Administrator to Answer Critics Tonight in NRA Roundup
Gen. Hugh S. Johnson to present a detailed action program at the NRA briefing aiming to put one million more men to work. The plan may include a Presidential order on working hours and wages while defending Roosevelt’s hour-shortening proposal and limiting Congressional changes. Johnson seeks maximum reemployment and harmony between industry and labor amid tight expectations.
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Washington
Hugh S. Johnson
NRA
Roosevelt
Johnson
Aged Chicago Woman Doctor Convicted of Murder
Dr. Alice Lindsay Wynckoop, a famed Chicago physician, was found guilty of murdering her 23-year-old daughter-in-law Rheta. The jury deliberated 35 minutes and she received a 25 year sentence, viewed as effectively life imprisonment due to her age and ill health.
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Chicago
Alice Lindsay Wynckoop
Feminine Medico
Rheta
Rheta Gardner Wynekoop
Alice Lindsay Wynekoop
Salu Mon
Batle
Dr. Wynekoop
Wynekoop
John Long
Foetesset
Roosevelt In West Indies Tour Reaches Puerto Rico
Mrs. Roosevelt arrives in San Juan on a West Indies tour to study economic conditions as stock markets show further drops. The report lists several corporate movers while a separate item details the Wynekoop murder case and subsequent trials and confessions. A Reno loan program cites a $50 000 emergency fund.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
Santo Domingo
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Miami
Florida
New York Stocks Fall After NRA Hours Curtailed
March 7 report shows a broad market decline led by United States Steel American Can and Allied Chemical as investors digested news NRA Administrator Johnson would curb code working hours via an Executive Order. Trans fers totaled 1.8 million shares with subdued rallies and mixed bond activity.
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New York
Washington
NRA
Johnson
United States
United States Steel
American Can
Auburn
Case
Chrysler
Dupont
Tobaccos
Westinghouse
American Smelting
Allied Chemical
Douglas Aircraft
American Telephone and Telegraph
General Motors
Montgomery-Ward
United Aircraft
Poland Germany tariff war ends with mutual trade treaty
WARSAW March 7 Poland and Germany have ended the tariff war with a mutual trade treaty ending years of friction over customs measures and retaliation.
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Poland
Germany
Warsaw
Confidence Returns in United States Says Behrends
Alaska banker B. M. Behrends reports renewed optimism after a trip to U S financial centers. He cites Roosevelt's new deal and improved trade, industry, and consumer confidence. He notes better hotel activity and a shift from cheap to higher quality goods with rising spirits across the East and nation.
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B. M. Behrends
Alaska
United States
Washington, D. C
Behrends
Dimond
Roosevelt
Superior Race Of Men Predicted By Surgeon
Dr. Malcolm MacEacher at a Spokane sectional college convention predicted the next century will begin a superior race of men as medicine cures nervous disorders from modern life and prevents reproduction of the unfit.
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Spokane
Malcolm MacEacher
American College of Surgeons
Marooned Men in Arctic Ice Face NewPeril
Moscow reports 89 men on an Arctic ice floe guard against cracking ice. Barracks split and the camp kitchen broken, women and children rescued hours earlier by two Russian fliers. Planes ships and dog teams scour the area to save the group while crevasses threaten the camp.
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Tce
Leaked Testimony Ties Morgan and Company to Mail Contracts
Testimony before the Senate Banking Committee alleges that Morgan and Company sold 4,500 United Aircraft shares shortly before the government canceled all mail contracts. Senator Robinson of Indiana cited this as evidence that international bankers had advance information.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Morgan and Company
United Aircraft
Robinson
Indiana
Administration to Start Land Utilization Program
Washington march 7 the administration plans to begin purchasing acreage under its land utilization program. experts estimate 25 million to 40 million acres are sub marginal and should be retired for the public good. government to move families relocate farms destroy roads schools and drainage ditches and build a new structure to fit national needs.
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Washington
Father of Girl May Execute Her Attackers
Jackson Mississippi reports a State Senate County Affairs Committee favorably reviewed a bill allowing the girl's father to take direct action against the assailants. The measure aims to permit execution by the father following the planned hanging of the five Memphis men on March 16 for the assault.
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Miss
Memphis
State Senate
Eal
Alaska peonage trial halted as lawyers argue
Superior Judge Ward halted the Alaska peonage case to hear technical motions to dismiss charges against Emil Mayer Arthur Mayer Samuel Young and Y Lopez. The defendants allegedly operated an unlicensed employment agency and forced fishermen and cannery workers to buy merchandise in exchange for Alaska Jobs.
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Cal
Ward
Alaska
Emil Mayer
Arthur Mayer
Samuel Young
Y. Lopez
Lewis to leave for Juneau Saturday in agua plan
R F Lewis owner of the Juneau Walter Company says in a letter to Mayor Goldstein he will depart Seattle for Juneau on March 10. He plans talks with the Citizens Water Committee and the mayor on the water situation and aims to settle the overall solution with a Silver Bow Basin storage development discussed with L A Metzgar in San Francisco.
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R. F. Lewis
Juneau Walter Company
Seattle
Juneau
1 Goldstein
Lewis
Citizens’ Water Committee
L. A. Metzgar
San Francisco
Silver Bow Basin
Montana Students Hold Jobs Despite Hard Times
In Missoula Montana a university survey shows about one third of University of Montana students have jobs. Four hundred collegians earn roughly six thousand dollars monthly while studying.
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Missoula, Mont
University of Montana
Navy building program passed by Senate targets seven year plan
The Senate approved the Vinson Trammell bill authorizing a seven year expansion for the U S Navy. The plan calls for about 100 new destroyers and submarines more than 1000 airplanes and one aircraft carrier. An amendment by Sen Homer T Bone requires expansion of government plants to build 25 percent of the planes.
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Washington
Senate
Vinson‘Trammell
United States Navy
United States
Homer T. Bone
Federal agents join in search for Dillinger
Federal agents have joined the manhunt for bank robber John Dillinger who escaped from Lake County Jail in Crown Point Indiana last Saturday. Deputies Ernest Blunt and guard Sam Cahoon were arrested for aiding his escape.
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Chicago
John Dillinger
Desperado
Lake County
Crown Post
Indiana
Shen Ernest Blunt
Dillinger
Sam Cahoon
Ja Guard
Delegate predicts Alaska repeal of Prohibition by April first
Alaska Delegate A. J. Dimond says Prohibition will end in Alaska no later than April 1. Senate already approved repeal of Bone Dry provisions. House Territories Committee promised quick action. Once repeal passes, liquor regulation will fall to Territorial Executive Officials until a 1935 Legislature meets.
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Washington
Alaska
A. J. Dimond
Senate
House Territories Committee
New Deal Seen as Lifeline for Alaska Mining
James L. Freeburn, GM of Chichagof Mining Co., arriving from Seattle, says Roosevelt's New Deal could revive Alaska gold mining. He cites $35 gold price as inviting for prospectors and supports a code to boost employment without overburdening the industry. He will stay in Juneau until Thursday then return for a mining meeting to discuss a code for Alaska.
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Alaska
Roosevelt
James L. Freeburn
Chichagof
Freeburn
Victoria
Seattle
Preeburn
Juneau
Turkish decree bans titles bey and efendi in new policy
Istanbul March 7 report says the Turkish government bans the titles bey and efendi as undemocratic terms. Pasha remains due to military significance. bey and efendi were once military words but broadened in use.
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Efendi
Istanbul
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