Aluminum Company Seeks Restraint On Anti Trust Suit
Federal Judge grants temporary restraining order barring the U S government from pursuing an anti trust suit against the Aluminum Company of America in the South District of New York. Rule to show cause set for May 7 to continue restrain and seek a preliminary injunction.
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Pittsburgh
Robert Mibson
Aluminum Coun of America
South District
New York
Gibson
Homer Cummings
Governos
Pittsrgh District Court
Aminum Company
Pittsurgh
Carr
The
Aluminum Company
Slane Hosiery to Build New Plant and Fold Lock Knit
Slane Hosiery Mills Inc on Mangum avenue will immediately build a two story brick unit beside the present plant and liquidate Lock Knit Hosiery Mills on West Green street to merge both under one Mangum avenue location. The new 60 by 120 foot brick plant, costing at least 12000, will house machines and a warehouse with steam heat and electric lighting, and is expected to be completed within 60 days. Willis H. Slane, president of Lock Knit and secretary treasurer of Slane, announced the plan and noted Lock Knit property will be rented or sold after equipment is moved. Permits were issued by Fire Chief E K Ingram.
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West Green Street
Slane Hosiery Mills, Inc
Mangum Avenue
Willis H. Slane
Lock- Knit
Slane Hosiery Mills
Slane
Eastreen
East Russell Streets
E. K. Ingram
Akron tires sign 36 hour week agreement amid strike
Firestone Tire and Rubber, United Rubber Workers and the Akron plant union sign a 36 hour work week for 10,000 production workers after an eight week strike. The pact includes no sit down strikes and a shift to 24 hours in some cases with time and a half after the threshold. The agreement follows similar moves by Goodyear and Goodrich as intensifying labor talks across the rubber industry.
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Akron, CO
Fire- Tire & Rubber Company
United Rubber Workers
South
Tone
Rubber Capital
Goodyear
Goodrich
Itson
Emgroup
Nso
Thames River Still Rising Flood Paralyzes Chatham Ontario
Rescuers evacuated 100 families as the Thames River rose over two feet in hours. Flood waters threatened pumps at the water works and forced closure of two bridges while debris clogged approaches to the business district. Thamesville was isolated as eastern approaches failed.
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Chatham
Ont
Thames
Thamesville
North Carolinians Covered by Insurance Totals
Raleigh April 29 Insurance Commissioner Dan Boney announced North Carolinians held life insurance policies totaling 1.350 billion dollars as of January 1. In 1936 insurers wrote 307.086 million in new business and canceled 217.161 million in policy terminations.
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Raleigh
Dan ©. Boney
Beard to die in June for Dallas detective slaying
Augustus Dwight Beard, 27, was sentenced to death by electric chair for the December garage hold up killing of a Dallas city detective. He faces execution on June 4 in Huntsville after looting a cash register and shooting the officer who reached for his gun.
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Dallas
Tex
Grover Adams
Augustus Dwight Beard
Roberts
Beard
State
Huntsville
North Carolina
Senate Must Vote Ickes $4000 Car
Washington Apr 29 The Senate must decide if Secretary Ickes should receive a new $4000 car. The House appropriations committee refused the sum after E K Burlew Ickes aide explained Ickes has been using an assistant’s car since a fall accident damaged his official automobile. Burlew noted the committee offered $750, leaving Ickes with only a Chevrolet or Ford.
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Washington
Senate
Ickes
House Appropriations Committee
E. K. Burlew
Burlew
Waynick Still Not Decided On Post
RALEIGH April 29 Capus M Waynick has not reached a definite decision on accepting the post of Director of Purchase and Contract after a conference with Governor Hoey Waynick retires as highway chairman Saturday and the governor announced the offer of the purchase job
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Raleigh
Hoey
Capus M. Waynick
Purchase and Contract
Waynick
First Quarter Reports Show Booming Recovery
New York April 29. First quarter profits of 200 leading companies rose 44 percent from a year earlier to 352 million, strongest since 1930. Steel mills led gains as industry wide earnings surged, with building materials and real estate driving activity amid a mild winter and higher rents. Excluding General Motors during a strike impact, total earnings edged up. some sectors like autos and coal slipped.
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New York
Steels
General Motors
Basques Plead For Refuge As Guernica Fell
Basque leaders urge world powers to provide sanctuary for 300000 noncombatants amid Guernica occupation by General Mola’s insurgents. Airstrikes left hundreds dead as Bilbao’s defense stiffened between Durango and the city.
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Endaye
Emilio Mola
Guernica
Basque Republic
Bilboa
Vitoria
Bilbao
Durango
Juan Antonio Aguirre
Denhardt Goes On Stand In Murder Trial
Brig Gen Henry H. Denhardt proceeds to testify as the trial resumes in New Castle Kentucky. Prosecutors finished their case after circumstantial evidence and tests and the defense argues the state has not proven its case. Denhardt is accused in the death of Verna Garr Taylor his fiancée following a November car ride.
