Wage-hour talks hinge on coal contract with UMWA veto risk
Wage-hour negotiators for Appalachian soft coal miners questioned legal aspects of a six state operator plan to end a and 340000 workers idle since April 1. The proposal would give UMWA exclusive bargaining under the Wagner Act and apply the checkoff to all miners for admin istration. John L. Lewis urged joint talks as southern operators resists, and Carter’s resignation signaled rifts amid a possible nonunion route.
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New York
UMWA
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Congress of Industrial Organizations
American Federation of Labor
Progressive Mine Workers of America
Appalachian
Pennsylvania
James W. Carter
Carter
Carter Coal Company of
West Virginia
PMWA
Change in Tax Commission Will End Ripper Program
Columbus reports the Bricker administration’s plan to end the ripper program pending House and Senate approval of a conference report on reorganization to replace the tax commission with a single commissioner and a three member board of appeals. The session also considers conservation and forestry measures and Buckeye Lake water policy.
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Columbus
Brickers Administration
House
Senate
Conference
Tax Commission
Board of Appeals
Tha
Raliaf Sammittaa
Michael Feighan
Cuyahoga
Committee On
Hoffman- Addison
Buckeye Lake
Navy committee backs $6.66 million for battleship refits
The House Naval Affairs Committee reported a bill authorizing 6.66 million dollars to modernize five 35,000 ton battleships. The ships Tennessee California Colorado Maryland and West Virginia would receive work at Puget Sound Navy Yard with specified sub allotments.
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Washington
House Naval Affairs Committee
Tennessee
California
Colorado
Maryland
West Virginia
Pacific
Puget Sound Navy Yard
Windsors Plan World Fair Visit This Summer
Paris dispatch reports the Duke and Duchess of Windsor intend to visit the New York World's Fair late this summer after King George VI and Queen Elizabeth return from their American tour. A member of the entourage says no date is set yet and they will not travel while the King and Queen are away from England under an understanding with the British government.
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Paris
U.P
Duke
Duchess of Windsor
New York
George
Elizabeth
Windsors
France
England
Alleged Kidnapper Will Go Before Grand Jury
Roland Robinson a 19 year old weaver was ordered held on 30000 bail for the grand jury in the kidnapping of 12 year old Charlotte Leland and her companion Joan Sweeney both from Boston and Andover. The two girls were bicycling when the attempted abduction occurred yesterday in North Andover.
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North Andover
Mass
Roland Robinson
Robinson
Charlotte Leland
Boston
Joan Sweeney
Andover
Japanese planes hit Chungking business district blaze
Twenty two Japanese aircraft were shot down or damaged in a sudden Chungking attack that set fire to the city’s business district today. The raid caused fires and smoke over central areas, with casualties and damage not fully confirmed at press time.
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Chungking
China
U.P
Britain Accepts Hitlers Non-Aggression Offer
Britain indicates willingness to discuss reciprocal non aggression assurances with Germany as Prime Minister Chamberlain denies intent to encircle Germany. The move follows pressure from France to bring Soviet Russia into an anti Nazi front, with Poland and Danzig tensions looming. Mussolini counsels caution to avoid broader conflict.
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Great Britain
Adolf Hitler
Neville Chamberlain
House of Commons
Britain
Germany
Hitler
Roosevelt
Chamberlain
France
Soviet Russia
Roosevelt ends direct moves as foreign situation quiets
President Roosevelt believes the foreign situation has quieted and will take no further direct action for now. Associates said there is pressure from some sections urging a second peace gesture after the earlier appeal to Chancellor Hitler, but the President's view is to pause.
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Washington
PTA Congress Seeks End to Block Booking of Films
Cincinnati report: The National Congress of Parents and Teachers debated ending compulsory block-booking of motion pictures. Mary T. Bannerman, national legislative chair, said neighborhoods theaters should have same privileges as other businesses. Proposals also urged child welfare support and federal aid to equalize education.
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Cincinnati
National Congress of Parents and Teachers
Mary T. Bannerman
National Legislative
Congress
Fossil Bones Unearthed at Big Bone Lick Flood Bed
In April floods at Big Bone Lick in Kentucky exposed bones of hundreds of Ice Age animals, drawing attention to the renowned fossil bed and its preserved remains.
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Cincinnati
Big Bone Lick
lKy
Investors Hold Back Savings Over Government Policy
Washington U P The 20 million American investor families are withholding savings from productive enterprises until government policies are regarded as sound. Hugh A Magill of Chicago president of the American Federation of Investors said 20 million of the 30 million U S families have a direct monetary stake in the economic system and are true capitalists he said.
