Strikes End or Pause Across Industries as Talks Proceed
The Campbell Soup Company in Camden New Jersey ended a 2006 employee strike with a seven percent wage raise and bargaining plan approval. Northeastern Massachusetts leather workers halted a 7000 member general strike as employers agreed to resume talks with the National Leather Workers Union. Meanwhile gulf port shipping slowed by a 4000 longshoremen strike. Norfolk dock workers walked out and Vancouver waterfront workers planned a May 12 strike vote. Seminole oil workers in Oklahoma and Paterson union members sought wage increases as local newspapers faced labor action.
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Associated Press
Campbell Soup Company
Camden
N. J
Massachusetts
National Leather Workers Union
Gulf Ports
Norfolk
Vancouver
B. C
Seminole
Okla
Sinclair-Phairie
Paterson
Derby Day Weather Teases Fans With Showers
May 4 report says Derby Day tomorrow may bring occasional showers while Derby Cay stays unsettled. Forecasters: fair weather chances near even for the sixtieth Kentucky Derby as crowds prepare for the race. Out of danger Cubs shortstop Jurges to miss few days after appendicitis scare. Hoffman and Lerkard fly in to observe the Winchester festival from the air.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
Derby Cay
Chicago
Billy Jurges
Chicago Cubs
Boston
John F. Davis
Jurges
Charles, W. Hoffman
Hoffman Chevrolet Company
W. B. Lerkard
Bradford
Winchester
Mr. Leénkard
Death threat handling and ransom note details continue
A ransom demand tied to a missing girl leads authorities to await signals as her family negotiates. The note reportedly required the father to drive a lonely road and toss money at signals. Unrelated reports note a denial of an intermediary and halted official probes to aid negotiations. Also included are local notices about incorporation, a policeman's funeral in Crisfield, and a rummage sale announcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carol G. Robles
Alphonso Aguirre
Bernabe Robles
Sorora
Mexico
June
Farmers Holiday Group Opposes AAA Crop Reduction
The National Farmers Holiday Association pledged to oppose the Agricultural Adjustment Administration crop reduction plan describing it as a program that would cause prosperity through starvation. The resolution called AAA a failure and fraud and said it would displace millions of farmers while subsistence farming shelters the unemployed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bes Moines
National Farmers Holiday Association
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
AAA
Deaths and notices wrap local families in shared grief
Obituaries report Mrs. Marian L. Carnochan, widow of John A. Carnochan, dying May 2 in Murphysboro Illinois, with survivors including two sons and two daughters. Services span Murphysboro and Hagerstown with interment at Rose Hill. Rev. Frank G. Coleman officiates. Also remembered is Elsie Viola Martin who died at 35 years nine months in Mason-Dixon, with funeral in Greencastle and services at Shanks Church. An In Memoriam for Gussie Martin dated 1933 and a card of thanks note gratitude for support after a death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marian L. Carnochan
John A. Carnochan
Murpheysboro
Ill
C. Edward Bishop
John L
Ralph A. Carnochan
George Nagle
Poplar Bluff
Bishop
Murphersboro
Car
Elsie Viola Martin
Tra L. Martin
Mason-Dixon, R. 1
Waynesboro Hospital
Shank
Church of the Brethren
Margaret
Hazel
Tra, Jr
George
Elsie
LeRoy
Mollie J. Witmer
Greencastle
Artha
Dillinger hunt widens as Florida sheriff boosts reward
Chicago police pursue John Dillinger amid reports of 400 associates ready to aid him. Florida Sheriff H. W. Lawrence pledges 25 dollars to reach 100000 dollars if others join, while Indiana offers a 24 dollar reward for Dillinger as parole violator and bank killer. Evelyn Frechette’s bond reduced to 35000 as she remains jailed for harboring him. In Fostoria, a bank raid wounded five, with near 18000 taken and two guards kidnapped briefly, investigated by federal and Cleveland Cincinnati investigators.
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Dillinger
Chicago
Florida
Sherif H. W. Lawrence
West Palm Beach
Indiana
East Chicago
Ind
St. Paul
Evelyn Frechette
Fostoria
Bue Jack Kesler
John Dillinger
First National Bank
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Kesler
Howard G. Robinson
London
Robinson
Toledo
Woodin, Treasury Secretary, Dies at 65 in Hospital
William H. Woodin, long-serving Treasury Secretary during the New Deal era, died at 6:15 P.M. in Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital after a throat infection led to nephritis and uremia. Roosevelt mourned the loss, recalling their close friendship and Woodin's counsel during banking crises. Survived by his widow Mary Minor and several children, he had returned to public life briefly after resigning January 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Woodin
Treasury
Washington
the Treasury
Will
J. P. Morgan
New York
Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital
Wagner
Mr. Woodin
Alfred E. Smith
Mr. Roosevelt
American Car and Foundry Company
Roosevelt
Wil.iam H. Woodin
Sanders Quits As G. O. P. Head
Everett Sanders resigns as chairman of the Republican National Committee triggering a three way contest among the G O P Old Guard Hoover forces and congressional leaders seeking new blood. Indiana’s James E Watson and Minnesota’s Frank O Lowden are named as possible replacements as Hillen in New York says Sanders retirement opens the field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Everett Sanders
Republican National Committee
G. O. P. Old Guard
Herbert Hoover
James E. Watson
Indiana
Senate
Frank O. Lowden
Miinots
Manshin
Capitol Hill
Bie
New York
Charles D. Hillen
Sanders
Penny Ingestion Drops Lead To Clinic Findings
In Atlanta on May 4 a doctor reports money ingestion by children easing as pennies replace buttons and ping in wind pipes. Dr. Murdock Equen removed a penny from the esophagus of 18 month old Billy Sowell, marking the third penny retrieved at his clinic in two days.
