Accord Signed By Majority Of Operators
A two year union shop deal was signed Saturday between the United Mine Workers of America and a majority of Appalachian operators. Ratification by the Appalachian joint wage hour conference with six southern operators associations involved means about 340 000 eastern miners and 126 000 western miners will return to work Monday ending the national fuel emergency threat. Several associations withdrew from the southern high volatile group.
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New York
United Mine Workers of America
Appalachian
Southern High Volatile Group
Southern Appalachian Coal Operators’ Association of
Eastern
Tennessee
Kentucky
Virginia Coal Operators’ Association
Harlan County Coal Operators’ Association of
Hazard Coal Operators Association of
Big Sandy- Elkhorn Coal Operators’ Associal
Coal union contract approved after tense talks in Kentucky
Gov Chandler said 700 to 1500 national guardsmen would be in Harlan county to reopen coal mines without a contract. The joint conference announced the union shop contract was unanimously approved after long debate. The deal, tied to recognizing the United Mine Workers as the exclusive bargaining agent, was endorsed despite dissents from operators in Tennessee Kentucky Virginia and West Virginia.
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Frankfort
A B. Chandler
Beteen
Harlan County
Chandler
Admiral Bristol Dies at 71 in Washington
Rear Admiral Mark L Bristol aged 71 and retired, former high commissioner to Turkey, died unexpectedly at a Washington naval hospital on Saturday.
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Washington
Mark L. Bristol
United States
Turkey
Naval Hospital
Ay Ava
Quotations of Jesus Beyond the Gospels
A reader cites various apocryphal and later texts where Jesus is quoted. It notes Clement of Alexandria, St Matthias, Jerome, Origin, and Justin the Martyr among others, plus papyrus fragments and a Fatehpur mosque inscription, praising the enduring wisdom and moral guidance of such sayings. Dr Newton signs off.
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Jesus
Clement of Alexandria
St. Matthias
Judas
Clement
Jerome
Justin the Martyr
Trypho the Jew
Oxyrhachus
Piketown
Cairo
Fateh-pur-Sikri
Ganges
India
Alexander Duff
Politician Reported Tool of Death Ring in Philadelphia
Joseph Peppe, 37, Democratic city committeeman, was questioned in jail about claims he supplied 11 names to a gang that murdered over 100 people for insurance. Peppe, linked to ward work, faced no charges yet and was held with 24 others under investigation in the wholesale murders case.
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Philadelphia
Joseph Peppe
James Kelly
Peppe
Paul Petrillo
Supply Demand Law Nullifies Individual Right To Be Wrong
Arthur Bugs Baer catalogues a satirical take on a so called supply and demand law. He recalls Jim Farley arguing against repeal while claiming states ready to ratify. Baer mocks the law as unconstitutional abrogating abundance and the right to error, noting its origin in 1929.
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Arthur
Bugs” Baer
Jim Farley
Argentine beef order sparks congressional protest
Western lawmakers denounce President Roosevelt order to buy Argentine canned corned beef for the navy. Senators O Mahoney and Adams urge prohibiting foreign purchases, citing economic and trade tensions. Nebraska and Iowa feeders fear price drops as officials call the move a slap in the face to domestic producers.
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Washington
ATP
Congress
Roosevelt
Navy
O Mahoney
Wyo
Rep
Scrugham
Nev
Adams
Colo
Chicago
D. M. M. Hildebrand
The
United States Livestock Association
Navy Department
Secretary of the Navy
Swanson
Omaha
Nebraska
Iowa
United States Navy
Elmer E. Young
Lexington
Nebr
George T. Cross
Walnut
Slaying Unsolved in Chicago Walkathon Promoter Death
A coroner's jury ruled the April 9 slaying of 52 year old walkathon promoter Charles Hayden as murder by persons unknown. Investigation continues in Chicago.
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Chicago
Charles Hayden
Delay Of British Rulers By Atlantic Fog And Ice
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth were delayed en route to Canada and the United States by thick fog and ice as the Empress of Australia neared Quebec. The royal visit program was revised with events shifted to Tuesday and Wednesday, while Ottawa dinners moved to later dates. The ship faced dense fog and slow progress but was expected to dock at Wolfe's Cove with a planned ceremonial landing.
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Quebec
George VI
Queen Elizabeth
Great Britain
Canada
United States
Australia
House of Commons
Ottawa
Montreal
Lord Tweedsmuir
United Press
Cape Race
Wolfe's Cove
W. L. Mackenzie King
King
Papen Urges Turkey to Balk British Pact
London reports say Franz von Papen attempted a last minute intervention to block Britain and Turkey from finalizing a security accord. Papen warned that Germany would offer Turkey concessions including a Balkan entente if Ankara delayed, while Saracoglu countered that the Turkish deal could lower regional war risk.
