Miners and Operators Clash Over Exit Date in Coal Talks
AP reports the Appalachian coal wage talks ended the week in deadlock over adjournment with miners accusing operators of planning a lockout. Charles ONeill said a shutdown costs big money and operators favor a long term contract, while Philip Murray blamed tactics and insisted no shutdown during negotiations.
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New York
United Mine Workers of America
Charles O'Neill
Philip Murray
Appalachian
Murray
Oneill
Youth Confesses To Kidnap Slaying in Milton
Sheriff said 20 year old Harvey McGraw of Pensacola confessed to abducting and killing two Montgomery men, Clifford Mann and Charles Wilkinson, after forcing them to drive from a Georgiana filling station. Bodies found tied face to face near Milton. McGraw arrested on a train at Chipley.
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Milton, Fla
John Harrell
Harvey McGraw
Pensacola
Fla
Montgomery
Ala
Clifford T. Mann
Charles Wilkinson
Georgiana
Milton- Brewton
McGraw
Chipley
Harrell
Hitler in Prague At Hradcany Castle Meeting Officers
A radiophoto from Berlin to New York shows Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler in Prague with staff officers at Hradcany castle after German troops occupied Bohemia and Moravia. General Wilhelm Keitel faces the camera while Col. Gen. Walther von Brauchitsch stands beside Hitler.
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Hitl
Berlin
New York
Murphy Named By Democrats Pledging a business and law enforcement revival
Democrats in Charleston nominating convention named P. H. Murphy for mayor with Joseph Popp Jr for city treasurer and J. A. Bibby Jr for police judge. West side figures W. H. Belsches and George Singleton among council at large nominees. The platform targets Mayor Dawson's record, vows strict law enforcement and fiscal retrenchment to reduce taxes.
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Charleston
P. H
Pat” Murphy
West Side
House of Delegates
Joseph Popp, Jr
State Tax Commissioner's Office
J. A. Bibby, Jr
W. H. Belsches
George Singleton
P. T. Beard, Jr
J. E. Roberts
W. M. Woodroe
John Cork
Dawson
Democratic Party
New High Attendance At Gazette Cooking School
About 2,500 homemakers attended the final Gazetter cooking school session at WCHS auditorium. Miss Charlie Mae Elliott of the national livestock and meat board led the lecture on Foods for friends at company time. She demonstrated a crown roast of pork and a Frenched leg of lamb with serving tips and garnishes.
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Gazette
WCHS
The
Charlie Mae Elliott
National Livestock and Meat Board
Miss Elliott
Shamrock Village Lacks Irish Inhabitants on St Patrick Day
Shamrock Pennsylvania at the heart of Dutch country reported no residents in traditional Irish dress or celebration on St Patrick's Day. The small village bore the absence of Irish speakers or revelers as residents marked the day quietly.
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Shamrock
Pennsylvania
Mighty St Patrick Parade Draws Thousands in New York
The 165th infantry led the march as Monsignor Lavelle served as grand marshal. Notables including Alfred E. Smith and James A. Farley reviewed the parade along Fifth Avenue from Forty-fourth Street to Harlem amid bands, banners, and a crowd selling green carnations and shamrocks.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
St. Patrick's Day
Forty-fourth Street
Midtown
Rockfeller Center
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Central Park
Harlem
Killarney
Erin
Tara’s Hall
Michael J. Lavelle
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Patrick Cardinal Hayes
Stephen J. Donahue
Archdiocese of New York
165Th Infantry
National Guard
Alfred E. Smith
Francis Parnell Murphy
New Hampshire
John J. Powell
Ancient Order of Hibernians
Canada
James A. Farley
Charles Poletti
Lehman
Pierson Wins Treasury Race In City Primary
In a Republican primary Roy H. Pierson defeated John D. Price for city treasurer by more than two to one while Mayor Dawson led the ticket with 7,862 votes of 18,256 cast. Incumbents and nominees for council at large and ward seats were listed with unofficial tallies.
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Roy H. Pierson
John D. Price
de van
Dawson
Carl L. Davis
George Byers
Homer H. Henson
Harry Silverstein
George J. Huber
S. Spencer Moore,and Company
Charles B. Young
Superior Laundry Company
W. E. Moore
W. B. Tincher
Emory C. Todd
Robert G. Raisbeck
Cyrus W. Hall
Clell S. Sayre
J. G. Hall
C. B. Horn
Arlie E. Litton, Jr
L. E. Sharp
Harry L. Mathews
James G. Carper
J. Carl Casdorph
Otis A. Vandine
J. Hansford Fisher
Charles G. High
Lonnie M. Taylor
S. J. Richard
Fred Walls
Death of Gov Fitzgerald Shifts 1940 Michigan Politics
Washington report says Governor Frank D. Fitzgerald's death reshapes confidence for the 1940 GOP field in the Middle West. Analysts note a possible Fitzgerald placing on the Republican ticket and discuss Dewey versus Vandenberg factions as the party rethinks strategy amid farmer and small-town voter sentiment on strikes.
