Court Bill Fight Near Final Phase Sees Senate Split
The Roosevelt court reorganization bill moves toward action as a judiciary committee report warns it would destroy judicial independence. Senate factions debate delaying tactics and amendments to add up to five justices, with some urging a gradual approach rather than immediate expansion.
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Washington
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Burke
D.-Neb
Wheeler
D.-Mont
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Hatch
D.-N.m
Six Nations Default on War Debt Installment
Six more nations notified Washington that they cannot pay their shares of a 1.52 billion dollar installment due tomorrow. Italy Belgium Poland Czechoslovakia Romania Lithuania defaulted with Latavia and Yugoslavia already stating nonpayment. Britain and France yet to respond. Finland remains nondefaulting among 13 European debtors.
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Washington
State Department
Italy
Belgium
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Rumania
Lithuania
Latavia
Yugoslavia
Great Britain
France
Finland
Baltic Republic
Johnson Nominated Assistant Secretary Of War
Louis A. Johnson former American Legion national commander and West Virginia lawyer was nominated by President Roosevelt for assistant secretary of war. Johnson, 46, led West Virginia duties in Legion actions and served as national commander in 1932. He was born in Roanoke Virginia and served as a World War I captain and major candidate for statewide posts. He and his wife have two children Katherine and Lillian.
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Washington
Louis A. Johnson
The
American Legion
West Virginia
Senate
Roosevelt
West Virginian
Dern
Harry H. Woodring
Johnson
Steptoe and Johnson
Clarksburg
Charleston
Legion
West Virginia Legion
Minneapolis
Paris
France
James A. Farley
Roanoke
University of Virginia
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Ind
Nintieth
Katherine
Lillian
Long Island search fails for missing Mrs Parsons
A massive dragnet of federal agents state troopers fire wardens and boy scouts scoured Long Island from Stony Brook to the north shore for Mrs Williams Parsons missing since last Wednesday. The only clue is a $25000 ransom note found in her car seat. Authorities pressed on as husband Earl Parsons appealed again for abductors to contact him.
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Stony Brook
North Shore
Long Island
William Parsons
Parsons
Cromwell Detained in Moscow Over Kremlin Pictures
James H. R. Cromwell and his wife Doris Duke were detained for about ninety minutes in Moscow after taking photographs of Kremlin walls. Police later returned his pictures and cited a misunderstanding for the hotel detention before they left for Leningrad.
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James H. R. Cromwell
Moscow
Doris Duke
Leningrad
Kremlin
Cromwell
National Hotel
United States
Brockelhurst enters insanity plea in Gates murder case
In Lonoke Arkansas on June 14 Lester Brockelhurst a 23 year old former Sunday school teacher from Galesburg Illinois pleaded insanity as his defense in a circuit court trial for the slaying of Victor A Gates near Lonoke May 5 and for other slayings during a hitchhiking tour Brockelhurst did not appear as his lawyers amended the plea to innocent by reason of insanity
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Lonoke
Ark
Lester Brockelhurst
Galesburg
Ill
Victor A. Gates
Here
Texas
Illinois
Brockelhurst
Gates
West Virginia storm lashes state with widespread damage
A fierce wind and rain storm swept through West Virginia crippling power and telephone lines from the northern panhandle to the capital. Clarksburg and Parkersburg felt minor damage while Charleston experienced outages and uprooted trees. Telephone switchboards reported delays to several cities as lines west toward Huntington and Cincinnati failed.
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Associated Press
West Virginia
Wellstorg
Panhandle
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Charleston
Clarksburg
Fairmont
Sutton
Wheeling
Pittsburgh
Parkersburg
St. Albans
A. T
Huntington
Cincinnati, O
Insurgent Forces Close On Bilbao Amid Siege Push
Spanish insurgents break through the Basque eastern ring near Zemudio and reach within three miles of Bilbao after air and ground strikes. Government forces hold the city as Basques vow to defend the capital and its munitions factories.
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Bilbao
Spain
Zemudio
Santo Domingo
Inpskopt
Durango
Jose Antonio Aguirre
Britain
France
Bacques
Pica
Senate votes for unemployment relief investigation
Washington June 14 The Senate approved a plan to authorize President Roosevelt to name a five to fifteen member committee to study unemployment and relief. The measure, supported by Senators Murray and Hatch, precedes a House proposal for a 15 member relief study commission including five senators and five representatives.
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Washington
Senate
Roosevelt
Congress
Byrnesse
Murray
D-Mont
Hatch
D-Nm
House
Maverick
Cambridge Blast Kills High School Graduate and Injures Twenty
A gasoline explosion at a Cambridge restaurant killed 17 year old Donald Sherman who had just graduated from Cambridge High School. His father Howard Sherman suffered severe burns as he pulled his son from the flames. About twenty others were injured with fractures burns and cuts. the blast blew out the restaurant side and collapsed the roof while shattering windows within a 100 foot radius.
