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The Senate:

P:Passed a bill by New York's Wagner providing $2,300,000,000 worth of Federal unemployment relief; sent it to conference (see p. 10).

P:Passed a House bill authorizing the Red Cross to distribute free to the needy 50.000.000 bu. of the Farm Board's surplus wheat; sent it to conference.

P:Confirmed (35-to-16) the renomination of Thomas Ventry O'Connor to be chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board.

The House:

P:Took two one-day recesses to allow the Senate to catch up on legislation.

P:Adopted (189-to-139) a resolution by Illinois' Sabath to investigate the Post Office Department with special reference to office construction, airmail contracts, methods of economy.

P:Refused (102-to-72) for the fourth time to approve a $600.000 item in the Department of Agriculture appropriation bill for grasshopper control in tne Northwest.

P:Received favorably from committee a bill by Oklahoma's Johnson for free distribution by the Red Cross and Veterans' organizations among the needy, of surplus government stocks of cloth, clothes, shoes, et al.

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