Slum Clearance Plan Delayed by Board Action
Frederick aldermen delayed initiating a local slum clearance and low rent housing program to study broad federal legislation. City officials debated Housing Authority powers, local survey costs, and tax implications while seeking more information before appointing a housing authority.
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Board of Aldermen
Edward J. Smith
Robert L. Grove
Alderman Grove
Alderman Schroeder
Grove
Culler
Frederick
Annapolis
Maxwell
Smith
City Board Deliberates Housing Program And Park Land
The board weighed powers for local authority and delayed action on appointing an authority by the mayor pending federal statute review. They favored minimal expense for new units, debated slum clearance responsibility, and considered an extra meeting before next week. Actions included possible Preakness program page, mountain land for Gambrill Park, and insurance advisory report for disposal plant and incinerator.
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Gambrill Park
David Griffin
Tommittes
United Fire Company
Whitney Begins Prison Routine At Sing Sing
Whitney former New York Stock Exchange president served five to ten year grand larceny sentence. He rose at 6 30 A M to corn meal mush breakfast and slept eight or nine hours. He briefly exercised in an open yard and joined a mess hall meal of bread coffee boiled ham and cabbage stewed apples and cocoa as fellow inmates watched the newcomer. In New York an order directs return to Mrs Richard Whitney of jewelry found in his safe deposit box.
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Ossining
N. Y
Richard Whitney
New York Stock Exchange
Sing Sing Prison
Whitney
New York
Irwin Kurtz
Joseph Lorenz
Richard Whitney & Co
Gertrude Whitney
Traffic Court Idea Considered By Maryland County Clubs
The Automobile Club of Maryland discussed creating one traffic court per Maryland county with bar-qualified judges and a ticket auditing system similar to Baltimore City. Residents would receive summonses to appear before a traffic court judge, while out of state offenders would appear before a local magistrate for bail, aiming to streamline fines and court procedures.
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Baltimore
Automobile Club of Maryland
Trafic Court
Charles M. Falconer
Edward McK. Johnson
State Police
Washington I Cleveland
Automobile Club of
District of Columbia
Leonard E. Kolmer
Owen McGeeney
Automobile Club
Maryland
Chinese Troops Storm Japanese Strongholds Near Shanghai
Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek reports advancing Chinese legions have stormed two central Japanese strongholds near Shanghai. They claim to have surrounded Yihsien and Tsaochwang and killed about 1500 Japanese in a battle at Tsaochwang while hindering Japanese efforts to restore communications between the cities.
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Shanghai
Chiang Kai
House Ways Might Add to U S Road Fund
A House Appropriations Committee member said the Budget Bureau may back adding 92 million dollars to the 100 million road fund in the Agriculture Department supply bill. The topic arises as lawmakers revisit road aid levels amid President Roosevelt’s push to cut highway funding and potential adjournment by May 15.
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Washington
Apri
House Appropriations Committee
Budget Bureau
House
Agriculture Department
Clarence Cannon
Dem
Appropriations
D. W. Bell
Appropriations Committee
Roosevelt
Cannon
Henry A. Wallace
Congress
Edward T. Taylor Dem. Cole
Bank receiver accounts show $71,074 paid to Peoples Liquidating
The Central Trust Company receiver Warren F Sterling reported total payments of $71,074.93 to Peoples Liquidating for the year ending March 31 1938 approved by the Circuit Court. The account shows cash balance of $10,053.45, receipts of $55,340.77 and largest cash item of $44,248.87 from stockholders.
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Central Trust Company
Peoples Liquidating Corporation
Warren F Sterling
The
John S. Newman
Food Clothing Autos Take Most Of Budgets
A survey of 100 farm families at Iowa State College shows food clothing and automobiles consuming the largest shares of family budgets. Automobiles have displaced shelter as a top three expense, with average 1927 spending about $100 higher than 1938.
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Ames
Iowa
Iowa State College
Answers to Cranium Crackers on Page Four
Readers are presented with solutions to Cranium Crackers on page four. The quiz item lists five clues with explanations, including Exotic and Barouche and details about parts of speech and categories of words.
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S. Caribbean
Lanals
Senate Leaders Rebel Over Roosevelt Tax Letter
Senate tax chiefs oppose retaining the undistributed profits tax and a capital gains levy as urged by President Roosevelt. A conference committee works to reconcile House and Senate versions, while House Democrats insist on keeping the taxes. The Senate previously repealed the undistributed profits levy and backed a flat corporate tax and capital gains changes.
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Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
Harrison
Mississippi
Senate Finance Committee
Congressional Conference
House
House Democrats
Conference
C I O Breaks From A F of L Forms Own Labor Federation
Washington April 13 leaders decided to break with the AF of L and form a permanent labor federation. John L. Lewis, C I O chair, announced the plan after a two day conference with union associates. Some leaders warned of a labor war longer and more bitter than the 1880s battle between AF of L and Knights of Labor. The CIO had been seen as a rival to the AFL technically a committee without a constitution. It was organized by AFL members who wanted all workers in major industries in one union. They had sought to change AFL policy of organization by steel. The seven virtues in medieval Christian ethics were Purity obedience benevolence faith hope love and humility.
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Washington
C 1.0
4. F of L
John L. Lewis
AF. of L
Knights of Labor
C. O
A S of L
3. F. of L
A F.of L
Etal
Phoebus pushes for road expense records
Senator Harry T. Phoebus demanded state road expense accounts from the State Roads Commission, threatening legal action if not provided by tomorrow night. He sought records for nine employees at a highway conference in San Francisco. The commission said release requires Governor Nice approval while he was in Richmond, Virginia.
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Princess Anne
Harry T. Phoebus
State Roads Commission
Phoebus
Commission
San Francisco
Harry _W_ Nice
Richmond
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Hermann Goering
MD. County
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Peoples
Marion Larner
Dill City
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C.C. Carty, Inc
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