Senate Judiciary Committee Denounces Roosevelt Court Bill
The committee's blistering report rejects the measure as a dangerous abandonment of constitutional principle. It argues the bill fails its aims, threatens judicial independence, and would centralize power by allowing assignment of judges across districts. Prepared by Democrats King McCarran and O Mahoney, the report urges permanent rejection.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Free People of America
Senate
Morehan
Supreme Court
Judiciary Committee
Hatch
New Mexico
King
Utah
McCarran
Nevada
O'Mahoney
Wyoming
Federal
Shutdown to AE Effectie by Nightfall in Johnstown Strike
Women and boys joined hundreds of men battling streetcars near the Franklin steel plant gates. Two men and a 12 year old girl were injured as pickets clashed with workers refusing to join the Bethlehem Steel strike. Troopers patrolled the Cambria works as 70,000 idle in the Great Lakes region marked a new phase in John L. Lewis led efforts.
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Johnstown
Millgates
Franklin Steel
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Cambria
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
John L. Lewis
Bethlehem
Committee For Industrial Organization
Cambria Works
Canton
Federation of Labor
Republic Steel Corporation
Newton Steel Company
Republic
Eel Corporation
Monroe
Mich
Great Lakes
Lewis
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
United Mine Workers of America
Favor Board Plan In Wage Hour Bill Stirs Debate
Congressmen drafting wage and hour legislation discussed removing broad powers for a labor standards board proposed in the Bilack Connery bill. Hearings extend to Friday as committees favor a fixed minimum wage and 40 hour work week, with possible reductions for certain industries.
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Washington
Labor Standards Board
Senate
House Labor
City of Bilbao Is at Mercy of Fascist Forces
A Muscoda group challenged the state public service commission over a village plan to add diesel equipment to its power plant. They argue the commission lacks validity since March and could invalidate three months of actions. The dispute involves William Victora, Fred Orich, Ben Marcus, and Interstate Power Company.
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Bilbao
Madisson
Muscoda
State Public Service Commission
C. E. Blake
Madison
Hivaring
Xpot
Fred S. Hurat
Robert A. Nixon
Blake
la Follette
Milarch
William Victora
Fred Orich
Ben Marcus
Interstate Power Company
Affirm Patterson 75 Year Sentence Upheld
Montgomery Ala The Alabama supreme court affirmed a 75 year sentence for Hey wood Patterson one of nine Negro defendants in the Scottsboro case Patterson charged with attacking Mrs Victoria Price on a freight train in March 1931 sentenced in Decatur in January 1936 It was the fourth conviction in the case but the first without a death sentence Attorneys said the case would go to the United States Supreme Court for a third time Patterson remains the only one of the nine defendants under sentence while the others await trial
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Supreme Court
Heywood Patterson
Scottsboro
Patterson
Victoria Price
Decatur
United States Supreme Court
High Tribunal
Revised Relief Bill Sent to Senate
A revised relief measure goes to the Senate with an appropriations panel recommendation to shift more federal burden to local governments. The $1.5 billion bill faces a provision requiring states and cities to cover 40 percent of project costs, with progress administration funds boosting local shares. The committee adds to the public works extension and proposes $740 million from PWA funds for grants and loans.
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Washington
Senate
Appropriations Committee
Progress Administration
Proji Ces
Roosevelt
Hayden Democrat
Anzona
PWA
Nine wounded as gunner opens fire in labor clash
In Anderson Indiana a street clash between union and nonunion auto workers ended with a shotgun blast injuring nine men and leaving others hurt. Nine suspects, including six shooting victims, were detained then released on their own recognizance. Police and factory guards at Delco Remy and Guide Lamp plants fortified the sites to prevent further violence amid a mass meeting led by Homer Martin of the UAW A.
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Anderson
Ind
Harry R. Baldwin
Delcc Remy
Guide
General Motors Unis
Homer Martin
Athletic Park
Muncie
Monroe
Mich
Aids
Martin
Union Hall
Marlin
Joseph Carney
Six Killed On Wisconsin Highways Over Weekend
Six persons died in Wisconsin auto crashes over the weekend on highways statewide. Victims include ToeM Niedzwiecki, 42, Milwaukee. Walter Czajkowski, 33, Kenosha. Mrs. Louis Johnson, 42, Racine. Jessie Johnson, 18, Milwaukee. Mrs. Pen Brown, 48, Tavera. and Hans Erickson, 76, Milwaukee. Accidents occurred on Highways 41, 42, 19 and local roads. descriptions note a milk truck crash, a fatal collision at an intersection, and other multi-vehicle wrecks. Chester Niedzwiecki, 14, survived with severe injuries. two other bystanders were injured.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Toem Niedzwiecki
Milwaukee
Walter Czajkowski
Kenosha
Louis Johnson
Racine
Sliss Jessie Johnson
Pen Brown
Tavera
Hans Erickson
Czajkowski
Johnson
Joe Sterzinger
West Allis
Jessie Johnson
Negress
Highway 42
Racine County
St. Mary's Hospital
Brown
Fox Hollow
Richland Center
Erickson
D. J. Cass
Fall River
Sun Praire
Niedzwiecki
Monroe braces for invasion of pickets by outside groups
Monroe, Michigan mobilizes vigilantes and police after threats of mass picketing at Newton Steel. Mayor Knaggs says peaceful, regulated picketing will be allowed while barricades surround the plant. Representative Hoffman offers armed assistance to defend the city amid labor tensions with Republic Steel.
