Rebels Hammer At Bilbao Gates Fall Is Reported
Advancing insurgent forces led by Italian volunteers push toward Bilbao center amid relentless land and air bombardment. Reports claim the city fell, but officials dispute the claim as Franco’s troops seal the Nervion river east bank and Basques retreat to northern suburbs. President Aguirre appeals for resistance as fighting rages with heavy casualties and a Basque column cut off near Begona.
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Bilbao
U. S
Hendaye
Tueasday
Nervion River
London Daily Telegraph
Berliner Volkszeltung
Francisco Franco
Jose Antonio Aguirre
Begona
Nerylon
Mass Evacuation of City Ordered
General Jose Miaja orders immediate evacuation of Madrid civilians amid ongoing artillery and aerial bombardment. Refugees from Francoist provinces begin evacuation in three stages as city endures relentless shelling and destruction.
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U. S
Madiid
Jose Miaja
Madrid
Miaja
Francisco Franco
Willie Willis by Robert Quillen and Albert Quillen
A fragmentary note questions women teachers and suggests children will grow used to women bosses, reflecting dated gender views and casual language from a syndicated column fragment.
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Albert Quillen
Adverse Report Calls FDR Court Bill Dangerous
The Judiciary Committee issued an adverse report on the Roosevelt court reorganization bill, saying it would destroy judicial independence. The measure would allow a large increase in Supreme Court justices unless incumbents over 90 retire. Debates over timing and possible filibuster dominated today’s Senate actions amid administration openness to compromise.
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Washington
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Judiciary
Eppochts
Burke
Neb
Wheeler
Supreme Court
J Fdr
Missing Mrs Parsons Sparks Long Island Dragnet
STONY BROOK N Y June 14 A massive search by agents state troopers fire wardens and Boy Scouts failed to locate missing Mrs William Parsons. A $25 000 ransom note is the only clue and officials fear a violent fate as investigators widen the hunt while the FBI orders a broader search.
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Stony Brook
Feders
North Shore
Long Island
Wiliam Parsons
Parsons Autosibile
Parsons
Mr Sarsans
Earl J. Cannelley
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Haint
ING
Seruh-Gak
Executions Reinforce Siberian Rail Sabotage Crackdown
In Siberia 28 more alleged saboteurs were executed for conspiring against the Amur railway. The Khabarovsk Pacific Star report says 15 have been shot for sabotage and treason in the past year, tied to Japanese espionage. The Amur spur links to Komsomolsk on the Amur, part of plans to build a northern parallel to the Trans-Siberian.
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Moscow
Siberia
Amur
Far East
Tate 4
Khabarovsk
Pacific Star
Aky
Lean Tri
Trans-Siberian
Komsomolsk
Amelia Takes Off On Final African Hop of World Trip
Amelia Earhart begins the final leg of her world journey with a flight from Massawa to Asmara Eritrea in a Lockheed Electra. She plans to reach Aden if weather allows while navigator Fred Noonan coordinates the leg. The aircraft underwent complete preflight checks after arriving from Karachi.
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Amelia
Massalva
Allan Eritrea
Dune Ihusi
Amelia Karehart
Asah
Eritrea
America
Ace
Fred Noonan
Aden
Arabie
Manssa
Hed Sea
Awat
Kitarthim
Identity of 100 Millionaire Tax Dodgers to Be Revealed
Washington June 14 reports say hearings will start midweek with Secretary Morgenthau as the first witness to provide a full list of over 100 millionaires accused of evading certain taxes. A joint House Senate committee will decide if testimony becomes public, with six House and six Senate members named.
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Washington
Treasury
Morgenthau
White House
Harrison
Senate Finance
Mittee and Doughton
Howe Ways and Means Committee
Lst
Coughtan
House-Renate Committee
Doughton
House
Harthen
Deighton
Vinson
Kentucky
Dillon
New York
Cooper
Tennesser
Trentway
Massachusetts
Crawiher
I King
Utah
George
Georgia
Walsh
LaFallette
Wisconsin
Capper
Kansas
Charleston Hosts Baseball Greats for Charity Event
Charleston, hub of industry, hosted a unique charity double header at Kanawha Park drawing about 6,000 fans and 15 000 dollars from 21 000 paid attendance to benefit the Anti Tuberculosis league and Hillcrest Sanitarium. Connie Mack drew a large crowd as Philadelphia and Washington teams played while the Charleston club faced Portsmouth in a later game that was rained out. Mack mingled with guests and spoke to Junior American Legion youths, urging them to pursue athletic goals for future rewards.
