AFL Opposed Labor Measure Says Green
William Green of the AFL urged the House to send the wages and hours bill back to committee for revision. He described the pending bill as highly objectionable to AFL members and advocated changes to make it practical. The House rejected a rival AFL supported substitute 162 to 131 amid furious debate as Congress races to finish farm, wages and hours bills before the special session ends.
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Washington
William Green
House
American Federation of Labor
A. F. of L
Green
Federal Trade Commission
Bankhead
White House
Senate
Postal Workers Strike Hits Six Cities Over Wages
The American Radio Telegraphists association CIO calls a strike of Postal Telegraph workers in New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh Washington Buffalo and other cities protesting low wages and long hours. Wages cited as 12 to 14 dollars for a 50 to 54 hour week. Picket lines form at Broad Street office with 500 employees reportedly cut. Company blames feud between AFL and CIO unions for the disruption.
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New York
American Radio Telegraphists Association
CIO
Postal Telegraph Company
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Washington
Buffalo
Broad Street
Will Rogers Pantheon planned near Shrine of the Sun
Colorado Springs financier L. Penrose announced plans to build a domed windowless Will Rogers Pantheon beside the Will Rogers Shrine of the Sun on Cheyenne Mountain. The project highlights local civic pride and speculative tourism development for Colorado Springs.
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Will Rogers
Colorado Springs
Belated Holiday Begins In The Hater Christmas Serial
Linda Benton marries Capt. Barrymore Trent in a secret union seeking grounds for marriage. The couple faces unforeseen tests as the gripping new Christmas serial Belated Holiday unfolds, promising dramatic twists for readers.
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Linda Benton
Capt
Barrymore Trent
Russians Move to Arrest Missing Robinsons in Moscow
Izvestia reports Soviet authorities have taken steps to locate and arrest the couple known as Mr and Mrs Donald L Robinson amid questions over their true identities and alleged use of fraudulent US passports Federal agents in New York pursue theories of espionage linked to American leftist groups while Moscow hosts conflicting accounts of their disappearance and possible arrest.
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Moscow
Izvestia
Donald L. Robinson
American State Department
New York
United States State Department
Robinsons
Russia
State Department
Alabama Frees 554 Convicts For Christmas Vacation
Alabama began its annual two week Christmas vacation for inmates with 654 chosen to be released on good behavior. Governor Bibb Graves started the man to man parole system a decade ago, and 50 of those freed are women.
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Alabama
Montgomery
Ala
Bibb Graves
Graves
Woolworth Workers In New York Strike
Union leaders called out 5,000 Woolworth employees at 124 stores in the New York metropolitan area. Coinciding with the strike, Countess Haugwite Reventlow sailed for Europe on the Europa after saying she would spend Christmas with her father Franklyn L. Hutton.
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New York
Woolworth
Countess Haugwite-Reventlow
Barbara Hutton
Europe
Europa
Franklin L. Hutton
Lewis Raps Operators in Little Steel Girdler Targeted
John L. Lewis denounced Little Steel operators at the SWOC congress in Pittsburgh as he hailed the CIO led labor movement. He called Tom Girdler murderously opposed to unionism while praising the new industrial union and organized labor gains despite AFL opposition.
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Pittsburgh
John L. Lewis
CIO
First National Congress
SWOC
Tom Girdler
Republic Steel Corporation
Girdler
Christian Church
Great Iron and Steel Industry of
America
American Federation of Labor
Lewis
Philip Murray
William Green
A. F. of L
National Labor Relations Board
Senate Rejects Lee Substitute on Cotton in Ever Normal Plan
The Senate voted 56 to 26 to substitute a domestic allotment cotton program for the compulsory cotton section of the ever normal granary bill. Leaders criticized Secretary Wallace's remarks on run bill proposals as debates intensified. Senator Russell denounced the two price system as a fascism risk and objected to farm planting limits.
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Wiahington
Senate
Lee
D.-Okla
Wallace
Russell
Bailey
D.-N
Secretary of Agriculture
McGill
D.-Kans
Massengill Receives Federal Citations Over Fatal Drug
Dr Samuel Evans Massengill of Massengill Co Bristol Tennessee is cited to appear for hearings before federal food and drug administration officials in Cincinnati and Kansas City. Officials say interstate shipments of a sulfanilamide compound caused multiple deaths. Justice Department may pursue action.
