Vice Crusader Is Fired Upon By Assassins
Los Angeles district attorney Baron Fitts survived a shooting when a car load of men fired on him in Monrovia near his father’s home. A bullet pierced his forearm and windshield, severing nerves. he is missing part of his arm and still has leg injuries from a prior World War II battle. Threats followed indictments against 345 sitdown strikers at Douglas Aircraft in Santa Monica.
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U.P
Baron Fitts
Hollywood
Org
Fitts
France
Monrovia
Douglas Aircraft
Santa Monica
WPA Cut Will Be Postponed
President Roosevelt faces governors from six large states led by New York's Herbert Lehman as they assure no major WPA cuts this month. He pledges serious consideration to their requests while flood and drought relief needs hinder reductions aimed at ending 600,000 relief workers by July 1.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Herbert Lehman
New York
WPA
Robert Huston Dies At New Straitsville
Robert Huston age 44 long connected with coal mining in New Straitsville died after being stricken Saturday and not regaining consciousness. Funeral services led by Rev. W. H. Harble and Rev. Miller at M. E. Church Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. He leaves a wife Florence Rush Huston and seven children Kathleen Wanda Dottie Jean Roseanna Darrell Harry and Robert Jr all at home. His mother Mrs Anna Huston a sister Bertha Ross and brothers Derrell and Barnett also survive.
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W. H. Harble
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Florence Rush Huston
Kathleen
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Dottie Jean
Roseanna
Darrell
Harry
Robert
Anna Huston
Bertha Ross
Derrell
Barnett
Senate Bloc Plans Attack on Navy Bill Defense Cutback Foes
Senate munitions bloc plans to oppose the 526 million dollar Navy supply bill as part of a broader defense appropriation cutback. Senator Gerald Nye leads the opposition, signaling a challenge to increasing naval funding.
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Washington
U.P
Gerad P. Nye
N. D
Senate ‘Muntions
Nye
Minister Held After Death of Wife in West Virginia
Rev. M. H. Ball a 35 year old Methodist Episcopal minister from Rock Creek faced a preliminary hearing on charges he killed his wife Gay Ball 29 in a shooting authorities say Ball claimed accidental while prosecutors report three conflicting accounts of the death.
Brain Truster Moley Breaks With Chief on Court Plan
Raymond Moley a Roosevelt Brain Trust member denounced the President's Supreme Court reorganization in a radio debate with Justice Ferdinand Pecora. He urged pursuing objectives via constitutional amendment rather than congressional usurpation. In Ohio 41 marijuana seizures were reported for 1936 by Narcotics Commissioner Anslinger.
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U.P
Raymond Moley
Roosevelt
Brain Trust
Supreme Court
Ferdinand Pecora
New York Supreme Court
Moley
Ohio
Washington
Harry J. Anslinger
CIO Aids Chicago Taxi Strikers Amid Service Drought
Striking Chicago taxicab drivers backed by the CIO prepared for a prolonged stand. City taxi service was nearly halted, with about 2,700 of 3,660 cabs parked and negotiations urged to proceed after a midnight halt. Drivers demand higher commissions and ongoing pressure on Yellow Cab Company.
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Chicago
Joseph Jacobs
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Yellow Cab Company
Children fund mother’s Penn master’s degree study
Mrs Elizabeth H Wright of Riverton New Jersey is financed by her children to pursue a master’s degree at the University of Pennsylvania. She urged a women’s meeting to seek outside interests after children are grown.
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Elizabeth H. Wright
Riverton
N. J
University of Pennsylvania
Radio Priest Opposes Roosevelt Court Plan
Detroit radio priest Charles E. Coughlin urges a constitutional amendment to resolve the Supreme Court clash. He warns the nation faces a crisis of constitutional government and should address it by formal amendment, not by tampering with the Court.
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Detroit
Charlies E. Coughlin
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Students Stage Sit Down Over Superintendent Contract
Bridgeport High students protested a potential contract renewal for Superintendent Howard Ely. A board member, E. A. Rutledge, said parents have a right to send children to school and would enforce attendance if needed.
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Bridgeport-Hup
Howard Ely
E. A. Rutledge
Rex disaster claims two lives in Genoa storm
In Genoa during a gale the liner Rex the largest Italian merchant ship capsized? No. Two people were killed and 64 injured as the Rex battled heavy seas. The vessel, noted as the fastest and largest in the Italian fleet, faced the storm's fury.
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Italy
Rex
Wally Moves Again From Cannes to Loire Valley
Mrs. Wallace Simpson departs Cannes by car for a two month stay in the Loire Valley near Tours after the Duke of Windsor abdicated the throne.
