Roosevelt Seeks Coal Crisis Solutions After Mine Talks
President Roosevelt, joined by Labor Secretary Frances Perkins and Interior's Ickes, met UMWA leaders John L. Lewis and Philip Murray to discuss best government actions for coal industry relief. Ministers vowed further conferences as Democrats push stabilization ideas akin to the Davis Kelly bill amid union concerns over Supreme Court rulings.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United Mine Workers of America
White House
Hayden
Arizona
Mines Committee
Lewis Democrat
Maryland
Supreme Court
Appalachian Coals
Charleston
W. Va
Kennedy
Murray
Pennsylvania
Detroit Bank Investigators Move to Probe City Banks
Federal investigators led by John S. Pratt arrived in Detroit to examine the First National Bank Detroit and Guardian National Bank of Commerce amid controversy over Treasury denial to reopen the two banks. The visit coincided with publisher E D Stair's telegram to President Roosevelt urging a full inquiry into local banking amid Father Coughlin's attacks on the Detroit Bankers company.
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Detroit
Treasury Department
John S. Pratt
United States Attorney General
First National Bank
Guardian National Bank of Commerce
E. D. Stair
Roosevelt
Charles E. Coughlin
Father Coughlin
Harry S. Toy
Detroit Bankers Company
Stair
Detroit Free Press
High Bracket Salaries Exempt From Pay Slash
Payrolls filed with the state auditor show most high bracket state salaries were exempt from the 25 percent cut ordered by Governor Kump. Exemptions include the governor and other elected officials, supreme court judges, department officials, and various heads and commissioners across state agencies.
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Charleston
W. Va
State Auditor's Office
Govinor Kump
Supreme Court
State House
Secretary of State
Department of Education
Public Service Commission
Board of Control
Bluefield debates spring home improvement campaign
A Bluefield chamber of commerce committee selected by Laurence E. Tierney Jr. met to finalize plans for a spring home improvement campaign. Attendees included Mayor C. E. Lilley and Conrad Brevick. The steering group will organize a permanent body, survey homes needing repairs, and recruit homeowners to join the effort.
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Bluefield
Laurence E. Tierney Jr
Tierney
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Chamber of Commerce
Sudden Ohio River Rise Triggers Kentucky Flood Relief
Henderson Kentucky March 27 A sudden rise in the Ohio River at Uniontown thirty miles downstream prompted Red Cross relief workers to rush to the scene Families fled homes with little time to save belongings Everett Dix in charge of local relief asked Henderson Red Cross for equipment and aid Communications with Leigh Harris county chairman noted no casualties and urged immediate refugee camp setup at Uniontown
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Henderson
Ohio
Uniontown
Red Cross
Everett Dix
Henderson Red Cross
Leigh Harris
Harris
Dix
Ohio Kidnapped Lad Returned to Home
Youngstown Ohio March 27 A 15 year old Peter Myers Jr told of eight days in a room with painted windows while federal and state officers hunted his kidnapers He was returned to his father a tavern operator at Masury near the Pennsylvania border after a roadside meeting The elder Myers reportedly paid 300 ransom but this was not confirmed by authorities who suspect withheld details to protect his family
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Youngstown
Peter Myers Jr
Pete
Masury Nea
Pennsylvania
Meyers
W. ©. Peters
Irene Troutman of Walnut Street Passes Away
Mrs Irene Troutman of Walnut Street wife of G W Troutman a Norfolk and Western locomotive engineer died at 3 this morning at the Bluefield Sanitarium after a twenty day stay following an operation She is survived by her husband and one child Funeral arrangements will be announced later
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Irene Troutman
Walnut Street
G. W. Troutman
Norfolk and Western
Bluefield Sanitarium
Ohio coal group plans formation of sales agency
Cleveland March 27 plans for a central sales agency for Ohio mined coal were announced by Harry L Findlay vice president of Youghingheny Ohio Coal Co 130 Ohio coal operators will be invited to a meeting next Tuesday to consider establishing Northern Coals Inc to handle output Joel Nickerson and other Ohio producers endorsed prompt organization at a conference in Cleveland leading operators from Lorain Hanna Cambridge Essex Ohio Coal Toledo and Columbus participated Steel and coal executives backed the move as Appalachian Coals Inc recently organized in Cincinnati and Supreme Court ruling eased antitrust concerns
