Labor code debates and NRA drive for shorter hours
The article reports on wartime labor policy discussions led by the NRA and Frances Perkins. It notes plans to press for a 10 hour workday, wage restoration, and coal industry codes. President Roosevelt, Hull, and other officials push for tariff and wage actions while awaiting industry reactions and potential general measures. The piece mentions anticipations of an anthracite code and coordination with Perkins on work sharing and price regulation.
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NRA
Clues on Kidnap Case Reported Amid May News
Reports in April from France describe a mystery surrounding a kidnap for ransom case. Police and authorities like the French Surete are mentioned in connection with the investigation and the alleged involvement of a confidence man.
Workers at Increased Pay and Rumored Strike
A rumored strike emerges as leaders press for higher pay. Modern America figures, including George W Haney, seek talks with the FERA director to address demands deemed excessive. The planned meeting aims to resolve wage disputes before the center opening.
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America
George W Haney
FERA
Unclear OCR record pending manual restoration
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Rail Wage Pact Ends Six Week Crisis
The rail road wage controversy was settled by compromise between labor and management. Two and a half percent of the current ten percent wage deduction to be restored July 1, 1934 with 2.5 percent more January 1, 1935 and five percent on April 1, 1935. The new rate continues until May 1, 1935.
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Washington
U.P
Stock Market Control Bills Face Houyves
Washington April 26 facing bitter opposition Congress considers major stock market reform measures. The Fletcher bill lies in the Senate ready for action while the Rayburn measure goes to the House, both backed by administration aims to curb unwholesome exchange practices. Final decision on the 10 percent surcharge on 1934 income tax returns remains unsettled despite conferees agreeing on all other provisions.
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Washington
U.P
Congress
Senate
Fletcher
House
Rayburn
Fire destroys White Star restaurant in Zanesville
A blaze at the White Star restaurant in Zanesville caused $20,000 in damage. Seven firemen narrowly escaped after becoming trapped on a mezzanine as rear walls ignited. Fire officials suspect incendiary origin with gasoline found around the premises and reports of missing money and meats. proprietor John Ludnich was away in Columbus when the flames began.
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Zanesville
John Ludnich
Columbus
Pomeroy Man Dies in Hospital in Cleveland
Columbo Pierotti longtime proprietor of a Main Street fruit store and confectionery died in a Cleveland hospital after being transferred from Parkersburg hospital. A brain tumor caused his death. An Italian by birth he was known locally as Steeplejack and leaves a widow and four children Lisha Olga Geno and Bruno. The body will be returned to Pomeroy for burial.
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Pomeroy
Columbo Pierotti
Main Street
Cleveland
Parkersburg Hospital
Pierotti
Lisha
Olga
Geno
Bruno
Tugwell's Nice Boy But Don’t Let Him Start an Explanation
Beverly Hills column mocks Rex Tugwell and Brain Trust figures for overreaching theories. Writer Will Rogers argues modernized process and experimental approach amount to dogma that harms practical thinking.
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Tugwell
Funeral Home Owner Denies Irregular Act in Body Transfer
Arthur B. Leach owner of Leach Funeral Home denied any irregularity in turning over Joseph Reid's body to Ohio State University for dissection. Reid's daughter Evelyn Johnson sues county commissioners and the funeral home for 10000 alleging officers knew her address and status yet did not notify her. Leach claims the ten dollar fee covered transport by law and that she had moved without a forwarding address.
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Columbus
Ohio State University
U.P
Arthur B. Leach
Leach Funeral Home
Joseph Reid
Franklin County
Reid
University Medical School
Evelyn Johnson
Funeral Home
University Hospital
Leach
Brown Lashes White Regime
Clarence J. Brown former lieutenant governor and secretary of state criticized Ohio state government costs rising by 50 million dollars since 1930 and alleged the liquor stores commission filled 90 percent of posts with Democrats, disregarding civil service rules, during remarks to the Norwood Republican club in Cincinnati.
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Cincinnati
U.P
Ohio
Clarence J. Brown
Norwood Republican Club
Brown
State Liquor Control Commission
Classified Ads Highlight House Rentals and Furnishings
The page lists a used coal cook stove, an oak dining room suite, a Hollywood bedroom suite, and Danna bulbs for sale. It features two rental options a two-room apartment and a seven or six room house with bath. It also notes several farms for sale and a Nelsonville Column feature.
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Hollywood
Nelsonville
Jim
Money Flow Tested By Ohio Oil Company
An Ohio oil company conducts a two week test to measure industrial payroll through a currency flow. Nearly 8000 silver dollars were circulated overnight in Dayton as merchants banks and utilities report dollars passing through them.
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Ohio Oil Company
Cleveland
U.P
Ohio
Dayton
Merchants’ Association
The
Banka
Utilities Companies
Hem
Kidnappers Demand 15000 From Tucson Family
Tucson police hunt for a kidnapper who seized June Robles, daughter of a wealthy Arizona pioneer, and demanded 15000 in ransom from her grandfather Bernabe Robles. A Mexican boy delivered the note to Fernanda Robles’s electrical shop as the girl was with her cousin Barney Kengla. A reported black car fled north toward open country with a man and a screaming girl.
