Daladier Wins Strong Confidence Vote In France
Paris April 12 AP Daladier’s National Defense government wins overwhelming support 576 to 5. Premier pledges to keep armament factories running amid strikes by 150,000 workers at 120 plants and seeks decree powers until July 31 to meet defense needs. Socialists and Communists vote with center and right. Cabinet backs plan for indisputable decree rule and defense tax plan.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
National Defense
Edouard Daladier
Daladier
France
New York Sets Premarriage Checkup For Syphilis
Governor Lehman signed a bill requiring all prospective New York newlyweds to undergo a physician examination and serological blood test before marriage license issuance. The license may be issued only if the doctor certifies the person is not infected or not in a communicable stage.
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New York
New York State
Lehman
House panel backs 880000 for tobacco lab in Oxford NC
The House appropriations committee approved an 880000 appropriation to build a tobacco laboratory at the North Carolina farm experiment station in Oxford. AP report dated April 12 notes the committee action.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
North Carolina Farm Experiment Station
Oxford
N. C
North Carolina daily publishers meet to discuss shared problems
Raleigh April 12 AP publishers from North Carolina dailies gathered to talk over their own problems and ways to help each other. W Carey Dowd, publisher of the Charlotte News and association chairman, led the discussions.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
W. Carey Dowd
The
Charlotte News
Association of North Carolina Dailies
Roosevelt vetoes bill for automatic starts for customs field staff
President Roosevelt vetoed a measure that would have granted automatic increases for about 7,500 field employees in the customs service. The action comes as Congress had approved the bill to raise wages and adjust pay scales for frontline workers.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Railway Express seeks Southeast Express dissolution approval
The Railway Express Agency and 27 railroads petition the Interstate Commerce Commission to approve dissolving Southeastern Express and transferring its business to Railway Express.
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Washington
Rallway Express Agency
Interstate Commerce Commission
Southeastern Express
Railway Express
Hoey Declares No Dictator With Constitution At Davidson
Governor Hoey spoke at Davidson College during Pounders Day celebrations for the 101st birthday. Dr Walter L Lingle Jr introduced the governor to an audience on campus in Davidson.
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Davidson
Hoey
Davidson College
Walter L. Lingle
David
War Admiral and Seabiscuit to Meet at Belmont Park
Westchester Racing Association directors set a 100,000 race fee for War Admiral against Seabiscuit at Belmont Park on Memorial Day, shifting from the earlier proposed fall date.
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WAR Admiral
Seabiscuit
New York
Westchester Racing Association
Belmont Park
Senate panel cites $2 million loss from cotton loan undergrades
Investigators for the Senate agriculture committee estimated cotton growers lost $2,000,000 on 1,000,000 bales that went into government loans due to underclassing by the American Cotton Cooperative Association.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
American Cotton Cooperative Association
North Carolina Receives $858,924 in Farm Aid Allocations
Washington April 12 Allocations totaling 858924 under the Department of Agriculture in North Carolina are announced by the House appropriations committee. The major portion 791379 funds federal aid to farmers to purchase their own tractors. The remaining 67545 covers forest and trail construction.
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Washington
Department Ofriculture
North Carolina
Use Appropriations Committee
Forest
Tralle
Temporary help for railroads limited to start
Washington reports Congress will offer only temporary relief for railroads this session with major rehabilitation details postponed to a later year. Senate and House leaders warn the task cannot be rushed and urge extended consideration beyond early adjournment. Roosevelt sent ICC advisers recommendations without adding specific proposals.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Interstate Commerce Commission
Wheeler
D.mont
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Representative Mapes
Whitney's Sing-Sing Trip Attracts Huge Crowd In New York
A crowd of about 8,700 gathered at Grand Central Concourse to watch Richard Whitney, a Sing Sing inmate to be transported for Grand Larceny. Police estimate 1,200 in the station Concourse and 2,500 in Depew Place as the procession planned to move Whitney and four other convicts from the Tombs prison to the river.
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New York
Richard Whit
Sing Sing Prison
Grand Central Station
Concourse
Hitney
Pershing Square
Patrick Hogan
Depew Place
Whitney
Tombs Prison
Wide Fight In Sino-Jap War
Shanghai dispatch reports fighting across a wide sector near Yihsien along the Tientsin Pukow railway as Chinese and Japanese mobilize for a likely decisive engagement in Southern Shantung near the Tsianan Tsingtao line. Japanese reinforcements move from Tsinga while Chinese air forces claim several planes destroyed near Hangchow.
