrid-Valencia
Marx
Lenin
Stalin
General MacArthur
New York
CPI
Douglas MacArthur
Jean Marie Faircloth
Murfreesboro
Tenn
Philip A. Hines
Foden Hd
Limburger Cheese Making Holiday Extended to May 15
Monroe Wis Apr 30 producers of limburger cheese and dealer representatives announced the limburger cheese making holiday would continue to May 15. Production of the aromatic deli cacy was suspended March 15 when dealers reported the market was glutted and a severe price drop threatened.
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Monroe
Wis
Bakery Strike Threatens Kansas City in 1938
Bakery engineers threaten a strike against ten major bakeries as the midnight deadline nears. Company officials propose a three member arbitration board with one union and one company member selecting the third. Hamilton to speak tomorrow in Washington about Roosevelt policy ahead of the 1938 congressional elections.
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Kansas City
International Union of Operating Engineers
Railroad Income Increases in First Quarter of 1937
The Association of American Railroads reported that class 1 carriers earned a net railway operating income of 146,174.66 dollars in the first quarter of 1937, versus 104,443,348 dollars in the same period last year. The data came from Washington and San Francisco reports dated April 30.
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Washington
Association of American Railroads
Tl. & Team
San Francisco
United States
Budge Cruises in Davia Cup Opener Against Na Kano
J. Donald Budge defeated Fumiteru Na kano of Japan in straight sets 6-1 6-1 6-0 in the opening singles match of the Davia cup zone elimination. The message also expresses thanks for kindness and sympathy during a bereavement from Mrs. Bert Stevens and Winifred and Agnes Stevens.
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J. Donald Budge
America
Fumiteru Nakano
Japan
Bert Stevens
Winifred and
Agnes Stevens
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