Ford Silence on Talk With FD Disappoints New Deal Chieftains
Washington officials expressed disappointment as Henry Ford remained silent after a meeting with President Roosevelt. They had hoped the billionaire would publicly align with 16 businessmen who pledged cooperation with the government in the fight on low mood.
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New Deal
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Ford calls people misled by a false leader in New York interview
Henry Ford said in New York that many voters are half asleep and deserve a leader who is “putting something over on them.” He called the idea of security a delusion, arguing true security lies in knowledge and ambition.
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New York
U.P
Henry Id
Ford
Ford Opens Social Lunch But Breaks With New Deal Policy
Detroit sources report Ford remains opposed to much New Deal policy and favors higher wages tied to better goods. He criticizes eminent domain in business, cites need for lower prices, and urges broader distribution. Hanes weighs summoning executives to Washington for a concrete joint recovery program.
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Ford
Detroit
New York
Roosevelt
American
Hanes
Sccnt of Commerce
Daniel Cper
South Fails To Rally To Labor
The House Rules Committee began hearings on a new wage and hours bill and will decide late Friday whether to send it to the House floor or kill it. Southern Democrats Bankhead and Rayburn offered little public support, and most southern Democrats oppose the bill which gives no wage differential for the South as the old bill did.
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House Rules Committee
House
William B. Bankhead
Sam Rayburn
Roosevelt
Appeal To Courts Is Lost by Papa Dionne
Toronto Ontario Attorney General Gordon Conant rejected Oliva Dionne's request for a judicial investigation into his quin tuplets affairs and finances and said there would be no change in the quins board of guardians.
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Ont
U.P
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Ontario
Oliva Dionne
Conant
Quins’ Board of Guardians
Hearst's Son Divorces Mrs Gretchen Wilson Hearst
In West Palm Beach Florida Mrs Gretchen Wilson Hearst was granted a divorce from John Randolph Hearst son of publisher W Randolph Hearst after today proceedings.
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New Deal Politicians To Be Immortalized by WPA
The Works Progress Administration offers to paint portraits of public officials deemed worthy and display them in public buildings. Over 200 officials have already received portraits, with eight painters currently on the project and demand likely to keep 100 painters busy for a year.
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WPA
Washington
Works Progress Administration
WPA Federal Art Project
AFL to Seek Dismissal of All NLRB Members
The American Federation of Labor may demand removal of NLRB Chairman J Warren Madden and members Edwin S Smith and Donald W Smith. AFL President William Green criticized the board for poor Wagner Act administration and accused it of pro CIO bias during their spring session in Washington.
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National Labor Relations Board
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William Green
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
J. Warren Madden
Edwin S. Smith
Donald W. Smith
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Hold Salesman As Writer of Threat to FD
Sec ret service agents held Keith M. Rapp a Bakersfield California salesman 35 in Memphis Tennessee after they said he wrote a letter threatening to kill President Roosevelt before boarding a bus for Washington D C Rapp denied sending the letter in Los Angeles the U S district attorney said he wrote Roosevelt that he had an overwhelming urge to kill you He told Daniel Paullo of Bakersfield on April 13 he was going to Washington to kill the President Memphis police assisted secret service men in taking him from the bus
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U.P
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Bakersfield
Calif
Roosevelt
California
Washington, D. C
Rapp
Los Angeles
U. S. District Attorney's Office
Daniel Paullo
Washington
Ohio To Vote On One House In 1939 Ballot
Ohio Single-House Legislature League announces a constitutional amendment to replace the Senate and House with a single 100 member chamber elected by population. The plan will be on the November 1939 ballot after the group's annual meeting. Initiatives circulate statewide, and the campaign continues into next year.
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Ohio
WPA Methods Hit by Builders
The Ohio Construction Council urged contractors and builders to protest to Congress against direct government labor by WPA. It called for all WPA funded work to be contracted to established firms and warned the pending program would strike a lasting blow to the construction industry.
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City executes cat for attack on child in Marion
Tommy the cat, accused of mauling two year old Joan Keck and blinding her right eye, was put to death by carbon monoxide gas on Wednesday in Marion.
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Tommy
Joan Keck
Coogan Finds Fortune Gone
Hollywood report says Jackie Coogan owes $171 for his suit and his hoped-for $4,000,000 has shrunk to $558,002. He owns mainly real estate from boom times and can recover only $634.26 from his suit against his mother and stepfather, Arthur L. Bernstein. Receiver John E. Riley filed an inventory of Coogan assets, revealing he is far from millionaire despite his marriage to Betty Grable last December.
