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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1934
Page
3
The article notes that The Associated Press holds exclusive rights to use or publish all news dispatches credited or not credited in the newspaper. It also states local news published within the paper remains protected, including right of publication for special dispatches.
The article notes President Roosevelt's comfort in sailing clothes and questions why Lieutenant Commander Guy Rothwell wore a pristine white uniform when serving as fishing guide. It suggests Rothwell swapped uniforms for gear suited to fishing as the party prepared to sail from Kailua.
The piece contrasts droughts in America with floods in Poland, noting how heat and water harm crops and homes. It argues that climate extremes disrupt farming, push families to towns, raise food prices, and echo how global commerce binds distant regions to shared shortages.
The National Recovery Administration outlines how to adjust labor dispute procedures to align with the National Labor Relations Board created by Congress. It details jurisdiction over wage hour code violations and 7 a disputes, and allows review of code agency cases by the new board. It suggests plans for bipartisan or impartial committees, single industry committees, or compliance division handling, subject to administrator approval.
Three dry years in the last four have about destroyed vegetation in large areas yet not significantly reduced the nation's food supply, benefiting nobody but the farmers in agricultural sections.
The body of a young woman found slain Sunday near Hollister, California, was identified Monday as Alveretta Castor, a Salinas Chinese restaurant waitress. Police questioned A. Aquino, a Filipino labor contractor, after identification by Mrs. Tanaka, who said she gave the braided belt found with the body. James Doherty, a San Juan farmer, discovered the belt Sunday at the scene.
Washington reports a planned fall conference inviting industrial producers to discuss decentralization, highlighting the Federal Subsistence Homesteads Corporation FSHC and its 25 million dollar capital. The long term plan aims to move factories from cities to countryside over a decade or two, with Washington oversight and strict expenditure control.
The discussion questions whether mental deficiency is rising. Citing 1904 English Royal Commission data of 4.6 per thousand and 1924 figures around six per thousand, it notes possible survey thoroughness, hereditary transmission, nonrandom mating, and environmental factors. It argues prompt treatment of acquired syphilis likely reduced mental defectiveness.
A short poetic piece urging constant striving and dreaming. It emphasizes life as visioning and scheming, seeking brighter goals, and overcoming complacency as humanity pushes upward beyond present limits.
George Tucker reports on New York fashion modeling, detailing Helen a West Virginia arrival who refused corsets but soon modeled gowns and rose to head model earning 85 dollars weekly. The piece also touchs on Greenwich Village artists attitudes toward art and money, and odd notes on snow seeking flights and rainbow colored toothpicks in social dining.
About 500 percent of the 4,000 cigar makers on strike in York county during the past month returned to work Monday. Manufacturers and union leaders disagree on prospects for full-time resumption, with factory owners saying at least two weeks are needed to swing back into production due to labor trouble.
Astronomers describe the universe expanding at light speed with galaxies and nebulae receding from Earth. The text cites Lemaitre, Hubble, De Sitter, and Johns Hopkins astronomer Janet Clark, noting billions of light years, trillions of nebulae, and massive star counts. Candler Field in Atlanta is noted as a once-wasteland airport site.
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