Federal intervention urged to end steel strike and uphold law
President Roosevelt may appoint a mediation board after Governor Davey requests aid to restore order in Ohio. The plan targets the CIO steel dispute allowing collective bargaining or prosecution, while stressing the Constitution and Bill of Rights protections for workers.
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Ihough
Roosevelt
Davey
Ohio
John L. Lewis
CIO
Olive
Perkins
Miss Perkins
Charles P. Taft
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Violence threats target mayor as police probe proceeds
Police identify threats to dynamite the mayor's residence in Johnstown Pennsylvania as the city investigates. In Canton Ohio steel strikers clash with back-to-work demonstrators, resulting in fist fights and seven militant leaders seized. In Cleveland Public announcement by Republic Steel supports protection for returning workers during federal mediation.
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Johnstown, Pa
Klink
Daniel J. Shields
Canton
Ohio
Cleveland
Republic Steel Corporation
Federal Mediation Board
Federal mediation board moves to end steel strike
Secretary Frances Perkins urged peace as a federal mediation board acts to halt the walkout in the steel area. SWOC filed charges with the National Labor Relations Board accusing Republic Steel Corp. of violating the Wagner act and seeking a union election to determine majority representation. The CIO affiliate and Republic both pressed for investigations and possible hearings in Ohio.
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Washington
Frances Perkins
Federal Mediation Board
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Committee For Industrial Organization
National Labor Relations Board
Republic Steel Corp
Republic
CIO
SWOC
Canton
Lee Pressman
Pressman
J. Warren Madden
Labor Board
Ohio
Miss Perkins
Martin L. Davey
Mediation Board
Gypsies Freed After Witnesses Fail to Identify
Osage Iowa residents Mr and Mrs George Davis and their three children and Mrs Mary Adams and her daughter were released from jail Friday afternoon after witnesses could not identify the women as the gypsies who allegedly fleeced victims. They had been brought from Town City on Thursday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Osage (Ap
George Davis
Mary Adams
Osage
Demobilizing Relief Army Proves Political Nightmare
The text notes that demobilization of Uncle Sam's relief army will be a political headache across states as workers fear unemployment and the loss of their sinecures. It underscores widespread anxiety over job security amid demobilization.
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Uncle Sam
Fortune teller predictions and the wary reader
A reader recalls visiting a fortune teller who predicted a death in her family, described as a tall man with gray hair and a mustache. The piece argues such prophecies are often vague and forgotten when wrong, urging readers not to worry about the future and to live in the present.
Maytag Plant CIO Strike Grows Quiet as Talks Set
CIO union leaders at the Maytag washing machine plant in Newton said a 10 a.m. Saturday mass meeting will decide action in a dispute that halted production. Workers in the painting department were ordered out after a confrontation with non union employee Duane Eaton, 20, and most of the plant’s 2,500 workers were idle. Eaton could not be located.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newton (Ap
CIO
Maytag Company
Eaton
County Supervisors Elect Manchester Vinton Men Officers
Davenport AP says Iowa county officials association officers elected at the annual convention include Supervisors R. F. Hockaday of Manchester as president David Twogood of Vinton as vice president and John Tank of Walcott as secretary treasurer.
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Davenport
Iowa County Officials’ Association
R. F. Hockaday
Manchester
David Twogood
Vinton
John Tank
Walcott
Regular Bedtime Sparks Los Angeles Divorce Suit
In a Los Angeles divorce filing, Ione Colomb Temple testifies that her husband John S. Temple kept a strict 8:30 p.m. bedtime, even with guests present, labeling him an "8:30 p.m. husband."
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Los Angeles
John S. Temple
Circuit Court Rules in Favor of Employers
Fifth Circuit reverses earlier ruling and upholds NLRB orders for reinstatement of 12 Jones and Laughlin Steel employees. Delaware New Jersey Ferry Co. not forced to recognize Marine Engineers Beneficial Association No. 3. dispute deemed settled. Dissent argues Wagner act safeguards agency recognition. Ferry routes Wilmington to Penns Grove and New Castle to Pennsville. contract renewed after expiration.
