Strikes Dominate Nation as 100000 Idle and Wages Sought
In a nationwide wave, about 100000 workers idle as leaders press wage increases and union representation. AFL head William Green pushes craft union lines, while John L. Lewis pursues industrial union strategy. Chrysler plants in Detroit pause operations amid sit down strikes and supplier Briggs cuts 4500 jobs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Washington
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Chicago
Steel
Benjamin F. Fairless
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation
John P. Frey
Independent Labor Group
CIO
United Automobile Workers of America
Chrysler Corporation
Chrysler
Detroit
New Castle
Ind
Briggs Mfg. Co
Hudson Motor Car Company
Charlottesville Dentist Indicted for Murder
Dr. R G Miller of Charlottesville was indicted by an Albemarle County grand jury on murder charges in the death of Cleo Lurrouse an 18 year old high school student. The foreman J Y Sutherland announced the true bill after an unannounced session. Commonwealth's Attorney W Fife noted under Virginia law murder is presumed second degree and the burden to prove first degree rests with the commonwealth.
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Charlottesville
R. G. Miller
Albemarle County
Cleo Lurrouse
J. Y. Sutherland
Commonwealth
W. ©. Fife
Albemarle
Virginia
Tragic hotel death links mother and newborn
Nashville police traced a deadly plunge from an eleventh floor hotel to a 28 year old mother and her newborn baby killed instantly. Assistant Chief Winfrey said the incident appeared to be self inflicted and not accidental.
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Nashville
Tenn
Aassistant
W. B. Winfrey
Pair Sentenced to Two Years on Chain Gang
In Decatur Georgia Superior Court Judge J C Davis sentenced Claude Dickens and Ben Arm stead to two years on the chain gang for robbing R H Elrod of Hickory North Carolina.
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Decatur
Superior Court
J. C. Davis
Claude Dickens
Ben Armstead
R. H. Elrod
Hickory
N. C
Ships sunk or rescued as Canary islands tale unfolds
In Arcachon France on March 9 a Spanish seaman told how the ship Mar Cantabrico was bombarded in the Bay of Biscay and towed by the insurgent Canarias while its cargo of 2.7 million dollars in American munitions may have fallen into insurgent hands. London officials sought fate of crew and two Americans aboard the freighter as the clash intensified with the cruiser Canarias and the destroyer Echo nearby.
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Arcachon
France
Mar Cantabrico
Canarias
Juan Poo
Bay of Biscay
London
Echo
House approves new peace bill with broader presidential discretion
The House Foreign Affairs Committee substituted its neutrality measure for the Senate version. Both bills continue mandatory embargoes on arms exports and denials of credits to warring nations. The House bill grants the President greater discretion to designate materials as military supplies for regulatory purposes.
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Washington
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Senate
House
River yields missing man
The body of J. Thomas Pierce, 60, was recovered from the Trent river in New Bern after a February 20 disappearance. Coroner Mack Henderson ruled accidental drowning and said no inquest would be held. Pierce worked as a press man for a local weekly paper. he leaves a brother James Pierce and a Raleigh-based sister.
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New Bern
J. Thomas Pierce
Trent River
Mack Henderson
Pierce
James Pierce
Raleigh
Wilkes County Grand Jury Urges All Weather Bus Routes
The Wilkes county grand jury recommended that all school bus and mail routes be made suitable for all weather travel and that school bus safety be improved.
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North Wilkesboro
Wilkes County
Asheville Normal students end five day sit down strike
Students at Asheville Normal and Teachers college ended a five day sit down strike after school officials granted more liberal campus regulations. A settlement was announced by a student committee after negotiations with Dr. John B. Calfee and the college administrative board. The single unresolved demand, permitting girls to ride in automobiles with their dates, requires approval from Presbyterian Church headquarters in New York before final action.
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Asheville
Asheville Normal and Teachers College
John B. Calfee
Girls’ College
Calfee
New York
The
Presbyterian Church (Northern
Roosevelt Works On Speech For the Street Audience
Washington March 9 President Roosevelt revises his latest address to reach the "man on the street" and will broadcast at 10 30 tonight. White House aides say he aims for plain language and clear contentions while labor developments, including AFL leaders meeting steel workers reps in Pittsburgh, draw attention. Chairman Jones hopes farm tenancy hearings proceed soon. A coal control bill backed by United Mine Workers and coal operators seeks stable prices, replacing the Guffey act.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
White House
American Federation of Labor
I. O
John P. Frey
Labor Federation
Metal Trades Department
Pittsburgh
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation
Jones
D-Tex
House Agriculture Committee
Lewis’ United Mine Workers
House
Free Textbook Bill Now Law in North Carolina
Raleigh March 9. Legislature enacted the free textbook and old age and child aid bills into law today. Senators voted 36 to 9 for the social security measure on final reading with House amendments. Senator Bell of Mecklenburg voted present after opposing it. The House approved a senate change removing mandatory free books for elementary pupils next year while high school students would rent books. Over 60 bills were hurried through, most local in scope.
