40 Hour Week For Postal Workers Approved By Senate
The Senate voted for a 40 hour week for postal employees but McKellar moved to reconsider after an on floor amendment from Byrnes and La Follette. A House bill authorizing the 40 hour week passed with brief debate. transmittal to the House was stalled by McKellar’s motion. The amendment would prohibit discrimination against railroad mail crews on high speed trains and set eight hours per day for certain mileage tiers. The plan would include compensatory time for Saturdays, with projected annual cost up to 22 million dollars and about 10 thousand of 81 thousand substitute workers affected.
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Washington
Senate
McKellar
Post Office Committee
House
Byrnes
S. C
la Follette
Wis
Jines
Post Office Department
Clever Color Accent Crochet Gloves and Turban Pattern
The Needlework column presents crochet gloves with a clover lace pattern and a matching tiny turban. Instructions promise a stylish color accent for summer frocks in dusty pink poudre blue and corn yellow. Send 10 cents to the Knit Pattern Dept Daily Mail New York for complete directions.
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The
Daily Mail
Fifth Ave
New York City
Grange Field Day Set For August Visit Beltsville
Washington county granges attend the Maryland State Grange field day at the U S Department of Agriculture experiment farm Beltsville Maryland on Thursday August 1. Pomona Grange will enter a contest team and tours will include dairy animal husbandry poultry swine beef cattle sheep and insecticide divisions. Picnic lunch and music from CCC camps round out the day.
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Washington County
Maryland
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Beltsville
Pomona
T. Roy Brooks
CCC
Suits Entered by Packing Companies In Court
Chicago July 30 eighteen meat packing firms led by Swift and Co and Armour and Co filed Federal District Court suits to stop further collection of hog processing taxes. More than 440 packing and milling companies sought injunctions recently. big packers had not joined until today. Swift and Co claims $36,256,148 paid in processing and floor taxes and over $2,000,000 monthly given to the government.
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Chicago
Swift and Co
Armour and Co
Federal District’ Court
Phoebus Seeks Republican National Committeeman Post
Ocean City Maryland July 30 State Senator Harry T Phoebus says he will run for Republican National Committeeman from Maryland amid disputes with Gov Harry W Nice He may face United States Senator Ovington E Weller who was elected to the post and could seek re election at the next state convention Weller has long been a key Republican figure in Maryland and succeeds Philipps Lee Goldsborough who resigned to take a judicial post in Washington
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Ocean City
Harry T. Phoebus
Harry W. Nice
Maryland
Somerset’ County
United States
Ovington E. Weller
Public Service Commission
Weller, Long
Philipps Lee Goldsborough
Washington
Cement Plant to undergo six week shutdown
The Security plant of the North American Cement Corporation will shut down for about six weeks starting August 1, announced by E. S. Guth. In recent years the local plant has periodically closed for short intervals.
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North American Cement Corporation
E. 8. Guth
Former U S Senator Gillett Dies Nearing Death in Springfield Hospital
In Springfield Massachusetts on July 30 former U S Senator Frederick H. Gillett, aged 83, was reported gravely ill at Springfield Hospital where he had been for three weeks. Hospital officials said doctors feared he might not survive the night and death was expected within a day or two.
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Springfield
Mass
U. S
Frederick H. Gillett
Springfield Hospital
Etta Garner Lives Beside Vice President in Texas Ranch Home
The Vice President’s wife Etta Rheiner Garner assists him by managing his schedule and correspondence since 1902. She is portrayed as quietly cheerful, fond of home life in Uvalde Texas, and enjoys cooking for the family including their son Tully.
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Garner
Etta Rheiner
Congress
Uvalde, Texas
Tully
Shady Bower Lutheran Aid Society Meeting Report
Shady Bower July meeting at the home of Mr and Mrs Fred Miles with Mrs Walter Myers presiding. After devotional and business a social hour and refreshments followed. Numerous local residents attended, including the Miles and Ebersole families, with notes of upcoming picnic plans along the Potomac and several visiting relatives and guests mentioned.
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Shady
Chlorene Kreps
Orville Ernst
Grover’ Forsythe
Mary Hull
Walter Frush
Mollie Yeakle
Ira Sprecher
Everly
Chas. Dennis
Fred Renner
Christian Ebersole
Roy Ebersole
Mary Marotte
Robert
Mildred Bloyer
Lois Miller
Clearspring
Tillie Shank
Johnnie Miles
David Witmer
Fred Miles
Charlton
Silva Swartz
Hagerstown
Swartz
Relief cases drop in Frederick county report
Frederick Welfare Board reports a drop of 159 relief cases in the county for last week. Total cases stood at 1,331 covering about 6,812 persons. rolls are gradually reduced.
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Frederick
Frederick County
Welfare Board
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Nash Motors Company
Kenosha
Wisconsin
Nash Hagerstown, Inc
Phoebus
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Shady Bower
Potomac
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Dorothy Grove
Catherine Miles
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Norfolk
Virginia Seashore
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Ocean View
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P. A
Pier 10
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Peoples Service Drug Store
American Oil Company
American Gas
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Amoco-Gas
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