Exemptions Trigger Heated Debate Over Wage Hour Law
The House enters its sixth day of wage hour debate with more than 30 proposals to exempt agricultural processing workers from the act. The Chamber of Commerce urged repeal and broad Wagner Act revision, while Administration allies seek to limit changes. Buck's amendment would extend exemptions to about 200 000 workers in small farm cooperatives, sparking argument over washing navy beans and other tasks. The issue looms as calendar action near mid May.
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House
United States Chamber of Commerce
Congress
Rep
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Calif
Wadsworth
R-Ny
Wallace Advocates Long Term Loans For Farm Relief
Secretary Wallace urged a long term rural works program and expansion of Federal farm loans before the Senate civil liberties committee to curb unemployed farm laborers. He cited soil waste, low prices, market losses, tenure problems, and rising farm population as causes and urged Congress to fund public works in crowded farm areas.
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Washington
Wallace
Agriculture Department
Senate Civil Liberties Committee
Congress
Cash For U S Arms Program Calls for Pay As We Go Basis
The U S Chamber of Commerce resolutions committee proposed a 24 point program to speed up arming the nation on a pay as we go basis urging economies in government operations to finance safety. It asks Congress to reaffirm keeping the U S out of war unless endangered and notes uncertainty over Allied loan policies given European assets.
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Washington
United States
United States Chamber of Commerce
Resolutions Committee
Congress
11th annual industrial safety conference May 14 16
The 11th annual statewide industrial safety conference will be held in Winston Salem from May 14 to May 16. May 2 note public date in report.
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Winston-Salem
Norwegians block Nazi linking forces in Norway
Norwegians aided by foreign volunteers move west from the Swedish border and south through the Glomma River Valley as German forces retreat to protect supply lines in central Norway. Norwegian control of Roros and Tynset disrupts Nazi north–south linkage. Swedes are believed among volunteers. A British sea and air offensive targets the German flow.
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Gallagher
Stockholm
Glomma River
Norway
Roros
Tynset
Oslo
Germans Announce Capture of Andalsnes in Norway
Berlin reports that Nazi forces have entered Andalsnes, the Allied debarkation point on Norway’s west coast. The port, used in Britain’s attempt to seize German held Trondheim 100 miles north, was occupied at 3 p.m. local time.
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Andalsnes
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Britain
Trondheim
Kidnapped Comedian Ignites Harvard MIT Riot
Harvard and MIT students clashed after the kidnapping of Eddie Rochester Anderson. Seven Harvard men were fined for disturbing the peace, two MIT students faced charges, and roughly twenty Harvard students lost their clothes in the mêlée along Memorial Drive and Harvard Square.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.I.T
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Eddie
Rochester” Anderson
WPA
Tech
Charles River
Harvards
M.I.T. Men
AFL denounces Arnold probe as malice or politics
Pittsburgh May 2 AFL spokesmen label the government's building trades inquiry a malicious or politically driven attack. The Pennsylvania AFL convention adopted a resolution urging court interpretation of the Sherman Act as it applies to worker organizations and warning of injunctions to halt further prosecutions. Leaders John P. Coyne and Matthew Woll insist the attack targets unions, not the New Deal, and deny backing any individuals guilty of corruption.
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Pennsylvania Federation of Labor
Thurman Arnold
AFL
Arnold
John P. Coyne
AFL Building Construction Trades Department
Matthew Woll
Federation International
State Board Appointments Announced by Hoey Today
Governor Hoey announced four appointments to state boards and commissions. Dr. James A. Palmer of Charlotte named for a five year term on the state board of examiners in optometry. Dr. Edward M. Stafford of Durham named for a five year term on the board of osteopathic examination and registration. Kingsland Van Winkle of Asheville reappointed for a two year term on the commission on uniform state laws. Fred Sutton of Kinston named for a two year term expiring December 1, 1941, succeeding J Crawford Biggs of Raleigh.
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N. C
Hoey
James A. Palmer
Charlotte
State Board of Examiners
John T. Campbell
Washington
Edward M. Stafford
Durham
Board of
Sherman T. Lewis
New Bern
Kingsland van Winkle
Asheville
J. Monroe Johnson Nominated to Interstate Commerce
President Roosevelt nominated J. Monroe Johnson assistant secretary of commerce since 1935 to fill an unexpired term on the Interstate Commerce Commission. Johnson, a Marion South Carolina native turning 62, will serve until December 31, 1941 and comes praised for railroad expertise and Southern transport familiarity. Johnson accepted the nomination by phone from Indianapolis.
