Inland Steel to Vacate Board Order While Merits Are Tested
The National Labor Relations Board will vacate its order requiring Inland Steel to sign a contract with the Steel Workers Organizing Committee. I S Dorfman said the move corrects procedure to ensure the case is judged on merits. The Inland plants employ about 12 000 workers and hearings spanned four months with 1 000 witnesses.
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Chicago
INS
National Labor Relations Board
Inland Steel Company
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
CIO
I. S. Dorfman
Kansas City
NLRB
Washington
East Chicago
Chicago Heights
SWOC
Wife Of Il-Fated Poker Player Seeks Husband Held
Mrs. Lilian Clifton telephoneed Hollywood police to demand her husband be held after he lost 150000 dollars to Lew Brice. The sum was returned to Harry Clifton in England. She said she would sail to America to intervene and asked the police to keep him jailed and stop him from playing poker. The request was refused.
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Hollywood
Mre
Lillian Clifton
Lew Brice
Harry T. Clifton
Isle of Islay
Lytham
England
America
Jap Premier's Son Urges End to War With China
Fumitaka Konoye son of Japan's premier and Princeton golfer says Japan should halt hostilities with China. He arrived in Washington with the Prince ton golf team to play Penn, and plans to return to serve two years as a private in the army.
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Washington
INS
Japan
China
Fumitaka Konoye
Princeton
University of Pennsylvania
Hunt for Lost Four-Year-Old in Pa Woods
National guardsmen and 200 volunteers scoured forests near Bradford Pennsylvania for Marjory West a four year old girl who wandered away while picking wildflowers from a family picnic site. The search coordinated by local authorities involved extensive ground patrols and resupply efforts as dawn returned to the area.
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Hunt
Woods
Braford
National
Marjory West
Pennsylvania
M. M. West
The Hidden Quiet Life in Prayer
A 1938 reflection on folding prayer into daily life. It urges private, sincere prayer over public displays, describing a mindset or closet of inner stillness that can be practiced anywhere. The piece cites Lincoln and a mystic to illustrate a continuous, quiet presence.
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Jesus
Lincoln
UAW Chief Demotes Assistant President Amid Power Struggle
UAW President Homer Martin demoted Richard T. Frankensteen from assistant president and stripped him to a nominal vice presidency. Frankensteen, key figure in a coalition seeking Martin’s removal, faced board approval for the move. The shift follows Frankensteen’s elevation by decree and leaves him without real authority among the four other vice presidents.
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Detroit
Homer Martin
UAW
Monday
Richard T. Frankensteen
Frankensteen
Martin
Wyndham Mortimer
Ringling Circus Officer Sentenced For Tax Evasion
John M. Kelley former vice president and general counsel of the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey circus was sentenced to two years in federal prison and fined 10000 dollars for evading taxes on circus income from 1919 to 1932. Nathaniel S Rabner and Charles D M Greer two former internal revenue agents also received sentences of one year and a day with 5000 dollar fine and three months with a 1000 dollar fine respectively.
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New York
John M. Kelley
Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey Circus
U. S
Kelley
Internal Revenue
Nathaniel S. Rabner
Charles D. M. Greer
Rabner
Greer
50, She's Going To School To Husband
Bay City Michigan AP reports Mrs J H George a 50 year old former high school graduate from 1910 attends Bay City junior college She failed geology and astronomy but remains unbothered by her instructor Professor J B Soorce pend of geology and astronomy department
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Bay City, Mich
J. H. George
Bay City
J. 3 Soorce Pend
The
Geolosy and Astronomy
Selassie Opens His Last Stand Before League
In Geneva Haile Selassie fights to block recognition of Italy’s conquest of Ethiopia at the League of Nations. Russia and China back Ethiopia while Viscount Halifax concedes, and a council battle over recognition looms amid other international sparks at the 101st session.
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Italy
Geneva
Russia
New Zealand
Ethiopia
Haile Selassie
Council
League of Nations
League of Nations Council
League
Norman Angell
H. Stanley Jevons
J. L. Bierly
London
Gaston Jeze
University of Paris
International Institute of Public Law
L. A. Taezas
Ephrem T. Medden
Viscount Halifax
China
Vilhelms Munters
Latvia
League Assembly
Former Unofficial Chicago Mayor Dies
Samuel A. Ettelson a long time figure in Chicago politics and law died Monday after gall bladder and liver trouble following an operation. He was once nicknamed Chicago's Spee mayor and was prominent for thirty five years in the city.
