Strike Leaders Threaten Streets As New York Builds Tense
New York City awoke to threats of street fighting as elevator operators and service workers enter an all night peace parley. DA orders union leaders Bambrick and Scalise to appear after Bambrick warned of a street battle. About 8,568 workers are out with 1,472 buildings without service crews as clashes erupt near union HQ.
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New York
James J. Bambrick
Building Service
Bambrick
City Hall
F. H. LaGuardia
Edward F. McGrady
William C. Dodge
George Scalise
International Organization
Upper East Side
Leopold 1 ‘Tman
Park Avenue
McGrady
Waiters Union
Hoffmann Involves Fisch In Lindbergh Kidnapping Probe
A Reynolds-Bridge era affidavit emerged linking Isidor Fisch, Hauptmann's business associate, to the Lindbergh kidnapping case. Railroad crossing watchman Alfred Hammond alleged a gray green sedan with a man resembling Fisch observed near the Lindbergh estate before the abduction, with two other men in front seats.
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Trenton
N. J
Isidor Fisch
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Harold G. Hoffman
Fisch
Alfred Hammond
Woodbourne
Hammond
Reading
Blanenburg
Skillman
Hopwell
Lindbergh's
Éoat & Man
Doctor Dafoe begins New York visit with Quin tuplets
Dr Allan Roy Dafoe examines Dorothy Lawrence during a stop in New York as Nurse Made Line Manheims watches. The event occurs amid Dafoe's Bellevue Yorkville Health Center visit before he returns to Canada following a busman's holiday.
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Allan Roy Dafoe
New York
Dorothy Lawrence
Madeline Manheims
Bellevue-Yorkville Health Center
Canada
Laughing Girl a Lobby Committee Gains Strength
Weston West Virginia March 4 A sixteen year old Teresa Hawkins suffered fits of uncontrollable laughter after a movie. Physicians monitor blood work to determine cause while a pelvis disorder operation is considered. The case follows a separate senate lobby committee action on telegram subpoenas and private messages.
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Weston
W. Va
Teresa Hawkins
Baltimore
West Virginia
Teresa
J. E. Offier
Washington
Senate Lobby Committee
Black
Democrat
Alabama
Silas Strawn
Chicago
United States Chamber of Commerce
Western Union
Crampton Harris
Birmingham
Ala
Wadsworth
Republican
New York
The
Communications Commission
Norris Beats Back Attempts to Restrict Electrification Bill
In Washington on March 4 Senator Norris R Nebraska faced opposition as he defended his 420 million dollar rural electrification bill. Administration allies backed the measure while Connally and O Mahoney pressed spending limits and an amendment to elevate the administrator’s budget oversight failed 41 to 37.
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Norris
Washington
Mar
R-Neb
Senate
Connally
D-Tex
O'Mahoney
D-Wye
O’mahoney
Congress
Kansas Pledges 18 Delegates to Landon
Kansas Republicans meeting in Wichita pledged all eighteen state delegates to Alf Landon for the presidential nomination. The convention backed Landon as the best fitted candidate while New Mexico Republicans endorsed him and Oklahoma showed partial pledges.
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Wichita
Kas
Kansas
Alf M. Landon
Cleveland
Landon
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Norris Dam Opens With Gates In Place At Norris Tennessee
The Tennessee Valley Authority completes Norris dam amid a Roosevelt siren ceremony marking the third inauguration anniversary. The $36 million project will provide 132 000 horsepower once power equipment is installed, with operation planned by August 1. Norris joins Wilson dam as TVA’s electric power source in development of the Tennessee river system.
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Norris
Tenn
Mar
Roosevelt
TVA
Clinch River
Tennessee
Washington
Wilson Dam
Muscle Shoals
Wilson
Congress
Guntersville
Pickwick Landing
Joe Wheeler
Chichamagga
States and Producers Press For Guffey Act Survival
Indiana and New Mexico with twelve soft coal producers urged the Supreme Court to uphold the Guffey act as a way to end destructive price cutting. The states argued state regulation is futile and federal control is the practical solution for industry disorders, as arguments in the Little NRA setup proceed.
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Indiana
New Mexico
Supreme Court
Washington
Philip Lutz Jr
Frank H. Patton
Congress
NRA
United States
Texas to Celebrate Mother-in-Law Day in State Observance
Texas marks the first official state mother-in-law day with a proclamation by Governor James V. Allred. The idea traces to Amarillo publisher Gene Howe who in 1934 planned a tribute after a joke about his mother-in-law and promoted a public celebration.
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Austin
Texas
James V. Allred
Gene Howe
Amarillo
Howe
W. F. Donald
Wilbur Hawks
Will Rogers
Allred
Britain puts German on trial as a spy
At the Old Bailey London on March 4 a middle aged German lawyer writer Dr Hermann Gorts faced Britain's first postwar espionage trial. The crown read documents showing his World War II era links with American and English aviators and a 1935 bid to join the German air ministry as a spy.
