Unruly Little Business Men Fight New Deal Meeting
The Little Businessmen conference approved resolutions demanding more loans to small business and criticizing New Deal measures while two delegates were dragged from the hall. The meeting adjourned with 10 chairmen to draft the resolutions for President Roosevelt.
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Washington
Little Businessmen’s
Roosevelt
U. S. Shafer
Philadelphia
Robert Kaempfer
New York
Commerce Department
Representative Di Salle to Propose Relief Study Visit
Rep. Michael V. Di Salle of Lucas County will introduce a House resolution next week calling for a five member committee to visit Richmond Virginia to study that city's relief system.
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Columbus
U.P
Michael V. di Salle
Lucas County
House of Representatives
Richmond
Madden Defends NLRB in Senate Inquiry Demand
Chair man J Warren Madden of the National Labor Relations Board defended the agency before the Senate Judiciary Committee amid Burke calls for a probe. He said criticism stems from misinformation and that the board strives to apply the Wagner Act professionally while noting key NLRB victories in Supreme Court cases and numerous bargaining gains.
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Washington
J. Warren Madden
National Labor Relations Board
Edward R. Burke
Senate Judiciary Committee
Burke
Madden
NLRB
Congress
Supreme Court
Committee For Industrial Organization
American Federation of Labor
The
Co. I. O
Interpreta
A. F. of L
Illinois Faces New Flood Threat as Warm Front Rises
Unseasonably warm weather and heavy rains threaten a new flood in Northern Illinois. Engineers warn a rapid temperature rise could unleash a flood along an 80 mile Rock River stretch from Rockford to the Mississippi. In Upper Michigan, 14,000 homes on 750 miles of roads are cut off as rescue teams aid hundreds of isolated families.
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Chicago
U.P
Pacific Coast
Illinois
U. S
C. A. Donnel
Rock River
Rockford
Ill
Mississippi
Upper Michigan
Stove Swings Out as Widow Puzzles Harrisburg
Harrisburg widow Mrs. W. S. Reynolds reports her stove has for a week emitted swing music. Technicians say burning coal formed a clinker containing a mineral that touched the grate and produced musical signals, acting like a primitive radio crystal set.
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Harrisburg
III
U.P
W. S. Reynolds
Mediterranean Pirate Patrol Ready to Act
London report states forty British and at least twenty five French warships cleared for action in the Mediterranean as an intensified anti piracy patrol began. Italian ships join, creating the largest concentration since the start of the Spanish Civil War with orders to sink on sight any submarine that does not reveal its identity within 48 hours.
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London
U.P
Mediterranean
Great Britain
Graft Committee Examines Coal Probe Details
Ohio Senate Graft Investigating Committee reviews state coal purchases in Columbus. Hearings reveal three strip mining firms sold coal to Maher & North Co which resold to the state at prices up to double wholesale. No competitive bids or coal quality testing noted. Maher & North profit estimated at 15000 on 35100 of coal sold in 1937.
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Cleveland
Ohio Senate
Columbus
State Purchasing Department
Maher & North Co
Maher & North
Orphan Of . Divorce Pleading for Father
A 12 year old, Howard Frankel of Linden New Jersey, pleads he loves only his father Julius Frankel and hates his mother Rose Frankel of Brooklyn. He ran away from his mother’s home for the third time in ten days and was captured crying in a New York rail station. Police issued a general alarm after his father feared he might kill himself unless allowed to live with him.
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Julius Frankel
Linden
N. J
Rose Frankel
Brooklyn
Howard Frankel
New York
Howard
Wagner to Speak for Anti-Lynching Bill in Senate Filibuster
Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York, coauthor of the anti-lynching bill, will deliver the first speech in four weeks of filibuster to defend the constitutional validity of the measure. Senator Borah of Idaho and Senator George of Georgia have condemned the bill and Borah plans to respond to Wagner’s address.
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Washington
U.P
Robert F. Wagner
N. Y
William E. Borah
Ida
Walter F. George
Senate
Borah
Wagner
Ohio House Back To Complete Relief Bill
The Ohio House was convened for February 8 to finish unfinished business of the special session and review substitutes for relief administration bills vetoed by Governor Davey. Parole probe may be dropped unless Legislature funds the inquiry, according to an authoritative source.
