Labor Discord Triggers Nationwide Strike Wave
Labor discord across 15 states involves about 45,000 workers as battles erupt over union claims. Seamen strike spreads to six Remington Rand plants and 600 Manhattan cabdrivers join the walkout amid police action and riot charges.
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Texas
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Rutland
Weather Forecast Confused Fragment Announces Little
Fragmentary weather notes describe cloudy skies, small temperature shifts, and scattered showers. The text references North Carolina and mentions Thursday and Tuesday with unclear details and erratic spellings.
Catholic Friar Sentenced in Morality Trials in Germany
In Coblenz on May 27, Friar Peter Steinhoff aged 46, a Franciscan, received eight years in prison and ten years loss of civil rights for immorality. The ruling initiates a broader prosecution targeting about 200 Franciscans from Rhineland and Westphalia accused of abusing male minors in their care. Co-defendants Wilhelm Schroeder, 28, received five months in jail, while two youths aged 18 and 19 got two and four months respectively.
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Germany
Peter Steinhoff
Rhineland
Westphalia
Steinhoff
Wilhelm Schroeder
Schroeder
Employment Hike Seen by Industry
New York May 20.4 On the first anniversary of NRA s death industry leaders say employment is near 1928 levels with improved wage scales under NRA maintained George A Sloan chairman of the consumers goods industries committee and ex president of the cotton textile institute says American industry shows resolve to maintain and improve wages A spokesman for Grocery Manufacturers says the industry employs 15 percent more than in 1929 Walter C Teagle president of Standard Oil Co New Jersey notes the NRA code minimum wages and hours have been kept up The item continues on page eight
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NRA
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Consumers Goods Industries Committee
Cotton Textile Institute
Sloan
Associated Grocery Manufacturers
Steel Inustry
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British Evacuate Arab Rule Town Jaffa
British officials evacuate women and children from the Arab dominated town of Jaffa to Haifa and Tel Aviv amid rising anti Jewish terrorism in the Holy Land. Warship Barham with Vice Admiral Pound involved. no bombs or shots reported in Jaffa. High Commissioner Wauchope governs under League mandate.
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Holy Land
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Haifa
Tel-Aviv
Jeft
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Gazi
Barham
Dudley Pound
Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope
League of Nations
Corporate tax debate rises again in Congress
Washington May 27 Senators on the Finance Committee face repeated questions on corporation taxes. From a White House conference President Roosevelt is seen as dissatisfied with revenue yield, prompting a push to raise the 7 percent levy on undistributed profits and address a Treasury estimate of 560 million from the current 18 percent net income tax. The Senate fastest pace plan aims to adjourn next week with a busy calendar including tighter federal supervision of commodity markets and a subsidy system for merchant marine contracts. Continued on page eight.
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Finance Committee
White House
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Treasury
Senate
Probation Proposal Aims to Cut Tennessee Prisons
Nashville May 27 145 E L Pardue new commissioner of institutions urged a probation system for Tennessee. Each criminal court would have a probation officer to supervise offenders with extenuating circumstances. If probationers fail they return to court. He argues this could reduce prison population by about 20 percent and save roughly $60 000 to fund officers.
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E. L. Pardue
Tennessee
Pardue
Popuhlina
Amateur Ethymologist Lists Mission Stiffs Vocabulary
An amateur etymologist catalogues slang terms and rough definitions from a now obsolete glossary. The piece reproduces with notes on terms for clothing, drink, food, and others, including phrases like a suit of clothes and a bottle of whisky, framed as a curious linguistic curiosity.
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Mission Stiffs
Scott
Stanyon
Farmer Strung Between Trees Near Wake Forest
Wake county officers reported evidence that Norma Cutton, a young farmer, was found strangled between two trees on a public road near Wake Forest after being removed from a nearby liquor still site. William Wadford and two men, Oscar Gill and Dalphus Fort, were arrested without bond. Coroner L M Waring said investigators believe the body was hauled about 15 miles by truck and dumped roadside.
