Mexican Oil Strike Paralyzes Oil Industry in Mexico City
May 28. Cheering workers posted strike flags at oil plants, storage depots, and refineries across Mexico as a 318,000 worker walkout began demanding shorter weeks and higher wages under a new labor contract. Seventeen companies, including foreign-controlled majors, faced stoppages. authorities and troops moved to curb violence while leaders voiced cautious forecasts of a quick settlement.
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Oi Fiea
Mexico
Lazaro Cardenas
Federal Conciliation and Arbitration Board
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Vicente Lombardo Toledano
Confederation of Workers of Mexico
GPM
Oid Workers’ Syndicate
Parted from Mother Over Immigration Law Claims
A miscaptioned news photo fragment describes Senora Felicitas Sancedo de Herrera with twins Rudolfo and Umberto Rios. It mentions an albino child, a mother’s immigration concerns, and Uncle Sam. The text notes scientific interest in snow white features and facial traits amid family separation claims.
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Senora Felicitas Sancedo de Herrera
Umberto
Snow
Rudolfo Rios
Rudolfo Herto Rios
Uncle Sam
United States
Fat
Wife Slayer Dies in Electric Chair at Huntsville
Onnie Joiner, a Newton County saw mill worker, was executed at state prison for murdering his wife. He received the first shock at 12 03 a m and died five minutes later. Joiner, pale and calm, entered with prison chaplain Rev. C E Garrett and stated, I am guilty, before the chair was strapped and the mask placed.
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Huntsville
Onnie Joiner
Newton County
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Joiner
C. E. Garrett
W. W. Wald
Yukon Flood Area Reaches Nulato Trading Post
Alaska residents faced rising Yukon river floodwaters isolating Nulato after radio links failed since Monday. About 200 residents, believed to have evacuated by boat, remain in danger as the lower Yukon flood advances toward Fairbanks area.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Nulato
Yukon River
Fire destroys banana cargo on highway near San Antonio
Trucker R. E. Gwens of Bertram was driving a banana laden truck on Highway 86, seven miles north of San Antonio. Paper wrappings on the fruit caught fire. The San Antonio fire department responded, but the bananas were destroyed and the truck sustained about $300 in damage.
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R. E. Gwens, Bertram
San Antonio
Floods Halt Hot Springs Dedication Amid NM Toll
Torrential rains across northern and central New Mexico caused four deaths and flooded thousands of acres, postponing the dedication of the Carrie Tingley hospital for crippled children in Hot Springs. The Miller family perished in an arroyo near Forrest as a flash flood swept their stalled car. Gov. Clyde Tingley postponed the ceremony, and Postmaster General James Farley, then in Arizona, was slated to speak.
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Albuquerque
N. M
New Mexico
Carrie Tingley
Hot Springs
Silas Miller
Morene
Joy
Forrest
Sosorro
Clyde Tinggley
U. 8
Socorro
James A. Farley
Arizona
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