Court Fight Waged Under Rigid Rules
Washington foes clash over a court expansion bill as Senate rules curb debate and threaten a bloc of opposition. Senator Bankhead and others oppose the president’s plan, while leaders claim growing support for the measure. Debate centers on procedural limits, with speeches limited and leaders forecasting a protracted struggle.
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Senate
Supreme Court
Feadera
Bankhead
Alabama
Tarelsack
Wheeler
Robinson
Aramasas
Hobinson
Fragmentary note on Willie Willin g at the edge of the sidewalk
A garbled line describes Willie Willin g near the edge of a sidewalk, spitting gum. The readability is poor and no clear event or date is discernible.
Riot Pictures Goes Into Record at Ford Riot Hearing
DETROIT July 1 A National Labor Relations Board hearing on Ford Motor Company unfair labor practices included 24 photographs of a riot at Ford's Dearborn plant. The pictures show United Automobile Workers leaders supervising distribution of handbills when attacked by Ford workers. Photographers Kilpatrick and Irvin testified their plates were confiscated amid the violence that injured more than a dozen workers. Reporters Beresford and Bauer described hoodlums and massed beatings near the scene as police watched.
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Ford Motor Company
The
Nations Labor Board
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Dearborn
United Automobile Workers of America
Jamez Kilpatrick
Detroit Newa
Bedd' Irvin
Associated Press
Louis J. Colombo
NLRB
Victor Beresford
Detroit News
Examiner
Herbert Bauer
Robert Gablonde
United Press
Richard T. Frankensteen
Statewide Property Revaluation Considered by Legislature
Data prepared for the Legislature's Interim committee outlines a possible general statewide revaluation to boost revenues for schools and municipalities. The auditor's office and state Planning board collected county statistics as a basis for proposed methods, noting no major revaluations since 1904 and urging modernization through county assessors or tax commissioner orders.
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State Planning Board
West Virginia
Green Declares C I O Strikes Lost and Warr en Bombings
Warren indictments accuse eight men in bomb blasts tied to steel strike unrest. President Green of the AFL CIO says the strikes failed due to violent policies and limited organization among steel workers. The bombings near Republic Steel plant and during the seven state campaign prompted grand jury actions following Youngstown.
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Wil Mam Green
American Federation of Labor
Mval Committee For Industrial Organization
Co, J. O
Youngstown
Nam
Republic Steel Corporation
Barney J. Gillen
Heat Marks Shattered as Heat Wave Hits Nation
Heat harassed residents across the northern half of the country as deaths from the summer siege rose to 35. Temperature records fell in the hot belt from the western plains to New England with New York City logging 034 degrees the season's high. Albany reached 95 and Centralia 84 as other readings topped seasonal norms.
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Plains
New England
New York City
Elgin
Albany
Centralia
Brooklyn Pickets Riot at Robins Shipyard Plant
In New York July a clash between mounted and foot police and CIO pickets at the Robins shipyard plant in Brooklyn erupted as a convoy of 117 automobiles transported workers past a hostile crowd. The disorder left about a dozen injured. Police dispersed the line and halted the drive to a work stoppage tied to coastal shipbuilding since June.
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CID
Robins
Brooklyn
New York-New Jersey
CIO
Hne
Wage Hour Bill Cuts Board Powers In Senate Panel
A revised Black Connery wage and hour bill won Senate labor committee approval, stripping the proposed administrative board of key powers to fix standards. The panel kept a board can set minimums up to 40 cents an hour and maximum 40 hours weekly, while removing a contested provision tying rates to service value. Chairman Hinck of Alabama urged quick consideration this year, alongside farm and housing measures, though Majority Leader Robinson indicated early action was unlikely.
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Senate Labor Committee
Congress
Hinck D. Ala
Senater
Robinson
Ark
Britain Negotiates For Belgian Air Bases in War Prep
Secret talks opened to secure strategic air bases in Belgium for British bombing and refueling, as Belgium's Van Zeeland met with Chamberlain and Eden. Aimed to ensure Belgian independence while planning joint staff arrangements and air cooperation against a potential German threat. France seeks Belgian assent to such arrangements, with action coordinated via Brussels and Paris.
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Belgium
William Hillman
Universal Service
London
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Europe
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Chamberlain
Eden
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Roosevelt
Washington
Germany
Committee of Imperial Defence
Brussels
France
Fr Divine Angel followers flee heat to promised land
Fr Divine and 2000 followers, calling themselves angels, left New York City by boat and taxi to a summer gathering near Kingston. The march included 1400 women and 250 men, many in rainbow colors, as crowds crowded the pier to watch the Meamboat State of Delaware depart up the river.
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New York
Father Divine
Kingston
Angela
Mae West Admits Marriage to Wallace Amid Seclusion
Hollywood report says Mae West confirmed she was once Mia Wallace with Frank Wallace, though details remain private. Wallace, visiting Wenderson, Ky, asked no comment while his dancing partner spoke out. Mae had retreated into seclusion after her unexpected acknowledgment.
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Mae West
Mia
Frank Wallace
Mae
Wallace
Wenderson
Sultan
Milwaukee
Mac
Flashes of Life In These U S
Kenneth Thurman, 32, paroled from the Imolaetate penitentiary, walked into police headquarters and asked to return to prison. He said his wife and three children, all on relief, had not received adequate food or clothing.
