Wage Hour Bill Passes House Amid Debate and Exemptions
The House approved Norton's wage hour bill 314 to 97 despite Southern Democratic opposition. It sets 25 to 40 cents per hour and a 44-hour week with phased increases, but exemptions narrow the scope for agriculture, retail intrastate commerce, fishing, and small rural newspapers. The Senate debate ongoing with filibuster threats.
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House
Mary Norton
Senate
Norton
Farm State
Ickes Secretly Weds in Dublin Quiet Ceremony
Harold L Ickes secretary of the interior and PWA administrator wed in Dublin to Jane Dahlman a Milwaukee clerk twenty five. Ickes 64 had lost his first wife in a recent Southwest auto accident. The bride is a niece of John Cudahy minister to Ireland and sister of Mrs Wilmarth Ickes of Winnetka. They left for a brief honeymoon and he planned to return to his Olney Maryland estate.
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Harold L. Ickes
Interior
PWA
New York
Ireland
Dublin
Jane Dahlman
Milwaukee
Ickes
John Cudahy
Wilmarth Ickes
Winnetka
Mr. Ickes
Cudahy
Ss. J. Shattuck
Legation
Washington
Olney
Plane Crash Near Cleveland Kills Ten FEN
A twin engine United Air Lines plane bound from New York to Chicago crashed south of Cleveland Ohio killing ten people. Seven passengers two pilots and a stewardess died in the accident. Airline officials said engine trouble forced an emergency landing and the craft did not ignite until impact.
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Fen Persons
United Air Lines
New York
Chicago
Cleveland
Ohio
Japan Demands Apology Over Amoy Slur
Tokyo protests a British foreign office statement saying Japanese marines killed Chinese war prisoners and civilians at Amoy. Japan seeks swift satisfaction. In Shanghai Japan announces full control of the 800 mile Tientsin Pukow railway and plans to resume Peiping Shanghai service in July.
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Japan
Great Britain
Tokyo
R. A. Butler
British Foreign Office
Amoy
Shanghai
Tientsin-Pukow
Peiping
Two Taxation Decisions Narrow Intergovernmental Immunity
The Supreme Court, in two rulings by Justice Stone, narrowed reciprocal tax immunity. It upheld federal income taxes on Port of New York Authority employees and federal admission taxes on University System of Georgia football game tickets.
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United States Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Justice Stone
Port of New York Authority
Justice Roberts
University System of Georgia
NLRB Orders Reinstatement Of Strikers At Kuehne Manufacturing
The National Labor Relations Board requires Kuehne Manufacturing in Flora Illinois to reinstate 164 AFL sit down strikers with back pay. It marks the board’s third major sit down ruling and its first involving an AFL union. The NLRB declined to answer 74 questions from Ford Motor Co in a Covington Kentucky circuit court case about consultations with Corcoran Cohen Lewis and Homer Martin regarding Wagner Act violations.
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National Labor Relations Board
Kuehne Manufacturing Company
Flora, Ill
American Federation of Labor
NLRB
A. F. of L
Labor Board
Ford Motor Company
United States
Covington, Ky
Thomas Corcoran
Benjamin V. Cohen
John L. Lewis
Homer Martin
Ford Company
Too Late for Wheat Quotas Under New Law
Secretary Wallace said marketing quotas cannot be invoked this year for the bumper wheat crop under the crop control law. Quotas were possible only if Congress funded parity payments by May 15 as provided in the legislation.
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Wallace
Congress
Oregon Governor Primary Results Signal Democratic Split
OV Charles H. Martin of Oregon, veteran soldier, loses renomination to Henry Hess backed by labor unions and Interior Secretary Ickes. Charles A. Sprague is named Republican nominee, with Republicans optimistic in the fall as Democrats split similarly to Pennsylvania.
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Charles H. Martin
Oregon
Co. I
Henry Hess
Interior
Ickes
Charles A. Sprague
Pennsylvania
John D. M. Hamilton
Farley
John L. Lewis
Roosevelt
Hamilton
House of Representatives
Representative Stack
Father Coughlin
Crosby
Stack
James J. Davis
G. Mason Owlett
Republican State Committee
Arthur H. James
Gif
Czechoslovakia Faces Pressure as Europe Mobilizes
Thousands of German and Czech troops mass on the frontier while President Benes mobilizes 70 000 reserves. Poland and Hungary take steps as France and Britain pledge aid to Czechoslovakia and the Sudeten crisis sparks fear of war. Milan Hodza and Konrad Henlein meet in Prague seeking concessions.
