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MORNING- PRESS NEWS 
2 AUGUST 1938 
NATIONAL NEWS 
Washington 
Tho National Labor Relations Board ordered today a 48 hour 
adjournment of the unfair labor practices hearing against 
the Maytag Washing Machine Company at Newton, Iowa. The 
Labor Board said that adjournment was being made to allow 
officials to consider the order of Iowa’s governor Krascel 
that the hearing be stopped. The NLRB said the adjournment 
was not a recognition of the validity of the Governor’s order 
Kansas City 
Employees of the municipal water and light department went 
on strike today in a demand for union recognition and a forty 
hour week. Union loaders said from sixty to eighty men in 
the maintenance and trouble shooting departments had walked 
out. Production department manager James Donovan said he 
did hot believe service would bo impaired bjr the strike. 
No production employees were reported to have joined the 
strike. Officials said the men wore granted a twelve per- 
cent increase in pay in 1937. Union officials said the 
strike was called to enforce the demand for a forty hour 
we ok and union recognition. The men now work a forty four 
hour week. 
Covington. Ky . 
Seven persons were slightly injured today in a crash involv 
ing two Greyhound buses. A Greyhound Lines’ official said 
the driver of -one bus, attempting to stop to lend aid to a 
follow driver, skidded into the stalled passenger carrier. 
The windows of both buses were shattered. 
New York 
The trial of four members of an alleged Nazi spy ring was 
postponed today until August 22. The delay was granted at 
the request of assistant U.S. attorney Dunnigan. Dunnigan 
said that U.S. Attorney Lamar Lardy wanted the trial to wait 
for his return. The four defendants area hair dresser from 
the German Liner Europe, Johann Stoffman, two former U.S. 
Army Soldiers, Gunther Rumrich and Erich Glaser, and a 
former airplane factory mechanic, Otto Voss. Fourteen other 
persons, including several high Nazi military officials also 
were indicted on charges of conspiring to steal American 
milita.ry secrets. However, all but four of the spy suspects 
are in Germany and beyond reach of the U.S. 
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