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Shanghai
Yihsien
Tientsin-Pukow
Shantung Province
Tsianan-Tsingtao
Lunghai
China
East West Main
Tsinga
Taierchwang
Tsingtao
Hangchow
Wage Hour Bill Studied Draws AFL Fire
Chairman Norton of New Jersey urged the House labor committee to study a new wage hour bill drafted by a Democratic subcommittee headed by Representative Ranspeck. President William Green of the AFL criticized the proposal last night as granting a federal board dictatorial control.
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Washington
Norton
D-Nj
House Labor Committee
American Federation of Labor
Ranspeck
D-Ga
William Green
A. F. of L
Bomb blasts Kansas City union headquarters door
A bomb exploded at the doorway to the United Automobile Workers local 249 headquarters in Kansas City early today. One man was injured and 24 sleeping persons were routed. No arrests reported and police offered no comment. The sleepers included union members and their families. The building had been a former hotel.
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Kansas City
Local 249
United Automobile Workers Union
D. EB. Reddish
High priced Blackwater election costs citizens dear
In Blackwater Missouri the annual city election drew sixteen votes over thirteen hours. Three judges and two clerks served as election officials. The estimated cost of the election was 415.60 dollars, highlighting the high price of a small town voting day.
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Blackwater
Loyalists Break Solid Front of Insurgents at Briggs Plant
Detroit April 12 Approximately 13 000 employees of Briggs Manufacturing and the Plymouth division of Chrysler Corp returned to work after an agreement to negotiate grievances of United Automobile Workers. Briggs had closed the Mack avenue plant after officials said 44 workers in the cushion department slowed production.
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Detroit
Briggs Manufacturing Co
Plymouth
Chrysler Corporation
United Automobile Workers
Briggs
Mack Avenue
Cushion
Federal Workers Out Of Politics
The Senate calendar opens with a bill to bar federal employees from party conventions and caucuses that nominate a president vice president or members of Congress. Senator Hatch has pushed the measure for a year despite objections from Democratic Leader Barkley.
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Washington
Senate
Barkley
Kentucky
Hatch
Congress
Government counter‑attack halts insurgent advance in Catalonia
From Hendaye France April 11 a Barcelona communique says militiamen recaptured Vallibona about 12 miles behind the Tortosa line and seized many heights in the high valley as insurgent forces push toward the Mediterranean. Beceite pass also reported captured with heavy casualties including English French and Polish troops.
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Hendaye
France
Catalonia
Mediterranean
Barcelona
Vallibona
Serbol
Tortosa- San Mateo
Vinaroz
Regimento
Garcia Valino
Beceite
Montenegreso
Razas
Tortosa
Ebro
Becelle
One Killed As War Opens For Control In Illinois Politics
In Chicago during the statewide primary election a Negro man Babe Perry was shot dead after a political argument on a South Side street. A court bailiff was sought after a fight with Perry and another man. Precinct judge Robert A. Andre, 25, was attacked on a North Side street. precinct captain Thomas Panisey was abducted and taken toward a car outside his polling place. The battle framed the fight for control of the Illinois Democratic Party between Chicago leaders led by Mayor Edward J. Kelly and Nash versus Horner’s downstate faction. Police details and large watch forces were deployed to polling places from dawn to close.
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Babe Perry
Perry
Robert A. Andre
Thomas Panisey
State’s Attorney's
Panisey
Democratic Party
Illinois
Nly-Nash
Horner
Chicago Democratic Organization
Edward J. Kelly
P. A. Nash
Henry Horner
Chicago
Fords Celebrate Golden Wedding At Greenfield Village
Detroit April 12 UP seven hundred guests invited to celebrate the golden wedding anniversary of Henry Ford and Clara Bryant. The party gathers in the reproduction of independence hall at Greenfield Village, part of the Ford project honoring early Americana.