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Frank Knight
Charleston
Sweet Charity
Kanawha Park
Hillcrest Sanitarium
Farr
Brainchift
Henderson Lo Peebles
Philadelphia
Washington Senatars
Phillies
Lang
Cincinnati Reds
Philadelphia Athletics
Portsmouth
Connie Mack
Corneline McGillicuddy
Connie Mark
Athletics
Mack
Peebles
American Legion
Kapitel Lawn
Gov. Hart
Legion
Louis Johnson Promoted to Assistant Secretary of War
Washington June 14 Louis Johnson a West Virginian and former national commander of the American Legion was nominated by President Roosevelt for assistant secretary of war to fill the post left vacant after the death of Dern and Woodring's elevation. Johnson, a partner in Steptoe and Johnson of Clarksburg and Charleston, has held numerous Legion offices including national commander in 1932 and chaired West Virginia delegations at Rhineland and Paris.
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Washington
Louis AL Johnson
American Legion
West Virginia
Senate
Roosrurkt
West
Clarksburg
Charleston
Legion
West Legion
Rhinmenpas
Ung
Paria
France
Johnson
James A. Farley
Sinclair Lewis Jests at Hitler Name Change
New York June 14 105 Sinclair Lewis, the author, changed his name to Sinclair Levy to mock Adolf Hitler. A German producer asks Lewin and Sidney Howard for Aryan assurances, joking about ancestors and “certificates” of Aryan status in a playful, satirical exchange.
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New York
Sinclair
Lewis
Sinclair Levy
Adolf Mitler
Hans Bartdeh
Dodsworth
Berlin
Lewin
Sidney Howard
Bartsch
Sidney Horowitz
Sinchnir Lev
Judge Urges Ban on Petty Squabbles on Docket
Howard B. Lee, renamed special judge, urged eliminating neighborhood squabbles and petty cases from the intermediate court docket while presiding over grand jurors. Fifty Charleston Bar association members appointed Leo to serve, pending Guy’s appointment as regular judge vacancy from Judge S Collett Litlepape’s death. Circuit Clerk M H L Tix administered Lee’s oath as Henry Laughoen of Charleston was named grand jury foreman among jurors listed.
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Howard B. Lee
Charleston Bar Associatain
Leo
Guy
Halt
Dudge
S. Collett Litlepape
Alyin J. Barnhart
Willard James
C. F. McConihay
Dan Keamer
W. C. Mi
Joseph Hearst
Coy Nichols
Lee Bryant
Ernest Cochrane
M. M. Derrick
B. A. Robinson
Linighorn
Edward Layne
Henry H
O. BR. Deerett
FH. Beard
Albert Reagan
TW. Merkamp
Coal Mines in State Tie to Steel Strike Action
The steel strike shadows hit three independent coal mines in the state with output halted at Bethlehem Steel sites in West Virginia and at Youngstown Sheet and Tube plants. About 10,000 workers in captive mines idle, with potential reach to 600,000 across the sector, as unions warn of broader closures if companies ship coal to strikebound plants.
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Associated Press
Chicago
van A. Bittner
Bittner
International
United Mine Workers
West Virginia
CIO
Bethlehem + Steel
Youngstown Sheet End Tube Company
Dehur
Logan
F. BA
Agee
Tia
Milla
Pittsburgh
William Hynes
UMWA
Wind Storm Blasts City Damaging Upper Windows
A wind storm with heavy rain hit the city last night at about 7 30 damaging upper windows in the business district. Signs swung and debris rained down as pedestrians sought cover. Minor damage reported with three upper floor windows broken at the Charleston National Bank building Spencer Moore store on Capitol Street and a Buslman drug store window. A frame house under construction south of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway also noted damage.
