Textile wage code tests labor gains in recovery plan
Washington June 20 The trial of the new industrial control code to be heard publicly next week could show how much workers may benefit in the recovery program. The textile pact would raise pay about 40 percent and cut hours to 40 weekly, with a 17 dollar minimum in the North and a 15 dollar minimum in the South, as mills owning most spindles adopt the plan. President Roosevelt and industrial director Hugh B Johnson face approval or modification of the 40 hour week.
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Washington
D. C
Roosevelt
Hugh B. Johnson
Congress
Cotton Textio
157 Mail Offices Lose High Rating
Washington June 6 changes in 157 postoffices from first to second class and from third to second class result of annual readjustment of postmasters salaries effective July 1 One office Geneva Himels raised to second class Twenty one offices moved from third to second third to fourth changes totaling 878 second to third 962 third to fourth
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Washington, D. C
Destorive Department
Geneva
Himels
Professor Ulrich Weds Lydia Seunhauser in Quiet Registry Office
London reports the wedding of Professor Edward Oscar Ulrich aged 76 of the United States National Museum Washington and Miss Lydia Seunhauser aged 50 at Henrietta Street registry office. The couple wore bright red attire. Only two friends attended as witnesses.
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Weds
London
Edward Oscar Ulrich
United States National Museum
Washington, D. C
Lydia Seunhauser
Te Henrietta Street
Governor Mobilizes National Guard Under Martial Law
Governor Eugene Talmadge at the capitol with state troopers under martial law. He seizes highway funds after officials refuse orders to discharge five engineers. National Guard called out as budget disputes over paying 190 employees persist since April 1. Summer arrives with high temperatures across the South and West.
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Atlanta
Eugene Talmadge
Capitol
Msa
National Guard
Governor Seizes Capitol Power In Martial Law Move
The governor declared martial law and superseded state courts to command the capitol, as troopers patrolled the Capitol and highway department complex. The action followed a budget cut and the dismissal of five engineers, with the governor accusing highway board members and the chief engineer of setting up a rival power and profiteering within the department.
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Highway Department
Tiresim
Highway Board
tMgaway Department
Heiress and Prince Wed in Civil Ceremony in Paris
Barbara Hutton American heiress with roughly 20 million dollars in fortune married Prince Alexis Moivant of Csarist Georgia in a civil ceremony at the 16th arrondissement. A religious rite is planned Thursday at the Russian Orthodox church. The marriage contract preserves Hutton’s control of inherited Woolworth family property except for a dowry she brought.
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Paris
France
Barbara Hutton
Alexis Moivant
Mdivant
Csarist Georgia
Tabrle
Sixteenth
Frank W. Woolworth
Ocean Fliers Start Cuba To Mexico Hop
Havana June 20 Capt Morlang Barberan and Lieut Jong Collar Spanish trans Atlantic aviators departed at 652 a m EST for Mexico aiming to cover 1175 miles in about 12 hours The flight follows their Spain to Cuba non stop crossing and they plan to proceed to Chicago for the Century of Progress exposition from Mexico City.
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Ocean Fliers
Cuba-Mexico
Havana
Morlang Barberan
Jong Collar
Mexico
Spain
Cuba
Chirago
Idaho Loses Bid as 3.2 Beer Tax Plan Fails
In AOISE Idaho on June 20 the 3.2 beer tax plan stalled as C Ben Rosa opposed taxing the beverage. A special session passed the measure to legalize sale but Governor Rosa refused to sign, delaying revenue plans.
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Idaho
Aoise
Jovy
C. Ben Rosa
Tieho
Rosy Sai
Inkm
Bids Called for Sabine Pass Work in Texas
Treasury calls for bids on construction at Sabine Pass Texas opened July 18 with a project cost capped at 999,500 dollars. Read and use mit wants ads for quick results.
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Sabine Pass
Washington, D. C
The
Treasury
Texas
Heat Waves Sweep Across the Midwest and East Coast
Temperatures climbed into the 90s and flirted with records from Indiana to Pennsylvania as a heat wave spread from the Southwest to the Northeast. Cities like Indianapolis and Columbus reported 95 and 103 degrees while Detroit and Chicago faced sweltering heat and forecasts of highs near 95 to 100. One death in Pittsburgh was linked to the heat as storms and sparse rainfall affected vegetation and crops across the region.
