No Fear of Bullets Ends Up Bulletproof After Barge Hold Ordeal
Pete Lovett of Brooklyn recounts a 1912 boating nightmare aboard a barge where Captain fired at him in a hold. Trapped for about an hour, Lovett survived as the captain, drunk and desperate, was restrained and removed. The ordeal left him convinced bullets can’t end his career.
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Thanged
Pete Lovett
Brooklyn
N. Y
Pete
Iyar
Columbia Street
Red Hook
France
World Week Summary: Bill Passes House Amid Turbulent Session
The House approved the President's three billion dollar relief bill by 328 to 70 and sent it to the Senate. The measure totals 3.154 billion dollars with authorizations for rural electrification and free fertilizer for farmers, while a proposal to curb state debt financing failed 90 to 6. In Geneva, critics attacked Britain's realism and Italy's Ethiopia conquest, as Haile Selassie appealed for aid but received limited support. The Spanish Civil War and nonintervention policy drew denunciations from Julio Alvarez del Mayo, W J Jordan, and Maxim Litvinov. Secretary Hull dismissed resignation rumors as absurd.
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Senate
WPA
Chamberlain
Halifax
League of Nations Council
Geneva
Italy
Ethiopia
Britain
Spain
Maile Selassie
Haile Selassie
Mussolini
Lion of Judah
League Assembly
Wilhelm Munters
Latvia
Council
League
Early Chico saddle horse buyers seek good swimmers
In pioneer days Chico buyers asked if horses swam well since streams lacked bridges and swimming was the only crossing method. The piece notes early railroads in 1827 used horse power, and names Downing Street and signers of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.
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Chico
Quincy
Massachusetts
Mauch Chunk
Pennsylvania
Japanese Seize Amoy Port as Wartime Moves Spread
Japanese forces seize Amoy in south China while foreign nationals evacuated. Tokyo reports progress on Shantung front toward Lunghai railway as air raids strike Suchow. U S wheat policy shifts with a large loan program and crop insurance to curb prices, with proposed 37.5 percent planting cut and big predicted yields. See, Wallace.
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Amoy
South China
Shanghai
Shantung
Lunghai
Suchow
Tax act patches 1938 39 profits tax sent to White House
The 300 million dollar revenue act as shaped by Senate and House conferees was sent to the White House for the President’s signature. It preserves a vestige of the undistributed profits tax limited to 1938 and 1939 and anticipated to die then. Corporations earning over 25000 will pay up to 19 percent if no earnings are distributed as dividends and a minimum of 164 percent if all earnings are distributed, with a 24 percent credit against the maximum tax for dividends paid.
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Senate
House
White House
Rail wage cut announced by railroads and express agency
Railroads and the Railway Express agency formally notify rail labor chairmen that basic pay will be cut 15 percent starting July 1. The move aims to trim annual payroll by about 250 million dollars and affects roughly 925,000 workers. The Railway Labor Executives' Association vows to fight the action with every resource.
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Railway Express Agency
Railway Labor Executives’ Association
Oil Cut Orders Shake Texas and Oklahoma Production
Texas ordered field shutdowns on weekends to cut output by a large share, while Oklahoma governors ordered May production cuts from 486,000 to 405,000 barrels daily. Governor E W Marland defended state action as a capable response to stabilize prices and warned against federal regulation.
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Oklahoma
Texas
E. W. Marland
Insuring Farm Mortgages Under New Housing Plan
The Federal Housing administration with Steward McDonald as administrator begins insuring farm mortgage loans. Amendments to the national housing act allow loans on farms where buildings will be built or repaired if at least 15 percent of funds go to materials and labor. Eligible borrowers include self-run farms, renters, and prospective farm buyers through approved institutions. Loan-to-value ratios vary by loan size from 90 percent on small loans to 80 percent on larger ones.
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United States
Department of Agriculture
Wallace
AAA
America
Federal Housing Administration
Steward McDonald
Wage Hour Bill Advances in House Despite Senate Opposition
WV lawmakers led by H R 218 members moved to discharge the rules committee on the administration wage hour bill. Supporters expect Senate approval, though Southern senators oppose due to differential omitted. The bill sets a 25 cent minimum rising to 49 cents over three years and a 44 hour week dropping to 40 in two years. It would be run by Labor and enforced by Justice with no regional differentials.
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Rules Committee
House
Mary T. Norton
House Labor Committee
Senate
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Justice Department
Deal of the Dictators in Rome strengthens ties
Foreign correspondents guessing at the Rome meeting between Reichsfuehrer Hitler and Mussolini concluded their friendship grew. They believed Hitler pledged no absorption of the South Tyrol German minority and Mussolini would not block Nazi plans for Sudeten Germans. Mussolini reportedly won recognition of Italy’s central Europe interests and Trieste’s Austrian traffic would persist despite Austria’s fate.
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Trieste
Austria
Ermany
Davies Named Ambassador to Belgium by Roosevelt
JOSEPH DAVIES, wealthy lawyer, nominated ambassador to Belgium by President Roosevelt. He will be transferred from Moscow where he and his wife Mrs Marjorie Post Hutton Davies found social life lacking among the Soviets.
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Joseph Davies
Belgium
Roosevelt
Davies
Moscow
Marjorie Post Hutton Davies
Milk Sipping Slows Digestion, Says National Dairy Council
The National Dairy Council reports scientific findings that sipping milk slowly forms a larger stomach curd and takes longer to digest than drinking it quickly, countering the belief that slow sipping aids digestion.
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National Dairy Council
Hessian Troop Payments Spark Revolutionary War Debate
Report notes that paid Hessian troops were supplied to fight England with expenditures reaching up to eight million dollars, reflecting a costly foreign-forces dimension of the Revolutionary era and stirring public discussion on funding and strategy.
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England
State road commission to mark southern Utah spots
The state road commission will place special markers at historical spots across southern Utah, a long overlooked region that thousands of tourists visit annually. The markers aim to designate and highlight these sites within the tourist wonderland.
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Utah
State Road Commission
How to Make Muslin Fireproof
Instructions describe making muslin fire resistant by dipping in an alum solution. The strongest stable concentration is seventeen percent, equating to 1.42 pounds of alum per gallon, which will not deteriorate at ordinary temperatures.
Bead stringing tip for tiny holes
A practical craft note advises twisting the cord tightly before threading through very small bead holes. After twisting, dip the cord end in household cement or glue to stiffen it slightly. Once the glue dries, the cord end will pass through the holes more easily.
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Easil
Tasty Vegetables and Library Volumes Noted
Short cooking enhances tenderness for vegetables and fine seasoning with four teaspoons salt to a quart of water. Dried vegetables require soaking before use. In a separate note, about 58 million bound volumes exist in U S college libraries.
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Fenro Moler
Salt Lake City
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