Roosevelt outlines wage hour bill aim in debate notes
Washington June 2 An outline of the wage hour bill President Roosevelt desires would guide the conference committee. Senate members say the president favors a wage differential while the house bill sets a nationwide standard. WPA workers would receive the minimum wage in their locality, with exemptions for higher local rates. Southern and northern wage levels vary greatly, ranging from about 21 to 44 cents per hour in different industries and states.
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Labor Department
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Walsh-Healey
Goat Eats Corn as Car Damages Garage in Indiana
Noblesville, Ind. report says a man named Harry McAvoy found a goat eating sweet corn in his garden while a neighbor brought a car for repairs. The incident led to questions about the goat's fate whether to kill or keep as a partner.
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Harry
McAvoy
Socialite sues over alleged 1935 marriage swindle
Violet Cruger, New York society woman, told the Los Angeles grand jury she was bilked for nearly 200000 by a promoter who promised marriage after her former husband Rodman Wanamsker left her jewelry and a $3000 monthly income. She identified a former Los Angeles stock trader now in New York as the promoter.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Violet Cruger
New York
Mm. Cruger
Rodman Wanamsker
Ite
Forest Funeral for Mrs Forest Set Today in Mission Park
Funeral services were scheduled for Thursday at 5 p m for Mrs Maisler Forest from Aks Funeral Home. Interment planned at Mission Burial Park. Mrs Forest died Wednesday in a local hospital. Survivors include daughters Mesdames M E Long, Bertha Barnes, and others. son Thomas Forest. sisters Mrs Mary Stillam and Mrs Dochie Akers. 12 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
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Forest
Aks Funeral
Mission Burial Park
M. E. Long
Bertha Barnes
West
L. C. Roche
J. Woods
W. P. Spaulding
Thomas Forest
Mary Stillam
Dochie Akers
American in Italy Robbed of $100,000
Florence police report thieves entered Villa Mariami, home of Mrs. John Kerr Branch formerly of Richmond Virginia, during the night. Jewels and other valuables valued near $100,000 were taken from a second story window. Mrs. Branch, a 70-year-old widow, and two others sleeping in the villa were not awakened.
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Florence
Daly
John Kerr Branch
Richmond
Twister damages farms near San Antonio in June storm
A brief but intense twister struck the southern outskirts of San Antonio Wednesday afternoon, damaging homes and farm buildings and destroying crops. The storm followed the San Antonio river, leveled a barn, ripped roofs, and damaged outbuildings. Crop losses exceeded six thousand dollars. overall damage estimated at ten thousand. House leader Sam Rayburn defended congressional actions during the session as he reflected on the storm's impact and ongoing legislative work.
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San Antonio
Bear Berg
Ernest Kuntz
Mission Loop
Mission
San Francisco de la Espada
Fidel Rios
Lawrence Dillon
Villa‘man
Army to-name New Chaplains via Competitive Exams
The Army will hold four days of competitive examinations in Washington, D. C., starting July 1 for chaplain vacancies. Only regular ordained ministers of Churches of Christ, Methodist Episcopal Church South, and Reformed Church in America may apply, with Negro clergymen of any Protestant church eligible. Applicants must be 23 to 34 years old and submit by July 5. information and blanks available from the adjutant general, Washington.
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Washington, D. C
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South
Reformed Church
America
Sty Protestant Church
Washington
Senator Connally urges citrus buyback to aid market
Senator Connally asks Secretary Wallace to have the federal surplus commodities corporation purchase surplus grapefruit juice to bolster a depressed market. He cites Texas’s unusually large citrus harvest and the need to prevent half the crop from being processed into juice.
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Senator Connally
Texas
Wallace
Rio Grande Valley
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
Connally
Mea
Jules
Meteor Remnants Sought West of Augusta Montana
In Montana near Augusta residents reported a meteor sighting at 3 40 p m Wednesday, witnesses said a smoke column stayed visible for about 20 minutes as remnants were sought in the area west of Augusta. The brief item also notes a separate feature on Gulf Stream in the American Weekly.
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Great Falls
Mont
Augusta
Here
Gulf Stream
Atlantic
American Weekly
University of Oklahoma loses veteran professor Amos
Norman Okla June 2 Amos professor of government and last remaining member of the universitys original faculty will retire this spring. He joined in 1893 at age 31 with a masters degree from Centenary college. There were 60 students at the university that first year. Now there are 8000.
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Fos
BE. Amos
University of Oklahoma
Centenary College
Sergeant Edgeman Suspended Dishonor Discharge In Three Year Sentence
SEI Team San Francisco reports Staff Sergeant Samuel B Edgeman had his dishonorable discharge suspended but must serve a three year court martial sentence for taking army papers from Presidio files to his home. Maj Gen Bowley approved the sentence but suspended execution. the designated punishment is disciplinary barracks Governors Island.
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I— Btair
Samuel B. Edgeman
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Presidio
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A. J. Bowley
Samuel B Edgeman
Bowley
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Edgeman
Franco drive stalls as government counter-offensives advance
In the Teruel Valencia corridor government forces regain ground with counter-offensives recapturing areas along the highway toward Mora de Rubielos. Rebels hold Puebla de Valverde while government air power contests aerial control as Barcelona pilots foil large scale bombardments. twelve insurgent planes are claimed shot down.
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France
Teruel-Valencia
Mediterranean
Concerossos el Coco
Valicona
Air Corps
Barcelona
Jurors Find Woman Guilty of Murder in Michigan
DETROIT June 2 7 A jur y of eight women and four men found Mrs Julia M Barker a once wealthy Detroit real estate operator guilty of manslaughter for the January 35 fatal shooting of her business associate Mrs Edith Mae Cummings. Jurors deliberated eight hours as Circuit Judge Tra W Jayne ordered she be held pending study by the probation commission. The shooting occurred on a snow covered ravine near Belleville Michigan during a struggle for a gun as they walked in the ravine. Evelyn Fosha testified she heard shots and saw one woman beating another and kicking her body down the hillside.
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Julia M. Barker
Edith Mae Cummings
Barker
Tra W. Jayne
Kentucky
Cummings
Weather Totals and City Forecast Across Regions
A weather summary lists rainfall totals since January with excess and deficiency figures, and provides sun and moon rise data for Thursday and Friday. It also shows a multi city climate snapshot with high and low temperatures, cloud cover, and wind notes across Amarillo Abilene Dallas Houston Boston and other U.S. cities, plus a forecast tone for tourists.
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