Business leaders pledge cooperation with Roosevelt on recovery drive
Sixteen prominent industrial and financial figures led by Owen D. Young and Winthrop Aldrich pledged full cooperation with the Roosevelt administration in its push for recovery. Henry Ford and Edsel Ford met with the President at the White House as leaders urged continuous government-business consultation to avert overproduction and depressions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
America
Owen D. Young
General Electric Co
Winthrop Aldrich
Chase National Bank
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Roosevelt
Henry Ford
Edsel
White House
Fords
Mr. Roosevelt
Ford
Securities and Exchange
John W. Hanes
Wall Street
Hanes
Congress
Buck-Passing Charge Lodged Against Duffy
The State Civil Service commission accuses Attorney General Herbert S. Duffy of passing the buck in civil service prosecutions. Two cases cited involve petitions to Governor Davey for re nomination and a five percent campaign fund assessment on state employees. The commission said it will not permit removal of civil service workers or forcing campaign contributions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.R
State ‘Civil Service Commission
Herbert S. Duffy
Civil Service
Davey
Democratic Campaign
Man Struck by Auto in Gallipolis Hip Fracture Suffered
Edward Summers 68 of Gallipolis was struck by a car driven by Mrs. E N P Morehouse of Bidwell at First and Spruce. He is treated at Holzer Hospital for a hip fracture and other injuries. Also Mrs L M Trotter of Bailey Chapel arrived with a fractured hip from a fall. Holzer Hospital treated 22 skull and arm fractures Tuesday night, many from automobile accidents.
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Gallipolis
Edward Summers
E. N. P. Morehouse
Bidwell
First
Spruce Sts
Holzer Hospital
L. M. Trotter
Bailey Chapel
Seal Found on Lawn Far Inland Baffles Sheriff
In Los Angeles an unexplained seal appeared on the front lawn of Deputy Sheriff H. H. Murphy about 20 miles from the ocean. Murphy named the creature Charlie Duke and kept it in a washtub pool inside the garage while authorities investigate how it reached inland shores.
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Los. Angeles
H. H. Murphy
Murphy
Charlie Duke
Market slump halted in London bonds by private interests
Intervention by private interests stopped a bond market slump in London after heavy selling that reflected broad disapproval of the budget.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
U.P
Donahey Heads TVA Probe Opens Records and Sessions
Senator Vic Donahey on the Tennessee Valley Authority investigating committee said hearings will be open and records available. The group will audit TVA books and inspect dams in the Tennessee Valley with subcommittees to handle various phases. Congressman Thomas A. Jenkins also serves on the panel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Vic Donahey
Tennessee Valley Authority
Donahey
Garner
Senate
House
James M. Mead
N. Y
TVA
Harcourt A. Morgan
David E. Lilientahl
Thomas A. Jenkins
Ways and Means Committee
Rail Aid Drafted as Emergency Stopgap Plan
Congressional leaders move railroad legislation to an emergency calendar aiming to pass a stopgap measure this session. The program focuses on RFC loans for equipment and reemployment of furloughed workers, with possible wage cuts and a temporary ICC certification repeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Congress
Burton K. Wheeler
Mont
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Clarence F. Lea
Calif
House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee
Association of American Railroads
Chicago
Interstate Commerce Commission
Jesse Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Wheeler, Lea
J. J. Pelley
William M. Harrison
Railway Labor Executives Committee
Jones
RFC
ICC
Recession Laid To Skepticism
CHICAGO DR. GLENN FRANK says a growing concern over Roosevelt administration trends fuels the current economic crisis. He notes a definite ground swell of skeptical concern within what he terms the new liberalism, stressing it is not partisan or reactionary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
U.R
Glenn Frank
Republican Program Committee
Roosevelt
Secretary in Scandal Case Threatens Records
Sandra Martin former secretary to actress Simone Simon charged with stealing money said she knew where a phonograph record of a Hollywood party could blow the lid off the movie colony. She ended the press conference on advice of her lawyer and returned to jail to await preliminary hearing Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Cal
Sandra Martin
Simone Simon
Senate panel boosts War Dept river harbors fund
A Senate committee raised the War Department rivers and harbors appropriation by 25 million dollars and authorized 350 thousand dollars for Ohio River channel work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Senate
War Department
Ohio
Hoover Sees Doubtful U S Destiny Among Americans
Fresno Calif former President Herbert Hoover told 2 500 Republican women that Americans doubt their destiny and that pride in achievements is weakening He criticized Roosevelt policies and urged belief in private enterprise and free men as America faces a moral recession and fears Hoover questioned public trust in government messaging and its officials.