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Jackie Coogan
Arthur L. Bernstein
Coogan
Betty Grable
John E. Riley
Jackie
Law Limits Fishermen To Use of Two Poles
The Ohio state conservation council ruled that two hand poles with no more than three hooks each will be the limit for this fishing season in Ohio.
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Columbus
U.P
State Conservation Council Today
Ohio
Lancaster Officials Lax In Duties, Chaplain Says
Rev K V Wall Ohio Penitentiary chaplain charged the Lancaster Industrial School teaches crime instead of reform in a Cincinnati talk. He said that 50 percent of penitentiary inmates have been imprisoned at Lancaster in their youth.
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U.P
K. V. Wall
Ohio
Lancaster
Simone Simon Fights Secretary Fraud Case in LA
Actress Simone Simon appears at the district attorney's office in Los Angeles to pursue a complaint against former secretary Sandra Martin accused of defrauding her of 16000 to 25000 dollars. Simon says she is very sorry to take this action and dismisses threats.
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Los Angeles
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Plenty
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Farmers Begin Revolt Against Crop Program
MACOMB ILL The Corn Belt Liberty League organized on a national basis to oppose the federal crop control program. Secretary G C James said inquiries came from farm groups in 26 states. More than 3000 delegates from Illinois Ohio Indiana Missouri Iowa and Minnesota met at the Macomb Armory renewing a repeal demand and signaling a push against President Roosevelt’s farm program. The league formed two weeks ago in McDonough County farmers.
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U.P
Corn Belt Liberty League
G. C. James
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Indiana
Missouri
Iowa
Minnesota
Macomb
Roosevelt
League
McDonough County
Kidnapping Charge Filed Against Child Abductor
Zanesville Ohio police filed kidnapping charges against 44 year old Robert Lanning after a posse hunted him for hours. He allegedly lured an eight year old girl on a 14 mile walk with the promise of a bicycle. The girl was found unharmed.
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Wilberforce Expels Nine For Protesting Ruling
Nine male Wilberforce University students were expelled after a disturbance over a new rule requiring women to be in dormitories by nightfall. Police reported window breaking in Shorter Hall and arson on an unoccupied building that had housed a bookstore.
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U.P
Wilberforce University
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Ohio to stage first automatic electric chair for Mrs Hahn
Columbus AP reports Ohio plans the first automatic electrocution in the state for Mrs Anna Marie Hahn of Cincinnati if the death sentence is carried out on May 4. Officials say new switches and a moved execution chamber will be used. Her lawyers push for a death hearing before Governor Davey or a U S Supreme Court appeal while seeking a stay.
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State Clemency Board
Duffy Opens Probe Into State Civil Service Fundraising
Attorney General Herbert Duffy assigns 36 staff to examine claims that state civil service workers were asked to donate five percent of their salaries to a Democratic campaign fund. A grand jury investigation is planned as 100 employee names are reviewed and tax department officials face subpoenas if needed.
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Tax Commission
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John W. King
E. A. Cole
Elizabeth Pugh
Esther Bayer
Annie Rees
Elizabeth Nigh
Albert Frazier
Walter Mitchell
J. E. Williams
Attorney General's Office
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Grand Jury
Francis C. Hooper
Classified
Civil Service
Daniel S. Earhart
Florence Daily
Daily
Francis W. Poulson
Common Pleas Court
Southwest search for Levine boy widens across region
Federal agents said they began a systematic search of the Southwest for a boy seen Tuesday night who resembled Peter Levine the kidnapped son of a New Rochelle lawyer. A boy with two men bought sandwiches at a Santa Fe roadside restaurant and was later identified as identical to the Levine boy by the owner and a waitress. The boy was hurried away after the meal.
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Southwest
Peter Levine
New Rochelle
N. Y
R. H. Colvin
el Paso
Department of Justice
John Karavanos
Karavanos
Nellie Thiehoff
Levine
Levine Boy
Pioneer Play Ends Early After Cleveland Crowd Turmoil
Thirty six Pioneers from the Northwest Territory retreated from Public Hall in Cleveland after a hectic attempt to present their pageant to about 9,000. Hundreds of schoolchildren packed the hall Wednesday night and caused disruptions by yelling at an actor portraying an Indian. Director O K Reames asked disinterested listeners to leave as noise drowned out the performance.
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U.P
Northwest Territory
O. K. Reames
Democrats Brawl Over Jury Probe In Pa Primary
In Harrisburg Republicans demand a grand jury probe of Gov. George H. Earle's Democratic administration after Governor Earle removed Attorney General Charles J. Margiotti. Margiotti and Earle run on rival Democratic tickets in a two week primary. intra party strife overshadows Republican bids.
