Basque Government Flees Bilbao As Defenses Hold
The Basque defense junta strengthened Bilbao's resistance as the government fled the capital for another Basque point. Insurgents closed in around the seaport while refugees in Bayonne report hunger and sacking. boats and ships carry refugees toward Santander amid calls for international intervention.
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Bilbao
New Defense Council
Associated Press
Bayonne
France
Archanda
Gamir Uribarri
Brazil Restores Citizens Rights After State of War
Rio de Janeiro reports full constitutional guarantees restored to Brazil’s 47 million people after a 19 month state of war. Observers see move as aimed at weakening presidential candidate Jo De Salles. Also, a clash among top officers prompted the resignation and arrests of a corps area commander.
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Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Congress
Getulio Vargas
Jo de Salles
Sao Paulo
Salles
U S Debt Rises Past 36 Billion to New High
The public debt climbed above 36 billion dollars to a new high as of June 15, with 852 million borrowed and 500 million in bonds issued to the government life insurance fund under the bonus act. This raises the June 15 total to 36,633,907,802, a jump from the previous year and surpassing the 1919 peak. President Roosevelt had predicted the rise would slow after crossing this threshold.
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Washington
Treasury
Government Life Insurance Fund
Insurance Fund
Roosevelt
West Virginia unions shift toward the CIO in state
Logan central labor council transfers allegiance from AF of L to CIO as West Virginia labor leaders predict broader CIO growth. UMWA and federation officials discuss no strikes amid rapid organization, with campaign plans across southern West Virginia and southwest Virginia to enroll all local unions into the CIO.
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Blizzard
Charleston
W. Va
Logan Central Labor Council
American Federation of Labor
John B. Easton
State Federation of Labor
West Virginia
John L. Lewis Committee For Industrial Organization
Logan
Robert Light
Central Council
United Mine Worker
A.F.O.L
Logan Industrial Labor Union
Central Labor Council
Dishic
Jesse Aquio
Pocahontas-Tug River
United Mine Workers of America
Southwest Virginia
van A. Bittner
District 17
Aquino
Treasury Charges Foreign Evasions With Names To Start
Washington reports say the treasury will reveal names of individuals charged as part of a tax evasion probe. Undersecretary Roswell Magill said foreign governments hindered investigators with diplomatic obstacles. Elmer Ivey will testify and disclose accused persons as hearings resume.
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Internal Revenue
Washington
Congressional
the Treasury
Roswell Magill
Joint Congressional Committee of Inquiry
Newfoundland
Bahamas
Elmer Ivey
Internal Revenue Bureau
Congressional Committee
Joint Committee
Morgenthau
Lems
Ill
Harrison
D- Miss
Magill
Wheeler 10 Lead Court Bill Fight
Revolting Senate Democrats plan a split by forming an organization to oppose the Roosevelt court bill. Senator Wheeler of Montana is named to lead the fight with a seven member steering committee including King Utah Van Nuys Indiana McCarran Missouri O Mahoney Wyoming Gerry Rhode Island and Burke Nebraska. Three major faction leaders will confront Robinson as spokesman for 33 Democrats backing the Roosevelt bill.
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Washington
Senate Democrats
Roosevelt Court
Wheeler
Dmont
King
Utah
van Nuys
Indiana
McCarran
Nevada
Clark
Missouri
O’mahone
Area Boys to Attend National Jamboree
Forty five Boy Scouts from Southern West Virginia council plus five leaders will travel to the National Jamboree in Washington opening June 30. Troop No. 5 Northfork leads with ten scouts. Christ Episcopal church sponsors six. The group departs Bluefield for Washington June 26 and returns July 10 after training in the capital.
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Boy Scouts of Southern
Atkinson
West Virginia
Bluefield
Norfolk and Western
Washington
C. Price
Kimball
C.rt Ancre
Keystone
Harman Godward
Cluefield
Southern
West Virginia Council
Welch
Northfork
Grand jury declines to indict film salesman in assault case
Los Angeles June 17 The county grand jury declined to indict David Ross a Chicago film salesman charged by Patricia Douglas a 20 year old film extra with beating and attacking her at a party May 5 Ross denied the charge saying he attended a forty niners party at a barn near Hollywood with John Quinn and others and returned to his hotel about 1230 a m Douglas said the assault occurred about 1230 a m Grace Downs and other extras were present
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Los Angeles
David Ross
Chicago
Patricia Douglas
Ross
Grand Jury
Democrats Split Over Robinson Relief Plan in Senate
In Washington the senate divides over Majority Leader Robinson’s plan to shift 25 percent local contributions to WPA projects. Senator Schwellenbach blasts the measure as a Republican-led scheme while opponents favor presidential discretion on relief spending. The debate reflects fault lines on funding and treasury credit amid a stalled relief bill.
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Washington
Senate
Robinson
D-Ark
Schwellenbach
D-Wash
Treasury
Byrnes
D-Sc
Drop Charge Against Liquor Store Clerk Who Arrested Drunk
Charleston West Virginia June 17 Dismissal of disorderly conduct charges against Leo Wanzer a liquor store clerk leaves undecided whether that class of state employee has authority to arrest intoxicated customers Special Judge Howard B Lee granted the citys intermediate court request to dismiss the charge Wanzer appealed a fine imposed in a magistrate court He said he arrested a man he believed was inebriated for disturbing the peace The liquor commission says store employees are state officers bonded for 1000 and designated to maintain order around liquor stores
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Charleston
W. Va
Howard B. Lee
Leo Wanzer
Wanzer
Liquor Commission
May Gets Formal OK for Coal Board Post
Washington announces nine appointments by the Bituminous Coal Commission. Herbert D. May, formerly senior price coordinator, is named manager of the statistical bureau at Bluefield West Virginia. Arthur Johnson of Chicago is named acting chief of the statistical bureau in Chicago.
