Coal union code debate slows restoration of open shop
Washington reports Hugh S Johnson says open shop provision may be dropped if the industry fails to drop the clause. NRA chief insists collective bargaining cannot be weakened. Arkansas Oklahoma coal area seeks special treatment to sustain wage scales amid oil and gas competition. Operators largely back union code, including Earl Cobb and others, while G G Steele opposes truck shipment committee probes.
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Washington
Recovery Administration
Hugh S Johnson
NRA
Johnson
Roosevelt
Arkansas-Oklahoma
Indusry
Earl Cobb
Arkansas-Oklahoma Smokeless Coal Bureau
Charles ¥. Hosford
D Jr
Pennsylvania
Howard Showalter
Herbert L. Howard
Chicago
Binkley Coal Company
W. Ward Guthrie
Granville
Ilinois
Barbers and shops get work limits under PACT
Barbers and beauty shop operators gain authority under the Presidents employment agreement via NRA concessions. Hour limits set at 428 hours weekly for barbers and 48 hours for shop operators, with clerical staff capped at 40 hours and no under 16 employment. Managers exempt if not active in shop duties. service to customers closing time not counted as work hours. no overtime for served patrons. Weekly shop hours cannot drop below 52, and preJuly 1 levels must hold. A separate union code proposes a 30 cent minimum for haircuts, 25 cent per shave, 48-hour week over six days, and a $25 base or 60 percent of chair receipts as weekly wage.
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NRA
Healihy
New York
Washington
Journeymen Barbers International Union of America
Heart May Break If Husband Slaps Too Hard
In Chancery Court a divorce case, Dr. B Ward Scanlan testified that a broken heart is real and can cause physical issues. He said two or three slaps might trigger a general breakdown in a loving wife, while a wife who does not love her husband would suffer less harm. He noted three slaps over months could lead to anaemia and weight loss.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Chancerry
B. Ward Scanlan
Seaman
Scanlan
Lillian Laul
D. Harry Saul
Posse Hunts Pretty Boy in Osage Hills
A 15 officer posse from Washington and Nowata counties left Tulsa for an unannounced destination in search of Charles Pretty Boy Floyd, a wanted Oklahoma felon. Pawhuska officers knew nothing of the report and said no Osage county officers are with the group. Floyd was said to have been seen on Panther Creek in Osage County.
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Tulsa
Okla
Washington
Nowata
Charles
Pretty Boy
Lightning strikes at Gouville camp kill two people
In Countances France a lightning bolt hit a vacation camp at Gouville Sur Mer during drills injuring seventeen children and killing a twelve year old boy and a nineteen year old instructor. The incident caused a panic as the frightened group was rushed to safety.
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Countances
France
Gouville-Sur- Mer
Unidentified man killed by freight train in Newport
An unknown man about 23 years old was found dead in the Issguri Pacific railroad yards Newport Arkansas early today. His left leg was severed near the knee. Authorities believe he fell from a freight train and was run over. Papers in his pocket suggested the name Joe Webster with unknown address and that he had served in the civilian conservation corps at Camp Slatington Montgomery County. Most CCC members at Camp Slatington are from St. Louis.
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Newport
Ark
Joe Webster
Camp Slatington
Montgomery County
C. C
St.1uis
Sudan Capital Tenge Troops Guard Palace
Fragmentary note reports Ha vana starvation and widespread distress. The document mentions four warships near harbor and a growing revolution. It claims President Machado must resign while calls for international intervention rise as lights and water threaten outages.
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Sudan
Tenge
Havana
Sirs Machado
Monett Trio Hurt in Texas Auto Crash
In Austin Texas Aug 11 Mr and Mrs Tom Steele and their son Tom of Howett and F E McCray of Austin were injured when the Steele car and a truck driven by McCray collided near here All were taken to Austin hospitals Steele suffered arm and knee injuries and facial cuts Mrs Steele had a head gash the child was only slightly hurt Final injuries to McCray not yet determined.
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Austin
Tex
Tom Steele
Tom
Howett
McCray
Here
Steele
Arkansas officers capture Texas Slim Kesferson
Helena Arkansas August 11 AP sought in the White River country for months Frank n Kesferson known as Texas Slim, 35, a suspected slayer, was wounded and captured by Phillips County officers. Authorities say he broke jail at Hickman Kentucky and eluded pursuers by jumping into a river from a high bridge. A special aviation section will open at the Franklin Institute Museum in Philadelphia.
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Helena
Ark
Big Iland
White River
Texas Slim
Kes Ferson
Phillips County
Keslerson
Hickman
Foster
Prison Deputy Punched For Dragcan Favor
Leavenworth Kansas August 11 AP Warden Hudspeth suspends assistant warden Kearney over privileges granted to Terry Druggan Chicago beer baron serving tax evasion sentence. Druggan allegedly drove a prison truck and visited a girlfriend temporary resident in Leavenworth. Kearney long service with Spanish American War background. career paths noted from Manila to Atlanta to Leavenworth.
