Labor Peace Parley Recessed for CIO Proposal Friday
Labor peace conferences recessed as CIO officers map strategy to renew two central contracts affecting the UMWA. A Friday 8 PM session will consider a CIO plan to merge AFL CIO and independent railroad unions into an American Congress of Labor.
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Labor Peace
New York
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Roosevelt
American Federation of Labor and
CIO
AFL
American Congress of Labor
UMW
Illinois
Indiana
Lewis
Ilinois
Terre Haute
Iowa
Indiana Block
Alabama
Tennessee
Kentucky
UMWA
Lions Escape Shocks Creve Coeur Village
Tyrone and Patsy two friendly lions escaped from the cage at Jesse Clements home.
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Clements
Nazi invasion plan outlined by Journal Des Debats
Paris report cites Journal Des Debats claiming Adolf Hitler drafted a 1939 strategy to invade Holland and Switzerland to coerce democracies. The plan allegedly threatened Britain and France and was to be executed mid March, later postponed to an unknown date per an unimpeachable source.
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Paris
U.P
Journal Des Debats
Adolf Hitler
Holland
Switzerland
Germany
Italy
Great Britain
France
Pneumonia Fatal to Racine Resident 81
Finlay J. Banks, 81, died at his Racine home after a pneumonia illness. Funeral services will be held at the home at a later time. He was a widower cared for by his daughters and is survived by three daughters, seven grandchildren, and five great grandchildren.
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Pomeroy
Finlay J. Banks
Racine
Banks
WV Legislature Near Record Adjournment Target
Charleston West Virginia lawmakers finish major agenda and move through minor calendar items seeking possible record adjournment by midnight Saturday as the administration program concludes.
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Charleston
W. Va
U.P
West Virginia House
Senate
Kennedy named to represent U S at Pope Pius XII coronation
President Roosevelt appointed Joseph P. Kennedy to represent the United States at the coronation of Pope Pius XII. The choice pleased the papal court and the new pontiff, Vatican City reported.
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Vatican City
U.P
Roosevelt
Joseph P. Kennedy
United States
Pius XII
Milk Price Fixing Alleged by Howe in Monopoly Probe
Dr. Frederick C. Howe, former ASA consumers counsel, charged two large New York City distributors with fixing retail milk prices in a $2 billion industry. He testified before the national monopoly committee that control is exercised through the pasteurization plant, the sole intermediary from farm to consumer. He said price manipulation harms farmers and consumers alike.
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Washington
Frederick C. Howe
The
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
New York City
National Monopoly Investigating Committee
Howe
U S Brazil Pact Aimed at Currency Stabilization
A joint statement from Brazilian Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha and the State Department is expected today detailing an agreement to stabilize currencies up to 20 million dollars and provide long term credits to boost American exports to Brazil.
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Washington
Oswaldo Aranha
State Department
Brazil
Auto sales rise at Hudson Ford and Oldsmobile units
Detroit reports show Hudson Motor Car Co. boosting output by 40 percent in two weeks with many workers back. Ford Motor Co. notes 40 percent higher sales in the last ten days of February versus a year ago. Oldsmobile division at Lansing records February retail sales up 38 percent from year earlier.
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Detroit
Hudson Motor Car Co
Ford Motor Co
Lansing
Oldsmobile
General Motors
Charles Bickley Rites To Be Held Saturday
The funeral for Charles Bickley thirty of Hollister who died in a mine accident Wednesday morning will be held at two o clock Saturday afternoon at the C F Wallace and Son Funeral Home Glouster Rev Gilbert Courtney will officiate Friends may call after Thursday afternoon
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Glouster
Charles Bickley
Hollister
C. F. Wallace and Son
Gilbert Courtney
White House Correspondents Banquet Cancelled by Hotel Strike
The White House Correspondents Association cancelled its annual banquet amid a 13-hotel strike by AFL unions affecting about 2,200 workers. President Roosevelt’s guest status would have posed cross picket line questions, leading to the decision to call off the event after talks with labor leaders and hotel management.
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Washington
U.P
White House
Mr. Roosevelt
Earl Godwin
Association
Miner Pleads Innocent To Liquor Still Charge
Glouster coal miner George Love pleaded innocent at a U S Commissioner’s hearing on maintaining a liquor still. Federal agents raided his premises Tuesday night finding the still and several gallons of illicit liquor. Bail was set at 1000 dollars pending a Monday preliminary hearing.