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New Orleans
U. S. Supreme Court
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
National Labor Relations Board
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp
Philadelphia
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
NLRB
Delaware-New Jersey. Ferry, Company
Marine Engineers
Beneficial Association No.3
Labor Board
Oliver B. Dickinson
J. Whitaker Thompson
Joseph Buffington
Circuit Court
John Biggs,Jr
Biggs
Ferry
Wilmington
Del
Pennsgrove
New Castle
Pennsville
N. J
Beneficial Association
Farmer Who Made Plowhorse Of Wife Sentenced To Year
John W Davis a 76 year old Tennessee farmer was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of his wife who he called a plow horse. A jury rejected second degree murder charges and sentenced him to one year in the state penitentiary after about an hour and forty five minutes of deliberation.
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Woodbury
Tenn
John W Davis
John
Jodie
State Penitentiary
Snell Charges Administration Aims to Sovietize U S
Washington AP reports House Minority Leader Bertrand H. Snell argues the administration is attempting to Sovietize the American people during a Friday floor speech.
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Washington
Bertrand H. Snell
House
National League Baseball Standings and Results
The table lists NL teams with scores, pitchers, and records from recent games. Notable entries include Mungo and Phelps for Brooklyn, Passeau and Hartnett for Chicago, and Hubbell for New York. Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Boston, St. Louis, Chicago and others show late innings plays and relievers. Several games postponed due to wet grounds with Detroit at Philadelphia set for a later date.
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Chicago
New York
Sale of Liquor In Quantities By Iowa Stores Is Approved
Washington AP reports the federal revenue bureau approved a procedure by the Iowa control commission allowing larger single day liquor purchases from state stores. The bulletin No 22 previously limited to under five gallons per transaction. officials say multiple smaller buys per day may be allowed for events. Iowa operates 135 state liquor stores under a state monopoly.
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Iowa
Washington
Internal’ Revenue
Henry J. Roelofs
Iowa Control Commission
Bureau
Commission
Roelofs
Bad Weather Delays Amelia in India
Bad weather forced Amelia Earhart to halt her equatorial globe girdling flight in Ak_y_ap India. She returned to the airport at 2 35 p m after finding unfavorable conditions following a dawn departure from Calcutta en route to Bangkok Siam.
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Akyab
India
Ins
Amelia Earhart
Calcutta
Bangkok
Siam
Accuse Paulson of Murderous Assault in Iowa City
Cecil Paulson, 22, Fort Madison prison inmate, is charged with assault to commit murder in a county attorney’s information filed Friday. He fled from University hospital May 24 after a gun battle with Iowa City police officer Ben Hauber and a companion. Hauber was beaten. Paulson was recaptured after a chase by Waterloo and Floyd county officers.
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Iowa City
Cecil Paulson
Fort Madison
Don McComas
William H. Bender Paulson
Nora Springs
Iowa
Waterloo
Floyd County
Ben Hauber
Paulson
University Hospital
Hauber
Robert Larson
Harold W. Mestermark
Treasury lists seven men as tax evaders
The Treasury named six prominent business men, a Hollywood star, and over 100 foreign corporations involved in schemes to avoid U S taxes. Charles Laughton was cited for using a foreign holding company to take a 1935 salary while earning U S film income, with total American earnings around 190 280 dollars.
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Treasury Department
Julius Bache
New York
Charles Laughton
Elmer Ivey
Internal Revenue
Congressional Committee
Laughton
Hollywood
England
Bache
Ivey
Canada
Irey
Frey
Philip de Ronde
Wallace Groves
Washington
The
Treasury
Elmer L. Ivey
Revenue Intelligence
United States
Doughton
N. C
House
Asie
Pat Harrison
Cerine
Erate Laughton
Trey
Iowa Panel Okays Expenditure For State Institutions
Des Moines reports the Iowa legislative retirement and reform committee approved a building program funding totaling 639000 at board of control institutions and 258000 at state educational institutions. The University of Iowa receives 45000 for roof repairs as allotted by the last legislature.
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Des Moines
Iowa Legislative Committee On
Board of Control
University of Iowa
Eighty Four WPA Workers to Start Frontier Park Project
A crew of eighty-four WPA workmen will begin work at Frontier Park Saturday, with City Engineer staff surveying levels and grades this week. They will focus on clean-up and repair of grounds and the race track, clearing obstacles, and preparing foundations for cattle barns and permanent structures in time for the All-Iowa Dairy Cattle Show and Legion celebration.