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London
Great Britain
Old Bailey Court
Hermann Gorts
Gortz
United States
Crown
Air Ministry
Gertz
New York
Chicago
America
Bodies of three white men found in Ethiopian battle area
An unofficial report from Asmara says three unidentified white men were found dead near the Amba Aradam front. Suspected identities include a British doctor, an Indian doctor, and an Austrian, with addresses found on two captured Poles. Ethiopian Red Cross workers were with the men. The report notes 30,000 Ethiopian casualties and 2,000 Italian deaths since Feb. 10. Geneva speculates on peace talks and sanctions amid Mussolini’s war.
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Asmara
Eritrea
Tembien
Amba Alaji
Italy
Red Cross
Maximilian Stanielaus Below
Thadeus Medynski
Warsaw
Geneva
League of Nation
Mussolini
League
Adolf Hitler
Ernest von Tarhemberg
France
Great Britain
Germany
Einstein Explains Origin of Matter and Gravity
Philadelphia March 4 Professor Albert Einstein argues that gravity and electricity create solid matter and that free invention of explanations is the sole path to truth. He links matter to electrical bridges between space shells and critiques quantum mechanics for lacking stepwise detail, offering a relativity based account of the origin of matter.
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Space
Philadelphia
Albert Finstein
Einstein
Franklin Ismetitute
Institute
Anniversary of New Deal Triggers Senate Fireworks
Washington March 4 The third anniversary of the New Deal sparks a Senate clash as Democrats push Roosevelt prosperity and Republicans denounce waste. Senator Robinson of Arkansas claims broad GOP support for November, while Senator Borah criticizes administration spending and waste. Dickinson blasts relief policy, claiming billions squandered and unemployment persists.
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Robinson
Dickinson
Nation
Washington
Senate
Arkansas
Borah
Idaho
King
Utah
Barkley
D-Ky
Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
National Republican Congressional Committee
Holt
D.W. Va
Hoover
Arkansan
Breckinridge attacks New Deal policies in Baltimore speech
Col Henry Breckinridge, former assistant secretary of war, charged that the New Deal fostered an economy of scarcity destroying millions of jobs. Speaking before the Association for the Defense of the Constitution, he urged unilateral Supreme Court support and orderly constitutional life, and outlined a 16 point anti New Deal platform. He also announced entry into Maryland's presidential preference primary.
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Baltimore
National Administration
Col
Henry Breckinridge
Breckinridge
Wilson
Maryland
Democratic
Roosevelt
Association For the Defense of the Constitution
Croesus
Wallace
Tugwell
Association
Supreme Court
Congress Begins Secret Hearings On Tax Proposal
Charleston dispatch reports a modified emergency cash fund for penal institutions today though Auditor Edgar B. Sims says institutions receiving fees won’t share. Pruntytown boys home Moundville penitentiary and Salem girls school get cash advances based on monthly needs, while petty cash accounts were abolished last December.
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Charleston
W. Va
Edgar B. Sims
Moundaville
Pruntytown
Salem
Sims
F. McClintic
L. Bailey
Judge Summers Sharp Seeks Republican Governor Nomination
Charleston March 4 Judge Summers H Sharp Marlinton filed to seek the Republican nomination for governor. He urges restoring a three man road commission and merit based school staffing, pledges drastic economy and less political influence, warning of limited federal funds and higher taxes. He vows to discuss issues in campaigns via addresses and press.
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Charleston
W. Va
Republcan
Summers H. Sharp
Marlinton
Sharp
Greenbrier
Pocahontas
Monroe
Road Commission
Secretary of
Mysel
Republican Party
Promiti
Germany's new Zeppelin makes flawless maiden voyage
In Friedrichshafen on March 4 the LZ129 Zeppelin, with Dr. Hugo Eckener at the helm, completed a nearly flawless maiden flight over Lake Constance. After a 2.75 hour test, the cigar shaped craft returned to base, part of technical inspections ahead of mail and passenger runs to the United States. Doctor Heberner noted hopes the new ship would share the Graf Zeppelin's luck.
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Friedrichshafen
Germany
Lake Constance
Hugo Eckener
United States
Doctor Hebener
Republicans Oppose Roosevelts Tax Plan Amid Hearings
Congress opens secret hearings on a 33 1 3 percent levy on undistributed corporate income to fund farm relief and the bonus. Republicans denounce the move as abusive to thrifty corporations while some Democrats back the president. Treasury experts warn the plan could raise about 1.6 billion dollars, with banks and fiduciaries exempt from drastic taxes.
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Treasury
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Borah
Idaho
House
Ways and Means
Samuel B. Hill
Morgenthau
Bluefield Delegation Plans Mercer County Liquor Dispensary Fight
A large Bluefield delegation heads to Princeton to join a meeting called by Rev R O Eller to organize a movement to ban liquor dispensaries in Mercer county The plan includes petitioning for a county election to decide if state dispensaries may operate in Mercer County Two existing dispensaries are in Princeton and Bluefield and a liquor agency is in Bluefield
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Princeton
R. O. Eller
Matoaka Methodist Church
Mercer County
Mr. Piler
Mercer
Princston
Bluefield
State Commission
Oaka
Eller
Matoaka
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