TVA Minutes Questioned and Political Debate Intensifies
A congressional inquiry hears TVA officials claim minutes were altered many times mostly by Lilienthal. Witness Hoffman says he was ordered to avoid contact with Arthur Morgan after Roosevelt removed him as TVA chairman. The session highlights tensions over government duties and public records.
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TVA Board
Congressional Investigation Committee
Lilienthal
TVA
Charles Hoffman
Arthur Morgan
Roosevelt
Soviets Leave Next Move To Japs In Border Dispute
Moscow said Soviet troops will move as it sees fit along the Far East frontier but Japan must start any war. Tokyo demanded withdrawal from Manchukuo border areas. Moscow called the demand unjustified and warned threats won’t work. Foreign observers doubted imminent conflict as Japan is preoccupied in China.
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Apan
Chang-Kufeng
Siberia
Manchukuo
Korea
Russia
Japan
China
Moscow
TOKIO
Foreign Office
Maxim Litvinoff
Mamoru Shigemitsu
Japanese Korea
Soviet Union
Litvinoff
Weather Is Ideal After Heavy Shower in Cedar Rapids
A half inch of rain drenched Cedar Rapids Thursday evening with heavier rain in the east. A limb fell on a primary line near the Sixth street NE plant causing a brief outage on Third street and Third avenue SE. Temperatures cooled from 80 Thursday to 65 by midnight with a 79 reading Friday and 83 at 2:30 PM.
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Cedar Rapids
Third Street
Third Avenue SE
Sixth Street NE
Memorial Drive
Mercury
French Guns Shell 6 Insurgent Planes
French anti-aircraft batteries on the Saillagousse plain shelled six nationalist planes which flew over French territory Friday. The planes fled back into Spain.
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Perpignan
France
Saillagousse
Plain
Spain
Maytag workers face jeopardy in Liberty state crisis
A county court deems hundreds of Maytag employees and their families defenseless in a so called land of liberty. The state is criticized as its chief executive risks rights protection, harming industrial peace and earning a national black eye.
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Maytag
Corrigan Fends Off Fans in Dublin After Atlantic Flight
In Dublin 200 Irish admirers mobbed Douglas Corrigan as he left a tailor. The 31 year old California flyer said he is a flyer not a lover and rejected offers of contracts while noting a possible half million in prize money on his return. He planned London trip and a July 30 sail home.
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Dublin
Douglas Corrigan
Corrigan
United States Legation
Atlantic
California
Eire
United States
London
Exoneration for men in Peoria slaying case
Luther Devasher 39 and three others were exonerated in the slaying of Earl Severs 45 at a local union HQ. A coroner's jury found Severs died from a gunshot but Devasher acted in self defense after being knocked down by Severs and Robert Deisher 24.
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Peoria, Ill
INS
Luther Devasher
Earl Severs
Severs
Devasher
Robert Deisher
Rail Carloadings Mount 20 Percent in Week
The Association of American Railroads announced week ended July 16 carloadings totaled 602,300 cars, up 101,287 cars or 20.2 percent from the prior week. Loadings were 164,084 cars or 21.4 percent below the same week in 1937.
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Washington
Association of American Railroads
Settlement hoped as military probe at Newton widens
Reports say a settlement of the Maytag strike may come next week while the military investigation into Wednesday’s riot at the Newton plant continues. Judge Advocate Frank B. Halligan prepared a witness list for testimony and asked sheriff to compel attendance. Injured James Butcher, 30, remains in Skiff hospital. NLRB hearing on the strike remains adjourned as both sides deny settlement talks. Preston Brown, 32, Colfax WPA worker, is detained without charge after martial law arrest.
