Picketing at Goodyear plants spurs go aid call
Sheriff seeks National Guard help to enforce a court order against mass picketing at Goodyear Tire plants in Akron Ohio. Pickets blocked streets and halted freight cars while police report 500 protesters, some armed, confronting deputies.
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Akron
James T. Flower
National Guard
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Flower
Col. L. B. Brown
Adjutant General's
Columbus
Martin L. Davey
Goodyear
Carl Grismer
Nonfiction Opinion Column on Labor Unions and Politics
Arthur Brisbane argues unions will dramatically influence politics if a large voting block forms. He discusses 500,000 steel workers and 3,000,000 veterans, noting unions’ active role in endorsing candidates with votes and money. The piece reflects Brisbane’s views in The Globe.
Mae West wins battle with Lubitsch at Paramount
Mae West’s camp claims a victory over producer Ernst Lubitsch in a power struggle at Paramount. Lubitsch will become a unit producer under a new arrangement while West spreads her pictures among studios, with her contract on a picture to picture basis and free to work outside Paramount.
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Los Angeles
Mae West
Star Today
Ernst Lubitsch
Miss West
Hollywood
William Lebaron
Lubitsch
Paramount
Jim Timony
Timony
Columbia Studios
Emmanuel Cohen
Will
Tugwell to Stay in Roosevelt Circle as Aide
President Roosevelt will keep Rexford Tugwell as campaign adviser despite Democratic pressure to remove him. Sources say Tugwell, along with Harold Ickes and Harry Hopkins, faced doubts within the party about their political liabilities. Columbia University had announced Tugwell’s appointment approval, ending speculation.
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Lyle C. Wilson
Washington
Roosevelt
Rexford G. Tugwell
Democratic National Committee
Tugwell
Secretary of the Interior
Harold L. Ickes
Works Progress
Harry Hopkins
White House
James A. Farley
Ickes
Hopkins
Democratic Party
Europe
Columbia University
Ickes Urges Action Soon On Municipal Power Projects
Secretary Ickesasked power companies to allow the Public Works Administration to proceed with municipal power projects or seek a swift appeal to the Supreme Court in lieu of ongoing circuit court losses. More than 50 PWA allotments face injunctions delaying work.
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Washington
Ickes
Public Works Administration
PWA
Supreme Court
Weather forecast for Amarillo and West Texas
Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with moderate temperatures. Low tonight around 42 degrees. West Texas also partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday. New Mexico unsettled tonight and Wednesday with colder conditions in the east and south portions tonight. Temperature extremes today range from 41 to 55 degrees.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Child of Star Guarded After Kidnap Threat
Hollywood at the February 25 W.P. report says actress Virginia Bruce and her two year old daughter Susan Ann Gilbert were guarded after a mysterious Scandinavian woman asked agent Gladys Hall for Bruce’s phone number and warned of danger. Police assigned guards and investigated, while Bruce stayed home.
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Child of Star
Hollywood
W.P
Susan Ann Gilbert
Virginia Bruce Toda
Screen Star
Gladys Hall
Miss Bruce
Miss Hall
John Gilbert
Peyton H. Moore
Moore
van Nuys
H. J. Wallas
Lloyd Hurst
Gilbert
Beavers and Birds Photograph Wildlife Pioneer Shiras
Naturalist George Shiras III, famed for camera trap and wing shooting, is praised as a pioneer alongside Audubon. At 77, he has spent 45 years photographing thousands of birds and animals from Alaska to Hawaii, with 950 pictures in his National Geographic two volume work.
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Louisiana
Ward Heron
George Shiras III
National Georgraphic Society
Stephen J. McDonough
Washington
George Shiras Iti
John James Audubon
Shiras
National Geographic Society
North America
Alaska
Central America
New Brunswick
Hawaii
American heiress moves baby to Europe amid kidnap fears
Countess Barbara Hutton’s newborn son, reportedly to be raised in Europe, will spend time between England and Denmark. The child, guarded at Hyde Park Gardens, faces a life largely outside the United States due to kidnapping concerns, with a large staff and security systems protecting the nursery.