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Cannes
France
U.P
Wallis Simpson
Duke of Windsor
Loire Valley
Tours
Oxford Council Head May Quit
John McFall, president of the Oxford Village Council, faced resignation after a dispute with Mayor Verlin L. Pulley over the arrest of Miami University student Dominick Leuzzi. McFall, acting mayor, released Leuzzi who was rearrested and fined when Pulley returned. Marshall Duvall also arrested George Smith and Leuzzi’s fraternity involvement sparked further tensions.
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Oxford
U.P
John McFall
Oxford Village
Verlin L. Pulley
McFall
Marshall
Ohio Death Toll Near Half Score Sunday
Ohio’s weekend toll came from auto and train crashes. Nickel Plate engineer J. F. Brown 55 and fireman James McGuinnis 45 died when their freight train derailed at St. Marys. William Kuntz 20 of New Radnor died in a Marion Bucyrus Highway crash. Walter Williams 28 and an unidentified woman about 55 were traffic victims in Toledo.
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U.P
Ohio
J. F. Brown
James McGuinnis
St. Marys
Wiliam Kuntz
New Radnor
Marion-Bucyrus
Walter Williams
Toledo
Crowell Publishing talks with union pressmen on wage hours
Springfield officials at Crowell Publishing started wage and working hour negotiations with the union pressmen who staged a two day sit down strike recently.
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Springfield
U.P
Crowell Publishing Company
Logan Shoe Plant Increases Wages Ten Percent
Four hundred workers at the H. C. Godman Co. Logan plant will see a ten percent pay raise after April 26, boosting payroll by about $35,000 yearly. Similar increases are set for Columbus Lancaster and Xenia plants affecting over 3,000 workers.
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H. C. Godman Co
Godman
Godman Company
Columbus
Lancaster
Xenia
Modernistic dungeon yard cells built for county workhouse
Engineers in Chattanooga designed a 10 foot high concrete cooler like a mechanical refrigerator for the county workhouse. Reinforced with steel, it has nine air holes, no light, no seat, no bed. Cornbread and water are forced through a double locked door at the bottom. The interior remains dark constantly.
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Chattanooga
Japan Diet approves record peacetime budget
Tokyo reports the lower house approved the largest peacetime budget in Japan's history totaling 2,815,000,000 yen with substantial army and navy allocations.
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Tokyo
U.P
Japan
Rival Faction Leaders Draw Lines of Battle
In Pittsburgh rival labor factions map a fight for control of Carnegie-Illinois Steel with 100000 workers. The Lewis Committee for Industrial Organization and the Carnegie-Illinois Company Union will meet executives on new working condition demands. Braeburn plant strike ends with recognition of the S W O C as bargaining agent. Bethlehem Steel workers vote to extend walkout until recognition and wage hour changes are granted.
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Committee For Industrial Organization
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Lewis
Braeburn Alloy Steel Company
Braeburn
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Bethlehem Steel Company
Lebanon
Youth Dies After Joyride in Stolen Truck West of Vermilion
Two Cleveland youths stole a truck and led officers on a 40 mile chase. One, 18 year old Joseph Kolengowski, was killed when the vehicle left the road five miles west of Vermilion. The other, 20 year old John Zorotz, was jailed awaiting charges of theft or manslaughter after the crash.
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Lorain-Aup
Cleveland
Joseph Kolengowski
Vermilion
John Zorotz
Lake Road
Kolengowski
Confession Follows Drowning of Beverly Ann Page
In Windsor Ontario a five year old boy confessed to holding four year old Beverly Ann Page underwater in Mill Brook with a older companion jumping on her chest. Sheriff Ernest Schoenfeld used a marble game to gain the boy’s trust. The death prompted psychological tests for the youths and funeral services in Claremont New Hampshire.
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Windsor
Beverly Ann
Mill Brook
Beau tiful Miss Britain winner denies actor self harm tale
Beauteous Buriel Oxford, 22, Miss Great Britain 1936, denies Frank Vosper jumped from the liner Paris to drown himself after a party in her room. Vosper disappeared from the ship before docking at Plymouth, England.
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Buriel Oxford
Frank Vosper
Paris
Plymouth
England
Vosper
Miss Oxford
Beauty Denies Jealousy Story Told by Author
Miss Muriel Oxford actress denied Ernest Hemingway's claim that jealousy and heavy drinking led Frank Vosper to jump overboard from her Paris liner suite during a last night party. She said they did not attend parties together and had no contact prior to Friday night. Hemingway stood by his account of bickering but offered no threats.
