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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1938
Page
2
President Roosevelt signed the pump priming measure and the Public Works Administration released two grant and loan lists covering 590 projects nationwide costing $148,795,895. PWA plans four more lists to reach a $2 billion construction program with estimated project costs between $600 million and $1.5–2.0 billion.
Secretary of Commerce Roper forecasts an early favorable trend in the business cycle due to natural economic factors and constructive legislation. He cites worsening railroad conditions as a serious issue that could prompt a special congressional session, but sees hope in bumper Midwest crops boosting transport demand.
President appoints a mixed group of U S and European based experts to form a special commission to study the British labor disputes law and Swedish labor relations. The panel includes Lloyd K Garrison Robert Watt Gerard Swope Henry I Harriman William H Davis Mrs Anna M Rosenberg Charles R Hook and Marion Dickerman.
De Louis of Detroit the Brown Bomber defeats Max Schmeling in New York by technical knockout in under a round. Eighty thousand spectators witness the bout, Louis earns forty percent of the gate with Schmeling taking twenty percent. Schmeling suffers a broken vertebra projection from an X-ray and claims a kidney blow caused his defeat.
Five top officials led a nation wide appeal for business cooperation with the administration to restore permanent recovery. Harry Hopkins outlined how WPA spending will create 250000 indirect private jobs and relief work. Wallace, Gray, Straus, and Kingman described plans for agriculture, public works, housing, and slum clearance boosting employment and demand over the next two years.
A federal grand jury in New York indicted 18 persons on espionage charges for the German government. The defendants allegedly sought defense information. four are in the United States to face trial, while the others including three German officers are overseas.
Japanese bombers hit Swatow a treaty port 220 miles northeast of Canton destroying the power plant and railroad station. The US gunboat Asheville protected 69 Americans in the consular district as Tokyo signals continued battle aimed at toppling Chiang Kai shek.
Goebbels in Berlin denounces Jews, vows legal measures to curtail Jewish shops. He claims Jewish stores are marked and predicts they will soon disappear, framing the presence of Jews as incitement.
Texas Senator Morris Sheppard chairs a senate campaign expenditures investigating committee which orders all government agencies to stay out of primary and election campaigns. The panel vows vigorous, fearless, nonpartisan investigations and warns of criminal prosecutions for improper political conduct targeting senatorial candidates, their aides, and friends, then extending to all agencies.
Washington economists say the new wage and hour law will ease the worst conditions only gradually. They estimate at most 200000 manufacturing workers will gain higher pay and about 260000 under the 25 cent minimum, with over 1000000 workers seeing a 44 hour week limit starting next October. Child labor provisions mainly impact scattered miners in mills and factories.
United States Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York died just before Congress adjourned. In his sixteenth year, he was known for tireless work and opposition to several administration policies including court packing and government reorganization. Governor Lehman offered to run for Copeland's seat if the Democrats nominate him.
The LYMPIAN passenger train from Chicago to Tacoma plunged through a flood weakened trestle on Custer Creek near Saugus Montana. At least 40 killed and about 65 injured as cars submerged, marking a major recent U S rail disaster and harming Milwaukee Road safety record.
Goofy comedies may be on the wane as Carole Lombard rejects further light fare and Claudette Colbert shifts from Are Husbands Necessary to Midnight. It Happened One Night is revived in New York, drawing both new and repeat audiences who find it as funny as before.
The Sheik and The Son of the Sheik revival draw big crowds despite mixed reactions from younger viewers. Agnes Ayres appears older and heavier to contemporary audiences, while George Arliss may return to Hollywood in The Exiles, a Goldwyn project about European exiles and political turmoil.
Warner Brothers will finally screen The Miracle with Bette Davis in the Nun role. The production, long talked about since its stage success in 1911 London and 1924 New York, will move ahead now that Max Reinhardt, the original producer, is available to supervise.
Bob Burns and his wife fled to New York for a rest before the Bing Crosby radio summer stint but were mobbed by fans. They then went to Buffalo hoping to see Niagara Falls, yet the public followed them again. He possibly should try a mask for true rest.
A column sketches daily scenes in New York and Hoboken including a smoker train rearrangement saving two minutes, Broadway street life with race forms and job billboards, persistent patent medicine hawkers, Dead End youths roasting potatoes, a drunken diner scene, and notable escapes by Paul Whiteman and Jane Pickens.
J R Lloyd reports from the East Indies that Papua natives of British New Guinea ban mothers in law from addressing or mentioning their children's spouses. The custom is strict in some areas, extending to not naming them in everyday talk.
Margaret Tallichet emerges as Ramon Novarro’s leading woman in As You Are. She also is projected as Kareen O’Hara in Gone With the Wind if it reaches the screen. Tallichet tested summer stock in East theaters last year.
Nancy Carroll returns to screen in There Goes My Heart. Judy Garland suffers a wrenched shoulder from a car crash. Bobby Breen’s earnings placed in a trust to give his parents 200 a month. Sigrid Curie alleges threats by husband about taking a gas station job. Harold Lloyd’s Professor Beware to debut simultaneously in New York London Paris.
Berkeley California scientist Irwin A Moon demonstrates scientific wonders in a lecture act. He claims to discharge 1 000 000 volts from his body, float metal, turn rocks into gems under a 20 000 volt arc, record the human voice inside steel and project voices on light beams.
Houston Goudiss discusses nutrition and maternal welfare in the wake of an earthquake that highlighted weak school buildings. He argues poor materials are less at fault than diet, urging mothers to feed children foods that build strong bodies to withstand life’s stresses.
The article compares calcium to steel and stone, stressing a mother's calcium intake before and during pregnancy and a child's calcium intake in growth. Deficiency weakens bones, causes slow healing, possible bowing, deformed chests, enlarged foreheads, and risks diseases like rickets and tetany.
Calcium deficiency affects baby and permanent teeth causing decay and crowding. It also harms heart strength blood clotting fever resistance and nervous system balance, impacting overall child health and development.
The article explains that calcium is essential for teeth and nerve and muscle function, noting a normal adult body requires more calcium than any other mineral. It highlights calcium deficiency risks such as nervousness and muscle quivering, and begins to describe how humans are born calcium-poor before bones reach rigidity.
Readers are invited to write C. Houston Goodiss for a free chart listing foods rich in iodine and those poor in it. The chart aids in balanced menu planning and requests should be sent to 6 East 39th Street, New York City. a postcard suffices.
The piece notes that the body loses calcium daily and more during illness fever worry overwork or strenuous exercise. It claims the American diet is most deficient in calcium and urges mothers and homemakers to address this urgent health gap affecting children’s wellbeing and future happiness.
The article notes milk as a calcium cornerstone for a balanced diet and explains that American Cheddar cheese provides a concentrated calcium source. It compares calcium absorption by adults and children and highlights that turnip tops and dandelion greens offer unusually high amounts of calcium among vegetables.
A writer offers a calcium rich foods list to homemakers, urging women to request it to plan daily diets for themselves, husbands, and children. The message emphasizes preventing calcium deficiency and claims that a varied diet can still be calcium poor without guidance.
Nutritionists tie mental efficiency to diet quality noting protein type matters. Vegetable proteins like cheese milk and eggs show high biological value. Garlic does not purify blood though it enhances flavor for its fans.
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