Government officials urge business aid for recovery plan
Five top federal officials including Henry Wallace and Harry Hopkins spoke nationwide urging private industry to cooperate with the New Deal spending drive. Hopkins said WPA purchases create 250000 indirect private jobs, while Wallace argued farm recovery depends on increased production and demand. Gray Straus and Kingman detailed impact on housing, public works, slum clearance, flood control, and job creation with wage limits and working-hour rules.
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Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace
WPA
Harry L. Hopkins
PWA
Howard A. Gray
United States Housing
Nathan Straus
John J. Kingman
United States Army Engineers
Gray
Ickes
Straus
Kingman
Terrible Train Wreck Near Saugus Montana Claims Many
A Milwaukee Road passenger train en route from Chicago to Tacoma crashed through a flood weakened trestle over Custer creek near Saugus Montana. At least 40 dead and about 65 injured as the eleven car wreck buried a submerged tourist sleeper. The disaster marks a severe loss for a line with 20 years of no paying passenger fatalities.
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Milwaukee Road
Chicago
Tacoma
Wash
Custer Creek
Saugus
Mont
America
Wage Law Effects on Industry Easing Due to Conditions
Labor experts in Washington say the new wage and hour law will be eased by unsettled economic conditions. They estimate that at most about 200000 wage earners in manufacturing could be affected as the pace of industry slows amid high speed machinery and rising costs.
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Washington
Senator Sheppard Leaders Political Vigilance in Panel
The investigating committee chaired by Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas directs all government agencies to stay out of primary and election campaigns. It warns that improper conduct will lead to criminal prosecution and pledges vigorous, unbiased investigations. Committee members include Senators Harrison Walsh O Mahoney and White.
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Enator
Morris Sheppard
Texas
Senate
Sheppard
Harrison
David I. Walsh
Joseph O’mahoney
Wallace White
German Spies Indicted by Federal Grand Jury
After a five month federal probe in New York 18 individuals were indicted as spies for Germany. They are charged with seeking defense information. Four defendants are in the United States to be tried here while the others including three German officers remain abroad.
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FTER
New York
John Roosevelt Weds Anne L Clark at Nahant Church
John Roosevelt youngest son of President and Mrs Roosevelt married Anne Lindsay Clark in Nahant Massachusetts. The couple had a reception at the Nahant club and began a honeymoon to Campobello Island New Brunswick, home of the President’s summer retreat.
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John Roosevelt
Anne Lindsay Clark
Old
Nahant
Mass
Old Stone Church
Roosevelt
Old Nahant Club
Campobello Island
N. B
Germany called welsher over Austria debts after war
Secretary Hull labels Germany a welsher for avoiding Austria's postwar debts. A note delivered by Ambassador Wilson argues Germany assumed full responsibility for Austria's liabilities totaling about 50 million dollars.
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Germany
Austria
Hull
Hugh Wilson
America
Congress Ends Seventy Fifth Session With Major Legislation
The Seventy Fifth Congress adjourned after enacting a wide array of measures. It set a wartime-scale spending record by approving over 20 billion dollars across sessions and passed the relief and pump priming bill worth 1.425 billion for the WPA and 175 million for the Farm Security Administration, among others.
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Roosevelt
House
Senate
Rural Electrification Administration
Lake Tahoe National Park
Works Progress Administration
Farm Security Administration
National Youth Administration
Public Works Administration
PWA
United States Housing Authority
Van Nuys Backed by Bipartisan Senate Support
Van Nuys Senator from Indiana plans re election as an independent after being ousted from the Democratic party for opposing reform bills. Ten Democratic allies join his campaign with a list of prominent backers Bennett Champ Clark Josiah Bailey Harry Byrd Joseph O Mahoney Edward Burke Tom Connally Peter Gerry Millard Tydings Guy Gillette. Supporting him are two Republicans William Borah and Arthur Vandenberg.
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van Nuys
Rederick van
Tom Connally
Texas
Peter G. Gerry
Rhode Island
Millard E. Tydings
Maryland
Guy M. Gillette
Iowa
William E. Borah
Idaho
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Michigan
Senator Copeland Dies in Washington
United States Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York died just before Congress adjourned ending his sixteenth year in the Senate. An indefatigable opponent of many administration policies he led the fight against court packing and government reorganizations. Observers saw his death clearing the way for Governor Lehman to seek the Senate but anticipated opposition from President Roosevelt and support for a Wag ner Mead ticket for the unfinished term.
