Deadlock Over Wages Bill Delays Congress Action
Washington Aug 11 AP Congressional forces clash with President Roosevelt over wage and hour legislation amid delays on crop loans and a stalled crop control law. Senate rejection of the Wagner anti lynching bill fuels postponement as party leaders seek votes and limit debate.
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Roosevelt
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Charley West
White House
Congressions
Capitol Hil
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O'Connor
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Battle For Air Mail Continues in Charleston and Huntington
Civic leaders of Charleston and Huntington urged immediate restoration of airmail and passenger service. They met with Sen. Wi. M. Neely and Rep. George W. Johnson alongside Harled Branch, second assistant postmaster general in charge of airmail, protesting continued service discontinuances and citing a commerce bureau ruling related to equipment limits.
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Charleston
Huntington
Post Office Department
Wi. M. Neely
George W. Johnson
Harled Branch
Bureau of the Commerce
Lynching Bill Delays Senate Action in Aug 11 Session
In Washington on August 11 the Wagner Van Nuyne anti lynching bill triggered a Senate debate plan disruption. A revolt led by Republicans forced a recess and a 36 to 1 vote to resume tomorrow, signaling a battle over a bill holding counties responsible for lynching related crimes and punishing officers who fail to protect prisoners or prosecute mobs.
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Senate
Congress
Rosana
McNary
House
SIL
Court Bill Sent To White House
Congress sent the lower court procedure bill to the White House for President Roosevelt to sign, ending a half year dispute over judicial reorganization. The House approved the conference report without a recorded vote, joining the Senate. No opposition voiced. several members shouted no on the voice vote.
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Judiciary Committee
UAW Pickets Ford Plant Amid Rain in Dearborn
In a drenching rain about 1000 United Automobile Workers members massed at the gates of the Dearborn Ford factory to hand out union literature as 130 city policemen and 18 state troopers watched for violence. Ford workers streamed in and out while one flare of trouble occurred when two workers tore and tossed copies of the Ford edition of the union paper. The UAW, linked to John L Lewis's CIO, had been told to avoid Ford property during the dispute over the overpass situation.
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Prayroua
United Automobile’ Workers Union
Dearborn
Ford
Frank Murphy
UAW
John L. Lewin’ Committee For Industrial Organization
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President Unshaken In Destroyer Dispute
Washington reports say President Roosevelt remains firm over Brazil's request for six US destroyers. Senate committee plans Walsh resolution to empower ending overage worships to Latin American applicants. Johnson calls policy cockeyed as Argentine and Chilean envoys seek State Department explanations.
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Roosevelt
Brazil
U. S
Pittman
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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Oittmaly
Sen. Johnson
California
Wells
Felipe Espil
Manuel Trucco
Department
Freddie Bartholomew Alleged Contract Clash Over Child Star
Freeman guardian claims Freddie Bartholomew was imported from England to become a cinema star and that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer violated English child labor law. The affidavit alleges Freddie was selected for David Copperfield and brought from London to New York, with offers of higher pay from another studio.
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Angeles
Freddie Bartholomew
England
Freddie
Bartholomew
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
David Copperfield
New Yar
London
Hartholomew
Fred
Mystery Deaths Probed Comely Blonde Sought
Cincinnati police report a string of elderly deaths and illnesses linked to Anna Hahn 31. Colorado authorities seek warrants for murder and larceny tied to George Obendoerfer 87, a Cincinnati cobbler, while investigators probe Hess 63 and others. Autopsy awaited.
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Cincinnati
Anna Hahn
Waller Hart
Colorado
Colorado Springs
George Obendoerfer
Bok
Hahn
George Hess
Patrick Hayes
Hayes
Hess
Falsoning
Oloradotrice
Railroad Men Seek Pay Hike
CHICAGO Aug 11 Representatives of five operating railroad brotherhoods pressed for a 20 percent wage reduction to a conference with specialists for the nation’s carriers. About 250 union delegates, empowered to call roughly 300,000 members out on strike, met 15 negotiators for rail management in a closed session. After adjournment, H A Enochs of Pennsylvania Railroad said little about outcomes, noting the need for brotherhood leaders to understand railroad problems. Officials estimate a 20 percent raise would lift major carriers’ payrolls by about 106 million dollars.
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Railines
H. A. Enochs
Pennsylvania Railroad
United Fuel Wins Permit for Gas Line to West Virginia Border
The public service commission approved United Fuel Gas to build a line from Cedarville Glimer County to Majorville Marshall County costing about $2 million. Gas sales will be to Manufacturers' Light and Heat for Pittsburgh area resale. Construction to start immediately with a compressor station at Glenville. The order prioritizes domestic and commercial needs of West Virginia customers over others.
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United Fuel Gas Company
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Pennsylvania
United Fuel
Cedarville
Glimer County
Majorville
Marshall County
Light and Heat Company
Pittsburgh
Glenville
Gilmer County
United Fuel Gaz Company
New C&O Head Opens on Federal Regulation Support
Robert R. Young, who lately gained control of America's largest rail network, told Senate investigators he would welcome legislation to put his grant holding companies under federal regulation. He pledged to cooperate with the Interstate Commerce Commission to reorganize the 100 plus entities for the public interest as a Baltimore court challenge aimed to block his merger proceeds.
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Washington
Robert R. Young
America
Senate
Senate Railway Finance Committee
Sne
van Sweringen Wetp
Finander
Interstate Commerce Commission
Young
India
Federal District Court
Baltimore
Thief
Alleghany
Chesapeake Corporatione
New York
Tri- Continental
Selected Industries
Chesapeake Corporation
Mav Lowenthal
Committee Coun
Flashes and Oddities In Wires And Courts Across Cities
A Dallas holdup tale has detectives surprised as Fred Moore reports two robbers woke him with a pistol and took money after closing time. In Chicago a Northwestern Law Dean speed ticket led to a light verdict by Judge Braude. A strange sewer explosion in May killed Alf Day, with a coroner’s jury unable to determine the exact cause of the blast.
