WPA Fund Faces Debate As Relief Administration Probed
The House committee approved a $975.65 million WPA fund with proposals for more aid and for decentralizing relief to cities. Rep Taber proposed 75 percent federal grants and 25 percent locality share, amid concerns of past misdeeds and calls for improved administration. The committee projected 1.95 million WPA jobs if eight month funding is used, slightly under this year’s 2.04 million average.
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House
Roosevelt
Representative Tabor
New York
Taber
House Appropriations Committee
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Virginia
Germans Bomb U S Ambulances in Western Front Action
Paris May 16 An American ambulance driver Lawrence A Jump of Nantucket Mass attached to the French army is reported missing after German artillery hit the ambulance he drove in the Sarreguemines sector. Another American ambulance was wrecked and three more hit as Colonel James Sparks reports. The Miss Morgan Friends of France unit aiding Ardennes civilians says its ambulances and cars were forced to seek cover from German planes in northern France.
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Paris
Lawrence A. Jump
Nantucket
Mass
American Volunteers Ambulance Organization
Sarreguemines
Western Front
James Sparks
Miss Anne Morgan
Friends of France
Mr Alford Makes Good Right Away
W B Clarke, a local attorney and Sam Jones supporter, attended the May 2 victory dinner at Frances hotel where he was pickpocketed. Later, new state police head Alford salvaged Clarke’s watch, returning it as his first official act.
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Steven Alford
Clarke
O Staunchh
Sam Jones
Frances Hotel
Ding
Alford
Mr. Clarke
Jones
Baton Rouge
Aston
Red Cross Opens Ouachita Parish Campaign for War Relief
Two hundred volunteers gathered at the Virginia hotel to raise 4000 of the 10 million dollar Red Cross war relief fund. A. V. Miller outlined the appeal and Rabbi F. K. Hirsch urged reaching the heart through the pocketbook as plans for contacting residents were set in motion.
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Ouachita Parish
Red Cross
Europe
Community Chest
Virginia Hotel
Twin Cities
E. C. Gibson
A. V. Miller
American Red Cross
Miller
F. K. Hirsch
DeWitt Milam
Harrington hits at grants in aid as dole in unemployment relief
Colonel F C Harrington national director of the work projects administration says the grants-in-aid plan to distribute federal funds to states would lead to direct relief for the able bodied and a local work program. he warns the war economy may worsen domestic employment and that ending the war abroad could bring economic dislocations.
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F. C. Harrington
Work Projects Administration
American Retail Federation Forum
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Harrington
Indians Stroll On Beams 60 Stories High
Washington reports the Indian affairs office noting Mohawk Iroquois in Brooklyn join the Sixth Avenue elevated project as skilled steelworkers. Officials praise adaptable records while Congress faces status clarifications for Canadian born workers. Seminoles in Florida and Apaches in New Mexico also highlighted for driving skill and business acumen.
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Washington
Office of Indian Affairs
Brooklyn
Sixth Avenue
New York
Caughnawaga
Canada
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Congress
L. W. Santasiere
House
Red Man
Florida
New Mexico
Roosevelt seeks over one billion for military supplies
President Roosevelt addressed Congress in person urging $1,182,000,000 in cash and contract authorizations to prepare for a lightning offensive against American interests. He proposed $896,000,000 immediate appropriations split for Army, Navy, and Marine needs and $286,000,000 in contracts to be paid later, aiming to gear the nation to produce at least 50,000 planes annually.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
House
Senate
United States
Europe
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
War crisis spreads as Izvestia warns of global conflict
Moscow reports Investia says ocean war becomes world conflict soon reaching the Mediterranean and Balkans, drawing United States, Japan, and half humanity into Europe and the Far East. Pravda notes British French bloc envisions Holland and Belgium involvement. Izvestia cites growing US Japan tensions amid Dutch Asia dispute.
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Investia
Mediterranean
Balkans
United States
Japan
Pacific
Europe
Far East
Izvestia
Italy
Asia
Communist Party
Pravda
Holland
Belgium
Germany
Millionaire Dodge Married Third Time in Baltimore
Horace E. Dodge Jr., 40, a auto magnate, wed 27 year old show girl Martha Devine in Maryland after a quick ceremony in Baltimore. They planned a swift departure by chartered plane to Detroit with a waiver of the four hour license rule. Dodge’s third marriage follows 1921-27 to Lois Knowlson and 1928-38 to Muriel Sigman. He is father of two children.
