Newspaper Code Aims Higher Wages For Press Here
The American Newspaper Publishers Association proposes a recovery administration code for newspaper operations. It sets hours and minimum wages above blanket standards, protects existing contracts, and reserves constitutional free press rights. It restricts under sixteen labor except for news delivery, limits weekly hours for office and factory workers, and outlines exceptions for management and highly skilled positions. Continue on Page Six.
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Washington
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Recovery Administration
Acreca
Rist
Prison Work Plans Discussed at State Penitentiary
Charleston August 8 McClintic and the state board of control discussed solving problems at the penitentiary as 1000 prisoners face discharge next month due to expiring factory contracts They will study better care for about 100 tubercular convicts and consider the state purchasing a farm to employ prisoners in producing food for state institutions and other needs The plan aims to keep inmates productively occupied and reduce disruptions in state services.
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Charleston
Board of Control
Warner G. F. McClintic
McClintic
Balbo's Italian Armada Begins Ocean Flight to Azores
Eugene S. Daniels Jr. of Somerville Mass was arrested in New York as an alleged leader of a plot to close the New York Stock Exchange by releasing tear gas bombs in the building.
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Eugene S. Daniels, Jr
Somarville
Mass
New York
New York Stock Exchange
Associates Press
Italian Air Armada Heads Toward Azores from Shoal Harbor
Mackay Radio reports Balbo's seaplane squadron 450 miles from Shoal Harbor and 300 miles from Horta Azores as it nears the islands en route to Lisbon. The 24 aircraft split landings at Port and Ponta Delgada, then continue toward Europe.
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New York
Mackay Radio Company
Italo Balbo
Horta
Azores
B.S. T
Maclay Radio
Shoal Harbor
Idlo Bi
Port
Ponta, Delgada
Bold couple in insurance racket plots in Brooklyn
Brooklyn police arrest Edward Kenney and Flo Palmer Flynn on murder charges tied to an insurance scheme. They allegedly conspired to kill Silas Flynn and collected 1400 dollars in life insurance. Both deny links to the killings of Flynn, Mrs Diamond, and chauffeur James Dolan, while alibi discrepancies surface.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Virs
Jack
Legs) Diamond
Edward Kenney
Flo Palmer Flynn
Silas Flynn
Flynn
Drug Incorporated Plans Dissolution and Five New Firms
Wilmington Delaware August 8 A P report states Drug Incorporated of New York City will dissolve and split its assets into five new Delaware corporations. No stock opposed the plan approved by directors last June. A dissolution certificate will be filed later this month to formalize the formation of the five entities.
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Wilmington
Del
Drug, Incorporated
New York City
Delaware
Helsley challenges Rush Holt to public utilities debate
Berkeley Springs on August 8 Senator J. E. Helsley challenged Delegate Rush D. Holt to a public debate on utilities. Holt, at a public meeting, criticized the senate as controlled by utilities and cited the defeat of a house resolution to extend his committees inquiry after adjournment.
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Berkeley Springs
J. E. Helsley
Rush D. Holt
Weston
House
Holt
Senate
Western oil output drops in Oklahoma and Texas
Oklahoma and Texas oil fields reduced production last week, pulling the national daily average down by 24,411 barrels to 2,721,955. Eastern fields rose slightly from 110,000 to 113,000 barrels.
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Tulsa
Okla
Oklahoma
Texas
Oil and Gas Journal
Thieves Loot Weston Meat Market in East Second Street
Thieves entered the Blair and Morrison meat market on East Second street at an early Sunday hour and carried off about $200 in cash and checks along with other papers from the safe and all but seven pennies from the cash register. Local authorities report no clues to the culprits.
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Weston
Blair and Morrison
East Second Street
Gas Pipe Attack Leads to Arrests in City Holdup
Charles Carr, 60, of East Wilford street, a Baltimore and Ohio Railroad employee, was robbed near Long and Luzadder streets at 11 30 p m. Two men, described as tall and slender and short and stout, struck him with a gas pipe. Remlinger and England were later named as suspects after Remlinger signed a confession. Police and state troopers investigated. 18 inch gas pipe and muslin wrap found at scene.
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Charles Carr
East Wilford Street
Baltimore & Onn Railroad Company
Harry Remlinger
Stephen England
Long
Luzadder Streets
Remlinger
Mr. Carr
Luzadder
Carr
Long Street
Karl Glenn
Franklin Furbee
Washington Streets
Joseph Mask
Demos
Moran
Helms
Henderson
Hefner
England
Police chase car carrying girl captive along Lincoln highway
Philadelphia police issued a general alarm for a car containing three men and a girl held with tape over her mouth after a wild chase along the Lincoln highway. Two officers first spotted the vehicle on the city’s western edge and pursued it three miles westward before losing sight of it in Ardmore. Statewide alert followed.
