CIO Peace Move Declares One Big Union Aims
The CIO delegates at Pittsburgh meet to consider peace talks with AFL. The peace committee urges industrial unionism as core, rejects compromise on readmitting CIO unions, and cites Roosevelt truce calls. James C. Carey reads the report as Philip Murray notes its finality to the convention.
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CIO
Pittsburgh
Committee For Industrial Organization Today
American Labor Movement
American Federation of Labor
James C. Carey
Electrical Workers
Committee On
Philip Murray
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Roosevelt
AFL
Houston
Texas
AFL Executive Council
John L. Lewis
Five-Year-Old Baby Born Hours Earlier Rescues Family From Fire
Mrs William McGlone and William McGlone a WPA worker were credited with saving their five children and themselves when a gasoline stove exploded. William suffered third degree burns and was hospitalized while Mrs McGlone and neighbors carried everyone to safety.
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Columbus
William McGlone
WPA
McGlone
Relies Relief Funds Withheld Over High Costs
Columbus public welfare chief William C. Dixon told Cleveland’s Fred Ramsey he will halt further state relief fund certifications until administration costs drop to or below 12 percent. October costs reach 14.29 percent under state law.
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Columbus
William C. Dixon
Fred Ramsey
Cleveland
Dixon
Earl Beauchamp Ly gon Dies After Illness in New York
William Ly gon seventh Earl Beauchamp aged sixty six died after a month long illness. He arrived in New York on October 10 to attend a reunion.
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New York
William Lygon
Earl Beauchamp
United States
Olmsted Falls High Adds Table Manners Course
Olmsted Falls High School faculty approved a new table manners course to start immediately. Classes in the cafeteria will be supervised by teachers to ensure students use proper utensils and techniques.
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Olmsted Falls
U.P
Olmsted Falls High School
Arms Budget To Get Part Of Relief Fund
President Roosevelt reportedly plans to shift a large portion of federal relief funds into the national defense program. If enacted, army and navy appropriations for the next fiscal year could reach about 2 billion dollars, double this year’s high peace-time outlay. The move aims to free WPA and relief funds for housing and improvements at military posts and bases, enabling more military spending on ships and aircraft.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Army
Navy
Police Guard German Ships After Threats
Police guarded two German ships in New York harbor after reports of a possible explosion. A crowd of 150 demonstrated on the pier before the Bremen arrived, shouting anti Nazi and anti Hitler slogans amid tense harbor activity.
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New York
Lingr
Bremen
New York Harbor
Hitler
Telegraph firms agree to obey law may cut messenger force
Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies said they would comply with the wages and hours law but indicated possible reductions in messenger workers. Western Union, denied an exemption appeal, announced a plan to discharge about 3,000 messengers nationwide.
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New York
Western Union
Postal Telegraph Companies
Tapp Says AAA Cannot Cure All Marketing Ills
Cincinnati report quotes Jesse W. Tapp, associate administrator of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, saying the government cannot cure all marketing ills by buying surplus farm products for the needy. He urges consumers must be able to buy what they need and that buying power cannot come from idleness.
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Cincinnati
U.R
Jesse W. Tapp
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Washington
Administration Delays Tax Revision Amid Recovery
The Roosevelt administration signals shelving of a broad revenue bill at the next Congress session to avoid disrupting economic recovery. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau stated the general tax program has not yet materialized and “I honestly don’t know.” Officials had opposed congressional changes to the undistributed corporate profits tax.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Treasury
Morgenthau
Union Furnace Hunter Shot by Son During Hunt
Porter McLain a 44 year old oil field worker in Union Furnace was accidentally shot by his 14 year old son William while hunting with his other son John. Surgeons at Cherrington Hospital warned McLain may lose sight in his left eye after buckshot struck his face. No other accidents reported as hundreds hunted nearby.
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Logan
Porter McLain
Union Furnace
Hocking County
William
McLain
Cherrington Hospital
John
Hudson Employes Vote Down Strike Proposal
Detroit U P A strike proposal was voted down by Hudson Motor Car Company workers. United Automobile Workers Local 154 announced that enough ballots were counted to avert a strike.
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Detroit
U.P
Hudson Motor Car Company
United Automobile Workers Local 154
Coal Commission Meets to Set Soft Coal Prices
The National Bituminous Coal Commission convenes today in Chicago to hear evidence and determine prices for soft coal mined in nine Central States.
