Administration chiefs outline must and desired measures
Washington report on a flexible legislative plan by administration leaders to push three key laws and negotiate a judiciary reorganization while aiming to adjourn Congress in August. The labor bill, TVA extension, and executive reorganization are on a desired list, with the court enlargement bill a pivotal factor. House and Senate panels plan joint hearings on labor standards to push action by June's end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington -U.R
Congress
Norris
TVA
Roosevelt
Executive Department
Supreme Court
House
Senate Labor Committees
Showdown on Relief Ordered in Roosevelt Plan
Washington leaders moved to force showdown votes in the House to save the 1.5 billion dollar relief bill. They planned to split lawmakers supporting earmarking over a third of the fund for flood control roads and public works. Hopkins warned the Works Progress Administration relief program would be emasculated if the changes stood, predicting 1.7 million could drop to about 1.1 million on relief next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Fund For Flood Control
Works Progress
Harry L. Hopkins
John D Rockefeller Sr Buried in Lake View Cemetery
In Cleveland John D Rockefeller Sr was laid to rest at Lake View Cemetery beside his wife and mother. The Rockefeller family attended the private funeral with John D Jr and his five sons among the mourners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. Sr
Lake View Cemetery
Cleveland
U.P
John D. Rockefeller, Sr
Lake View
Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
John D. II
Nelson
David
Winthrop
Lawrence
Sit-Down Strike Closes White Sewing Plant For Second Day
In Cleveland a sit-down strike involving about 600 workers kept the White Sewing Machine Co plant closed for a second day. The action halted production and drew attention from local officials.
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Cleveland
U.P
White Sewing Machine Co
Union Official Booed By Striking Miners
Sit down strikers at Superior Coal Company Mine No 4 in Wilsonville Illinois backed by the Wilsonville Local of the Progressive Miners of America. About 800 miners including 150 sit-downs left the pit for a few hours to attend a mass meeting at Gillispie. They jeered Dan McGill of the state PMA executive council who defended the council and called the strike unauthorized and illegal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilsonville
U.P
Superior Coal Company
Progressive Miners of America
Gillispie
Dan McGill
State
P. M. A. Executive Council
Printing plant at Essen closed banning church papers
A printing plant in Essen that publishes more than 200 Roman Catholic Church papers was closed today and the papers were banned indefinitely by authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
AUP
Essen
Way Opened for Settling of Auto Workers Strike
The Athens County automobile mechanics strike edging toward settlement as dealers prepare to meet Local No. 419 officials of the United Automobile Workers of America. Mine union leaders reportedly delayed a 10:30 am meeting to attend pottery workers talks, with a dealers meeting possible today or Friday. Strikers still demand recognition of the auto workers union as pickets end at Athens agencies though they remain at Nelsonville and Glouster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens County
United Mine Workers
Athens
Unit de Mine Workers of America
Roseville
International Union
United Automobile Workers of America
Automobile Workers’ Organization
Nelsonville
Glouster
Assail Solons' Civil Service Bill Treatment
Mrs C C Shively of Columbus criticizes the Ohio Legislature for emasculating civil service reform at the league meeting in Cincinnati. She calls for $20 000 to widen civil service to counties and says lobbying is essential if free of coercion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
U.P
Ohio
C. C. Shively
Columbus
Ohio State League of Women Voters
Committee On Legislature
League
Martin L. Davey
Russian Planes Safe Near Pole
Crews and passengers aboard four giant Russian transport planes camp on thick Arctic ice near the North Pole. Two planes near the Pole weather station, a third about 12 miles away, and a fourth missing hours earlier may be 50 miles from the station. They await a reunion to deliver nine tons of supplies for four men to spend a year drifting on the ice.
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Moscow
U.P
North Polar
North Pole
Pole
Final Pleas Heard in Hatchet Murder Case
In Jersey City a blue ribbon jury heard final pleas from Gladys MacKnight 17 and Donald Wightman 19 charged with the hatchet murder of Gladys mother. The pair blame each other as Donald, sobbing, faced a forceful cross examination while insisting he was an innocent bystander during the death sparked by a quarrel over a state dinner delaying a tennis match.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jersey City
N. J
Gladys MacKnight
Donald Wightman
Gladys
Donald
Rebels At Bilbao Presses Loyalist Defenses
Gen. Emilio Mola hurled massed forces including airplanes tanks and artillery at Loyalist lines south of Bilbao to force a breakthrough toward the Basque capital and end the Biscay front. Dispatches say the attack is the largest of the Bilbao operation.