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Newton
Washington
Hoffman
Republican
Michigan
Dan A. Knaggs
Monroe
Mich
Knages
Montroe
Bittner
Murphy
Frank Murphy
Daniel A. Knaggs
Steel ‘Workers Union
Detroit
Newton Steel Company
Monrot
van A. Biltner
Chicago
Republic Steel Corporation
Republic
Hatton Estate Heirs Reach Settlement in Wisconsin Case
Blood heirs and adopted heirs of William Hatton reach agreement in Waupaca county court settling dispute over administration of the late New London lumberman's estate. Hatton died intestate with an estimated estate of about 1.5 million dollars. Blood heirs to receive one third, adopted heirs to divide two thirds.
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Waupaca
Wis
William Hatton
New London
Hatton
A. M. Scheller
Waszak Found Sane Pleads Guilty and Is Given Sentence
After three alienists declared John Waszak fully sane the 14 year old Muskego farmer abandoned his claim of innocence and pled guilty to dynamiting his wife and eight children. Circuit Judge C J Davison sentenced him to life imprisonment at Waupun state penitentiary.
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Waukesha, Wie
John Waszak
C. 3. Davison
Waupun State Penitentiary
Freeman Plant Ends Strike and Resumes Work
An 18 employee Freeman Furniture Factories unit returned to work as an agreement ended a strike that began May 4. Production resumed at noon, with terms undisclosed. Union and local leaders cited progress while awaiting Wisconsin labor officials. A conference was planned to discuss terms with Badger Lumber and Manufacturing.
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Freeman Furniture Factories, Inc
John Kitts
Furniture Workers Local No
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
Wisconsin Labor Relations Board
C. A. Wiechering
Oshkosh
Badger Lumber and Manufacturing Company
Freeman Company
Kills
Badger
Banderob Furniture Manufacturing Company
Freeman
Banderob
Furniture Workers’ Union
Morgan Company
Oshkosh Trades and Labor Hall
Uhis
B. A. Philipp
Millman
Philipp
Leach Company
Head of Milwaukee Bar Group Dies at 47
Harold W. Connell, 47, president of the Milwaukee Bar association and Whitfish Bay village head, died yesterday at Columbia Hospital from complications after influenza.
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Milwaukee
Harold W. Connell
Milwaukee Bar Association
Whitfish Tay
Columbia
Twenty eight executed for sabotage in far east
Svobodny, in the soviet far east, reports twenty eight persons convicted and shot for wrecking the Amur railroad. The executions raise the year's total executed to 151 as the government cracks down on internal foes. The condemned were said to be part of a Trotskyist Japanese spy and terror organization linked to the Amur corridor.
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Charles P. Nutter
Moscow
Svobodny
Far East
Amir
Khabarovsk
Amur
Trans-Siberian
Komsymolsk
Roosevelt nominates Johnson for assistant secretary of war
Washington Roosevelt nominates Louis A. Johnson of West Virginia for national American Legion commander and assistant secretary of war, a post vacant after the death of Secretary George H. Woodring. If approved by the Senate, Johnson would fill the position left by Woodring.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Louis A. Johnson
West Virginia
National American Legion
Johnson
Senate
Harry H. Woodrmnt
Spokane
George Hi. Dem
Woman Sits in Auto Blocks REA Project at New Lisbon
Mrs. Anthony M. Harbo, 64, sits in an old coupe across fallen REA lines to block the Oakdale cooperative electrical project. She demands an easement for land tile protection, claims farm title belongs to her sons Anthony and Verne, and vows to stay until satisfied despite deputies and a missing shotgun replaced by a hoe.
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New Lisbon
Wit
Anthony M. Harbo
Oakdale Cooperative Electrical Association
REA
Madison
Weather Summary From Milwaukee and Western Stations
Wisconsin to see fair tonight and Tuesday with cooler air in the south and west. Milwaukee reports a warm day with highs around 100 in Phoenix and 96 in Abilene and El Paso. Yellowstone and Cheyenne cooler. Observatory notes: Saturday 8 PM to Sunday 8 PM temperature max and min around 54 with northeast winds. One year ago highs near 82 and lows around 49.
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Associated Press
Wisconsin
Northwestern
Fenpatine
Milwaukee
Phoenix
Abilene
el Paso
Yellowstone
Cheyenne
Borkerofft Observatory
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