Death toll from auto declines in first half 1938
Chicago reports National Safety Council data showing 1938 six month traffic deaths fell 23 percent from 1937, saving 3,670 lives despite a 2 percent rise in highway travel. June marked an eight straight month of declines, with Maryland and several states tying for notable reductions and Detroit, Evanston, and Baltimore highlighted for improvements.
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Chicago
National Safety Counc
Pennsylvania
Seis
Pace
Delaware
Detroit
Evanston
Louisville
Sidney J. William
T the Council
Maryland
Michigan
Wisconsin
Massachusetts
Virginia
Alabama
Florida
Idaho
Balimore
Baltimore Safety Council
NLRB Seeks Supreme Court Ruling on Strikers Protection
Washington July 28 The Labor Relations Board urged the Supreme Court to decide that Columbian Enameling and Stamping Company workers who struck under contract are protected by the National Labor Relations Act. The board asks whether a strike in violation of an agreement frees the employer from bargaining duties with employee representatives.
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Washington
The
Labor Relations Board
Supreme Court
Columbian Enameling and Stamping Company, Inc
Terre Haute
Ind
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Chicago
Answers to Cranium Crackers page four item
Answers reveal the quiz’s facts: an anchorite equals hermit, Tagore is the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, prone means lying face down, Isidore Baline is Irving Berlin. The text cites Dr Horton Casparis from Paris noting hay fever sufferers are
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Rabindranath Tagore
Isidore Baline
Irving Berlin
Horton Casparis
Brother You're Super Colossal Primary Date Debate
A fragment notes W David Tilghmen with the Republican State chairman shaping a September 12 primary date. The wording suggests a bold claim or insult toward a political figure. No clear event outcome or broader context is provided beyond the date selection and involvement.
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W David Tilghmen
Author Of British War Song Dies At 60
London reports the death of Jack Judge at age 60 in Birmingham after a long illness. Judge wrote the famous World War I anthem It is a Long Long Way to Tipperary, once a vaudeville headliner and fish salesman from Oldbury Market. He claimed to have written the song on a New Year’s Day bet in 1912.
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London
Tipperary
Birmingham
Jack Judge
Judge
Harry Williams
Williams
Oldbury
Staffordshire
Stalybridge Grand Theater
Chandler Poisoning Fact Asserted by Health Head
Kentucky health commissioner Dr. A G McCormick endorsed the diagnosis of Gov A B Chandler's physician that the governor drank poisoned water last week. McCormick said he was in accord with Dr J W Bryan's report of poisoning as the illness cause. Brady Stewart urged an investigation by proper authorities into the poisoning claim, while police officials dismissed it as a political stunt.
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Louisville
Kentucky
A. B. Chandler
A. G McCormick
J. W. Bryan
Chandler
Brady Stewart
John Malley
Joseph Stewart
Shopping Around For Money Is Under Ban
Officials in charge of federal funds for relief and public works formed a three member committee to stop “eyes and towns” shopping between agencies for money. WPA Administrator Hopkins named three WPA representatives to screen Public Works Administration requests and avoid duplication with WPA. Boston Mayor Tobin sought PWA funds for Jelly Hall but opted to economize by using WPA funds for improvements, calling the Jelly Hall building dangerous and antiquated.
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Washington
Public Works
Ickes
WPA
Harry L. Hopkins
Public Works Administration
Maurice J. Tobin
Boston
Tobin
PWA
September 28 set for state Democratic convention
Joshua N. Warfield, chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee, fixed September 28 as the date to nominate the party’s candidates chosen in the primary. After a five minute meeting at the Hotel Rennert the committee authorized Warfield to set the date and ratified the agreement.
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Baltimore
Joshua N. Warfield
Democratic State Central Committee
Rennert
Warfield
Starvation case probed by state sheriff visits house
Sheriff Roy Hiltner visited Alice Fisher at a mountain cabin near Knoxville after an investigation ordered by the State's Attorney. He found two malnourished children and reported no crime. the hospital treated the three month old boy and the one year old girl remained critical. The mother, a 19 year old unmarried negress, has a history of paternity claims and welfare contact, with no indictments or criminal action planned.
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Alice Fisher
Frederick County
Roy M. Hiltner
Sherman P. Bowers
Knoxville
Sherif Hittner
Montgomery County
Permission To View Warde's Body Denied
New York July 28 John W Warde 26 died Tuesday night leaping from a seventeenth floor hotel window in Brooklyn thousands witnessed will be buried tomorrow Evergreen Cemetery Brooklyn private funeral services attended by the family will precede the interment since his death scores of persons have telephoned the mortuary for permission to view his body but all were refused
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New York
John W. Warde
The
Sey
Tee
Evergreen Cemetery
Brooklyn
Permissen
Bass Bit On Chewing And Stuck Fast, West Branch IA
Mrs. E. W. Erickson admits a catch in her tale but remains stuck on it. She failed with worms crawdads and smelly cheese. She then used chewing gum on the fish hook and a two pound bass struck and stuck.
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West Branch
Iowa
E. W. Erickson
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West Patrick St
MT. Airy
Jack Lederer
BIS Marylanders
Hiltner
State Board of Health
Kefauver
Hilmer
Bow €Rs
Warde
Carty’s
C.C. Carty, Inc
East
Patrick St
Frederick, Md
Bass
Frederick
Hooverette
Children’s Ford
Voiles and
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Gore
Safe Ambulance Service
C. E. Cline & Son
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Candlewick
Hendrickson
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