Mayors Urge Large WPA Aid In Peace Effort
Washington officials push for substantial Works Progress Administration funding as part of a broader drive to avert war and economic disaster. The visit of Canada’s Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir to the White House is linked to talks on a possible European peace conference. Negotiations focus on garnering foreign support and a formal conference plan while U.S. leaders seek broader backing and legal authority for the program.
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Washington
Canada
Lord Sweedsmuir
White House
Moore- Sells
Berand
Tweedamulr
Bishop O’Hare Heads Peage Association
Washington March 21 The Catholic Association for International Peace reelected Bishop Edward V O’Hare Great Falls Mont as honorary president and Dr Charles G Fenwick Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr Pa as president Sister Vincent Ferrer Rosary College River Forest IL was named a vice president in the election yesterday
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Washington
Association For International Peace
Edward V. O'Hare
Great Falls
Mant
Charlies G. Fenwick
Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr
Vincent Ferrer
Rosary College
River Forest
Davis May Sound Powers On Prospects For Disarmament
London and Paris report Norman H. Davis may push disarmament and trade barrier cuts. The American ambassador at large plans talks with British leaders on peace, economic cooperation, and reciprocal tariff reductions while guiding the US delegation at the international conference.
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Davis
London
Norman I. Davis
Tondon
Housevelt
United States
Stamsay MacDonald
Walter Runciman
British Board of Trade
Washington
William Ormady-Gore
Rincelman
Waatington
Paris
Norman H. Davis
What Then After the Sit-Down Strike Debate
Walter Lippmann reviews Leon Green's article in The New Republic on sit-down strikes. He argues Green defends only the tactic to force negotiation when employers refuse to negotiate, not when negotiations occur or in cases like Chrysler. Lippmann warns Green may justify a hold up and cautions his reader on the broader implications for labor action.
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New Republic
Leon Green
Green
Northwestern University School of Law
Chicago
Yale Law School
Iie
Department of Justice
Professor Green
Onos
General Motors
Sloan
Lsat
Chryster
Mr. Green
Met
Last NRA payroll worker Diana Rogovin departs payroll
Washington March 31 Miss Diana Rogovin the last person on the NRA payroll drew her final paycheck today after the Supreme Court ruled out the recovery act. The 6900 staff dwindled rapidly while Rogovin stayed to aid the industrial analysis committee with NRA history and cleanup of issues.
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Washington
Diana Rogovin
NRA
Misa Rogovin
Committee On Industrial Analysis
World News In Gist Domestic And Foreign Roundup
World news brief from New York to Durango notes coal operators near suspension of a bituminous conference and a looming standoff. Boston reports a truckers strike risking fuel shortages. Washington mentions mayors pressing Roosevelt for a 2.2 billion work relief budget. Kl Paso covers a hoax kidnap story about a Boy Scout executive. Foreign dispatches discuss Davis sparking disarmament talk questions. Durango reports nuns killed by insurgent air attack and Fasciata retreat with munition cars abandoned.
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New York
Boston
Washington
Mayors Conference
Roosevelt
Paso
Boy Scout
Baya
Davis
Unitedates
Ailyeo
Durango
Air Bamba
Andujar
Birl Friend of the Duce on Stand
Madeline de Ferriere testified before an examining magistrate about shooting Count Charles de Chambrun in a gallery and again on a train. She claimed it was vengeance for interference with her friendship with Mussolini and noted poison attempts during convalescence. The ambassador was wounded and seeking charges through an attorney. A second note reports a Boise area death from a falling tree, 31, with surviving mother and widow.
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Parla
Marely
Mme
Madeline de Ferriere
Unger
Charles de Ghambria
North Statlion
Mer Ny
Rome
Aris
le Ferriere
de Chambrun
Saeed Sulita
Mussolini
Jettera
GOAL OPERATORS AND MINERS IN DEADLOCK STILL
New York March 31 A soft coal strike looked imminent as United Mine Workers and operators failed to agree on a new wage and hour contract before midnight The joint conference recessed until tomorrow for a sub committee to continue talks John L Lewis warned 400000 miners would not work Friday unless a contract was signed He noted local unions could be hard to contact if a settlement arrived late and urged operators to arrange with the union district offices for maintenance workers Continued on Page 3
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New York
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
Miners’ Union
Fonts
Widow of Lincoln’s Son Dies in Washington
Mrs. Tobert Tat Lincoln, widow of Abraham Lincoln’s son, died at her Georgetown home at age 20 in 49. Daughter of James Harlan she accompanied Robert Lincoln in Washington during his father’s presidency and later bequeathed Lincoln letters to the Library of Congress. Her late husband served as secretary of war and later minister to the court of St James in London.
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Washington
Tobert
Lincoln
Abraham Drycoln
Mstoric Georgetown
James Harlan
Page
Ohe
Senate
Johnson
Robert Lincoln
Lincoln Inn
Library of Congress
Garfield
Arthur
London
Court of St. James
Benjamin Harrison
Aoson
Abraham Lincoln
England
Violence erupts during Seattle newspaper carrier strike
Violence broke out in Seattle's carrier strike sending five men to hospitals and two Teamsters Union members into custody. Police said the two were arrested at a hospital for superficial stab wounds and later released on their own recognizance.
