Lending Bill Praised as Advance by Morgenthau
Secretary Morgenthau praised the $2.8 billion lending bill before the Senate Banking Committee as a real advance toward aligning expenditures with receipts. He favored immediate action and outlined major provisions including $750 million for highways and $350 million for municipal loans, with other allocations for farm tenants, export credits, and updates to borrowing limits.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Senate Banking Committee
Treasury Ahead
United States Authority
Orgenthau
Writers of Bill Reveal Identity
Washington dispatch reports Senator Hatch and Representative Dempsey rewriting the bill to curb political activities by government employees to avoid confusion and win support. Dempsey plans to introduce the substitute in the House on Thursday as debate begins. The draft bans official influence on elections with limited exceptions and preserves voting rights and free expression on political topics.
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Washington
Hatch
Dempsey
New Mexico
Senate
House Judiciary Committee
Mary Steele Crowned as New York City Debutante of 1940
Portrait features Mary Steele described as New York City’s most feted debutante and potential glamor heir to Brenda Frazier. Steele stands five feet ten inches, portrayed as the era’s logical successor to Brenda Frazier in society circles.
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Mary Steele
New York City
Brenda Frazier
Miss Steele
Sergt Pingley Receives Commision Recommendation
Sergeant William G. Pingley Jr of Headquarters Company Third Battalion 116th Infantry Virginia National Guard earns commission potential after excelling at Fort Benning Infantry School from February 27 to May 25. He achieved excellent or superior marks in field telephones, final code speed test, animal management and transportation, wire systems and cryptography among others.
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William G. Pingley, Jr
One Hundred and Sixteenth Infantry
Virginia National Guard
Fort Benning
Lawrence C. Hollis
Pingley
Virginia Woolen Company
Rigid Four Day Fitness Tests Ordered for Italian Leaders
Rome July 18 Fascist leaders from Achille Starace to provincial secretaries begin four days of athletic trials after break of day. The program includes rifle and pistol shooting swimming and equestrian events with daily 6:30 am meetings and tests such as jumping through flaming hoops and bayonet hurdles.
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Rome
Italy
Mussolini
Achille Starace
Starace
Oene
Yard Party at Welltown Church
Community yard party announced for Welltown Church on Wednesday July 19. Event timing listed as 1 pm to 5 pm with activities for families and neighbors in the churchyard setting. Proceeds to support church programs.
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Welltown Church
Wed
Fire Devastates Pittsburgh Stockyards In Eight-Alarm Blaze
A massive eight alarm fire swept through the Pittsburgh joint stockyards on a northside island, damaging an estimated 100000. Fire Chief Nichols Pheland said five hours of flames reached 100 feet high near the Armour and Company plant. Fifteen cattle were lost, 15 firemen treated for injuries, and a bridge suffered about 25000 in damage. Firemen freed hundreds of cows and herded stock back to pens as crews from 21 companies battled the blaze.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Joint Stockyards
Nichols Pheland
Armour and Company
William Reiger
Daniel E. Sable
Reiger
Employes
Gann
G. G. Sharpless
Joint Stock Yards
Wheat Yields Show Encouraging Signs in Frederick County
Unseasonably rainy weather delayed threshing in Frederick County yet early reports indicate satisfactory yields. Readers include R M Stephenson with 25 bushels per acre, Clayton Carbaugh 27, Walter Funk 44.7 bushels barley per acre, Lucien Brumback 40, Morris Boyer 45 oats, Joseph Funk 64 barley, and M J Grove Lime Co with 401.4 bushels from 16.3 acres wheat.
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Frederick County
R. M. Stephenson
Middle Road
Clayton Carbaugh
Bartonville
Walter Funk
Lucien Brumback
Morris Boyer
Joseph Funk
M. J. Grove Lime Company
Gov Price To Speak On Education And Roads
Governor Price will address education, roads, public health and labor relations in a Thursday night radio speech. He notes the last General Assembly added 300000 annually to education funding, bringing total education spending to about 1 million dollars above prior outlays.
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Richmond
Department of Health and Arbitration
C V Firemen Set One Day Meeting in Winchester
The Cumberland Valley Volunteer Firemen's Association schedules a one day meeting on Thursday August 17 in Winchester at the Sarah Zane Fire Company hall. John W. Smith of Harrisburg Pa will call the session to order at 10 am with delegates from member companies expected.
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Cumberland Valley Volunteer Firemen's Association
Winchester
Sarah Zane Fire Company
North Loudoun Street
John W. Smith
Harrisburg
Robert L. Gray
Pennsylvania
Death Of Flier Blamed On Rag
Washington July 18 a spokesman for the air safety board said an investigation found a rag sucked into the carburetor caused the crash that killed Francisco Sarabia Mexico's leading civilian aviator in the Potomac last month There was no evidence of sabotage and a formal report is expected this afternoon Officials noted timing would have made deliberate placement unlikely and described the rag as a routine cleaning cloth used for motors
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Washington
Air Safety Board
Francisco Sarabia
Mexico
Potomac
Carl B. Allen
Two U S Counties Nominated For Census Preview
Washington July 18 A secret census bureau meeting named two midwest counties as the most typical in the nation to preview next spring's decennial census. The counties, near the population center, contain a city around 100000 and another about 20000. The selection aims to test questions and canvassing issues before public release.
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Washington
Census Bureau
United States
America
Middle West
Secretary of Commerce
Hopkins
Kidnap-Slay Suspect Jack Russell Caught by Arkansas Sheriff
Sheriff Champ Crawford of Franklin County Arkansas captured Jack Russell near Ozark while driving a stolen Kansas City police car. Russell, an Oklahoma penitentiary escapee, was sought for the Ringwood Arkansas slaying of Billy Hamilton and for related kidnappings in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Illinois. He was seized with minimal resistance as a public safety manhunt unfolded across a zigzag route from Oklahoma into Illinois and Wisconsin.
