Steel code changes spark steel industry adjustments
Steel magnates prepare to adjust operations to meet NRA code for shorter hours and higher pay. Prices for products to be filed with the Steel Institute within ten days of Roosevelt signature, with 40 hour weeks and minimums varying by district. Details on bargaining rights and 8 hour day follow.
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Washington
Fan and Steel Institute
Institutes
Roosevelt
Pittsburgh
Youngstown
North Ohio River
Detroit-Toledo
Chicago
Colorado
Steel Chieftains
Steel
Frazier Faces Hangs For Slaying Deputy in Gun Battle
Ripley August 21 two men were sentenced for slaying deputy Roy L. Shamblin in a gun battle near Kenna. Leo Frazier, 30, Charlebarring, faces execution November 24 while Charles Harper, 21, Huntington, receives life imprisonment. Both sped to the penitentiary at Moundsville after swift Jackson county trials. Frazier admitted firing on the officer’s car and killing Harper’s brother Ralph, but his reasons were ruled out in court.
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Ripley
Jackson County
Moundsville
Kenna
Leo Frazier
Charle
Supreme Court of Executive Clemency
Charles Harper
Huntington
Roy L. Shamblin
Kanawlunty
Ralph
Frazier
Charleston-Ripley
Ralph Harper
Harper
Lewis H. Miller
Kump orders probe into welfare boards in unemployment drive
Governor Kump directs Francis W. Turner to survey local welfare boards and rout out politics and inefficiency while reforming operations. Road Commissioner Bailey coordinates mobilization for relief work and shifts highway workers to federal reemployment lists where possible, aiming to supplement federal relief. The move follows Kump's Washington trip and push for self-help alongside federal aid.
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Charleston
Road Commission
State House
Kump
Francis W. Turner
Ious
Bailey
Federal
Washington
Repeal Moves Highlight 78 Day Balloting Push
In Clinton Conn Emily Elliott Carr seeks a court writ to block daughter Natalie 19 from joining St Hyacinthe convent in Quebec. She claims Natalie fled June 14 and vows to prevent the nun entry, even threatening habeas corpus. Nationally quick repeal votes in Missouri and other states signal possible amending the Eighteenth Amendment within eleven weeks. Natalie’s return from college and St Hyacinth trip precede her decision to enter the convent after a period of overstudy.
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Clinton
Conn
Emily Elliott Carr
St. Hyacinthe
Quebec
Natalie
Elliotts
Carrs
Washington
Missouri
Texas
Virginia
John G. Pollard
Spe
Mrs. Carr
St Hyacinth
Gandhi Transferred to Civil Hospital in Fast Hunger Strike
Poona August 21 Gandhi whose self imposed fast to aid untouchable rights has weakened markedly and he was moved from Yevada jail to Civil Hospital for better care. Only his private secretary Mahadeva Desai nurses him as police guard tightens around the hospital. Desai among those arrested August 1 for civil disobedience.
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Poona
India
Mahatma Gandhi
Yevada
Gandhi
Mahadeva Desak
Desai
Mahatma
Model Homes for Workers in Philadelphia Project
Federal public works funds approve a loan of 845000 for a model housing project in Kensington Philadelphia. The plan by representatives of the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers envisions 292 apartments totaling 1074 rooms expected to rent about 8 dollars 40 cents per room monthly. Mrs Mark Carter of Goose Creek Texas wins a dress making contest with a model created from discarded fertilizer sacks.
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Washigton
MNL
Kensington
Philadelphia
Interior Ickes
American Federation of
Mark Carter
Goose Creek
Tex
Confession of Mutt Lipps Implicates in Slaying Case
Lipps, 18, already serving a year for robbery, signed a confession admitting involvement in the murder of Hugh Ochestree, 30, during a July 1931 drunken brawl at Glen Ochestree’s home in Biffle Run. Six others, including two women, are held on murder warrants. body later weighed down and thrown into the Kanawha River as searches resume.