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Raleigh
Bell
Mecklenburg
House
Senate
Gun dealer held as witness in New York sandhog leader killing
A New York gun dealer Moe Saraga was held as a material witness in the slaying of RR Norman Redwood, a New York sandhog union leader. Prosecutor John J. Breslin Jr identified him, initially jailed without bail, later granted bail at $1,000 after stating he had been very helpful.
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Hackensack
N. J
New York
John J. Breslin, Jr
Moe Saraga
RR. Norman Redwood
Breslin
Plan Aims Shared Pitt County Whisky Profits
Greenville Ayden Farmville and Grifton mayors discuss a plan to distribute some Pitt County whisky profits to the cities. The talks focus on allocating funds from liquor revenue to local municipalities.
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Greenville
Ayden
Farmville
Grifton
Pitt County
Five Thousand Insurgents Attack Near Madrid Front
In Guadalajara province insurgents massed about five thousand troops using modern equipment to push toward Madrid from Algora and along the Zaragoza Guadalajara Madrid route. Tanks led assaults near Las Inviernas and Alaminos as planes dropped bombs and aimed at trains. Three Italians were captured in a counter thrust.
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Madrid
Guadalajara
Algora
Zaragoza-Guadalajara- Madrid
Las Inviernas
Alaminos
Jarama River
City to open bids on tracks project Wednesday
City council members will open bids next Wednesday afternoon for a project to depress railroad tracks in the city. About fourteen contractors have requested plans and bid estimates, with the effort aiming to use roughly 850000 dollars provided by participating agencies. Earl N. Phillips said he will contact Capus M. Waynick of the State Highway and Public Works commission about the plans.
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Waynick
Earl N. Phillips
Capus M. Waynick
State Highway and Public Works Commission
Medical Society to Convene in City
About 100 delegates are expected for the Eighth District Medical Society one day meeting at the Sheraton on Thursday April 8. The program will include afternoon sessions and a dinner. Prominent medical figures will speak. attending doctors hail from Orsyth Randolph Stokes Surry Yadkin Wilkes Alleghany Ashe Rockingham Guilford. Dr. H L Brockmann of High Point is president, Dr M D Bonner of Guilford County Sanatorium is vice president, and Dr B T Harrison of High Point is secretary treasurer.
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Eighth District Medical Society
Sheraton Hotel
Orsyth
Randolph
Stokes
Surry
Yadkin
Wilkes
Alleghany
Ashe
Rockingham
Guilford
H. L. Brockmann
High Point
M. D. Bonner
Guilford County
Guilford Liquor Profits Bill Introduced in Raleigh
The Guilford county delegation introduced in the House a bill to allocate 50 percent of liquor profits from sales within Guilford towns to the municipalities and 50 percent to the county if liquor sales are legalized there. The measure outlines profit distribution and applicable conditions.
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Guilford
Raleigh
Guilford County
House of Representatives
Farmer Indicted On Murder Count In Nash Co
Nash county grand jury indicted Melvin Coggins, a farmer, for the murder of Castalia farmer Henry June Fogleman ten days earlier. Fogleman was found in a wood with shotgun wounds to the abdomen and severe head injuries.
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Nashville
N. C
Nash County Grand Jury
Melvin Coggins
Henry June Fogleman
Fogleman
Earth Shocks Felt Across Seven States and Ontario
Seismologists link shocks felt across Ohio Michigan Indiana Kentucky Illinois Wisconsin Ontario to glacial crust upheaval. Records from Chicago Harvard show tremors at 11 45 p m lasting two to 15 minutes with negligible damage and comparable to last week’s quakes.
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Chicago
Mid-West States
Canada
Ohio
Harvard University
Concensus
Midwest
Indiana
Kentucky
Illinois
West Virginia
Michigan
Wisconsin
Ontario
Textile union plans nationwide drive for 1.25 million workers
United Textile Workers and John L. Lewis outlined a campaign to enroll 1.25 million textile workers. They seek a 35 hour work week and a minimum weekly wage of 18 dollars. Gorman said activity would focus on woolen and worsted mills around Lawrence Massachusetts with possible strikes depending on company negotiations. The cotton mill drive targets southern plants with similar issues.
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Washington
Mar
United Textile Workers of America
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Francis J. Gorman
United Textile Workers
Lawrence
Mass
Gorman
American Woolen Company
Patchwork Burns Agency Reports Scrutinized in Senate Probe
Senate investigators examined patched documents and agent reports found in Burns Detective Agency waste baskets. The material, seized last August from the St. Louis office by La Follette Civil Liberties committee investigators, included a memo stating Carter Carburetor of St. Louis highly recommended Burns for breaking a strike through constant surveillance of agitators.
