WPA Strikers Dismissed as 130 Hour Rule Sparks Clash
WPA strikers receive dismissal notices as the 130 hour monthly work rule draws protests. AFL leaders meet in Washington to push for relief act changes while Harrington reports wage shifts by region. The union seeks a legislative revision after governors and administrators discuss new restrictions and wage implications.
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Associated Press
A F. L. High Command
WPA
William Green
Washington
Congress
F.C. Harrington
Chicago
Harrington
AFL
Fearlers
Britain Raises War Chest With Record Peacetime Spending
Britain increased its defense budget by 40 million pounds for the air force and 144 million pounds for the ministry of supply in the 1939-40 plan. Army appropriations rose by 79 million pounds, lifting total arms outlay to a peacetime record of 842.554 million pounds. France seeks Soviet cooperation, while Moscow eyes mutual aid talks and Japan prepares a policy draft for upcoming conferences with Britain.
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Great Britain
France
Russia
Britain
Ministry of Supply
Alout
Tokyo
Japan
Faculty to Discuss LSU Scandal and Politics Edges
About 130 LSU faculty members forming an AAUP chapter will meet Monday night to discuss matters from the ongoing investigation. A petition urging that politics be removed from board appointments faculty advancement and scholarship awards will be a major topic.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana State University
American Association of University Professors
L. S
Tom Dutton
Alumni Federation
Debater Seeks Insanity Or Death Verdict In Arizona Killings
Robert Burgunder, 22, on the witness stand in Phoenix, argues for insanity or death after testifying that an accomplice, not named, shot two car salesmen, Jack Peterson and Ellis M Koury, near a desert site on April 29. He claims a "code of criminals" from a Washington state reformatory forced silence. Prosecutors press for cross examination as Burgunder describes luring the men to the desert and the alleged plan to flee with the car. Readout continues.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Robert Burgunder
Washington State Reformatory
Burfunder
Jack Peterson
Ellis M Koury
Here
Burgunder
Arizona
Peterson
Koury
Torso murder suspect to deny slaying in grand jury
Frank Dolezal the Cleveland brick layer faces grand jury after police charged him with first degree murder in the Florence Polillo torso slaying. His attorney Fred Soukup says Dolezal will deny the Polillo killing and claims a dazed confession was coerced. A doctor found no injuries but noted subnormal mental status.
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Cleveland
Fred P Soukup
Frank Dolezal
Florence Polillo
Martin L. O'Donnell
Dolezal
Soukup
Polillo
Tolse
L. J. Sternicki
Salvage of Squalus Ends Tough Phase with Lift
In Portsmouth New Hampshire on July 13 the submarine Squalus and its cargo of 26 bodies were raised from the ocean floor using seven huge lifting pontoons. Visible air bubbles signaled success as the craft began to rise from the Falcon salvage ship at 10:95 am EST.
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Portsmouth
N. H
United States Navy
Falcon
Navy Salvage Crew Attempts Squalus Lift at Sea
In Portsmouth New Hampshire a salvage team began pumping air into the sunken submarine Squalus to lift it from the ocean floor after 52 days. Rear Admiral C W Cole signalled the start at 730 am EST as high pressure air filled ballast tanks and lifting pontoons to raise the wreck and recover the crew of 3 5 dead.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Navy
C. W. Cole
Falcon
Associated Press
Roosevelt Names First Three Aides for New Deal Posts
President Roosevelt announced the initial three appointees for the new $10,000-a-year aides with a passion for anonymity. Lauchlin Currie, economist of the Federal Reserve Board. William H. McReynolds, administrative assistant to the Treasury secretary. and James H. Rowe Jr., assistant to Brigadier General Edwin M. Watson, join the White House secretariat.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Civil Service
White House
Lauchlin Currie
Federal Reserve Board
William H. McReynolds
Faith Cure Draws Crowds to Bronx Grotto
Scores of afflicted people flocked to the Our Lady of Lourdes grotto in the Bronx after hearing of Mrs. Anthony Geraci's faith cure. Her crippled leg, once in steel braces and a cane for 14 years, was said to walk normally after bathing in the grotto spring. Her husband, long shaken by an earthquake tragedy, called it a miracle of God. The Rev. Pasquale Lombado affirmed the miracle. Crippled children were among the seekers carried by their mothers.
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New York
Our Lady of Lourdes
Bronx
Anthony Geraci
Pasquale Lombado
DREAM COMES TRUE IN SOUTH BEND LAKE DISCOVERY
In South Bend Indiana the mother of 17 year old Ernest Kmitta learns his body was found at a lake after he went swimming with friends. His sister had dreamed he drowned shortly before. Local police informed the Kmitta family of the discovery.
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South Bend
Ind
Ernest Kmitta
Kmitta
Ernest
Sylvester A. Kmitta
Local dealers protest token tax removal in Monroe
Merchants' division of the Chamber of Commerce votes to protest Governor Earl Long's proposed abandonment of the tokens used to collect Louisiana's one per cent sales tax. The resolution urges the governor and state legislators to reconsider and keep the token system to avoid burdens on small merchants.
