National income posts gain but flags versus 1929
Economists forecast total national income for the first half of the year near 35 billion dollars, up from last year but still shy of 1929 levels. Wages, salaries, interest and rents drive the distribution while labor disputes and armament demand loom as risks to output and growth. Federal Reserve data show industrial output at about 117 percent of 1923-25 baseline through May, above last year’s 97 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pat Natonal Wacone
Commerce Department
Tig Cuantis
Danel Cooper
Federal Reserve Board
Woman Candidate To Launch Her Campaign In Annapolis
Annapolis June 29 Mrs Mildred O M Clements Republican mayoral candidate prepares to launch her active campaign Friday night opposing Mayor Loum W Phipps Democrat She cites press interest in a woman mayor and says the race will be personal rather than issue driven with her reserving comment on issues until her first public address
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Annapolis
Mildred Om. Clements
Loum W. Phipps
Clements
United States
Coast 9
Phipps Group
Nation's Traffic Deaths Jump 17 Percent in 1937 May
Chicago reports national Safety Sounds figures show 14270 traffic deaths in January–May 1937, up 17 percent from 1936. May fatalities reached about 3000 versus 2800 in May 1936, while highway travel rose 10 percent as gasoline use increased 10 percent.
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Chicago
Cannml
Roosevelt silent on third term proposal
President Roosevelt declined to comment when pressed about George H. Earle of Pennsylvania urging him to seek a third term. A reporter asked if he would accept another term, and he laughed urging the questioner to move on as the reporters moved on.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Goy
George H. Earle
Pennsylvania
Baumgardner Sues For Injunction In Realty Dispute
Luther A Baumgardner, a local junk dealer, files for injunction and accounting against Frank A Gastley and others over 417 North Market Street. He alleges an oral agreement to buy and hold the property, mortgage sale pending, eviction actions, and seeks restraining order, an accounting, and conveyance on payment of 500 dollars plus a purchase money mortgage.
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Equity
Luther A. Baumagardner
Frank
Gastley
Cor Baumgardner
Baumgardner
The
Commerce Building and Securities Corporation
Walter E Sinn
Gastley Ands Willng
W. Clinton McSherry
Andr. Clapp
Urbana floods wash fields and roads near Urbana
Heavy rains flood fields and roads around Urbana. Bene Dett's creek overflows washing gullies and two feet of depth into crops. A farm wagon and hay carriage are swept downstream, hay carriage lodged on a tree, and several barley shocks washed from fields. Nearby observers note storms centered over the area with higher rainfall than surrounding regions.
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Urbana
Benedetts Creek
Benedett’s Creek
Montgomery County
Mayor Appeals to Roosevelt as Steel Strike Bites
In Warren Ohio on June 29 a heated appeal to President Roosevelt to “overthrow the un American empire” marks a new peak in a 34 day steel strike deadlock. Explosions at Bethlehem Steels Cambria works Johnstown Pa paralyze operations. 000 workers laid off. a $10000 reward posted.
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Warren
Ohio
Roosevelt
John L. Lewis
Bethlehem Steel
Cambria
Johnstown
Daniel J Shields
Lewis’ Co LO
Imavor
George Ho Earle
Gus Hall
C. 10
Beaver Falls
State Road Workers Face Possible Force Reduction
Baltimore July report says a special meeting of the State Roads Commission will decide if the road maintenance force will be cut due to depleted funds. District engineers met to review conditions as the commission plans possible reductions and future hiring limits. Officials noted the fund strain but no final figures were released.
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Baltimore
Maryland
State Roads Commission
Homer E Tabler
Dome
Finant Department
Tecan
de Tabler
Road Commission
Farm Tenancy Bill Passed By House
The House approved a bill authorizing 135 million dollars over three years to help tenants acquire farms and retire marginal land from cultivation. The measure moves to the Senate and proposes liberal loans to tenants and sharecroppers for buying farm homes and government purchase of farm land, with rising annual authorizations through 1940.
