Hines Linked to Gangster Schultz Network in Trial
New York Aug 29 AP ex boxer Eddie Corbett testified he saw Tammany leader James J Hines in 1935 at Dutch Schultz Bridgeport hotel. Prosecution builds case against Hines by corroborating Weinberg’s claims of protection payments and ties to Schultz rackets through Bateman and Kearns.
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New York
James J. Hines
Tammany
Bridgeport
Conn
Dutch Schultz
Eddie Corbett
Thomas Dewey
Hines
Supreme Court
Schultz
Corbett
Charlies W. Hughes
Weinberg
Tammany District
Dewey
John J. Kearns
Bronx Chamber of Commerce
Leslie V. Bateman
Mount Vernon
Bateman
Kearns
Hughes
Nine Dead in Mexican Gale Leaves City Homeless
Monterrey Mexico August 29 nine people died and 400 families are homeless after gales and flood waters swept the area. Jose C Powell city editor of El Poorvenir said many tourists may be affected and several American cars were swept away on the Santa Catarina river.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monterrey
Mexico
Jose C. Powell
el Poorvenir
Powell
Mexico City
Ciudad Victoria
Ciada Victoria
Chipinque
Santa Catarina
Congressional Battle Over Wagner Act Amending Looms
Washington August 29 The upcoming congressional session centers on amending the Wagner Act as President Roosevelt calls for revision. The clash pits industry against labor, with the AFL demanding strong craft union safeguards and the CIO seeking broader employer restraints. A fourth party, the National Labor Relations Board, likely opposes changes. The study of British labor laws looms as reference.
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Cepeta
Th Tions Board
American Federation of Labor
Committee For Industrial Organization
Roosevelt
Richard L. Turner
Washington
Congress
Kange
National Labor Relations
Federation
Bri
Hy Ye
Mr. Roosevelt
W. Green
Donald Wakefield Smith
Labor Board
Green
E Smith
National Labor Relations Board
Parti
Swing Signals Biz Upturn as Swing Music Boosts Sales
New York Aug 29 trade sources read the Federal Reserve Bank of New York monthly review noting a big rise in Synegraph record sales due to swing. Merchants say the only category with measurable activity is merchandise tied to the swing craze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Monthly Review of Credit and
Hitch hikers held in Steubenville shooting case
Two youths from Steubenville were detained in Carrollton for questioning in the shooting of Garrett B. LeVan a 59 year old bank president and Republican official. LeVan was wounded in the chest robbed of $45 and his car keys after picking up a hitch-hiker on a corn road.
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Steubenville
Carrollton
Garrett
B. LeVan
Wilma Sinclair LeVan
John Kempthorne
Jefferson County
Robert D. Bates
Jeffer County
Em. LeVan
Ste
Dr. Cranmer
LeVan
State Nedway Patrol
Union Saving and Trust c
Aote
Ational Republican Committee
Fepubieen
Letter to Posterity on Its Way to the Fair
A 800 pound letter capsule is shipped from Pittsburgh to New York. Westinghouse engineers cast the time capsule envelope containing a record of life in 1939. The capsule will be buried 50 feet underground at the Westinghouse exhibit for the 1939 New York World's Fair.
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Pittsburgh
New York
East Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
Westinghouse
Demurrer Delays Mat Holt Forgery Case in West Virginia
In Fairmont the demurrer delays action in the Mathew Holt Jr forgery indictments as District Attorney Gibsons reviews the filing. Attorney Frank Haymond argues misidentification in counts could target the wrong Holt and asserts the indictments lack statute violations and intent to defraud. Dozens of defendants await their turn in Clarksburg grand jury cases.
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W. Va
Federal Ag dl
Mathew
Holt, Jr
U. S. District Attorney
Holt
U. S
Rush D. Holt
Clarksburg
Maxch
WPA
Campbell’s Will Bars Government Securities Trusts
The will of Frederick Barber Campbell, the first U.S. defendant indicted for failing to report gold holdings, directs a trust for relatives to avoid investments in U S government securities. Campbell died December 1937 leaving a net estate of 728,141.78 dollars and imposes a ban on bonds issued by the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Frederick Barber Campbell
United States
Treasury Department
Campbell
United States of
Woman Killed by Train While Watching Plane
Emma Burgett a 22 year old from Williamson was killed when she stood on train tracks as a plane flew overhead. A Norfolk and Western locomotive hurled her about 150 feet along the track. Miss Burgett worked in a Williamson household and was visiting her parents across the river for a weekend. Friends said her companions shouted but she did not hear them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamson
W. Va
Emma Burgett
Norfolk and Western
Miss Burgett
E. L. Sloan
Kentucky
California and South Carolina votes test for today
Roosevelt backing a new dealer slate in two key Senate contests. McAdoo leads California, Smith opposes the president’s policies in South Carolina. Three challengers contest McAdoo, while the SC race tests the administration purge and signals Georgia’s stance on Senator George’s reelection.
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Brown
South Carolina
Associated Press
California
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
Ellison D. Smith
William G. McAdoo
Culture Committee
Opy
Olin D. J
Smith
Edgar A. Brown
Smith and Johnston
McAdoo McAdoo
John W. Preston
Sheridan Cowpen
Townsend
James W. Mellen
Made Plain
McAdoo
Roosevelts
Neigh
Georgia
Walter F. George
Maryane
David J. Lewis
Millard E. Tydings
Nixon Family Tragedy Silent Deaths Across Distances
Memphis dispatch reports W. N. Nixon, a retired lumberman, died of a heart attack at his Paden Mississippi home eleven days earlier. His wife Mrs Nixon and son Liston Nixon were unaware of his passing as both were ill, and Mrs Nixon died six days later without being informed. Liston Nixon also died without learning of either death. each death attributed to heart failure.