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Hendaye
U.2
Emilio Mola
Bilbao
Biscay Bay
Moun
Secretary Wallace urges passage of farm relief program
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace urged the ever normal granary production control and price stabilization farm program before the House Agriculture Committee. He endorsed the aims to safeguard the nation’s food supply and protect farm income, proposing modifications and backing reserves for wheat and corn during surplus years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Henry A. Wallace
House
Wallace
Iug
AFL Council weighs labor charter cases in Cincinnati
In Cincinnati the AFL executive council meets to act on charter applications and hear labor dispute cases. Daniel J. Tobin denies his Teamsters union opposes the federation’s proposed per capita tax for a wartime fund, calling prior statements misinterpreted and affirming support to preserve honest organization against attacks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
U.P
American Federation of Labor
Daniel J. Tobin
Teamsters’ Union
Committee For Industrial Organization
Tobin
Belpre Bridge Sold to State for 1.088 Million
West Virginia road commissioner Burr H. Simpson announced the state bought the Parkersburg Belpre Bridge over the Ohio River from David B. Crawford and John M. Crawford for 1 088 000 dollars. The state also agreed to buy the Williamstown Marietta Bridge for 340 000 dollars. Payments to be funded from bridge bond proceeds.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Burr H. Simpson
West Virginia
Parkersburg-Belpre
Ohio River
David B. Crawford
John M. Crawford
Simpson
Williamstown- Marietta
State Has No Law Against Strike Picketing
Ohio Attorney General Herbert S. Duffy said statutes lack restrictions on strike picketing and courts would grant restraining orders if rights are infringed. He noted orderly small group picketing is usually legal, with judges giving final judgments on rights. Gov. Davey continues non intervention in labor disputes as observers are assigned to steel strike sites in Youngstown and Canton.
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Duffy
Columbus
Herbert S. Duffy
Ohio
Emil F. Marx
Gilson D. Light
Youngstown
E. P. Lawlor
Canton
Wade C. Christy
Joseph Parilla
General Light
Martin L. Davey
Heat and Rain Set New Temperature Records
The city posted a new high as the thermometer jumped from 58 to 87 degrees. overnight lows rose to 65 and morning readings reached 84. Skies opened with 1.125 inches of rain in Athens. Forecasters predict cooler, fair weather Friday and more rain tonight.
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Athens
Duke and Wallis Rehearse Wedding Ceremony in France
In Monts France the Duke of Windsor and Mrs Wallis Warfield rehearsed their June 3 wedding with Mayor Dr Charles Mercier officiating. The mayor noted a brief ceremony with ten to fifteen minutes of preparations and signing. Warfield said she studied French and the couple engaged pleasantly with the officiant.
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Monts
France
Duke of Windsor
Wallis Warfield
Chateau de Cande
Charles Mercier
Warfield
Mercier
Duke
Eckener proposes German American joint air service over Atlantic
Dr Kugo Eckener told the House Military Affairs Committee that a German American cooperative could run four dirigibles commercially between the United States and Germany with potential expansion to other European points and South America. He said German ships could provide up to 60 round trips annually. The plan calls for three ships in continuous operation and one in reserve.
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Washington
New Straitsville Men Sent to Reformatory
Harold Hoskins and Orval Coleman of New Straitsville were sentenced to 15 months each in a correctional institution by Judge Mell G. Underwood on liquor violation charges. Fines of 700 dollars each were suspended after a guilty verdict by a jury.
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Columbus
U.P
Harold Hoskins
Orval Coleman
New Straitsville
Mell G. Underwood
Bloomington doctor dies on Columbus train en route to assembly
Dr. Arthur Patterson prominent Bloomington physician and layman of Bloomington Indiana died today aboard a train to Columbus to attend the Presbyterian General Assembly. Trainmen found his body in a berth, authorities said.
