Britain weighs retaliation over Tientsin concessions
In London Foreign Undersecretary R A Butler said Britain was considering measures in response to Japan’s blockade of the British and French concessions in Tientsin. Japan demanded five points, including halting anti Japanese activity and free use of schoolbooks, as supplies remained scarce and prices rose.
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London
House of Commons
Tientsin
R. A. Butler
Britain
United States
France
China
Hai River
Methodist District Meeting to Be Held at First Church
Preparations are under way for a district wide Methodist meeting at the First Methodist church this Friday. Bishop J Lloyd De cell of Birmingham Dr Hubert Searcy of Montgomery and several lay leaders from Athens Cullman Hartselle and Cullman are listed as speakers. The gathering opens at ten with lunch served and district superintendent to make church plans public.
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J. Lloyd Decell
Birmingham
Hubert Searcy
Montgomery
Lizzie Reed Penn
Hartselle
E. R. Naylor
Athens
Mildred Smith Cullman
J. W. Darrah
E. R. Currier
J. G. Daves
Cullman
Refugees to Get Temporary Homes in Europe
French officials announced that 907 German Jewish refugees aboard the Hamburg liner St Louis, denied admission to Cuba, would be given at least temporary homes in England France Belgium and the Netherlands.
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Faris
Atlantic
St. Louis
Cuba
England
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Willkie extension of power sale contract under review
In New York on June 14 officials discussed a possible extension of the Commonwealth & Southern contract to sell the Tennessee Electric Power Co properties. The move, aimed at enabling TVA-related transfer plans and a $78 million property deal, follows House-Senate tariff debates and potential refunds to curb bond charges. Georgia delegates attended Georgia Day as Mrs Jill Taylor, gravely ill, watched her husband Lt Col Jack Taylor lead the Georgia state girls' military band.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Jill Taylor
Atlanta
Georgia
Wendell L. Willkie
Commonwealth 4& Southern Corporat
Tennessee Electric Power Co
Willkie
House
Senate
Tennessee Electric Power
TVA
Tennessee Valley Authority
Big Southern
Commonwealth & Southern
Georgia Power Co
Alabama Power Co
Chattanooga
Nashville
Luggage Seizure Grips Star Marlene Dietrich
Federal agents seized Marlene Dietrichs luggage aboard the French liner Normandie on orders of the Internal Revenue Service for alleged nonpayment of 284000 in income tax for 1934 to 1937. The actress, now a U.S. citizen, said she had paid taxes and questioned the amount. She planned a European vacation with her husband.
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New York
Marlene Dietrich
Normandie
Internal Revenue Department
United States
Miss Dietrich
Sherry-Netherland
Man_named Walker Takes Poison During Arrest near Cullman
A man who gave the name J. O. Walker age 30 swallowed three bichloride of mercury tablets as Constable Carl Jones tried to arrest him at the home of W. P. Clayton north of Cullman. Clayton said the man claimed to be Nathan Bostick, and that he and his Huntsville wife were visiting. Walker reportedly asked for water before departing.
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J. O. Walker
Cullman County
Carl Jones
Cullman
Walker
W. P. Clayton
Clayton
Nathan Bostick
Huntsville
Jones
Bostick
Alabama schools forecast six to seven month term
Birmingham June 14. Dr. J. E. Bryan Jefferson County superintendent on return from Montgomery conference forecasts a school term of less than seven months for most Alabama schools during the 1939 term.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
J. E. Bryan
Jefferson County
Montgomery
TVA bond fight over Tennessee Power Co. purchase
House approval of a substitute bill cuts TVA bonds from 100 million to 65 million and limits TVA operations, jeopardizing the planned 78 million dollar purchase of Tennessee Electric Power Co. facilities. If no agreement emerges, the deal dies and cities may build rival systems.