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Detroit
Henry Ford
Clara Bryant
Independence Hall
Greenfield Village
Garner Fears Over Roosevelt Spending Sparks Capitol Clash
Washington April 12 A congressional struggle erupts over FDR s large business recovery program with Vice President Garner reportedly opposing further government spending and White House aides signaling a forthcoming fireside chat to defend the program amid Senate and House resistance.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Garner
Senate
House
Stephen T. Early
White House
Congress
Jackie Coogan Sues Mother for 4 Million Earnings
Los Angeles April 12 Jackie Coogan The Kid now 23 and recently married to Betty Grable filed a 4 000 000 suit against his mother and stepfather Arthur Bernstein claiming they withheld his earnings from childhood acting He says he waited for an accounting and that Bernstein may have dissipated funds by horse racing The mother denies the claims saying she has provided for him and that outside influence misled him
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Los Angeles
Jackie Coogan
Kid
Coogan
Betty Grable
Arthur Berstein
Arthur
Charlies J. Katz
Bernstein
Jackile
Mr. Bernstein
Former Austrian Army Head Dies by Own Action in Vienna
Vienna report states Gen. Wilhelm Zehner former commander of the Austrian army died by suicide at his home. He led the tribunal that condemned Nazis after the 1934 July putsch. No motive was given for the act.
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Vienna
Wilhelm Zehner
Zehner
Authorization for NC Freight Rate Rise
Raleigh April 12 AP Authorization for 44 railroads in North Carolina to raise intrastate freight rates by about 8.5 million dollars annually was issued by the State Utilities Commission. The increases mirror interstate boosts approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission on March 8 and most new rates take effect April 26.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
State Utilities Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Rivers Decries Freight Rates in Georgia and South
Georgia Governor E D Rivers condemned southern rail rate structures as a tariff barrier at an Interstate Commerce Commission hearing. He urged parity for Georgia while noting industries moved away due to high freight rates and predicted significant Southeast industrial growth if rate handicaps are removed.
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Birmingham
Ala
Georgia
E. D. Rivers
Interstate Commerce Commission
Southeast
Mystery ships seen near Davao gulf in Philippines
Manila Taliba reports 22 unidentified destroyers seen maneuvering Sunday and Monday in Davao gulf about 60 miles from Japanese held areas. Rizal ship captain asked for nationality by radio but received no reply. Davao authorities suspect Japanese or Dutch warships.
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Manila
Pthe
Talipba
Davao Gulf
Philippine Islands
Rizal
Taliba
Davao
Switzerland backs refugees plan but seeks accessible meeting site
Berne officials said the Swiss government supports Secretary Hull’s plan for an international committee aiding European political refugees but suggested the committee hold meetings outside Switzerland to improve accessibility for members.
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Berne
Switzerland
Hull
House committee approves 796 million for Agriculture
The House Appropriations Committee recommended 796,222,150 for the Agriculture Department for the upcoming fiscal year starting July 1, with total outlays including automatic appropriations rising to 951,746,224. The panel cut bureau roads funds and trimmed highway aid, while maintaining support for crop insurance and regional agricultural laboratories.
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Washington
House
Congress
Budget Bureau
Roads Bureau
Forest Service
Roper
Hore Belisha To Visit Mussolini In Italy
London April 12 British War Minister Leslie Hore Belisha is reported to plan a courtesy call on Premier Mussolini in Rome. The trip follows an inspection of Malta and would be the first British cabinet member visit since Eden’s 1935 trip to discuss Ethiopia and other issues.
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London
Chamberlain
Mussolini
Bbritain
Italy
Lesiie Hore-Belisha
Rome
Malta
Mediterranean
Anthony Eden
Palazzo Venezia
Il Duce
Nightwatchman Guarding Channel Pipes Near School
Sabotage attempts reported at East Trail Creek channel pipes near a local school. A nightwatchman has been posted after two clogging tries in three days aimed at flooding the school to gain a holiday.
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B. C
East Trail Creek
Garment Workers Threatening To Withdraw From CIO Group
A New York Times dispatch reports ILGWU leaders deny plans to withdraw from the CIO but acknowledge rumors of a rift. David Dubinsky says such policy decisions require the general executive board or a convention, leaving open the possibility of remaining unaffiliated or returning to the AFL.
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Garment Workers
CIO Group
New York
The
New York Times
Washington
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
Committee For Industrial Organization
CIO
David Dubinsky
ILGWU
Oth
Dubinsky
Times
AFL
Garment Workers’ Organization
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O'Connor
Thomas O'Malley
Wisco
Arthur P. Lamneck
Ohio
N. Y
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Department of Agriculture
Kelly
Nash
Fords
Mystery Ships In
Philippines
Departme
Hore-Belisha
England
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