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New Castle
Charles C. Marshall
Henry H. Denhardt
Commonwealth
Verna Garr Taylor
Denhardt
General Denhardt
Bertha Denhardt
Ashurst predicts Senate votes for Roosevelt court bill
Chairman Ashurst of the senate judiciary committee said there are 50 votes in the Senate for the Roosevelt court bill and it would pass this year or next. He remained optimistic despite three uncommitted senators opposing the plan. Opponents claimed control of the judiciary panel and Senate, while Ashurst warned against forecasting a delay until next year.
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Washington
Ashurst
D-Ariz
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate
Judiciary Committee
McCarran
D-Nev
Hatch
D-Nm
O'Mahoney
D-Wye
Roosevelt
Ohio Valley Relief After Floods Eases Up
The Ohio river valley moved toward normalcy as the third flood in 13 months subsided. Muddy waters remained five feet above flood stage in Wheeling while the crest neared Parkersburg with limited damage. Industries reopened and refugees returned home as transportation lines resumed.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Ohio River Valley
Parkersburg
Five Blythe men seize alleged attacker near Midville
Police say five men from Blythe captured a Black man named Willie Hopkins in the Blythe attack case and drove him away by automobile. The chief added the whereabouts of the suspect are not known and described the capture as informal mob action near Midville on April 29.
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Midville
L. W. Murphey
Blythe
Murphey
Willie Hopkins
Neutrality Bill Compromise Sent Senate For Vote
The House adopted a Pittman McReynolds cash and carry neutrality bill compromise and sent the report to the Senate. Leaders planned to push it through before nightfall and rush to President Roosevelt to sign before the current neutrality law expires. The measure adds cash and carry trade with belligerents and a clause to cover civil conflicts within neutrality policy for two years.
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Washington
House
Pittman-McReynolds
Senate
Roosevelt
Perkins Invites Chieftains to Parley in May
Secretary Perkins invited 26 labor and industrial leaders to a May 4 conference on collective bargaining under the Wagner act, led by Walter P. Chrysler as head of the list of industrialists. The labor service reported an expected record low in new job applications for March, with March totals showing 262,305 new applications and 250,249 placements.
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Washington
Perkins
Walter P. Chrysler
Chrysler Corporation
Labor Department
Federal Employment Service
State Book Truck Rounds Counties With Full Schedule
The State Library Commission reports a full rest of year schedule for its book truck, now in Sampson county, with a stop in Gaston next. Secretary Miss Marjorie Beal says new libraries are being built in three cities and nine more are planned.
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Raleigh
State Library Commission
Sampson County
Gaston
Marjorie Beal
Harlan County Attorney Testifies on Coal Retainers
Daniel Boone Smith, Harlan County Kentucky commonwealths attorney, testified before a Senate inquiry that he has accepted retainers from three coal companies since January 1934. He said he prosecutes in Harlan County first, representing the coal firms second, and denied current domination by judges or prosecutors over mine union members.
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Washington
Daniel Boone Smith
Young Commonwealth
Harlan County
Senate
Smith
Harlan Mine
Norman Hapgood Dies Prominent Editor in New York
Norman Hapgood died at 69 after an operation. He was an author editor and political associate of Alfred E. Smith during Smiths terms as governor of New York.
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Norman Hapgood
New York
Alfred EB. Smith
Old London Goes Gay as Coronation Day Nears
London prepared for May 12 coronation with heavy bunting and banners. Three processions will escort King George VI and Queen Elizabeth from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey, featuring guards, trumpeters, and the state coach drawn by eight cream horses.
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Elmer W. Peterson
London
Big Ben
Whitehallle
Hyde Park
Parliament Square
Charles I
Charing Cross
George
Elizabeth
Buckingham Palace
Westminster Abbey
Palace
Senators Propose Flat Ten Percent Cut in All Appropriations
In Washington on April 29 Senator Robinson of Arkansas endorsed Senator Byrnes plan for a flat ten percent reduction in all appropriations excluding fixed charges with discretionary transfers between bureaus. He favored lowering next year's relief to 1.0 billion dollars and preferred this to a 15 percent impoundment option. Speaker Bankhead noted Roosevelt approved a 15 percent impoundment idea for executive discretion.
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Washington
Robinson
D.ark
Byrnes
D.S. C
Roosevelt
Bankhead
United States Conference of Mayors
Congress
Works Progress Administration
D-Sc
Early stock market rally fades after brief gains
An April 10 New York market note reports an initial fast recovery with fractions of a point gains across many issues. Vigor faded near the fourth hour as unsettled world markets triggered selling. rails steels motors and oils led a reversal while Homestake and Dome fell. Copper held a balance amid talk of renewed foreign production restrictions and a domestic price cut to 14 cents per pound.
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New York
Homestake
Dome
Bombay
Johannesburg
Parie
London
Thie Group
William Gillette Dies Veteran Actor at 81
William Gillette, veteran actor, died today in Hartford from a pulmonary hemorrhage at Hartford Hospital. He was 81 and had come from his Hadlyme home, with a severe cold undermining his health after a prior hospital visit within six months.
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Hartford
Conn
William Gillette
Hartford Hospital
Gillette
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