Pay Increases Ease Tension In Strike Area
Large steel mills agreed to a 40 hour week with time and a half overtime and a minimum wage of five dollars a day for common labor to take effect March 16, easing tensions in wage disputes. The move follows union pressure and signals broader industry concessions as other fabricators are expected to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Preas
John L. Lewis
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation
Tre Amemes
Lewis Group
Bethlehem
National Steel
Republic
Inland
National Tube
Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Jowett
Lewis Clo
Jeecey
General Motors
Chrysler Motor Company
C.I.C
New Jersey
Ford Motor Company
United Mine Workers of America
Papit
Hugh §. Kerwin
U. S. Department of Labor
Edward F. McGrady
F. W. Woolwith Co
Detroit
Timken- Detroit Axle Co
Ferro Stamping Mfg. Co
General Motors Corporation
United Automobile Workers of America
Chrysler Automobile Corporation
Jamison Gal Company
Uniontown
SOU
Ameritan Federation of Hosiery
Berks County
Weather Outlook Across Regions Fair and Warmer
Weather brief notes fair and warmer tonight and Wednesday for esp Kentuck y and Margenea despite a continued cold in North Carolina. Southeast portions may see rising temperatures, while some gusts and heavy feast reporting appear in the southeast area.
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Spe
Kentucky
Margenea
North Carkolina
FTC Would Curb Mergers Aimed at Competition
Washington reports the federal trade commission asks Congress for power to prevent mergers that lessen competition. The request appears in a report on food industries noting monopolistic control and calls for possible law amendments. Earth tremors across the Midwest and into the South shake buildings but cause no injuries or major damage. Cincinnati districts report sway of chairs and moving pictures as shocks felt from Columbus to Akron and Toledo.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Congress
Midwest
Louisville
Great Lakes
Ohio
Cincinnati
Nevin M. Fennemse
University of Cincinnati
Charleston
S. C
Columbus
Zanesfield
Wilbur Stout
Ohio State
Moundsville
W. Va
Springfield
Akron
Toledo
Hamilton
Solons OK Drivers License Bill in Tennessee
March 2041 Tennessee lawmakers approved a drivers license bill sent to Governor Browning. It requires one dollar a year from every motorist and allows suspension for certain offenses with mandatory revocation for serious crimes. licenses may be issued without exam for six months, then tests on traffic rules eyesight and other qualifications. Highway Patrol to administer the act with expected operation by July.
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Nashville
Browning
Ita
McAlister
Highway Patrol
Joe Williams
Tokyo warns U S no fear over three-year window
In Nashville Browning pushes revenue bills and old age pensions as governor Browning urges rapid action on a tax program to fund social security and education. Yonai says Japan will not fear the United States for three years after completing navy and air force rearmament plans. The Diet debates arms limits and possible parley with the United States while the United States weighs NRA standards and policy guidance.
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Tokyo
Japan
U. S
NRA
Nashville
Browning
Mitsumasa Yonai
United States
Pacific
Yonai
Ster
Sugiyama
Alaska
Aleutian Islands
Hawali
Noritake Toyoda
Naval Affairs Bureau
Washington
Japanese Sought for Slaying Five in Auburn
Auburn, Washington, March 2. Japanese farm laborer Enochi Kato, 36, was sought for questioning after the strangling and shooting of his wife and four children. Bodies found in a crude grave by their home. a railway ticket to Sacramento, California, suggests flight after the crime. Five victims: Kate, about 35, and children Sam nine, Tom eight, Betty seven, Amy five. Three were strangled. two shot. Evidence included three bloody fingerprints on a door and a lace trimmed valentine on the kitchen table.
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Auburn
Wash
Enochi Kato
Kate
Sacramento
Calif
Sam
Tom
Betty
Amy
Kato
Neutrality Plan Shows Progress Since War
Washington reports outline how American neutrality policy has evolved since World War I. Officials now stress freedom to trade with neutrals during war while restricting war materials to belligerents. Senator Pittman pushes broader authority, Borah opposes fearing limits on freedom of the seas. The shift contrasts with Wilson 1914 policy allowing arms manufacture but limiting high seas carriage without risk of capture.
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Washington
Pittman
Arizona
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Wilson
Borah
Borat
Idaho
Foreign Relations Committee
Law of Nations
State Department
Navy department gets 20 million dollar fiscal year allotment
Washington March 2 The house appropriations committee approved a 20 555 428 allotment for the navy department for the next fiscal year The panel trimmed proposed ship construction funds but kept overall allocation above current peacetime levels to begin eight destroyers four submarines and continue work on battleships aircraft carriers cruisers destroyers submarines and a gunboat The aviation budget rose by about 11 million with 14 186 000 set for new aircraft and 15 000 000 for contracts The bill limits navy manufacture to primary training engines are barred and the navy enlisted strength would be 105 000 with 5 000 more than current year but 1 000 less than the requested total Also 5 627 000 is allotted for public works at navy yards and stations with projects listed in Washington Norfolk Charleston Mare Island and others.
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Washington
House
Navy Department
Navy
Fung
Washington, D. C
Navy Yard
Norfolk
Charleston
S. C
Mare Island
Calif
Mary Yard
Simpson ordered five Molyneux designs for wedding
Paris report says Wallis Warfield Simpson has placed five new outfits with Parisian house Molyneux through Cannes. The orders include an evening fur coat, an evening ensemble, a wool afternoon coat, and an afternoon dress with a sports outfit. Several models emphasize simple elegance with silver fox trims. She may travel to Paris for fittings ahead of her marriage.
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Paris
Wallis Warfield Simpson
Edward Molyneux
Cannes
Molyneux . Salon
Molyneux
Italy orders lifelong military fitness for all men
Rome reports a new Italian decree to arm and ready the population ages 18 to 55, a program of integralitarization aimed at countering British rearmament. The grand fascist council backs collaboration with Fascist nations, hints at Italy’s power in foreign policy, and outlines no financing details, noting a Finance Ministry review of the arms plan.
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Rome
Italy
Great Britain
Grand Fascist Council
Bloc of Nations
Germany
Britain
Grand Council
Mediterranean
Binister
Pablo Tason
di Revel, Jr
Hobo confesses in Child Snatch Case in Argentina
In Mar del Plata Judge Horacio Areca reports Jose Ganerda Gonzales 44 a hobo confessed kidnapping and strangling Eugenio Pereyra Iraola two year old son of a wealthy Argentine family. The body was found in a pig sty on the estancia after clothes were found. Gonzales said an inexplicable impulse made him take the boy.
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Mar del Plata
Argentina
Eugenio Pereyra Iraola
Horacio Areca
Jose Ganerda Gonzales
Gonzales
Estancia
Concedo Gonzales
I Vornfield
Eugenio
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Los Angeles
Commitee For Industrial Organization
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FTC
The
Associated Press
Solons
Bill
Solona
Roosevelt
National Recovery Administration
National
Supreme Court
J. M. Clark
Columbia University
Wiliam H. Davis
New York
George M. Harrison
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
George H. Mead
Dayton
National Industrial Recovery Board
Lkely
Appropriations
Wally Simpson
Hobo
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