F D R Urges Labor Reform Details in Bill Drafted
President Roosevelt outlines a wage and hour program to curb child labor and unfair practices. A five member labor standards board would administer rules with a 40 cent wage floor and exceptions for certain trades plus overtime pay. Congress would draft implementing legislation and set interstate market protections.
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Hie
Staniards
Connery
D-Macs
House Labor Committee
Roosevelt
Connergeed
Newsmen
Labor Board
Supreme Court Backs New Deal Social Security Provisions
The court sustains federal unemployment insurance and old age pension provisions and upholds state unemployment compensation laws. Justice Cardozo delivers both major rulings with Stone writing the old age pension opinion and four conservative justices dissenting in parts. About 27.8 million workers and 2.7 million employers fund benefits starting at age 65 in 1942.
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Washington
Supreme Court
High Tribunal
Roosevelt
Justice Stone
District of Columbia
Justice Cardozo
van Devanter
McReynolds
Sutherland
Butler
Alabama
States
Second District League Winners Claim Regular-Season Title
The Second District team led the American Legion baseball standings with a 7-2 record, winning the regular schedule started April 26 and marking the first district title since 1926. Playoffs approach at Foundry Grounds on North Sixth at 6 pm with East vs West sides for the city championship. admission is free.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
Foundry Grounds
North Sixth
Hood returns to Boise after Boise visit
J Leo Hood WPA administrator of Idaho and former Pocatalan, is returning to Boise Tuesday morning after several days on business. Mrs Hood has been here visiting her parents Mr and Mrs H H Whittlesey and will also return to Boise Tuesday.
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Boise
J. Leo Hood
WPA
Idaho
Pocatellan
Catholic Women To Meet Tuesday In Idaho Deanery
The Catholic Women's League of Pocatello hosts the eastern Idaho Catholic Women deanery meeting on Tuesday May 25 with reps from Idaho Falls and Blackfoot. Luncheon at 1 pm at the Bannock hotel precedes the meeting. Rev Edmund R Cody of Pocatello dean fifth district will speak. Mrs Stanley J Cleare presides. reservations urged with Mrs Mary Smitham.
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Catholic Women's League of
Pocatello
Idaho
Idaho Falls
Blackfoot
Bannock
Edmund R. Cody
Fifth District
Stanley J. Cleare
Mary Smitham
AFL Launches War on Lewis Sparks Labor Rift
In Cincinnati the American Federation of Labor declared war on John L. Lewis and his CIO. It plans to boost dues to fund anti expansion and raid Lewis unions across coal fields mills and textiles. CIO responds with activity in auto and steel sectors as SWOC seeks a contract with Crucible Steel and targets four more firms.
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American Federation of Labor
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Cincinnati
C.1.c
Lewis
A.F.L
C.I.0
Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee
Crucible Steel Company
United States Steel
SWOC
Crucible
Republic Steel
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Inland Steel
Bethlehem Steel
Mystery grows in Bannock county car case probe
Ada county Sheriff Don Hedrick announces a jail detainee is not P J McCarthy of Meridian, Idaho, deepening a case where a bloodstained car was found near Downey and a supposed McCarthy is in a drugged state near Tyhee. Investigators test blood, photograph prints, and seek help from residents to identify two Boise detainees linked to the incident.
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Bannock County
Don Hedrick
Ada County
P. J. McCarthy
Meridian
Idaho
M. J. Rossiter
McCarthy
Hedrick
Boise
Downey
Here
Tyhee
Dave McNichols
Jock Gordon
Los Angeles
McNichols
Bureau of Identification
Washington
Poxatello
Portneuf
Rossiter
James Brangton
Bert Empey
Deaths from auto accidents may hit 50000 in 1937 report
Louis H. Pink, New York state superintendent of insurance, forecast today that deaths from automobile accidents could reach 50 000 during 1937, a rise of more than one third over 1936, according to Atlantic City dispatch.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Louis H. Pink
New York State
Rockefeller founder of vast dollar dynasty dies in Florida
John D. Rockefeller sr died at his winter home Thie Casements in Ormond Beach Florida at 4 05 am EST on Sunday. Death was due to sclerotic myocarditis as doctors noted. The 97 year old founder of a vast fortune left most wealth to philanthropy and his son John D Rockefeller Jr. A private funeral will be held at Pocantico Hills followed by burial in Cleveland.