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Department of Justice
Massengill
Kansas City
Postle
Eherner
Three Men Arrested In Surprise Raid On Still
Federal officers and Guilford county deputies conducted a noon raid on a 100 gal still in a store room near Mountain road to Asheboro. Arrested were Earl Davidson, Charlie Curry, and Sam Jones. the operation had run since July and involved a farm near Flint Hill church.
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Guilford County
Asheboro
Flint Hill Church
Sam Jones
F. D. Lomax
J. R. Brandon
Greensboro
C. L. Gray
W. L. Wheeless
Guilford
Earl Davidson
Charlie Curry
Thomasville
George Curry
Burrus Memorial Hospital
Lomax
Hirth Point
Davidson
Japs Plan Formal Naval Salute To United States
Tokyo reports the navy will detail a company of bluejackets to honor Panay victims at the Yangtze site where they were killed. The gesture aims as a high profile tribute amid the Panay incident. Japanese officials say it is not tied to U S protest and note ongoing efforts for a satisfactory settlement.
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U. S
Tokyo
Yangtze River
Nanking
Standard Oil
Admiralty
United States Navy
United States
Imperial Japanese Navy
Koki Hirota
Foreign Ministry
Navy
China
Japan
Bombing hits UAW district office in Detroit
The United Automobile Workers district office, once used as Ford organizing HQ, was lightly damaged by a bombing. No people were present. Records had been moved to international offices. Zigmund Bobrzynski called it part of a campaign of warnings to deter Ford organizing efforts.
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Detroit
United Automobile Workers
Ford Motor Co
International
Zigmund Bobrzynski
Ford
US deficit falls below FDR estimate for 1938
Treasury reports the net deficit for the fiscal year sunk under the $695,245,000 Roosevelt estimate after tax receipts in early December. By December 14 the excess had dropped to $686,947,023 with further reductions expected after quarterly income tax payments.
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Washington
The
Treasury
Roosevelt
Highways Mad with Ice Leave Five Dead in Pa Snow
Falling temperatures and a sheet of ice caused scores of accidents across Pennsylvania highways. At least five people were killed as snow and rain froze, delaying bus services around Philadelphia and trapping motorists in long lines or skidoffs. many others were injured.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Flood Forces Sandbag Defense on Tiber River
Fire crews and Fascist volunteers hurried to build sandbag dikes along the Tiber to stem rising waters in Rome the worst flood since 1999. The effort aimed to protect central areas as the river threatened homes and infrastructure.
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Rome
Tiber
Panay Incident Deepens After Japanese Attack
Secretary Hull says official ports confirm Japanese surface vessels strafed the Panay after air bombing by Japanese fliers. Survivors fled by boat as planes dived and machine gunned the lifeboats. two wounded. Japanese boats approached and some boarded the Panay for about five minutes despite visible American colors. Hull awaits Tokyo's reply to the protest note.
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Washington
Hull
Tokyo
Foreign Office
State Department
Rear Admiral Mitsunami relieved after Panay bombing
Read Admiral Teizo Mitsunami chief of Japanese naval aerial operations was dismissed today in connection with the bombing of the US gunboat Panay.
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Japan
Shanghai
Heizo Mitsunami
China
Hirota
Cabinet Council
United States
Britain
Teizo Mitsunami
Panay
Narcotics Case Ends in Mistrial in Spartanburg
Federal Judge Wyche ordered a mistrial after the jury failed to reach a verdict in a conspiracy case involving four defendants Clyde Foster R C Kelly A W Holler and Dewey Johnson. An undercover investigation tied Spartanburg as a narcotics supply source while five co-defendants pleaded guilty.
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Spartanburg
8. C
C. ¢. Wyche
Clyde Foster
R. C. Kelly
A. W. Holler
Dewey Johnson
Asheville
N. C
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Mediana
Zaragoza
Huesca
Fuebla de Montalban
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