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U.P
Muriel Oxford
Ernest Hemingway
Frank O. Wesper
Ctor
Paris
Vosper
Hemingway
Oxford
Death Car Driver Sought After Gallia Fatal Hit-and-Run
Gallia Sheriff Hatfield and deputies pursue a definite clue identifying the hit-and-run driver who struck 24 year old Delos H. Cox near Hareka a week earlier on a state highway. Cox, son of Charles P. and Mrs Cox, was intoxicated and wandered onto the road. He died Saturday in Holzer Hospital after injuries from the accident. Funeral services were held Monday at Mina Chapel.
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U.P
Delos H. Cox
Holzer Hospital
Hareka
Hatfield
Cox
Charles P. Cox
British Warships Rush To Aid of Merchantman
An unidentified British steamship was fired on by a battleship of unknown nationality in the Bay of Biscay off northern Spain. British Destroyers Echo Escapade and Enchanter were rushing to assist the steamship.
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U.P
Bay of Biscay
Spain
Echo
Escapade
Enchanter
Bank of France lifts all gold transfer limits
Paris reports the Bank of France, after an accord with Premier Leon Blum's government, abolished all gold transaction restrictions today pending parliamentary approval through an approbation decree expected Tuesday.
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Paris-Aup
Bank of France
Leon Blum
Labor delegates back Roosevelt plan to remodel federal judiciary
About 600 delegates at a Washington meeting of Labor's Non-Partisan League unanimously endorsed President Roosevelt's judicial reorganization program and urged Congress to pass immediate legislation. Maj. George L. Berry announced the support as Roosevelt planned a nationwide fireside chat Tuesday night.
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United States
Strikes Close Four Chevrolet Plants in Flint
The United Auto Workers resumed talks with GM while four Chevrolet plants in Flint shut down and about 5,500 workers affected by a sit down strike at Chevrolet Plant 4 and closures at Plants 5 and 9. Conferees met with Arnold Lenz and Robert Travis as union demands broaden to Chrysler bargaining rights. Hudson Motor Plant also closed by sit down strike.
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United Automobile Workers Union
Chevrolet
Flint
General Motors
Arnold Lenz
Robert Travis
Chrysler Corporation
UAWA
Chrysler Automotive
Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corporation
United Automobile Workers
Hudson Motor Car Company
AFL hints at boycott as labor split widens in clash with CIO
President Green of the AFL and CIO chairman John L. Lewis push rival organizing in mass production industries. The Aluminum Workers Union bolts AFL, planning a New Kensington meeting April 12 to fund a CLO war chest. Green dismisses the move, hints at a boycott against Lewis members' products.
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William Green
American Federation of Labor
Committee For Industrial Organization
John L. Lewis
CIO
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Green
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United Press
Aluminum Company of America
Bolters
New Kensington
CLO War Chest
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Supreme Court Keeps Rulings Withheld In Brief Session
The Supreme Court closed a brief opinion session without decisions on major cases. It agreed to hear Alabama’s appeal challenging unemployment insurance as unconstitutional. Attention centered on the New York unemployment test case where the court upheld the law by four votes to zero. A rehearing petition lingered without action.
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U.P
Supreme Court
Alabama Federal District Court
New York
Social Security Board
Rush New Troops to Join Madrid Assault
Francisco Franco ordered more troops from Mainge and Bilbao fronts to reinforce 18 000 men reported behind the lines for the civil war’s greatest assault on Madrid. Loyalist high command believed a weather break would enable the insurgent offensive they forecast.
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U.R
Francisco Franco
Mainge
Bilboa
Open Conferences To End Strike In Akron
In Akron 10,000 workers remained idle as Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. and the United Rubber Workers resumed talks. The union seeks recognition as the sole bargaining agent Abolition of the company union and four written accords on wages and hours.
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AKRON
U.P
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co
United Rubber Workers
Firestone
Two Killed Two Hurt In Beer Garden Fight
A gunfight in a Louisa Kentucky beer garden left two dead and two wounded. Victims were William Adkins 26 a paroled convict and Homer Sparks 25 son of a local dentist. Wounded were Elmer Phillips 24 and Paul Sparks 29 an uncle of Homer Sparks.
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U.P
William Adkins
Homer Sparks
Elmer Phillips
Paul Sparks
Martha
Burglar Steals Dress, Leaves Silk Gowns In Kansas City
In Kansas City a burglar raided Mrs. Lulu Taylor’s home taking a cheap house dress. The intruder left behind a suitcase containing two silk dresses.
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Kansas City
Lulu Taylor
Cleveland Dogs Plagued by Record Tensile Itis Epidemic
Unseasonable weather blamed for influenza pneumonia in Cleveland and a severe outbreak of tensile itis among local dogs, described as the worst on record.
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