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Chicago
AUP
National Bituminous Coal Commission
Labor Board Sets Rules Revision On Union Elections
The National Labor Relations Board weighs a rule change to let employers request elections to resolve conflicts when rival AFL unions or CIO affiliates threaten strikes. Chairman J Warren Madden leads the board as it considers whether to permit certification petitions only when competing unions fail to file.
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Washington
U.P
National Labor Relations Board
J. Warren Madden
American Federation of Labor
AFL and
Committee For Industrial Organization
Protest Against German Anti Semitic Campaigns
A nationwide drive organized today includes mass meetings, boycotts, and relief funds to protest anti Semitic actions in Germany and aid victims. Former President Herbert Hoover Alfred M Landon Harold L Ickes Sen William H King Bishop Edwin Hughes and Rev Robert I Gannon denounced the persecutions on a nation wide radio broadcast calling them crimes against civilization.
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NEW York
U.P
Germany
Herbert Hoover
Alfred M. Landon
Harold L. Ickes
William H. King
Utah
Edwin H. Hughes
Methodist Episcopal Church
Robert I. Gannon
Fordham University
Airliner Crash Near Amsterdam Kills Six
The body of chief pilot Jan Duimelaar was found at Schiphol Air field as officials confirmed six dead from a Kim Dutch airliner crash in dense fog a mile from Amsterdam.
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Amsterdam -U.P
Jan Duimelaar
Schiphol
Amsterdam
Private Steals Crashes New U S Army Bomber
A Brooklyn private, Ben Fleigelman, 35, stole a Douglas B-18 bomber at Luke Field and flew off without lights. He crashed in a pineapple field five miles away after flying low and hitting a power line, escaping with minor injuries. He faces disciplinary action.
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Honolulu
T. H
U.P
Brooklyn
N. Y
Army
Ben Fleigelman
Luke Field
Fleigelman
Fieigelman
Start Community Chest Campaign In Athens Today
The Athens Community Chest drive began with an initial pledge of eleven thousand eight hundred seventy-five dollars. Business district solicitors and a later house-to-house push will coordinate with four wards led by appointed captains to reach all city concerns and workers. A joint Red Cross Roll Call is tied to Chest gifts of one dollar or more.
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Athens
Business District
Hotel Berry
H. T. Houf
C. M. Gill
C. O. Cornell
M. D. Hughes
John W. Bolin
Athens Business District
Frank R. Murphey
H. G. Stalder
FE. R. Walker
Arthur A. Wolfe
M. M. Kerr
C. W. Gross
R. W. Finsterwald
Mary Williams
Gordon Gray
H. C. Dorman
E. A. Cotti
R. C. Hopkins
L. W. Roberts
Roberts
Red Cross
Roosevelt May Shuffle Cabinet Before Warm Springs Visit
A high administration official told United Press Roosevelt may replace Attorney General Homer S. Cummings with Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson before leaving for Warm Springs Georgia. Reports that Works Progress Administrator Hopkins would replace Secretary of Commerce Roper were described as premature.
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Washington
United Press
Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Homer S. Cummings
Robert H. Jackson
Works Progress
Hopkins
Commerce Roper
Dewey to Seek Life Imprisonment for Irwin
New York district attorney Thomas E. Dewey said he would seek life terms on three indictments when Robert Irwin is sentenced November 28 for the murder of Veronica Gedeon artist her mother Mary Gedeon and lodger Frank Byrnes in the Gedeon home on Easter morning 1937. Irwin pled guilty to second degree murder to escape a possible death penalty.
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New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Robert Irwin
Veronica Gedeon
Mary Gedeon
Frank Byrnes
Gedeon
Irwin
Workman Crushed Between Rollers at Sandusky Mill
George W. Helger 27 an employee of Hinde and Dauch Paper Company was killed when he fell into live machinery and was crushed between two large rollers last night in Sandusky.
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Sandusky
U.P
George W. Helger
Hinde and Dauch Paper Company
Swiss Federal Council Moves to Suppress Nazi Newspapers
The Swiss federal council continues its anti Nazi policy in Bern by deciding to suppress Nazi newspapers in Switzerland. The action signals a renewed government effort against fascist press and propaganda within the country.