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Burnsville
Biffle Run
Riley “Mutt” Lipps
Moundsville
Hugh Ochestree
Lipp
J. Lee Fox
Sutton
Glen Ochestree
Hugh
Susie Ocheltree
William Brown
Bernice Brown
James Merrell
William Ratliff
Glen Ocheltree
Lipps
Hugh Ocheltree
Glenn Ochltree
Doom Of Sweatshop End In Strike Settlement
New York August 21 NRA mediator Grover A Whaler announced after an all night session that the strike of about 60 000 dress industry workers had been settled. He called the resolution more than a labor dispute final wiping out of the sweatshop oppression. The strike affected New York Eastern Pennsylvania parts of New Jersey and Connecticut. A harness team scene notes a bull and a horse driven together by N J Uhi near Westerville Ohio.
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New York
Grover A. Whaler
NRA
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Connecticut
School Costs Drop by 13000 Officials Cite Kuhn Figures
Taxpayers at the courthouse meeting heard Assessor Locke claim the 1933-34 school expenses will exceed last year by 25636 dollars. Prof Kuhn's figures show last year’s total school expenditures at 226022.29 with nine month terms. the current year totals 233060.73 a reduction of 13299.96 from nine month projections, detailing district by district costs and levy rates.
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Ed. N. Locke
Sentinel Inerviewea
G, I Muni
Bsso
Kuhn
Grafton
Flemington
Simpson High
Beavers Elected Delegate for Andrews M E Church
William A. Beavers and Harry Gambton were unanimously chosen as delegate and alternate to represent the Andrews M E Church congregation at the West Virginia conference session in Parkersburg September 21 24. They will receive instructions on ministers for next year at a September 5 meeting presided by Dr. John L. Wolfe district superintendent.
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William A. Beavers
Harry €.Gambton
Andrews M. E
West Virginia
Parkersburg
John L. Wolfe
Texas Guinan to quit night clubs for pulpit role
Hollywood reports Mary Louise Cecilia Guinan known as Texas will act in a Broadway related film and then become an evangelist after finishing the picture. She plans one final tour of the sticks with a big show before the change.
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Hollywood
Mary Louise Cecilia Guinan
Texas
Broadway
Sticks
Haller hearing delayed for prosecutor's return
Preliminary hearing for Howard Haller known as speedy Bennett is postponed until Prosecuting Attorney James C. Holt returns from Chicago where he attends the Century of Progress. Haller, arrested with 14 year old Lillian Haddix near a park hill, faces criminal assault charges after the girl, reported missing, cried out as officers found them. she received medical care from Dr. Shaffer.
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Howard Haller
Speedy" Bennett
James C. Holt
Chicago
Century of Progress
Holt
Haller
Municipal Park
Lillian Haddix
West Side
W. G. Wamsley
Earl C. DeMoss
Wamsley
Park View
Tygart Valley
C. F. Shaffer
Five Die In Air Tragedy In Shamrock Mine Crash
Providence Kentucky reports pilot Joseph Bailey 22 of Paducah and two passengers John Folloman 21 and James Henry Morris 20 killed when their plane crashed near Shamrock mine. Altoona Pennsylvania later notes misjudging distance in a de— continued on page six.
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Providence
Joseph Bailey
Paducah
John Folloman
James Henry Morris
Shamrock Mine
Altoona, Pa
Winning Ticket Reappears After It Was Lost
Buffalo, August 21. Leon J. Laffle of Kenmore won 2867.35 dollars on a two dollar ticket at Fort Erie races last week and after losing the ticket it reappeared almost as mysteriously as it disappeared. He refused to discuss its return.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Leon J. Laffle
Kenmore
Fort Erie
Special Guard On Duty At Commerce Department
Washington reports a special police guard was placed on duty at the commerce department after officers said a group of communists was en route from Baltimore to call on Hugh J. Johnson. Justice agents traced the information to workers, including longshoremen, and the guard aims to block entry until any untoward demonstration is ruled out.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Baltimore
Hugh 8. Johnson
Department of Justice
Pressure on Operators by NRA Chief
Washington reports a draft code of fair competition for the bituminous coal industry as part of the NRA push to unify big sectors under trade codes. Hugh B Johnson Kenneth M Simpson and Donald Richberg lead the effort with operators shown willingness to cooperate.
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Washington
Recovery Administration
Hugh 8. Johnson
Kenneth M. Simpson
Donald Richberg
Donald Ribbers
NRA
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Pruntytown
Guinan
Hugh S. Johnson
Heft Exchangé
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Tobe Ee
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