Bombardment Drives Almeria Residents to Hills
Refugees from Almeria flee through the hills after a German bombardment that killed at least 20, wounded about 100 critically and left the city in ruins. Officials report many women and children among the dead as relief workers, including Americans, tend to the injured.
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Irving Pflaum
United Press
Almeria
Spain
U.P
Mediterranean
Valencia
Gabriel Moron
Moron
International Non-Intervention Committee
Roosevelt seeks new law to curb tax evasion by the rich
President Roosevelt urged Congress to grant the Treasury expansive power to probe tax evasion and compel testimony. He cited preliminary findings estimating revenue loss of 200 to 400 million dollars this fiscal year and listed methods such as foreign holding companies and trusts. He warned evasion shifts burden to others and hinted at revenue law revisions next session.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
Congress
Treasury
Congressional
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Morgenthau
Bloc Broken On Relief Bill Faces House Passage
Washington report says House administration leaders pushed the 1.5 billion work relief bill toward passage after presidential intervention to curb earmarking. Removal of 55 million for flood control 300 million for public works and 150 million for highways was expected, with President Roosevelt agreeing to use funds for relief labor on projects. Democratic leader Sam Rayburn predicted final passage before adjournment in White House form.
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Washington
U.P
House
Roosevelt
Sam Rayburn
White House
London Protest Over Palma Mallorca Raid Incident
London protests to the Loyalist Government at Valencia after a government air raid on Palma and Mallorca on May 26. The British destroyer Hardy narrowly avoided a hit during the attack.
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London
U.P
Britain
Valencia
Palma
Mallorca
Hardy
Strikers Blame Police as Riots Escalate at Steel Plants
In Chicago the CI O accuses police of planned murder amid riots that left five pickets dead. authorities say Communists influenced the siege at Republic Steel South Chicago works. In Warren Ohio a thousand pickets clash as judges hear injunction bids to halt steelworker blockades.
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Chicago
U.P
Chicago Steel Front
Washington
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Republic Steel Corporation
James L. Mooney
Republic
South Chicago
Inland Steel Corp
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co
Mooney
State Committee
Communist Party
Republic’s Steel Corporation
Warren
Ohio
Samuel H. Wilson
C. I. O. Steel Workers’ Union
Niles
O. Republic
Warren, O
Adrian C. McKelhaney
Pope Pius XI Resting While Doctors Say Condition Stable
Castel Gandolfo Italy Pope Pius XI rests peacefully at his summer home as physicians deny any alarm over his health He canceled a world radio broadcast and a papal academy speech planned for his 80th birthday Monday citing concern he might overexert himself The pope’s condition remains described as comfortable by doctors
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Castel Gandolfo
Italy
Pius XI
Papal Academy of Sciences
Presbyterians Decry Nazi Attacks on Church Liberty
In Columbus the 149th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U S adopted a resolution condemning Nazism as it pressures church autonomy. Clergy leaders warned of a Christian church in Germany facing extinction and urged American church solidarity. The assembly also criticized threats to civil and religious liberty while avoiding a direct stance on Roosevelt's Supreme Court plan.
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Columbus
149Th General Assembly
Presbyterian Church
U.S. A
National Socialism
Adolph Hitler
Christ
Germany
Hugh T. Kerr
Pittsburgh
Tian
R. Graham Wilson
New York City
Committee On Nation Missions
America
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Four Drowned As Swimming Season Opens
The 1937 outdoor swimming season began over Memorial Day with reports showing 11 drownings across Ohio in Cleveland Cincinnati Columbus New Philadelphia and Canton. Four traffic deaths raised the holiday toll to 15.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Cleveland
Cincinnati
New Philadelphia
Canton
Girl Hitch Hiker Not Ohio Wesleyan Co-Ed Identified
Cleveland U P reports private detective Gaston Stickeler found the Pomona hitch hiker last week does not match Ruth E Baumgardner the Ohio Wesleyan co-ed missing since May 4. The missive followed a $500 reward offer from her father Carl Baumgardner.
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Ohio Wesleyan
Cleveland
U.P
Pomona
Cal
Ruth E. Baumgardner
Gaston Stickeler
Carl Baumgardner
Akron Youth Rescued After Underwater Trip
James Philbin, 17, a high school student, nearly drowned when a home made diving helmet malfunctioned. His friends pulled him from the water and Coventry Township firemen provided artificial respiration before he reached safety.
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Akron
James Philbin
Philin
Coventry Township
Lancaster boys escape from industrial school
Authorities hunted Tuesday for Woodrow Carey aged 18 of Jackson and Hubert Jackson aged 17 of Dayton who escaped from the Boys Industrial School by overpowering a night waterman.
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Lancaster
U.P
Woodrow Carey
Jackson
Hubert Jackson
Dayton
Windsor and Wally Keep Honeymoon Plans Secret
The Duke of Windsor and Mrs Wallis Warfield prepare to wed in Monts France with a 11 30 a m ceremony 48 hours hence. The couple plan a secret honeymoon itinerary amid police guards and intense media interest.
