Cox Attacks Perkins Over Steel Strike Actions
Rep. Cox denounces Labor Secretary Perkins on the steel strike crisis calling her actions extortion and advocating violence under certain circumstances. He questions administration support and warns against government seeking to coerce employers as Taft prepares to deliver mediation board findings.
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Washington
Perkins
Rep. Cox
Georgia
Charles P. Taft, Jr
Steel Strike Mediation Board
Violence erupts on steel picket lines as mediators withdraw
Federal mediators pull back from the strike area after heavy clashes at Moltrup Steel and Bethlehem Johns town plants. Tear gas fired in Beaver Falls. CIO leader Morris Mallinger hit in the leg. a picket wounded. Two Black workers stoned. 14 cars damaged. Guards and state police positioned at mill gates amid protests of strike-breaker actions.
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Cleveland
Washington
Beaver Falls
Moltrup Steel Products Company
Morris Mallinger
CIO
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Johnstown
Steel
Committee For Industrial Organization
Ohio National Guardsmen
Pennsylvania
Bandit Escapes With 1800 From Orpheum Theater
A nervous bandit entered the Orpheum theater Sunday night and held four employed prisoners while escaping with 1800 dollars. Police searched for the suspect who demanded money during a performance to fund a milk relief drive for children.
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Omaha
INS
Orpheum
a_ perto
Beauty as a blue plate sparks a life change
A Wal pole novel describes how a single blue plate transforms John Armer’s home and outlook. He buys art to match the plate, redecorates, and alters his life, arguing beauty is a daily necessity shaping soul and world.
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ARMER
John
Wounded Constable Relapses After Gun Battle
Constable William Wathen of Albion Nebraska, shot in a gun battle Monday, remains in serious condition after a relapse following initial improvement. Local authorities pursue the suspect.
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Omaha
INS
William Wathen
Albion
Neb
37 More Wreckers Executed in Russia
Moscow officials reported 37 more executions of alleged wreckers in the Soviet Far East raising total killings to 131 for subversive acts. The executions were listed in the Pacific Star June 20 bulletin from Khabarovsk, labeling the victims as Trotskyists spies and diversionists linked to railway sabotage.
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Moscow
Khabarovsk
Soviet Far East
Pacific Star
Far Eastern Railway
Supreme Court
Irwin Deliberately Plotted Escape From Death Penalty
Robert Irwin, a 19 year old sculptor and bus boy, faced possible electric chair after confessing to the Gedeon triple slayings. Lawyer Samuel Leibowitz planned an insanity defense as District Attorney Dodge prepared three murder indictments. Irwin was moved from lineup to Tombs after a brief magistrate appearance, amid details of a love motive and the death penalty fight.
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New York
Robert Irwin
Samuel Leibowitz
Irwin
Tombs
Leibowitz
William c. Dodge
Alabama
Scottsboro
Veronica Gedeon
Gedeon
Brough
Tembs
Homicide
Ronnie
Ethel’ Kudner
Kudner
Nephew of Trotzky Reported Arrested in Moscow
M Bronstein nephew of Leon Trotzky exiled Bolshevik leader and director of Leningrad harbor was arrested on a sabotage charge. His assistant Captain Trofimoff was detained by the GPU for disabling sixteen ships under foreign consul instructions, per Water Transport.
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Moscow
INS
M. Bronstein
Leon Trotzky
Bronstein
Leningrad
Trofimoff
GPU
State posters warn tourists of burning God’s country
Charleston West Virginia officials of the state conservation commission urge visitors to protect the landscape with a stark message This is God s country Don t burn it or it will look like hell The warning aims to curb wildfires and preserve natural beauty for future visitors
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Charleston, W. Va
State Conservation Commission
Country
Mary Roberts Rinehart Story In Gazette Soon
The Cedar Rapids Gazette will serialize The Doctor by Mary Roberts Rinehart next Thursday July 1. The work is billed as a social document and diary of a man’s career, critiquing medical men’s odds and romantic bitterness.
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the Doctor
America
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Cedar Rapids
Mrs. Rinehart
the Gazette
Senate Judiciary Committee to Study Amendments to Supreme Court
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to study six pending constitutional amendments affecting the Supreme Court in a secret session on Monday. Debate on Roosevelt's court enlargement bill will follow Independence Day recess as administration efforts push compromise ideas from Hatch and McGill proposals to limit new appointments and safeguard swift appeals in injunction cases against the government.
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Washington
Senate
Judiciary’ Committee
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Sen
M. M. Logan
Joe T. Robinson
Logan
Judiciary Committee
Carl A. Hatch
N M
George McGill
Kan
Court
House Approves 630 Million Agriculture Bill for 1946
The House completed action on a 630 million dollar agriculture and Farm Credit Administration appropriation for the new fiscal year starting July 1. The measure goes to President Roosevelt for signature after adopting a conference report. The largest item, 500 million for soil conservation farmer benefit payments, remained intact after the Senate withdrew a 60 million reduction.
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Washington
House
Agriculture Department
Farm Credit Administration
White House
Roosevelt
Senate
Kraschel to appoint Moore despite senate rejection
DES MOINES AP Governor Kraschel plans to appoint R. G. Moore of Dunlap to the state conservation commission. The senate had not confirmed the nomination, marking a second Kraschel administration instance of appointing without Senate okays.
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Des Moines
Nelson G. Kraschel
R. G. Moore
Dunlap
State Conservation Commission
Moore
Harrison County
Senate
Kraschel
W. F. Scholes
Council Bluffs
State Unemployment Compensation Commission
Governor Kraschel Funds State Planning Board Expenses
Gov N G Kraschel announced using part of the $250000-a-year conservation fund to cover the state planning board’s expenses estimated at $3000 monthly until the retrenchment and reform committee can fund them from a new source. The board focuses on soil conservation land use and farm tenancy as key issues.