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Tucson
Ariz
John Dillinger
June Robles
Arizona
Barney Kengla
Fernanda Robles
June
Bernabe Robles
Sheriff's Office
Johnson Sees End of Strike
Cleveland April 26 U P National Recovery Administrator Hugh S Johnson predicted the Fisher Body Company strike would end soon as 8400 workers at the Cleveland plant remained idle Gen Johnson said it would end in two hours but Leo Wolman chairman of the automotive labor board doubted a quick settlement noting the dispute had lasted months and months The outlook remained unsettled.
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Cleveland
U.P)— National Recovery
Hugh S. Johnson
Fisher Body Company
Iidie
Johnson
Washington
Leo Wolman
Automobile Labor Board
Detroit
Black Crow Claims He Can't Memorize After Accident
George Moran of the Moran Mack blackface team testified in a $24,500 damage suit against Myrtie Mack and an insurer. He said the automobile crash that killed his partner robbed him of his memory and left him unable to memorize lines, with witness Vince Barnett describing Moran as a former human library of quips now a studio grouch.
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Hollywood
U.P
George Moran
Myrtie Mack
Vince Barnett
Rbber
Moran
Spain Seeks Premier as Civil War Impends
MADRID April 26. Fear of civil war grips Spain as President Niceto Alcala Zamora seeks a new premier. A state of alarm has been proclaimed, one of three measures ending in martial law, effective from midnight across the country.
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Madrid
U.P
Niceto Alcala Zamora
Slarm
Wirt Brain Trust Report Finds Charges Substantiated Lacking
The investigating committee reported to the House that Dr. William A. Wirt's brain trust did not substantiate his allegations about the Gary eu eator. The 3 to 2 vote showed a party split on the findings.
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Washington
William A. Wirt
Brain Trust
Red
House
Gary Eueator
Final clash with outlaw Dillinger feared by U S agents
A secret army of federal agents led by Melvin Purvis concentrates in the Midwest as authorities expect an immediate showdown with outlaw John Dillinger. The effort includes groups in Minnesota Wisconsin Indiana Illinois Michigan with about 5000 state and local police aiding. Reports say Dillinger may have suffered a recent wound and could be traveling with followers. local residents petitioned Purvis for capture and Michigan police criticized lack of notice before the gang’s Wisconsin appearance.
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ST. Paul
U.P
Midwest
Melvin Purvis
Department of Justice
John Dillinger
Indiana
Ohio
Ilinois
Michigan
Purvis
Dillinger
Wisconsin
Mercer
Ohio Cities Urged To Pass Model Spirit Law
Columbus April 26 Ohio municipalities urged to pass a model ordinance to coordinate local and state liquor controls. Edward G Mathews chief of the enforcement division says the law would deem those manufacturing selling or transporting beer wine or spirits as misdemeanants and require all permit holders to display licenses.
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Ohio
Columbus
Edward G. Mathews
The
State Liquor Department
Hammel Identified By Another Wife
In Cincinnati Sara W Hammel identifies a photo of a Chicago prisoner as Allen R Hammel who claims to be Burt Armstrong from New York. A Chicago woman also identifies him as her husband and father of five, with he arrested in Philadelphia and sent to Chicago to face theft of a money express truck case.
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Cincinnati
Sara W. Hammel
Chicago
Allen R. Hammel
Burt Armstrong
New York
Columbus
Hammer
Philadelphia
Outlaw Raymond Hamilton Seized After Lewisville Bank Robbery
Dallas County authorities announce charges against Raymond Hamilton age 21 a noted young southwestern outlaw for a bank robbery linked to Clyde Barrow. He was captured after a Lewisville bank raid and remained under heavy guard to prevent any Barrow style escape or delivery from Eastham Prison.
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Dallas
Texas
U.P
Raymond Hamilton
Clyde Barrow
Lewisville
Hamilton
Barrow
Eastham
East Jan
Officers in Ambush Hear Only Owl Hoots
Findlay, April 26 Through song questioning by two officers Donald Schoonover 21-year-old youth maintained he had been kidnapped and held for 44 hours by two men and a woman His release was granted on condition he put 3000 in a tin can at the sixth tree from the edge of a woods on his grandmother s farm at 30 p m Wednesday Officers placed a can by the tree and lay in ambush nearby They reported seeing nothing and hearing only the hoots of an owl
Gol ly Professional Dies in Ohio
Clarence Latte a 20 year old golf professional from New Lexington died of pneumonia at Bethesda Hospital in Zanesville on April 2.
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Zanesville
Clarence Latte
New Lexington
Bethesda
Gross Receipts Levy Is Faced With Defeat In Senate Vote Today
Ohio relief figures show a 30 percent rise in families on direct relief. By late April about 180000 families received relief that month and more than 195000 are expected to need help in May. The spike is blamed on the failure of the new works division to employ as many as the CWA did and on many new relief applications from previously unpaid families.
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Senate
Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Ohio Relief Commission
New Works
CWA
House
Seasion
Viass Agents In Lindbergh Kidnap Case
Boston reports 33 federal agents in Rutland Vermont area amid Lindbergh kidnapping probe. Justice Department confirms no 33 agents dispatched, notes no official explanation for secrecy and absence of McKean from New England office.