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Chicago
Kenneth Thurman
Imolaetate Penitentiary
Boy seeks missing dog Amelia in Chicago
A 17 year old named Fred Arland asked police to help find his pet dog Amelia. He said he named the dog after Amelia Earhart, the missing aviatrix, and noted it is unusual that both are lost at the same time.
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Chicago
Fred Ar‘land
Hem
Amelia
Amelia Earhart
Japan Warns Soviet Over Border Clashes On Siberia Front
Tokyo demanded Moscow curb repeated clashes along the Manchukuo frontier after a Monday battle left several dead and wounded on both sides. Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu told Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov the incidents were excessive and called for orderly dispatches as Moscow protested moves near the Amur river boundary.
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Moscow
Janah
Soviet Union
Far East
Britain to Push Palestine Plan Faces Mixed Reaction
London reports Britain's government will seek early League of Nations approval for a three part division of Palestine. The plan aims to end 15 years of Arab Jewish conflict with an Arab state, a Jewish state, and a British mandate territory amid critical and supportive responses. The royal commission’s report coincides with this push.
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London
Palestine
League of Nations
Holy Land
Royal Commission
Quintuplets Reported Born to Cuban Farmer’s Wife
A Cuban farmer’s wife, Maria Vascarus, reportedly gave birth to quintuplets in Soros village near Pinar del Rin. The five babies include four boys and a girl, with all five living hours after birth, offering a rare medical phenomenon and hopeful survival prospects.
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Cuba
el Pueblo
Pinar del Rin
Hoya
Senora Maria Vascarus
Soros
China protests Japanese provocation after Peiping fighting
China delivered its strongest protest to Nanking over Japanese "provocative activities" in North China following 24 hours of savage fighting in the Peiping area that left more than 300 dead. Tokyo reportedly planning naval moves along China's northern coast as diplomats in Peiping report a stiffening Chinese stance.
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U. S
Peiping
Japan
Nanking
Tokyo
Foreign Office
Ching
Sixty four more alleged railway wreckers executed in Far East
A consular report cites thirty six or more executions in the Soviet Far East for railway sabotage at foreign direction. The tally brings known killings in the spy hunt to 274 in the past year, with 217 in the Far East. Many others reportedly arrested across railways and other industries.
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Far East
Pacific Ocean Star
Khabarovsk
Isme
Official Tow Car Given Traffic Tag
A downtown garage owns the tow truck tagged for illegal parking near Capitol and Quartier Streets. Patrolman Henry Clendenin placed the red tag in the early afternoon as part of a traffic campaign. Traffic Clerk George Murphy Payne Jr. noted a $1 fine and that more than $400 in fines has been collected since July 1.
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Ienry
Clendenin
Capitol
Quartier
George Murphy Payne, Jr
Planes and ships press search for Amelia Earhart
Blinding rains and tropical squalls lash the south Pacific as navy planes from the Colorado and other ships launch renewed searches around Winslow reef and Howland Island for Amelia Earhart and Frederick Noonan. Coast Guard cutter Itasca and minesweeper Swan comb reefs and islets south of Howland while planes from Lexington supply fuel.
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Universal Service
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T. II
South Pacific
Navy Planet
Colorado
Amelia Earhart
Fred J. Noonan
Phoenix Island
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Howland
Pacific
Misa Earhart
Coast Guard
Phoenix
Swan
Hope
Miss Earhart
Frederick J. Ne Nan
San Diego
Pearl Harbor
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New Guinea
Enderbury
Canton
Phoenix Group
Jury Ponders Fate of Pastor Ball in Shooting Case
BECKLEY July a jury weighed the case of Rev Monta H Ball to decide if he deliberately shot his second wife Victory Gay Ball or killed her accidentally as he claimed Defense attorney H F Shatter argued the state failed to prove murder or manslaughter and mocked the notion the pastor loved his wife jealously while claiming he did not kill her
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Shatter
Atete
Flinn Takes Oath as Kanawha County School Superintendent
Virgil L. Flinn was sworn in as Kanawha county school superintendent yesterday. He will move into offices at Thomas Jefferson junior high Monday and begin preparing for the new school year. T. Jenkins, president of the school board, administered the oath. The board will meet Monday night to select a Charleston high school principal, appoint assistants and staff, and set Flinns salary.
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Kanawha County
Thomas Jefferson Junior High
T. Jenkins
Flinn
Fred L. Tead
Charleston High School
Loyalists Press Madrid Front In New Offensive
Government forces moved south and west from Madrid in a three day drive aimed at severing insurgent units on the capital’s fringes from the main army. They reached near Quijorna and pressed toward Casa de Campo while insurgent officials claimed repulses and warned of heavy government losses.
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Ife
Quijorma
Jose Minja
Cass de Campo
Brivers
Quitorna
Casa de Campo
Two Youths Held In Auto Thefts
State police report Julius Bentley aged 21 and Leon Steele 16 detained after arrest in downtown theater district ended an auto theft ring and thwarted a killing plot. Confessed plan targeted a guard at Pruntytown. stolen Plymouth sedan and Ford V-8 linked to local officials.
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Leon Steele
Fruntytown
Bentley
Steele
L. L. Pullen
Edgewood Avenue
Eskew
Clay County
Plymouth
Pruntytown
Charleston
M. A. Murphy
Elk River Road
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