United Mine Workers Seek 50 Cent Rise and 30 Hour Week
In New York the United Mine Workers urged a 50 cent daily wage boost, a 30 hour work week, and 200 guaranteed working days per year for 320000 Appalachian bituminous miners as contract talks opened. They seek a two year pact through 1941 with various wage and benefit increases and new seniority rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Mine Workers
New York
United Mine Workers Union
UMWA
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
John L. Lewis
Mine Union
Miners
Roosevelt seeks $150 million more for WPA relief
President Roosevelt asked Congress for $150,000,000 in new relief funds to keep WPA work at current levels through June 30. He blamed Congress for cuts that he says endanger economic recovery and noted unemployment remains high with nearly 3 million on WPA rolls in February and March.
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Congress
Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Works Progress Administration
WPA
House Asked To Raise Wilberforce Standards
A Columbus resolution urged the General Assembly to arrange measures to elevate Wilberforce University to Grade A status so it could qualify for North Central Conference recognition. Introduced by Rep. Chester K. Gillespie Cleveland, the measure notes Wilberforce is not now a Grade A school.
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Columbus
U.P
General Assembly
Wilberforce University
North Central Conference of Colleges and Universities
House of Representatives
Chester K. Gillespie
Cleveland
Wilberforce
Quints' Father Accepts Government Invitation to Toronto Visit
Oliva Dionne announced he accepted Ontario Government's invitation to bring the quintuplets to Toronto on May 22 for presentation to King George and Queen Elizabeth. Oliva, wife, Dr. Allan Dafoe, and Dafoe Hospital staff will accompany the five girls on a special train for a one day stay.
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Callander
O.R
Oliva Dionne
Ontario
Toronto
King George
Queen Elizabeth
Oliva
Dionne
Allan R. Dafoe
Dafoe Hospital
Collections Law Income Taxes Due Wednesday
Taxpayers rushed to meet the March 15 filing deadline. In the first 11 days of March collections totaled 60,324,256 compared with 76,209,440 in the same period last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Burn Ohio Coal Campaign Revived In Ohio
The Burn Ohio Coal effort was revived at New Lexington with plans to contact 3100 retailers and push a 1940 party platform plank. W. J. Walker claimed Cincinnati interests influenced lawmakers to defeat the bill requiring tax supported institutions to burn Ohio mined coal, a measure voted down in the House on March 2.
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NEW Lexington
Ohio
W. J. Walker
St. Clairsville
Columbus
Bricker
House
Senate
Cincinnati
Chambers of Commerce
Walker
Funeral services for Lawrence Mace set for Wednesday
Funeral services for 39 year old Lawrence Mace, who died at Holzer Hospital in Gallipolis, will be at Richland Ave Methodist Protestant Church on Wednesday at 2 PM. Burial follows at New Marshfield Cemetery. He leaves wife, son Richard, two brothers Earl and Orville, and sisters Mrs G C Herron and Mrs Lulu Simons. American Legion and DAV members will meet at the Mace home at 8 tonight for services.
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Lawrence Mace
Holzer Hospital
Gallipolis
G. C. Herron
New Marshfield
Lulu Simons
Denver
Colo
Mace
Frank Mace
Richland Ave
American Legion
The
DAV
T Men Seize Opium Cargo Aboard U S Vessel
Treasury agents seized 55 pounds of crude opium valued at 55 000 aboard the American steamship Exeter in Boston. Angelo Planza, a pantry man, was held for questioning as investigators said the opium was hidden in empty beer and milk cases beneath a potato locker.
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Washington
Treasury
Elmer L. Ivey
Exeter
Boston
Angelo Planza
Loyalists Brace for Expected Rebel Attack
Madrid report says War Minister Segismundo Casado announced Loyalist defense councils expect Franco’s Nationalist army to strike the city at any time. Loyalists say they are preparing to fight while seeking an honorable peace.
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Madrid
U.P
Segismundo Casado
Defense Council
Francisco Franco
Residents of Montana Town Routed by Flood
Half the population of an eastern Montana farming town faced displacement as a spring flood breached a $60,000 earthen dam at a nearby lake. About 500 residents evacuated to shelters and other towns after CCC youths and volunteers battled to plug the dam with sandbags before water overwhelmed homes and farmland thousands of acres.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jordan
Mont
U.P
Montana
CCC
Barron G. Collier Dies at 66 Pioneered Coney Island Ads
Barron G. Collier, age 66, veteran producer and developer, who built a street car advertising empire and developed New York's Coney Island and Florida's Miami Trail, died late yesterday.