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Viass
Lindbergh
Boston
Prutland
Vit
Clarence D. McKean
New England
Washington
Department of Justice
Rutland
Department
Vermont
New England Territory
Impressive Rites Confirm 14 at St. Pauls Catholic Church
Bishop James J. Hartley presided at St. Pauls Catholic Church as 14 candidates from Athens The Plains and Millfield received confirmation. Assisting clergy from multiple parishes aided the ceremony, the first confirmation here since 1927.
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St. Paul's Catholic Church
James J. Hartley
Columbus
Athens
the Plains
Millfield
Home Loans in Ohio Largest in Country
Ohio's branch of the Home Owners Loan Corporation reports disbursement of 100000 dollars in loans to 32186 distressed homeowners, doubling any other state. A 211 dollar back tax refinancing payment was issued in Akron, and local government received 5 million dollars in delinquent tax cash. The housing repair trade gains 5 million in jobs and materials.
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Columbus
Ohio
Home Owners Loan Corporation Today
Ama
Akron
Cleveland Gas Stations Closed as Strike Paralyzes City
Clevelanders faced gasoline shortages as all stations shut down except two emergency ones for doctors and nurses. The strike by attendants and tank truck drivers disrupted supplies, prompting long lines and drives to nearby counties for fuel.
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Cleveland
U.P
Chinese Defy Japan Refuse Explanations
Peiping China hurls open defiance at Japan while a government spokesman says Washington sent a note to Tokyo demanding an explanation of the hands off China proclamation. The foreign ministry spokesman says Japan is responsible for declaring the policy regardless of her explanation.
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Washington
China
Peiping
Japan
Tokio
Nanking
Foreign Ministry
Rolland Ruth Bolin's Aide Takes Investigator Post
Rolland Ruth Bolin's aide Rolland Ruth, 30, has been named investigator for Athens County Prosecutor John W. Bolin to fill the vacancy left by Kenneth Brooks's death. Ruth, unmarried, lives with his parents on a Morrison Brown Hill farm after working in the CWA payroll office and teaching in Sugar Creek.
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Pleasanton Road
Athens County
John W. Bolin
Kenneth Brooks
Ruth
H. & Ruth
Morrison-Brown Hill
CWA
Hancock High School
Ohio University
The
University
Sugar Creek
Lucas County
Toledo Automobile Company
Senate To Pass L pon Liquor Board Members
Columbus April 26 The four liquor control board members and the director of the liquor control department are likely to face Senate confirmation today. Their names were forwarded to the Senate in February and have sat in the rules committee while a special committee investigates the liquor department and liquor law amendments were considered.
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Columbus
U.P
Board of Liquer Control
Department of Lquor Control
Senate
Liquor Store Clerks Cut in Ohio Districts
The state liquor control department announced 73 clerks laid off in Ohio stores due to insufficient demand. Layoffs included positions at Lagan One and Pomeroy One as openings days justify fewer staff.
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Columbus
U.R
State Liquor Control Department
Ohio
Lagan
Pomeroy
Rural Recovery Budget Being Drafted
COLUMBUS April 26 P H Hughes supervisor of the family recovery department of the state relief commission today forwarded blanks to counties to determine budget needs for operation of the rural recovery program for May.
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Columbus
Ohio Senate Near Vote on Gross Receipts Tax Bill
A Columbus report says the Ohio Senate may vote late today on the gross receipts tax bill, part of a 20 million dollar revenue program. If defeated, focus shifts to a two per cent retail sales tax bill, with both paths affecting schools and local governments.
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Solons
Senate
Will P. Haynes
Coshocton County
Air Mail Contracts Dominates Senate Proceedings
In Washington on April 26 the Senate nears passage of the Black McKellar air mail bill while a House committee meets to discuss allegations of a whitewash inquiry into the Navy air fleet. Postmaster General James A Farley aims to award 90 day airmail contracts as bidders supply financial status and ability information, with awards likely announced early next week.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
McKellar
House
Navy Air Fleet
James A Farley
Police Captain Fined After Intoxication Incident
Captain Charles Maple showed bite marks on his hand after an encounter with Lillian Johnson who faced arrest on intoxication charges. Johnson pleaded guilty before Mayor Lenno McCune and was fined five dollars plus costs.
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Lillian Johnson
Bhe
Lenno McCune
Bergdoll Seeks Pardon and Return to United States
Berghdoll packs bags hoping for a pardon and permission to come home to the United States. He was sentenced by a court martial in 1920 to five years and loss of citizenship for draft dodging, after fleeing to Canada and then Germany.
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Berlin
U.P
Grover Cleveland
Bergdoll
United States
United Press
New York
Canada
Germany
U S Authorities Seek Ex Cuban President Machado
New York April 2 1926 United States authorities seek former Cuban president Gerardo Machado who ruled with iron fist triggering revolution and his flight from Cuba Officials allege murder in connection with the 1920s turmoil and his exile by Cuban authorities
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Cuba
Gerardo Machado
United States
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