AFL on Wagner plan sparks union industry clash
Washington CIO leader John L. Lewis accused the AFL amendments to the Wagner act of being drafted with help from the National Association of Manufacturers. AFL President William Green denied the charge and prepared to testify, while others questioned who contributed to the amendments and how the labor board handles unfair practices.
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Washington
CIO
Senate Labor Committee
AFL
National Association of Manufacturers
John L. Lewis
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Green
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Lewis
E. I. Weir
Weirton Steel
Tom Girdler
Republic Steel Corporation
Opie
Manufacturers Association
National Labor Relations Board
Houston
AFL Executive Council
Labor Board
Of All Places To Sleep In A Public Garage
Tony Sla winski and Peter Pappas slept in a city garage after a night of drinking. A courteous attendant offered a bed for a couple of hours with no charge, and dawn found Tony in district court facing a drunk driving charge while Pappas faced a drunkenness count. Judge Harvey L. Neelen questioned whether Tony had trouble driving into the garage.
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Hickler
Tony
Hiebler
Slawinski
Pappas
Milwaukee
Tony Slawinski
Peter Pappas
Harvey L. Neelen
John
Physicians face narcotics charge case in Iowa court
Dr. Williams faces a narcotics charge as Benton and Tama county officials, state agents, and attorneys gather for a habeas corpus hearing. Judge Kirkland condemns unlawful detention and orders a hearing set for 9 a.m. May 10 in Vinton while Williams posts a $500 appearance bond.
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Hughes
de Raad
Sharp
Dr. Williams
Kirkland
State Department
United States
Department
Vinton Court House
Williams
J. A. Ruhl
Vinton
Wagner
Traer
Robert Powell
Giger
Toledo
Vifquain
Franklin
Justice Ruhi
Nabbed At Faribault In Local Forged Check Case
Dean Hamad formerly of Cedar Rapids was held in Faribault Minnesota on a Linn county warrant charging uttering a forged instrument. The warrant for a $10 check was issued by Justice H R Churchill. Hamad waived extradition and Cedar Rapids authorities planned to retrieve him.
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James H. Smith
Dean Hamad
Cedar Rapids
Faribault
Minn
Linn County
Hamad
Harlan Snyder
H. R. Churchill
Tom Mason
Smith
Nudism Gains Ground in Omaha Says Pastor Plans Camp
The Rev. H. P. Ferree, pastor of the Independent Church in Common, Inc, Denver, says more Omaha residents are adopting nudism this year. He is building six cottages in his nudist camp near Valley, Nebraska, and expects to add more, signaling growing interest in naturist living.
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Omaha
H. P. Ferree
Valley
Neb
Independent Church In Common, Inc
Denver
Two Iowa Authors Speak at Cedar Rapids College Club
Two Iowa writers, Raymond Kresensky of Des Moines and Mrs. Ethel Blythe Penningroth of Tipton, addressed Cedar Rapids College club members after a luncheon at the Roosevelt hotel. Penningroth read poems about corn planting time and modern verses. Kresensky discussed the WPA Writers' Project in Iowa, the Iowa Guide Book, and the American Guide Series, noting the project’s experimental nature and its literary value.
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Iowa
Raymond Kresensky
Des Moines
Ethel Blythe Penningroth
Tipton
Cedar Rapids College Club
Roosevelt Hotel
Penningroth
College Club
Charles Penningroth
Kresensky
WPA
Writers’ Project
Washington
G. W. Gearhart
L. A. Johnston
Springville
Otto Schluter
War for Reins Seen as New Deal Faces Nominations
Reports say President urged Robert Hutchins of the University of Chicago to accept a designation while Shields pressed against Henderson’s nomination. Hutchins resigned last fall as a public representative on the stock exchange board after protests over handling of members who knew of Richard Whitney’s financial condition. Whitney, a former NYSE president, is now imprisoned for grand larceny. brother to George Whitney.
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Shields
Wall
Mead Increases Relief Budget For PWA To Half A Billion
Washington party leaders report Sen James M Mead plans to add 500 million dollars to the 1940 relief budget to fund a consolidated federal works agency. The measure accompanies a pending presidential reorganization order and possible farm urban trade for support on parity funds and surplus crop disposal.
