Problems at McBee Co Are Studied
New York consultant J David Houser outlines an employee employer cooperation plan to apply at The McBee Company in Athens. A 61 item anonymous questionnaire seeks workers' true desires to do work they enjoy, aiming to raise morale and resolve industrial relations issues.
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J. David Houser
Houser Associates
New York City
Houser
Athens
McBee Company
Mr. Houser
Mary Jones
Bill Smith
McBee
Negroes Held For Slaying Bride-To-Be in Covington Ky
Two Negro men Rudolph Haynes and Willie Bradshaw were charged with the murder of Miss Frances Marie Brady a bride to be in Covington Kentucky. Haynes from Cincinnati and Bradshaw of Covington face Kenton County Court arraignments. A pistol tied to the crime was recovered and Bradshaw reportedly admitted ownership.
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Covington
U.P
Frances Marie Brady
Rudolph Haynes
Cincinnati
Kenton
Willie Bradshaw
Brady
Harold van Venison
Bradshaw
Bomb Rocks Picketed Kansas City Building
A ree thrown from the street struck the nine story Business Men's Assurance Building early today, leveling to its foundation and shattering every window on all floors. No injuries reported. The Building Trades Union AFL protested the remodeled job as carpenters went on strike at the BMA Building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
U.P
Business Men's Assurance
Building Trades Union
American Federation of Labor
BMA
Civil War Vet Henry F. Russell Dies at 90
Henry F. Russell, 90, longtime Ohio commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, died Thursday after a two week illness. Former Civil War veteran, Russell had served in veterans groups and participated in local ceremonies.
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Alliance
U.P
Henry F. Russell
Ohio
Grand Army of the Republic
Bandits Wound Two and Steal 24800 in Post Office Heist
Five gunmen in a light delivery truck ambushed postal clerk John West and Police Chief Fred Lintner in Lockport Illinois. West was hit in the leg while Lintner was grazed by a bullet. The robbers fled with 24800 in cash after forcing both men from the vehicle.
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Illinois Post Office
Lockport
Ill
U.P
John West
Fred Lintner
West
Lintner
Chicago
Chinese women leader urges silk boycott against Japan
Mai-Mai Sze secretary of the Chinese Women's Relief Association in New York urges American women to wear Lisle stockings instead of silk. She states silk trade is Japan's economic lifeline and a boycott would cut off its largest market by reducing U. S. silk stock ing wearers.
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Japan
Pretty Mai-Mai Sze
Chinese Women’s Relief Association
New York
U. S
Parole Board Frees 46 Inmates of Prison Farm
The Ohio Board of Parole released 46 inmates from London Prison Farm and continued 74 cases. Paroled include Gallia Wilbur Rice and Clarence Sheets both in robbery cases with parole dates set for December 20, 1937. Continued cases include Ath ens Elza Brooks for manslaughter to December 1939.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio Board of Parole
London
Gallia Wilbur Rice
Clarence Sheets
Athens
Elza Brooks
Wallace Would Include Farmers in Housing Program
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A Wallace announced plans to extend the new housing program to farmers. He estimated that more than three fourths of the nation’s farmers would benefit indirectly from the Roosevelt proposal.
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Washington
Henry A. Wallace
Roosevelt
Wallace
Wagon Train Leaves East on Long Trek to Marietta
In Hamilton Mass 37 modern pioneers left with a covered wagon caravan to retrace 150 year old routes of the Ohio Company to the Northwest Territory. The farewell echoed 1787 benedictions and linked Ipswich history to a Sesqui Centennial voyage. A small elm from the Washington Elm will be replanted in Marietta as a memorial.
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Marietta
Hamilton
Mass
U.P
New England
Ohio Company
Northwest Territory
Atlantic States
Elmer Newton Bedy
Manasseh Cutler
Mer
Charles G. Dawes
Ipswich
Congregational Church
Godspeed
Washington
Cambridge
Two Men Die In Accident At Cheshire Mine
In Gallia County two men died after a slate fall at a coal mine near Cheshire two miles from Gallipolis. Rev Levi Freeman 55 and his nephew Alonzo Biffle 35 were killed while excavating coal for Virginia Myers lease to Freeman. Funeral arrangements set as a double service at the Freeman home Sunday.