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House
TVA
Senate
House Committee
Friends of the Power Trust
Tennessee Company
Norris
Ind.-Neb
McKellar
D-Tenn
Sparkman
D-Ala
Nashville
Chattanooga
Three Murder Trials Set as Docket Opens
Circuit court opens Monday June 19 with 17 prisoners arraigned before Judge W W Callahan. Three murder cases are slated for next week along with multiple assaults burglary grand larceny and narcotics charges. Names include James Wright Jimmie Ray James Tatum Robert Johnson Merle Powell Russell Lynne Ed Bailey John Sherrill Coleman Gray Will Lewis and others with trials from June 19 to June 29.
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Circuit Court
W. W. Callahan
Nathaniel Jackson
Callahan
James Wright
W. H. Long
Jimmie Ray
W. F. Boswell, Jr
A. M. Smith, Jr
James Tatum
Robert Johnson
Merle Powell
A. C. Clark
Russell Lynne
Jack Hall
E. C. Nix
Ed Bailey
John Sherrill
L. B. Phillips
Eugene Jones
D. L. Lambert
Missouri Ross
BE. C. Nix
Alton Praytor
J. N. Powell
Neil Adcock
J. N.powell
Coleman Gray
Will Lewis
Jerry Middleton
Helen Strong
Helen Jones
Davis Memorial Singing Sunday at Evergreen
The annual Davis memorial singing will be held Sunday at Evergreen eight miles west of Falkville in honor of the late B. E. Davis former Morgan County sheriff. The event draws between 2000 and 3000 attendees each year.
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Davis Memorial
Evergreen
Falkville
B. E. Davis
Morgan County
Man Sues Over Handshake Injury in Seattle
Rough Stuff Seattle June 14 Torvald Danielson sues O Bardahl for one dollar alleging a reckless handshake caused a thumb sprain. The filing cites a careless casual gesture leading to alleged damage.
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Seattle
Torvald Danielson
O. Bardahl
Bardahl
Hosiery wage talks weigh possible October shift
Wage-hour chief Elmer Andrews weighed a Southern hosiery group suggestion to postpone minimum wage increases for hosiery and textile workers from this summer to October 24. Committees proposed 32.5 cents for textile workers and 40 cents for full fashioned hosiery. a 2.5 cent Southern differential, urged by Harold Lamb, was also discussed. A hearing is set in Atlanta on June 26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Elmer Andrews
Andrews
Taylor R Durham
Charlotte
N. C
John Berry
Rome
Textile
Harold Lamb
Union Point Manufacturing Co
Union Point Ga
Atlanta
Tropical Storm Near Gulf Coast Prompts Caution
The coast guard reported a falling barometer as a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico neared the coastline. Strong winds and heavy rain moved boatmen to shelter craft while officials warned coastal highways and warned of high tides, with the storm center expected to hit near Apalachicola to Mobile tonight.
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Panama City
Fila
Coast Guard
Gulf of Mexico
Bayfront
Gulf
Tallahassee
Dowling
Gulf Coastal
Apalachicola
Mobile
Ala
Wind tides threaten Apalachicola bridge road
Wind driven tides lapped at the Gorrie bridge causeway as engineers watched for damage that could close the road. Chief Engineer J. H. Dowling said the long causeway sits just above normal high water to let unusual tides roll over it.
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Apalachicola
Fla
Gorrie Bridge
State Road Department
J. H. Dowling
Tropical disturbance eyes Gulf coast warning
The Weather Bureau warned Northwest Florida to brace for gale winds up to fifty miles per hour as a tropical disturbance heads toward the coast. If current movement continues, the storm center could reach the coast between Apalachicola Florida and Mobile Alabama tonight. Advisory issued at 9 30 a m EST.
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New Orleans
Florida
United States Weather Bureau
Appalachicola
Fla
Mobile
Ala
Rival Unionists Clash in Flint Amid GM Strike Violence
In Flint and Lansing, Michigan, union clashes near the Fisher Body plant No 1 erupted again as both United Auto Workers unions fought. About 100 per side battled, with 75 police helping to separate combatants. Several injured, three hospitalized, weapons seized, and one car overturned.