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Fresno
Calif
U.K
Herbert Hoover
California
America
Torso Murder Case Explodes In Kananga
Three Kananga men report finding a woman's head protruding from sand by the Ohio River. Sheriff Hatfield, Deputy Dale Russell and Coroner Lewis Brown rush to the scene in minutes. the head is revealed as wax, belonging to a window display, ending the town’s tension.
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Gallipolis
Kananga
Hatfield
Ohio River
Dale Russell
Lewis Brown
Brown
Kananga Village
Navy Appropriation Signed Aims For New Fleets
President Roosevelt signed the largest peacetime Navy appropriation totaling 546.866 million dollars for the coming fiscal year. The measure funds shipbuilding, with keels planned for two 70 million dollar battleships and twenty support vessels, while separate authorization seeks a 1.156 billion expansion of fighting fleets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.S
Roosevelt
Navy Department
United States
U. S
Senate
America
Loyalist Warships Bombard Coast Cities
Spanish Nationalist warships began a large bombardment along the Mediterranean coast to weaken Loyalist resistance as insurgents push toward Castellon de la Plana. Nationalist dispatches report insurgents using liquid fire against Loyalist tanks in the coastal area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hendaye
Three Miners Die in Pennsylvania Coal Mine Blast
A gas explosion at the St. Clair Coal Company slope near Pottsville burying at least three men and trapping 25 others. Frank Montgomery 30 died on surface, Andrew Potts 42 and Nicholas Panco 40 died at Pottsville Hospital from severe burns. Rescue teams faced dangerous gas and damp conditions some hours after the blast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pottsville, Pa
U.P
St. Clair Coal Company
Frank Montgomery
Pottsville Hospital
Andrew Potts
Nicholas Panco
Spring Gun Case Upheld Against Gallia County Man
Ohio Supreme Court upholds Ann Childers conviction for setting a spring gun in a watermelon patch that shot 14 year old Daniel Wagoner of Huntington West Virginia. Wagoner was wounded in the right side arms and legs and hospitalized eighteen days after the incident in 1935.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallia County
Columbus
Ohio Supreme Court
Ann Childers
Ohio High Court
Childers
Daniel Earl Wagoner
Huntington
W. Va
Young Wagoner
Defiant Defying the Senate lobby committee session
Gerard refusing to produce records of the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government amid shouting and table pounding. Publisher Frank E. Gannett of Rochester, New York, heads the organization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Yum‘ner Gerard
National Committee
Frank E. Gannett
Rochester
N. Y
Teenager Sentenced for Slaying His Mother in Chicago
Theodore Danielson, 16, received 14 years in the penitentiary after a Chicago court found him guilty of stabbing his crippled mother Eleanor Danielson, 43, to death on March 3 in the kitchen. His father, a 48-year-old salesman, testified as the boy claimed an irresistible impulse and stated his son had skipped school for 40 days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
U.P
Theodore Danielson
Cornelius J. Harrington
Eleanor
Theodore
Auto Dealers Submit Code to Commission
Automobile dealers asked the Federal Trade Commission to adopt a governing code. They sought protection from manufacturers coercing use of specific finance companies or imposing payments for automobiles, buildings, and improvements not needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
U.P
Federal Trade Commission
United Shoe Workers Oppose 10 Percent Wage Cut Plan
Portsmouth union officials said they would oppose a proposed 10 percent wage reduction to take effect May 1 by Selby Shoe Co. The faced issue centers on job terms and labor action by the United Shoe Workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portsmouth
United Shoe Workers
Selby, Shoe Co
Farmer Slays World’s Finest Woman and Lover in Arizona
Archibald K. Francis, 53, a Kentucky farmer, confessed to killing his wife Stella Francis, 49, and Louis P. Tripoli, 30, in Phoenix. He fled to a relative’s home, paid $20 to Mrs. Eva Moynahan, and sent a telegram to his 17-year-old son Charles. He said he killed Stella because he loved her and she wouldn’t return home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Ariz
U.P
Archibald K. Francis
Stella Francis
Louis P. Tripoli
Francis
Tripoli
Eva Moynahan
Bodies Found In Air Wreck In Visalia California