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Philadelphia
Lincoln Highway
Ardmore
N R A RACKETS ATTACKED BY GENERAL HUGH JOHNSON
Washington views renewed push to end the bituminous coal strike in Pennsylvania. Recovery administrator Hugh S Johnson orders Edward F McGrady to Uniontown to urge miners to accept last week’s terms and return to work. McGrady will then travel to Springfield and Lynn Massachusetts to press industrial peace with employers and workers in the boot industry.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
Hugh 8
Johnson
Edward F. McGrady
American Federation of Labor
McGrady
Springfield
Lynn
Mass
Coat With No Bullet Holes Furnishes Police With Clue
New York August 8 a meagre clue a coat with no bullet holes started police to work on a theory that railroad executive Henry P Sanborn was not slain at the spot where his body was found The body was buried in a shallow Bayside Queens grave and bore bullet wounds Police inspector John J Gallagher suspects blackmail or a robbery motive Sanborn had 533 on his person and family suspects a trap in connection with a gold brick scheme The lawyer criticized a suggestion of feminine angles
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New York
Henry P. Sanborn
Bayside
Queens
John J. Gallagher
Sanborn
Swift Cuba unrest in Havana prompts army withdrawal
Across Havana the capital quieted as the army withdrew after a day of firing that left at least 21 dead and more than 120 wounded. Demonstrations followed reports Machado would quit, while U.S. Ambassador Sumner Welles pressed for a peaceful plan. In Athens, four men confessed gun running from UGA arsenal with arms sold to Cuban rebels.
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Havana
Cuba
Machado
Sumner Willes
U, 8
Athens
W. G. Hawkins
United States
University of Georgia Military Department
Curban
John Fuller
Paul Sorrow
George Kinard
Hawkins
Goosh
Ath
All Set for Big Kiwanis Merchants Picnic
City plans a noon closing for a large outdoor Kiwanis Merchants picnic at Grafton City Park. A band concert runs 1 to 2 PM, greased pole contest at 2, motorboat racing at 2:30, with watermelon eating, fat man’s race, swimming and a greasy pie contest also on the program.
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Grafton
Annual Seneca Rocks Meet Opens August 10
Petersburg reports the seventh annual meeting of the Seneca Rocks Smoke Hole Association will run August 10 to 12 at Seneca Park. The program starts 10 30 in the morning August 10 with music and an address by Dr. J B Grove of the state road commission on fishing and connecting links, and A J Welton of Petersburg on Rotte No 42.
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Petersburg
Seneca. Rocks Smoke ‘Hole Association
Seneca ,Park Grounds
J. B.’ Grove
State Road Commission
A. J. Welton
Pet’ Jersbore
Union Mine Workers back to work in Pa coal fields
In Uniontown Pennsylvania on August 8 more than 100 locals representing about 20000 miners voted unanimously to return to work in southwestern Pennsylvania soft coal pits. Edward F McGrady labor adviser to the national recovery administration urged support for Roosevelt recovery program. McGrady flew from Washington to address workers as crowds gathered outside. President Roosevelt was praised as the crowd cheered his name and officials pledged to resolve grievances and maintain the agreement between operators and the administration.
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Uniontown
United Mine Workers
Pennsylvania
Edward F. McGrady
National
Roosevelt
McGrady
Washington
McGrad
William Feeney
Union District No. 4
Martin Ryan
Colonial No. 4
United States
Mi Y
Airmen Seek License for Rebuilt Plane at Bolling Field
Four enlisted men at Bolling Field seek licenses to begin flight training after rebuilding a battered aircraft. Sergeant Tennyson M. Craft of Great Cacapon West Virginia, Corporal James H. Dodge of Deer Park Maryland, Private Preston Lee of West Virginia, and another Private are named in the effort aiming to obtain permission to fly.
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Washington
Bolling Field
Tennyson M. Craft
Great Cacapon
W. Va
James H. Dodge
Deer Park
Preston Lee
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Balbo
Shoal Harbor, N.F
New Yorker
Diamond
Helsley
Rush Holt
Aieeta Flemming
West Andover
C. H. Blanche
Mortis Flemming
Associated Press
Hugh Johnson
Kiwanis
Geneca
Grafton _ Kiverils
Curtis T. Lambert
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