Strike Orders Hit 10,004 Workers in Three Plants
The Associated Press reports a new strike call affecting 10,004 workers at Fisher Body in Cleveland and St Louis plants, with 7,060 and 3,106 workers respectively. President Roosevelt and NRA chief Hugh Johnson push to end labor troubles, urging striking miners near 50,000 back to work under a new wage structure.
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Abtomebiia
Fisher Body
Cleveland
Chevrolet Motor
St. Lows
Roosevelt
Hugh
Johnson
NRA
Tool and Parts
National Automobile Labor Boat
Athletici
Cleveland Siike
Missouri
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Tennessee
West Virginia
Kentucky
Weather notes show showers and cooler air across states
Tennessee expects showers tonight and Tuesday with cooler Tuesday. Virginia forecasts partly cloudy skies with showers in extreme west tonight and northern and western areas Tuesday, slightly cooler in south and west Tuesday. High yesterday, same date last year 70. low yesterday 83, last year 11. Readings taken at 6 00 am.
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Tennessee
Virginia
Dog Mourns Loss of Slain Master on River Houseboat
MEMPHIS April 23 AP a large sand colored dog named Red guards the Mississippi river houseboat of Eric Johnson 45 after his slaying on Thursday night police found the dog guarding the body since then he has remained on the river bank howling at intervals attempts to feed him failed and Red refuses to be lured away
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Memphis
Red
Missisippi
Eric Johnason
Johnson
Roosevelt pushes permanent board to settle labor disputes
Washington April 23 President Roosevelt moved to end labor controversies by proposing a permanent labor board to settle disputes including the railroad wage dispute A committee is strengthening the boards powers and revising the Wagner act provisions Payne Perkins Johnson Hopkins Reichberg Wallace and others are drafting changes after a White House conference and the retirement of rail official Joseph Bestman continues on page six
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Sy Francis M. Stephenson
Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
White House
Congress
Perkins
Hugh 3. Johnson
Harry Hopkins
Donald Riechberg
NRA
Wallace
D.ny
Joseph B. Bestman
Lloyd Decell
Endorse Tobacco Bill for Control 1934 Production
Secretary Wallace and the farm administration tobacco section endorse Kerr bill for tobacco production control in a letter read to a House agricultural subcommittee. The tobacco report says the bill would strengthen the program, assure cooperators that adjustments won’t fatten a small group, and limit 1934 cotton crop sales to 10 million bales.
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Wallace
Kerr
Bill
Washington
Farm Administration
House
Roosevelt
Annual Meeting of Press Held in New York
The Associated Press reported record membership of 1,815 co operating newspapers at its annual meeting in New York on April 23. Kent Cooper outlined the year’s work while five directors were chosen. Core aut Hull spoke as Secretary of State at the luncheon where Frank B. Noyes, president, presided and toasted the U S President. The address defended a scrupulous guardianship of press liberty and warned against news falling under special interests.
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New York
Ihg
Associated Press
Kent Cooper
Core Aut Hull
Frank B. Noyes
United States
Tennessee Constitution Criticized by TVA Director
Floyd W. Reeves, director of personnel and head of TVA’s social and economic division, criticized state constitutions in the Tennessee Valley for hindering government operations. He cited Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee as needing reforms to enable efficient county and local governance. He urged liberalization of tax provisions and questioned uniform taxation rules, poll taxes, and residency requirements as obstacles, noting Alabama’s limits on local legislation. A Yale discussion on modern monetary theory and TVA’s Llewellyn Evans led the round table session.
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Chattanogga
Apil
Tennessee Valley Area
Floyd W. Reeves
IVA
Tennessee Valley Institute
Reeves
Alabama
Georgia
Kentucky
Townessee
Tennessee Valley Site
Tennessee
Ray L. Westerfield
Yale University
Llewellyn Evans
TVA
How Insull Fooled Athens Police Fugitve C i cago czar faces charges
Samuel Insull, fugitive Chicago utilities czar, is reported en route back to the United States to face charges from the collapse of his utilities empire. The dispatch notes he disguised himself to escape from Athens Greece to Turkey. An artist’s conception shows Insull in disguis ement.
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Samuel Insull
Cicago Utilities
United States
Athens
Greece
Turkey
Insull
Munitions Probe Opens as Senate Group Takes Aims
The Senate special munitions investigating committee announced it will trace sources of rumors of war with Japan. Temporary chairman Benator-Pope indicated hearings will probe U S war material plants, munitions, aircraft and contracts. Investigators will seek ties to lobbying in Congress and disarmament conferences.
