Demand Ousting Of Union Group Headed by Lewis
Washington UP report on a campaign to force the AFL executive council to outlaw 12 rebel unions led by John L. Lewis. The move aims to curb CIO unions seeking industrial organization versus AFL craft union policy. Green said no CIO reps attended. Lewis met with Roosevelt as talks continued.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor Executive Council
John L. Lewis
John P. Frey
Metal Trades Department
A. F. of L
William Green
United Mine Workers
Ladies Garment Workers
CIO
Federation
Mr. Roosevelt
Nurse Falls From Hospital Window in Logan
Ethel Manter a nurse admitted to Cherrington Hospital fell from a third floor window just before noon. Initial check shows brain concussion and possible skull fracture. Hospital officials say no one was in her room at the time and a nurse had just attended the patient.
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Logan
Ethel Manter
Cherrington Hospital
Mur phy resigns Phil ippines post to seek Michigan governor race
U S Commissioner to the Philippine commonwealth Frank Murphy announced today his resignation from the insular post to enter the Michigan gubernatorial race. The move positions Murphy to challenge for the state’s top political office.
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Washington
U.S
Frank Murphy
U. S
Insular
Michigan
Porter Will Creates Fund for Negro Youth Education
The will of Jennie D. Porter who died Wednesday night in Cincinnati directs a $50,000 estate to establish a fund for the education of Negro youths.
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Cincinnati
Jennie D. Porter
Meighan Film Star Dies After Comeback Bid
Thos Meighan age 57 silent film star dies at his Great Neck New York home after a three week critical illness. He had battled illness for two years interrupting his attempt to reclaim star status in talkies. He retired in 1927 then returned for a few films 1927 1929 and again in 1931. His last film Peck's Bad Boy released last year revived box office interest.
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Great Neck
N. Y
U.P
Thos. Meighan
Bright Lights
Florida
Peck
Meighan
Thomas Meighan
Long Island
Enraged husband cuts off wife's nose in Detroit
John Drotar, former street car motorman, attacked his wife with a razor over her interference in his affairs and severed her nose. Police stopped him as he tried to slash his throat. Betty Drotar hospitalized. Drotar held for mental examination.
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Detroit
John Drotar
Betty Drotar
Drotar
Fewer Relief Clients Report as WPA Rolls Decline
Washington reports a 500000 drop in work relief rolls over three months as better business and harvests cut welfare needs. WPA shows 3,282,045 employed under the 4 billion program, down from 43,853,000 on March 7. Drought adds 55000 farm families to federal projects within ten days.
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Washington
U.P
Works Progress Administration
WPA
State Relief Grants Named for Several Ohio Counties
The State Relief Commission announced grants totaling Brown County 2599 in January 644 in April and 1305 in July Meigs County 1345 in April 1152 in May.
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Columbus
Hop
State
Brown County
Meigs
Record Wheat Returns Forecast Across Nation in 1936
Grain statisticians project about 603 million dollars in value for the 1936 wheat crop despite drought heat and pests. Prospective yield is below bumper years but prices imply large dividends, with five sixths allocated to Southwest winter wheat growers. Market gains boosted regional checks at cross roads elevators by about 25 percent.
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Chicago
Roosevelt
Chicago Board of Trade
Relief Rushed to Drought-Stricken Northwest States
Government relief officials under Roosevelt rush plans to distribute millions to over 1,000,000 drought victims. WPA and Resettlement Administration pool resources to aid more than 200,000 families immediately with emergency projects in the Dakotas Montana Wyoming and Minnesota.
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Northwest States
Washington
Roosevelt
WPA
Resettlement Administration
AAA
J. B. Hutson
Dakotas
Montana
Wyoming
Minnesota
Nebraska
South
Tennessee
Mississippi
Louisiana
Arkansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Virginia
North Dakota
South Dakota
Remington Rand Head Begins Strike Truce Extended
The Norwood plant strike truce at Remington Rand Inc. was extended 24 hours as company and union leaders awaited James H. Rand Jr. to begin settlement talks. Rand was due to meet a four striker and four worker committee but would not meet union organizers or acknowledge the labor board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
U.P
Norwood
Remington-Rand Inc
James H. Rand, Jr
Rand
National Labor Relations Board
Man Slain After Fatal Shootout With Officer In Enid
Enid police identified the gunman as Lawrence Devol a fugitive from St Peter Minnesota hospital for the criminally insane who shot a policeman to death before being killed Wednesday night in a confrontation.
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Enid
Okla
U.P
Lawrence Devol
St. Peter, Minn
New Haven Farmer Invents Rubber Coal Chute
Lester Green a New Haven gentleman farmer and inventor announced the invention of a rubber coal chute. The novel device designed to ease coal handling gains attention among local residents and industry watchers.
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New Haven
Conn
Lester Green
A Matter of Pain in the Pocket
A London style column notes that voices in New York urge sacrifice while warning against overreliance on the League of Nations for Far East peace and encourages readers to place classified ads in The Messenger for getting what they want when they want it.
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New York
League of Nations
Far East
China
Japan
Miss
Sidelights Of Drought Across Several States
In Minneapolis a scream alarm leads officers to a street scene where a woman explains heat drove her to shout for relief. In Aberdeen a baby born under 100 degree home conditions avoids incubator after doctors note low weight. Jail in Madison endures 95 degree cells as inmates adapt to heat. An ice deliverer in Milwaukee collapses from heat. Plum Creek in Beemer runs dry for the first time in years after a thaw widened it two miles.