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Washington
James M. Mead
N. Y
Roosevelt
PWA
Federal Works Agency
Mead
Department of Interior
Senate
Prisoner Released To Muscatine Co Sheriff
Russell Maynard a 47 year old Tipton man who had served four 30 day sentences in Linn county jail since December 30 1988 on four false uttering charges was released from the jail and handed to Muscatine county Sheriff Fred Nesper to face a similar charge in Muscatine county Ottumwa also requested custody from Linn county for Maynard in a separate plea by Sheriff James H Smith
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Russell Maynard
Tipton
Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Fred Nesper
Muscatine County
Nesper
Maynard
Muscatine
James H. Smith
Ottumwa
Meat Cutters Demand Weekday Pay and Wages Fight
P C Wright, president of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters union, states the strike at Me Too market continues with five members on picket. The union seeks a contract for time and a half pay for Sunday or evening work and a basic wage of 27.50 dollars weekly for journeymen with apprentice scales, to start only after 51 percent market participation.
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Me Too
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of America
A. F. of L
P. C. Wright
M. A. Parrish
Wright
U S Workers Returned to Germany for Skilled Jobs
Chicago reports German industrialists unveil a program that has sent over 4,000 U S workers back to Germany as skilled mechanics for heavy industries. Hundreds more German citizens and descendants will return in May under the kartel, which arranges transport and two years of employment in exchange for joining the Arbeitsfront and support of Hitler's policies. Applicants are vetted for pro-Nazi sympathy.
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Chicago
United States
Germany
Fatherland
United Press
Hermann Goering Works
Siemmens-Siemmens
Kartel
New York
Arbeitsfront
Nazi Union of All Workers
Hitler
Plan to Block Veto of Roosevelt Reorganization Order
Washington event outlines a planned House move to kill the Tabor resolution opposing President Roosevelt's first government reorganization order. If tabled, the House would back order No 1 and avoid Senate delay, with committee chair John Cochran guiding Tuesday's meeting and an immediate unfavorable report expected.
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Washington
House
Roosevelt
Congress
Toto
Senate
John Cochran
Government Reorganization Committee
Dr Oscar H Plant Elected Leader Of Two Biology Groups
Dr Oscar H Plant of State University of Iowa was elected president of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology and also elected president of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Inc., in Toronto.
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Toronto
Oscar H. Plant
State University of Iowa
Iowa City
Federation of American Societies For Experimental Biology
American Society For Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Inc
Powers Says UP Telegraphers Reject Arbitration Award
Frank B. Powers international president of the Commercial Telegraphers union said United Press telegraph operators voted to reject an arbitrators award in the dispute over the proposed new contract between the news service and the union.
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New York
Frank B. Powers
Commercial Telegraphers Union
United Press Telegraph
Pendergast Faces More Federal Tax Fraud Indictments
Kansas City Missouri UPI reports that Thomas J. Pendergast faces new charges of concealing true income and evading taxes. The grand jury accuses him of underreporting 1935 and 1936 earnings, detailing income from concrete and construction firms, pipe manufacturing, liquor wholesale, paving concerns, racing stable, and Ready Mixed Concrete, with arraignment slated for the coming Monday.
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Kansas City
Thomas J. Pendergast
Pendergast
2 Concrete Company
2 Paving Company
Maurice M. Milligan
U. S
Ready Mixed Concrete Company
Doctor Warns Swing Is Bad For Children
Cleveland Ohio doctors urge limits on youth exposure to loud jazz and movie viewings for those under adolescence. Dr C W Wyckoff warns parents shape child life through example and language and sets age guidelines for alcohol smoking and viewing content. A separate Idaho line notes migrants face no relief funds for non residents.
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Cleveland
Ohio
C. W. Wyckoff
Wyckoff
Pediatrics
The
Academy of Medicine
Idaho
Danzig Crisis Dominates Nazi Press After Reichstag Talk
German and Polish positions on Danzig surface after Hitler’s Reichstag speech as Nazi outlets chorus that Poland must yield nothing on customs and the port, while proposing joint German Polish governance over the free city. Baltic port fate framed as Hitler personal concern. Polish stance includes transit improvements but no extra territorial strip.