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Cambridge
Donald Sherman
Cambridge High School
Howard Sherman
Jomore Executed in Soviet Purge
The Soviet Union announced the execution of 28 more saboteurs in Siberia for wrecking the Amur railway, bringing total executions for sabotage and treason to 151 this past year. The defendants, linked to Japanese espionage and Trotskyists, were executed June 4 per Khabarovsk Pacific Star.
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Siberia
Amur
Far East
Khabarovsk
Pacific Star
Leon Trotsky
Siberian
trans-Siberian
Komsomolsk
Blum Holds Government in Line and Wins Unanimous Support
Paris reports Socialist Premier Leon Blum secured unanimous cabinet approval for a new fiscal program to resolve France’s financial difficulties. Ministers backed the plan without public details, with a second cabinet session planned to draft terms for Parliament. Bas tid warned Britain and the United States of possible strain on the tri partite monetary accord if tariff barriers rise. The Bank of France raised its discount rate to six percent to deter gold outflow.
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Paris
Leon Blum
People's Front
Cay
Paul Bastid
Britain
United States
France
International Exchange Congress
Bank of France
Farmer gets life for dynamite deaths of 9
Waukesha Wisconsin June 14 After three alienists pronounced John Waszak a fully sane Muskego farmer the defendant changed his plea to guilty to the dynamite deaths of his wife and eight children Circuit Judge C M Davison sentenced Waszak to life imprisonment immediately
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Waukesha
Wis
John Waszak
C. M. Davison
Waszak
Coal Strike Threatens Steel Plants Across Regions
Shuts captive mines and threatens a broad coal tie up in a wave tied to the CIO strike drive led by UMWA chief Bittner. About 10,000 miners in captive operations idle with potential effect on 600,000 more. Bethlehem and Youngstown plants face closures as unions push to curb shipments to strikebound mills.
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General Coal
Steel
Chicago
van A. Bittner
8.W.oc
Bittner
United Mine Workers
West Virginia
C.I.O
Bethlehem Steel
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Dehue
Logan County
Tesident
E. B. Agee
Pittsburgh
William Hynes
U.M.W.A
U S Court Term Opens Here Today
The summer term of the United States court for the southern district of West Virginia opens with Judge George W. McClintic on the bench. An air conditioning failure delays the start as factory reps head to Bluefield from Richmond to fix the system. The court will hear grand jury matters this morning and begin the criminal docket, with most of the two week session devoted to criminal work.
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Southern District of West Virginia
George W. McClintic
Federal
Bluefield
Richmond
McClintic
Nationwide coal strike actions across states hit steel output
CIO drive cuts coal supplies as 10 331 miners quit pits in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Pickets clash in Cambria injuring five. John L. Lewis calls the strike 100 percent effective and CIO officials move to embargo outside coal for steel producers.
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Associated Press
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Pennsylvania
West Virginia
CIO
Cambria
Washington, D. C
John L. Lewis
Chicago
Ill
van A. Bittner
United Mine Workers of America
Monroe
Mich
Dan A. Knages
Newton Steel
Youngstown
Buffalo
N. Y
Republic Steel
Pittsburgh
Bethlehem Steel
Gillespie
Joe Ozanic
Progressive Miners of America
Hoffman Assails Murphy in Strike Riots
Washington reports Representative Hoffman accuses Governor Murphy of protecting law violators as he urges orders to enroll citizens and arm defense of strike zones. In Monroe Michigan, tensions rise as CIO pickets threaten, while Mayor Knaggs appeals for peaceful conduct under armed guard.
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Washington
Monroe
Mich
Hoffman
R.-Mich
Allegan
Michigan
Dan A. Knages
CIO
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
van A. Bittner
Newton Steel Company
Knages
Frank Murphy
Knaggs
Steel
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Detroit
Charles Kiser
SWOC
Kiser
Knagegs
Michigan National Guardsmen
Newton
Harry H. Hollows
Lae Repuco’ ‘ Oper
Peas Two
Clash at Cambria mill sparks steel strike turmoil
Violence erupts near the Cambria mill of Bethlehem Steel in Johnstown as CIO pickets clash with police during a broad labor strike. Five injured including a girl and a child, several arrests, and reports of a potential death are later denied. Police use tear gas and riot clubs as crowds attack non union vehicles and streetcars.
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Johnstown
Camria
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Franklin
George Ofsanko
Sarah Dukovich
Paul Gelle
Conemaugh
John Yurchak
van A. Bittner
Chicago
CIO
Convicted Slayer Waives Hearing in Mazie Slaying
Gooch Harris, accused of killing Frank Mazie in Harris beer parlor and lunch room at Kellysville, waived preliminary hearing before Magistrate D. T. Carr after a warrant by Trooper F. L. Gore. Harris did not attend. attorney Walter Burton waived. Bond petition in preparation. Hodges and Paul Saunders questioned, finger-printed, then released after gun found, fostering self defense claims.
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Frank Mazie
Bridgeville
Harris
Kellysville
D. T. Carr
F. L. Gore
Istrate Carr
Ter G. Burton
G. M. Hodges
Paul Saunders
Hodges
G. H
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