Group in Congress seeks barter plan for German trade
Rep. August Andresen leads a 24 member farm belt coalition studying a barter scheme trading lard lard products and cottonseed oil with Germany. A treasury ruling on antidumping act applicability is to be sought before proposing an exchange system to bolster fat and oil supplies. The Agriculture Department will use part of a 113 million dollar surplus commodities fund for lard and cottonseed oil distribution through relief channels.
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Washington
W.P
August Andresen
Minnesota
Treasury Department
Andresen
Germany
Packers’ Institute
Chicago
Agriculture Department
Care of Indigent Held as Christian Responsibility
The Catholic Hospital association leader Rev Alphonse M Schwitalla S J of St Louis argues against fascist or communist health theories. He told the National Conference of Catholic Charities that caring for the indigent is a Christian duty, opposing government overreach and the notion that the state should subsume individual or private interests. He cites Dr Thomas Parrans outline of a national health program as an encroachment on personal responsibility.
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Denver
Catholic Hospital Association
Alphonse M. Schwitalla
S. J
St. Louis
National Conference of Catholic Charities
Thomas Parran
United States Public Health Bureau
Father Schwitalla
Scientist Palmer Never Owned a Car Despite Comeback Invention
Charles Skeele Palmer, 81, the retired scientist who inverted the sie process for cracking oils to line, says there has never been a car in the family. He admits he occasionally rides in automobiles with friends, stressing he never owned one though he helped make them possible.
Answer to previous puzzle
A dense puzzle fragment lists clues and partial answers across multiple lines. It includes references to nicknames, gods, pigments, rivers, and units, with hints like BOWN and Indien. The text appears as a jumble of cross between cryptic style hints and stray letters, asking for the solution to a prior puzzle.
School Board to Act on Fuel Bids Tonight
At 8 o'clock tonight the board of education meets in a special session to formally approve the 1939 40 fuel contracts for next winter in the public school system. The committee on business headed by Philip D Lampert will present recommendations naming local coal dealers awarded the contracts. Architects Auler Jensen Brown will present change orders for the new South Side school, with other business eligible for consideration.
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Philip D. Lampert
New South Side
Auler, Jensen & Brown
Plasterer Shaw Faces mounting romantic and financial woes
Chicago reports Howard L. Shaw a 34 year old plasterer once of Lafayette Indiana, accused by Janinia Boda and her mother of obtaining money under false pretenses after spending savings on a lavish front. Shaw’s alleged losses include ten thousand dollars in fur and jewelry pawns and loans totaling twenty three hundred dollars to the mother. A California honeymoon financed by Janine Middleton is cited, with Shaw claiming she sent seven thousand three hundred in cash and three thousand two hundred in stocks.
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Chicago
Howard L. Shaw
Charles Pawlowski
Shaw
Lafayette
Ind
Pawlowski
Janina Ia Boda
Gertrude Anderson
Miss la Boda
Bind
James Lynch
California
Jeanette Middleton
West LaFayette
Lynch
Miss Middleton
Farmer Accused of Dismantling Wisconsin Realty Building
Preliminary hearing set for Aug 11 after Wisconsin Realty Company files a complaint alleging the farmer dismantled the building and hauled the pieces away in a truck. A company representative said he missed the house during an inspection tour.
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Wisconsin Realty Company
Where's Elmer Declared A Columbus Post Office Worker
The long running joke of "Where's Elmer?" centers on Earl B. Zeayer of Columbus Ohio who says he has answered the cry. Zeayer who heads motor vehicle service at the Columbus post office says the Elmer tag followed him to conventions since 1929 and has grown into a national gag. Boissy, trophies chair for the 1939 Chicago convention, started a contest to identify Elmer. Zeayer first claimed the name and now the group seeks to inform members who Elmer really is.
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Chiesgo
Elmer
Earl B. Zeayer
Columbus
Pup
Zeayer
American Legion
Fred Boissy
Chicago
Zaager
Legion
Wags
Farmer Charged With Stealing House in Ruby
A farmer from the town of Ruby was charged today with stealing a house. McDaniels pleaded not guilty before Judge Dayton E. Couk.
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Ol ’ Avs PI Fred
Ruby Faamet
McDaniels
Dayton E. Couk Andi
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