AFL Mapping Labor Program Put Before Congress
The AFL outlined a broad labor legislation program for Congress, including revisions to the National Labor Relations Act and the Social Security Act, plus safeguards for defense labor. President William Green projected strong Senate opposition to nominee Donald Wakefield Sith and noted union efforts to back the program with AFL support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AFL
Congress
Washington
U.P
American Federation of Labor
William Green
Green
Senate
Donald Wakefield Sith
National Labor Rela
Smith
Social Security Advisory Council
Believe Coster Headed Ring
Federal agents probed letters from a would be munitions salesman for a clue to the leader of an arms syndicate. They tied the head to Philip Musica-Coster and identified Cecil Ray Ekholm as a Boston consultant linked with Charles A. Jordan in trying to sell 700000 rifles and 40 planes to buyers in Panama Mexico Bolivia and other nations along with Loyalists and Insurgents in Spain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
U.P
Philip Musica-Coster
Cecil Ray Ekholm
Department of Justice
Charles A. Jordan
Panama
Mexico
Bolivia
Dominican Republic
Colombia
Uruguay
Paraguay
China
Spain
Ekholm
Musica-Coster
Medical Association Attacks Indictments
In Washington the Federal government and the American Medical Association opened a public clash over cooperative medicine. The AMA, with about 110,000 members, contends that the medical profession is not a trade under antitrust laws and thus cannot be indicted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
American Medical Association
Medical Organization
Steamship Rate War Threats Are Studied
The U S Maritime Commission opened hearings on charges that two large Japanese steamship firms sought to exact tribute from American Pacific Coast lines by threatening a rate war. It has authority under the 1920 merchant marine act to act if findings support the complaint, including possible denial of port access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashington
U. Maritime Commission
South American Nations Propose New Pan American Compromise
At Lima delegates from Brazil Argentina and Peru circulated a new American formula draft at the Pan American Conference aimed at unity against foreign influence. Argentina objects to a strong anti totalitarian declaration, risking a final non approval with a week to adjournment. Hull favored the Argentine Brazilian Peruvian redraft to avoid split among Latin nations.
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Lima
Peru
United States
Argentina
Gentina
Americas
Hull
Byrd’s Polar Ship Set for Auction by Court Order
Federal Judge Paul Jones ordered the sale to satisfy the shipkeepers claim for unpaid wages and dockage charges. Ralph von Suboff, the shipkeeper, asserts $1,175 due, while the city claims $350. The vessel has been moored in Cleveland for some time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
U.R
Richard E. Byrd
Paul Jones
Ralph von Suboff
Lasser Seeks Roosevelt Backing for WPA Deficiency Plan
Workers Alliance leader David Lasser asks President Roosevelt to support a 1.05 billion deficiency appropriation to employ 3.2 million WPA workers from Feb 15 to June 30 with a 40 percent wage increase. He delivered the plan in a letter to the President.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
David Lasser
Workers Alliance Today
Roosevelt
Lasser
President Roosevelt to push reorganization plan in state of the union
Washington plans to reopen the controversy over executive department reorganization in the new Congress. The White House seeks re consideration of the reform bill, with Roosevelt to include the demand in the January 3 state of the union address after meetings with representative sponsors Cochran and Warren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Cochran
Warren
N. C
House
Witchcraft blamed for girl’s bouncing bed case
In Wallins Creek Virginia nine year old Bertha Marie Sybert complains a spirit shakes her bed at dusk every night since November 16. Her grandmother and neighbors report the bed bounces violently despite two farmers trying to hold it down. Bertha says the unknown bed shaker speaks to her and she fears the haunting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Charles
Bertha
Wallins Creek
Bertha Marie Sybert
Rebecca Jane Sybert
Sybert
Frank Sybert
Little of Each Is West's Weather Lot
Winter greeted the western half of the nation with hail snow fog and rain from the Pacific northwest to the Gulf of Mexico. Temperatures were not extreme and many areas escaped major disruption due to scattered cloud forms. The contrast to mild December weather was sharp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
U.P
Pacific Northwest
Gulf of Mexico
Ohio governor charges Social Security Board with robbing state