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New York
U.P
Barron G. Collier
Coney Island
Florida
Truck Drivers Threaten Strike Over Wage Scale
In SPRINGFIELD Massachusetts representatives of 6000 drivers and 1200 employers remain deadlocked on wage and overtime scales. The dispute threatens to paralyze trucking in Massachusetts Rhode Island and Connecticut as a strike deadline nears.
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Springfield
Mass
U.P
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Unemployment Compensation Board Names New Advisory Council
Governor Bricker announced the selection of the new advisory council for the Bureau of Unemployment Compensation. Appointees include Ralph Miner and A F Dawson representing business and labor veteran leaders John Breidenbach and Al Dalton with Prof Edson Bowers and William Safford joining for public and labor interests. Breidenbach and Dalton are vice presidents of the Ohio Federation of Labor. The council will have broader powers and settle disputes on policy between the administrator and the board of appeals.
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Columbus
Bureau of Unemployment Compensation
Bricker
Ralph Miner
Akron
A. F. Dawson
Cincinnati
John Breidenbach
Dayton
al Dalton
Cleveland
Edson Bowers
Ohio State University
William Safford
Aaron Cohn
Republican
Toledo
Professor Bowers
Ohio
Advisory Council
Board of Appeals
Breidenbach and
Dalton
Ohio Federation of Labor
West Virginia to join Ohio River sanitation pact
Gov Holt expected to sign a bill to join eight states and the federal government in the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Pact. A joint commission would enforce stream sanitation and flood control across Illinois Indiana Kentucky New York Ohio Pennsylvania and Tennessee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
U.P
H. A. Holt
West Virginia
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
New York
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Open Car Convention Toledo U P Ohio D A R opens
The Daughters of the American Revolution held the opening of their 40th annual three day convention in Toledo Ohio with nearly 300 delegates in attendance.
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Toledo
U.P
Ohio Daughters of the American Revolution
Six Drowned in Flood 32 Years Ago Today
Thirty two years ago today during the 1907 Hocking River flood in Athens a boat overturned near the state hospital gate killing Ed Swett Albert Swett Charles Beards Carlos Young and Mr and Mrs Turner The Turner's body was recovered later at Harmony Beards and Ed Swett led the rescue boat which was swept into wires Otto Barth the Athens miller drowned earlier that day while trying to reach the John Dana home near University Terrace
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hocking
Athens
State Hospital
Ed Swett
Albert Swett
Charles Beards
Carlos Young
Turner
Green Protests Delay On Labor Bills In Senate
William Green of the AFL protests to the Senate Education and Labor Committee about delaying action on Wagner Act amendments. He writes to all 13 members urging timely consideration despite ongoing CIO AFL peace talks. Chairman Elbert Thomas postponed hearings earlier this month and still opposes moving hearings during negotiations.
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Washington
U.P
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Senate Education and Labor Committee
Green
Elbert D. Thomas
Utah
Roosevelt
AFL
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Thomas
G Men Join Hunt For Judge Wounding Suspect
FBI steps into the case of Circuit Judge Churchill Humphrey 53 who was wounded at his Louisville home last Thursday night. A letter to the Courier Journal signed by the assailant cites racketeering of the courts and says the judge knew it was coming. postmarked Chicago Saturday night.
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Louisville
U.P
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Churchill Humphrey
Humphrey
Louisville Courier- Journal
Chicago
Holey Shoes Spark Missouri Toe Bill War
In Jefferson City Missouri Rep Gladys M Stewart the sole toe less shoe wearer in the legislature criticizes a bill to ban toe less and heel less footwear as unwise and unnecessary while noting many sponsors are family men backing Hosiery limits. The measure aims to preserve feminine feet and is in committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson City
U.P
Gladys M. Stewart
Stewart
Missouri
WPA Official Approves Ohio Road Building Plan
Dr. Carl Watson, state WPA administrator, approves the Ohio road program totaling 15.746 million dollars for 1,520 miles of secondary roads and 65 miles of municipal streets. The breakdown cites 10.867 million for labor, 1.288 million for equipment, 2.732 million for materials, and 860 thousand for other expenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
A.P
Carl Watson
WPA
Ohio
Chicago
Washington
Watson
New England Braces for Floods After Severe Blizzard
A perilous flood threat looms over New England akin to 1936 after the worst March blizzard since 1888. Warm weekend forecasts and mixed precip on the coast raise flooding fears as snowpack melts. The storm caused 38 deaths across New England, upstate New York, New York City, and New Jersey, with reports of spring floods elsewhere.
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New York
New England
Upstate
New York City
New Jersey
Stedman Co. Adopts Fast License Window
David Johnson to run a new license window on West Carpenter Street to speed truck and auto plate service. Buyers submit sale documents and titles, Johnson passes them to staff who finalize applications and issue plates. Johnson estimates handling 600 customers daily. company purchased plates for nine trucks and three cars for 698.75 yesterday.