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Windsor
Wally
Herman L. Rogers
Ernest Simpson
Duke
Mrs. Warfield
Scotland Yard
Earhart Begins Second Leg of World Flight From San Juan
Amelia Earhart launches the second leg of her around the world attempt from Miami toward San Juan Puerto Rico. The eastward route aims for longer Atlantic hops via Parimaribo and Natal before Africa then Asia and Australia toward the Pacific and California.
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Parimaribo
Natal
South Atlantic
Africa
Dakar
French West Africa
Asia
Australia
Miss Earhart
Pacific
Honolulu
California
Missing Broker Keene Found Murdered Aboard Steamer
Charles F. Keene a Washington real estate broker who vanished from the District of Columbia Bloodstains and overturned furniture marked a struggle aboard the Potomac River steamer. The coroner jury ruled he was murdered. His body bore a handbag with tools and a woman's pocketbook.
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Washington
U.P
Chesapeake Bay
Charles F. Keene
District of Columbia
Keene
Burns and Foster Honeymoon as Lastfogle Elopers
Bob Burns the Arkansas humorist and his secretary Harriet Madelin Foster wed in Las Vegas under the names Mr and Mrs Lastfogle after eloping from Hollywood. The couple announced the marriage occurred Monday night. Martha Raye also eloped here with Hamilton Westmore a day earlier.
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Nev
U.P
Bob Burns
van Buren
Ark
Harriet Madelin Foster
Lastfogle
Burns
Hollywood
Martha Raye
Hamilton Westmore
West Liberty Teen Dies in Bellefontaine Plane Crash
Ollen Cox aged 19 from West Liberty was killed Monday when his plane crashed at Bellefontaine. He piloted a craft owned by Richard Chapman of West Liberty.
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Carola Thompson
Scioto
Columbus
Maude Strawser
Muskingum River
Zanesville
Robert Ingmire
Marion
Waverly
Mike Thompson
Edward Misiewicz
Detroit
Youngstown
Arthur Skates
Findlay
W. J. Smith
Port Clinton
Mary Robinson
Ollen Cox
West Liberty
Bellefontaine
Richard Chapman
Nation's Memorial Holiday Death Toll Near 300
Nationwide during Memorial weekend saw about 300 deaths from traffic accidents drownings and other incidents. Pennsylvania reported 31 deaths with 16 traffic related and nine drownings, while California and several other states recorded lower counts.
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New York
U.P
Pennsylvania
Britain and France warn Hitler and Duce over Spain action
Paris reports Britain and France issue clear intimations to Germany and Italy that further direct action in the Spanish Civil War could bring disastrous European consequences. Berlin ships head to the Mediterranean and Mussolini and Hitler coordinate plans while Loyalists accuse Germany of provocation.
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France
Hitler
Duce
Spain
Paris
Germany
Italy
Almeria
Berlin
Mediterranean
Rome
Mussolini
London
Valencia
U.P
Great Britain
Europe
Deutschland
Iviza
Nazi Germany
Werner von Blomberg
Benito Mussolini
National Zeitung
Essen
Hermann Goering
Brady Gang Members Reported in Ohio
Heavily armed highway patrols moved west from Lima in response to Fort Wayne police reports that two men suspected of belonging to the Alfred Brady holdup gang were heading toward Van Wert and Lima Ohio.
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Lima
U.P
Fort Wayne
Ind
Alfred Brady
van Wert
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear PWA Power Appeal
The Supreme Court announced it would hear the appeal of Alabama Power and Iowa City Light and Power challenging the PWA power loans and grants to cities for municipal distribution systems. The decision also left unresolved a Tennessee suit challenging TVA power expansion and declined to consider renewals of the utility holding company act provisions.
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Washington
Supreme Court Today
Alabama Power Company
Iowa City Light and Power Company
Public Works Administration
PWA
Supreme Court
Tennessee Federal District Court
Tennessee Electric Power Co
Tennessee Valley Authority
Utility Holding Company Act
Electric Bond and Share Co
U.S. Watches Crisis as Neutrality Law Decision Looms
Washington officials say the government will move slowly on applying the neutrality law to Germany amid a new European crisis. Germany is not buying arms from the United States aside from a few commercial airplanes. State Department staff expect pressure to apply the law to Germany.
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Washington
U.P
Germany
United States
State Department
Postpone Hearings on Wages Hours Measure
Hearings on the Black-Connery Bill to establish wage and hour machinery for interstate commerce industries were postponed until Wednesday. Chairman Hugo L Black of the Senate education and labor committee cited need to rearrange witness schedules for the joint House and Senate sessions.
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Washington
Hugo L. Black
Ala
Senate Education and Labor Committee
House
Senate
Sayes Ickes Wrecking Conservation Program
Gifford Pinchot accuses Secretary Harold Ickes of crippling the conservation program by placing it under Interior Department control as the Amerison Forestry Association meets in Cincinnati. Pinchot, former Pennsylvania governor and U S forester, level the charge during the four day convention opening.
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Cincinnati
Gifford Pinchot
Pennsylvania
United States Forester
Harold Ickes
Amerison Forestry Association
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