Governor Martin L. Davey accused the Federal Social Security Board of robbing Ohio of 1 356 756 in old age pension contributions. He demanded reimbursement for half October payments and blamed political treachery for withholding federal funds. He warned of further action if funds were not returned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Martin L. Davey
Ohio
Federal
Social Security Board
Davey
Arthur J. Altmeyer
Rob
Board
State Commission
Jenkins Says TVA Is Step To Socialism
Representative Jenkins criticizes the Tennessee Valley Authority as a first gigantic step toward Socialism. He questions TVA comptroller Kohler’s claim that the agency need not pay interest on money Congress appropriated, arguing the TVA’s net operating deficit amounts to a federal subsidy to consumers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Jenkins
Tennessee Valley Authority
Kohler
TVA
Ohio State Holds Autumn Quarter Graduation Speech
Professor Charles C. Stillman, director of OSU's social administration school, addressed 263 autumn quarter graduates in Columbus. He warned that if employers cannot guarantee wages, the state will seek industry to provide a makeshift, framing it as the big social question facing the nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
Charles C. Stillman
Ohio State University
Ohio State
Stillman
Girl Shoots Dice With Cop Freed After Arrest
In Cleveland Elsie Shar rar played dice with Patrolman Frank Stimson who invited her to join a game. Officers ended the game and arrested her for gambling but Police Judge Alfred L. Steuer freed her saying it was not gentlemanly to invite a pretty girl to shoot dice and then arrest her. Funeral services for Mabel Wolfrom a 40 year old Dola school teacher fatally injured by a car will be held Friday at the Dola school auditorium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
U.P
Elsie Sharrar
Frank Stimson
Alfred L. Steuer
Ada
Mabel Wolfrom
Dola
Cleveland Firm Low Bidder On Athens School Program
Bids from 15 firms for Athens city school building projects were opened with low general bid from The National Concrete Fireproofing Co. of Cleveland at 254900 and Gosling Plumbing of Lancaster at 43000. The program adds auditoriums gyms classrooms and athletic facilities at East Side West Side and Athens High School. Board to meet Thursday to award contracts and adjust funds with PWA aid readjustment talks in Columbus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Athens
Athens City
Board of Education
Columbus
Lancaster
Logan
National Concrete Fire= proofing Co
Gosling Plumbing Co
East Side
West Side
Athens High School
Hollis Electric Co
The
Electric Power Equipment Co
Walsh Electric Co
F. B. Gullum
E. R. Walker
Homer Baird
W. B. Drake
Harper C. Pendry
William J. Davis, Jr
PWA
National Concrete
Wiliam Loomis & Son
Gilmore-Carmichael- Olsen Co
National Concrete Fireproofing Co
Fred H. Beckler
Gilmore-Carmichael-Olsen Co
Trapp-Carroll Co
Robert H. Evans Co
Trapp- Carroll Co
Gilmore-Caremichael-Olsen Co
Death of Athens merchant John L. Beckley at 71
John L. Beckley aged 71 died after a long illness from heart trouble at his home 20 Elmwood Place Athens. He founded J. L. Beckley and Son in McArthur and later ran the Athens store with his sons Harry Earl and Paul Beckley and daughter in law Mrs Don C. McVay. Surviving are his wife Flora Metcalfe four children a brother a stepmother and four grandchildren Funeral services are set for Friday at 2 PM at 20 Elmwood Place with interment in W Union Street Cemetery.
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John L. Beckley
Athens
Everett Beckley
Harry Beckley
John Beckley
Beckley
Flora Metcalfe
Vinton County
Harry
Earl
Paul Beckley
Don C. McVay
Leroy, O
Samuel F. Beckley
McArthur
Fila Beckley
Mary Jane Beckley
Billy Beckley
Betty Beckley
Masonic Lodge
the Elks
Methodist Church
Elmwood Place
William G. Seaman
First Methodist Church
W. Union Street
Seek Georgia Madman Who Murdered Five
Savannah police launch a manhunt for a blood spatter killer who battered J. S. Tillman 35 his wife Elizabeth 28 and children Clara Pearl 9 Viola 7 then killed garage watchman Tom Chester 35 near an automobile repair garage outside Savannah. The Tillman family were found in a dilapidated cottage behind the shop and Chester near an abandoned barbecue stand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savannah
J. S. Tillman
Elizabeth
Clara Pearl
Viola
Tom Chester
Tillman
Chester
Plane Factory To Be Built Near Sandusky
Knight K Culver Jr of Dart Manufacturing announces a 200000 dollar airplane factory planned five miles east of Sandusky with five buildings on a 60 acre site near Lake Erie between Sandusky and Huron. The plant may later produce Dart speed boats if needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
Sandusky
Knight K. Culver
Dart Manufacturing Co
Port Columbus
Culver
Huron
Lake Erie
Dart
Poles Soviets Unite Against German Aims
Moscow reports show large increases in trade between Soviet Russia and Poland seen as a reply to German plans in the Ukraine. The two nations plan a formal trade treaty next month with a mutual most favored nation clause on duties and trade questions.