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Washington
Frank D. Fitzgerald
Michigan
Middle West
Fitzgerald
Sen. Vandenberg
Murphy
U S Refuses to Recognize Czech Conquest by Germany
The State Department declares the U S will not recognize Czech lands seized by Germany and Hungary. The Treasury cancels tariff concessions from Bohemia Moravia and Slovakia under the Czechoslovak reciprocal trade pact. Blacklist duties apply to products labeled Made in Germany with imports from the overrun Czech provinces subject to further guidance.
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Washington
INS
State Department
U. S
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Hungary
Treasury
Bohemia
Moravia
Slovakia
Ruthenia
Czech
White House
London
Roosevelt
Eduard Benes
Chicago
SEC Will Study Small Business Credit Needs
The Securities and Exchange Commission will conduct a thorough study of the credit needs of small business as part of the recovery program. It will assess capital needs and loan impediments, noting complaints that banks and the RFC are not meeting demand. No legislative recommendations will be made until the study ends.
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Washington
INS
Securities and Exchange Commission
Congress
RFC
SEC
Roosevelt Wears Green For St. Patrick Day
President Roosevelt appeared in a green tweed suit and shamrock for St. Patrick's Day during a Friday press conference. He noted colleagues in the Capitol also wore green carnations as Vice President Garner opened the Senate with a green boutonniere.
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Washington
INS
St. Patrick
White House
Roosevelt
Erin
Capitol Hill
Garner
Senate
Daladier Wins Broad Powers Vote For Emergency Dictatorship
Paris reports the French finance committee approved 26 to 17 a law granting Premier Daladier and his cabinet emergency dictatorial powers to confront the European crisis. Mussolini warned and the measure aims to swiftly strengthen France's war machine and industries amid fears of Italian German drives on French colonies.
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Paris
INS
Chamber of Deputies
Edouard Daladier
Mussolini
Daladier
France
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Czecho- Slovakia
Italy
Byrd Attacks Federal Reserve and Eccles in Senate
Sen. Byrd labeled the Federal Reserve Board a propaganda arm for administration spending and accused chairman Marriner S. Eccles of promoting reckless waste. He sought to force Eccles to declare if the board endorses higher spending or speaks for its own fiscal views.
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Washington
Sen
Byrd
Senate
Federal Reserve Board
Marriner S. Eccles
Virginian
Reserve Board
Congress
Vati
Roosevelt
Eccles
Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve System
Holt Signs Last of Bills Bypassing Vetoes
Gov Holt let the last acts of the 44th legislature become law at midnight after 6 pm without signature. Only one measure faced Holt veto a state sinking fund investment rule vetoed for omitting bond limits and required majority approval. The fair trades act bans selling commodities below cost and adds transport costs with a seven percent markup.
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Holt
Commission
Fuehrer Adolf Hitler Visits Vienna amid Triumphs
Hitler rode into Vienna from Bohemia and Moravia aboard a special train as crowds cheered and saluted. He appeared on a hotel balcony, while banners decorated the city to mark Austria’s anniversary of Anschluss. Officials expected a Berlin return. Bratislava was said to come under German protection.
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Vienna
Adolf Hitler
Bohemia and Moravia
Fuehrer
Bruenn
Moravia
Germany
Giacomo Puccini
Berlin
Bratislava
Slovakia
Hlinka
Tax Revision Plan Due Soon
Treasury reports early March income tax receipts of 132.7 million, about 25 percent below the same period last year. President Roosevelt says the tax study remains in the fact finding stage and policy decisions will follow after March 15 figures.
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Washington
Treasury
Roosevelt
Seventeenth Baby Born Near Comfort near St Francis
Mrs. W. A. Estep of Comfort went 17 miles to St Francis hospital yesterday as signs of her seventeenth baby appeared. A daughter named Frances Patricia, seventh teenh Smisko case, arrived at St Francis with nurses present.
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W. A. Estep
Comfort
St. Francis Hospital
Catherine Smisko
Frances Patricia
Sts. Francis and Patrick
Appeasement Declared Dead in Britain on Eve of 70th Birthday
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain condemned Hitler as a pledge-breaker and warned Britain would resist any threat to liberty. He recalled Sir Nevile Henderson for consultations, denied resignation rumors, and faced a rousing Birmingham crowd after Munich and Czechoslovakia events.
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London
Neville Chamberlain
Britain
Germany
Chamberlain
Hitler
Munich
Nevile Henderson
Berlin
Birmingham
Europe
Czecho-Slovakia
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