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Commonwealths
Cleveland
Washington
Pittsburgh
Emporta
Kansas City
Emporia
Kan
Indiana
Columbus
Ind
Detroit
Mei Tnercury
Veterans of Far Elm Wars tour San Antonio day three
The thirteenth annual state encampment for Veterans of Foreign Wars began in San Antonio with a Fort Sam Houston greeting from Brigadier General Howland and staff. The program included Brackenridge Park entertainment, Randolph Field inspections by Gen Dantorin, and a Crescent Bend barbecue with a 9:30 p.m. dance. all veterans are welcome regardless of dues.
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San Antonio
Fort Sasn Houston
Geo C. R. Howland
Brackenridge Park
Nex
Randolph Field
Charles H. Dantorin
Crescent Bend
Earthquake Registered by Georgetown Seismology Observatory
A quake was recorded yesterday by Georgetown University Seismological Observatory in Washington. It began around 6 57 a.m. EST and peaked at 2 17 p.m. with an estimated focus 3400 miles from Washington, though direction could not be determined. General indications placed the center at an unspecified location.
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Washington, D. C
Georgetown University Seismological Observatory
Washington
American radical dies in Germany in June
Rene Pastor Stokes, American labor champion and leader of radical causes, died today at the municipal hospital in Prankfort on the Main Germany. Heart ailment listed as immediate cause though notes in miscellaneous columns mention cancer. The obituary reflects the era’s political tensions and Stokes’s public labor activism.
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Germany
Government farm program cuts for wheat and cotton taxes
Washington dispatch reports Secretary Wallace and George N. Peek outlining a farm plan to cut wheat production by 30 percent and cotton acres by 10,000,008, with a processing tax of about 4 cents a pound on textiles and a 30 cent per bushel wheat tax. Tax should be absorbed by processors before reaching consumers. farmer participation is voluntary. Growth hinges on farmers destroying part of the crop in return for government rental on unused land.
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Washington, D. C
Wallace Pnd
George N. Peek
Tawcollon
Lary
Wallace
Peek
Lees
Suspected Slayer Found Shot Dead in Los Angeles
Los Angeles June 20. Clifford Sherwood, a suspected slayer in the death of Miss Gabrielle Andrieux, was found in a Bare Bank street with a self-inflicted bullet wound. Police say the wound appears self-inflicted in a personal safety context after the prior day’s Hollywood bungalow killing.
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Los Angeles
Iri
Gabriele Andrieux
Freeseamstress
Clifford
Sherwood
Andrienx
Hollywood
Chief of Langley Field Injured in Plane Mishap
Major Maxwell Kirby head of post Operations at Langley Field Va parachuted from pursued plane but his parachute failed. He was found unconscious entangled in his parachute about 200 feet from the burning aircraft and taken to emergency hospital Leonardtown about 20 miles away with a fractured skull. A World War I aviator, he is noted as a well known pilot.
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Great Mills
Army
Maxwell Kirby
Langley Field
Mitchell Trial in Final Phase
New York June 20 1917 The prosecution entered the final phase of its bid to convict Charles E Mitchell former chairman of the National City Bank of willfully evading sixty thousand income taxes Federal Attorney George Z Medalie is expected to devote most of today to his final argument The case goes to the jury for deliberation
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Mitchell
New York
Wst
Charles E. Mitchell
National City Bank
George 2. Medalie
Judy Tamorrey
Fifty Thousand Back to Work in New York State
Albany June 20 Fifty thousand wage earners were called back to work in New York State industries since the start of the year the figure estimated by the state department of labor from tabulated data released today.
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Albany
New York State
State Department of
Tabar
Austrian decree bans Nazi activity after Krems attacks
June 20 Vienna reports the Austrian government imposes martial law in Krems after 16 Fascist auxiliary police were wounded by hand grenades during target practice. Emil Fey says Nazi storm troopers tied to the bombings near Krems have been identified. The decree bans all Nazi activities including swastika display under six months in jail or a 2840 fine. Security forces concentrate in Krems to quell further demonstrations.
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Vignna
Adoif Hitler
Btrii
Krems
Danube
Vienna
Emil Fey
Hare
Wee Ers
Hull Pays Visit to British King at Buckingham Palace
London June 20 Secretary of State Cordell Hull chairman of the American delegation to the world economic conference, was received by King George VI at Buckingham Palace this morning. Hull left the palace in an automobile after a visit of about half an hour.
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London
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Cordell Hull
Buckingham
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