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Berne
Switzerland
Federal Council
Red Cross Included in Athens County Community Chest
The Athens County chapter joins the Community Chest drive with the Red Cross Roll Call. Director L. W. Roberts notes that any donation of one dollar or more makes the contributor a Red Cross member unless otherwise specified. Other amounts may be allocated to Red Cross or other agencies. donation cards may omit allocations and still join the Roll Call. Solicitors receive Red Cross buttons and membership cards upon collecting Chest contributions.
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Red Cross
Athens County
Athens
L. W. Roberts
Milk Monopoly Is Investigated by U S Officials
The Department of Justice charges 38 defendants including four Chicago public officials with Sherman Act violations for monopolistic practices in milk and ice cream after a four month Chicago area probe. A federal grand jury in Chicago returns two indictments alleging conspiracy to restrain trade in fluid milk and in ice cream nationwide.
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Washington
U.P
Department of Justice
Chicago
Department
United States
Jewish youth vows to fast for Nazi campaign sorrow
Paris vividly reports Herschel Grynszpan, 17, a Polish Jew who assassinated a German Embassy secretary, told jailers he would observe every fast day in Jewish rite to atone for inspiring the Nazi campaign. Three psychiatrists began examination at Petite Roquette Prison.
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Paris
Herschel Grynszpan
Petite Roquette
Milford man falls nineteen stories to death in Cincinnati
Clifford J. Taylor aged 59 of Milford Ohio plummeted from the 19th floor of the Union Central Building. His body landed before a taxicab as onlookers headed to work. The article also reports a separate prison stabbing in Columbus where Walter Williams aged 38 was killed by cellmate George Williams aged 28.
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Cincinnati
Clifford J. Taylor
Milford
Union Central
Columbus U
Walter Williams
George Williams
Ohio
Anti-Semitic Campaign To Be Continued
The United States and Great Britain seek a response to Nazi persecution of German Jews. Ambassador Hugh Wilson is recalled to Washington as panic grips Jews seeking asylum, while German press attacks Washington and warns against further indignation.
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United Press
United States
Great Britain
Hugh Wilson
Washington
Berlin
Germany
Zwolfuhrblatt
Dr. Goebbel
England
Neville Chamberlain
Hitler
Britain
Lima
America
France
Illness feigned by Maybelle Knox in murder case
County authorities charged Maybelle Knox with feigning illness to avoid questioning about her mother L A Trow's death and her missing husband and a mystery woman. Investigators note her Jekyll Hyde pattern, and say she faked a coma after a forgery conviction and cashed $90 monthly checks from her mother since May.
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LE Mars
U.P
Maybelle Knox
L. A. Trow
Frank Scholer
Trow
Defend TVA Operations Before Investigators
Five TVA officials testified to a joint congressional committee, defending the agency’s vast operations and denying attempts to impose a rigid plan or regulate residents’ lives. They outlined the New Deal era power and regional planning role and emphasized flexibility in the Tennessee Valley.
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Washington
U.P
Tennessee Valley Authority
New Deal
Mayo Physicians Plan Operation for Peruvian Patient
Mayo Clinic doctors in Rochester plan to examine Manuel Mujica Carassa a wealthy Peruvian to judge when he can have the life saving operation. He arrived after a 4765 mile air relay from Lima Peru in 52 hours aboard four planes finishing yesterday.
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Rochester, Minn
U.P
Mayo Clinic
Manuel Mujica Carassa
Lima
Peru
Train hits car near Curtice kills two women
A Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad freight train struck a car at a Curtice Ohio crossing in Ottawa County. Two women were killed outright and two men were slightly injured in the Monday night collision.
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Toledo
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad
Curtice
Otetawa County
Cooking School Week Enlivens Athens High Auditorium
The Ohio Fuel Gas Company and Athens merchants present a three day Cooking Institute at the Athens High School Auditorium starting Wednesday at 2:00 pm. The program titled Cooking Cavalcade Utopia and The New Horizon features home meal planning, kitchen management and even a man chef Ronald Lowe. Free admission with prizes including a Tappan gas range and kitchen sets.
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Ohio Fuel Gas Company
Gasco Food Institute
Merchants of Athens
the Messenger
Athens
Athens High School
Ronald Lowe
Institute
Sde
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Labor Board
Start Community Chest
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