Open shop modification agreed in auto industry code
Washington August 17 modification accepted by officials to the open shop provision of the industry code after a conference between Robert W Lea and representatives of the industry. The change aligns with Hugh Johnsons views and allows employers to maintain the open shop based on individual merit without regard to union affiliation.
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Washington
NRA
Robert W. Lea
Hugh
Johnson
Lea
National Automobile Chamber of Commerce
Henry
Polo match ends in draw as Western team loses
Special from Lake Forest reports the western polo game ending in a one to one draw. Rube Williams was injured, prompting hopes to recruit Eric Pedley from the coast while rumored NRA involvement stirs local chatter.
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Lake Forest
Rube Williams
Eric Pedley
Hoover Asked Loan Grant To Dawes From R F C For Political Purposes
Detroit August 17 Senator James Couzens testified before the Detroit bank investigating jury that President Hoover asked him to issue a favorable statement on the 890000000 loan to Charles G Dawes led Chicago bank for political purposes. He said the call came from the White House and he sought attorney general opinion to avoid law violation.
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Detroit
James Couzens
R.mich
Hoover
Chicago
Charles G. Dawes
White House
Dawes
Nh. F. C
Couzens
Harry 8. Toy
Michigan
Exiled Leaders Likely To Join Cespedes' Government
In Havana Cuba observers expect former President Mario G Menocal and Col Carlos Mendieta to play roles in the new provisional government under President De Cespedes. Mendieta, an ex congressman and editor, returned from Florida after exile while Menocal, in the U S, has directed a revolutionary junta.
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John P. McKnight
Havana
Cuba
Mario G. Menocal
Carlos Mendieta
Gerardo Machado
de Cespedes
Mendieta
el Heraldo
Arme
Florida
Menocal
United States
Machado
Menocai
Factor Guarded To Prevent Vengeance By His Kidnapers
Chicago August 17 heavy guard protected John Factor millionaire market plunger from gang vengeance after his involuntary payoffs. Police entrapment plans failed as 60 Chicago officers scoured southern Wisconsin resorts tied to Touhy gangsters seeking extortionists who fled La Grange area. Factor lamented police interference while study of intercepted wires blamed for the abortive payoff setup.
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Chicago
John Factor
Wisconsin
la Grange
Jerome
Factor
Hellef
Wil
Liam Hamm, Jr
St. Paul Brewer
Charles Urschell
Oklahoma City
Hamm
Federa
Sergt
Michael Naughton
Mannheim Road
Wolf Road
Prison break wounds four at Guantanamo prison
In Guantanamo Cuba on August 17 four prisoners and several guards were wounded during a prison break attempt. An undetermined number of inmates escaped, with the wounded four reportedly recontained.
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Guantanamo
Cuba
Coal Producers Called To Meet Johnson In Washington
Washington August 17 The recovery administration issued a call to all bituminous coal producers who submitted codes of fair competition to convene with Hugh S Johnson chief administrator in Washington tomorrow to discuss the codes and enforcement.
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Washington
the Recovery Administration
Hugh 8. Johnson
Cotton farmers to repay part of federal debts
Secretary Wallace said southern cotton farmers in the cotton reduction campaign will repay less than 10 percent of about 110 million dollars in benefit payments. Farm credit and farm adjustment experts found under ten percent of funds affected by debts from past federal loans.
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Washington
Wallace
Secretary of Agriculture
Farm Credit Administration
Farm Adjustment Administration
Ewing Acquitted in Aberdeen Bank Robbery
CARTHAGE Aug 17 After months of imprisonment J P Ewing a member of a Cumberland county family was freed today A Moore County jury acquitted him of participating in the February robbery of the Page Bank and Trust Company at Aberdeen from Moore County court records confirms the dismissal of charges following deliberations of about one hour
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Carthage
J. P. Ewing
Cumberland County
Moore County
Ewing
Page Bank and Trust Company
Aberdeen
Strikes Across Regions Prompt Mediation Efforts
The Associated Press reports a broad strike wave with 60,000 dressmakers in New York New Jersey Connecticut and Pennsylvania rallying against sweatshop conditions. NRA chief Grover A Whalen mediates as strikes disrupt Philadelphia hosiery mills and Pacific coast fruit and vegetable areas amid violence reports.
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NRA
New York
New Jersey
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
Grover A. Whalen
Pacific Coast
Philadelphia
Cambria Hosiery Mills
International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union
Clean Up After Big Gale In Jamaica
Relief work continued after a six hour storm in Jamaica caused 70 deaths and about 2 million dollars in damage. Houses banana plantations bridges roads crops and communications were destroyed or damaged in the disaster described as the worst in 80 years.
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Kingston
Jamaica
Boy Killed As He Tries To Board Moving Truck
Andrews on August 17 reports Clyde T. Watson, 11, died when his clothing caught on lug bolts while attempting to board a moving truck. The wheel crushed his body.
Ames Named State Engineer Succeeds Ames as Chief
Raleigh August 17. John D. Waldrop assistant chief state highway engineer was named chief engineer to replace Leslie Ames who resigned from the state highway and public works commission. The move follows a commission re organization with Governor's backing and Ames declining future plans.
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Raleigh
John D. Waldrop
Leslie Ames
State Highway and Public Works Commission
Ames
Waldrop
S. C. Men Debate Prohibition Issue
Spartanburg, Aug. 17. J. A. Von Dohlen of Charleston and J. Lowery Pickett state Anti Saloon League head were to debate the prohibition issue in Spartanburg during a barbecue linked to the Happy Days celebration.
