Directs rescue of 13,500 flood-marooned farmers

' Mosquito Fleet' Saved 13,500MaroonedbyFlood

Attends banquet given by Emperor Hirohito on 2,597th anniversary of founding of Japanese Empire

Big Fetes in Japan Mark 2,597th Year of Empire

Plane crashes in market place killing 6; hits trolley and burns, Berlin

Plane Crashes in Berlin Square, Killing Six; Hits Trolley and Burns Near Cage of Lions

gets appeal from citizens of Orizaba after Gov Aleman closed chs

20,000 IN MEXICO OCCUPY CHURCHES; Orizaba Crowd Acts After the Veracruz Governor Makes Effort to Close Edifices

GREEN IS CONVICTED IN THE FIRST DEGREE; Negro Must Die for Murder of Mrs. Case-Jury Confers Less Than Two Hours

Proposed £400,000,000 defense fund entails increase (F T Birchall)

BRITAIN WILL RAISE A [pound]400,000,000 FUND FOR REARMAMENT; 30-Year Loans Spread Over Five Years Will Supplement Surpluses for Purpose

General Motors Corporation agrees: To recognize the United Automobile Workers as bargaining agent for its members. Not to bargain on "matters of general corporate policy" with any other group from twenty struck plants without Governor Murphy's sanction. Not to discriminate against members of the union or the union in favor of any other group. To drop court proceedings in the sit-down strikes.  

Strike Settlement in Brief; Terms of the Agreement

PROGRAM OFFERED TO SOLVE TENANCY ON 3,000,000 FARMS; MISERY PICTURED

strikers march out of Chevrolet and Fisher plants at Flint after voting to accept agreement; banners and demonstrations proclaim victory; city cheerful at prospect of renewed payroll

STRIKERS AT FLINT MARCH AS VICTORS; Leave Plants, 'Heads High,' Singing 'Solidarity' and Greetingq Families

Program for pol reorganization to be outlined in Sejm; expected to create one-party State under leadership of Gen E Rydz-Smigly; Poles to be ruling class; comment on necessity for new regime

POLAND PLANNING ONE-PARTY STATE; Government Program Going to Sejm Today Would Make Smigly-Rydz Leader

PEACE PACT SIGNED; Action Officially Ends 44-Day Strike That Tied Up Plants

conf with Roosevelt; reiterates advocacy of more fundamental approach to problem

ROOSEVELT DRIVES FOR COURT REFORM AS CONGRESS WAITS; He Tells Five More Senators, Including Norris and Wagner, Views of Need for Bill

Jibe at Roosevelt's sweeping victory holds U S flag should have only 46 stars; mock alarm among Me Repub legislators lest they be considered undesirable aliens in Wash

' Fears' Maine Legislators May Be 'Aliens' in Capital

COURT BURDENED, UNTERMYER SAYS; Procedure Needs Reforming, He Asserts, and 15 Judges Will Be None Too Many

After heated debate, the Indiana Legislature today endorsed President Roosevelt's proposal regarding the Supreme Court when the House, on strictly party lines, approved, 74 to 19, a resolution adopted by the Senate yesterday. Copies were ordered sent to Indiana members of Congress.  

INDIANANS APPROVE PLAN; Legislature Is Pro-Roosevelt on Court, as Is Washington House

Childs Restaurant, 82d St & Bway; cashier held up by woman

Girl Quietly Holds Up Broadway Restaurant While Patrolman Eats Only 25 Feet Away

Chinatown ushered in yesterday the year 4641. Five thousand celebrants watched a four-hour parade through the narrow streets of the quarter and rejoiced in the passing of another year that has brought closer their dream of a unified China.  

CHINATOWN MARKS NEW YEAR OF 4641; Firecrackers, Tom-Toms and a Parade Are Part of Celebration Watched by 5,000

Miami-Kingston Plane Service On

A $5,000 jewel robbery in the apartments of Mr. and Mrs. Allan A. Ryan Jr. of 59 East Fifty-sixth Street, was reported to the police of the East Fifty-first Street station last night.  

A. A. RYAN JR.'S HOME IS LOOTED OF GEMS; Robbers Force Way Into 56th St. Apartment and Escape With $5,000 Jewdry

Comrs of Ct of Coronation Claims grant 40 yds of velvet to Earl of Ancaster as age-old right of Lord Great Chamberlain

King Must Pay Velvet Fee To Earl as Age-Old Right

COURT TO EXTEND HOURS; Special Sessions Justices Move to Catch Up With Calendar

S on Carnegie-Ill pay increase at Pittsburgh Joint Council meeting; favors Lewis plan o??? union

BOARD FOR WAGE RISE AT CARNEGIE-ILLINOIS; Employe and Management Representatives Ask $5-a-Day Minimum, 40-Hour Week

CHILD AMENDMENT VOTES; New Mexico Ratifies Proposal and South Dakota Rejects It

WAR ON COURT PLAN IS BEGUN AT ALBANY; Desmond Offers Protest in the Senate-Wadsworth Shapes One for the Assembly

autopsy exams show victims drowned trying to escape; investigators find steps for landing not taken; search for other victims continues

February 12, 1937

Headlines from February 12, 1937

' Mosquito Fleet' Saved 13,500MaroonedbyFlood

Big Fetes in Japan Mark 2,597th Year of Empire

Plane Crashes in Berlin Square, Killing Six; Hits Trolley and Burns Near Cage of Lions

20,000 IN MEXICO OCCUPY CHURCHES; Orizaba Crowd Acts After the Veracruz Governor Makes Effort to Close Edifices

GREEN IS CONVICTED IN THE FIRST DEGREE; Negro Must Die for Murder of Mrs. Case-Jury Confers Less Than Two Hours