U S Enters Auto Strike Negotiations
Washington reports Secretary Frances Perkins pressing to mediate between John L Lewis and Alfred Sloan to end the General Motors strike. Gov Frank Murphy arranged separate talks, with sit down strikers still occupying GM plants and 135,000 GM workers idle. Chrysler warns Baltimore division plants may shut for five days, while the Flint Alliance criticizes union leadership and supports a non union stance.
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Washington
Frances Perkins
John L. Lewis
Alfred P. Sloan
General Motors
Frank Murphy
Michigan
Miss Perkins
Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organs
U.P
Zation
Generalissimo
United Automobile Workers
Sloan
Murphy
Detroit
General Motors Corporation
UAW
Homer Martin
John Brophy
White House
Baltimore
Sloane
GMC
Flint
Mich
United Automobile Workers Union
Manchuk Ferry Sinks Capsizing Kills 227 in Hong Kong
In Hong Kong, the Manchuk ferry capsized in the West River with 340 aboard, mostly Chinese students bound for Kongmoon. At least 227 dead, including many women and children, after passengers rushed to one side causing the boat to overbalance. About 113 were rescued by nearby fishing junks.
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Hong Kong
U.R
Kanchu Rapids
Chicago
Kongmoon
West River
Denhardt Free on Bond in Murder Case May Seek Venue Change
Brig. Henry H. Denhardt former lieutenant governor remains free on 25000 bond as venue change potential is considered in his murder case stemming from the death of his fiancée Verna Taylor. Bond was continued at arraignment after a Merry County grand jury returned the indictment.
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New Castle
Henry H. Denhardt
Verna Taylor
Denhard
Merry County Grand Jury
Roosevelts Second Term Sworn In Amid Heavy Rain
About 25 000 people braved a drenching rain to witness Franklin D Roosevelt sworn in for a second term as President. In the foreground are James Roosevelt Supreme Court Clerk Elmore Cropley and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes. A photographers stand is visible in the left background.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
United States
James Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Elmore Cropley
Charles Evans Hughes
Flood Threatens 50 Stranded on Allen's Island
In Kennett Missouri flood waters cover Allen's Island on the St Francis River pushing about 50 residents to seek rescue from rooftops as boats evacuate the island before dusk. Guards along Mississippi tributaries are authorized to shoot to kill at anyone tampering with levees. Army engineers deploy boats at dawn to rescue floodbound along the region.
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Allen’s Island
St. Francis River
Mississippi
Missouri
Arkansas
Army
Allen's Island
Spanish Foes Use Artillery For Cerro De Los Angeles Clash
Loyalists and insurgents renewed their desperate fighting on Cerro De Los Angeles eight miles south of Madrid with each side aiming to seize the hill. On the Madrid front Loyalists shelled the Hospital Clinico defending about 1,900 insurgents besieged for two months. Insurgents answered with heavy artillery from Carabanchel, killing 20 to 30 people in recent hours.
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Madrid
U.P
Cerro de Los Angeles
Hill of the Angels
Ohio State freshmen maintain scholastic leadership study finds
Ohio State University freshmen who excelled as high school students have continued their scholastic leadership in college, a study of scholarship students conducted by Examiner B. L. Stradley revealed today.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio State University
B. L. Stradley
Cattle Buyer Slain in $16,000 Robbery
In Peck Michigan three masked bandits robbed and shot Charles R. Lord a wealthy cattle buyer at his home. Lord 30? died from the shooting as the trio fled with $16,000. State police and Sanilac County officials hunted the suspects across eastern Michigan.
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Peck, Mich
U.P
Charles R. Lord
Michigan
Sanilac
Townsend Plan Test Snagged in Washington
In Chelan Washington a Townsend Pension Plan test risks disruption as souvenir buyers hoard the Townsend Dollars. Mayor W T Price considers a two for one sale by C C Fleming who has spent much of the fund locally. The test spreads to Eugene and Salem with backers urging congressional action.
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Wash
U.P
Townsend
W. T. Price
Cc. C. Fleming
Fleming
Northwest
Eugene
Ore
Charlies L. Paine
Salem
House of Representatives
Congress
State Senate
Group To Seek Bill for Auto Safety Bureau
Columbus Ohio lawmakers will be asked to create a motor vehicle safety bureau to enforce accident reporting, aid safety campaigns, and propose highway hazard measures. A $200 fine or 90 days in jail is set for failing to report a injury or $25+ property damage within 24 hours. The Ohio State Safety Council also plans a compulsory vehicle inspection bill.
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Columbus
A.P
Ohio State Safety Council
Council
Higher stage for Hocking forecast floods low lands
Weather observer Mrs. C N France received a telegram from W H Alexander at the Columbus Weather Bureau warning of rising Hocking River due to heavy rain. The river will exceed flood stage in many points within hours, causing flooding of low lands.
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Athens
Hocking
Driverless Truck Crashes Behind Cars In City
Mrs. John D. Miller exclaimed in anger as a truck bumped her car and shoved it, then rolled on driverless. A traffic officer acted fast leaping into the cab and shifting it from gear to avert disaster in Kansas City Missouri.
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Kansas City
John D. Miller
German naval ship Welle sunk in Baltic Sea disaster
An official statement reported the German experimental ship Welle sank in the Baltic east of Kiel with a loss of 20 lives.
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Berlin
Welle
Baltic Sea
Kiel
Nine Dead in Snowstorm Darkens Western States
A sweeping Arctic winter left nine dead and at least 19 feared stranded in snowdrifts across the Western States. Nevada sheepherders, a Dillon, Montana man and other travelers were reported missing as temperatures plummeted and a high mountain snowpack halted rescue efforts.
