NRA seeks Ford to reopen Chester plant amid labor dispute
Washington reports the recovery administration aims to persuade Ford Motor Co to reopen the strike bound Chester facility and submit the dispute to arbitration. Senator Wagner says differences can be settled and the NRA codes move forward as General Hugh Johnson remains in Walter Reed with an illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
the Recovery Administration
Henry Ford
Chester
Robert F. Wagner
National Labor Board
Ford Motor Company
Storm Troopers Guard Witnesses in Reichstag Fire Trial
In Leipzig on September 28 a squad of storm troops guarded witnesses as laborer Paul Zachow denied inciting Marinus van der Lubbe to ignite the Reichstag blaze. Fourteen witnesses from Berlin testified in a case tied to alleged Communist involvement, while van der Lubbe admitted setting fires in Berlin.
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Leipzig
Germany
Supreme Court Room
Paul Zachow
Marinus van der Lubbe
Berlin
van der Lubbe
Zachow
Ernst Panknin
Showin “Bridge
Mecow
Panknin
Pfeiffer
Reichstag
Neueste Nachrichten
Must Find Way to Continue Essential Functions of City
An editorial urges Bluefield to uphold civil services despite funding gaps. It condemns dissolving essential government functions and calls for recall of a costly resolution, planning, economies, and citizen aid. It emphasizes public pride, resolve, and alternatives to bond funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield
Board of Directors
Daily Telegraph
Binefield
Supreme Court
Bluefield Names Eight New Fire Department Recruits
Bluefield appoints eight new firefighters from 27 applicants after a civil service exam. Henry R. Kessler Weston V. Willis Frank E. Winter Ernest B. Francisco earn regular posts, while James T. Peters Howard R. Massey William C. Farmer and Albert C. Grose join the extra force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bluefield
Kyle Bruce
Fireman’s Civil Service Commission
Henry R. Kessler
Weston V. Willis
Frank E. Winter
Ernest B. Francisco
James T. Peters
Howard R. Massey
William C. Farmer
Albert C. Grose
Kessler
Willis
Winter
Francisco
Bruce
Peters
Massey
Farmer
Grose
Board of Directors
R. O. Carter
Carter
Civil Service Commission
Roosevelt Resting at Hyde Park Home
President Roosevelt stayed at his Hyde Park residence this September day as aides push the credit expansion and recovery drive. He plans to unveil details on reopening closed banks to stimulate money circulation and announce a railroad loan for equipment. Hinted signals point to a new monetary system based on a commodity dollar, though no formal statement is made yet.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Thompson Funeral Today in Uniontown for Former Coal Baron
Josiah V. Thompson 79 former king of southwestern Pennsylvania soft coal fields dies in poverty. Funeral services at First Presbyterian church at 2 p m tomorrow with interment in Oak View cemetery.
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Uniontown
Pennsylvania
Josiah V. Thompson
First Presbyterian Church
Oak View
Jury begins trial in kidnaping case for death penalty
Edwardville Ill Sept 28 A twelve man jury hears the case of five men and a woman charged with kidnapping banker August Luer of Alton Illinois The state seeks the death penalty saying the crime is heinous and warrants capital punishment under Illinois law The defendants include Randol Norvell Percy M Fitzgerald Mrs Lillian Chessen and Charles Chessen with trial details continuing on page two
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwardeville
Ill
August Luer
Alton
L. M. Geers
Illinois
Randol Norvell
Percy M. Fitzgerald
Lillian Chessen
Charles Chessen
McKee Silent On Plans For Mayor Bid In New York
Joseph V. McKee’s expected independent mayoralty bid did not materialize as he prepared a statement. Reports suggest he may stay out, despite renewed talks amid a crowded field against Mayor John P. O’Brien and Fiorello La Guardia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Joseph V. McKee
John P. O’brien
Fiorello la Guardia
McKee
Board of Aldermen
James J. Walker