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House
Columbus
Ohio House of Representatives
Davey
URI
Herbert S. Duffy
Lewis for President Suggested to UMWA
Lt. Gov. Frank H. Hayes told the United Mine Workers that one member could become president, praising John L. Lewis as competent. Delegates applauded as Hayes urged a 5 day 30 hour week for miners and set wage talks for spring 1939. Columbus was chosen for the 1940 Golden Anniversary convention.
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Washington
Frank H. Hayes
Colorado
United Mine Workers Union Today
United States
John L. Lewis
Hayes
Democratic Party
Lewis
Columbus
O. John Owens
Ohio
UMWA
James F. Dewey
Committee For Industrial Organization
CIO
Dewey
Policy Racket Chief Nabbed In Philadelphia
J Richard Dixie Davis a former church violinist and heir to Dutch Schultz policy fortune was arrested in Philadelphia and faces extradition to New York City. District Attorney Dewey prepared papers to seek Davis's return for possible 25 year imprisonment, tracing tips since Schultz’s 1935 Newark murder ended the racket.
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Philadelphia
J. Richard
Dixie) Davis
Dutch Schultz
New York City
Thomas F. Dewey
New York
George H. Earle
Pennsylvania
Davis
Schultz
Newark, N. J
British Ships Captured by Spanish Nationalists
A reliable source reports two British steamships laden with coal were captured by Spanish Nationalist cruisers and towed to Mediterranean islands off Barcelona.
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Barcelona
U.P
Mediterranean
Mother Ends Life in Jacksonville With Cord
Mrs. Charles White, 50, was found dead by her son after using a cord from an electric sweeper to hang herself. Her husband died last September, and four children survive. Acting Coroner Bennett, Athens, ruled death by own action after investigation. Body placed at Blower Funeral Home pending funeral plans.
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Glouster
Charles White
Helen
Bernice
Lloyd
Ralph
Jacksonville
Blower Funeral Home
Wright on Stand Still Denies Killing Wife and Friend
Paul A. Wright testified for a third time in Los Angeles saying he has no memory of killing his wife and John B. Kimmel on November 9 in his home living room. Prosecutor Roll planned quick cross examination. defense seeks redirect as Wright describes a midday rage after finding them in a compromising position on a piano bench.
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Los Angeles
Paul A. Wright
John B. Kimmel
Ernest Roll
Jerry Giesler
Japanese War Leader Urges Mobilization Act
Rear Admiral Kiyoshi Noda warned that the American navy build program could threaten Japan and urged serious consideration. In the lower house Gen Sugi yama called for immediate enactment of a general mobilization act and insisted current conscription revisions are not enough given the international situation.
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TOKYO
U.P
Kiyoshi Noda
Navy Information Bureau
Japan
Gen Sugiyama
Real Friends Harvest Urbana Neighbor's Unhusked Corn
Claude Apple of Urbana, hospitalized for weeks, watched his corn sit in the field. This week 30 neighbors harvested the crop for him.
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Urbana
U.P
Claude Apple
Paulette Goddard Slated For Scarlett O'Hara Role
Hollywood reports indicate producer David O. Selznick may cast Paulette Goddard as Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind. Goddard and Charlie Chaplin are linked by marriage rumors as she stays at his home while Chaplin develops a script.
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Paulette Goddard
Scarlett O'Hara
Hollywood
U.P
Margaret Mitchell
David O. Selznick
Charlie Chaplin
Selznick
Miss Goddard
Miss Mitchell
Chaplin
Scarlett
San Francisco
Believe Four Drowned in Car Plunge Through Ice
State police report a car carrying two Detroit couples plunged through thin Lake St. Clair ice near Dickinson Island. A sedan was found 60 feet under after tire tracks led to the break. four occupants, Mr and Mrs Carl M. Vincent and Mr and Mrs John Edmunston, are missing.
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Algonac
Mich
Lake St. Clair
Detroit
Dickinson Island
St. Clair River
Carl M. Vincent
John Edmunston
Columbus
Melvin Wells
Joseph Gabe
St. Clair Post
Woman Forced To Cook Meals Dies At 93 In Cleveland
Mrs. Jane Finn, who once baked for Gen. Morgan's rebel raiders during Civil War times, died after a brief illness in Cleveland. Born in Harrison she would have turned 94 on Monday. She recalled meeting Abraham Lincoln and the Confederate raid through Ohio, after moving to the city twenty years ago.