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Atlanta
Murdock Equen
Billy Sowell
Semler's Birds Win Pigeon Race From Elkton Va
Hagerstown Flying Club held a 100 mile pigeon race from Elkton Virginia. Leroy Semler's birds finished first and second with 1239.08 yards per minute. Other finishers averaged speeds from 1213.89 to 914.56 yards per minute. Nineteen birds were released from thirteen lofts at 7 15 a m in calm clear conditions.
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Hagerstown Flying Club
Elkton
Leroy Semler
Bernstein
Ohler
High
Grant
Papa
Craig
Ausherman
Windpower Used by This Motorist in Dodge City
Harry Free, a Dodge City businessman, reports a farmer on a level road near Fogalls had a wind driven case. The motor was shut off and car doors open as a stiff wind carried the vehicle at 10 to 15 miles per hour.
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Dodge City
Kas
Harry Free
Fogalls
Free
Arraignment Planned for Howard County Defendants
State's Attorney Herbert R. O'Connor announces Emory L. Coblentz and co defendants in cases arising from the Central Trust Company of Maryland closure have been summoned for arraignment in criminal court next Monday. The cases have been transferred to Baltimore for proceedings.
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Baltimore
Herbert R. O’connor
Emory L. Coblentz
Howard County
Central Trust Company of Maryland
Chicago Grain Market Quotation by Stein Bros and Co
Grain market item lists quotations by Stein Bros along with address, treatment and medical ad references. The fragment mentions McCoomas-Armatrong Building and a chiropractor Dr Shipley at 21 W Wash St with a $5.00 treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stein Bros. & Boyce
McCoomas-Armatrong Building
DR. Shipley
W. Wash
Shenandoah Apple Blossom Queen Reigns At Winchester Parade
Mrs. John Hay Whitney served as Queen Shenandoah XI guiding a day packed with rescheduled parades and pageants in Winchester Virginia as the 11th annual festival culminated. The program included The Spirit of the Ages and The Trail of the Pink Petals with a four mile parade line and 1000 Winchester schoolchildren. Mrs Whitney planned to depart for Louisville after the queen’s ball to watch her horses in the Kentucky Derby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
John Hay Whitney
Whitney
Lewis W. Douglas
Federal
Troop E
Third
United States Cavalry
Richard Evelyn Byrd
Snake Eradication Crew Finds 15 Rattlesnake Nests Near Denver
Laborers on a Denver unemployment relief project removed stone on a mountain and uncovered 15 rattlesnake nests. They killed many reptiles as part of a supplementary rattlesnake eradication project.
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Denver
Rummage Sale at 245 Jonathan Street Saturday May 5
A rummage sale hosted by Livingston Circle at First Baptist Church on May 5. The event takes place at 245 Jonathan Street and is open to the public. Proceeds support church activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Franklin
Leiternburg
Y. W.S. Ady
Jonathan
Livingston Circle
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Crandfather
Maryland Printery, Inc
State Tax Commission
Jane Helen Chriest
Martin V. R. Bostetter
Edgar C. Jones
Crisfield
Harry Daugherty
Crisfield Cemetery
Farm Holiday Group Growls
China
Harry S. Myers
China Department
N. Potor
Desperado
Lberty
Little Bohemia
Mercer
Wis
Gussie Martin
Ady
G. Carl Wastier
A. C. Wastler
Hagerstown Paint & Glass Co
W. Franklin St
WM. EH. Woodin
Arizona
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Rose Faber
Abraham
Millen Brothers
Dedham
Mass
Faber
Millens
Semler’s
Summer
Robert S. Cartee
N. Potomac
Polly Preaton
Coblentz
Stein Brea & Boyce
McComsa-Arimatrong Building
P. M
Consol
Olt
Aeee Crown Ck
DuPont
Oie
Gen
Foods
Motors
Goodyear
Unid. Distrys
North Amer
Penna. R. R
Annes
Ltd. Oil N. See
U.S. Steel Co
ATU United Aircraft
Union Pacific
Weathouse Electza
Western Union
West, Md
Swees
Loews Step One
Texas Corp
Warner Bros. AM Mi
Chicago Grain Market
McComas-Armstrong, Inc
Safe Insurance
W. Washington St
U.S
Green Mountains
Bliss Triumph
Carmen
Eureka
SEA Foods
K. T. Hager
Corner Church
Prospect
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