Chrles F. Keegan
Louis M. Howe
Roosevelt
Howe
Tammany
O’brien
Federal drive against crime gains momentum in Urschel case
Federal agents pressed the drive against crime with Will Casey held at Ballinger for aiding machine gun gangsters in the Urschel kidnaping case while prosecutors insist on law not abdication. In Luckey Ohio a bank holdup led to a fatal shootout with Marshal Ben Stone. In Boston robbers seized mail pouches but left bags with about 100000 dollars. Michigan City prisoners broke out as Valparaiso prowlers hunted them. Six people faced a jury over banker August Luer kidnaping in Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Ballinger
Texas
Will Casey
George
Oklahoma City
Urschel
Luckey
Ohio
G. R. Saunders
Columbus Grove
Marscal Ben Stone
Stone
Boston
Indiana
Michigan City
Valparaiso
Jury pressed to convict all in Urschel kidnapping case
In Oklahoma City the government urged jurors to convict all ten defendants under the Lindbergh law in the Urschel kidnapping conspiracy trial. Attorney General officials argued the case shows a federal need to curb gang violence and ransom channels across four states. Ben Laska defended Albert Bates, labeling witnesses’ testimony as “piffle” and “bosh.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Okla
Charles F. Urschel
Joseph B. Keenan
U. S
Kellys
Bateses
Baileys
Keenan
Albert Bates
Harvey Bailey
Shannons
Wise County
Texas
Minneapolis
St. Paul
D. BE. Hodges
Ben Laska
Denver
Bates
Piffle
Directors Chosen for State Health Group Four-Year Terms
Eighteen directors were selected to four year terms by the West Virginia Tuberculosis and Health association at its annual session. A December 1 start date was set for the Christmas seal fundraising campaign. Governor Kump urged separation of business and medical administration in state hospitals. New directors include Mrs. C. O. Cooper of Hinton and Mrs. J. H. Thornton of Bramwell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia Tuberculosis and Health Association
Kump
C. O. Cooper
Disorders Flare in Cuban Province Amid Strikes and Riots
Renewed disorders hit Matanzas with strikers seizing the Yamuri match and cigarette factory. In San Jose de los Remedios armed bands sack farmers’ homes. three Communist leaders are arrested in Colon after an attempted church arson. At the National hotel in Havana troops loom as officers resist ouster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Matanzas
Gran San Martin
Yamuri
Matanzas City
San Jose de Los Remos
Colon
Strikere
Match Company
Camaguey
National Hotel
Grau
Carlos Manuel de Cespedes
Three men questioned in slaying of highway patrolman Brautlinger
Pittsburgh Sept 28 three men captured after a five mile automobile chase were questioned about their whereabouts at the time state highway patrolman Herbert P Brautlinger was slain. The suspects are Edward Selanski 20 Nick Munas 23 and Edward Slineski 24. They denied involvement in the killing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Herbert P. Brautlinger
Edward Setanski
Nick Munas
Weirton
W. Va
Edward Slineski
Barton
Ohio
Carnegie
Frank Ritz
Robert McMillen
Selanski
Munas
Moundsville
West Virginia
Selinski
Ohio State Reformatory
Mansfield
Brantlinger
Bridgeville
Pennsylvania District Agreement Is Signed
Pittsburgh reports a broad coal wage and condition pact uniting over sixty coal firms and UMWA district officers to cover western Pennsylvania pits. A guaranteed penalty clause adds $1 a day for strikes and lockouts. Captive mine operators West Pen Power and Duquesne Light signed, while steel-corp mines remained absent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
United Mine Workers of America
Steel and
Efae Mondey
West Pen Power Company
Duquesne Light Company
H. C. Frick Coke Company
United States Steel Subsidiary
Pocahontas Tug River coal output slips week ending Sept 23
Production in the Pocahontas Tug River district eased slightly to 517,970 tons for the week ending September 23 from the prior week. The Pocahontas Operators' association cited a 4,901 ton drop for the week ending September 16. Year to date output reaches 14,631,079 tons.