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Earl Long
Chamber of Commerce
Governor Long
Ear K. Long
Louisiana
Monroe
West Monroe
McNutt Faces Test as New Deal Gatekeeper
Washington July 13 Paul V McNutt is named head of the new security agency a move seen as a test of his readiness beyond the presidency for the New Deal era James A Farley preserves loyalty to Roosevelt while keeping the 1940 question open McNutt’s Indiana governorship and Philippine service cited as preparation for higher duty
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Washington
Paul V. McNutt
Indiana
New Deal
New Security Agency
Roosevelt
McNutt
White House
James A. Farley
Democratic Party
Farley
Eye-Witness Describes Japanese Soviet Clashes at Hailar Front
Reporter Russell Brines reports from Hailar Manchoukuo where Japanese troops push toward the front as Soviet Mongolian and Japanese Manchukuoan forces clash along the Khalka river. Wounded Manchoukuoan cavalrymen are transported from the Mongolian front as aerial bombardment and artillery duels continue.
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Russell Brines
Hailar
Manchoukuo
Rutty Roads
Khalka River
Hariharshan
Chengchungmis
Doomed Boy Gains Health After Wilm’s Tumor Battle
Two year old Harold Holt Jr. of Monongahela Pa. shows improvement after deep X Ray therapy at New Rochelle Hospital nearly four months after doctors predicted a fatal Wilm’s tumor. He had one kidney removed in Pittsburgh and was described as more hopeful with increasing health.
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New Rochelle
N. Y
Harold Holt, Jr
Harold
Monongahela
Austin J. Schoneke
Wilm
United States
Canada
Bar Opposes WPA Strikes by Government Employees
In San Francisco on July 13 the American Bar Association adopted a committee report opposing strikes by government workers. The labor and social security panel urged no government employee organization be recognized under any statute unless its constitution bans strikes as coercion. Judge William L. Ransom stated the measure targets such walkouts, including WPA actions, by government staff.
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San Francisco
House of Delegates
American Bar Association
WPA
Labor, Employment and Social Security Committee
The
Bar Association
William L. Ransom
New York
Yankee Clipper Reaches Newfoundland On First Westbound Route
The Pan American Airways flying boat Yankee Clipper arrived at Botwood Newfoundland at 6 55 a m CST from Foynes Ireland. It will refuel and proceed to Shediac N B then Port Washington N Y, carrying newspaper and magazine executives on the first westbound commercial flight over the northern route.
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Botwood
Newfoundland
Pan-American Airways
England
New York
Atlantic
Foynes
Ireland
Shediac
N. B
Port Washington
N. Y
Congress Sees August 5 Adjournment Hint
Washington dispatch reports a Senate and House focus on administration lending and social security bills with talk of adjournment by August 4 or 5. The neutrality issue remains unsettled as critics fear its linkage to export controls on war materials to Japan. Senate isolation bloc plans to prevent mixing Pittman’s export curb with neutrality legislation.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
McNary
Oregon
Rayburn
Texas
House
Senate
Pittman
Nevada
Japan
Clark
Missouri
Borah
Idaho
Three men convicted in nation's biggest armored car robbery
A Brooklyn jury convicted Stewart Wallace Joseph Kress and Thomas Quinn of first degree robbery in the 1934 Rubel ice plant armored car heist. The trio joined eight others in plotting the August 21 1934 theft with two boats fleeing the Brooklyn waterfront.
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New York
Brooklyn
Rubel Ice Plant
William F. O'Dwyer
Stewart Wallace
Joseph Kress
Thomas Quinn
O'Dwyer
John J
Archy) Stewart
Dannemora
Stewart
Wallace
Auburn
Kress
Sing Sing
Quinn
Alcatraz
Former Governor Leche Denied Testimony Before Baton Rouge Grand Jury
East Baton Rouge grand jury, probing Louisiana State University, refused to hear former Governor Richard W. Leche and instead summoned nine university laborers who allege WPA irregularities. Leche protested, said he would return if invited, and left for Covington after the delay. The panel’s next hearing was expected Monday.
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Covington
Ellison
Sanchez
Leche
Covingeton
Testie
Women Discuss Opportunities in Democracy at Convention
At the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs biennial convention in Kansas City Missouri the panel debated why democracy benefits women. Dr Ruth E Emery from Portland Maine and others argued democracy offers freedom opportunity and a voice in government and work without totalitarian coercion.
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Kansas City
National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, Inc
Ruth E. Emery
Portland
Aged Vet Urges Payment of Confederate Pensions
General O R Gellette head of the Leroy Stafford camp urges Governor Earl Long A P Tugwell Wade Q Martin Arche Higgins to state positions on immediate back pension payments to Confederate veterans and widows in Louisiana. He cites 6163 veterans and 1022 widows owed 1 171 800, noting 30 monthly pensions were partially withheld since 1922 35. He omits Senator James A Noe from the letter due to Noe’s public stance for prompt payment.
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Shreveport
O. R. Gellette
Leroy Stafford
United Conederate Veterans and Co
Pension Fund Committee
Earl K. Long
A. P. Tugwell
Wade QO. Martin
Arche T. Higgins
Gellette
Hts
James A. Noe
Noe
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