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John Davison Rockefeller
Associated Press
Ormond Beach
Fla
John D. Rockefeller
E.S.T
Croesus
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Rockefeller
Pocantico Hills
Cleveland
Meath
Noor
John D Rockefeller, Jr
New York
Florida
John H
Case
Lugher
Key Points In Security Act Highlights
Washington May 24 The social security act outlines old age pensions for over 26.6 million workers with monthly checks from 10 to 85 beginning January 1942. Tax funded by a 2 percent rate rising to 6 percent by 1949 with both worker and employer contributing. Unemployment insurance leaves administration to states. firms with eight or more workers taxed for 20 weeks. State benefits typically half wages up to 15 dollars for about 15 weeks.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Florida
Ilinois
Missouri
Memorial Day Observed in Idaho on Monday
Boise May 24 Boise states Memorial Day observers will mark the holiday on Monday May 31 as Governor Zilla W Clark decreed. Most communities prefer Monday closures and statehouse offices will be closed. Idaho weather unsettled Tuesday cooler with overcast skies over mountains.
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Idaho
Boise
Bar
Mountaina
Lindberghs Welcome Third Son Born May 12
Announcement from Cleveland reports the Lindberghs have a third son born on May 12 at their Kent residence Longbarn Sevenoaks. secrecy surrounds the birth as Charles A. Lindbergh and wife await registration within six weeks. Colonel Lindbergh remained home in England during coronation day events.
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Lindberghs
Cleveland
Charles A. Lindbergh
Anne C. Cutter
Longbarn
Sevenoaks
Kent
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
New Jersey
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr
Terture
New York
United States
London
Jon
Lindbergh
Westminster Abbey
George VI
Dow
Idaho Drivers In Utah Accident
A May 24 crash near South Willard Brigham City involved a produce truck and a cattle truck. The collision left two cows dead and several animals injured. both drivers were unharmed. The trucks carried items from Idaho to the Ogden livestock market. No charges filed.
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Brigham City
Utah
South Willard
Fred Sorensen
Orange Transportation official to move to Salt Lake
A. L. Greenawalt Jr. secretary treasurer of the Orange Transportation company, of 335 West Halliday, leaves about June 1 for Salt Lake City to become manager of the Intermountain Coast Traffic bureau. The bureau handles tariff and related matters for truck operators in California Nevada Utah Idaho and Montana.
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Salt Lake
A. L. Greenawalt, Jr
West Halliday
Orange Transportation Company
Salt Lake City
Intermountain Coast Traffic Bureau
California
Nevada
Utah
Idaho
Montana
Utah Weather Unsettled Tonight and Tuesday
Unsettled conditions persist tonight into Tuesday with cooler air moving in. Expect variable cloudiness and scattered showers as a trough affects northern and central Utah.
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Utah
Wedding of Edward and Wallis captivates the world
The Cannes dispatch recalls the 1925 hatless moment on the destroyer Wishart that linked Mrs. Wallis Simpson to the future king. American reporters note Edward VIII’s growing fascination with Simpson, leading to royal intrigue and eventual throne abdication.
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Edward
Wallis
New York
Cannes Harbor
French Riviera
H. M
Wishart
Edward VIII
Cannes
France
Riviera
Prince of Wales
Mrs. Simpson
Royal Court
Simpson
Today’s Scores and Lineups From Baseball Action
National scores show Cincinnati Chicago Detroit St. Louis Philadelphia New York Boston among teams with runs and innings listed. Names listed include Hubbell Mancuso Brandt Bowman Todd Phelps Moore Davis Fette Lopez Carleton Hartnett Andrews Hudlin Heving Pytlak Sullivan Chandler Dickey Rigney Dietrich Sewell Desautels plus several pitchers and catchers.
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Oro
Cincinnati
Butcher
Phelps
L. Moore
V. Davis
Chicago
Fette
Lopez
Carleton
Hartnett
Cleveland
New York
Andrews
Hudlin
Heving
Brown
Pytlak
Sullivan
Chandler
Dickey
Glenn
Idaho Chamber Urges Congress to Finish Approved PWA Projects
Board of direc or the chamber of commerce met at a luncheon and instructed Secretary Paul Nash to telegraph the Idaho delegation urging continued 55-45 funding for approved PWA projects. The group opposed new PWA projects but argued the government has a moral obligation to complete existing approvals. J. Leo Hood, former chamber president and now WPA administrator for Idaho, attended.
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Direcor
Chamber of Commerce
Paul Nash
Idaho
Congress
PWA
J. Leo Hood
The
Chamber
WPA
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Harry L Merryday
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Wally Simpson
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Ascot
Aintree
Hubbell
Mancuso
Brandt
Bowman
Todd
Detroit
Washton
Lawson
Cochrane
Newsom
Millies
Boston
Rigney
Dietrich
Sewell
Rensa
Waiberg
Desautels
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