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Columbus
U.P
Arthur Patterson
Bloomington
Del
Atend
Presbyterian General Assembly
Refusal To Sign Contracts With CIO Shuts Ohio and Chicago Plants
Thousands of steel workers affiliated with the CIO walked out across three independent producers Republic Steel Youngstown Sheet & Tube and Inland Steel Corporation forcing shutdowns in Northwestern Ohio and around Chicago. More than 62 000 workers were on strike or idled as plants halted operations due to union contract demands while some sites continued limited activity. In Warren Ohio non striking workers were seen swimming the Mahoning River to reach the plant amid picket lines.
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United Press
Committee For Industrial Organization
Ohio
Ruhr
Chicago
CIO
Republic Steel Corporation
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
Inland Steel Corporation
United States Steel
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Warren
U.P
Mahoning River
Union Feuds Rise as Plants Face Violent Picketing
Union officials contend the Wagner Labor Relations Law is being violated as 80 percent of workers are union men at plants in Cleveland Youngstown Canton Massillon and Chicago where pickets armed with clubs bricks and bats guard the sites. Canton foreman Franklin P. Manley was shot as he fled the plant entrance and 500 Chicago police were deployed to patrol lines. The CIO led a drive at Ford in Dearborn and Richmond strikers threaten to close Pacific Coast plants. Ford officials deny union involvement. President Roosevelt pushes for new minimum wages and hours as hearings loom. two Detroit Ford workers were attacked amid a broader investigation into yesterday’s injuries to two high union officials.
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Cleveland
Youngstown
Canton
Massillon
Chicago
Franklin P. Manley
Berger
CIO
United Automobile Workers Union
Ford Motor Company
Dearborn, Mich
National Relations Board
Harry Bennett
Ford Service Department
American Federation of Labor
Gold Motor Company
Detroit
Du Pont Baskob Tax Case Sets Briefs Deadline
Hearings in the income tax case of Pierre S. DuPont and John J. Baskob wrapped up and October 10 was set as the final date for exchanging briefs and filing with the Board of Tax Appeals before trial. The government seeks $1,700,000 in taxes it says were avoided by wash sales.
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du Pont
Baskob
New York
U.P
Pierre S. DuPont
John J. Baskob
Board of Tax Appeals
Pope Grants Al Smith Audience of 30 Minutes
Alfred E. Smith of New York on his first Europe visit was given a private thirty minute audience with the Pope in the Papal summer villa library at Castle Gandolfo Italy.
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Pope
al Smith
Castle Gandolfo
Italy
U.P
Alfred E. Smith
New York
Europe
Presbyterians Start Sessions With Old Rites
The 149th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U S A opened its seven day session in Columbus with ceremonies patterned after the Presbyterian Church in Scotland. Dr Arthur H Limouze warned modern life excludes God from many circles, citing an education focused on production and material aims over guiding a Christ like world.
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Columbus
U.P
149Th
General Assembly
Presbyterian Church
Scotland
Arthur H., Limouze
New York City
Board of National Missions
General Council
Quiz Ex-Dean On Gun Charge
GREENFIELD Mass. Thomas Edwin Elder 60 held on 10000 bail for trial next Thursday on assault with a dangerous weapon against S Allen Norton a former Mount Hermon School associate Norton said Elder threatened him with a shotgun in his garage late Tuesday night but fled without firing Elder claims innocence and says he spent the night in a Keene N H hotel Neither man tied to the 1934 shotgun murder of Mount Hermon Head Master Elliott Speer authorities say no link established Speer was killed by a shotgun blast through a home window
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N. H
Elder
Norton
Dr. Speer
America
California Plane Crash Kills Two Women and a Man
Bodies of two women and a man were recovered from a chartered cabin plane wreck near Santa Maria after a crash that also killed the pilot who was thrown clear. The victims were burned beyond recognition. the crash occurred shortly after takeoff Wednesday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Maria
Cal
U.P
Interurban Railway Suspension Authorized
The Ohio River Railway & Power Co. was authorized by the State Public Utilities Commission to discontinue all interurban railway service. A portion of the line from Pomeroy to the Excelsior Salt Co. will be kept for a C. & O. Railroad spur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio River Railway & Power Co
State Public Utilities Commission
Pomeroy
Excelsior Salt Co
C. & O. Railroad
Park Building Burns at Meyers Lake Park
A two story recreation building at Meyers Lake Park was destroyed by fire today. Damage was estimated at $50,000 by Carl Sinclair, manager of the park operating company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton U.R
Meyers Lake Park
Carl Sinclair
Comepany
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