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Evening Middletown Journal
Sunday News Journal
U.S.A
Hoover Testimony Warns of Hidden Communist Strength
The FBI director J Edgar Hoover testified behind closed doors and then released his statements to Congress. He warned that Communism in the United States is at a height greater than Nazism or Fascism during the last war and that many sympathizers exist on the government payroll. He noted the movement is shrinking in card holders but growing in influence and underground activity, posing a continual threat as it plays Russia's game.
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FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Senate Appropriations
Hoover
United States
Congressional
Russia
Politics of Perversion and the Senate Inquiry
The Senate allocates 10 000 dollars for Hoey subcommittee hearings on homosexuality in government service. It aims for closed sessions and a report before January 1. Authors argue perversion spans police medical mental health and moral realms and urge government action to weed out affected personnel.
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Senate
Hoey
Congress
United States
Municipal Parking Trial in Middletown and California Action
Cities move to solve parking woes with municipal lots and meters. York introduces nickel for six hours and dime for twelve. California voters approved a constitutional amendment allowing city parking lot purchases via meter funds. Question remains if public facilities beat private enterprise.
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Middletown
York
California
Worry Clinic advice on channeling boy energy in class
Dr. George W. Crane discusses Tad W a 12 year old problem in Sunday school. Use constructive outlets like classroom monitors and patrol leaders to channel energy. Create rival teams with typewritten questions and group scores to boost involvement and respect. If needed involve parents, though it is less effective in Sunday school.
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Tad W
David
Isaac
Jehu
Noah
Washington Happenings on Tax Law and Amerasia Probe
The piece argues Democrats must push a new tax law and pursue a broad inquiry into the Amerasia affair. It notes the need for a congressional committee investigation, criticizes whitewash concerns, and cites Sen. Thomas and Sen. Ives proposing a bipartisan 30 member national commission to probe security cases.
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Tydings
Senate
Congress
United States
Alexander Receives Distinguished Service Award
Washington report notes Miss Lucy Maclay Alexander, a retiring dignified woman, receives the U S Department of Agriculture distinguished service award. She displays the medal and accompanying document praising scientific cooking methods for meat and poultry and a practical cat thermometer design.
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Washington
Lucy Maclay Alexander
Alexander
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics
Bewitched Bewildered Song Reflects a Troubled Era
Erich Brandeis muses on the revival of Rodgers and Hart's Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered as a symbol of a troubled era. He notes Vivienne Segal’s performance and connects the respite to wider worries about welfare promises taxes prices housing and looming war.
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Richard Rodgers
Landlord With A Heart Or Smart Business Move
Hal Boyle profiles Fred Trump as he expands in Brooklyn with Shore Haven and Beach Haven projects costing 30 million dollars housing 3200 families. He touts light air larger rooms and tenant services including nurseries baby sitting a courtesy car and a Broadway ticket gesture while emphasizing competitive rents and modern planning under FHA guidelines.
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Fred Trump
Trump
Brooklyn
Shore Haven
Beach Haven
Board of Education
Shim
Kate
South Pacific
Bewilderment and Belief in a Bewitched World
The column laments contradictions and confusing statements around us. It invokes Alice and the idea of a land of the free and the brave, urging calm and hopeful thinking amid bewildering happenings.
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Fother
the Free
Ibrave
Stars Forecast Mixed in Life and Business Moves
Genevieve Kemble discusses conflicting planetary aspects guiding rational or lucrative actions while cautioning against erratic impulses. She cites experiments judging thousands of meat cuts and a practical thermometer for roasting. Born near Lewiston and raised on farms, she joined the department in 1919 after Vassar and education in home economics.
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Kishacoquillas Alley
Lewiston
Penna
Belleville
Vassar
University of Minois
Railroads Adopted Standard Time in 1883
Beginning in Washington DC at 12 noon on Navy Day 1883 and at noon in each time zone, about 100 different times were abolished and railway clocks synchronized across the United States.
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Washington,d. C
Navy
United States
Middletown Social Mischief and a Clever Hostess
A Middletown family gathering features a hostess who swaps emptied gin bottles for water to deceive inebriated guests while a mother plans to pay for gin. Separately, two children seek to trade a stray beagle for a found brown kitten, with contact numbers for claiming or adopting the pets.
James Marlowe profile: the Senate parliamentarian
Charles L. Watkins, a 70 year old long serving Senate parliamentarian, maps the role of interpreting 40 rules and evolving precedents. He reads the Congressional Record back to 1883, compiling 10 volumes to guide future senates. His tenure began in 1915 and he became official in 1935 with Edward Hickey as assistant.
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Washington
Charles L. Watkins
Solomon
Watkins
Senate
Congressional Record
Daily Journal of the Senate
Arkansas
Edward Hickey
House
Time standards and dog eyesight questioned in brief
The text notes standard time zones across the country Eastern Central Mountain and Pacific being one hour apart. It also answers trivia questions about the wolfhound having keen eyesight and defines territorial waters as within a country’s borders including lakes rivers and sea within three miles of shore.
Picnic and visits mark 20 years ago in Cincinnati area
Twenty years ago Mr and Mrs John W Duke and daughter Virginia Mae attended a Cincinnati Masons picnic at Coney Island. Visitors included Mrs R G Lowe of Detroit with Mr and Mrs Frank Conway of Young Street. Emma and Elizabeth Gough of Lockland and Bertha Scherer of Reading spent the day with Mrs Cora Avey of Howard Avenue. Harvey Augsburger and Frank Gillespie planned several days at Indian Lake. Emma Braun returned to Detroit after visiting Mr and Mrs Fred VanAtta. Helen Hoover secretary of the United Brethren Sunday School was named delegate to the Miami conference of the Christian Education Union in Xenia.
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John W. Duke
Virginia Mae
Cincinnati Masons
Coney Island
R. G. Lowe
Detroit
Frank Conway
Young St
Emma
Elizabeth Gough
Lockland
Bertha Scherer
Reading
Cora Avey
Howard Ave
Harvey Augsburger
Frank Gillespie
Indian Lake
Emma Braun
Fred VanAtta
Helen Hoover
Sutphin St
United Brethren Sunday School
Miami
Christian Education Union
Xenia
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