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Memphis
Tenn
W. N. Nixon
Paden
Miss
Liston Nixon
John Roosevelt Starts Work at Filene's in Boston
Boston August 29 John Roosevelt began work at Filene's basement as a clerk earning 18.50 a week. He arrived early at 8 20 am to begin training in stock or advertising duties and said he aims to advance in business while avoiding trucks delivering goods.
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Boston
John Roosevelt
Filene’s
John
Lewis Responds to Green Over Harlan Pact
Chairman Jarren Madden of the labor relations board announced approval of an agreement between Kentucky coal operators and John L. Lewis’s United Mine Workers. Lewis labeled William Green’s AFL critique as traitorous. Madden referenced critics and urged that the feud not devastate Harlan County mining communities.
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Jarren Madden
Labor Relations Board
Kentucky Cealers
John L. Lewis
Uni
America
Harlan County
National Labor Relations Act
Madden
Lewis
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Labor Board
Harlan, Ky
Green
Harlan
Burke
Neb
Hospital closes maternity ward amid dysentery deaths
Huntington hospital officials report an infectious dysentery outbreak in St Mary’s maternity ward, causing three baby deaths and six total in 10 days. Sister Carola says the ward will remain closed for two to three weeks and expectant mothers are refused admission. Doctors cited citywide dysentery prevalence and isolation of remaining mothers.
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Huntington
W. Va
Bister M. Carola
St. Mary's Hospital
Carola
Interim group called to revise school finance laws
Charleston West Virginia August 29 The legislature's interim committee charged with draft for revision of several state laws was called today to meet September 12 13 and 14 with the important job of figuring out a new way to distribute money to schools as its major item of business.
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Charleston
W. Va
Man Imprisoned Breaks Out For Breakfast
Clarence Brown, 28, told Justice Ira Dunmire he picked a jail lock with a match, left for breakfast at a restaurant, then returned to his village cell. He said he was hungry and no one fed him.
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Clarence Brown
Justice of the Peace Ira
S. Dunmire
Prosecution Team Faces Threat Letters in Kidnap Case
In Olympia Washington prosecutors received two threatening notes aimed at four men charged in the Irving Baker kidnapping and torture case. Police placed guards at Bakers home and launched a manhunt for the note writers. Defendants include Dr Kent W Berry, James Reddick, William K Mealoon, and Robert Smith.
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Olympia
Wash
Irving Baker
Handsome Coast Guard
Baker
Ariven
Kent W. Berry
Olympia Society
James Reddick
William K. Mealoon
Montesano Town
Robert Smith
Berry
Penalty Tax Challenge By Coal Truck Operator
Parkersburg West Virginia August 29 A petition to restrain penalty taxes under the Guffey coal control act was filed in Wood County Circuit Court by George Cook a small truck mine operator. He seeks an injunction against internal revenue collector F Roy Yoke to block a 19.5 percent levy on coal proceeds arguing state produced coal does not enter interstate commerce. About 200 dollars involved. Judge E B Pennybacker said ruling may take time and the suit could move to federal court. Frank Parrack represented Cook.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Preston County
Wood County
George Cook
F. Roy Yoke
Internal Revenue
West Virginia
Cook
Coal Code Authority
Commission
E. B. Pennybacker
Frank Parrack
Britain warns Germany over Czech crisis ahead of cabinet
London sources report a bold warning against German aggression toward Czechoslovakia may be issued by Prime Minister Chamberlain to Hitler as Britain weighs crisis moves. The cabinet will meet tomorrow to decide on plans amid Sudeten German autonomy tensions and a French-British mutual aid backdrop.
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London
Czechoslovakia
Neville Chamberlain
Adolf Hitler
Germany
France
Nevil Henderson
Berlin
Chamberlain
Hitler
Besancon
Strasbourg
Praha
Britain
Sudeten Germany
Runciman
Eduard Benes
Lord Run
Hitler tours Rhine fortifications as crisis nerves tighten
Berlin reports a latent crisis threatens to become acute as Adolf Hitler conducts a sweeping tour of Reich fortifications along the French border. Paris notes German maneuvers provoke renewed French alarm amid the Czech Sudeten crisis and border fortification activity.
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Berlin
Foreign Office
Adolf Hitler
Reich
Diplomatisch Politische Korrespondenz
Czechoslovakia
Sudetens
Paris
Rhine
Germany
Fuehrer
Kehl
France
Switzerland
Edouard Daladier
Traffic Cop Mimics Birds to Brighten Rush Hours
Pittsburgh, Aug. 29. Traffic policeman John J. Sutton greets drivers with bird imitations. Directing downtown traffic, he uses no whistle except for bird sounds or jams. He says he imitates canaries and other birds, and the tactic leaves many motorists smiling during the morning rush.
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Pittsburgh
John J. Sutton
Sutton
Seversky Sets Transcontinental Air Speed Record
Major Alexander P. De Seversky flew from New York to Los Angeles in 10 hours 3 minutes 7 seconds to establish a new transcontinental speed record, beating the east west mark by over an hour. He made a single stop at Kansas City delivering the Seversky monoplane to Jacqueline Cochran for the Bendix trophy dash in Cleveland.
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Los Angie
Alexander P. de Seversky
New York
Col
Roscoe Turner
Howard Hug Pagan
Seversky
Kansas City
Jacqueline Cochrane
Cleveland
Floyd Bennett Field
Union Air
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Rush Holt
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Arch N. Bobbitt
Indiana
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