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Columbus
George Love
Glouster
U. S
Robert W. Newton
Love
Newton
Wife and neighbor arraigned in murder case
Norwalk officials report Mrs. Colleta Schlett and Harold Hastings, both charged with first degree murder in the roadside death of Carl Schlett near Bellevue. State Patrolman Ray Abrams tied the case to a 1937 Ford headlight glass and Hastings car damage, while insurance motives emerged as a key factor.
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Norwalk
Coletta Schlett
Harold Hastings
Sandusky
Edgar T. Martin
Ray Abrams
Abrams
Schlett
Tom Ryan
Hastings
Donna Jean
Carl Schlett
J. D. Bradish
Free on Bond Plans Talks on Crime Career
Roy Gardner, once nation’s top train robber and escape artist, pursued San Francisco World’s Fair lectures on Crime Doesn’t Pay while free on $2,000 bond on a federal charge. Gardner was released seven months ago from Leavenworth after 17 years of a 25 year sentence and faces an obscene letter mail charge from a Portland indictment. Ardith Homan, a newspaper writer, planned to cover Gardner’s life story. she received the letter following a dispute over expenses. Louis Sonney, his friend and benefactor, said rehabilitative efforts were in vain.
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San Francisco
U.P
Roy Gardner
Leavenworth Federal
Portland, Ore
Ardith Homan
Gardner
Louis Sonney
Pomeroy Restaurant Man Dies in Columbus
Charles Gloeckner, 60, longtime Pomeroy restaurant owner, died this morning at his daughter’s Columbus home. Survived by wife Frances, four daughters Lillian, Dorothy, Emma, and Mrs Reed, son Joseph, two sisters and three brothers. Funeral plans pending.
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Pomeroy
Charles Gloeckner
Richard Reed
Columbus
Gloeckner
Peter Gloeckner
Frances Gloeckner
Reed
Lillian
Parkersburg
Dorothy
Emma
Joseph
Alvena
Anna Gloeckner
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Edward
Wellsville
Albert
St. Louis
Sands Named Manager of Unemployment Office in Logan
H. H. Sands of Logan Junior High School was named manager of the unemployment compensation commission office. He will take charge Friday after receiving a leave of absence from the school board, with Ben Ross assigned to his duties.
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LOGAN
H. H.sands
Logan Junior High School
Unemployment Compensation Commission
Board of Education
Ben Ross
Former Radio Star Ernie Hare Dies at 56
Ernie Hare, 56, partner of Billy Jones in the Happiness Boys, died today in New York from bronchial pneumonia.
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New York
U.P
Ernie Hare
Billy Jones
Happiness Boys
Major Ripper Bills on Parole and Tax Panels Fast-Tracked
Unanimous committee votes push two administration bills toward floor action in the Senate. A parole reform bill would abolish the four member parole board and create a three member pardon and parole commission, recodify parole, and curb abuses. A tax board bill would replace the tax commission with an administrator and a three member board of tax appeals.
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Columbus
Senate
Senate Taxation Committee
Tax Commission
Board of
Tax Appeals
Judiciary Committee
Pardon and Parole Commission
Myrna Smith
Davey
Ann Makley
Dayton
House Judiciary Committee
Senate Leaders Expect Victory On Reorganization Bill
Senate Republicans and economy minded Democrats plot passage of the House backed reorganization bill. It would grant the President limited power to reorganize permanent and emergency federal agencies and take effect automatically in 60 days unless both chambers reject. The House approved it 246 to 153 amid party lines.
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Washington
U.P
Senate
House
American Laborite
Farmer Laborite
Executive Department
James F. Byrnes
Senate Reorganization Committee
Byrnes
Congress
Harry F. Byrd
Truck Plows Into Barber Shop After Confectionery Crash
A 11 ton truck driven by Peter S. Green of Detroit burst through a confectionery store and into a neighboring barber shop in Cleveland. The gasoline tank caught fire but Green escaped uninjured.
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Cleveland
U.P
Peter S. Green
Detroit
Steel Company's Payroll Drops One Half in 1938
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation reports in its 1938 annual stockholders’ reveal a payroll nearly halved from 1937 due to weak first half operations and a net loss of 4.88 million versus a 5.27 million profit in 1937. A second item notes Phi Gamma Delta at Wittenberg College closes as 23 of 32 members fall ill.
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Pittsburgh
U.P
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation
Springfield
Phi Gamma Delta
Wittenberg College
Charles S. Shatzer
England Plans To Aid France If War Comes
In Commons, War Minister Hore-Belisha said Britain shapes a field army of 19 or more divisions for use in France if needed. The government has not committed to dispatch yet, but plans outline a formidable expeditionary force for a continental war with France.