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Pocahontas- Tug River
Pocahontas
Families to Join Homestead Unit in Morgantown Area
About 400 Monongalia county families in the mining districts face relocation under a farm homestead program from the interior department. Mrs Roosevelt's visit sped plans to rehabilitate destitute miners, with Nat T Frame guiding initial steps. The Arthur Dale farm area near Reedsville will host the first project with 50 families to begin conditioning acreage and a local shop to provide part time work. The project aims to model future rehabilitations nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgantown
W. Va
The
Dominion News
Monongalia County
Farm Homestead Unit
United States Department of Interior
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Preston County
Arthur Dale
Reedsville
Allegheny Tableland
Nat T. Frame
West Virginia University
American Friends Society
Roosevelt
Frame
Interior Department
James W. Collier of Mississippi Dies at 61
James W. Collier, member of the tariff commission and former U S representative from Mississippi, died of a heart attack at his home on his sixty first birthday. He served twelve terms in Congress and had declined to run again last fall amid a dispute in Mississippi over at large versus district elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
James W. Collier
Tariff Commission
Congress
Mississippi
Tearful plea delays San Quentin hanging for Lamson
In San Jose California Sept 28 1936 Mrs Genevieve Lamson pleaded to Sheriff Emig to delay the execution of her son David A Lamson who is to be hanged December 15 for wife murder The sheriff postponed the transfer to San Quentin until the time limit permits The inquest into Mrs Allene Thorpe Lamson death yielded an open verdict by eight jurors citing death from a violent head injury An appeal in Lamson's case is pending and the defense argues the Stanford University press is not responsible for the death
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Jose
Calif
Genevieve Lamson
William J. Emig
David A. Lamson
San Quentin
Lamson
Allene Thorpe Lamson
Stanford
Lameon
Stanford University Press
Workers pledge ban on strikes in southern coal fields
Coal operators and United Mine Workers representatives from Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee sign a district wage agreement at Charleston after day and night talks. The pact covers 13 fields, boosts wages, sets dead-work scales, resolves checkweighman issues, and bans local strikes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Businese
Charleston
West Virginia
Tennessee
Virginia
Kentucky
United Mine Workers of America
Pocahontas
Tug River
John J. Lincoln
W. E. E. Koepler
Pocahontas Operatore Association
P. C. Thomas
The
Koppers Coal and Transportation Company
W. A. Bishop
Pocahontas Fuel Company
Co. B. Smith
American Coal Company
R. E. Salvati
Pond Creek Pocahontas Coal Company
H. C. Faust
United Pocahontas Coal Company
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
Thomas Kennedy
van A. Bittner
William Blizzard
Lee Hall
Jesse Aquino
Washington
New River
Winding Gulf
Greenbrier
Big Sandy-Wikhorn
Hazard
Harlan
Appalachiin
Strikes Ripple Through Coal Steel Auto Silk and Leather
About 100000 workers nationwide halted work as unions push demands. Weirton Steel plants in West Virginia idle ten thousand steel workers after a dispute with the Amalgamated association. Ford Edgewater workers seek five day week seven hour day and a five dollar minimum wage. Shown are clashes, beatings, and dynamiting tied to broader labor turmoil statewide and nationally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Virginia “Panhandle
Clarksburg
Weirton
W. Va
Steubenville
Weirton Steel Company
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
George Dunn
Pittsburgh
Clairton, Pa
Carnegie Steel Company
Mercer
Venango
Shamrock Coal Company
Fayette County
Edwin Martin
H. C. Frick Coke Company
Ford Motor Company
Edgewater
N. J
Chester
Detroit
Ford Company
Washington
Wagner
New York
National Labor Board
Ford
Pennslyvania Railroad to test door to door freight service
Washington reports federal transportation coordinator Joseph Eastman approved a plan by the Pennsylvania railroad to start store door pickup and delivery of less than carload freight in the east. New York Central objects, claiming it would cut rates elsewhere. Eastman calls it a regional experiment to gauge results in large eastern cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sept
Joseph B. Eastman
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York Central Railroad
Eastman
Pennsylvania Road
New York Central
F. B. Williamson
Pennsylvania
Universal Carloading and Distributing Company
Fleeing convicts suspected in sheriff death
Desperate escapees from Michigan City prison spread out across Indiana with reports from Lincoln Nebraska and other points. Police believe the fugitives may have killed Sheriff Charles Neel of Corydon during their breakout and manhunt continues with state highway police and federal detachments involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chestertown
Ind
Indiana
Michigan City
Lincoln
Neb
W. C. Condit
Russell Clark
William Dietrich
Yesteray
Matthew Leach
Charles Neel
Corydon
P River
National Dees
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Hugh Johnson
NRA
Opener
Hugh 8. Johnson
Walter Reed Hospital
Alabama
Kenneth M. Simpson
Johnson
Robert W. Lea
Thompson
Snatch Band
M'Kee
New York City
Ohio Town
Cuban
U. S. Department of Interior
San Quentin Prison
Kanawha
Logan
Williamson
Big Sandy-Elkhorn
Appalachian
West Virginia Panhandle
Weirton Company
Pany
Pontiac
Flint
Mich
Penny
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