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Minneapolis
U.P
Sixteenth Ave
Beemer
Neb
Plum Creek
Ohio House to tackle stop-gap unemployment relief
Speaker J Freer Bittinger convenes the Ohio House Monday to consider the Senate approved 1 5 million emergency unemployment relief bill. The Cleveland relief committee demanded quick action but attendance concerns were cited. The move contradicts an earlier pledge to wait for a permanent year end relief bill.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio House of Representatives
J. Freer Bittinger
Bittinger
Cleveland City Council Relief Committee
Cleveland
House
William M. McCulloch
Miami County
Senate
Illinois Congressman Shot While Driving
Chicago report says State Representative John Bolton, sponsor of a bill to legalize handbooks in Chicago, was shot and killed as his car was fired upon. The chauffeured vehicle careened 100 yards before crashing into a lamp post.
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Chicago
U.P
John Bolton
Illinois
FDR Accused of Stealing GOP Planks at Wisconsin Meet
John D. M. Hamilton, chairman of the Republican National Committee, told Wisconsin GOP delegates that President Roosevelt is trying to win votes by stealing planks from the Cleveland platform. He cited the anti monopoly plank and questioned the administration’s civil service stance after Landon’s Cleveland telegram. Rumors linked James A. Farley to resign his Post Office post.
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Milwaukee
John D. M. Hamilton
Republican National Committee
Wisconsin
NRA
Johnson
Alf Landon
James A. Farley
Addison Woman Dies Following Stroke
GALLIPOLIS Mrs. Ed Neff Addison died Wednesday night after a paralytic stroke she suffered earlier. She leaves one daughter Mrs. Max Bunce who was with her at death and spends winters with her husband, a Washington County Schools teacher. The husband has worked for the State Highway Department and recently sold cars locally. Two sisters survive. Funeral services likely Friday.
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Gallipolis
Ed Neff
Addison
Max Bunce
Washington County
Neff
State Highway Department
Man Sleeps on Lawn Run Over by Son in Detroit
Exsil Brown, 50, slept on his front lawn to escape heat on Wednesday night and was injured when his son drove home at midnight and struck him. He is hospitalized with internal injuries and a possible skull fracture.
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Detroit
U.P
Exsil Brown
Britain Expands Defense Budget With 100 Million Increment
Britain raises its defense outlay to 941.02 million dollars for the year with 98.26 million in supplementary estimates split across the air force 58.5 million army 33.0 million navy 5.28 million and ordnance factories 1.47 million. Sir Samuel Hoare announced additions to the 1936 ships including two 6,000-ton cruisers one destroyer leader eight destroyers one aircraft carrier three patrol submarines and one smaller submarine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
U.P
Air Force
Army
Navy
Royal Ordnance Factories
Samuel Hoare
The
Admiralty
Police Quiet Strikers in Middletown Riot End
State police used tear gas bombs and clubs to quell three days of unrest at the Remington Rand strike area in Middletown. About three hundred workers returned to their jobs as order was restored.
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Middletown
HUP
Remington Rand
Food prices rise as drought bites nation
The drought presses on household budgets with higher grocery costs across 15 cities. Grocers note seasonal increases not tied solely to drought, while flour bread eggs butter milk and potatoes show upward trends as pastures falter and supplies tighten. The Dun and Bradstreet food index climbs to 2.76, a new high since January 7.
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Kansas City
U.P
Des Moines
Chicago
State Swelters With No Relief For 48 Hours
Ohio endures a brutal heat wave with 102 to 106 degree readings as a 55 year record falls. Forecasters warn the hot spell may surpass all prior state highs with no rain in sight. Heat-related deaths and prostrations rise across Cincinnati Cleveland Toledo and surrounding communities.
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Columbus
State Weather Bureau
Collumbus
Alexsander
Wilmington
Norwalk
Lima
Layton
Circleville
Napoleon
Toledo
Sidney
Alexander
Ohio
Thurman
Gallia County
Girl in Serious Condition After Self Inflicted Wound
Alice Short, 17, of Allensville Vinton County, was reported in serious condition at Sheltering Arms Hospital after shooting herself in the abdomen with her father's .22 caliber revolver at home Wednesday night. Her parents said she appeared well and there was no known reason for the act.
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Alice Short
Allensville
Vinton County
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Harry Short
Confession Solves Five Year Old Murder in Ohio
Charlies Alderman, 21, confessed to killing Griffin D. Fenton a game keeper on the estate of the late John Sherwin five years earlier. He said he and a partner planned robberies and waylaid Fenton to steal guns. the partner died two months ago and would not reveal his identity.
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Ohio
Ohio Workers’ Alliance
State House
Charles Norris
Ohio House
Painesville
A.P
Griffin D. Fenton
Charlies Alderman
Alderman
Fenton
John Sherwin
Move To Ban Fireworks In Fourth Celebration
Agitation for legislation to prohibit sale and use of fireworks within Ohio municipalities grew in several cities after the 1936 Independence Day celebration. At least three people were killed and scores injured by fireworks explosions in Ohio this year.
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Columbus
U.R
Ohio
Butter price rises in Ohio amid drought milk shortage
The Ohio Bureau of Markets reports butter climbs two cents to 36 cents a pound as milk shortages from drought push prices higher across the state.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio Bureau of Markets
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