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Charleston National Bank
the & Spencer Moore
Capitol Street
Buslman Drug Store
Capitol
Quarries Streets
Chespeake and Onin
Vanguard of 10000 Workers Leaves Pits in Mine Strike
In Johnstown Pennsylvania and surrounding areas the vanguard of 10131 coal miners, part of a CIO pullout, left company owned mines after workers rallied. A Bittner warning threatened a nationwide coal embargo on shipments to steel plants, with 600000 UMWA members potentially affected by Saturday.
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Vanguard
Mines Inc
Pennsylvania
Johnstown
John L. Lewis
West Virginia
van A. Bittner
Chicago
Bittner
United Mine Workers of America
Washington
Lewis
FDR Receives Report on Steel Strike From Perkins
President Roosevelt was briefed by Secretary Perkins on a detailed steel strike report as union leaders draft new moves to shut down strike-bound plants. Perkins refused to release details of her White House discussion. Meanwhile United Mine Workers prepare walkouts in coal mines supplying those plants. Maritime workers in the Great Lakes await orders as strike actions loom.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Perkins
Miss Perkins
White House
United Mine Workers of America
Great Lakes
Ture
Pennsyt
New Marriage Law Balks Three Couples
Wellsburg June 19 00 Virginia's new law requiring three days police of intent to marry blocked three Pittsburgh area couples plans. They were refused licenses at Steubenville across the river after an unsuccessful effort and left without giving their names.
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Wellsburg
Virginia
Theese
Pittsburgh
Geeina Green
Steubenville
Croxn
New Social Justice Union For Ford Workers Planned
A new union for Ford Motor Company employees appeared in Detroit papers amid claims it mirrors Father Coughlin’s politics. The Workers Council for Social Justice seeks to organize most of Ford’s 90,000 River Rouge workers with aims including a living wage and worker rate reforms.
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Ford Workers
Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Indar
Charles E. Coughlin
Soelat Jr
Father Coughlin
National Union For Loving Justice
Ford
Coughlin
George F. Addes
United Automobile Workers Union
Harry Bennett
Ford Company
Teague
Dearborn
Ers
Arthur E. Nelson
Robert Monfeith
Roy Irwin
Bennett
UAW
River Rouge
Ford Brotherhood of America
Company
Stocks Nose Dive as Steel Strike Fears Weaken Market
On June 14 on Wall Street a heavy selling wave pressured shares across the board. Losses ranged from 3 to 7 dollars with many stocks hitting new lows for a year or more as anxiety over the steel strike intensified amid seasonal recession signals in key industries. Volume reached about 1,216,000 shares, the largest in a month, with the Associated Press average down 1.30 to 363.90, the lowest since July 6, 1938.
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New York
Wall Street
Stock Exchange
Associated Press
Coal Strike Impacts Major Ohio Mines With Blocked Deliveries
Lewis said 5500 miners in 17 mines owned by Bethlehem Steel and Republic Steel oppose supplying fuel to struck mills and would not load shipments. He claimed the coal strike is 100 percent effective, while Republic and Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co officials noted their mines had already been closed by company order as fuel supply dwindles.
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Bethlehem Steel
Republic Steel
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co
Lewis
Bethlehem and
Republic and
Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Strikers to Form New Picket Line Near Newton Steel Plant
Monroe Mich June 14 USs new crises deepen steel strike tensions as Mayor Kunges calls for orderly picketing at the Newton Steel plant. 300 armed deputies guard the subsidiary of Republic Steel after a gas attack on Thursday. Vigilantes patrol city streets as the mayor urges restraint and a lawful march.
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Monroe
Mich
Daniel A. Kunges
Citie Zena
Ines
Newton Steel Company
Respublic Steel Corporation
John L. Loewis
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Willie Willis
Robert Quillen
Scores. Hunt
Holt
Homer A. Holt
Alown
Charley Dressen
Cincinnati
Athleties
Gow Halt
Jimmy Wilson
Stanley Harria
Garette Fhato
Hillcrest
Louis Johnson
Rooarvelt
Dileth Jehnson
Roanoke
Sinclair Lewis
Levy
Lee
Beth- Jechem Steel Corporation
Cambria Works
Newton
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