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Washington
Bituminous Coal Commission
Herbert D. May
Old Commission
Statistical Bureau
Bluefield
W. Va
May
Arthur Johnson
Chicago
Johnson
Coal Code
National Recovery Administration
Farmer goes on trial for abortion killing in Tennessee
In Woodbury Tennessee on June 17 John W Davis 65 a farmer pleaded innocent in circuit court to the death of his wife Jodie 34 through an abortion He faces a second degree murder charge as the trial begins in the barren country.
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Woodbury
Tenn
John W. Davis
Jodie
Plea Of Guilty Ends Trial Of Mother Fox Slaying Girl
Mrs. Helen Tiernan 28 pleaded guilty to second degree murder ending a trial over the slaying of her seven year old daughter Helen. The other child Jimmy age 4 survived and is hospitalized. Tiernan faces 20 years to life in prison after the surprise plea as Suffolk County court session began.
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Riverhead
N. Y
Helen Tiernan
New York
Suffolk County Court
Tiny Helen Tiernan
Brookhaven
Long Island
Jimmy
Mediation board formed as strike stalls steel mills
In Johnstown Pennsylvania on June 17 coal miners backing Bethlehem Steel strikers form watchful picket companies at seven mill gates with eight hour shifts amid reports of a federal mediation board to settle the dispute. Bethlehem’s Cambria mills push toward production as 2 500 workers back at most.
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Johnstown
Cambria
Bethlehem Steel
Louis Rovansek
Rovansek
C. I. O. Steel
David Watkins
Conemaugh
Black Lick
Bethinem
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Washington Today
Perkins
Federal Mediation Board
Cleveland
Husky
Search widened for Mrs Parsons disappearance
Federal agents extended a nine mile radius search around Mrs Alice Mc Dowell Parsons home as investigators pursue new leads in the ninth day of her disappearance. Inspector Connelley said attention would shift to isolated areas while denying reports of a break in the case and rejecting questions about alleged federal ads.
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Stony Brook
N. Y
Alice McDowell Parsons
Earl Connelley
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover
F. B. I. Head
John A. Warner
Connelley
Warner
Long Island
Port Jefferson
New York
Strikes At A Glance Highlights Mediation Effort And Violence
Secretary Perkins names a three man steel mediation board to hear testimony on the 100000 idle workers dispute with meetings in Cleveland. Sen. Thomas cites a Chicago Memorial Day shooting reel showing police brutality and the Senate subpoenas the film for hearings.
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Associated Press
Washington
Perkins
Steel Mediation Board
Cleveland
Sen. Thomas
Utah
Chicago
Republic Steel Corporation
Senate Post Office Committee
Steel Companies
Union
Youngstown
New York
New Jersey
Ill
John L. Lewis
Chicago Police Department
Republic Steel Company
Trade group targets glass monopoly in federal action
Washington June 174 The Federal Trade Commission charged that nine leading manufacturers and distributors control most of the national window glass supply and conspire to fix prices. The case names firms from Pittsburgh Toledo Clarksburg and Fort Smith with leaders including William L Monroe and the National Distributors Association restricting small buyers.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Commission
Schenley Distillers Corporation
General Motors Corporation
General Motors
United States
National Distributors Association
William L. Monroe
Window Glass Manufacturers Association
Pittshore
Barbara Haugwitz-Reventlow Tax Deficiency Noted
The board of tax appeals ruled Barbara Haugwitz-Reventlow former Barbara Hutton Mdivani was a 42933 dollar deficient in her 1932 and 1933 income taxes.
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Barbara
Washington
Board of Tax Appeals
Barbara Haugwitz-Reventlow
Barbara Hutton Mdivani
Federal mediation board named to probe steel strike
The Roosevelt administration forms a three member federal mediation board with Charles P Taft Lloyd K Garrison and Edward F McGrady to study the steel strike involving 70000 to 80000 workers. The board has only moral powers and may offer recommendations if both sides agree to arbitration. Philip Murray says the union will cooperate and hearings begin in Cleveland.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Perkins
Charles P. Taft
Alf M. Landon
Lloyd K. Garrison
Wisconsin University Law School
New Deal
Labor Relations Board
Edward F. McGrady
American Federation of Labor
Federal Board
Esmen
Philip Murray
Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee
Republic
John 8. Brooker
Republic Steel Corporation
Labor Department
Miss Perkins
Taft
Electric Auto Light Company
Holt criticizes Roosevelt on strikes in nationwide flare
Senator Rush Holt of West Virginia accuses President Roosevelt of missing a chance to end most strikes by early firm action during the General Motors walkout. He argues industrial strife leads toward fascism and condemns sympathy strikes by coal miners and captive-mine walkouts as harmful to workers.
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Washington
Rush Holt
West Virginia
Roosevelt
General Motors
Holt
Italy
Als
Committee For
Eee
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State Federation
Standard Brick and Supply Company
Parkersburg
United Mine Workers
Williamson
Lewis Group
Bree
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Eost
Bill Fight
Mary Norton
House Labor Committee
William P. Connery
Norton
District of Columbia
Bluefield Boys
Coal Board
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Mother Fox
Pennoy
Eye U. S. Action
Mrs. Parsons
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Schenley Liquor Firm
Roberts
G. M. Auto Strike
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