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London
TTP
Paron Franz von Papen
Germany
Adolf Hitle
Papen
Turkey
Britain
Sukru Saracoglu
Bulgaria
Saracoglu
Turvey
Mediterranean
U S Dancer Feels Affection For Adolf Hitler
London based report says Miriam Verne a 19 year old Pittsburgh dancer starred in The Merry Widow in Munich and after Hitler praised her dancing she grew to feel affection for the fuhrer. She had previously performed in Melody of the Night in Berlin and contracted to appear in Munich after Hitler helped secure the engagement.
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INS
Miriam Verne
Pittsburgh
Munich
Adolf Hitler
London Daily Sketch
Pennsylvania
Berlin
Metropole Theater
Hitler
Fuhrer
Benes foresees fall of dictatorships from internal revolutions
In Pittsburgh AP report Dr Edward Benes, former president of Czechoslovakia, predicts the inevitable collapse of dictatorship and the restoration of an independent democratic Czechoslovakia. He says regimes in Germany, Russia and Italy may fall due to revolutions within their borders and criticizes Slovak League of America for labeling him a communist.
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Pittsburgh
Eduard Benes
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Russia
Italy
Dr Benes
Slovak League of America
League
Europe
Poland protests Danzig ban on Pilsudski memorial
Poland protested to the Nazi controlled Danzig senate over the Friday night ban on a memorial service for Polish hero Joseph Pilsudski. The Polish army was warned it may act to preserve order if the state of affairs changed. Danzig denied a permit and urged restraint while Polish and German tensions rose amid reports of German influx and paramilitary presence in the Free City.
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Free City
Pilsudski
Free City OF Danzig
Poland
Danzig
Senate
Joseph Pilsudski
Milton Chodacki
Warsaw
Arthur Greiser
Wieczor Warszawski
Germany
Loss Dooms 18-Ounce Baby Girl In Iron Lung
An 18 ounce preemie named Phyllig Theresa Melchiorne died in an iron lung 24 hours after birth in Los Angeles. Dr Jurko Schneider cited respiratory failure as the cause after doctors and nurses fought to save her life. The infant was born to 22 year old Nancy Mclchonne, wife of a laundry worker.
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Los Angeles
Phyllig Theresa Melchiorne
Jurko Schneider
Phyllis
Nancy Mclchonne
Chicago Fire Toll Rises to Nine in Grain Elevator Blaze
A Chicago fire at five grain elevators and contents totaling four million dollars left nine dead, including 28 year old David Marvin an employee. The blaze began Thursday and eight workers remained missing as searches were hindered by continuing smoldering grain.
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Chicago Fire
Chicago
David Marvin
Kennedy Visits Premier at Chequers Home
United States Ambassador Joseph P Kennedy traveled to Chequers to spend the weekend with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain at the country residence.
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London
United States
Joseph P. Kennedy
Chequers
Chamberlain
U S Protest To Japan Over Bombing Of Chinese Civilians
Washington reports that the United States formally protested to Japan over the bombing of civilian centers in China. Secretary Hull said Ambassador Grew conveyed America’s abhorrence of aerial raids on non combatants. The notice notes concern over Japanese occupation of Amoy’s international settlement and possible aims to extend sovereignty.
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Washington
INS
United States
Japan
China
Cordell Hull
Foreign Office
Tokio
Joseph C. Grew
State Department
Hull
Roosevelt
Ambassador Grew
America
Amoy
Expansion of U. S. Air Industry Urged
President Roosevelt's interdepartmental committee on training mechanics urged rapid expansion of aircraft industry training to meet wartime needs. A four point plan calls for immediate apprenticeships in all aircraft factories, expanded public trade schools, government aid to apt youths via youth administration, and reallocation of CCC workers with mechanical ability to aviation training or employment.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
Army Air Corps
Civilian Conservation Corps
Bound and gagged: Amelie Earhart husband found
George Putnam 92, Hollywood publisher and widower of Amelia Earhart, was found bound in an unfinished Kern County house near Bakersfield after claiming he was kidnapped from his North Hollywood home. He said the captors sought the author of The Man Who Killed Hitler and warned him to stop publishing.
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Calif
George Palme Putnam
Hollywood Publishe
Amelie Earhart
North Hollywood
Putnam
Hiller
Los Angeles
Josephin Berger
Re: Cole
Hollywood Actors
Garag
Frida
11 Bodies Found After Russian Patrol Boat Loss
TROMSOE Norway AP report says the Norwegian ship picked up 11 bodies at sea while the incident remains tied to the Russian patrol boat Purga which officials fear foundered in the White Sea with about 200 lives lost.
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Norway
Skanfer
Purga Ha
White Sea
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