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Wake County
Norma Cutton
Wake Forest
William Wadford
Oscar Gill
Dalphus Fort
L. M. Waring
Rebels Killed as Revolt Is Closed in Mexico
In Guanajuato and Durango battles, 36 rebels died as insurgency efforts waned. Troops reported 34 rebels and one soldier killed in recent clashes. a 39-man rebel band in Jalisco was pursued after Sunday attacks, with 13 killed and seven wounded. The era of widespread revolt appeared near end.
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John P. McKnight
Associated Press Foreign Staff
Mexico City
War Department
Guanajuato
Durango
Black Legion arrests predicted as mob scene at jail ends
In Altus Oklahoma a one year old Negro girl Olivia Gardner was held after the fatal shooting of WPA truck driver S E Harlan. A mob of about 200 women and men gathered twice at the jail where officers stood guard with a sawed off shotgun visible but not raised. The case centers on self defense claimed by Gardner and the threatened investigation into the killing.
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Conventions Face Tariff Questions
Washington May 27 Associated Press staff writer Jerry Greene reports that upcoming party conventions will focus on agricultural tariff issues. Grange representatives will urge farm language defending the American market and MFN treatment, while farm groups gauge Democratic and Republican openness to conservation and land policy within the AAA plan.
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Associated Press
Washington
Fred Brenckman
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United States
American Farm Bureau Federation
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Prison Guards Tied to Black Legion Probe
Michigan authorities detained Ray Ernest and a prison guard at Jackson’s Southern Michigan prison for arraignment on concealed weapons charges as the Black Legion probe widens. Ernest denies links to Paul Every’s flogging. Every died April 14 of heart disease and diabetes. Prosecutor McCrea says murder warrants will be issued for seven men tied to the Poole death.
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Black Legion
Michigan
Ray Ernest
Southern Michigan
Jackson
Fernest
Paul Every
Every
Owen Dudley
Jackson County
Ernest
Detroit
Duncan CG. McCrea
Charles A. Poole
WPA
Poole
Kent
Central
Defense Attacks Socialists Start Witness in Case
New York May 27 The defense of Charles Lucky Luciana sought to capitalize on a prosecution witness's memory lapses about Luciana's apartment details amid charges of compulsory prostitution. Witness Wancy Presser, an admitted prostitute, broke down under cross examination as she described the vice protection operation and sleeping arrangements. The Socialist party campaign begins with Norman Thomas leading speaking tours from Cleveland toward New York as it launches a nationwide effort using red sound tracks and a slate of candidates to challenge the 1930s political landscape.
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Lucky Luciana
Luciano
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Miss Presser
Samuel Siegel
Dee Berihe
Laucigne
BR. H. Hippelueuser
Associated Press
Cleveland
Socialist Party
Eugene Victor Debs
Central Party
Chicago
Thomas
Norman Thomas
Voice
George Nelson
Polk Couunty
Wisconsin
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Townsend Lawyer Defies Subpoena In House Probe
Townsend lawyer Sheridan Downey and Tyf f I Townsend challenged a House investigating committee and pledged not to honor subpoenas. Downey urged the panel to proceed, arguing it faces aggression from a broad press and public opinion. He urged the committee to allow their charges to be presented before Congress or a grand jury.
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Satiel Daygarey
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Detroit hears Black Legion case adjourned to next Tuesday
More sought in Detroit as 32 members of the Black Legion face kidnapping and slaying charges in the Poole case. Prosecution predicts new arrests, witnesses identify Poole’s bullet wound, and calls grow for a federal investigation into the group’s alleged international links and women’s auxiliary.
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Black Legion
Charles A. Poole
Duncan C. McCrea
Poole
McCrea
Owen Rushing
Marcie
A. M. Altschuler
Rushing
Lowell Rushing
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Wack Legion
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