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Washington
U.P
Hugh A. Magill
Chicago
American Federation of Investors
United States
Magill
Two Officers Beaten by Mob of 300 Miners
In Williamsburg Kentucky a 74 year old Whitley County deputy Henry M Young was beaten and left with facial fractures after a mob of about 300 Tennessee miners dragged him from a car near Cane Gap. Deputy John Rains was also injured with cuts and bruises as they guarded workers at non unionized Gatliff Coal Co mine. The attackers entered Kentucky from Campbell County Tennessee via Jellico led by Marshall Musick a government witness. Local sheriff Mrs Eliza Ellison serves the term after her husband died last year.
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Williamsburg
U.P
Whitley County
Tennessee
Knoxville, Tenn
Henry M. Young
John Rains
Cane Gap
Gatliff
Rains
Gatliff Coal Co
Kentucky
Campbell County
Jellico
Marshall Musick
Corbin
Itley County
Eliza Ellison
New Aviation Centers Urged By Committee
The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics plans to urge President Roosevelt to back five new aeronautic research centers. A Midwest lab near Chicago and a reinstated Sunnyvale California center are proposed, funded from defense priorities. Langley Field hosted the executive session after NACA demonstrated a dozen aviation advancements.
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Washington
U.P
National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
Roosevelt
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Congress
Midwest
Chicago
Sunnyvale
Calif
Langley Field
NACA
Smoking Rule Relaxed For Methodist Pastors
In the new consolidated Methodist Church ministers may choose tobacco use at their discretion. The united conference approved a report urging abstinence but made it optional, relaxing the current mandatory abstinence in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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Kansas City
U.P
New Consolidated Methodist Church
Uniting Conference
United Church
Methodist Episcopal Church
Putnam to Remarry Amelia Earhart's Widow’s Widow’s Husband
Hollywood reports that George Palmer Putnam, widower of Amelia Earhart, will marry Jeane-Marie Coeteny James of Beverly Hills in a ceremony described as his third marriage. Putnam has been divorced once and previously married Earhart.
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Hollywood
U.P
George Palmer Putnam
Amelia Earhart
Jeane-Marie Coeteny James
Beverly Hills
Putnam
Dealers and Brokers Accept 1935 Livestock Law terms
Columbus U P reports Director of Agriculture John T Brown said livestock dealers and brokers reached an agreement on the department of interpretation of the 1935 livestock inspection law. The measure licenses dealers brokers and their agents and provides for inspection and disinfection of stockyards pens and vehicles used in handling livestock.
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Columbus
U.P
John T. Brown
Department of Interpretation
Landon to Address Peace Conference Talk at Methodist Meet
Former Kansas governor Alf M. Landon will speak at the United Methodist conference on the feasibility of a world peace conference. Radio nationwide will carry his remarks, seen as America’s reply to Hitler, aligning with the administration’s foreign policy. The address is sponsored by the church commission on world peace during the conference service uniting three Methodist denominations.
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Kansas City
U.P
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
United Methodist Conference
United States
South America
Europe
Landon
Adolf Hitler
Methodist Episcopal Church
Commission On World Peace
Methodist Episcopal South
Methodist Protestant
Air France Crash Kills Nine on Casablanca Dakar Route
An Air France plane on the Casablanca Dakar service crashed and burned killing six passengers plus three crew members near Casablanca. The disaster raises concerns over air safety and airline operations in Morocco.
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Casablanca, Morocco
U.R
Air France
Casablanca-Dakar
Ohio Supreme Court Allows Pay Cuts For Highway Laborers
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled a 1938 special session law changing highway department laborer pay from daily to monthly basis unconstitutional. The decision upholds the governor guided limits on special session subjects and lets the department pursue wage economies.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio Supreme Court
State Highway Department
Supreme Court
Robert S. Beightler
Highway Department
Ex Rutland Teacher Dies in Columbus
Don A Benedict aged 59 a former Rutland Meigs County teacher and member of a Southern Ohio family died at his Columbus home after ten years residence He is survived by his wife Priscilla Forrest and two children Mildred and Wayne Funeral services set for Friday at 2 PM at Grimes Funeral Home Columbus
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Columbus
Don A. Benedict
Rutland
Meigs County
Ohio
Priscilla Forrest
Harrisonville
Mildred
Wayne
Grimes
Driver Dies After Gasoline Truck Fire
Simon Sneary aged 44 died from burns sustained when the gasoline truck he drove caught fire after entering a culvert near Lima U P yesterday.