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Cleveland
Appalachian Coals, Inc
Southern Coal Producers
Harry L. Findlay
Youghingheny & Ohio Coal Company
Findlay
Ohio
Northern Coals, Inc
Virginia
West Virginia
Kentucky
Tennessee
Cincinnati
United States Supreme Court
Lorey Johnson
Lorain Coal and Dock Company
Columbus
C. H. Bromley
United States Coal Company
William Collins
Hanna Coal Company
William Emery Jr
Cambridge Collieries Company
Fred Essex
Essex Coal Company
George M. Jones
Ohio Colleries Company
Toledo
J. C. Nelms
Ohio & Pennsyvania Coal Company
John A. Teegarden
New York Coal Company
Whitney Warner
Warner Collieries Company
C. F. Taplin
D. F. Hurd
East Ohio Coal Operators’ Association
Illinois Miner Lain in Battle
West Frankfort Illinois March 27 4 An unsuccessful effort by the Progressive Miners union to call a strike in Franklin county led to a fatal gunfight. John Ward 45 of West Frankfort was killed and Elmer Cooper 29 and Clarence Donaldson 27 both United Mine Workers of Eldorado were seriously wounded. প
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West Frankfort
Ill
Progressive Miners Union
United Mine Workers of America
Illinois
Franklin County
John Ward
Elmer Cooper
Clarence Donaldson
United Mine Workers
Eldorado
Ward
Ray Edmundson
John Moulin
Cooper
Donaldson
Cook
Mesonville
Here
Saline County
Browning Robinson
North Scranton coal mines resume work in March
Scranton Pennsylvania March 27 work resumed at the Marvine coal mine in North Scranton and the Coalbrook Colliery at Carbondale after idle periods since December. The two Hudson Coal company mines employ about 2,500 workers and cover local energy production.
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Scranton
Marvine
North
Coalbrook
Carbondale
Hudson Coal Company
Move to Boycott Jewish Businesses in Reich
Berlin reports Nazi leaders announce a planned campaign to boycott Jewish businesses in Germany. The move aims to retaliate for foreign protests and reduce Jewish participation in professions, with Goebbels promising sharp counter measures and new labor policies to channel unemployed into public works.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Nazi Party
Reich
Germany
The
Telegraph Union
Telegraph-Union
Munich
Hitlerite Party
Hitlerites
Hans Kerrl
Joseph Goebels
Hitler
America
England
Dr. Goebbels
Mahkens
Jews Rally in Mammoth Protest at Madison Square Garden
Thousands of Jews and representatives of other faiths gathered at Madison Square Garden and nearby streets to condemn Nazi anti Semitism in Germany. Speakers included Alfred E Smith and Bishop Manning with booing at Hitler namedrops. Traffic snarled as 23 000 seats filled and 35 000 more outside listened via amplifiers.
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Alfred E. Smith
Bishop Manning
New York
Madison Square Garden
Hitler
Germany
Stephen §. Wise
American Jewish Congress
Alfred EB. Smith
John P. O'Brien
William Green
American Federation of Labor
United States
Robert F Wagner
William T. Manning
Episcopal Church
Francis McConnell
Methodist Church
John Haynes Holmes
Community Church
Columbus Circle
Garden
Edward P Mulrooney
Eighth
Ninth Avenues
49Th Street
Broadway
Roosevelt
Sacred Name of Labor
Hunger strike ends in Huntington man resumes eating
Frank Rubish Sr., 63, ended an eleven day hunger strike in Huntington Indiana after his son Frank Rubish Jr. of Detroit urged him to eat. He had subsisted on water while bedridden with a fractured hip and said he believed no one cared for him.
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Huntington
Ind
Frank Rubish Sr
Frank Rubish Jr
Detroit
Rubish
Landslide disaster in Peru claims many lives
Lima dispatches report relief workers recovered seventy six bodies from Tantaday after a landslide caused by heavy rain. More than 120 people were said to be killed nationwide as floods disrupted rail service between Lima and Cerro de Pasco and crippled regional communications. Huanuco experienced three days of continuous rainfall.
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Lima
Peru
Trujillo
Tantaday
Cerro de Pasco
Huanuco
Mrs Janet Walker Granted Divorce From James J Walker
Mrs Janet Allen Walker of Miami received a final decree of divorce from James J Walker former New York City mayor. The decree followed the Master in Chancery recommendation and Circuit Judge Worth W Thammell's signing. Walker did not appear at the hearing in Cannes France. No alimony was requested.
