Miners Boost Pay of Lewis To $25,000
The United Mine Workers voted to raise president John L. Lewis’s salary from 12 000 to 25 000 a year amid protests from delegates. The move elevates him among top paid labor leaders while observers note it may affect AFL unity. Other raises included officers and editors, with wider wage changes for convention delegates and officials.
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Washington
United Mine Workers Convention
John L. Lewis
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Lewis
Organization of Labor By Industries
Patrick Fagan
Western
Pennsylvania
Ph Murray
Romanennedy
Ellis Searles
Miners' Journal
Rulses
Vere
Snow Blankets Charlestown Area Amid Cold Icy Wake
Snow fell across Wat Virginia with two inches in Lewisburg within ninety minutes. State food crews operated snow plows along the Midland trail in Greenbrier county as temperatures drop toward 10 to 20 degrees. Upper Kanawha River ice began to break while a drifting derrick boat caused bridge wires to break and be recovered near Blainesland.
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Wat Virginia
Lewisburg
Greenbrier
Kanawha
Crown Hill
Pratt and Smith
Blainesland
Iverlord
Mernent
New York Central
Norris Urges Farley Qu ster As Postal Head
Senator Norris of Nebraska called for the removal of James A. Farley as postmaster general and urged President Roosevelt to take postmaster appointments out of cities into civil service. Norris warned millions may not vote for Roosevelt over the post office’s management, while Senator O Mahoney defended the administration.
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Washington
James A. Farley
Sen
Norris
Nebraska
Senate
Roosevelt
Farley
Democratic National Committee
Astairs
Post Office Department
Civil Service
Port Office
O'Mahoney
Wyoming
Post Office Administration
Knox Silent On Candidacy Amid Ohio Kentucky Talks
Knox discussed the 1928 Republican presidential scenario with Ohio and Kentucky party leaders but declined immediate sentiment on his plans. He stated he would not tire into action and would not announce today. Ohio leaders kept details private while Knox weighs the state’s suggestions.
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Cincinnati
Frank Knox
Ohio
Kentucky
East
Chicago
U. S
William E. Borah
Idaho
Knox
Clarence J. Brown
Times Star
Ed Schorr
Brother Comes to Aid Of Mother and Sister
Fayetteville reports detail a 62 year old woman Minnie Coleman held on lunacy charges after accusations of imprisoning her daughter for 22 years in a dark room. Her son John Coleman and brother L C Patterson seek bond and release for the mother as doctors describe the daughter Dama Coleman as emaciated and mentally affected.
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Bulletin
Fayetteville
Minnie Coleman
John Coleman
Cincinnati
L. C. Patterson
Mount Hope
Patterson
Dama Coleman
McKendree Atate Hospital
Ang Bilck Ot Uwree
T. &. Patterson
Minnie Culeman
O. R. Kinecaid
Tony
Mame
Kincaid
Star Forty Million Times Heavier Than Earth Is Found
In Cambridge Harvard College Observatory reports the discovery of the heaviest star known to astronomy. It weighs 40 million times Earth and 70 times the sun, an eclipsing binary named 28 Canis Majoris. Its two celestial giants orbit to hide each other, at about ten million miles apart, 22 times the sun's radius. Light from the star, traveling at 186,224 miles per second, takes 20,000 years to reach Earth.
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Cambridge
Mas
Harvard College Observatory
Serge J. Gapowickin
Perpetual Youth Seeker Claims Startling Discovery
Vienna reports Prof. Eugen Steinach announces a reversible rejuvenation operation targeting brain and heart tissues and notes potential limits. He describes removing sex gland function to alter hormone production as part of the claimed process.
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Perpetual Youth Seeker
U. S
Vienna
Eugen Steinach
Steinach
Strinkely
Plan of Duce puzzles many in ao revealing article
In a quoted outlook from war correspondent Karl Von Weene, the piece notes Italy’s 1936 invasion of Ethiopia and questions why Mussolini’s forces have not yet seized the lone railway to Addis Ababa. The report emphasizes Italian strategic restraint and ongoing military actions as of February 6, 1936.
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Kall
von Wiegand
Ween
Americar
Benin
Muxaalint
Ethiopia
Karl It. von
U.S
Asmara
Enirea
Italy
Haa
Addis Ababa
Cold Rain Delays Rescue Efforts Across Dixie
Severe weather hampered relief work as new rains spread across Alabama Mississippi and north Georgia. Floods threaten embankments and inundate lowlands washing away hundreds of homes. No new deaths reported but disease fears grow in flood swept areas.
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Birmingham
Ala
Usi
Dixie
Alabama
Mississippi
Georgia
Veteran returns from death to claim bonus in San Jose
Disabled veteran from San Jose reappears to claim his bonus at the local office. He says a government notice of his death in action in France was sent to his mother, and that he survived hospitalization without the report reaching his family. He asserts his honorable discharge and questions the handling of his death notice.
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San Jose
Cal
Jin
Peter Verde
Sissons
Verde
Vic
Thal
Ron
Frigid blast eased by new snow across central regions
Snow swept the western plains easing the deep freeze in many areas while North Dakota Minnesota and Iowa faced renewed arctic cold. Kirksville Missouri logged its 50th below zero day and New Jersey endured a 21st straight subfreezing day. Minneapolis set a 37 year low record at minus 24 with 20 days below zero in 1936. Fatalities from weather and fires neared five hundred since January.