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House
Washington
Senate
Protest Move To Close Thurmont Foxville Road
Residents of Thurmont Smithsburg and Foxville seek to block closing the Thurmont Foxville road tied to the Catocten Recreational Area. They urge federal and state officials to preserve the current route, citing traffic use and development stakes for the 12 000 acre park and local economy.
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Thurmont
Foxville
Catocten
Smithsburg
Foxvaille
Baltimore
Ross
Tourmont
Henpereford
Poxvile If
Fox Store
Waill
Deerfield
Buhrman
Hungerford
Frederick
Hagerstown
Britain May Recognize Franco as a Belligerent
London reports indicate Britain may recognize General Francisco Franco as a belligerent if Germany and Italy persist with the hands off Spain policy. Observers see this move as aimed at containing the Spanish Civil War while Germany and Italy reject patrol proposals for neutrality. Government spokesmen say such recognition would not place Franco on equal status with the Spanish government but acknowledge a state of war exists in Spain. The article also notes a separate note on South African game bag limits.
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London
Great Britain
Francisco Franco
Germany
Italy
Spain
Britain
France
Franco
Oman
Tle
Vanderlip Dies After Weeks of Illness in New York
Frank A. Vanderlip 72, prominent financier and former head of the National City Bank of New York, died after several weeks of illness. A native of Aurora, Illinois, he rose to high ranks in finance and helped steer major banking interests before his retirement.
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Val
Arbitration Proposal For Cambridge Strike In Madras
Mediators proposed an arbitration board to settle the Cambridge strike after weeks of tension at the packing plant. Federal and state labor officials presented the plan as union members threatened a walkout and a partial closure. Police and guards were deployed as they prepared to meet at the plant, with workers surrounding the site.
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Cambridge
Mad
Anearbitrtion Board
Sam Partial Chau
Daabot
Prince A.kins
Canehanon Conn
Eca
Bopcom
Healdime
Upstown
Utosmobile
Earhart Lands in New Guinea on Long Pacific Hop
Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan landed their monoplane at Lae New Guinea after departing Port Darwin Australia early Monday. They planned to push on to Howland Island across the treacherous Arafura Sea and vast coral flows near the equator, pursuing a round the world flight.
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Miss Earhart
New Guinea
Sydney
Australia
Dane
Areta Earhart
Lie New Guinea
Port Darwin
Arafura Sea
Lac
Miss Evchart
Prison labor to be used on State roads next winter
Baltimore June 29 the first use of prison labor on State roads under the new State Prison Labor program will occur next winter. State officials including Dr Tabler and Charles J Butler discuss locating a small camp and potential road building projects contingent on funds.
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Baltimore
Wolk
de Hamer
Haianan
State Raids Commission
Tabler
Eshald E. Donnell
Oof Pris Ams
Charles J. Butler
State Board of Welfire
Ube
Premier seeks extraordinary powers to stabilize French finances
Deputies confront Premier Camille Chautemps as he requests extraordinary financial powers to bolster the French economy. Finance Minister Georges Bonnet signals rapid devaluation steps, aiming to restore balance. the franc’s gold content and dollar value shift are noted as the government eyes market-friendly action to regain parliamentary approval. The franc’s current gold content and recent dollar rate are cited.
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Camille Chautemps
Chamber of Deputies
Mintona
Georges Bonnet
Wording unclear on prison camp timing and budget plans
The text suggests a prisoner camp could be built by December or January with prisoners put to work. It mentions a $1,000,000 figure and references the 1947 General Assembly, the State Welfare Board, and supervision and equipment for the camp, though details are fragmented.
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Sud
Oaroa
General Assembly
Stite Welfare Board
Commussian
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Patrick Street
Bennett
State
C. C. Carty, Inc
East
Patrick St. Frederick, Md
Bane
Hendrigkson
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