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Chicago
Samuel A. Ettelson
Spee
Roosevelt urged to stump nation this summer
White House supporters in Congress push for President Roosevelt to campaign nationwide this summer to bolster his policies. Pepper's renomination in Florida is cited as proof the White House still wields power at the ballot box. James Roosevelt urges Pepper’s return to the Senate while three other lawmakers receive similar White House backing.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Pepper
Fila
White House
Florida
James Roosevelt
Senate
Barkley
Kentucky
F. Ryan Duffy
Wisconsin
Norris
Neb
Democratic Party
la Follettes
New Liberal Party
East Iowa Native Is Enthroned as American Mother
Grace Nell Crowell of Dallas Texas was proclaimed American Mother of 1938 in New York Mother’s Day ceremonies. The Wilton Junction Iowa native, mother of three, spoke modestly about motherhood and faith, with Mary Pickford honoring her and reading from Crowell’s poetry.
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New York
Grace Nell Crowell
Dallas
Tex
Crowell
Wilton Junction
Sara Delano’ Roosevelt
Mrs. Crowell
Davies Nominated as U S Ambassador to Belgium and Luxembourg
President Roosevelt nominated Joseph E. Davies, incumbent United States ambassador to Moscow, to replace Hugh Gibson in Belgium. The nomination, sent to the Senate for approval, also makes Davies United States minister to Luxembourg.
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Washington
INS
Joseph E. Davies
United States
Moscow
Roosevelt
Hugh Gibson
Belgium
Senate
Davies
Duchy of
Luxembourg
Runaway freight cars derail near Colorado Springs end 18 mile ride
A runaway train carrying cattle and coal derailed in Falcon and Colorado Springs after an 18 mile 180 mile an hour ride. William Marquand ordered the derailment, engineer Ed Slade warned in time, two livestock cars killed, no injuries. Rails and switch damaged, spikes lifted, train halted on main line.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
INS
Rock Island Railroad
Falcon
Here
William Marquand
Ed Slade
Denver
Slade
Elsmere
Taspetine Marquand
Marquand
D. R. Brown
Brown
Camp Good Health Fund Receives Old Maids Club Gift
Proceeds from a Cedar Rapids Country club subscription dance raised 145.25 for Camp Good Health, supporting a nine child, three week health building program. The camp operated by Public Health Nursing assists physically handicapped children aged 6 to 12 with nutrition, rest, nurse on duty, and medical exams.
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Camp Good Health Fund
Old Maids Club
Austin Palmer
Cedar Rapids
The
Gazette
Camp Good Health
Public Health Nurs
Ing Association
Senate Approves Tax Revision Plan In Swift Vote
Washington D C The Senate approved the conference report on the 5 33 billion tax bill without a record vote leaving only House approval before the measure is sent to President Roosevelt for signature The compromise tax plan preserves liberal capital gains treatment and retains part of the undistributed profits levy while widening rates from 7 27 percent to a 16 19 percent band with 16 20 in House terms The action followed a statement by Republican minority members praising the effort as a step toward tax sanity.
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Washington
Senate
House
White House
Roosevelt
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Mich
Arthur Capper
Kan
Tax Conference Committee
Pat Harrison
Finance Committee
Congress
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Report Jobless Total In March At 3 Year High
The American Federation of Labor estimates March unemployment at 11,231,700 the highest since March 1935 with a slight April upturn in employment. The AF of L also notes 109,000 job losses in March and highlights that spring usually creates several hundred thousand jobs. It recalls that in March 1937 over 400,000 returned to work.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor
American Federationist
A. F. of L
Cold Cedar Rapids Dips To 39 As Rain Puts Spur On May Weather
Cedar Rapids experiences a cold spell with a low of 39 degrees from 9 pm Sunday to 5 am Monday. Skies stay cloudy with drizzle at times and weekend rain totaling .41 inches, followed by gradual warming to the mid 50s by afternoon.
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May
Cedar Rapids
The
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company
Army Wise When It Spent Its Tobacco Coupons In France
Wartime humor on the French franc and American tobacco coupons in France with remarks by Arthur Baer. The piece notes the franc at about 3 cents a yard, a 36 to 1 dollar rate, and suggests shifts in European finances as the A E F used coupons.