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Baltimore
Horace E. Dodge, Jr
Martha
Mickey) Devine
Vanities
Maryland
Detroit
John Henry Day
Seventh Baptist Church
Dodge
Lois Knowlson
Muriel Sigman
London
War Updates From Fronts Across Europe
Allied forces shift to a mobile war on the Meuse as Germany presses its defense. The Royal Air Force conducts its largest bombing raid on German soil. Germans begin rounding up enemy nationals in Britain and Austria-Hungary for internment. Italian nationals leave Turkey while Greek reinforcements reach Albania’s frontier. Berlin warns Brussels of ruin if moves persist. Yugoslav cabinet reviews mobilization plans as Roosevelt urges a bigger defense program before Congress.
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Paris
Meuse
London
Royal Air Force
Istanbul
Turkey
Athens
Albania
Berlin
Brussels
Belgrade
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Tanks Clash in Louisiana War Game Halted Amid Blue Victory
In Camp Beauregard Louisiana the Blue forces crushed the Reds in a three day army maneuver forcing the umpires to halt the mock war a day early. Blue divisions about 11 000 men each with armor and cavalry outflanked and crushed 25 000 Reds near the Sabine River. The Reds had one streamlined division and two cavalry units while the phase two schedule was scrapped and the battle paused until Monday for phase three.
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James Marlow
Beauregard
America
Thunderbolts
Europe
Louisiana
Third Army
Sabine River
Sabine
U S Scientists In War Studies
Philadelphia May 16 American scientists are collaborating to strengthen national defense. Dr Karl T Compton head of the 1933 Roosevelt advisory board said committees have worked a year on Army and Navy research projects under contract with the armed forces. He received the Franklin medal for his brother Arthur H Compton as other scientists from across the country were honored.
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Philadelphia
Karl T. Compton
Roosevelt
Army
Navy
Compton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Franklin Institute
Arthur H. Compton
University of Chicago
Leo H. Baekeland
War Bulletins From Nancy and London Report Bombs and Internments
News bulletins describe Nancy France in May with nine air raid alerts and casualties from German bombs. London reports 30 to 40 wounded Germans brought in and the British home secretary extending internment to all male Germans and Austrians aged 16 to years whose movements were restricted.
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Nancy
France
London
Sweden Shuts Down Entire Stock Industry May 27
Stockholm reports the entire Swedish match industry to close on May 27 due to production obstacles. In related dispatches, London notes English, Scottish and Canadian ecclesiastical students depart for London, while a German controlled Amsterdam radio announcement promises a continuous column of mechanized troops from 11 45 a m to 7 30 p m.
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Stockholm
Rome
London
Paris Expresssistants
Amsterdam
Bomb test postponed as goats spared in Maryland demonstration
In Aberdeen Maryland a liquid oxygen carbon bomb test by inventor Lester P Barlow was delayed until next week after he failed to deliver a required 1000 pound Gimite charge. Senator Morris Sheppard said a new date would be set and a herd of goats at the proving grounds will be used then. Barlow says the device could kill all living things within a 1006 foot radius.
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Aberdeen
Lester P. Barlow
Barlow
Congressional
Morris Sheppard
Texas
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Reaches for Coin Ends Fatally in St. Louis
In St. Louis on May 16, 1930, John Cenatiempo a 22 year old private watchman stooped to pick up a nickel and was fatally shot when his revolver dislodged from its holster as another man dropped the coin on the floor.
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ST. Louis
John Cenatiempo
White House garden party welcomes 1100 veterans
At the White House lawn 1100 World War I veterans in wheel chairs greeted President Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt. Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, back from Antarctica, attended as a guest. The president shook hands and waved as his car moved along the line past the marquee serving sermonade and ice cream.
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Washington
Tipperery
White House
America
Roosevelt
Richard E. Byrd
Antarctic
German drive traps Belgian forts on Meuse front
Troop numbers surge as German armored columns thrust along the Meuse from Antwerp to Sedan. Allied commands report Meuse fighting intensifying with Liege Namur defenses holding yet under pressure. German gains claim Liege citadel and other ports while Holland cites occupation of The Hague and Amsterdam. Roosevelt and Mussolini exchange messages amid broader war escalation.
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Belgium
Deal
France
Liege
Namur
Minmate Gueration
Germany
Sedan
Namur Toda
French War Office
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Amsterdam
Holland
Antwerp
Dyle
The
Belgium Mobilizes Soldiers in Belgium Recall
A May 14 bulletin from Belgium in New Orleans announces general mobilization. It urges all reserve and militia officers to report current residences to the Belgian Consulate and directs recall of militiamen with individual transportation orders.
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Belgium
New Orleans
St Charles Avenue
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