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Gallipolis
Luckey
Cheshire
Levi
Bob) Freeman
Alonzo Biffle
Paul Vance
Virginia Myers
Freeman
Vance
M. S. Shoemaker
C. W. McCarty
Douglas Durst
Lafe Rupe
Claude Miller
East Gallipolis
Kentucky
Biffle
Freeman Home
Sloan Blames Labor Strikes For Recession
Alfred P. Sloan Jr. chairman of General Motors said in a prepared address before the Association of Life Insurance Presidents that the current recession is caused by influences including economic policies and psychological factors. He cited costly strikes and worker interruptions that hinder goods and services and described minority actions as delaying recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
AUP
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr
General Motors Corporation
Association of Life Insurance Presidents
Sloan
Reno Bound Friends Seek Fourth Insight on Mrs Clinton
Reno bound social notes discuss Lois Clarke de Ruyter Spreckles Clinton planning divorce from her third husband Frank C. Clinton of Los Angeles. She is the pretty daughter of New York banker Lewis Latham Clarke and married Clinton one day after divorcing Adolph Spreck Jes Jr. and five weeks after divorcing John Lee Ruyter.
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Lois Clarke de Ruyter Spreckles
Clinton
Frank C. Clinton
Los Angeles
Lewis Latham Clarke
New York
Adolph Spreck Jes, Jr
John L.ee Ruyter
AFL Executive Council to hear Green peace report
The AFL executive council meets in extraordinary session to receive William Green’s report on his peace talks with CIO leader John L. Lewis. Green says a new wages and hours bill will be sent to Congress probably tomorrow after discussions with Lewis. Both leaders avoided committing to a fixed industrial unionism plan.
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Washington
U.P
Executive Council
The
American Federation of Labor
William Green
John L. Lewis
CIO
Farmer Rilks Foiled Railroad Sabotage Near Amlin
Lieut. C. C. Carson of the New York Central Railroad Police said a man with a red beard, aged about 45 to 50, placed two railroad ties across tracks near Amlin. A farmer removed the ties minutes before a passenger train was due, preventing an incident.
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Columbus
UPI
C. C. Carson
New York Central Railroad
Amlin O
Sky Carnival Opens Over Florida Airports
Motor traffic surged as more than 500 planes filled Miami airports for the 10th annual All-American air maneuvers a carnival of the skies showcasing civilian and military aviation developments.
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Miami
Fla
Baby bounty proposal aimed at prosperity for U S
Ruth Hall Chatfield of Baldwin New York urged senators to pay an infant subsidy of 500 dollars rising to 1000 for large needy families as a plan to curb surpluses and spur prosperity. She argued higher birthrates would boost demand, labor, and wages while funding hospital care prenatal doctor fees and delivery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
WU P
Ruth Hall Chatfield
Baldwin
N. Y
America
Marines Clash With Japanese Troops in Shanghai International Settlement
In Shanghai the US Marines and British forces confronted Japanese troops who seized a large section of the International Settlement after a Chinese patriot killed himself by an action gesture during a Victory Parade. Hostilities included threats and gun threats as Japanese forces finally began withdrawing from the area.
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Shanghai
International Settlement
United States
Great Britain
U. S
17-Year-Old Boy Admits Slaying of Aged Woman
A 17-year-old boy, Joseph Healy, appeared in a police lineup in New York and admitted to the slaying of Mrs. Martha Hore, a shopkeeper, to the district attorney. He said he cut her throat to steal money for his wife’s maternity costs.
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New York
Joseph Healy
Philadelphia
Martha Hore
Ohio Senators Urge FDR To Act on Flood Control
Ohio's two senators pressed President Roosevelt to immediately allocate funds for Ohio River flood protection under the $24,877,000 authorization approved last summer. The move aims to advance flood control projects and safeguard communities along the river.
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Ohio
FDR
Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Eleanor Holm Divorce Case Reveals Hollywood Triangle
Art Jarrett sued Eleanor Holm for divorce revealing a web of relationships with an exasperated cast of associates. Jarrett cited Holm’s alleged frequent trips, champagne drinking, and a $1800 fur coat as part of his grounds plus claims of interference with his career and rumors of her links to another man in the entertainment world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Art Jarrett
Eleanor Holm
America
Billy Rose
Fanny Brice
Jarrett
Karl W. Marks
Superior Court
NLRB Appeals to Federal Court Over Editor Subpoena
The National Labor Relations Board plans to seek federal court relief to enforce a subpoena. Hartley W. Barclay, editor of Mill and Factory, refused to reveal material for an article criticizing the NLRB on the Weirton Steel labor complaint. An open letter from Elisha Hanson confirmed the editor’s noncompliance.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
Hartley W. Barclay
New York
Mill and Factory
NLRB
Weirton Steel Company
Barclay
Elisha Hanson
Conover-Mast Publishing Company
Italian Royal Governor Named For Ethiopia Role
The report notes Mussolini appoints Aosta Savoy as royal governor to replace General Rodolfo Graziani in Ethiopia. Hanson claims press freedoms were violated and the Mill and Factory piece denounces the Weirton Steel hearings as biased toward the CIO, calling the NLRB power to stifle criticism a false claim.