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Kansas City
Jack Russell
Ozard
Ark
Oklahoma Penitentiary
Billy S Hamilton
Ringwood
N. Hamilton
Arkansas City
Kas
Oklahoma
Illinois
Wisconsin
Champ Crawford
Franklin County
Arkansas
Ozark
Russell
McAlester
Hamilton
R. E. McAlester
Bud Egholm
Oklahoma City
Kenosha
Wis
Woodstock
Ill
Lester Edinger
No Word Yet From Railroad On Wick Street Deal
The city awaits Pennsylvania Railroad signatures on a formal agreement to rebuild Wick Street. The route, crucial during apple season, is nearly impassable causing vehicle damage. Officials say the agreement was sent to the railroad’s main office weeks ago, with City Manager S. Lee Grant ready to proceed upon receipt.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Wick Street
S. Lee Grant
Heas
Thresher Death After Branched Tow Route Mishap
Jacob Biedler about 30 of Shenandoah county was crushed between a wheat thresher and a tractor while moving the outfit down a steep grade on the Lebanon Church Oranda road northwest of Strasburg. He died en route to Woodstock hospital after extricating himself and being aided by a helper. The accident occurred at the Miller farm after the machine uncoupled during a move to a new field.
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Jacob Biedler
Clary
Shenandoah County
Lebanon Church- Oranda Road
Strasburg
Biedler
E. W. Miller
Winchester
Miller Farm
Dr. Miller
Mr. Biedler
Woodstock
Harold Miller
Jesse Keller
Burgunder Convicted in Lethal Desert Murder Case
In Phoenix a jury found Robert Burgunder 22 guilty of killing Jack Peterson, a Phoenix car salesman. Burgunder faces the gas chamber. defense blamed neglectful parenting and gambling mania. Burgunder fled to Tennessee after the slayings and was captured there.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Robert Burgunder
Jack Peterson
Seattle
Peterson
Burgunder
Tennessee
Ruth Burunder
Alhambra
Calif
Greenway Church Ice Cream Social Notice
Greenway Church advertises a home made ice cream social on Saturday July 22 with a rain contingency announced for Monday night. Local residents are invited to attend.
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Greenway Church
Sat
For Sale Attractive 6 Room Semi Bungalow Near Handley School
Attractive six room semi bungalow near Handley School with modern features and strong rec control. Listed by B M Sullivan. Price set at 6859 dollars. 7 18 21 lp 21.
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Handley School
B. M. Sullivan
Direct Attacks On New Deal By Two Professors
Hanover New Hampshire July 18 Two professors from large eastern colleges attacked the New Deal. Dr William Starr Myers of Princeton said Roosevelt's policies verge on dictatorship and Dartmouth opening a three day conference defended by the Braman fund committee. Walter E Spahr of New York University argued that representative government has become mere nose counting.
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Hanover
N .H
Roosevelt
William Starr Myers
Princeton
Dartmouth College
Braman Fund Committee For
Bokuyo Maru Fire Sinking Aboard Rescue Efforts Under Way
The Bokuyo Maru, a Nippon Yusen Kaisha liner carrying Chilean nitrates, ran aground in flames 1,125 miles east of Yokohama after leaving Los Angeles on July 2. The Marine Exchange reported 209 of 212 aboard were saved shortly before sinking. Associated Oil Co tanker reported 214 aboard with four ships rushing to assist.
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San Francisco
The
Marine Exchange
Yokohama
NYK Line
Japanese Mail Steamship Company
San Pedro
Calif
Valparaiso
Chile
Tokyo
Associated
Steamship Company
Los Angeles
Tide Water Associated Oil Company
Nippon Yusen Kaisha
Japan Mail Ship Company
South American
West Coast
Orient
Killed While Photographing 26 Ton Dynamite Blast
Wade K Confer a 14 year old boy died when a 26 ton dynamite charge misfired at his father's Snake Butte quarry in Harlem Montana. The blast sent granite boulders up to 30 tons into the air injuring eighteen others and uprooting rails and power lines. Quarry workers say the explosive may have escaped through a horizontal fracture.
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Harlem
Mont
Wade K
Sonny) Confer
Snake Butte
Fort Peck
White House Holds Night Conference on Neutrality Revision
Leaders of both major parties convene at the White House in an informal meeting to discuss possible revisions to the neutrality law. Attendees include President Roosevelt Secretary Hull Senate leaders Barkley Pittman McNary Borah Austin and invited Garner.
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Washington
White House
Administration
Senate
Roosevelt
Hull
Barkley
Pittman
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
McNary
Oregon
Borah
Idaho
Austin
Vermont
Garner
Stephen T. Early
Early
Army
Navy
Dragnet Spreads for Masked Man Across Two States
A wide dragnet was launched across Salisbury area, Wilmington, northern Delaware, and the upper Eastern Shore of Maryland for the masked bandit who held up Mrs. Rose Kircher, her brother, and two children Sunday night. The Kircher car, used in the getaway after stealing $420 from a filling station, was found near Delaware City yesterday. Maryland state police said the car had been recovered near Delaware City.
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Salisbury
Wilmington
Delaware
Maryland
Masket
Rose Kircher
Kircher
Delaware City
Del
Bandits Clean Up In A Jersey Bank
Four gunmen robbed the Raritan State Bank in New Jersey at 12 15 PM. They tied eight people in a rear vault and fled in a suspected stolen car with an estimated 12 000 to 14 000 dollars. A timing device shortened the cash release, aiding the raid.
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Raritan
N. J
Raritan State Bank
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