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Moscow
U.P
Russia
Poland
Adolf Hitler
Ukraine
Ukrainia
Figuli’s Mother Appeals for Clemency Front Row
In Columbus Ohio Steve Figuli the Cleveland bandit awaits execution for his role in a police killing and a bank robbery. His mother plans a final plea to Governor Davey asking for clemency claiming he is the group’s youngest and a good boy. The governor had refused clemency yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Steve Figuli
Cleveland
Figuli
Davey
Steve
Father and Son Deny Murder in Los Angeles Room Confrontation
Police argue either William Spinelli or his son killed his wife Rose Spinelli. Bones found near an incinerator and a bloodied mattress support a dismemberment theory. The suspect father denies knowledge of the two week disappearance. A second item notes railroad worker W J Bennett killed in a Telegraph Road collision in Toledo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
William Spinelli
Spinelli
William, Jr
Rose Spinelli
Toledo
AUPL
W. J. Bennett
Pere Marquette Railroad
Telegraph Road
Show Must Go On So Star Sings News Of Father's Death
New York Mary Martin wowed an Imperial Theater audience with My Heart Belongs to Daddy while word arrived that her father Preston Martin had died in Weatherford Texas. Cast members conspired to keep the news from her until the curtain call.
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Star
New York
U.P
Mary Martin
Daddy
Imperial Theater
Weatherford
Tex
Broadway
Texas
Preston Martin
The
Mar
Victor Moore
Sophie Tucker
Tamara
Singer
Mary
Moore
Sophie
Fund Misuse Bindings May Bring Probe
The Senate campaign expenditures committee met to review a preliminary report on alleged misuses of relief funds in several states. Investigators submitted a digest of pre campaign inquiries, signaling possible GOP calls for a congressional probe into WPA political activity. Senator White urged a stand on WPA involvement while Democratic members declined to comment on proposed actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Works Progress Administration
Senator White
Maine
Radio technician dies by self constructed electric chair
John Hersh a 39 year old radio technician in Chicago killed himself using a makeshift electric chair after an eight year courtship ended. His former sweetheart Mrs Nell Lane a widow 35 found his body in his workshop with a calendar page bearing Danger Turn electricity off before you touch me.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
John Hersh
Nell Lane
Charles Smith
Hersh
Edward Kelly
Farmer Held After Wife Shot In Domestic Argument
David Hilderbran a 46 year old Green County farmer talked incoherently in jail as his wife Emma 45 lay in a hospital with a shotgun wound suffered during a domestic argument. He was captured late Tuesday by a posse of 30 officers from Greene Clark Madison Fayette and Highland Counties.
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Xenia
David Hilderbran
Green County
Emma
Hilderbran
Greene, Clark
Madison
Fayette
Highland
FDR Names Woman to Social Security Board
President Roosevelt announced the appointment of Ellen S. Woodward to the Social Security Board, continuing his policy of naming women to federal posts. She succeeds Mary Dewson, who resigned, and the president hopes the board always includes one woman member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FDR
Social Security Board
Washington
Roosevelt
Ellen 5S. Woodward
Miss Woodward
Mary Dewson
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CIO
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Ueee
C.coughlin
Charles E. Coughlin
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Detroit
Coster
Medical Association
Byrd
Organization
Fight Coming
Morton Grove
Ill
Greyhound
West
Georgia
Gould
Roxbury, N., Y
Finley J. Shepard
Helen Gould
Jay Gould
East Liverpool
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