Coal Pact Deadline Near as Labor Talks Continue
The national labor chief joins deadlocked mining talks in New York seeking a wage and hour contract for 400,000 coal miners. Ed ward PF McGrady and UMWA representatives press for a settlement by midnight to avert a nationwide coal-pit walkout. Meanwhile sit-down strikes flare in Virginia, Missouri, Minnesota, Maine and Detroit as unions press for gains.
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Associated Press
National Administration
Conjtrees
Edward PF
McGrady
United Mine Workers of America
New York
Unio
Sait
Roosevelt
Industrial Rayon Car
Covingtot
International Ladies Garment
Detroit
Guarts
C. A. Lund
Hastings
Minn
Lewiston- Auburn
Maine
CIO
House
Cooley
Coffer
Wash
Brotherhoods of Locomotive Fire
World News In Gist From Early 20th Century Dispatches
Washington Senator Robinson backs wage reversal while Roosevelt criticizes state action as inadequate. New York model slaying probe deepens with bloody fingerprint leads. Kirksville pollen plotter sought after mayor injured by explosives. Tokyo dissolves lower house forcing general election. Madrid troops push back insurgents amid unrest claims. Gibraltar reports revolt casualties while officials deny disorder. Mexico urges League of Nations to stay out of Spain aid fascists.
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Washington
Robinson
Roosevelt
New York
Kirksville
Tokyo
House of Representatives
Madrid
Riching Areca
Gibraltar
Melon City
Mexico
Leagues of
Nationa
Spain
Test of Strength On Court Proposal 510 In Committee
In Washington on March 30 the Senate Judiciary Committee faced a battle over Roosevelt court reorganiza tion legislation. Opponents resisted ending hearings by April 17 and urged four more weeks to present witnesses. The Ashurst motion would mark the first test of committee sentiment as Griswold of Harvard and John D Miller of the National Cooperation Council urged defeat.
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Washinton
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate
Ashurst
D. Ariz
Burke
Erwin B. Griswold
Harvard Law School
John D Miller
National Cooperation Council
Supretia Court
Montana unemployment plan approved by federal board
Montana’s unemployment compensation plan, enacted to avoid direct relief and cushion downturns, was approved by the federal social security board in Washington. The act becomes effective in 60 days, with a three member commission, an administrator, and job placement measures tied to the National Reemployment Service. Eligible workers must register and may receive up to 15 dollars per week after three weeks if no placement occurs.
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Montana
Social Security Board
Federal Social Security Board
Washington, D. C
Roy E. Ayers
Woon Gong
Judge Barnes Paid $35,000 Fee Before Bench
Chicago March 30 The Chicago Title and Trust president said Federal Judge John F. P. Barnes was paid $35,000 for legal services while he was a practicing lawyer before taking the bench. Barnes declined to comment on charges that the fee was received while he sat on the bench. He began judiciary duties in March 1831.
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Chicago
Holman D. Pettibore
Chicago Title and Trust Company
John FP. Barnes
Barnes
Kelly
Crop Insurance Measure Sent to House by Senate
Washington March 30 Bipartisan support moved the administration’s crop insurance legislation through the senate and to the house. The bill would form a 100 million dollar government corporation in the Agriculture Department to insure wheat farmers starting with the 1938 crop against weather and disaster losses. Premiums could be paid in cash or wheat with government payouts in kind. supporters say it will withdraw wheat from the market during dumps and stabilize farm years.
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Senate
Washington
House
Hing
Utah
Department of Agriculture
Katharine Cornell Receives National Achievement Award
Katharine Cornell was awarded the National Achievement medal at the White House by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Dr. Florence Sabin and Miss Josephine Rothe also received honors. Frances Perkins attended the ceremony as secretary. The award, sponsored by the Chi Omega sorority, honors notable contributions to American theater and public life.
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Washington
Katharine Cornell
White House
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Cornell
Florence Sabin
New York
Frances Perkins
Josephine Rothe
the Treasury
Chi Omega
Hughes Plans Round World Flight From Bridgeport
Bridgeport reports Howard Hughes, cross continent air speed record holder, ordered a custom amphibian plane from Sikorsky in Stratford for a round the world flight planned for late summer. In New York, Jacob B. Shale, 82, retired publisher, died.
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Bridgeport. Conn
Marsh
Bridgeport Telegram
Howard Hughes
Sikorsky Aircraft Factory
Stratford
New York
Jacob B. Shale
Retraction Issued Over Holt Bank Affair Statements
John W. Nelson, former editor of the Montana Review, retracts all charges against former Governor W. Elmer Holt regarding the Commercial National Bank of Miles City. In a signed Helena release, Nelson says his July 1946 article contained errors, and Holt had no involvement in the bank’s management.
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Elson
HOLT
Elmer Holt
Commercial National Bank of
Miles City
John W. Nelson
Montana Review
Helena
Nelson
Hie
Tas
W. Elmer
Silas Strawn Attacks Roosevelt Police in Chicago Remark
Silas Strawn of Chicago denounces President Roosevelt for harsh criticism of the Supreme Court and the administration's stance on sit down strikes. He calls the court reorganization act a short cut to dictatorship, condemning it as undermining lawful order.
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Gineinnati
Silas Strawn
Chicago
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Tourlh
Randall admits he killed his spouse in January murder
Horato Randall, 21, pleaded guilty to first degree murder in the January 7 killing of his wife Blair in Oakland California. Superior Judge EB Tyrrell set tomorrow as the date for sentence.