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WPA
Frontier Park
William Rimderknecht
Chamber of Commerce
Ralph D. Briggs
Waterloo
F. E. Young
Park
Briggs
C. D. Moore
Urbana
Moore
Legion
Loyalist Ship Ciudad de Barcelona Sinks Losses Reported
A fascist newspaper reports that 104 American volunteers and about 900 other foreigners are believed drowned when the loyalist steamship Ciudad de Barcelona sank in the Mediterranean between Valencia and Barcelona. Valencia authorities say it was torpedoed by an unidentified foreign submarine.
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Rome
Ciudad de Barcelona
Mediterranean
Giornale d'Italia
Barcelona
Valencia
Sugar Legislation Prediction From Colorado Congressman
Rep. Fred Cummings of Colorado, leading the congressional sugar bloc, predicted there would be no sugar legislation this session of Congress.
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Washington
Fred Cummings
Colo
Congressional Sugar Bloc
Congress
Sheriff Slain by Gunmen in Albion Nebraska
Boone County Sheriff L I Smoyer was killed and Albion constable William Wathen critically wounded in a pasture shooting near Albion Nebraska. Wathen named two bandits in a Ford with Colorado plates 7 4697 and one suspect wore a straw hat. A statewide manhunt followed with officers alerted.
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Albion, Neb
Boone County
L. I. Smoyer
William Wathen
Albion
Irving Norskot
Here
William Keeshan
Smoyer
Wathen
Keeshan
Colorado
Soviet Airmen Chase Nonstop Moscow to San Francisco Flight
A trio of Russian aviators in a monoplane crossed the North Pole en route from Moscow to San Francisco, led by Valerie Chkalov with co pilot Georgi Baldukew. They followed the 123rd meridian with ambassador Alexander Troyanovsky and General Gilmore coordinating. The flight began Friday Moscow time and reached the pole around midnight CST, using a two way radio for weather and position updates.
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San Francisco
North Pole
Moscow
Russia
Oakland
San Francisco Bay
Valerie Chkalov
George Baldukew
Alex
Israes
Alexander Troyanovsky
United States
William’ E. Gilmore
National
Aeronautical Association
Gilmore
Troyanovsy
Ace Net
Troyanovsky
Sigismund Levanovsky
Levanovsky
Archangel
Los Angeles
Chkalov
Pole
RETET
Convict Ehlerman Of Conspiracy To Defraud Company
W A Ehlerman former jewelry firm manager was convicted by a district court jury of conspiracy to defraud an insurance company. The verdict relates to a $37000 robbery of the firm’s safe on December 22 in Sioux City. The defense plans an appeal. maximum penalty is three years.
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Sioux City
W. A. Ehlerman
W. A. Ehlerman Jewelry Company
Ehlerman Company
George Gorder
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Nlrb Group
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Mungo
Phelps
Bauers
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Todd
Phila
Phia
Johnson
Passeau
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LaMaster
Atwood
Lee
Parmelee
Shoun
Hartnett
Cincinnti
Hubbell
Gumbert
Coffman
Mancuso
Grissom
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St. Louis
MacFayden
Smith
Lopez
Weiland
Ogredowski
Allen
Andrews
Pytlak
Ostermueller
McKain
Wilson
Berg
Detroit
St. Louisa
Washinton
Hildebrand and Huffman
DeShong, Appleton, Cohen
R. Ferrell
Amelia
Hearing
Razor Maker
Phillip DeRonde
Jules S. Bache
Jacob Schick
Percy K. Hudson
New York Stock Exchange
Schick
Westinghouse
Roswell Magill
the Treasury
George Westinghouse, Jr
Bahamas
Newfoundland
British Columbia
Jamaica
Magill
Cedar Rapids News
Nebraska
W. W. Akers
Iowa Bureau of Investigation
Earl E. Tremmel
Sigourney
Oskaloosa
Neb
Frisco
Army Signal Corps
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Alaska
War Department
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Ehlerman
Company
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