Film companies sued to breakup moving picture monopoly
The U.S. government filed a civil anti trust suit in New York seeking to divest eight major film companies of theater ownership and production facilities. Names include Paramount, Loew s, Warner, Fox, Columbia, Universal, United Artists, and Radio Keith Orpheum trustee Irving Trust. The action targets alleged 65 percent control and practices like block booking and high rentals.
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Ljroentaring
Cummings
Atty
Southern District of
New York
Henry W. Goddard
Thurman W. Arnold
Paramount Pictures, Inc
Loew's Inc
Irving Trust Company
Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation
Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc
Twentieth Century- Fox Film Corporation
Columbia Pictures Corporation
Universal Corporation
United Artists Corporation
Arnold
Madden Charged With Secret Talks Ties To Weirton Hearing
Warren Madden chairman of the national labor relations board faced charges of secretly conferring in Washington last December with C I O officials about the Weirton Steel hearing at Steubenville Ohio The accusations surfaced during the board hearing on Clyde A Armstrong chief counsel for Weirton Armstrongs attorney E F Reed alleged Coe Lee Pressman a C I O official and an armed constable swapped subpoenas while Wakefield Smith attended and disparaged Armstrong during evidence.
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Warren Madden
National Labor Relations Board
Washington
Weirton Steel Company
Steubenville
Ohio
Clyde A. Armstrong
Steel Company
Weirton
Edward Grandison Smith
E. F. Reed
Armstrong
Kenneth Coe
Madden
Lee Pressman
Labor Board
Donald Wakefield Smith
Martial Law Declared as Strike Clashes Hit Iowa and Illinois
Governor Krachel declares martial law in Newton Iowa home of Maytag plant after a street battle between rival labor factions. National Guardsmen occupy the area as C I O pickets resist returns to work. In North Chicago, Steel Workers pickets are routed by deputy sheriffs with tear gas. ten pickets found guilty of contempt.
Notable Labor Leader Charles P. Howard Dies in Colorado
Charles P. Howard president of the International Typographical Union and secretary of the CIO died in his sleep in Colorado Springs at fifty eight. He had just been defeated for re election by C M Baker of San Francisco in May and would have left office September 1. Also noted is the death of author Owen Wister at his North Kingston Rhode Island summer home at seventy eight.
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Charles P. Howard
International Typographical Union
Colorado Springs
Colo
Howard
C. M. Baker
San Francisco
Owen Wister
North Kingston
R. I
British Monarchs Visit Paris Signals Allied Resolve
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visit Paris for a four day state tour seen as a key political gesture. British and French leaders such as Viscount Halifax Edouard Daladier and Georges Bonnet hold talks on global tensions while a 50 000 strong French military parade showcases allied resolve before Lebrun at Versailles.
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Paris
George VI
Elizabeth
England
Great Britain
France
Britain
Viscount Halifax
Edouard Daladier
Georges Bonnet
George
Lebrun
Rome
Hitler
Palace of Versailles
Blacklist targets C I O foes of Roosevelt in Congress
A purge plan marks over 40 lawmakers for opposition by John L. Lewis and E L Oliver of Labor's Non-Partisan League tied to wage hour bills. Democratic committee members Cox Smith Lewis and Adams Lonergan are named along with Senators Tydings Adams Lonergan in the blacklist. The same article notes rising national debt, detailing per capita obligations and state-by-state totals, and questions tax-raising implications.
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Imple
Congress
John L. Lewis
E. L. Oliver
Labor
League
Committee For Industrial Organization
Oliver
Mr. Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Democratic Rules Committee
Rep
E. E. Cox
Georgia
House
Howard W. Smith
Virginia
James Roosevelt
Thomas G
Tommy the Cork
Redcoats Guarded Klondyke Trail of 1898 Lions Den
The Klondyke rush drew thousands to Skagway and toward the Yukon as Black-coats at the sixtieth parallel upheld law. Redcoats of the Northwest Mounted Police kept peace amid riots, passports denied, and confrontations with stampede crowds. Thousands of outlaws altered by lawmen paradoxically became orderly as the Mounted stood firm.
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Klondyke
Carmack
Yukon
Skagway
Lake Bennet
Lewes
Alaska
Canada
Northwest Mounted Police
Redcoats
Yank
Yukon Territory
Wheat Allotment Set by AAA Official for 1939 Plantings
R Tolley of the AAA announced a national wheat allotment not to exceed 55 million acres for fall and spring planting. The order, signed by M L Wilson acting secretary of agriculture, cites a forecast yield of 967 million bushels on 80 million seeded acres and lists state allotments for major producing states with 1928 37 averages for comparison.
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R. Tolley
AAA
M. L. Wilson
Secretary of Agriculture
Pennsylvania
Oklahoma
Texas
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
Ohio
South Dakota
Wisconsin
California
Colorado
Idaho
Kansas
Montana
North Dakota
Oregon
Washoe
Sneak Flight Across Atlantic by Corrigan
Quglas P Corrigan a young California engine expert flew secretly from Floyd Bennett Field New York to Baldonnel Ireland in 28 hours 13 minutes in a single motor Curtiss Robin without permits navigation gear or parachute. He claimed a wrong magnetic compass set him on a westward path, making him the sixth west east solo Atlantic crossing.
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Main
Foynes
Ireland
North Atlantic
Botwood
Newfoundland
Montreal
St. Lawrence
New York
Ocean
Quglas P. Corrigan
California
Air Commerce Bureau
Atlantic
Floyd Bennett Field
Baldonnel
Corrigan
Dublin
Mollison
Beryl Markham
Many Farmers Earn Income by Outside Labor
A census bureau survey of 3,000 farms in 400 counties shows about one third of U S farmers have outside income from industrial or business work. For 975 farmers with non-farm income, total non-farm earnings reached $458,522, averaging $573 per farm, with roughly one quarter earning under $100 annually.
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Washington
United States
Census Bureau
William L. Austin
Austin
Long Run for Fire Department
In February 1904 the New York fire department dispatched nine engine companies and one hook and ladder truck on flatcars to Baltimore, a journey of about 180 miles, during a great blaze.
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Fire Department
New York
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Vincent Meyer
Johnson County
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
Donald Meyer
Utility Holding ‘ Company
Federal Securities Commission
William O. Douglas
Utilities Power & Light Corporation
Sys
Douglas
Commission
Utilities Power & Light
Chicago
Russia
Japan
Manchukuo
Siberia
Korea
Maxim Litvinov
Roosevelt
Bureau of the Budget
Uncle Sam
Federal Treasury
Daniel Bell
Budget Bureau
Treasury
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
North Carolina
HIG
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Tennessee
Utah
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Commodity Credit Corporation
Sen
Carter Glass
Senate
National Guard
Western Newspaper Union
Arizona
Delaware
Dist. of
Columbia
Florida
Louisiana
Nevada
The
Ounted
Captain G. Elliott -Nightingale
WNU
H. R. Tolley
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