Connally Addresses Picnic Audience On Democracy And Dissent
Senator Tom Connally spoke at the Whitewright American Legion picnic, praising veterans and democracy while warning against Fascism and Communism. He cited the U S Constitution as vital, urged adherence to constitutional processes, and urged Legion support against totalitarian ideologies. He closed with a quip about scouting ages.
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Tom Connally
Marlin
American Legion
Whitewright
Robert Cantrell
Joe M. Connally
Veterans’ Organization
Senator Connally
Europe
Orient
Republic of the United States
France Opens Drive to End Joblessness and Boost Output
France launches a two and a half year pump priming plan led by Premier Edouard Daladier to curb unemployment, spur production, and revive money circulation. The program targets eleven billion francs in public works and ten billion for slum clearance through 1940 and beyond, with miles of roads, dams, and autostrades planned in France and colonies. It includes a move toward a 200 hour year while maintaining the 40 hour week, under a treasury credit to fund the state share.
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Paris
Roosevelt
Edouard Daladier
France
North Africa
Treasury
U S Court Upholds Conviction of 17 In Gasoline Case
Madison Wis Federal Judge Patrick T Stone sustained the conviction of 17 of 46 defendants found guilty last January of a conspiracy to raise and fix midwestern gasoline prices in 1935 and 1936. He fined 12 companies and five executives a total of 65000 dollars. Charges were dismissed as to 10 other executives and one corporation. 15 officials and three firms earned a new trial due to circumstantial links only.
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Madison
Wis
Patrick T. Stone
A&M College Revises PWA Loan Request
Texas A and M College Station revised its PWA aid request for a college building program. The university seeks a loan and grant totaling 4,456,000 dollars, adjusting the earlier plan which requested a 45 percent grant. Planned facilities include dormitories dining hall equipment auditorium a college hotel laundry and utilities.
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College Station
Texas A. & M
Public Works Administration
Smart Boy Father at Breakfast
A father tells Molly she need not attend school claiming two new baby brothers. Molly weighs the plan, considering telling the teacher she has one brother now and another next week to stay home again.
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Father
Molly
Anti-Trust Suit Against 8 Film Firms
Washington attorney general Cummings filed a federal anti trust suit in New York naming Paramount Pictures, Loew s, Warner Brothers, Twentieth Century Fox, Columbia, Universal, United Artists and others as defendants. The suit seeks divestiture of theater ownership or production and distribution assets. Individual defendants include Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin.
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Washington
Cummings
Federal District Court
New York
Justice Department
Moving Pictures
Paramount Pictures
Inec
Loew’s Inc
The
Irving Trust Company
N. Y
Radio-Keith Orpheum Corporation
Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Columbia Pictures Corporation
Universal Corporation
United Artists Corporation
Pickford
Douglas Fairbanks
Charles Chaplin
Automatic control speeds Ohio electrocutions
In Columbus an automatic current control reduces the execution time at Ohio penitentiary. Previously voltage was manual. now after three guards pull switches, the current stays on for 60 seconds, with 1950 volts for 10 seconds, 500 volts for 40 seconds, then 1950 volts for 10 seconds before turning off.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Penitentiary
Thieves Nabbed by Hen Psychology in Oklahoma
In Hollis Oklahoma a group of chicken thieves were captured after a test of hen psychology. Garland Rivers identified five hens stolen from him by observing them return to their nests, proving their ownership as deputies released the suspects.
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Hollis
Okla
Garland Rivers
Sheriff Anderson
U. S. Financier Becomes Liechtenstein Citizen
William M. Greve a 54-year-old former financier and yachtsman renounced American citizenship to become a subject of Liechtenstein a tax free principality in the Swiss Alps A certificate of admission filed on his arrival as an alien lists his transfer of allegiance Greve was born in New York retired from business in 1936 Liechtenstein population 10000 spans 65 square miles and maintains no army or navy with three policemen to keep order.
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New York
William M. Greve
Liechtenstein
Swiss Alps
Greve
1934 License Plates Good Until the Law Saw Them
A rancher in Rawlings Wyoming explains to Highway Patrolman C A Lane that his 1934 1935 1936 and 1937 license plates were valid on country roads but not in 1938. He believed any old plate would do as long as he stayed off main roads.
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Rawlings
Wyo
Wyoming
C. A. Lane
Government to reclaim funds for Gettysburg reunion attendance
Washington reports the federal government will recover a large portion of money funded for the Gettysburg reunion. With only 1,812 of the 10,000 veterans still living attending, an estimated $300,000 to $350,000 will be refunded.
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Washington
Gettysburg
Congress Refunds $1,186,000 to Treasury
Congress allocated a total of $1,186,000 to be returned to the Treasury after the Government covered all traveling and living expenses for veterans and their attendants during a given period.
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Congress
Gasoline Fueled Beans Explode in Indianapolis Kitchen
In Indianapolis Mrs Irene Hill discovered a gasoline smell from a pot of beans and ham. Firemen reported she had used gasoline as fuel for the stove and was cooking the meal in it.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Irene Hill
Granary Plans for Farm Storage Put Forward
College Station Texas outlines new grain storage plans by the Bureau of Agricultural Engineering US Department of Agriculture. Blueprint granaries of 500 1000 1800 and 6400 bushel capacity offered through Texas A and M College Extension Service by M R Bentley. Farmers expect increased storage due to large crop and low prices.
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College Station
Bureau of Agricultural Engineering
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Extension Service
Texas A
M. College
Texas
M. R. Bentley
Extension Agricultural Engineer
Flying Low Speeding Tourist Laughs At Police
A tourist traveling at 100 mph is stopped by a patrolman who replies that the issue is not speed but altitude, saying you were flying too low. The exchange cuts dryly through the tension with a wry punchline.
Emotional upsets worsen disease say UC doctors
Drs William J Kerr Paul A Grieve and James W Dalton of the University of California Medical School report worry fear and other emotional upsets can aggravate disease and intensify symptoms. They note symptoms may accompany organic disease and stem from repeated overstimulation of the automatic nervous system. Psychiatry is shifting to aid internal medicine and surgery.
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San Francisco
William J. Kerr
Paul A. Grieve
James W. Dalton
Department of Medicine
University of California Medical School
Kerr
Counter Irritant Son and the Lesson Joke
A comic exchange shows a boy asking for a counter irritant example in chemistry. His clerk father defines it as a woman who shops all day yet buys nothing. A mother asks Georgie if he fell in his good pants. he confirms with a humorous misstep about not removing them in time.
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Son
Pop
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