Mexican government reports air battles with Cedillista rebels
May 26 report says government planes raided a Cedillista rebel airport near El Rucio San Luis Potosi after war minister Avila Camacho claimed rebel air forces had bombed loyal towns. Details say federals won two land engagements with heavy casualties as Cedillo’s forces scattered.
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Mexico City
Cedillista
Manuel Avila Camacho
United States
el Rucio
San Luis Potosi
Tampico
Saturnino Cedillo
Lazaro Cardenas
Avila
Cedillo
Villela Hacienda
Santa Maria del Rio
Guanajuato
Villa Hacienda
Cardenas
National Irrigation Commission
Agriculture Department
Department of Communications and Public Works
Agrarian Department
Japan denies fish invasion in Bristol Bay reports
Tokyo denies Japanese cod fishing in Bristol Bay Alaska saying only one crab boat operates in the Beiping Sea. A Seattle schooner alleged Japanese boats north of Black Hills, fueling tensions over incursions into Alaskan waters and Bristol Bay.
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Tokyo
Bristol Bay
Alaska
Bering Sea
Beiing Sea
Japanese Bureau of Fisheries
Japan
United States
Seattle
Charles R. Wilson
Black Hills
Aleutian Peninsula
Ross Armstrong Welterweight Title Fight Postponed by Rain
The 15 round welterweight title bout between champion Barney Ross and Henry Armstrong was postponed from today to tomorrow night due to rain in New York.
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New York
Barney Ross
Henry Armstrong
Cordial relations goal cited in Cooper Wells hearing
Hearing on the Cooper Wells complaint resumed with Quimby Sewell leading the independent workers unit. He described the by laws and agreements for collective bargaining and said members could remove leaders, with costs of the St Joseph trip covered by voluntary mill employee assessments.
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Cooper-Wells
Quimby Sewell
Cooper-Wells Workers
John Peach
Sewell
Peach
Homer Stovall
Bill Free
Sidney Neher
Frank H. Bowen
NLRB
St. Joseph
Mich
Cooper- Wells and Company of
Decatur
John H. Peach
McCarthy
CIO
AFL
Hugh McCarthy
Michigan
Earl R. Cross
Frank Yaney
Homer Jones
Jones
Yaney
Yancy
Cross
Christine W. Dowdy
Cooper- Wells
Chas, Eyster
Dowdy
Czechs Study Proposal for Ending Crisis
Praha reports government studied new French and British ideas to end the Sudeten crisis. Stefan Osusky and Jan Masaryk arrived to brief Foreign Minister Krofta and President Benes on Anglo French support and a plan to ease tensions with British observers in the border region.
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Praha
Adolph Hitler
Stefan Osusky
Paris
Kamil Krofta
Jan Masaryk
London
Krofta
Eduard Benes
Osusky
Masaryk
Britain
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Karl Hermann Frank
Ernest Pfrogner
Sude
Paar
One Killed and Two Shocked in Alabama Power Incident
In Center Alabama on May 26 a high voltage line killed Charles Noah Sewell 24 during installation of an electric pump at his home. His father L B Sewell and Jack Jordan were shocked and treated at Gadsden hospital.
Poppy Day Observance and Memorial Poppy History
Poppy Day is observed in the United States on May 28 the Saturday before Memorial Day. The memorial poppy replicates battlefield poppies from World War I and is produced by disabled veterans in government hospitals and convalescent workrooms. Volunteers from the American Legion Auxiliary distribute the poppies and all donations support veterans and the families of the dead.
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United States
France
Belgium
American Legion Auxiliary
American Legion and Auxiliary
Inunction in Cullman Row is Dismissed
The Alabama Supreme Court dismissed an injunction blocking 83 Cullman county election officers from serving in the May 3 democratic primary. The ruling clarifies that equity courts have no role in election matters, affirming a $3,500 judgment against the W. W. Pickle Company in a separate case.