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Miami
Fla
Janet Allen Walker
James J. Walker
New York City
Worth W. Thammell
T. J Dowdell
Ritz Carlton
Roosevelt Unifies Farm Credit Agencies Under New Plan
President Roosevelt links scattered federal farm credit agencies into a single unit through a forthcoming reform. Henry Morgenthau Jr. will govern the new Farm Credit Administration with operation starting in about two months, while Secretary Wallace promotes a government financed plan to adjust farm indebtedness using Reconstruction Finance Corporation funding and federal land banks. Congress awaits further action as Democrats coordinate with the administration.
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Wallace
Morgenthau
Washington
Federal Farm Credit Agencies
The
Farm Board
Roosevelt
Congress
Capitol
Secretary of Agriculture
White House
Hhe
Henry Morgenthau Jr
Farm Credit Administration
New
Federal
Reconstruction Corporation
Federal Land Banks
Roosevelt pushes farm credit consolidation and relief measures
President Roosevelt sent congress an executive order unifying federal farm credit agencies. Senate and House labor committees approved a forestation and unemployment relief bill. A $590 000 aid measure was introduced in the senate. Economic discussions occurred between France and Roosevelt and between Great Britain and Hull. The Senate foreign relations committee reported the St Lawrence waterway treaty. Wallace sent a financing vin to Congress. The ag committee continued hearings on farm relief. Roosevelt, Perkins and Ickes met with United Mine Workers leaders on coal and mining conditions.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Farm Board
Senate
House Labor Committees
France
Great Britain
Hull
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
St. Lawrence Waterway
Wallace
Senate Agriculture Committee
Perkins
Ickes
United Mine Workers of America
McNary
House
Connery
Illinoia
Reconstruction Corporation Fund
Robinson
Waleh
Labor Com
Legion Plan Urges Cash Bonus Reversal and Cash on Demand
Miami March 27 A five point program urged by Col Henry Lindsley former national commander aims to reverse last year’s push for immediate cash payment of the bonus and seeks a 1945 cash on demand option for World War I veterans. The plan calls for federal support of economy measures and a calculated increase in certificate value with interest to avoid extra taxpayer burden.
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Veterans Organization
Miami
Fla
American Legion
Legion
Henry Lindsley
National Executive Committee
United States
Portland
Congress
National Treasury
Libel suit filed over Long attack and immunity claim
Washington reports Brigadier General Samuel T. Ansell sued Senator Huey P. Long for 500000 in damages alleging libel over Long criticism and claims of crookedness. Ansell cites circulation by mail of a senate speech and a New Orleans circular as defamatory.
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Washington
Samuel T. Ansell
Senaor
Huey P. Long
Senate
Ansell
Louisiana
Long
Overton
Broussard
Sena
New Orleans
Senate Committee
Howell
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Burr Tracy Ansell
Congressional Record
Earth
Urges Investigation of Tax Collections
Senator Wheeler calls for a Senate resolution to press the Department of Justice to probe charges that Andrew Mellon and other Treasury officials failed to collect over 600 million dollars in taxes from foreign steamship companies and Gulf Oil. Civil suits against Mellon and others are cited, with a request for immediate action and possible civil and criminal prosecutions if violations are found.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Andrew W. Mellon
Treasury
Gulf Oil Company, & Mellon Concern
Wheeler
Montana
Mellon
David A. Olson
Senate Stock Marketing Investigating Committee
Senate
Olson
Norbeck
South Dakota
Congress accelerates action on forest labor plan
Congress moved to push Roosevelt relief efforts with a $500 million direct aid bill and a forestation program for 250000 workmen. The Senate opened debate on the revised relief bill while the House set Wednesday for action after Labor Committee rejection of a substitute.
Chemists Speed Up Business Gains and Recovery
Washington reports chemists as key drivers of industrial recovery, led by Dr. C. M. A. Stine. He cites chemical research expanding production and new products as essential to all industries, noting sulfur's role in 49 products and 66,361 manufacturing establishments in 1931 with 2.186 million workers and vast capital tied to chemical industry growth.
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Washington
Chemliste
American Chemical Society
C. M. A. Stine
Wilmington
Del
Indus
Stine
Ydeo
Chem
Eee Ma
Alop
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Ohio Coal Group
Appalachia Coals, Inc
North Scranton
Milwaukee
Wic
A. O. Smith Corporation
Owens-Illinois Glass Company
William B. Levin
Chicago
W. H. Hall Printing Company
JEW Stage
Mammoth
Janet Walker
Roosevelt Welds Farm Credit Units
Associated Press
Will
Senator Long
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