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U.P
George H. Earle
Charles J. Margiotti
Earle
Margiotti
U. S. Senate
Rail Executives Propose $260 Million Wage Cuts
In Chicago executives of the nation’s Class 1 railroads meet to finalize plans to cut roughly $260 million annually from wages for about 1,000,000 workers. In Washington Senator Burton Wheeler plans to introduce a bill within 10 days to create a railroad reorganization court.
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U.P
Washington
Burton K. Wheeler
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Killer Escapes Chair Then Tries to Delay Execution
In Huntsville Texas Ef forts to save John W Vaughn who escaped the electric chair as the apparatus failed before execution began moved forward Vaughn s attorney argues the governor s reprieve was illegal and Vaughn should have been executed on the scheduled date.
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Tex
U.P
John W. Vaughn
James V. Allred
Vaughn
Dissatisfied Teacher Dismissed for Unbecoming Conduct
Miss Gertrude E. Mannis, convicted of assaulting Constant Kyriak and wrecking Kyriak's beauty shop over a disliked finger wave, was dismissed today by the New York board of education for conduct unbecoming a teacher.
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New York
U.P
Gertrude E. Mannis
Constant Kyriak
Kyriak
Board of Education
French British Leaders Begin Parley Today
London hosts two days of high level talks between British and French prime and foreign ministers and military chiefs. They aim for close cooperation of armies navies and air forces and consider credits for France to buy American and Canadian war planes. The talks focus on military cooperation amid tensions with totalitarian powers.
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France
Europe
Strait of
Dover
Expedition confirms death of Paul Redfern in jungle crash
The Waldeck expedition announced Paul Redfern, the American aviator missing for over a decade, died in the Venezuelan jungles. Spokesmen located the crash site near the Venezuela British Guiana border on a flight from Brunswick Georgia to Buenos Aires.
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British Guiana
Paul Redfern
Redfern
Venezuela
Brunswick
Buenos Aires
Empty Gun Misfires Wounds Girl in Cleveland
Nora Gorman, 21, handling a pistol she believed empty, aimed at a family dog. Her 14 year old sister Mary Agnes hugged the dog and challenged the shot. The hammer fell twice, first silent, then a bullet tore Mary Agnes’ cheek.
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Nora Gorman
Mary Agnes
Nora
Woman Claimed First Female Buddhist Ordination Arrives in San Francisco
A woman identifying as Dham madinna, born in St Louis, arrives in San Francisco and announces plans to set up a Buddhist retreat in Southern California. Japanese officers aboard the ship say she was the first woman ordained in the Buddhist order.
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St. Louis
San Francisco
California
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Say “Dhammadinna
Sloan Attempts To Reconcile Auto Dealers At GM Convention
Alfred P. Sloan urged auto dealers to avoid political control as the industry faces a potential federal auto code. Sloan, GM board chairman, spoke to 1 000 delegates from 10 000 dealers at the closing session amid calls for 24 proposed regulations by a federal trade commissioner. He framed the issue as a crossroads between government edict and voluntary cooperation.
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A.P
Alfred P. Sloan
Sloan
General Motors
Federal Trade
Commission
Cunningham accused in extortion bid over Honie note
Hollywood publicist Fred Cunningham, who claims he wrote Sonja Honie a $500 threat note as a publicity stunt, is indicted for attempted extortion involving the note.
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Hollywood
Fred Cunningham
Sonja ‘Honie
Meigs Woman Killed After Lower Middleport Wreck
Carrie Abbott age 26 of Meigs County died at Holzer Hospital after a car carrying six people wrecked in Lower Middleport. Funeral set for Sunday at 2 PM at her parents home Mechanic Street. Interment in Middleport Hill Cemetery. She leaves a five year old son Jerry, parents Gus and Mary Hendricks, two brothers Everett and Sidney Burton, and four half siblings Homer Mary Thelma and David Hendricks. Henson Thomas sustained minor injuries and is recovering in Holzer Hospital.
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Carrie Abbott
Lower Middleport
Holzer Hospital
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Mechanic St
Middleport Hill Cemetery
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Mary
Thelma
David Hendricks
Pomeroy and
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Las Vegas Honeymoon for Warner and Mrs. McDonald
Thomas W. Warner Jr. and Mrs. Jean McDonald wed in Las Vegas after a costly private investigation into their romance. The Pasadena heir and the divorcee, both in their early twenties, flew from Los Angeles and married at a Baptist parsonage with the father blessing amid prior legal actions tied to the investigation.
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Nev
U.P
Thomas W. Warner, Jr
Jean McDonald
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