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Montgomery
Ala
Cullman County
State Supreme Court
Equity Courts
Supreme Court
Cirecuit
A. A. Griffith
Cullman
Griffith
Arthur Drake
Homer Mitchell
Jack Tucker
Iffith
Mitchell
Pomeroy
Equity
Courts of Equity
Court of Equity
Chancery Court
Wheeler Baskin
Doc Baskin
W. W. Pickle Company
Roosevelt to announce tax revision decision Friday
President Roosevelt will reveal his action on the tax revision bill at 1 p.m. CST tomorrow during a speech at the Arthurdale resettlement project in West Virginia. He has until midnight tomorrow to sign or veto the bill, which aims to ease undistributed profits and capital gains levies for business. Sources say the president may express objections to some provisions but could still approve the measure.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Arthurdale
W. Va
Congress
House Startled by Accusations in Nazi Camp Speech
Representative Dies advised the House he had information that a German American Bund member at a major Nazi camp in the United States urged assassination of President Roosevelt. Reporters understood Dies to name a congress member. he later corrected that he had stated a Bund member urged assassination, saying he misread the inquiry.
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Washington
Dies
Dtex
House
Bund
Roosevelt
Congress
Aid to TVA Foe in Court Test Is Laid To Ousted Leader
TVA director David Lilienthal testified before a congressional committee that former TVA chairman Arthur B. Morgan tried to defeat and obstruct the Authority in constitutional litigation. Harcourt A. Morgan described the conduct as a campaign of dissent and obstruction. The hearing, held in Washington, focused on policy, conflicts within the TVA board, and charges of corruption.
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TVA
Washington
David BE. Lilienthal
Tennessee Valley Authority
Arthur B. Morgan
Harvard Law School
Morgan
Farber
Harcourt A. Morgan
Arthur Morgan
Lilienthal
Chattanooga
Berry
D-Tenn
Lillenthal
Aoe
Harcourt Morgan
H. A. Morgan
A. E. Morgan
A. B. Morgan
Congressional Inquiry
A. B E. Morgan
A. BE. Morgan
Cong
H. A
Vid EB. Lilienthal
Dr. Morgan
Congress
Steel prices hold firm as costs freeze profits rise
T M Girdler president of the American Iron and Steel Institute told the organization in New York that steel prices have not declined due to costs that cannot fall and that profits remain hard to secure. He cited wage increases since 1936 and 1937 and noted hourly wages are well above 1929 levels while prices lag. He urged output cuts when demand slackens to avoid bankruptcies.
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New York
T. M. Girdler
American Iron and Steel Institute
Girdler
Republic Steel Corporation
E. T. Weir
National Steel Corporation
Institute
Robert H. Jackson
Weir
Oppon
TVA A Morgan coinage idea called impracticable by committee
A congressional investigating panel heard former TVA chairman A. E. Morgan proposed a separate coinage system for the Tennessee Valley. TVA director H. A. Morgan said it was Arthur Morgan’s proposal and impracticable within current law.
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Washington
A. E. Morgan
TVA
Tennessee Valley
H. A. Morgan
Arthur Morgan
Decatur Curb Market Announces Opening Day Plans
The Decatur Curb Market schedules its annual opening day for Saturday May 28 1938 with special prices. Buyers and sellers will receive a notice from Miss Ebien Rowe home demonstration agent. Prizes include a basket for the ugliest man and the most popular woman buyer and another for the seller with the largest variety and most attractive table. Regular hours follow on Thursdays Fridays and Saturdays.
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Decatur Curb
Ebien Rowe
Decatur
Weather update for Tennessee river region today
The Tennessee river gauge stood at 21.2 feet this morning. Maximum temperature reached 80 degrees and minimum 58 in the last 24 hours with no rainfall. Mild tonight with occasional winds. A slight change in temperature expected into Friday.
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Tennessee
Alabama
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Oda
Pizen
Pilsend
Gost
Deas
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