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Mussolini
Ethiopia
Rodolfo Graziani
Italy
Aosta Savoy
Air Corps
Hanson
Weirton Steel
Committee For Industrial Organization
Weirton
NLRB
CIO
OGPU
Pennsylvania Considers Bootleg Coal Regulation
New York U P report says the An thracite Coal Industry Commission will urge Governor George H. Earle of Pennsylvania to have the state mine 2 000 000 to 4 000 000 tons of coal produced by bootleg miners and run the industry through a state commission and cooperative marketing agencies. Morris L Ernst says the plan was discussed with a joint committee of operators and miners but not approved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York
U.P
Anthracite Coal Industry Commission
George H. Earle
Pennsylvania
Morris L. Ernst
Government Building Tailless Plane Aims to Cut Aviation Costs
The Bureau of Air Commerce is building a tailless, low-cost straight-wing plane for experiments in New Philadelphia Ohio. The project costs about 15000 dollars and should be completed in roughly a month, officials said.
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Washington
Bureau of Air Commerce
New Philadelphia
Ohio
Republicans Schedule State Committee Meeting
State Chairman Ed D. Schorr announced a Republican State Committee meeting to be held next Tuesday as part of party planning and oversight activities.
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Columbus
Ed D. Schorr
Tuesay
Cattle Rustlers Target Central Ohio Farms
In Columbus the State Highway Patrol and Arnett Harge of West Jefferson joined to curb rustling across Madison Union Delaware and Franklin counties. Col. Lynn Black said his 10 man force will patrol roads at night while Harbage plans to urge readers to pressure newspapers. Black estimated about $100,000 in livestock stolen over the past 30 days.
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Columbus
U.P
Arnett Harbage
West Jefferson
Ohio
Lynn Black
Madison
Union
Delaware
Franklin
Harbage
Colonel Black
Probe Reveals Strike Errors at Beaver Falls Plant
The Steel Workers Organizing Committee struck Beaver Falls Union Drawn Steel May 27 without enough mill members to form a local unit. A National Labor Board witness admitted the fact under cross examination of Republic Steel sub sidiary counsel. The board charged coercion and intimidation and seeks to prove opposition to union workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Beaver Falls
Union Drawn Steel
Republic Steel Corporation
National Labor Board
Thomas F. Veach
Cleveland
Republic
Labor Board
Stone Fall Kills Miner at Rail and River Mine
John Meager aged 54 was killed Thursday in a stone fall at the Rail and River Mine in Bellaire. The accident prompted investigations by mine safety authorities and prompted temporary stoppage of operations.
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Bellaire
U.P
John Meager
Governor proposes 1938 unemployment benefit amendment
Governor Davey writes to Senate leader Keith Lawrence to calm fears that paying benefits in 1938 could hurt the unemployment insurance law. He suggests a simple amendment to start the credit rating in 1939 to prevent adverse effects.
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Columbus
U.P
Davey
Senate
Keith Lawrence
Ohio governor backs early unemployment benefits expansion
In Columbus the governor and Senator Lawrence push a plan to start $15 weekly benefits for 16 weeks a year early amid the recession. The governor cites fund solvency, $55 million collected this year and a projected $100 million next year, and argues most employers and workers would support accelerating aid despite labor opposition.
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Lawrence
Washington
Ohio
Rural Mail Carriers Feed Birds This Winter
Postmaster General James A. Farley urged hundreds of rural mail carriers to distribute grain to birds this winter to prevent hunger. Carriers may act with or without the order, and grain will be supplied by private individuals or wildlife preservation societies.
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Washington
U.P
James A. Farley
Bracher Files Candidacy for Ohio Governor
Charles A. Bracher of Dayton, Republican, obtained nominating petitions from the Secretary of State and announced his bid for governor, subject to the 1938 primary.
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Columbus
U.P
Charles A. Bracher
Dayton
Tipsy Hero Unknowingly Rescues Man Twice From River
In Nashville Tennessee a 20 year old man Tedder saved Porter Neely twice after Neely fell from a Cumberland River boat ride toward the penitentiary. Deputies sheriffs and guards organized a swamp rescue finding Neely half frozen and semi conscious. Tedder later faced jail for public drunkenness as the rescue party escorted him in.
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Nashville
Tenn
U.P
Selmer Tedder
Tedder
Porter Neely
Alver Lewis
Cumberland River
Neely
Lewis
E. W. Naylor
Clyde Carothers
Naylk - Tedder
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Iowa
AFL Executive Council
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Tiff
Miss Holm
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New Yorker
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