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Newton
Frank B. Hallagan
Military Court
Earl Shields
James Butcher
Skiff Hospital
Butcher
Charles
National Labor Relations Board
Company
CIO
Madison Hill
NLRB
Preston Brown
Colfax Wpa
Iowa National Guard
Hull Seeks Arbitration Over Mexican Land Grab
Secretary of State Hull sends a strong note to Mexico requesting international arbitration for the seizure of about 1,000,000 acres of American farm land. He terms the expropriation confiscation and cites the 1929 Inter American treaty of arbitration.
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Washington
Mexico
Hull
Francisco Castillo Najera
Hull outlines expropriation policy and oil land dispute
Secretary Hull states expropriation of Mexican property is acceptable with full immediate compensation and stresses preservation of the good neighbor policy. He notes farm lands are valued at over 10 million dollars and suggests arbitration with two American and two Mexican arbitrators plus a fifth western hemisphere member.
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Uncle Sam
Mexico
Mexico City
Cordell Hull
Hull
Washington
Francisco Castillo Najera
State Department
Roosevelt
United States
Danish steamer Bodil sunk by seaplane off Spanish coast
Lloyds report from Marseilles says the Danish steamer Bodil was bombed and sunk by a seaplane off the Spanish coast.
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London
Lloyds
Marseilles
Bodil
French Czech Shakeup Seen After Parleys
Paris reports pressure from Britain and France on Czechoslovakia to submit a nationality statute for Sudeten claims. Resignations by key French figures and possibly President Edouard Benes are anticipated as Bonnet and Daladier push the plan amid tense cabinet dynamics.
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Kenneth Downs
Paris
INS
George
Elizabeth
England
Prague
Edouard Benes
Czecho-slovakia
France
Georges Bonnet
Stefan Ossusky
Bonnet
Edouard Daladier
Paul Reynaud
Georges Mandel
Dad Not Liable for Black Eye from Neighbor Boy
Milwaukee circuit judge ruled that a parent is not civilly liable unless shown to have supplied the instrument of the wrongful act or approved it. The case involved nine year old Lyle McMurchie and seven year old Donald Haack and their fathers seeking damages.
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Milwaukee
August E. Braun
Lyle McMurchie
William
Donald Haack
Erwin
McMurchies
Donald
Lyle
Haack
Braun
Pitcairn Islanders Appeal to New York Woman
215 destitute Pitcairn descendants on the island appeal via radio to Mrs. Dorothy D. Hall in New York to dispel rumors of a typhoid epidemic and urge immediate aid from Fiji authorities. British consulate notes indicate help may be en route, with the Piania ship reported near New Zealand.
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New York
Pitcairn Island
Pacific
Dorothy D. Hall
Fiji Islands
H. M. S. Bounty
Tahiti
Andrew Young
Pitcairn
Hall
New Zealand
Young
Mrs. Hall
Hopkins Doubts Third Term Fears Stir GOP Clash
President Roosevelt aides brush aside third term talk as political maneuver. WPA head Harry Hopkins says relief recipients favor the administration, while Republicans claim the remarks threaten to perpetuate power. Joseph Keenan and party leaders weigh in on the issue.
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Washington
Harry Hopkins
WPA
John Hamilton
Roosevelt
Sheppard
Tex
Senate Campaign Investigating Committee
Joseph B. Keenan
Virginia
Keenan
United States
Hopkins
Mr Roosevelt Has Good Day Fishing Aboard U S S Houston
President Roosevelt spent Thursday en route to Galapagos Island aboard the U S S Houston near Clipperton Island. He landed five sharks, the largest six feet, plus plentiful food fish, filling the supply officer’s refrigerators.
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U.S.S
Houston
Galapagos Island
INS
Clipperton Island
Mexico
Roosevelt
Unconfirmed Report Of U S Tanker Sinking
A Chinese news agency said an American oil tanker was bombed and sunk by a Japanese plane in Shanghai. U S officials in Hankow and local consulates could not confirm the report.
