Spending Assures Whopping U.S. Deficit In Washington
Washington report shows 15 weeks of fiscal year spending surpassing $12 billion with a $2 billion year-to-date deficit. Expenditures exceed last year’s pace by about $2.5 billion, signaling a potential $8.5 billion full-year shortfall if trends continue. A Congressional push seeks to consolidate funding into a single bill amid fears of spending spirals.
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Lyle C. Wilson
Washington
Treasury
Sam
United States
Congress
Tots Killed As Mother Moves Piano
Cortland New York October 13 1938 Up coroner verdict accidental death for four year old Douglas Stebbin and three year old brother after a 400 pound piano toppled onto them while their mother Andrew Stebbin 20 struggled to move it from behind a wall. The mother unable to give full details though she said she called the boys out and the piano tipped as a loose board sagged under its weight. Both boys died at Cortland County Hospital.
Poland Denies Holding Bank
The American Embassy said Poland cannot locate Hermann Field, Cleveland architect missing since late August, and his brother Noel, a former State Department employee, who vanished after boarding a plane in Warsaw six weeks earlier. Diplomatic teams in Hungary and Czechoslovakia were asked to help. Hermann disappeared after leaving Warsaw presumably for Prague. Polish authorities report no knowledge of his whereabouts.
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Poland
Hermann Field
Cleveland
Ohio
Field
Noel
State Department
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Hermann
Prague
McElhenny Returns to Huskies After Injury Layoff
University of Washington fullback Hugh McElhenny returned to practice in uniform in Seattle as trainers said he remained stiff after two weeks out with injuries.
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Seattle
Wash
University of Washington
Hugh McElhenny
Lullaby Dolly Pattern and Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book
Readers are offered a sock doll project Lullaby Dolly and the Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book with 104 illustrations. The ad promotes a fifteen to twenty cent pattern and book purchase through The Phoenix Gazette Needlecraft Dept at Chicago Illinois, with simple instructions to send name, address and style number.
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Laura Wheeler
Phoenix Gazette Needlecraft Dept
P. O
Chicago
Ill
Townesfolk host candy dance to fund next year's lights
Genoa Nevada residents stage their annual candy dance featuring a taffy pull and a pie sale to raise funds for street lights. The town, proud of being tax free, keeps a frontier credo while maintaining its legacy as Nevada’s first settlement with key institutions.
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Genoa
Nev
Nevada
New Chapel To Be Used For First Ward Dedication
The First Ward Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will dedicate its new chapel this Sunday, completing a three day celebration marking the Phoenix Stake centennial Sunday school event. A banquet at 7 p.m. will feature remarks by William McRae stake superintendent Bishop Dix W. Price and Presidents R. Melville Johnson and Delbert L. Stapley. The observance recalls the 1849 founding of the first Mormon Sunday school in Salt Lake City by Richard Ballantyne who invited 30 neighbors to study the Bible and Book of Mormon.
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First Ward
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Phoenix Stake
William McRae
Dix W. Price
R. Melville Johnson
Delbert L. Stapley
Salt Lake City
Utah
Richard Ballantyne
Stratocruiser Delivered by BOAC in Seattle
SEATTLE Oct 13 The British Overseas Airways Corporation took delivery of its first Boeing Stratocruiser here yesterday.
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Seattle
Wash
British Overseas Airways Corporation
Train Sabotage Kills Five, Injures Thirty-One Near Calcutta
In India the Bombay Mail derailed 80 miles from Calcutta after saboteurs removed eight fishplates and belts from a rail section. Five people died and 31 were injured in the late night accident. A railroad spokesman confirmed the sabotage.
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Calcutta
India
Bombay
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