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J. Monroe Johnson
Roosevelt
Interstate Commerce Commission
Johnson
Marion
S. C
M. M. Caskie
Alabama
Stephen T. Early
White House
Indianapolis
Greece Calls Army Officers in Reserve to Active Duty
Greece announced the call up of ten classes of reserve army officers for active service. Officers must report by May 65 as Premier Metaxas praised unity in face of European tension amid Italy’s Mediterranean plans. Negotiations with a great friendly power, possibly France, aim to mobilize Greek workers for war industries and farming. The Allies pledge aid if Greece’s independence or territory is threatened.
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Greece
Italy
Mediterranean
John Metaxas
Piraeus
Metaxas
Cabinet Heads Are In Weak Position
In London May 2 Britain faces a political storm as Prime Minister Chamberlain faces scrutiny while Parliament meets. British forces raided Norway targets including Stavanger Aalborg and Fornebu and claimed air and sea actions with no British casualties and at least one German plane shot down. British ships bombed convoys in the Kattegat as German transport ships were sunk or set afire. A German-identified aircraft was seen over a southeast coast town and a trawler and motor vessel were machine-gunned at night.
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Britain
Norway
House of Commons
Chamberlain
Germany
Air Ministry
Stavanger
Aalborg
Fornebu
Oslo
Norderney
Stockholm
Kattegat
Andalsnes
Trondheim
Mediterranean
Britain withdraws from Andalsnes in Norway campaign
Prime Minister Chamberlain announced Britain and France will abandon the Andalsnes foothold and retreat south of Trondheim while vowing continued resistance in Norway. He said German losses were heavy and a British French fleet moves toward Alexandria. The German high command reported Norwegian and British forces surrender and a rail line at Bergen fell to German control.
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Andals
Berlin
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Britain
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Oslo
Bergen
Myrdal
Kleven
Deputy Chief of Staff Brigadier General Gasser to Retire
Brigadier General Lorenzo OD Gasser, deputy chief of staff of the army, reaches retirement age tomorrow and will be succeeded on June 1 by Brigadier General William Bryden. General Gasser earned the Distinguished Service Medal for World War I service with the AEF as a staff officer.
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Lorenzo OD. Gasser
Army
William Bryden
Gasser
AEF
Tension in Adriatic as Ciano assures Yugoslavia safe
Rome May 2 Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano told United States Ambassador William Phillips that Yugoslavia lies safe from Italian invasion. Phillips spoke with Mussolini and Ciano in two days as diplomatic tension eased after British shipping was diverted from the Mediterranean.
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Richard G. Maslock
Rome
Count Galeazzo Ciano
United States
William Phillips
Yugoslavia
Italy
Adriatic
Mussolini
Ciano
Mediterranean
Phillips
Foreign Ministry
Tr Duce
Murderer in Domestic Dispute Takes Two Lives in Raleigh
Ron ald E Turner 27 a truck driver for the city sanitary department shot and killed Joe B Mitchell 40 a city worker then wounded himself seriously. Coroner Roy M Banks said Mitchell suffered eight bullet wounds. Superintendent C G Chappell said domestic difficulties sparked the tragedy and Turner had complained a rival to his home life involving Mitchell.
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Raleigh
Ronald E. Turner
City Sanitary Department
Joe B. Mitchell
City
Roy M. Banks
Mitchell
C. G. Chappell
Sanitary Department
Germany's war chest grows beyond 200 million dollars
American officials estimate the Reich's war chest now totals over 200 million dollars in gold and convertible assets after Denmark and Norway seizures. Norway and Denmark held large gold reserves before invasion and assets here are frozen by Roosevelt. Authorities note nonreported reserves and con tinuing German commercial commitments may be funded by gold shipments through neutral countries.
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Lloyd Lehrers
Washington
Germany
Denmark
Norway
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Hitler
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Roosevelt
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Oslo
Austria
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Switzerland
Hungary
Allied Aid To Norway Pledged By British Leader
Sir Kingsley Wood told the Primrose League that Britain will not rest until Norway is freed. He framed the fight as defense of civilization and humanity against a wicked force that would exterminate if unchecked. Brig. Sen. Sir Henry Page Croft warned that each German capital ship could invite two Allied ships elsewhere.
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Kingsley Wood
Privy Seal
Great Britain
Norway
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Henry Page Croft
Mussolini
League
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Black Sea
Germany
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