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Washington
United States
Royal S. Copeland
New York
Congress
Senate
Lehman
Roosevelt
Wagner
James M. Mead
Buffalo
Copeland
Supreme Court
House
Mr. Roosevelt
Great Floods in China Drown Thousands After Dikes Break
The Yellow River floods central China pouring through broken dikes. In the first days the disaster reportedly drowned about 150,000 people and left millions homeless or threatened by the rising waters across hundreds of square miles.
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China
Persecution of Jews escalates in Berlin and Germany
ERMAN officials and German mobs were making life almost unbearable for the Jews. In Berlin and many other localities Jewish shops were smashed and daubed with paint, and hundreds of Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps. Foreign consulates were crowded as Jews sought permission to emigrate. Secret police were ordered to check all Jews in Greater Germany.
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ERMAN
Berlin
Germany
Baldomir Inaugurated as President of Uruguay
General Alfredo Baldomir was sworn in as president and Dr. Cesar Charlone as vice president marking Uruguay's return to a democratic constitutional regime Baldomir campaigned on ending fascism and restoring civilian rule.
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Uruguay
Ruguay
Alfredo Baldomir
Cesar Charlone
Baldomir
Crosby Gaige and notable patrons of patent-model era
Crosby Gaige, a Broadway producer and bachelor, acquires 200,000 patent models once gathered by Sir Henry Wellcome, alongside an assortment of curious items from a prize preserver to a steamboat and a printing-press. The piece also profiles Gaige’s eccentric interests, his background in Skunk Hollow, and his long Broadway career including writing and producing shows. It also touches on Margaret Sullavan’s rise after laryngitis led to a film contract and notes her Virginia lineage and Boston training.
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York
Crosby Gaige
Sir Henry Wellcome
Mr. Gaige
Squeaky Doors Prompt Morning Home Oil Check
A home maintenance note urges readers to oil squeaky doors and windows, sweepers, and vacuum cleaner to finish within about 15 minutes. The reminder highlights surprising relief from tending long ignored household creaks.
The Seventy-fifth Congress Review by a Washington Observer
A Washington observer argues that the Seventy-fifth Congress, in session since January 1937, spent more money than any peacetime congress, produced few laws, and showed repeated political theatrics. He warns of large deficits, expanding payrolls, and continued presidential influence, while urging honest candor about Congress’s true achievements before the next elections.
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Washington
Seventy-fifth Congress
Congress
Chesapeake Bay Biological Laboratory Study Center in Maryland
The Chesapeake Bay Biological Laboratory on Solomons Island Maryland is sponsored by the University of Maryland and cooperates with Goucher College Washington College Johns Hopkins Western Maryland Carnegie Institution of Washington and the Maryland Conservation Department. It offers a comprehensive survey of marine brackish and freshwater biota in the Chesapeake region.
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Chesapeake Bay Biological Laboratory
Solomons Island
The
University of Maryland
Goucher College
Washington College
Johns Hopkins University
Western Maryland College
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Maryland Conservation Department
Chesapeake Region
Filet Crochet Chair or Buffet Set Pattern 6091
Distinctive crochet set with picturesque motif by Jacy K-stitch includes charts and directions for making the set and a 3 by 5 inch alphabet illustration. Materials list. patterns cost 15 cents sent to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept. New York. Include name and address and pattern number.
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Jacy
Household Arts Dept
W. 14Th St
New York
N. Y
Iodine Chart Request From C. Houston Goodiss
A reader is invited to obtain a free chart listing foods rich and poor in iodine. Request the Iodine Chart by writing C. Houston Goodiss at 6 East 39th Street New York City. A postcard is sufficient.
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C. Houston Goodiss
East 39Th Street
New York City
Provincetown Town Crier Keeps 200 Year Tradition Alive
Town Crier Amos Seanad Kubik serves Provincetown Massachusetts on daily rounds in a Pilgrim costume. He proclaims local news tides weather and civic notices prepared by the Town Criers of Provincetown. The custom has endured for nearly two centuries.
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Amos Seanad Kubik
Provincetown
Mass
United States
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