Compulsory Arbitration Of Disputes Also To Be Sought
Business leaders forecast government protection against strikes and discuss safeguards for industry under the Wagner Act. Senators McCarran and Wagner move to curb labor power while the National Association of Manufacturers and Secretary Perkins host talks on national labor policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Robert F. Wagner
Wagner
National Association of Manufacturers
Supreme Court
Labor
Frances Perkins
Miss Perkins
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Lewis
Republican Party
Green
National Labor Relations Board
U. S
J. Warren Madden
Edwin S. Smith
Donald Wakefield Smith
Students Strike Over Superintendent Dismissal at Strasburg High
About 300 students blocked entrances to the new Strasburg High School demanding rehiring of Superintendent Herbert P. Lohrman. Parents joined in petitions as the village board faced calls for a special meeting and potential new appointment. coach Paul Roby spoke to calm the crowd amid looming principal changes. Strasburg, Tuscarawas County, near Dover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Strasburg
U.P
Strasburg High School
Village Board of Education
Herbert P. Lohrman
Lohrman
Paul Roby
Roby
Glen Jeandrevine
Creston
Tuscarawas County
Dover
Evansville Boy Sells Pocketbook Finds for 25 Cents
Eight year old Hal Dupin found a pocketbook with coins at home and sold it to a stranger for 25 cents. His father notes one coin is valued at 450 dollars, while the event highlights a curious incident from Evansville Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evansville
Ind
U.P
Hal Dupin
Six Held After Detroit Strike Riot and Bond Postings
Detroit jailers reported that 128 of 134 arrested after the Yale and Towne sit down eviction were freed on bonds signed by the UAW. Six union organizers Walter Reuther Victor Reuther Gordon Bellaire Raymond Glass William Dane and Robert Kanter remained jailed for investigation into violence during the eviction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
U.P
Yale and Towne Manufacturing Company
United Automobile Workers Union
Wayne County
Auto Union
Walter Reuther
Victor
Gordon Bellaire
Raymond Glass
William Dane
Robert Kanter
Arthur Webster
Webster
Wyndham Mortimer
UAW
Sheriff's Department
Yale and Towne
Heinrich Pickert
5000 Women Strike Across Montreal Garment Industry
About 5000 women garment workers walked off the job in Montreal and surrounding plants to press for higher wages a binding collective agreement and union recognition. The action, ordered by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union after talks failed, marks a major cross border strike amid Quebec Canada tensions and CIO links disputed by officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
U.P
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
John L. Lewis’ Committee For Industrial Organization
Quebec
Canada
CIO
Comedians Indicted On Infringement Count
Hollywood authorities expect Chico and Groucho Marx to surrender after a federal grand jury indicted them on copyright infringement charges. The sketch titled The Hollywood Adventures of Mr Dibble and Mr Dabble was cited as the basis for the indictment. Garrett and Carroll Graham claimed co authorship of the skit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Chico and
Groucho Marx
Marx Brothers
Garrett
Carroll Graham
Mr. Dibble
Mr. Dabble
Six Americans jailed in France over entry attempt
Six Americans were sentenced by a correctional court in Perpignan to one month in prison each for attempting to enter Spain in violation of France's non intervention law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perpignan
France
U.P
Spain
Eagh
Strike Costs Near Half Billion Mark
Four major strikes in the automobile industry since last January cost manufacturers employees merchants and the state of Michigan about 477 million dollars. Relief costs rose sales tax income dropped National Guard costs neared a half million and federal excise tax losses were heavy. Strikers say wage losses will be offset by wage increases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Michigan
National Guard
Relative of Meigs Man Inherits Large Fortune
POMEROY Staff Special One million dollars was inherited by Mrs. Vanderveer Taylor formerly of Columbus and now of Xenia She is the mother of Mrs. Donald Turnbull Mr Turnbull son of the late Mr and Mrs Thomas Turnbull was born and reared in Pomeroy He and his wife reside in Lancaster where he practices law The estate was left to Mrs Taylor by an aunt Mrs Turnbull is one of three children in the Taylor family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Vanderveer Taylor
Columbus
Xenia
Taylor
Donald Turnbull
Turnbull
Thomas Turnbull
Lancaster
Boy Dies After Self Hung Prank At Farm
In Chillicothe, 15 year old Jakie Sie tert planned a joke by pretending to hang himself in a shed. He tied a rope to a rafter and around his neck then slipped and fell, dying before his sister found him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chillicothe
U.P
Jakie Sietert
New Cash Raising To Begin Next Monday
Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr announced the treasury will start a new cash raise next Monday through a weekly sale of 50 million dollars in treasury bills. The bills will come due during the September tax period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Treasury
