Martin Ford meeting stirs industry response on 32 hour week
Detroit October 12 Homer Martin's cordial call on Henry Ford and talks with Ford personnel chief Harry Bennett shift focus from 32 hour week debates to labor problems and wage equalization. Bennett stresses no clash with organized labor, while noting past tensions at the Rouge plant and urging workers not to be pressured. Industry eyes pace of orders as talks continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Homer Martin
Eall
Henry Ford
Martin-Ford
Martin
Harry Bennett
Ford Motor Company
United Automobile Workers
Ford
Bennett
Ford Company
King's Widow Drawn Into New Romance Tale
New York reports a bankrupt executive, John W. Harris, claims engagement to Princess Aspasia, morganatic widow of King Alexander of Greece. Trustee Raymond Zeitz seeks Harris's assets while alleging the princess holds funds for the bankrupt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
John W. Harris
Aspasia
Alexander
Greece
Harris
Peter B. Olney, Jr
Raymond Zeitz
Murray C. Stott
Alcatraz style prison planned for Pennsylvania site
Pittsburgh October reports a plan for a modern maximum security prison in Pennsylvania. Architect Major Henry Hornbostel outlines secret observation cat walks hidden from inmates, circular walls, air conditioned single cells for up to 600 inmates, vitrified tile walls, and WPA funding with late month start.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Alcatraz
Henry Hornbostel
Allegheny County
Works Progress Administration
Hornbostel
Pep Meet Planned To Preface Opening Of Civic Chest Drive
The Twin City Community Chest kickoff includes a pep meeting at Hotel Frances Cherokee terrace on Monday October 24 at 7 30 p m. Campaign director A B Clarkson outlines the 45 teams and 20 000 goal for nine local agencies with leaders and assistants named. E C Gibson is personnel director Bob Burns detail director and C E Woolman heads the special gifts group as posters and barometers announce progress.
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Civic Chest
Twin City
E. C. Gibson
Mr. Clarkson
Bob Burns
C. E. Woolman
Twin Cities
Monroe
West Monroe
Thomas Davenport
Innitzer Appeals Catholics With Ten Commandments on Education
Vienna oct 12 catholic archdiocese distributes leaflets to Catholic parents urging religious education for children. Cardinal Innitzer signs the message as Nazi threats to education loom with a government move to close religious and private schools in German Austria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Catholic Archdiocese of
Theodore Cardinal Innitzer
Austria
AID PLEDGED TO RIVER PARKWAY
J Lester White of the Louisiana state planning commission arrived in Monroe after a Washington meeting with Interior Secretary Harold L Ickes. They discussed a 2000 mile scenic highway planned along the west bank of the Mississippi from Minnesota to New Orleans. White attended as governor representative and as a member of the interstate planning committee.
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J. Lester White
Louisiana State Planning Commission
Monroe
Washington, D. C
State Planning Commission
Interior
Harold L. Ickes
Minnesota
New Orleans
Mississippi River
Interstate Planning Committee
Execu
Borah to Reintroduce Federal Licensing Bill
Senator Borah of Idaho said he would reintroduce in the 1939 Congress a bill with Senator O Mahoney of Wyoming for federal licensing of corporations. The measure is framed as a remedy to monopoly concerns and would centralize corporate oversight.
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Washington
Senator Borah
Idaho
O'Mahoney
Wyoming
Slovak Mediation Sought as Hungary Presses Claims
Slovak delegates at Komarom asked Adolf Hitler to mediate in the border dispute with Hungary. Negotiations seem deadlocked with wide gaps on territorial demands. In Budapest, Czech and Hungarian troops moved to fighting positions 250 feet apart after occupying Ipolysag and a second frontier town.
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Komarom
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
Germany
Sudetenland
Budapest
Ipolysag
Japanese New South China Army Moves Inland From Bias Bay
Japanese forces estimated at 30 000 to 50 000 men landed northeast of Hongkong at Bias bay in more than 60 transports. They began marching toward the Canton Kowloon railway to cut Canton Canton river access in a bid to isolate Hankow and disrupt supply lines from Canton. Chinese defenses included at least three divisions in Bias bay area.
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Hong Kong
Japan
New South China Army
Bias Bay
Hongkong
Canton
Hankow
Hachung
Canton-Kowloon
Kowloon
Signa
Scout Region Committee Names Executive Panel
Meridian Mississippi October meeting of the sixth Boy Scout region which includes five southern states concludes with an executive committee. Members named include R. W. Sturges Meridian Judge W. M. Harper Monroe Bulow Marston Shreveport Rex I. Brown Jackson J. M. Cadwallader Baton Rouge B. A. Hardy Shreveport Glenn H. Holloway Baton Rouge.