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London
U.P
France
Leslie Hore-Belisha
House of Commons
Penis
Britain
Warner Held For Kidnaping In Meigs County Dispute
Charles Warner sought two weeks on a kidnaping charge related to a Meigs County political dispute. Constable Ross Evans arrested him. Arraigned before Magistrate J. W. McCullough he pled not guilty and posted $200 bond. A hearing is set for Friday at 2 PM.
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Pomeroy
Charles Warner
Tim Bishop
Meigs County
Ross Evans
J. W. McCullough
Warner
McCullough
Senate OKs Bill To Withhold Foundation Funds
Columbus A P The Senate approved by 31 to 1 a bill from the State Education Department allowing withholding of foundation funds from rural districts operating one or two room schools not levying at least three mills for school purposes. The move follows a Supreme Court order to distribute funds to Darke County districts regardless of local millage.
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House
Senate
Columbus
A.P
State Education Department
Education Department
Supreme Court
Darke County
Madrid Faces Franco Demand Backed by Air Ulti matum
Reports from Lisbon say Franco may issue a 24 hour ultimatum to the Republican defense council to surrender Madrid. Nationalists plan 300 airplanes to drop leaflets threatening bombardment and France's response within a day. A blanket Republican coast blockade aims to starve and trap troops from fleeing abroad.
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Hendaye
U.P
Francisco Franco
New
Republican Defense Council
Madrid
Lisbon
Burgos
Franco
France
Beer Dealers Get Warning
Ohio Liquor Director Jacob B. Taylor told 500 beer industry representatives that lawyers and accountants will be hired to break up financial alliances between brewers and retailers. He warned enforcement has scarcely begun and urged removal of undesirable practices, while threatening to withhold permit fees from municipalities that fail to enforce laws.
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Columbus
U.P
State Liquor Department
Jacob B. Taylor
Taylor
Ohio
Board of Liquor Control
3000 Chinese Victims of Japanese Air Raid
Shanghai dispatches report Ichang on the Upper Yangtse between Hankow and Chungking was attacked by 40 Japanese planes dropping over 100 bombs. Three raids burned one third of the city and caused about 3000 Chinese casualties.
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Shanghai
Ichang
Yangtse
Hankow
Chungking
Actress Gladys Frazin Banks dies by suicide in New York
Gladys Frazin Banks 38 a former film actress and ex wife of Monte Banks jumped from a sixth floor bedroom window in her parents New York apartment police report the death is under investigation.
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New York
U.P
Gladys Frazin Banks
Monte Banks
Starcher Rites To Be Conducted Saturday
Franklin P. Starcher aged 80 died at the family home in North St Logan services set at three o clock Saturday at the residence with interment in Oak Grove Cemetery He is survived by son Ralph of Logan and daughter Mrs Nora Robey of Green Township
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LOGAN
Franklin P. Starcher
North St
Oak Grove
Starcher
Ralph
Nora Robey
Green Township
Engineer Richard Karns Dies After Completing Run
Richard W. Karns 63 a Pennsylvania Railroad engineer died of a heart attack at his home in Cincinnati shortly after finishing a passenger train from Columbus. He resided in Cincinnati and was a lifelong railroad employee. He is survived by his wife. Funeral arrangements were not announced.
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Cincinnati
U.P
Richard W. Karns
Pennsylvania Railroad
Columbus
Secret Service Dig Reveals Counterfeit Cache on Chicago Golf Course
UPI reports a Secret Service investigation led to the arrest of Frankie Parker and August Englehart over an international counterfeit plot. A map and letters pointed to a hidden cache at a Chicago area golf course, where 894 counterfeit $20 bills were dug up from three fruit jars. The scheme traces to a Lustig–Becker network with ties to a 1930s era counterfeit operation.
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Secret Service
Chicago
U.pi
Frankie Parker
August Englehart
Terminal Island
California
Thomas J. Callaghan
U. S. Secret Service
Callaghan
Englehart
Europe
Victor Lustig
Lustig
Alcatraz Island
New York
Englehart and
Parker
Arnold Beck
Becker
Joliet
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John L. Lewis
Philip Murray
United Mine Workers Union
Federation Committee
Harry C. Bates
AFL Peace Committee
Nanticoke
United Mine Workers of America
Pennsylvania
Congress of Industrial Organizations Union
American Federation of Labor
Appalachian
Annabelle Coen
Kansas City Hospital
Annabelle
U. S.-Brazil
Miner
Pomeroy Restaurant
Sands
UCC
England
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