Fremont Captain Bowlus Dies Aged 101
Captain Hanson R Bowlus, who sought to outlive John D Rockefeller Sr, died today at age 101.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fremont
U.P
Hanson R. Bowlus
John D. Rockefeller, Sr
State Income Tax Measure Approved by House Exemptions Increased
The Hull State Income Tax Bill passed the House 81 to 44 and moves to the Senate. An amendment boosts exemptions for head of family to 2000, single filer to 1000, and each dependent to 300, reducing revenue. Rates start at 3 percent up to 3000, then 1 percent per 1000 brackets to nine percent. Public employes would pay regular rates plus the federal tax. intangible tax shifts to a one mill levy. Returns due Feb 15 to March 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Hull
House
Senate
Lady Huml
Cuyahoga
Huml
Hearings May End Saturday On Court Enlargement Debate
Senate Judiciary Committee nears a vote on ending hearings on Roosevelts Supreme Court enlargement plan amid filibuster and gag rule charges. Henry Wallace and Homer Cummings reiterated opposition while President Roosevelt had not commented on modifications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Senate Judiciary Committee
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Henry A. Wallace
Homer S. Cummings
Buckeye Lake Embankments To Be Tested By Engineers
A House resolution calls on U S Army engineers in the Muskingum conservancy district to test Buckeye Lake embankments. Introduced by Rep. Samuel A. Anderson and Rep. Ralph G. Marshall the measure warns the lake’s banks are old and potentially unsafe, risking flood of the Licking Valley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
UPI
U S. Army
Muskingum Conservancy District
Buckeye Lake
House
Samuel A. Anderson
Licking
Ralph G. Marshall
Muskingum
Licking Valley
Bill to Cut Long Haul Freight Rates Sent to Senate
The House approved a bill to lower long distance railroad freight rates and repeal parts of the interstate commerce act. The measure, passed late Wednesday by a vote of 268 to, moves to the Senate for consideration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
Fess to Seek Republican Nomination for 7th Ohio District
Lowell Fess of Yellow Springs son of the late Senator Simeon D. Fess announces today his bid for the Republican nomination for Congress in Ohio's seventh district in 1938.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Xenia
U.P
Lowell Fess
Yellow Springs
U. S
Simeon D. Fess
Ohio
Turin motorist Tazio Nuvolari injured in crash
World renowned racing driver Tazio Nuvolari, last year's Vanderbilt Cup winner, was critically injured when his car rammed into a tree during a Turin practice run.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turin
Italy
Tazio Nuvolari
Hepburn Seeks Unity Backing in CIO Fight
Ontario Premier Mitchell Hepburn announced 100 percent federal backing in his battle against John L. Lewis and Communism as two cabinet members resigned over the Oshawa General Motors strike. He met with Ian Mackenzie and confirmed intervention plans while Oshawa officials pressed for a UAW strike in the United States if the dispute remained unsettled by Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Ont
U.P
Mitchell F. Hepburn
Dominion
John L. Lewis
Hepburn
Oshawa
Ian Mackenzie
National Defense
Ottawa
General Motor Company of Canada
Ontario
Alex Hall
Homer Martin
United States
Peace Plea Is Made by Hull and Roosevelt
Washington observes Pan American Day with calls for lasting peace in the Western Hemisphere. President Roosevelt pledged good faith in foreign policy while Secretary Hull urged that peace machinery be built globally to prevent chaos and anarchy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Western Hemisphere
Roosevelt
Cordell Hull
Hull
Spanish Neutrality Takes Effect April 19
London reports the non intervention committee set midnight April 19 as the start date for the Spanish neutrality control program. War supplies and volunteers will be barred from Spain under frontier land agents and a naval patrol, with Britain France Germany and Italy supervising coast sections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
U.P
Spain
Great Britain
France
Germany
Italy
Miner Sentenced to Hangs For Windsor Heights Slaying
Frank Pramesa a 26 year old coal miner walked to the gallows at West Virginia penitentiary after being found guilty of killing Louis Thames a Windsor Heights World War veteran.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia
Moundsville
W. Va
U.P
Frank Pramesa
West Virginia Penitentiary
Louis Thames
Windsor Heights
Gino Malo Weds British Actor Playwright Romney Brent
Gino Malo and Romney Brent marry in London after five years as friends. The couple is photographed in the garden of a Hollywood actress's home. Malo began his career in Cincinnati. Brent is a British actor and playwright.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gino Malo
Romney Brent
London
Cincinnati
Probe Centers on Ex Harlan County Deputy
Senate Civil Liberties Committee heard testimony on bribery brutality and attempted murder in Kentucky's Bloody Harlan County. Witnesses tied coal operators to anti union activity as UMW organizer Lawrence Dwyer testified about an assassination attempt with dynamite near his window and the missing ex deputy Ben Unthank.
