Flying Boat Disaster and Related War News
Capt Edwin C Musick and six Pan American crew members are killed when the Samoan Clipper explodes and sinks near Pago Pago during a Pacific crossing. Also reports a Northwest Airlines Zephyr crash in the Rockies killing eight passengers and two pilots. Wisconsin Supreme Court blocks the Wisconsin Development Authority and related acts. Federal deficit projections rise to 1 088 billion with reduced public works. GOP leaders propose new programs while Roosevelt pressures Congress on foreign policy and anti monopoly drive. Jackson Day events raise funds for the Democratic National Committee and Robert B Jackson surfaces as a possible governor candidate.
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Pan-American Airways
Pacific Ocean
Samoa
Pacific
Pago Pago Harbor
American Samoa
Auckland
New Zealand
Pago Pago
Edwin C. Musick
Pan-American
Musick
Cecil G. Sellers
Paul S. Brunk
F. J. MacLean
J. W. Stickrod
J. A. Brooks and
J. T. Findlay
Rockies
Northwest Airlines
Seattle
Chicago
Rocky Mountains
Bozeman
Mont
National Committee
Washington
Roosevelt
New York
Jim Farley
Robert B. Jackson
Roosevelt Budget Forecast Deficit and Defense Rise
President Roosevelt’s budget message to Congress projects a current-year deficit of 1 088 129 600 and a 1939 deficit of 949 606 000 amid reduced revenue estimates. Revenues for the next year total 5 919 400 000, expenditures 6 896 000 000, and national defense appropriations rise to 991 360 000 with possible further naval funding. Relief expenditures total about 1 138.
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Roosevelt
Congress
National Defense
Civil War in Labor Conflicts and International Tensions
Excerpts cover C I O chief Joan L Lewis and David Dubinsky trading blows over peace with the AFL, plus Austria Hungary recognizing Franco and opposing Communist influence. Britain resists Japanese control in Shanghai with Chamberlain guiding a coordinated Western response. France plans larger battleships to outpace Mussolini, while Indiana upholds a 86 year old law barring nonresidents from county marriage licenses.
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Britain
London
Shanghai
Neville Chamberlain
Washington
Paris
Eden
Cannes
Chamberlain
United States
France
Great Britain
Tanetsuga Sosa
Hongkong
Singapore
Sosa
Civil Service Commission warns on agency staffing failures
The Civil Service Commission said in its annual report for 1937 that there has been no major expansion of the civil service but warned that exemptions must end to preserve merit. It called the pattern a grave public concern and urged new restraint on waivers. Wheeler attacks ICC over RFC loans to Erie and Baltimore and Ohio railroads.
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Chongress
Civil Service Commission
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
Senate Railroad Finance Investigating Committee
Interstate Commerce Commission
Wheeler
RFC
Erie Railroad
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Comptroller
United States
Congress
R. N. Elliott
General Accounting Office
Legislative Branch
Department of Justice
War and Navy Departments
Lights of New York Social Observations Across Divided Towns
A city sketch contrasts wealth and slums across New Yorks districts from Tudor City to Fifth Avenue and Park Avenue. It notes shifting neighborhoods, co operative buildings, and varied resident types, with anecdotes from Times Square and Chelsea. The piece reflects on class, origins, and the colorful mix of city life.
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New York
Tudor City
Fifth Avenue
Tony Cabooch
Park Avenue
Park
F. H. LaGuardia
Tenth Street
The Piper Pays, Too Chicago
Chicago wholesalers estimate Americans spend 100 million dollars yearly on musical instruments. The figure highlights growing consumer demand and market expansion for bands schools and households nationwide.
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Chicago
Dig 60 Tons of Onyx, but Nobody Wants It
Platteville Wisconsin resident Frank Baney aged 56 and his son Malford 29 found Wisconsin’s sole Mexican onyx mine. They spent three months mining with pick and chisel, producing 60 tons of onyx, but could not locate a buyer for the stone.
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Platteville
Wis
Frank Baney
Malford
Wisconsin
Webster Slang and Radio Lingo Exposed in Colorful Glossary
A tongue in cheek look at early 20th century slang from Noah Webster era usage. The piece defines terms such as clambake belcher bugs fuzzy canary whodunit strip show and Lady Macbeth translated through aviation cattlemen and street peddlers, with humorous examples and explanations of each term.
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Chicago
Noah Webster
Webster
Marcelling
Newark- Buffalo
83 Years Strong Grace Hill Moravian Church Near Washington
An 83 year old Moravian church near Washington in the Grace Hill community continues to thrive. Amos Miksch settled 300 acres he turned over to the church in 1854, aiding its founding. The Bethlehem conference funded the land, the church was organized at Miksch’s home and dedicated in 1868.
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Washington
Iowa
Grace Hill
Amos Miksch
Washington County
Ohio
Moravian Church
Bethlehem
Miksch
Lewis Clewell
Olive Strohm
Joe Engel
Brighton
Dust Bowl Will Bloom Says Reclamation Expert
Amarillo Texas W H Finnell director of the soil conservation service recommends to Washington a long range program costing 160 612 367 dollars to transform the dust bowl region across five states including the Panhandle plains through water retention projects contour furrows level terraces stock water ponds and small reservoirs to realize its agricultural potential.
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Dust Bowl
Amarillo
Texas
America
Washington
W. H. Finnell
Soil Conservation Service
Panhandle Plains
Finnell
Farm Laborer Ages in Washington Report
A Department of Agriculture survey across 11 states finds farm laborers are young. More than one third are 20 to 29 years old and about two thirds are under 40.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Budget belts tighten as the nation faces rising federal costs
The author recalls 1930s budget debates, noting a $6.87 billion initial request and a potential seven billion dollar future. He warns about growth of independent government units totaling over $1.825 billion and argues for tighter congressional control to curb waste and the creation of new agencies.
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Harold C. Reisinger
Marine Corps
Reisinger
Congress
Western Newspaper Union
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News Review of Current Everts
Flying Boat
Franklin D. Roosevelt
William B. Bankhead
Alabama
John Nance Garner
la Follette
Isconsin’s. Supreme Court
WDA
Wisconsin Agricultural Authority Act
Frank Knox
G.O.P
Berirand Snell
House
Col
Snell
Colonel Knox
Cleveland
Republican Party
Louis Ludlow
Bankhead
Joan L. Lewis
David Dubinsky
Dubinsky
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union
Lewis
A. F. of L
Franco
HIEF
Austria
Hungary
Ciano
Francisco Franco
Italy
Rome-Berlin
Germany
Japan
Pprance
Hood
Navy Committee of the
Chamber of Deputies
Georges Bonnet
Mussolini
Ndiana’s
State Supreme Court
J.C.C
Lights of
L. L. Stevenson
Chelsea
Greenwich Village
Alice Cornett
Hollywood
Times Square
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Pim
Old Church
William Bruckart
Washington, D. C
Associated Press
L. C. Probert
Treasury
Army
Navy
Department of Commerce
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