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Henry Tosti Russell
United Press
London
U.P
Countess von Haugwitz-Reventlow
England
Europe
Denmark
Barbara Hutton
United States
Hyde Park Gardens
Atlantic
Old War Veteran Identifies Hauptmann At Lindbergh Trial
Amandus Hochmuth an octogenarian Franco Prussian War veteran said he could point Bruno Richard Hauptmann out as the man he saw with a ladder near the Lindbergh estate before the kidnapping. Gov Hoffman challenged Hochmuths testimony as Hauptmanns trial proceeds while Attorney General Wilentz heads back from Florida.
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Trenton
U.P
Amandus Hochmuth
Hopewell
N. J
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Lindbergh
Hochmuth
Hauptmann
Harold Hoffman
David Wilentz
Florida
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr
Hagood ousted as General from Fort Sam Houston sparks clash
Washington debates Okays move after Major General Hagood is relieved of command and sent home to await orders. Republicans call it a New Deal reign of terror while Democrats split, Hagood had attacked WPA funds as stage money and warned of no lasting gains. Rep Blanton vows to fight what he terms an infamous outrage.
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Washington
Johnson Hagood
New Deal
Army
Fort Sam Houston
Tex
Charleston
S. C
Hagood
House
War Department
Rep. Blanton
Texas
Byrd Sees Saving From Senate Agency Study
Senator Byrd of Virginia foresees saving hundreds of millions yearly as a Senate resolution orders a committee to study government agencies for possible coordination abolition or personnel cuts. He notes about 107000 federal employees in Washington now versus 63000 at Roosevelt inauguration.
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H. C. Thompson
United Press
Washington
Senate
White House
Congress
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
John N. Garner
Byrd
Chamber
Jones says qualifications not politics in Cummings appointments
Reconstruction Finance Corporation chairman Jesse H. Jones defended the selection of Walter J. Cummings, saying his qualifications justified two high salary posts totaling 90 000 yearly. Cummings serves as chairman of Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust in Chicago earning 75 000 and as trustee of the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul and Pacific Railroad earning 15 000.
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Washington
Jesse H. Jones
Walter J.cummings
Democratic National Committee
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Cummings
Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
Texas Panhandle gas and oil production allowances rise
The Railroad Commission boosted Panhandle sweet gas by 24 005 000 cubic feet daily for March with East and West Panhandle zones set at 179 853 000 and 669 000 000 feet respectively. Sour gas climbs 56 825 400 feet daily to 435 518 400 and oil allowables rise to 1 110 480 barrels. Moore County and Panhandle figures noted. film listings include James Cagney and Pat O'Brien in Ceiling Zero at Paramount.
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Austin
Railroad Commission
Texas Panhandle
East
West Panhandle
Panhandle
Commission
Moore County
Not Rosy For Gov Talmadge In Georgia Finance Crisis
Atlanta February 25. Gov Eugene Talmadge faced a financial crisis as he controlled Georgia finances yet lacked money. A militia backed replacement treasurer and comptroller failed to pay bills. the treasury vault was time locked for 72 hours and bankers refused to honor warrants. Taxpayers warned of possible double taxation as Talmadge sought about 140000 dollars immediately.
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Atlanta
U.P
Eugene Talmadge
Georgia
Talmadge
Twelve Families Marooned by Wabash Flood Near New Haven
Twelve rural families are marooned in corncribs ten miles south of New Haven as flood waters from the Wabash surge over embankments and flood their homes. Local authorities report residents await rescue as the river remains high and threatening.
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New Haven
Corncribs
Here
Vanderbilt custody battle renewed in Supreme Court appeal
Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt seeks sole custody of 12 year old Gloria in a Supreme Court appeal after New York custody ruling awarded the child to her paternal aunt Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney. The bid claims the order confines the child unjustly and imposes a regimental life, split between mother and guardian.
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Washington
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt
Supreme Court
Gloria
New York State
New York
Europe
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