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Flint
Mich
General Motors
Fisher
United Auto Workers
Unsons
Pivnt
Uaw-Ctio
CID
Saginaw
Governors seeks peace in Allis Chammbers strike
Governor Julius Hell urged Allis Chalmers Manufacturing Company officials and labor leaders to meet to end a major strike at the West Allis plant where 13 people were injured in rioting yesterday. A three block picket line appeared this morning, while only a skeleton office staff reported to work per company president Max W. Babb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Julius Hell
Allis- Chalmmers Manufacturing Company
West Allis
Max W. Babb
Body of Missing Baby Found Near Clyde Farm Creek
Sheriff H L Myers reports the 10 week old Haldon Fink, stolen from his Clyde crib, found dead in Green creek on George Thomson farm seven miles west of Clyde after about twelve hours missing. The body was recovered from a creek near U S Highway 20.
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Clyde, O
H. L. Myers
Haldon Fink
Clyde
Green Creek
George Thomson
U. S. Highway No. 20
Civil War Ornament Painter Faces Fate Before Franco
In Barcelona on June 14 a military tribunal before Franco considers Alfonso Laurent Cik, once a cabaret decorator, charged with painting eerie designs on walls of alleged torture chambers used by republicans during the civil war.
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Barcelona
Spain
Franco
Alfonso Laurent Cik
Probe to investigate school anti semitism in Baltimore
Congress on Un American Activities moves to send an investigator to Baltimore to join local police in probing an attack on a 14 year old Jewish student and suspected anti Semitic activity at Gwynn Falls junior high. Four city college high students suspended after another assault with swastikas and a knife incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Congressional Committee On UN- American Activities
News-Post
Martin J. Dies
Houston
Tex
City College
Gwynn's Falls
Melvin Bridge
Morton Rosen
Harry Eberts
Carroll Phillips
Gwynn's Falls School
Rosen
Bridge
Albert L. Sklar
House of Delegates
House Gets Relief Bill
Washington June 14 A 1940 relief appropriation carrying the full 1 477 000 000 asked by President Roosevelt for WPA but recommending substitution of a three man board for the WPA administrator went to the house today from its appropriations committee. Announcement of this and other recommendations signals the opening of a major fight over whether federal relief would continue to be administered as since 1933.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
WPA
House
Appropriations Committee
Men May Be Enrolees of Athens Camp Victims on Railroad Tracks
Officials from the OCC camp near Athens rushed toward Cullman to identify two white men found mangled along the L and N tracks near Garden City and Mulberry River. Coroner J Grady Moss believes they were killed by a passenger train around 8 pm.
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OCC
Athens
Cullman
Garden City
Mulberry River
J. Grady Moas
Cullman County
Federal Bureau of Identification
Birmingham
Clark Graves
L. J. Henderson
Honor for Dad Came Too Late
Seattle editors planned a Father’s Day feature on Max Kuner of Seattle after a California woman sent a sonnet for him. The sonnet and story appeared today alongside Buner’s obituary, noting he died yesterday at age 38.
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Seattle
Alice Salisbury
Daggett
Calif
Seattle Post- Intelligencer
Max Kuner
Kuner
Buner
Weather report for Tennessee and Alabama with river rise
The Tennessee River gauge reached 20.6 feet and rose. Temperatures ranged 64 to 84 degrees with 0.42 inches of rain in Alabama. Forecast calls for cloudy skies with showers tonight and Thursday, fresh to strong easterly to northerly winds along the coast.
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Tennessee
Alabama
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Davis
Wis
CIO
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co
Acme Telephoto
Lansing
Michigan State Police
FATE
Double Springs
Barnett
OGO
Ralph
Eddings
J. Grady Moss
CDC
Amog R. Barnett
Clyde T. Osborne
Winfield
A. B. Barnett
Hulett Osborne
Ralph Eddings
Osborne
Clark
Henderson
Moss-Schelling Funeral Home
Moss
Dad
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