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Cleveland
U.P
Jane Finn
John Morgan
Harrison
Finn
Abraham Lincoln
Ohio
Roosevelt Eyeing Federal Highway Plan for Transcontinental Route
Senator Robert J. Bulkley said President Roosevelt showed interest in a federal corporation to build an 8 billion dollar trans continental highway on a 300 foot right of way. Bulkley spoke after conferring with the President yesterday about the plan.
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Washington
U.P
Robert J. Bulkley
D. O
Roosevelt
Bulkley
Russian Emigre Editor Killed by Mail Bomb in Sofia
Sofia Bulgaria, U P reports Ivan Mihailoff secretary of Golos Rossil, a Russian emigre newspaper, was killed when he opened a mailed parcel containing a bomb. The blast killed Mihailoff and injured nearby staff, investigation underway.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
U.P
Ivan Mihailoff
Golos Rossil
Weirton Plant Reopens as Mills Resume Operations
Weirton Steel Company recalled 1 500 workers as sheet and tin plate mills restarted after eight weeks of shutdown due to weak orders.
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Weirton
W. Va
U.P
Weirton Steel Company
Thief Breaks Into Rev Cottrill’s Car at Newcomerstown
A thief broke into the automobile of Rev. J. C. Cottrill of Newcomerstown Ohio and carried off seven religious books. No arrests reported.
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Columbus
U.P
J. C. Cottrill
Newcomerstown
Begin NLRB Probe Drive in West Virginia
Weirton groups launch a house to house canvass to collect 15000 signatures for a petition urging a Congressional investigation of the National Labor Relations Board. The push follows a meeting of 215 representatives from societies and fraternal, business and professional groups protesting NLRB hearings in Steubenville into charges against Weirton Steel Corp under the Wagner Act. The Weir-Cove Community Security League sponsored the gathering calling it the most comprehensive community action yet against the NLRB.
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Weirton
W. Va
U.P
National Labor Relations Board
Labor Board
Steubenville
Weirton Steel Corporation
Weir-Cove Community Security League
NLRB
Stench Bomber Held By Cleveland Police
James Cassidy age 25 described as a professional stench bomber said he was hired by a union official to bomb two meat markets in Cleveland. One market was bombed early today and Cassidy was captured with two companions outside the second market.
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Cleveland
AUP
James Cassidy
Cassidy
Davey Approves Bill for Increased State Patrol
Governor Davey gave approval in the special session to bills including an appropriation of 160 570 dollars for salaries and maintenance of 80 men to be added to the state highway patrol.
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Columbus
Davey
General Assembly
Navy planes crash in massed war games near San Diego
In a dramatic stock of World War II style maneuvers two PBY two motor planes collided 70 miles off San Diego. Eleven sailors died and three were rescued with injuries. The crash occurred during a squall as Admiral Claude C Bloch led the first coast defense exercises. Dozens of ships and hundreds of planes searched the area through the night.
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San Diego
Calif
U.P
Navy
Lexington
Saratoga
Elmer Glenn Cooper
Monticello
Ark
Carlton B. Hutchins
Albany
Eine
Claude C. Bloch
San Diego Bay
Pacific
Honolulu
Canal Zone
May Oppose Jackson Nomination as New York Governor
Washington reports signs of possible opposition to Robert H. Jackson's nomination for New York governor. Politicians note Governor Herbert H. Lehman could seek a fourth term, and Roosevelt may avoid opposing Lehman if he indicates a run.
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Washington
U.P
Robert H. Jackson
New York
Roosevelt
Herbert H. Lehman
Lehman
Japan Warns Foreigners To Leave Central China
Japanese authorities warned foreigners to evacuate over 100000 square miles in central China amid climactic battles north of the Yangtse River. The embassy in Peiping issued the note via foreign diplomats, urging marking of property and notifying Japanese authorities of locations.
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Japan
China
Shanghai
U.S
Yangtse River
Peiping
Mats
Yangtse
Tsingtao
Taiyuan
Shansi
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Joe E. Walton
Machinist
Maurice J. Fitzmaurice
George G. Griffin
Julian Rawls
Williams Landgreve
John G. Neizwetcki
Marion W. Woods
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