In Visalia California the bodies of Dr. O L Lambert his wife Dorothy Davis and Mrs Frank Blain and a man were found in the wreckage of their private airplane. They had been missing since Monday on a flight from Furnace Creek Death Valley. The plane crashed into a snowbank on Sunday Peak at about 4400 feet. Forest rangers reported a likely crash during a blinding rainstorm that swept the area Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Visalia
Calif
U.P
Furnace Creek
Death Valley
O. L. Lambert
Dorothy Davis
Frank Blain
Forest Rangers
White Assails U. S. Intrusion In Economics
William Allen White, editor from Emporia Kansas, told the Economic Club of New York that government intrusion in economics is the chief threat to American democracy. He warned that laws will be proclaimed rather than born from ethical aims and that power can corrupt even benevolent leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
New York
U.P
William Allen White
Emporia
Kans
The
Economic Club of
Lafollette Set to Split With Roosevelt on Third-Party Move
Madison sources report Gov. Philip Lafollette plans a national third party bid and a clear break with the Roosevelt administration at Thursday rally. Brother U S Sen Robert Lafollette shows no active role but signals accord. The meeting will draw Midwest labor and liberal groups, about 60 liberals recently consulted on third party ideas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
U.P
Philip Lafollette
Roosevelt
U. S
Robert Lafollette
Jews to finance German four year plan decree
Berlin dispatch reports Field Marshal Goering, the economic ruler, ordering Jews to reveal all fortunes and properties above 5 000 marks. The decree applies to both foreign and German Jews to fund the plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
U.P
Hermann Goering
Czechs Stand Ready to Defend Independence
In a nationwide radio address, Czechoslovakian Minister Vladimir S. Hurban said the country will remain a democracy despite Sudeten German demands for restored privileges. He denounced chauvinism and noted Sudeten Germans enjoy schools beyond their pre-1918 status under Hapsburg rule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Vladimir S. Hurban
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Austria
Hapsburg
Senator Burke Seeks Amendment to Wagner Act
Sen. Edward R. Burke of Nebraska launches a one man bid to amend the Wagner Labor Relations Act after failing to force a congressional NLRB investigation. He appeals to employers labor and the public to remedy defects in the act and its administration by the labor board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Edward R. Burke
Congress
National Labor Relations Board
Labor Board
Rival unions clash at GM plant in Muncie strike
Police kept guard at the General Motors Chevrolet plant in Muncie after members of the United Automobile Workers and independent unionists fought Tuesday night as a strike closed the facility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muncie
Ind
General Motors Chevrolet
United Automobile Workers of America
Alternate Farm Plan Revealed
The Department of Agriculture outlined a shift toward expanded credit and supervised self-help over direct subsidies. Less than 400 million of the 1 billion farm aid this year will go to soil conservation payments, with the rest in crop and rehabilitation loans. An official near Secretary Wallace called the move a definite policy trend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Department of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace
Coogan Receiver to Present Full List of Possessions
John Riley the court-appointed receiver in the Jackie Coogan case will appear before Judge Emmet H Wilson to present a complete list of the youth's family possessions. The filing relates to a suit against his mother and stepfather Arthur L Bernstein for an accounting of the 4 million dollars Coogan earned as a child actor. The judge will consider the possessions before opening trial Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
A.P
John Riley
Jackie Coogan
Emmet H. Wilson
Arthur L. Bernstein
Yesteryear
Police Break Up Wives Bingo Party in Brooklyn Panic
In Arcadia Hall 3,500 mostly women faced a sudden police halt after husbands complained. Det. Charles Ferguson announced there would be no more bingo, triggering a mild panic as attendees surged for exits and later demanded refunds. Five promoters jailed. sponsors named James McKenna Post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
U.P
Arcadia Hall
Brooklyn
John O'Sullivan
Charles Ferguson
Ferguson
O'Sullivan
James McKenna Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
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Kansas City
Alf M. Landon
Landon
Independence
Kan
Duffy
River Fund
Hoover
Pennsylvania
UNION
Corn Belt Liberty League
Tilden Burg
Sciota
Ill
Macomb
Coogan
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