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Meridian
Miss
Boy Scouts of the
R. W. Sturges
W. M. Harper
Monroe
Bulow Marston
Shreveport
Rex I. Brown
Jackson
J. M. Cadwallader
Baton Rouge
B. A. Hardy
Glenn H. Holloway
Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovitch Dies in Paris
The Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovitch head of the house of Romanoff and self proclaimed czar of all the Russias died today in an American hospital in Paris. He was 62 years old.
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Paris
Cyril Vladimirovitch
House of Romanoff
Russias
Eight-State Alarm Broadcast in Slaying of Mary Coyle
Westchester authorities pursue a slayer after 11 year old Mary Coyle was found bludgeoned and ravished behind a Westchester movie theater. An eight-state alert is issued as investigators seek a voice tip, hair clues, a blunt hammer, and absence of blood under the body.
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Larchmont
N. Y
Mary Imelda Coyle
Westchester County
Peter Levine
Bellamy Trial Opens Tonight at Monroe Little Theater
Judge Anthony Bristed Carver will oversee the Ouachita parish criminal court as the Bellamy Trial opens at Monroe Little Theater. The three night production features a large cast including Fred Fudickar Jr, Jim Cook, Irene Reid, and Walter M. Rhodes with reservations through the Monroe recreation center 1241-2 DeSiard street.
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Anthony Bristed Carver
Criminal District
Ouachita Parish
Bellamy
Monroe Little Theater
Myssery
Little Theater
Monroe Recreation Center
DeSiard Street
Fred Fudickar
Jim Cook
Walter M. Rhodes
Irene Reid
Olive Lusk
G. Bubb
J. N. Green
Howard Willard
Joe Kern
Robert M. Breard
C. Elliott Thomas W. Davenport
Marvyn Johnson
Clyde Blanchard
Cramer Haas
Guy Corley
Brunswig Sholars
Gene Daspit
Stanley Reid
Dan Armand Breard
Courtney Ryland
Eula Davenport
Eugene Booth
Earl H. Speights
Four Wish Removal From Pension Roll Shocks Governor
Governor James V. Allred received a note from four Bastrop County residents asking to have their names removed from the pension roll. The letter stated they were able to support themselves and would manage without aid. The scene occurred in Austin, Texas, on October 12.
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Austin
Tex
James V. Allred
Bastrop County
Home Building Leads Autumn Revival In 1938 Outlook
New home building shows a strong rise with residential contracts awarded in states east of the Rockies totaling 99.6 million dollars in September, up 52 percent from a year earlier. The Dodge data indicate September’s daily average exceeded August’s, supporting a broader economic upswing driven by construction activity and household equipment demand.
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Frederick Gardner
New York
F. W. Dodge Corporatirs
Rocky Mountains
F. W. Dodge Corporation
Dall Libel Suit to Be Tryed Again in Time Case
Albany N Y Oct 12 New Yorks highest court denied Time magazines bid for reargument in the Curtis B Dall libel suit arising from a magazine story about his alleged death by own action in the White House with Eleanor Roosevelt and his former wife The court had earlier ordered a new trial to determine damages after a lower court ruling.
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Albany
N. Y
New York
Curtis B. Dall
New York City
Roosevelt
Time Magazine
Dell
White House
Eleanor Roosevelt
John Boettiger
Supreme Court
Appellate Division
Court of
Editor forecasts Roosevelt not to run again
Roy A. Roberts of the Kansas City Star told the American Life convention that the United States faces a period of upheaval and that Roosevelt likely will not seek re election. He predicted the New Deal has played out its cards but social security would remain, with reforms for greater operation.
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Chicago
United States
Roy A. Roberts
The
Kansas City Star
American Life Convention
Roosevelt
Roberts
Slaying at Jonesboro: Blair killed and companion hurt
Ruston special report says R N Blair foreman at Hodge paper mill was killed in a wooded area near Jonesboro while his companion Miss Addie McMillan was seriously injured. Bloodhounds traced a white sack with clothing remains, aiding Sheriff Thigpen in identifying the suspect. the couple was attacked as they sat in a two door car off highway 4.
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Ruston
Bryan Thigpen
Lincoln Parish
Hegre
BR. N. Blair
Jonesboro
Addie McMillan
Here
McGatter
Mansfield
DeSete Parish
W. Hogan
Ruston Street
Hogan
Thigpen
Blair
South Should Stop Being Labeled a Problem Child
Atlanta business leader George C. Biggers told the Atlanta Advertising club that the South resents the problem child tag and urged ending freight rate discrimination, inviting tech skills and cheaper credit. He cited MEC and War Between the States reports, noting the South as a growing untapped market with 40 percent of farm crop value and rising education alongside segregated schooling and banking issues.
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Atlanta
South
George C. Biggers
The
Atlanta Journal
Biggers
National Emergency Council
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BORAH
Latter
Former
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SCOUT
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Hollywood
Martha Raye
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