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Tex
Fred Moore
Chicago
Deon Reer Green
Northwestern University
Law School
J. M. Braude
Dean Green
Alf
Mayor suspends Fire Chief for failure to paint car red
Council Bluffs Iowa August 11 mayor William Guilfoyle served notice on Fire Chief William Grote giving five days to follow orders or be suspended for 30 days without pay. The mayor demanded the chief paint his mechanic's automobile red instead of blue, which had been painted.
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Council Bluffs, Is
William Guilfoyle
William Grote
Bitter Fighting Shakes Teruel Rebels Advance
Madrid dispatch reports renewed heavy clashes on the Teruel front east of Madrid as government forces retreat under concentrated air and artillery fire. The army claims Insurgents repulsed at Casablanca while Franco uses artillery and planes to bomb Segovia amid alleged unrest.
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Teruel
Francisco Franco
Madrid-Valencia
Frias de Albarracin
Casablanca
Estramadura
Jenka
Franco
Segovia
Resumption Sparks Silk Mill Back-To-Work Moves
In Paterson New Jersey Aug 1 unions report back-to-work in parts of Pennsylvania silk and rayon industry as CIO wage demands halt quick settlements. Union estimates of resumed workers vary while New York City area activity involves Sidney Hillman and about 100000 workers affected by new agreements. Allentown PA sees 2006 others resume as TWOC director notes six thousand.
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Paterson, N. J
Pennsylvania
Passaic Valey
New York
Sidney Hillman
C. I. O.'n Textile Workers Organizing Committee
Allentown
Reuben Bloch
TWOC
Child's Marriage Ordered Annulled in Court
In Pittsburgh area an 11 or 14 year old girl testified in common pleas that she eloped with 27 year old Joseph Mecura after a June auto ride from Ta Rentum. Married at Wellsburg West Virginia, she returned to her parents two days later and her guardians filed for annulment. Judge James H Gray ordered the marriage annulled, noting the union clearly illegal.
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Tittsburgh
Elizabeth Macura
Joseph Mecura
Bho
Tarentum
James Hf. Gray
Wellsburg
W. Va
Elizabeth
Johny FR. Grant
Mlegat
Gray
Japs Claim Huge Victory In Peiping Offensive
Japanese forces report a major victory near Peiping as war widens Japan mobilizes naval, land and air power for an imminent attack on Shanghai Chinese authorities deny withdrawal and civilians seek evacuation US consulate frantically tries to reach Shanghai mayor amid mounting tensions near Nankow pass fighting rages with hundreds of casualties and widespread shelling and fires along the great wall segment
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Japan
Peiping
China
Warchipd
Anita
Nankow Pass
Great Wall
Nankow
Cotor
Chahar
Suiyuan
Page
Fari
Nipponese Infantry Starts Major Drive
Nipponese infantry began an offensive at Nankow Pass northwest of Peiping under heavy artillery support. The Domei agency says the 89th division of the Nanking central government army faced the attack as Chinese forces held positions along the Great Wall since Wednesday with warnings of aerial and motorized units to be used if Chinese moved toward Feiping.
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Tokyo
Nankow Pass
Peiping
Domei
China
Nanking
Great Wall
Feiping
72 Wreckers Executed in Siberia Under War Measures
MOSCOW August 11 72 alleged wreckers were executed bringing total reported executions in Russia to 320. East Siberian Pravda says the band of Trotskyists rightists worked with the Japanese secret service to disrupt Siberian rail transport. The accused were charged with causing a train wreck that killed 14 and injured many workers and families amid wartime production drives across the Soviet Union.
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Moscow
Irkutak
East Siberian
Pravda
Siberian
Secret Service
Fersons
Heavy Rains Fail To Relieve Heat Across Regions
Heavy rains drenched the coast and middlewest delivering showers of over two inches in places but failed to ease heat and humidity. Disruptions included washed-out roads at Alma Wisconsin washouts delaying trains near Kellogg Minnesota and power outages of communication at Winona and Albert Lea. A thunderbolt killed a ten-year-old boy on an East River dock in New York City and a lightning strike toppled the 130-foot Edison Memorial tower in Menlo Park New Jersey as Detroit reported one of its heaviest showers of the season.
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Middlewest
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Winona
Albert Lea
Minn
Alma
Wis
Kellogg
Detroit
New York City
Menlo Park
N. J
Evolution Spanking Case May Be Taken to Court
In Wayne County Pennsylvania a rural school board will decide next Friday if teacher Laura Elms Morris can be reinstated after pupils testified she taught evolution and used corporal punishment. Her attorney says the case may be settled in court under the new teacher tenure act.
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Waynesburg
Gy Country “School Marm
Jey Township
Laura Elms Morris
Cehildren
Pennsylvania
Aother
Green
Hatchet Is Buried In Tygart Strike
ELKINS August 11 Hatchet is buried as workers resume at Tygart valley resettlement project after two week strike over alleged inefficiency. W H Eubank says normal operations will begin as 24 new houses under construction are completed. Some executives reassigned and nonstrikers refuse to join peace pact until leader leaves community.
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Elkins
Tygart Valley
W. H. Eubank
Washington
Ater Bo
Resettlement Administration
Adminisration
Atrikeya
Robert Z. Willson
L. Q. Baker
Cr. Heckect
Mito Perking
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