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Shanghai
United States
Hankow
Navy
All Corrigan Seeks Two Weeks Guest Card to Junk Yard
Oregon boot pins Corrigan down as he vents bold plans to flee Newark with a new plane. He wants a two weeks guest card to a junkyard along with simple provisions as he contemplates rapid air routes to California and beyond.
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Corrigan
Junk Yard
Newark
California
Five Miners Rescued From 700-Foot Veta Mine
Five miners Albert Carlson Al Gillenwater George C. Robinson Ed D Wright and D H Grissom survived after being buried over a day when shaf t supports gave way at the Veta silver mine ten miles west of Duncan Arizona. Rescuers lowered food and the men sang to encourage them as air and water lines remained intact and the trapped men stayed cheerful through the ordeal. More than thirty men were in the diggings at the time with others escaping uninjured.
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Duncan
Ariz
Veta
Albert Carlson
al Gillenwater
George C. Robinson
Ed D. Wright
D. H. Grissom
War Material Pouring Into Japan Despite Hull Plea
Washington reports American bombers and other war materials continuing to flow to Japan at roughly 1.5 million dollars monthly. June shipments included war planes and equipment worth 1,710,049 and planes engines valued at 1,379,128. Officials note preexisting contracts limit immediate boycotts and do not reflect current manufacturer stance.
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Washington
INS
Japan
Cordell Hull
State Department
Munitions Control Board
Union backs third term for president
The central labor union in Daytona Beach Florida endorsed a third term for President Roosevelt without qualifications, signaling strong labor backing for the incumbent. The move comes as supportive sentiment grows among unions nationwide for Roosevelt’s continued leadership.
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Union
Daytona Beach
Fla
Central Labor Union
Roosevelt
TVA Officials Clash Over Defamation Claims In Morgan Case
Knoxville Tennessee TVA board battle heats as David Lilienthal brands Dr. Arthur Morgan’s defamation, testifying before a congressional inquiry. Committee orders impoundment of legal opinions and minutes while Hoffmann revises that all changes were signed by the three directors in a dispute over property transfer statements.
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Jenkins
Ohio
Charles Hoffman
TVA
Morgan
Lilienthal
Harcourt A. Morgan
Wendel L. Willkie
Commonwealth and Southern Corporation
Hoffmann
James Lawrence Fly
Hoffman
Murray accuses Republic Steel of labor relation filth before Senate panel
Philip Murray chairman of SWOC testifies that Republic Steel financed anti union groups and dominated opposition to SWOC. He cites about 1.5 million dollars for organizing campaigns and details ties to a labor stabilization study funded by six steel companies including Republic Bethlehem Inland National and others.
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Washington (Ap
Philip Murray
Steel Workers Organizing Committees
Republic Steel Corporation
America
Senate Civil Liberties Committee
Face Workers
Murray
SWOC
James A. Reinhardt
Canton
Ohio
Little Steel
la Follette (P
Wis
Hill and Knowlton
CIO
John M. Hill
Republic, Bethlehem, Inland
National Steel Corporations
Youngstown Sheet and Tube
American Rolling Mill
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Hill
Youngstown
la Follette
Kenneth M. Lloyd
Mahoning Valley
British Plotster Gets Seven Years For Kidnap Plot
John Bruce Thoronton aged 48 was sentenced in Birmingham to seven years penal servitude for conspiring last May to kidnap Lord Nuffield, a wealthy British industrialist.
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Birmingham
England
John Bruce Thoronton
Lord Nuffield
Ferguson protests campaign filing over timing
Oklahoma City AP report says J. O. Ferguson the Republican nominee for governor filed his report of campaign expenditures for 3 cents under protest. He argued the expense was not incurred until after the primary and the 3 cents covered a stamp to mail his affidavit of expenditures.
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Oklahoma City
J. 0. Ferguson
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GOP
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Teachers College of Columbia University
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Jas
Nippon
Cedar Rapids News
Doug Corrigan
Peoria
U. S
Hamilton
Mr. Roosevelt
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Oregon
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