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Des Moines
N@son G. Kraschel
State Planning Board
Legislative Committee
Planning Board
Kraschel
Loyalists charge Nazi seaplane attack on scout plane
Loyalist government said a Dornier seaplane from Alcazares patrolling the Valencia coast was attacked by a German seaplane after a bitter air duel. Four crew members were rescued by the British ship Naislea Menor, and one pilot died at Cartagena hospital. The Valencia coast bombardment by German ships lasted an hour.
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Valencia
Alcazares
Cabo Palo
Defense Ministry
Naislea Menor
Dornier
Cartagena
Hitler applauds as Germany seeks trade share
Berlin report says Adolf Hitler applauded today while Nazi Germany, through its top economic spokesmen, declared a demand for a share in the International Chamber of Commerce amid ongoing international pressure.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Nazi Germany
International Chamber of Commerce
Earhart Heads Toward Howland on Pacific Leg
Amelia Earhart and navigator Capt. Fred Noonan depart Lae New Guinea in a Lockheed Electra headed for Howland Island on a 2 550 mile leg. The flight crosses a previously untraveled stretch with only radio beams for guidance from U S naval ships and the Itasca.
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Kopang
Timor Island
Lae
South Pacific
Howland Island
WPA
United States
Miss Earhart
Howland
New Guinea
U. S
Ontario
Coast Guard
Itasca
Nations hold four-fifths of visible gold amid tri-power pact
Britain owns 3.52 billion, the United States 12.29 billion, and France 2.846 billion in visible gold as of March 30, 1933. The three powers share a monetary accord to stabilize exchange while Morgenthau keeps the US fund at 200 million, with no change in the tri-power understanding.
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Washington
Great Britain
France
United States
British Equalization Fund
John Simon
House ‘of Commons
Stabilization Fund
Bank ‘of England
Sir John
England
Morgenthau
Farm Tenancy Bill Survives First Test
Washington INS reports the Jones farm tenancy bill passes first House test as members adopt a special rule for its consideration. Chairman Jones says passage is expected by nightfall.
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Washington
INS
House
Jones
House Agriculture Committee
Three civilians planes collide during stunting in Hamburg
In Hamburg Germany three civilian planes collided while performing a stunt Monday killing all three occupants. The accident prompted investigations by aviation authorities and a brief official statement on witness reports and air traffic control.
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Hamburg
Germany
Some Administration Senators Not Ready to Celebrate Fourth
A 1937 column by Arthur Bugs Baer mocks administration calm after fiscal year end. It jokes about treasury statements and a Fort Knox reset plan, noting administration senators delaying celebration and debating Supreme Court expansion.
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Arthur
Bugs” Baer
Treasury
Herring Calls Towns and Coughlin “problem children” of labor unrest
Des Moines Iowa Senator Clyde L Herring condemns federal liquor permits as unjustifiable comparing them to giving a fel low a license to kill He opposes court packing and supports a gradual Supreme Court expansion while urging care with farm legislation and warning against unconstitutional farm measures He cites labor issues as more threatening than the court fight and notes President Roosevelt will press for farm bills via agriculture committee chairs
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DES _MOINES
Clyde L. Herring
Iowa
John
Lewis
Townsend
Coughlin
State ‘Liquor’commission
Herring
United States Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Guy M. Gillette
Supreme Court
Achine
Congress
Farm Bureau
Agriculture
Paris Premier orders indefinite closing of bourse
France's new prime minister Camille Chautemps suspends the Paris bourse and commercial exchange until Finance Minister Bonnet approves reopening. He also declares an indefinite debt holiday and allows postponement of gold or foreign currency payments due after June 29.
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Paris
Camille Chautemps
Leon Blum
Chamber of Deputies
France
Official
Stock Exchange
The
Commercial Exchange
Georges Bonnet
Chautemps
Blum
Trio’s Discovery Ends In Intensive Inglewood Search
In Inglewood California a large manhunt concluded as three murdered girls bodies were found in Baldwin Hills ravine near Centinella Park. Authorities questioned 22 year old Leroy Strong identified by a mother as seen with the victims, while Scouts and volunteers aided the search and referenced a possible lynching mood at the jail.
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Inglewood
Calife
Leroy Strong
Calif
Baldwin Hills Ravine
Naper
Madeline Everett
Melba Everett
Jeannette Stephens
Whch
Centinella Park
Bey
Seouta
Walter “Burdette
Sheriffs Office
Strong
Olive Everett
Eddie
Esther Arthur
Jane
Federal court halts union interference at Katz Drug stores
A federal court in Kansas City issued a temporary injunction barring union workers from interfering with Katz Drug company stores after a seven day strike. The order allows peaceful picketing and does not prohibit union member solicitation. The stores are to reopen Tuesday.
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Kansas’ City
Katz Drug
Albert L. Reeves
Three ex deputies surrender in Kentucky murder case
HARLAN Ky UP three former Harlan county deputy sheriffs Lee Fleenor George Lee and Henry Metcalf surrendered Monday to face murder charges in the killing of former Deputy Wash Irwin 33 last Tuesday They were released on 7000 bond and will appear before the county grand jury August 36.
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Harlan, Ky
Harlan County
Wash Irwin
Lee
Fleenor
George Lee
Henry’ Metcalf
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Hitler
Amelia Nears
Pacific Ocean
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Alma Ruffner Honeycutt
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