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Seattle
Seatte
War Tonight
Teamsters’ Union
Pollfey
Helen the Elephant Rejects Barnum's Train Ride Again
In Santa Monica on March 31 Irvine Cobb recalls Barnum era elephants, noting Helen the elderly elephant consistently refused to board the departing train each spring. Despite coercion she remained stubbornly seated, later dragged aboard by handlers with the others. The observer dismisses sit-down strike rumors and reflects on the elephant's stubborn routine across seasons.
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Jhylin B. Ludd
Santa Monica
Cal
Helen
Bridgeport
Conn
Shea
Europe
Irvine
Cobb
Mayor LaGuardia Pushes WPA Funding To Congress
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia appeals to President Roosevelt and Congress to authorize 2.2 billion dollars to fund Works Progress Administration projects. He cites 2.8 million workers able to work and the need for steady yearly planning, noting WPA employment around 2.16 million in the week of February 26 and billions in expenditures for the year. He mentions a 17 month total near 4.2 billion and warns against starving American families.
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Fiorello JaGuardia
New York
Works Progress Administration
WPA
Roosevelt
Congress
LaGuardia
Dorothy Thompson Fears Court Plan Foreshadows Dictatorship
Washington March 31 Two administration senators complain power over fundamental economic and social legislation rests with the Supreme court judges. Dorothy Thompson warned the president’s court plan could foreshadow dictatorship and urged caution on enlarging the court to avoid subservience to the executive. Professor Edwin Borchard echoed concerns over constitutional propriety and the danger of political manipulation of the court.
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Dorothy Thompson
Washington
Hoberts
Minton
Wughes
Trollanan
Senate
Roberts
Wheeler
Mont
Ita
Supreme Court
Tn Committee
Senate Judiciary Committee
Edwin Borchard
Yale University Law School
Miss Thompson
Thorevelt
Borchard
Father of slain model grilled by New York police
New York reports detail the discovery of a model's battered body in a Beekman Hill apartment. Ronnie Gedeon’s father describes finding her, with police signaling a formal arrest of Gedeon and a pistol found in his shop. District Attorney Dodge promises swift progress as investigators pursue a definite suspect in the Beekman Hill murder mystery.
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New York
Apri
Ronnie Gedeon
Goth Street
Napor Vivo
New York Times
Gedeon
Mary
Frank Fyrnes
Times
William C. Dodge
Beekman Hill
Tto
Kidnap Case 19 Suspect To Be Released
The Department of Justice dropped the case of Vern Charlton held since Saturday in a kidnapping inquiry. Sheriff Pred White of Quay County said the man would be released shortly after M. C. Faulkner and Alex Street, investigators from the Bureau of Investigation, conferred in EF Paseo Texas.
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N. M
Match Sun
Department of Justice
Vern Charlton
Charing Mattson
Pred White
Quay County
M. C. Faulkner
Bureau of Iyestigation
Paseo
Texas
Alex Street
Ibureau
Italy position on Spain war reflects non intervention stance
The press ministry outlined Italy’s stance on the Spanish civil war noting it will observe non intervention if respected by others. Reports of Italian troops or colonials in Spanish Morocco were denied as untrue. Britain France and the Netherlands increased patrols of Spanish waters after insurgent interference with shipping. Insurgent offensives in Cordoba region were underway with heavy fighting and high casualties.
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Italy
Spain
Francisco Franco
Morocco
Juan Berghederey
Atenza
Spanish
Great Britain
France
Gypsy
Thorpehall
Bilbao
Giraltar
Gibraltar
Cordoba
Farm tenancy bill defeated in House test vote
Washington March 31 An administration plan to aid tenants and sharecroppers by buying farms for resale on easy credit terms failed in its first congressional test. The House Agriculture Committee voted 13 to 11 against authorizing the secretary of agriculture to spend 50 million dollars annually to buy land for tenants with long rent terms. The result followed a conference where President Roosevelt urged restraint on large initial expenditures in tenancy legislation.
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Washington
House Agriculture Committee
Secretary of Agriculture
Roosevelt
Jones D
Texas
Senates startled by urge to clear dirty dishes
Washington March 31 A cashier in a capital restaurant shouted at a waiter to hurry to the vice president walling to clear dirty dishes before Mr. Garner takes this up. The incident drew a crowd of senators who heard the remark and stirred a scene in the capital restaurant.
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Washington
Capital
Garner
Boy Scout executive ends weeklong search with hoax abduction
El Paso, March 82. Robert Miller, a Boy Scout executive from Safford, Ariz, reappeared after a weeklong search claiming he had been kidnapped for ransom. He later admitted the tale was a hoax and provided inconsistent details about the supposed abduction.
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el Paso
Texas
Robert Miller
Safford
Aris
Miller
Reid
Demert
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