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Poland
Germany
Danzig
League of Nations
Free City
East Prussia
Reich
Danziger Corposten
Payroll tax move spurs business aid
Washington the freen light blinked on Saturday for congressional action removing business tax deterrents after the ways and means committee proposed canceling 825 million dollars in social security payroll increases. Treasury advocates of tax revision and leaders reached an understanding to freeze the old age payroll taxes at 1 percent for employer and worker until 1943. Automatic increases of one half percent beginning 1940 would be canceled under the plan. Without the plan taxes would rise to 2 percent each in 1943.
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Washington
INS
House
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury
Oklahoma brother of congressman dies from self-inflicted shooting
Clarence Disney aged 55 a brother of Oklahoma congressman Wesley Disney died from a bullet wound Friday night he told authorities his wife fired the shot and then killed herself police said the tragedy occurred in END Oklahoma.
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End, Okla
INS
Clarence Disney
Wesley Disney
Oklahoma
Edwardsville man acquitted in murder case
Charles Lee Jr, 30, accused of killing Mrs Mille Stern, 23, of East St Louis, was acquitted Saturday after a ten hour jury deliberation in Edwardsville Illinois.
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Edwardsville, Ir
INS
Charles Lee, Jr
Mille Stern
East St. Louis
German Bank's Chicago Funds Frozen By Suit
Chicago suit ties up Deutsche bank of Berlin funds on deposit in local banks. Jacob Chankin, former Berlin fruit importer now in Chicago, claims personal fortune seized by Nazis and seeks accounting from the Deutsche bank. Banks must answer by May 15 listing funds held. total amount linked to the action believed substantial. Attorneys say it may be first such case in Illinois and could enable more suits.
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Jacob Chankin
Berlin
Chicago
Deutsche Bank
Reichsbank
Chankin
Illinois
First Lady Receives Education Plaque in NY
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt was named the recipient of the Teachers Union award a silver plaque for outstanding service in democracy education. The union is affiliated with the AFL.
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New York
Frankin D. Roosevelt
Teachers Union
The
American Federation of Teachers
AFL
Spaniards Get Back War Seized Items
Burgos AP report says Franco cabinet ordered immediate return of all properties and supplies commandeered for the fighting forces during the civil war to restore peacetime conditions. The decision aims to settle wartime expropriations and return assets to rightful owners.
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Burgos
Francisco Franco
Spain
Russians Propose 5 to 10 Year Pact Amid Negotiations
Russia proposes a pact of indeterminate duration subject to amendment or termination as warranted by new circumstances. The cabinet will consider adopting the Soviet suggestion to end prolonged talks. Moscow seeks Anglo French guarantees of Soviet territorial integrity including the Far East in exchange for reciprocity on British and French territories. They offer aid to Britain and France if needed to defend Belgium Holland and Switzerland in return for similar pledges about Soviet involvement in any war stemming from attacks on Latvia Estonia or Finland. The British cabinet may counter proposal to reach a compromise.
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Far East
Belgium
Holland
Switzerland
Latvia
Esthenia
Finland
Deaths and funeral notices for Joseph Ho and Stanley Kuta Jr
Funeral services for Joseph Ho lets, a retired Ely businessman who was accidentally killed Friday, will be at Brosh chapel at 2 p.m. Monday with Rev Ludvik Burian officiating. Masonic services by Fairfax lodge will precede burial at Bohemian National cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel. Stanley Kuta Jr., 60, died Saturday evening at his home after a year of illness. Born in Bohemia in January 1879, he lived in Cedar Rapids 22 years. Surviving: wife Marie, son Stanley C. Kuta Jr., a grandson, three sisters Elizabeth Reznicek, Anna Kuta of Vienna, Frances Kolar, and two brothers John of Nashua, Mont., Emil of Bohemia. He operated a shoe repair shop at Sixteenth Avenue and C Street SW for years until illness forced him to quit last May. Funeral arrangements are pending. Friends may call at Janeba funeral home.
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Ely
Brosh Chapel
Ludvik Burian
Fairfax Lodge
Bohemian National Cemetery
Stanley Kuta, Jr
First Street
Bohemia
Cedar Rapids
Marie
Stanley C. Kuta
John
Nashua
Mont
Emil
Elizabeth Reznicek
Anna Kuta
Vienna
Frances Kolar
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