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Burns
Lima
U.P
Simon Sneary
Here
Doctor uses razor for emergency surgery during gunmen hold up
Dr Sigmund Hirschfeld, menaced by a gun in a Chicago rooming house, operated on a bandit with a razor blade after the attacker provided the instrument. The robber was shot in the abdomen, a bystander was killed, and two police officers were seriously wounded.
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Chicago
Sigmund Hirschfeld
Hirschfeld
Experiments in Americas Held Key to Peace
Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle said the hope of civilization rests on success of the Americas cooperative hemispheric experiment. He warned European powers not to cross the hemispheric line and urged peace through regional cooperation over world empire.
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NEW York
Adolf A. Berle
New World
Berle
Academy of Political Sciences
United States
Latin America
Americas
Minimum coal prices fixed by federal commission plan
The National Bituminous Coal Commission said its second effort to set minimum prices to curb losses of about 60 million dollars annually is near completion. It announced proposed prices for 10 western states and Alaska, with a final hearing in Denver starting May 10. Prices take effect after the hearing. Officials could not estimate total numbers of prices needed for the whole country, with guesses reaching 500,000.
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Washington
U.P
National
Bituminous Coal Commission
Alaska
Denver
Colo
Pendergast Ride's Body Is Futile Search
In Kansas City Missouri investigators fail to recover Edward L. Schneider body as second all day search of the Missouri River yields no evidence to support the theory he drowned himself. Schneider was a government witness in the Pendergast income tax evasion case.
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Kansas City
Edward L. Schneider
Thomas J. Pendergast
Missouri
Schneider
Pendergast
WPA enrollment trimmed to 2.6 million by May 8
Works Progress Administration head F C Harrington announced a 200000 cut in federal relief quotas lowering WPA enrollment to 2600000 by May 8. The cut follows April reductions after Congress sliced 50 million dollars from Roosevelt's deficiency relief bill to cover WPA through June 30.
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Washington
IUR
Works Progress
F. C. Harrington
Congress
Roosevelt
Plane Crash Kills Three In Grenada Miss
In Grenada Mississippi witnesses say a sudden air pocket at about 100 feet altitude caused the monoplane crash late yesterday killing its three occupants.
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Grenada
Miss
U.P
Hearings on Jobless Miner Claims Continue
In Montgomery West Virginia the unemployment commission keeps hearings on miners idle due to shutdowns in soft coal mines amid wage talks. The first case, John Wood of Koppers Coal from Powellton, was reviewed with union counsel arguing the shutdown is not a labor dispute and noting state law bars benefits for strike idle workers.
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Montgomery
W. Va
U.P
The
West Virginia Unemployment Compensation Commission
John Wood
Koppers Coal Co
Powellton
Akron Beacon Journal Employee Robbed Entering Office
Vincent Thomas, 19, an Akron Beacon Journal employee, was slugged and robbed by two men as he entered the office carrying two bags of circulation department money. He was treated at a hospital for a scalp laceration. bags contained several hundred dollars.
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Akron
U.P
Vincent Thomas
Akron Beacon-Journal
Thomas
Young Disbarment Case Moves to Three Common Pleas Judges
Cleveland report states former congressman Stephen M. Young faces a disbarment charge for soliciting legal business. The case advances to three common pleas judges for consideration.
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Cleveland
U.rp
Stephen M. Young
Common Pleas
Ohio to Pay 3000 Idle Miners in Unemployment Claims
Ohio will issue weekly unemployment checks totaling 36400 for about 3000 miners, mainly in the Hocking Valley, while a decision on a strike status affects 7000 other claims. H. C. Atkinson and 68 officials weighed whether a strike exists. payments begin next week for approved claims.
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Ohio Lcoal
Hocking Valley
H. C. Atkinson
Columbus
Ohio Bureau of Unemployment Comepensation
Atkinson
United Mine Workers of America
Bureau
Athens
Compensation Bureau
Bellaire
Ohio
Bricker Signs Bill To Change Parole Board
Gov. Bricker signed a bill abolishing Ohio’s four member parole board and creating a three member board. The new law allows removal of Myrna Smith from her $6 000 annual post and Bricker plans to appoint the new board soon.
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Bricker
Bill
Parole Board
Columbus
U.R
Ohio
Board of
John W. Bricker
Myrna Smith
Davey
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