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Washington
U.P
Kentucky
Harlan” County
Senate Civil Liberties Committee
Ben Unbank
Harlan County
United Mine Workers
Lawrence Dwyer
UMW
Unthank
Dwyer
Depot Taken By Loyalists as Madrid Battle Rages
Las Navas railway station ten miles west of El Escorial fell to loyalist artillery. Gen. Jose Miaja renews push toward Avila as hand to hand fighting occurs in the Guadarrama Mountains. Loyalists gain 480 square miles of territory between Madrid and Avila, isolating Franco forces and threatening their rear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madrid
Las Navas
el Escorial
Jose Miaja
Avila
Guadarrama
Franco
Miaja
Company Head Quits Amid Sit Down Strike In Milwaukee
Frederick E. Yahr resigns as president and general manager of his wholesale drug firm after a sit down strike by 115 home-office employees led by R B Blair. Yahr retains the presidency and board seat, plans to leave for Europe with his wife. Blair and colleagues had charged the policy favored hiring young men then firing them for wage increases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Wis
Frederick E. Yahr
Yahr
R. B. Blair
Blair
Concern
Europe
Solons Fail to Adopt Relief Measure in Ohio
Ohio lawmakers failed to agree on a new relief bill. The State Relief Commission dissolved and left county officials to supply aid. It allocated its final $500,000 to 43 counties, with Meigs County receiving $1,328.81 for distress needs.
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Solons
Columbus
Ohio
State Relief Commission
House
Senate
Meigs County
Ohio House kills half cent fuel tax relief plan
Columbus reports the House Taxation Committee defeated a proposal to raise the liquid fuel tax by half a cent for relief. Governor Davey blamed a lobby-led Senate wrecking crew for the crisis as relief measures stalled in both chambers.
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Columbus
U.P
House Taxation Committee
Davey
Senate
Five Ohio communities vie for health protection awards
Columbus reports five Ohio cities and three counties remain in the running for annual health protection program awards. State health director Dr. Walter H. Hartung announced the update as Elyria remains eligible in the 20 000 to 50 000 population group and Gallipolis competes in the under 20 000 tier with 15 other cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Walter H. Hartung
Elyria
Gallipolis
House Bill Aims to Aid Welfare Workers in Ohio
Columbus report says a heavily amended bill to improve working conditions for employees in twenty state welfare institutions, dubbed Ohio's Forgotten People, awaits House action. The plan sets a 54 hour maximum work week and prevents wage cuts from April 1 1937 rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.R
Ohio
House
Dartmoor Prison Inmates Plot Mutiny On Coronation Day
Authorities uncover a mutiny plot among inmates at Dartmoor Prison aimed at May 12 Coronation Day. Police say the plan involved coordinated action by several prisoners and required close monitoring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
U.P
Dartmoor
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Pat McCarran
Nev
NLRB
Meigs
Yoder
Paul P. Yoder
Keith Lawrence
Verner E. Metcalf
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Emil F. Marx
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