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Washington
Senate
Burns Detective Agency
St. Louis
la Follette Civil Liberties
Carter Carburetor Company
Burns Service
Emil Hurja to Quit Politics
Emil Hurja, a a longtime Democratic strategist who helped the party win three elections for the national committee, says he will quit politics within 60 days and return to private business. Friends say he plans to join a New York insurance firm.
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Washington
Emil Hurja
Democratic National Committee
James A. Farley
New York
Engineer W. M. Hibbs Dies of Heart Attack
W. M. Hibbs fifty six? Forty six? New Hanover county engineer for the Works Progress Administration collapsed at 9:30 AM in Wilmington as he prepared to leave for work. He had been in declining health for months but was not seriously ill.
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Wilmington
W. M. Hibbs
New Hanover County
Works Progress Administration
Boy Struck by Truck Near School Bus in Airy
Robert Murray Jr. age 10 was hit by a truck after alighting from a school bus in Airy on March 9. He is reported in critical condition with injuries awaiting further medical updates.
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Mt, Airy
Robert Murray, Jr
Court Plan Critics Attacked by Farley in UNC Speech
James A. Farley charged Roosevelt critics of the court plan with straining at a gnat and cited precedent for change. Speaking at the University of North Carolina under North Carolina Political Union auspices, he dismissed alternatives and said Democratic Senators support the plan’s aims while opposing its method to “pack the court.”
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Chapel Hill
James A. Farley
Roosevelt
Dem
North Lina Political Union
University of North Carolina
Democratic Party
Wheeler
Man
Connally
Texas
Charles Evans Hughes
Hoover Admin N
Supre Court
Philphy
French loan efforts meet cool reception abroad
The Treasury brushes off a French plan to attract U.S. funding for its new defense loan. Secretary Morgenthau says investors, lawyers, and federal district attorneys must decide if sending money overseas to buy French government securities violates the Johnson Act. He notes the Treasury would be told of large capital shipments, but cannot know individual actions.
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Washington
Treasury
Eft
Atlantic
France
Morgenthau
WALLY TO GET BIG RECEPTION IN FRANCE
A large Touraine chateau hosts Wallis Warfield Simpson and Riviera guests Mr and Mrs Herman L Rogers as preparations include 10000 francs in flowers. The event centers on the bride-to-be of the Duke of Windsor with hints of a very distinguished guest possibly joining the party.
Driver Cleared In Man's Death Near Raleigh
W Bardoux of Raleigh was cleared by Wake county coroner L M Waring of criminal negligence in the automobile death of J Rank Hussey 42 of Caraleigh on a highway near Raleigh early Monday.
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Raleigh
W. Bardoux
L. M. Waring
Wake County
J. Rank Hussey
Caraleigh
Planes To Land At Fort Bragg From War Games
Sixty four plane squadron returning from the west coast war games refueled at an Army hangar in Atlanta and set course for Fort Bragg. Officials said two more planes would refuel today as the remainder of the squadron continued to Fort Bragg, Va.
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Atlanta
Marine Corps
Arenas
Fort Bragg
Army
Montgomery
Strikes Fail to Halt Mary New York Market Rally
In New York trading, despite widespread strikes and cold start, buyers bid up steel, mine, oil, and rail issues with modest gains. Chrysler and related auto shares showed hesitancy as activity softened into the late morning with few major advances.
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New York
Naval planes en route to home base after Caribbean cruise
Eight seaplanes arrived in Charleston early today bound for Norfolk Virginia after a visit here. Seven left at 8 30 a m and the eighth followed. The ships had returned from a cruise to the Caribbean Sea and the missions abroad.
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Charleston
8. C
Norfolk
Carribbean Sea
Shot By Father Ends With Son Wounded in Farm Shooting
Wilson March 9 Da las Pridgen a 60 year old farmer was held in jail here in connection with the shooting of his son Albert 22 last night Albert whose arm was shot was reported in a fair condition at a hospital here
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Wilson
Dalas Pridgen
Albert
Prosecuting Attorney seeks warrant over old check case
Parker Waynick plans to charge Lizzie Mae Isaac with false pretense after she allegedly cashed a ten year old cancelled check in Beamon street. He notes the check for 3 dollars was drawn on C Earnhardt’s account, endorsed and cashed by G B Wilberly, despite being cancelled years ago.
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Parker Waynick
Lizzie Mae Isaac
T Beamon Street
Cle
C. Earnhardt
G. B. Wiberly
Attor
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Thames
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Big Ben
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MED Society
Farmer
Textile Union Maps
Farley
Democratic Executive Committee
Wally
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