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France
Y Arthur
Bugs” Baer
Senate Approves Large Farm Aid Increase for Next Year
The Senate approved more than 1.1 billion dollars for agriculture next year and sent the appropriation bill back to the House with about 50 million dollars in items added. The panel designated 500 million for farmer benefits under the crop control act, larger than the House figure. Senator Van denberg charged spending growth outpaced farm gains, noting 1937 treasury outlays reached 1.264 billion compared with earlier years. The bill also boosts farm tenant purchases, submarginal land purchases, and total farm benefit payments.
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Washington
Senate
Agriculture Department
House
Vandenberg
Mich
Treasury
Department
Inspector's Back Broken In Fall At Penick Ford Plant
Richard Long a 29 year old inspector from Clayton Missouri for a Boston boiler insurer broke his back in a fall at the Penick and Ford refinery. He slipped while inspecting a sugar converter from the top and landed at the tank bottom. He was taken to St Luke's Hospital where x rays were made and his condition Monday was described as good with possible absence of paralysis due to the fracture at the base of the spine.
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Cedar Rapids
Richard Long
Clayton
Boston, Mass
Penick and Ford
Long
St. Luke's Hospital
Street Car Crash Injures Thirty In Los Angeles
In a spectacular collision between two street cars early Monday in a residential intersection thirty persons were injured seven treated at the scene and twenty three rushed to an emergency hospital after ambulances from three police districts responded.
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Los Angeles
INS
Beer and punchboards seized in Sunday raids
Ninety bottles of beer and three punchboards were seized in raids at two local residences while eighteen patrons drank inside. Claude D. Mann and H C Bergloff pled guilty to selling beer without a permit. Mann received five months in county jail with three months suspended for good behavior, Bergloff fined 5500 and costs with suspended balance.
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Claude D. Mann
Havenne NE
H. C. Eeralath
Oakland Road
Mann
Bergloff
C. J. Haas
Haas
Mann’s
Bergloff's
Mann's
Bergloff’s
Peut
G. K. Thompson
Stanley
Marshall
Condon
Hines and
Weiland
Rubinoff Improves After Appendicitis Operation
Violinist Dave Rubinoff, treated for appendicitis, was reported improving Monday after his condition worsened with peritonitis over the weekend. doctors said he is out of immediate danger in Battle Creek Michigan.
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Battle Creek
Mich
Dave Rubinofff
Rubinoff
Jury of specialists votes to remove infant eye in cancer fight
In Chicago Garfield Park hospital doctors led by Dr. Robert H. Good perform a ten minute operation to remove Helaine Colan left eye and part of the optic nerve after a unanimous juried decision by ten medical experts and two rabbis to save the child's life. The doctors hope radiotherapy may save the right eye while the parents urged action to save their baby.
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Chicago
Helaine Judith Colan
Garfield Park Community Hospital
Robert H. Good
Edward V. L. Brown
Edward F. Garaghan
Brown
Midwest Athletic Club
Samuel Hoffman
Helaine
Herman Colan
Colan
Estelle
Two Injured In Sunday Accidents
Lisle H. Andrews 43 of 1248 Nineteenth avenue SW suffers a wrenched back after a collision with Virgil M. Ullrich 21 of 1931 E avenue NW on Third avenue at Sixth street SW. John Divisek 77 of 727 F avenue NW suffers a leg abrasion after being struck by Fred M. Enders 57 of 1304 First avenue W on Ellis boulevard between F and G avenues NW. Enders swerved to avoid the pedestrian who did not hear his warning. Divisek is hard of hearing.
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Cedar Rapids
Lisle H. Andrews
Nineteenth Avenue
Virgil M. Ullrich
E Avenue NW
Third Avenue
Sixth Street
Andrews
Ulirick
John Divisek
F Avenue NW
Fred M. Enders
First Avenue
Enders
Ellis Boulevard
G Avenues
Divisek
Conferees Agree On Big Navy Act
Washington AP conferees reached agreement on President Roosevelt's 1 156 000 000 naval expansion bill. The accord calls for forty six fighting ships, twenty six auxiliaries and nine hundred fifty additional airplanes.
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Washington
House
Senate
Roosevelt
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