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Spartanburg
S. C
J. A. von Dohlen
Charleston
J. Lowery Pickett
Anti-Saloon League
NIRA Gets New Deal With Room For Its Mail Stamps
In Nira Iowa on August 17 AP reports the town sold the new three cent NIRA stamp first after Washington. Post office staff expanded from hand canceling to electric machines and crowds mailed hundreds of envelopes to be processed today. Residents call the stamp boom a needed new deal for the 20 inhabitants.
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Nira
Washington
E. J. Yoder
Yoder
United States
Akron Attorney Pleads Not Guilty in Quadruple Poisonings
Mark H. Shank an Akron Ohio attorney, 41, pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the poison deaths of Alvin Colley his wife Ethel and their two sons Clement and Claren. He waived preliminary hearing and remains jailed without bond as Saline County grand jury meets September 4. Shank was brought to Benton under heavy guard from Hot Spring.
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Benton
Ark
Mark H. Shank
Akron
Ohio
Alvin Colley
Colley
Justice of the Peace
J. P. Carter
Saline County
Millar Halbert
Ethel
Clement
Claren
Halbert
Shank
Roosevelt weighs oil code program
President Roosevelt weighs oil program as industry and NRA leaders review plans. Labor for steel code is being clarified, and NRA aims to bring coin and autos into campaign. Hearings address lumber retailers code and modifications to reemployment agreements for tobacco, glass, appliances, and other industries. Labor board to engage with company officials over union activity discrimination charges.
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Washington
Roosevelt
NRA
Labor Board
Stocks and Staples Rally Sparks Brief Upward Swing
New York stocks and staples rose in a brisk, about twenty minute rally led by grain declines and rebounds. Cotton jumped about a dollar per bale while major shares gained 3 to 5 dollars and bonds and the dollar moved. Wheat fell after noon as corn and rye held gains and several leading issues surged.
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New York
Chicago
Case Threshing
National Distillers
American Commercial Alcohol
Owena-Illinoia
U. S. Industria Alcohol
Westinghouse
Cleanese
U. S. Steel
Sears Roebuck
Bethlehem Steel
Montgomery Ward
Commercial Solvents
Santa Fe
Union and Deere and
Allied Chemical
Gandhi Refuses Evening Meal Initiates New Fest in Poona
In Poona on August 17 Mahatma Gandhi refused his evening meal an act described as the start of a new festival. The event marks a symbolic break linked to his ongoing hunger strike and peaceful protest strategies.
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Poona
India
Mahatma Gandhi
Gangster Killed by Police Guns
Gene Johnson, linked to the Wilbur Underhill gang, was shot and seriously wounded in a machine gun battle with Kansas Oklahoma and Arkansas officers at a farm near Springtown Arkansas. His wife was wounded but not seriously and taken to jail. Johnson was taken to a hospital.
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Paradise
Texas
Harvey J. Bailey
Charles F. Urschel
Oklahoma City
Bailey
Urschel
Kansas Penitentiary
Union Station
Kansas City
Lilden
Underhill
Bentonville
Ark
Gene Johnson
G. R. Maples
Wilbur Underhill
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Springtown
Here
Johnson
Sterling to Become Ambassador to the United States
Washington Aug 17 Dr Manuel Marquez Sterling former Cuban ambassador to Mexico accepted President Carlos de Cespedes offer to be ambassador to Washington Sterling cabled his acceptance while in Washington to Provisional President de Cespedes at the time of the agreement
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Washington
Manuel Marquez Sterling
Mexico
Carlos de Cespedes
Sterling
de Cespedes
Death and poison haunt the nation in a string of murder cases
A series of grisly crimes unfolds from Washington state to Vermont and Arkansas. Victims include a doctor in Mississippi, multiple murders in New Jersey and New Hampshire, and poison deaths blamed on a mother in Chelsea Vermont and a Detroit woman. The cases center on mysterious killers and grisly remorses.
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Greenwood
Miss
Arkansas
Detroit
Chelsea
400 000 Returned To Jobs In July
Secretary Perkins announced that about 400000 factory workers returned to jobs in July and that weekly wages in manufacturing rose by roughly 29 million compared with March. Based on expert reports re employed in manufacturing from March to July totaled 1100000 and another 300000 in 16 non manufacturing industries.
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Washington
Perkins
Southern Mills Protest Tax on Textiles amid NRA code debate
ATLANTA Aug 17 Diverse views from Southern cotton mills on the federal processing tax and NRA code effects. Executives from Victor Monaghan and Lane Cotton mills travel to Washington with petitions for relief, citing reduced sales and capital needs while other mills report work on current orders and code-backed activity. Odenheimer warns wages and universal work weeks are needed to prevent shutdowns as prices rise and consumer buying falls.
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Atlanta
Southern Cotton Mills
Greenville
D. C
YT. M. Marchant
Victor-Monagham Mill
American Cotton Manufacturers Association
R. E. Henry
Duncan Mill
Washington
Hugh S. Johnson
Wallace
W. P. Jacobs
Clinton
8. C
South Carolina Cotton Manufacturers Association
Marchant
Henry
Odenheimer
Lane Cotton Mills
New Orleans
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Lumberton
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Clara Lumpkin
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James If
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