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Chicago
North Dak
Minnesota
Iowa
Mackenzie Basin
Kirkaville
New Jersey
Minneapolis
Fairmont
Mina
Willow City
America
Dixie
Chesapeake Bay
Tangier
Chrysler Business in 1935 Reported Beat in History
NEW YORK, Feb. 6. Chrysler corporation today increased the dividend for a share from 75 cents in the previous quarter. The company and subsidiaries earned 36,375, AI after charges, compared with 934 earnings of $9.53¢036. Last year's profits were equal to $6.07 a share compared with $2.19 in the prior year. Net income for 1838 is the highest ever recorded by Chrysler and compares with the 1828 net of 530,891,785, the previous high point. The dividend is payable March 1 to stock of record March 2.
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New York
Chrysler Corporation
Corporation
Fix
Chrysler
State victory in Lost Laws habeas case at Huntsville
Convicts who cited a missing 130 laws in 32 pages from the Texas Penal code sought habeas corpus for freedom from a two year incest sentence. District Judge S. W. Dean refused, saying a judge cannot nullify a crime law due to omissions. He urged legislative action to correct the missing sections.
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Huntsville
Tex
W. Dean
T. J. Copeland
Dean
Lawa
A. T. McKinary
Counland
G-Men Bar Reopening Lindbergh Case Probe
U S Attorney General Cummings refuses to let G men reenter the Lindbergh kidnap investigation despite New Jersey requests. He says Hauptmann conviction closes the case and only facilities may be used. Hoover and state police chief Schwarzkopf were rejected.
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Washington
Bruno Hauptmann
Atty
Cummings
New Jersey
Universal Service
War Material Profit Figures From Senate Hearing
Washington Feb 6 a senate munitions committee report cites a 2 010 000 profit on an 11 500 000 order for New York Shipbuilding company and notes a 48 000 000 government prep for lighting implements. Charles H Spencer IC head of valuation testifies on costs across private and public yards and estimates reproduction costs for machine guns aircraft and explosives. He asserts private ship costs run higher and outlines potential 1935 program vessel mix and plant duplications including Colt Firearms duPont and other firms.
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Washington
New York Shipbuilding Company
Senate Munitions Committee
Charles H. Spencer
Valuat Iog
Interstate Commerce Commission
Prvel
Colt Patent Firearms Company
Peatt-Whitney Aircraft Company
Chance Vought Company
United Airports Inc
Vandenberg
FDR Aides Map Slash In Spending Unions Call Off General Shut-Down
Life returned to normal in Perin Illinois after a 22 hour citywide strike led by trades and labor assembly rulers to force dismissal of Police Chief Harry Donahue. Business leaders backed a swift reopen, prompting a labor conference and lifting the moratorium on commerce. Major Schurman hailed the “clear cut victory” and Pekin shops reopened as food and fuel moved in and markets resumed normal operation.
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Perin
Ill
Trades and Labor Assembly
Harry Donahue
W.B. Schurman
Pekin
William Schoenberg
American Federation of Labor
Roosevelt eyes smaller tax bill amid recovery plans
President Roosevelt directed his aides to reveal planned expenditures of 500 million dollars as Democratic leaders warn against a large general tax bill this session. Officials discussed farm program funding and retroactive taxes, hoping to avoid heavy new taxes while shaping a six billion dollar financing plan for the next 17 months.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Treasury
White House
Doughton
N.C
House
Ways and Means
Vic
Public Works
Works Progress
Jesse H. Jones
The
Reconstruction Corporation
RFC
Joana
Justice Department Aftor
AAA
Boughton
Bankhead D. Ala
Student Offers To Sell Himself For College Aid
US1 Peter Mangano of LSU, a 20 year old pre med student from Chicago, offered to sell five years of his life to finance his education after claiming no funds for books or living costs. He currently lacks textbooks and relies on class notes and library references while living hand to mouth along the Mississippi levee. There were no takers for the unusual proposal.
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Mangano
Mississippi
Louisiana
Chicago
Child Prodigy Writes Types Poems Gets Published
New York reports six year old Janet Chapline Elder writes and types poems on a full sized typewriter and has them published in her school paper at Coney Stand. A precocious student with an IQ of 137 at age four she reads with advanced vocabulary and contemplates a future in movies to fund her family. Janet enjoys poetry but aims for financial security for her parents.
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New York
Nathalia Crane
Janet Chapline Elder
Janet
Toda
Archool
Coney Stand
Laura R. Elder
Elder
Trial for two doctors set for February seventeenth
San Francisco reports that Dr. T E Tillman and Dr. Samuel G Boyd face preliminary hearings February 17 in the case tied to heiress Miss Hewitt who alleges a sterilization operation aimed at depriving her inheritance from Peter Cooper Hewitt. District Attorney Matthew Brady and a health department psychiatrist feature in the proceedings.
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San Francisco
Ann Cooper Haw
Matthew Brady
T. E. Tillman
Sylvaine Lazerut
Samuel G. Boyd
Misa Hewitt
Maryon Cooper Hewiitt
Brady
Miss Hewitt
San Francisco Health Department
Peter Cooper Hewith
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Robert Quillen
Farley Quster
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G-Men
Hoover
Navy Yard
FDR
U. Ss
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