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Oakland
Calif
Horato Randall
Blair
EB Tyrrell
Taxes Taxing Times Prompt a Grim Ledger Joke
In Santa Monica March 30 Irvin S Cobb laments the burden of taxes from federal state and local levies. He notes duties on a razor rope tombstones and more, joking that even death offers no relief and urging readers to endure the complex tax system with wary humor.
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Ahyin
Santa Monica
Cal
Treasury Department
President Studying Labor Legislation and Court Rulings
President Roosevelt said it was too early to discuss federal minimum wage and maximum hour laws though advisers have studied the issue. He noted possible action this session and avoided comment on the Supreme Court’s wage-related ruling. State laws should cover all workers, and officials estimate the decision could boost wages for tens of thousands of women.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Supreme Court
NRA
Court
Iself
Labor Department
Lewise Stitt
Women's Bureau
Buffalo Boy Admits Brutal Murder of Maiden
Buffalo police report 18 year old Thomas Smith confessed to killing 8 year old Mary Ellen Babcock and stabbing 14 year old Frances Fitzgerald with an ice pick. District Attorney Newcomb filed first degree murder charge and said Smith signed a 22 page statement. Authorities tie the case to events near the South Buffalo field and a Sunday night incident after a church service.
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Buffalo
N. Y
James W. Higgins
Mary Ellen Babcock
Thomas Smith
Frances Fitzgerald
Smith
Walker CG. Newcomb
South Park Avenue
South Buffalo Field
Mary Eilen Bubrock
Motorcycle ride ends with missing wife found in hospital
March 30. Angelo Pilott halted his motorcycle in the yard after a country ride and discovered his wife was missing from the rear seat. After hours of search he located her in a hospital in a neighboring town.
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Mitra
Maly
Angelo Pilott
Seeker of publicity sentenced for four burglaries
Los Angeles actress Jean Hepburn, 26, admitted breaking into four homes to gain publicity. She testified that a casting director promised a path to Hollywood and said she would land in Tehachapi Prison, where she received a sentence of one to 16 years.
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Los Angeles
Jean Hepburn
Tehachapi
Hollywood
Blind man killed. widow identifies husband in Philadelphia
Mrs Susan Rielly, 69, blind, testified to a deputy coroner in Philadelphia that the man who died in an automobile collision was her husband. The brief, fragmented report notes her recognition by touch and her affirmation of the identity.
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Philadelphia
Susan Rielly
President urges caution on farm tenancy proposal
President Roosevelt criticizes large immediate expenditures for farm tenancy relief and urges a cautious congressional approach. After White House talks with officials and House Agriculture Committee members, the panel may approve a $195 million plan to aid tenants and sharecroppers, replacing the Bankhead Jones bill with a substitute proposing $50 million yearly for farm purchases to resell to tenants on 45 year terms at 3 percent interest.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
House
Harner
Jones
Texas
Agriculture Committee
White House
Wallane
Bankhead
Ala
Br. W. W. Alexander
House Committee
Bankhead-Jones
Senate
Secretary of Agriculture
Millionaire suspected behind plot for killing in New York
Easter morning killings in Veronica Gedeon’s Beekman Hill apartment left a model, her mother, and a bartender-waiter dead. Investigators reported bloody fingerprints and sought a man who threatened to “get even” after testifying in an extortion case. Police focused on motive tied to state wage law debates and a Beekman Hill murder case.
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New York
Veronica Gedeon
Lieut
Martin 8. Owens
Department of Justice U
Washington
Francis J. Kear
Ogaimet
Frank Byrnes
Beekman
Dieterrieh
Grin
Japanese policy framed as non aggression by ambassador
Hiroji Saito, Japan’s ambassador to the United States, told the Japan Society that Japan follows a non menace and non aggression policy. He noted Tokyo’s budget figures, saying the 1927 army and navy allocation comprises about half, but overall budget is under nine hundred million dollars, urging comparison with Britain’s spending.
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New York
Hiroji Saito
United States
Japan Society
Tokyo
Ominou
Canadian railway unions reach wage restoration pact
Montreal March 30. A plenary session of the general conference committee of 18 running trades unions representing 117,000 workers ratified a Wake agreement restoring a 10 percent cut in basic wages for Canadian railway men. The low mood wage scale will take effect after March 21, 1928, via gradual restorations begun February 1. The pact ends the strike threat.
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Montreal
General Conference
Mayor of Kirkville Hurt by Bomb Blast
Kirkaville Mo March 20 A mysterious car explosion wired to the ignition badly wounds Mayor Gail H Jacobs age 45 as he unwittingly set off the charge in his garage before leaving for work. The blast breaks both legs, the left leg in 18 places, and mangles upper portions of his body.
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Kirkaville
Gail H. Jacobs Todar
Plumbing Supply
Canadian Governor General Visits President Roosevelt
Lord Tweedsmuir and Lady Tweedsmuir arrived in Washington for a White House visit, greeted by Secretary Hull and numerous officials. They rode in from the union station under Marines and sailors as an army band played, then dined with President Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt at the White House.
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Washington
Lord Fweedsmuir
Canada
Lady Tweedsmuir
White House
Union Station
Hull
State
War
Navy
Dineer
Lord
Twreedual
Mrs. Rocesvelt
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Higgins
Fitzgerald
Ted
Oman
Boston
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Bage Pact
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