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Denver
Ohio Supreme Court Upholds Trial Verdict
The Ohio Supreme Court refused to review a Morgan County ruling that Royal Indemnity Co holds a prior claim to $6,014 held by the Work Township Board of Education on Tropic and Denver town school construction contracts. Citizens National Bank of Zanesville had sued for $4,166 on assignments from the contractor. the bonding company claim was upheld.
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State Supreme Court
Morgan County
Royal Indemnity Co
Board of Education
Work Township
Tropic
Denvertown
Citizens National Bank of
Zanesville
Bonding
Railroad Brotherhoods Seek Big Pay Increase
Five railroad brotherhoods with about 300 000 members asked for pay raises that could cost the nation’s railroads an estimated 116 million dollars annually. The Big Five engineers conductors switchmen trainmen firemen and enginemen formed a united front after ten days of tense talks. Officials said the group accounts for nearly one third of all railroad workers and that sixteen additional standard unions may follow.
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Chicago
Firestone Plant Closed by Sit-Down Strike
A sitdown strike at the Firestone Steel Products Co rim plant in Akron ousted about seven hundred workers and stopped production. L. B. Buckmaster, head of the Firestone local U R W, said a few men seeking higher pay sparked the action. The tie-up was spreading to the mechanical goods division.
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Akron-Au P
Rim
Firestone Steel Products Co
L. B. Buckmaster
Firestone
United Rubber Workers
Ohio River flood deepens as cold snaps loom
Flood waters across the Ohio River Valley killed eight and left more than 10,500 homeless, with 3,000 more driven from homes in Missouri, Kansas, and Tennessee. Pomeroy and Gallipolis saw river stages surpass 51 and 53 feet, rising toward a crest next week. Cincinnati reported 63 feet, Portmouth faces a 59 foot crest, and major districts already flooded as colder weather is forecast to ease conditions.
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United Press
Ohio River Valley
Missouri
Kansas
Tennessee
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Ohio River
Pomeroy
Ohio
Pomeroy Bend
Gallipolis
Kanawha River
Upper
Pittsburgh
Parkersburg
Allegheny
Monongahela
Wheeling
Marietta
Floods in Ohio River Valley Reach Half Million Loss
Evansville Indiana reports ongoing rains and rising flood waters from the Ohio River Valley as the peak flood swirls through Kentucky Indiana and Illinois. About 500 homeless seek shelter as levees fail and villages evacuate while CCC WPA workers guards and volunteers rush to fortify dikes and provide aid Red Cross opens a headquarters and life saving boats assist rescues along the flooded region.
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Ohio River Valley
Cincinnati
U. S
W. C. Deverau
Ohio
Louisville
Hazleton
White River
CCC
WPA
Kentucky
Illinois
Indiana
Missouri
National
Red Cross
Nashville
Illinois Central Railways
WV relief agencies feed and shelter 300 flood refugees
West Virginia relief agencies provided food and shelter for 300 persons driven from their homes by Ohio River flood waters. Most refugees evacuated from Pt. Pleasant Parkersburg and Huntington.
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Charleston
W. Va
U.P
West Virginia
Pt. Pleasant
Parkersburg
Huntington
Odyssey of Rescue Feat Pulls Miner From Cascade Mine
Frederick White, 24, suffered appendicitis at the Azurite Mine in the Cascade Mountains. An emergency evacuation used airplane, motor ambulance and a dog sled to reach safety, with Dr E T Murdock braving 23 miles of snow to summon help and escort White to hospital in Winthrop and then Okanogan. The return trek included an 8 dog sled team, air transport, and a state patrol ambulance for the final 28 miles to the hospital. White remained under care awaiting surgery, grateful for the voyage and hospital warmth.
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Okanogan
Wash
U.P
Frederick White
White
Cascade Mountains
Azurite
E. T. Murdock
Winthrop
Murdock
Missoula
Mont
George Stonebraker
Clarence Freeman
Bob Johnson
Stonebraker
Freeman
State Patrol
Mob Threatens Lynch Slayer After Trooper Killing in Monroe
In Monroe Michigan a mob of about 2000 gathered outside the county jail to menacingly demand the death of Aleida Frenchy Benoit 24 a parole violator charged with the slaying of State Trooper Richard Hammond. State police armed with machine public safety gear guarded the jail with over 100 officers after Benoit was captured following a car pursuit and a farm house shelter.
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Monroe
Mich
U.S
Aleida
Frenchy) Benoit
Richard Hammond
Benoit
Hammond
Detroit
Funeral arrangements for Bishop M. J. Gallagher Detroit
The Most Rev. Michael J. Gallagher aged 70 bishop of the Detroit Roman Catholic Diocese died Wednesday night after a week long illness of influenza. He lapsed into a coma and died at Providence Hospital without regaining consciousness. He was a close friend and defender of Rev. Charles E. Coughlin founder of the National Union for Social Justice.
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Detroit
Michael J. Gallagher
Gallagher
Charles E. Coughlin
National Union For Social Justice
Providence Hospital
Plate Glass Workers Return to Factories in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh employers and Libbey Owens Ford workers reached a wage agreement granting the highest minimum labor rates in American industry. About 7,000 Libbey Owens Ford workers remain on strike, while five Pittsburgh plate glass plants resume production. The industry supplies 90 percent of the nation’s flat glass used in autos, windows, and windshields.
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Pittsburghaur
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
Libbey-Owens- Ford Glass Company
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