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Washington
Senate
United States
Japan
Ben&dtor-Pope
Diy Sedaka
Wecporary
War Department
Pope
Congress
Hope Abandoned Trapped Miners In Yugoslavia Blast
Rescue crews gave up hope of survivors in the Akanj coal mine disaster near Sarajevo. A death toll estimate listed 146 missing with 86 still unaccounted. 60 bodies recovered, 15 miners escaped. Hazards included rising water, toxic gas, and collapsing galleries as relatives mourned and built caskets. An official Belgrade inquiry blamed unusual quantities of methane gas for the blast.
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Wade Werner
Associated Press
Sarajevo
Yugoslavia
Belgrade
Trotzky waits for signal to leave Barizon villa
In April at Barizon France Leon Trotzky a guarded Russian exile awaits a signal to depart for a new haven from his villa as crowds gather under gendarmerie watch. His secretary cited unknown departure date pending French authorities while noting he will leave openly not in disguise and may return to Prinkipo Island previously granted asylum by the Turkish government.
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Barbizon
France
Leon Trotzky
Villa Agai
Trotzky
Prinkipo Island
Asylany
Italians Push Disarmament Talks With Britain
Italian undersecretary Sovich and Dino Grandi visited London to brief Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and held two hour talks at the foreign office with Sir John Simon Anthony Eden and Sir Robert Vanginhart. The discussions centered on possible bases for Britain and Italy to approach disarmament amid France's insistence on maintaining current armaments.
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Burdette T. Johns
Associated Press
London
Agni Fulvio Suviel
Great Britain
Italy
France
Dino Grandi
Downing Street
Ramsay MacDonald
Sovich
Foreign Office
John Simon
Anthony Eden
Privy Seal
Robert Gilbert Vangihart
Rayburn Warns of Powerful Lobby Against Bill
Representative Rayburn accuses a powerful organized lobby of opposing stock exchange centrol legislation. He cites a mimeographed NRA committee memorandum and statements by NYSE president Richard Whitney and Roland Redmond. George H. Mead of Dayton presented the memorandum to a House committee after visiting Rayburn’s office.
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Washington
Rayburn
Tex
Stock Exchange
House
Congress
NRA
Richard Whitney
New York Stock Exchange
Roland Redmond
George H. Mead
Dayton
Ohio
Mead
Cabinet Crisis Flare in Madrid Amid Riots and Fear
In Madrid on April 28 AP reports rioting leaves two dead and eleven injured as cabinet tensions rise. Swain’s guards patrol streets while Extremists clash with opponents near the presidential palace and Escorial area, signaling a feared split in government.
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Rex Smith
Associated Press
Madrid
Sin Madrid
Swain
Popular Agrarian Party
Bi!Escorial
Bad Man No 1 Escapes trap story from Cummings
Attorney General Cummings presents the Dillinger escape tale received from justice department agents. Dillinger and gang were traced to a roadside lodge fifty miles outside Rhinelander Wisconsin. Agents from St Paul and Chicago pursued the lead before the report continues on page three.
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Washington
Orders to Unkink NRA Codes Faces Obstacle
James Johnson indicates immediate moves to remove kinks conflicts and overlaps in NRA codes. Aimed at hours wages and reemployment, the plan faces congressional action as committees push formulas and potential modifications to securities and stock exchange laws. Several industries now fall under inconsistent codes complicating wages hours and regulatory rules.
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Washington
NRA
Hugh S. Johnson
These Authority Assembly
Rly
Johnson
Congress
Fervor Grows as General Conference Nears
In Jackson Mississippi South ern Methodism readies for the quadrennial Methodist Episcopal Church South conference. Delegates discuss bishops retirement equality for women in ministry and potential reshuffling of episcopal duties amid preparations led by Bishop Candler and church boards.
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Jackson
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
James Cannon, Jr
Richmond
Candler
Denny
Dubese
Cannon
Dillinger Gang Foiled In Wisconsin Ambush
April raid across Wisconsin and Illinois failed to capture John Dillinger and six companions. The group used a wooden pistol, fired on federal agents, and fled into the woods after a night of exchanges near Bohemia Camp and Little Bohemia resort. Four killed or mortally wounded, three women captured, several agents and locals injured or killed. Federal officers later tracked the suspects toward Mitchell’s resort and Turner's, with continued pursuit through Vilas County.
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Mercer
Wis
John Dillinger
Crown Point
Ind
Watc
Indiana
Bohemia Camp
Thhem
Toover
Eugene Boisoneau
Dillinger
Boisoneau
John Moffman
John Morris
Little Bohemia
Mitchell's
Turner’s Resort
Ifederal
Bam
Christensen
Alvin ‘Turner
Turner
Rhinelander
Apr
Northwoods
W. Carter Baum
Department of Justice
Vilas County
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U. S
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Fulvio Suvieh
By Cecil B. Dickson
Bad Man No.1
Cummings
James ‘Cope
Federal
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