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David Johnson
W. Carpenter St. Auto
Mr. Johnson
Johnson
Stedman Co
Police hunt for man who attacked women in Springfield
Police search for a young Black man described as a sex degener ate who stabbed Mrs Bert L Cregar and attacked five other women within 30 minutes Monday night. Victims describe the assailant as 18 to 23 years old and attempting robbery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
U.P
Bert L. Cregar
Ohio wool output falls from 1937 to 1938
Ohio produced 17 million 753 thousand pounds of wool in 1938, down from 18 million 450 thousand pounds in 1937, according to the federal state crop reporting service announced today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Justice Roberts Treated at Garfield Hospital
Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts is under medical care at Garfield Hospital today for an ailment with undisclosed details. The event is reported as a routine medical stay with no further information released.
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Washington
U.S
Supreme Court
Owen J. Roberts
Garfield Hospital
Slovakia Declares Independence Under Nazi Direction
Independence of Slovakia declared at Bratislava as Josef Tiso is named president and prime minister by Nazi orders. Prague cabinet resigns after severed communications, while Czech and Hungarian forces clash on the Carpatho Ukraine frontier amid looming German actions.
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Slovakia
State
Bratislava
Josef Tiso
Adolf Hitler
Prague
Hitler
Carpatho- Ukraine
Hungary
Hungary Seizes Carpatho Ukraine After Prague Pressures
Reports from Warsaw and Vienna describe German moves to seize territory in Central Europe as Hungary aims for Carpatho Ukraine. Nazi troop movements near Brno and across Sudeten lands accompany claims of Czech atrocities as Berlin presses for cooperation with Prague.
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Carpatho-Ukraine
Germany
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Budapest
Szalyva
Hitler
Warsaw
Poland
Czechoslovak Republic
Carpatho- Ukraine
Italy
Czechoslovak
Nazi Foreign Office
Slovakia
Czech
Europe
Great Britain
France
Prague
Republic of
United Press
Vienna
Munich
Brno
Bruenn
Troppau
Sudeten
Four Saved in Gas Line Blast Near Sugar Grove
Four employees of a gas company were hospitalized after a 18 inch gas line blew out on a farm six miles southwest of Lancaster. Duffner pulled Weidner from a ditch as a 300 foot gas geyser erupted. fire scorched 10 acres of timber and farmland. Gas supply was cut at Sugar Grove plant after the incident at 4 p.m. Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
U.P
Sugar Grove
Here
George Weidner
William Duffner
Oliver Ogg
Floyd Kellenbarger
Duffner
Weidner
Parity Payments Prepare Applications in Athens County
Athens County Conservation Office prepares parity payments for farms within 1939 program allotments. Payments amount to 11 cents per bushel on wheat to bring prices nearer parity. Farmers not yet within allotments have until May 20 to reduce acreage by pasturing, cultivation, or clipping. A June check will verify compliance.
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Athens County Conservation Office
Frank Pugh
Athens County Conservation Committee
Pugh
Paris Toulouse express derailed after collision near Chateau Roux
Twelve killed and 30 injured when the Paris Toulouse express train derailed after striking a freight car near Chateau Roux l. Rescue crews worked through the night to aid survivors and transport the injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PARIS+U.P
Paris-Toulouse
Chateau Roux
Ripper bills aim to reshape Ohio tax collection and armory project
In Columbus the senate prepared to pass administration ripper reforms to replace the tax commission with an administrator and board of appeals. A second major ripper bill seeks a full reorganization of tax collection. The House Judiciary Committee planned action on Humland injunction limits in labor disputes.
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Columbus
Bricker
Senate
Tax Commission
Board of Appeals
House Judiciary Committee
Humland
Lady Huml
Cuyahoga
Heroic effort ends in tragedy as family perishes in fire
Richard Fick, 24, woke to his home fire at Bedford hospital reports say he carried his wife Madeline, 28, and their son Rennick, 2, down the stairs before collapsing. He remained critically ill while doctors noted the family died at the hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hudson
U.P
Richard Fick
Bedford Hospital
Fick
Madeline
Rennick
Senate Opposition to Arms Resolution Emerges in Washington
Senate opponents of President Roosevelt pledge a strong stand against a joint resolution authorizing U S cooperation with South American nations in their armament program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Senate
Roosevelt
United States
Vinson seeks dismissal of Perry divorce suit
Helen Vinson, noted blond film star, filed to dismiss her divorce action against her husband, international tennis champion Fred Perry. The move follows ongoing legal proceedings in Hollywood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
U.P
Helen Vinson
Fred Perry
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London
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Britain
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