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Leavenworth
Kas
HL. R. Hudspeth
Federal Prison Annex
Patri¢s C. Keaney
Terry Druggan
Chicago
Washington
Bureau of Prison
Kearney
Druggan
Manila
Atlanta
T. B. White
Fred Zerbst
White
Annex
Hudspeth
Probe into Kansas City shoe industry riot and blast
Investigation into a so called racket in the Kansas City shoe repairing industry continued after a bomb exploded in a combined barber shop and shoe repair shop run by Frank White. Police director B C Reppert called the outrage the latest case of intimidation by an unnamed organized group.
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Kansas City
Tatket
Frank White
B.C. Reppert
Evs
Italian aviator to attempt nonstop Baghdad flight
General Francesco de Pinedo announces plans to take off at dawn tomorrow from Floyd Bennett Field for a long delayed non stop flight to Baghdad weather permitting.
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New York
Uup
Francesco Fe Pinedo
Bagdad
Floyd Bennett Field
NRA Questions and Answers on the 40 hour week and wages
Washington August 11 AP officials of the National Recovery Administration issued a set of questions and answers clarifying the reemployment agreement. Topics cover hours for government and municipal workers and banks, lunch breaks, and wage calculations for tipped employees. The guidance explains how meals offset minimum wage and how employers should compensate tips when meals are part of compensation.
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Washington
National Recovery Administration
Pickford Leaves Hollywood Amid Fairbanks Rumors
Aug 11 193? Mary Pickford heads to New York to aid cousin Verna Chalif enter millinery business while rumors swirl that estranged husband Douglas Fairbanks has become a British subject. Locals note Fairbanks abroad and possible offer to remake Robin Hood in sound. Pickford denies ties to separation and remains at Pickfair.
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Hollywood
Mary Pickford
New York
Douglas Fairbanks
United States
Fairbanks
Robin Hood
Miss Pickford
Verna Chalif
Richard
Skeets) Gallagher
Pickfair
Bloody dress clue in Sooner kidnapping case
A bloody dress found tossed by the roadside drew Lincoln county officers toward the kidnap attempt of Arch Hopkins, a wealthy farmer. Two women Patricia Purdy and Catherine Sheppard are under arrest after an attempted robbery. Purdy, an ex convict, and his arm amputation were noted. officers pursue a kidnapping theory as Hopkins held little cash at home. Purdy had a prior life sentence for murder and was on leave for tuberculosis treatment.
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Chandler
Okla
Lincoln County
Arch Hopkins
Patricia
Aston Purdy
Novara
Catherine Sheppard
Virgil E. Bagby
Baydshaw
Nowata
Purdy
Hopkins
W. E. Gillaspy
State's
Eruskee County
Arizona
Grand jury to indict secretly in Hamm kidnapping case
St Paul Aug 11 AP L Drill United States District after new said today he would ask the special Federal Grand Jury considering the William Hamm kidnapping case to renew a secret indictment under the Lindbergh law This will enable the United States Government to suppress homes of its witnesses in the abduction of the millionaire St Paul brewer Under the Lindbergh law two charges are possible transportation of kidnapped persons or conspiracy to kidnap Drill said fears the witnesses might be harmed prompted the secrecy Federal agents hunting suspects in the abduction of Charles Orschel millionaire Oklahoma oil man said more marked money paid for his release had appeared in the Twin Cities.
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ST. Paul
Charles Orschel
Oklahoma
Twin Cities
Young Roosevelt Calls Bullfight Most Exciting
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. called his first bullfight the most exciting thing he has seen during a European trip to Spain. He and A. J. Drexel Paul are touring the country as part of a Madrid visit.
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Madrid
Garyn
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Roosevelt
A. J. Drexel Paul
Spain
Missouri State Fair Opens Tomorrow in Sedalia
Missouri's thirty third annual state fair opens Saturday for eight days of exhibits highlighting livestock crops and resources. Entries include 150 head of light and heavy horses forty five cattle exhibitions eighteen sheep shows and Holstein herd entries from Ann Arbor Michigan with champion cow of Iowa. Governor Guy B Park will deliver address on Governor's Day Thursday.
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Sedalia
Missouri
Ann Arbor
Mich
Towa
Guy B. Park
Boston professor touts 500 word limit for average man
A Boston professor argues the average man could live well using only 500 words of language. The remark omits any suggestion for the average woman, prompting discussion on gender assumptions in communication.
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Boston
False Lindbergh death report shocks world
A false report that Col and Mrs Charles Lindbergh were killed in a Greenland airplane crash spread globally from Copenhagen. Editors scrambled for background material as the world reacted with obituaries and urgent updates while Greenland authorities verified safety.
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New York
Charles Lindbergh
Greenland
Copenhagen
London
Paris
le Petit Journal
United Press
Julianehand
Lindberghs
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