Debt Woes Loom Over Nation as Per Capita Hits 320
Washington editor explains the $41.5 billion national debt looming by next June 30, outlining per capita burden of about 320 and state shares. He notes potential total including federal agency borrowings could exceed $47 billion and warns of higher future taxes to pay interest.
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Western Newspaper Union
Louis Galento consideration tops for Louis clash
The piece notes talks of matching Louis with Tony Galento, the beer loving two ton contender from Orange New Jersey. Galento boasts many knockouts and a rough style while Louis pursues a high profile fight possibly against Farr Pastor or Baer.
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Galento
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Pastor
Baer
Tony Galento
Orange, N. J
Tony
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China
Nathan Mann
al Etd Beetore
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Charley Massey
Major film firms sued to break up cinema monopoly
The U S government filed a civil anti trust suit in New York against eight major movie producers and 132 officers alleging control of 65 percent of film production and distribution. The case seeks divestiture of theater ownership and production facilities.
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Cummings
Atty. Gen
Southern District
New York
Henry W. Goddard
Thurman W. Arnold
Paramount Pictures, Inc
Loew's Inc
Irving Trust Company
Radio-Keith Orpheum Corporation
Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc
Twentieth Century- Fox Film Corporation
Columbia Pictures Corporation
Universal Corporation
United Artists Corporation
Arnold
Mr. Arnold
Martial law declared as strikes halt Iowa plant
Governor Krachel imposed martial law in Newton home of Maytag after a street battle between two labor factions left many injured. National Guardsmen in armored cars and machine guns secured the area while C I O pickets at North Chicago and a hardware plant conflict ended with ten pickets found guilty of contempt of court.
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Kraschel
Iowa
Newton
Maytag Washing Machine Company
National Guardsmen
Chicago
Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee
Charles P. Howard Dies in Colorado Springs at 58
Charles P. Howard president of the International Typographical Union and secretary of the C I Q died in his sleep in Colorado Springs Colorado at age fifty eight. He was defeated for re election last May by C M Baker of San Francisco and would have left office September 1. Owen Wister author of The Virginian and other novels died at his summer home in North Kingston Rhode Island at age seventy eight.
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International Typographical Union
Colorado Springs
Colo
Howard
C. M. Baker
San Francisco
Owen Wister
North
Kingston
U. L
British Monarchs in Paris Visit Highlights Allied Resolve
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth traveled to Paris for a four day state visit aimed at signaling continued alliance between Great Britain and France. Talks with Viscount Halifax Edouard Daladier and Georges Bonnet focused on the global situation while France showcased 60,000 troops and new weapons in a display prior to meetings at Versailles.
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CIOs Purge Plan Targets Congress as Political Aid
A CIO purge list backed by John L. Lewis targets more than 40 Congress members for defeat in the fall elections, overlapping with opposition to wage hour bills. Exe-cutive VP Oliver of the Non-Partisan League linked the list to positions on administration policy and Roosevelt era reforms. Also noted is a wheat allotment cap of 55 million acres for fall and spring planting, with state-by-state acreage figures for major producing states.
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Virginia
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Corcoran
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Lights of New York in Ramblings and Ruminations
A bustling New York panorama blends street scenes and humor. It notes a mounted cop’s quiet curiosity at tricksters on Forty-second Street and a peddler selling risque booklets in Times Square with blank pages inside.
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Downey
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California man makes secret Atlantic crossing in a fragile single engine plane
Corrigan from California attempted a solo west to east Atlantic flight without permit or navigation gear. He departed Floyd Bennett Field New York and landed at Baldonnel Ireland after 28 hours 13 minutes in a rickety Curtiss Robin. He claimed a wrong magnetic sense sent him off course. This was the sixth west east solo Atlantic crossing.
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Dublin
Mollison
Beryl Markham
Insurance Parceled Out in Lorain County Loss
Lorain county officials insured county buildings with 46 windstorm policies and paid 48 cent claims from each after a storm damaged a hog pen at the infirmary. Total loss reported as 22.08 dollars.
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Ohio
Lorain
Bullet recovered from oak tree after 122 years
In Alameda California a .50 caliber bullet fired in 1816 into a sapling oak was found inside the heartwood of a mammoth tree cut down. Ring counting showed the bullet entered the tree 122 years ago.
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Alameda
Calif
Many Farmers Earn Income by Outside Labor
Census bureau survey of 3,000 U.S. farms in 40 states shows about one third report outside income. For 975 farmers with non-farm earnings, total non-farm income reached 458,522 dollars, averaging 573 dollars per farm, with a quarter earning under 100 dollars a year.
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Census Bureau
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