Gradual Abandoning Of WPA Foreseen By Legislators
Washington December 29 Congress debates making the Public Works Administration semi permanent with an emergency WPA extension to July 1. Senators Hayden Clark and McCurran urge long range planning and a permanent PWA to handle unemployment if private industry slows, with an emergency appropriation of 650 to 750 million dollars. The agency has already allocated over 1.425 billion this year, and peak activity is expected in April. Wage scales on PWA projects run higher than WPA work.
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Washington
Public Work Administration
Congress
PWA
Hayden
D-Ariz
Senate Appropriations Committee
Clark Cae
McCarran
D-New
Gift of gaiety and maturity in Franklin’s view
An aged voice argues gaiety as a civic virtue and personal maturity. It urges society to share happiness, avoid waiting for others to entertain, and accept setbacks with a hopeful, generous attitude.
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Franklin
Men Accused Of Defrauding Woman Held For Court
Two men, Adolph Raskin and Marcus Thuna, both in Brooklyn on grand larceny charges, allegedly took $3,000 from Miss Jennie Horwitz of Baltimore after promising marriage. Raskin, 55, nicknamed The Count, and Thuna, 59, were remanded with $15,000 bail each for tomorrow’s hearing as detectives traced a promised motion picture theatre venture and a new car purchase from the payments.
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New York
Jennie Horwitz
Ruxton Avenue
Baltimore
Brooklyn
Adolph Raskin
Marcus Thuna
Horwitz
Pay As You Go Debs Get Rebuff
London dispatch reports the Lord Chamberlain rejected 58 requests for presentation at the 1939 courts citing payment to peeresses as private gain. The reform tightens controls and denies new applications after next Monday with end of sponsorship in coming seasons.
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London
Daily Mail
America
Joseph P. Kennedy
England
King George
Queen Elizabeth
Newspaper in Prague to Cease Publication This Saturday
Prague, Dec 29 The Prager Presse the German language publication of the Czechoslovak foreign office founded by former President Benes in 1920 is to stop publication on Saturday Official sources denied a report of a purge of officials including Wolfgang Brettholz the Sudeten Nazi leader before Germany and Konenlein in the Sudetenland
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Prager Presse
Czechoslovak Foreign Office
Benes
Needie
Wolfgang Brettholz
Appoaut Pec Ellor
Insurgent Air Battle Claims 20 Government Planes Down
From Hendaye France a Franco insurgent communique boasted 20 government planes were downed in a major air battle near the Albages Borja Blancas road west of Barcelona. Land gains were minor with six days of fighting totaling about 380 square miles.
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Hendaye
France
Catalonia
Albages
Borja Blancas
Barcelona
Franco
Lerida
Mt. Boada
Boada
Artesa-Tremp Road
Abages-Borjas Blancas
Car Forced from Road by a Truck Near Bunker Hill West Virginia
Sergeant Francis Funk and Dowell Fogle escaped with minor injuries when their car, owned by Funk, was forced off the highway by an unidentified coal truck south of Bunker Hill at the Pennsylvania Railroad crossing. The truck swerved, the car hit a telegraph pole, and the other vehicle fled. Police could not identify the truck or driver. alcohol reports or fatigue are unconfirmed.
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Francis Funk
Winchester
Dowell Fogle
Funk
Bunker Hill
W. Va
Pennsylvania Railroad
Mr. Fogle
Public sale notice at Berryville Pike residence
Household and kitchen furniture to be sold at the residence of Mrs W E Cornwell on Berryville Pike Web. The sale is scheduled for January 4 at 11 a.m. Auction notice appears in Huntsberry's Ad on Page 9 and repeats on Page 11.
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W. E. Cornwell
Berryville Pike
Two 15 Year Olds Raid United States Mint
In San Francisco a guarded mint was entered by two orphanage youths from San Rafael. They climbed from the ground to a second story window, say it was for fun, and tossed copper from the penny room. They were held for juvenile authorities.
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San Francisco
United States Mint
Max Reanik
Paul Francis
William Gallagher
San Rafael
Bedlam
Reznik
George Maher
Mint Guard
Paul
William
Octavia Street
P. J. Haggerty
The
Mint
Second Arctic Cold Blast Moves East Across Plains
A new severe Arctic cold wave from Canada pushes into the west and plains and will reach the eastern states by tonight or tomorrow. Forecaster J R Lloyd of Chicago says this second section will be more intense than the first with zero to 25 below readings in the northwest and widespread frigid conditions across Iowa Minnesota Nebraska Idaho Montana the Dakotas Kansas and western Wisconsin.
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Associated Press
Northwest
Canada
Canadian Plains
Rockies
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
Idaho
Montana
Dakotas
Kansas
Wisconsin
J. R. Lloyd
Chicago
Safety Slogan Prompts Readers to Share Honest Road Wisdom
Continued on Page 3 Col 3 a safety slogan credits Harry D. Warren of Stephens City and invites readers to send in their own slogan. The message urges cautious driving for curves and hills and to stay within sight distance.