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Benes
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Slovakia
Hungary
France
Great Britain
Russia
Europe
Hitler
Berlin
Vojtech Mastny
Germany
Fuehrer
Switzerland
Paris
United States
Britain
Washington
Bullitt
Mussolini Breaks Talks With France Over Arms to Barcelona
Italy warns France to halt arms shipments aiding the Barcelona insurgents. Mussolini declares friendship talks broken and says continued French support for Soviet and Czech arms to Barcelona could push Italy and Germany to increase aid, risking the new Anglo Italian pact.
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Italy
France
Mussolini
Spain
Duce
Barcelona
Germany
Predestination Omitted From Presbyterian Confession Vote
In Meriden Mississippi the national assembly of the Presbyterian Church voted 151 to 138 to strike from the creed two passages defining predestination and eternal destinies. The motion argued the decree of God marks some for life and others for death and that this number is fixed.
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Presbyterian Church
United States
Meriden
Miss
Lights and Pranks Mark L L Lord in New York
Chronicles of Phillips H Lord the practical joker with antics from 3 am piano deliveries to a Chinese houseboy servant and a desk dinner escort. Also notes on a sewing circle at Hotel McAlpin and Edna Ferber buying 116 acres in Connecticut with Berkshire Hills and Long Island Sound views. A Queen Isabella jewel box displays at Rockefeller Center museum.
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Lord
Wil Yolen
Ted Peckham
Mrs. Yolen
McAlpin
New York
Alice Frost
Mercury Players
Blanche Gladstone
Edna Ferber
Connecticut
Eason
Berkshire
Long Island Sound
Miss Ferber
Isabella
Spain
Columbus
Museum of Science and Industry
Rockefeller Center
Ferdinand
Palace of
Madrid
Charles Courtney
Biarritz
Bell Syndicate
WNU Service
Scientist Sees Radium Energy Harnessed For Future Power
Mayo Clinic scientist Dr. R. E. Fricke envisions radium energy powering devices, estimating a teaspoon could drive a car for 26 years. He notes radium is vastly more powerful than coal, with global deposits in Austria England Belgian Congo and Utah. He cites half life about 1 700 years and a rough world total of 700 grams, with 2 grams at Mayo and a current cost near 2500 per gram.
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Rochester
Minn
R. E. Fricke
Mayo Clinic
Austria
England
Belgian Congo
Utah
United States
Fricke
National Topics In ere Are National Trends In Politics
Washington notes a political phenomenon sparked by Florida and Pennsylvania primaries both favoring New Deal backed candidates. Pepper wins in Florida boosting his cause, while Pennsylvania shows labor and party factions clashing, signaling shifts toward more conservative Democratic alignment and potential 1940 implications.
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Washington
Florida
Pennsylvania
Sen
Claude Pepper
James Roosevelt
J. Mark Wilcox
Dave Sheltz
Farley
Democrats of
Harmony
Earle
United States Senate
State Committee
United Mine Workers
Kennedy
John L. Lewis
Joseph Guffey
Roosevelt
Charles Alvin Jones
Pittsburgh
S. Davis Wilson
Philadelphia
Wilson
Lewis C. I. O.-Guffey
Jones
Pepper
Organized Labor
John Lewis Brand
White House
Senator Guffey
Guffey
Pat Harrison
Garner
Kennedy wife hosts seven Americans at court in New York society
Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy, wife of the ambassador, presented seven American women at court as part of her role in high society. The Kennedy family remains prominent across Boston, Hyannisport, and Palm Beach estates, with Mrs. Kennedy noted for tact, charm, and personal style. Meanwhile Everest expedition stories by W. H. Tilman, and a piece on bull terrier breed origins, close the feature.
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York
Joseph P. Kennedy
Boston
Amd
Kennedybassador
Father Court of
James
Kennedy
Hyannisport
Cape Cod
Palm Beach
Wanamakers
Viona
Aga Khan
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WPA
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