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Harry D. Warren
Stephens City
Roosevelt Busy With Legislative Budget Work and Appointments
President Roosevelt, aiming to reserve time for bills and the budget, held two engagements and studied recommendations for federal posts. Reports linked Frank Murphy to Attorney General, but officials offered no comment. James M. Thomson and George E. Proudfit were announced to federal posts. Senate support for Murphy’s confirmation grew amid calls for a strong Justice Department.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Frank Murphy
Michigan
Department of Justice
Homer Cummings
White House
James Thomson
James M. Thomson
New Orleans
United States Territorial Expansion Memorial Commission
George E. Proudfit
Lincoln
United States Marshall
District of
Nebraska
Senate
Murphy
Burke
D-Neb
Murhy
Department of of Justice
Holt Predicts A Club Coal Rate In Wage Fight
Senator Holt predicts the bituminous coal commission will set minimum prices around March 15. He says the UMWA will use them as a club in wage negotiations before the April 1 wage-agreement expiry, with Supreme Court likely to throw them out again. He calls the agency bureaucratic boondoggling and notes prior court setbacks.
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Washington
Senator Holt
D-Wwa
Bituminous Coal Commission
United Mine Workers
Holt
Coal Commission
John L. Lewis
Lewis
UMWA
Supreme Court
Commission
Federal Aid For Railways And Highways In National Defense
The article discusses potential federal aid for railways and highways as essential to national defense. It notes auxiliary naval ship funding, air mail contracts enabling trained fliers, and government support for inland waterways and barge operations. It cites land grants totaling about 616 million dollars, offset by credits for hauled mail and supplies, and stresses perpetual discounted hauling as a condition of grants.
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Washington
Congress
Federal
Nee
Philadelphia
Bureau of Valuation of the
Interstate Commission
A. Brookings Institution
Interstate Commerce Commission
The
Transportation Association of America
Treasury position December 27 shows debt rise
Treasury figures for December 27 report receipts of 20 million 86 thousand 91 dollars and 96 cents and expenditures of 82 million 740 thousand 531 dollars and 15 cents. Gross debt stands at 39 billion 416 million 546 thousand 243 dollars and 51 cents, up from the prior day.
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Treasury
Washington
New York City Rings In New Year With High Prices
The Manhattan area braces for New Year festivities as hotels and clubs report high demand and top rates. Police deploy over 1,000 officers around Times Square to manage crowds while thousands prepare for midnight celebrations and street noise.
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Manhattan
Roger Greene
New York
Broadway
Times Square
Lewis J. Valentine
Rockefeller Center
No Concrete Sidewalk For Severna Park
Severna Park residents on Riggs Avenue petitioned against sidewalk construction arguing it would ruin the rural look. County Commissioner Weems R. Duvall was asked to investigate and report to the next board meeting.
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Annapolis
Severna Park
Here
Board of County Commissioners
Riggs Avenue
Permit Case To Come Up Soon In City Court
The Continental Oil Company seeks a writ of mandamus to compel a permit for a North Avenue and North Loudoun street filling station. Judge Philip Williams will hear the matter in Corporation Court after a preliminary motion. Council members and property owners are represented by attorneys. petition argues ordinances were followed and the denial is arbitrary and deprives due process.
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Continental Oil Company
Delaware
North Avenue
North Loudoun Street
Philip Williams
Corporation Court
Common Council
James P. Reardon
Harry R. Kern
Burr P. Harrison
Guy B. Hazelgrove
Witness In Case Of Coster Dead
A supposed key witness in the F. Donald Coster Musica case is identified as A. J. Vitale a Brooklyn insurance broker who died. Vitale allegedly loaned Musica twenty thousand dollars in 1928 and later lost most of his assets endorsing the notes. Disbarred attorney Walter Cragg and associates Joseph Brandino and Mary Brandino faced related charges with bail set.
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New York
F. Donald Coster- Musica
Coster-Musica
McKesson and Robbins
A. J. Vitale
Brooklyn
Walter H. Cragg
Cragg
Yao
Musica
F. Donald Coster
Vitale
Longho
Coseas
Joseph Brandino
Mary
Mussolini Moves To Internationalize Tunisia
Paris reports Italy aims to strip French control from Tunisia and seek shared governance with Britain Germany and others. Mussolini to present plan to Chamberlain. France vows to keep Tunisia under French dominance amid naval and troop reinforcements. Bonnett criticized by opposition for withholding details of Italy’s stance on Tunisia.
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Paris
Italy
Tunisia
Mussolini
Premier Chamberlain
Rome
Foreign Office
Pier Chamberlain
Djibouti
Chamberlain
Bay of Tunis
France
Germany
Britain
Tangier
Morocco
Marseille
French Somaliland
Bonnett
Dober
Daldier
Chamber of Deputies
Arabs Release British Bankier After Kidnapping near Jericho
Louis Le Bouvier, manager of the Ottoman Bank, arrived in Jerusalem unharmed after being held by an Arab band on the Jericho road. He said the captors demanded ransom and debated his fate before his friends paid for his release. The incident ended two miles from Jericho with a disputed wardrobe ransom issue.
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Jerusalem
Louis le Bouvier
le Bouvier
Suleiman
Jlem-Jericho
Christ
Jericho
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Winchester Evening Star
Machine
Huntsberry
Cold Blast
W. G. Ragsdale
Daladier
Africa
Coster
Duce Ae
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