Congressmen expect new session soon
Congress neared adjournment as key bills lagged in conference. Senate and House must unify the Wagner housing measure and the deficiency appropriation bill. President Roosevelt may recall lawmakers in two months amid disputes over court reform, tax loopholes, and flood control funding.
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Congress
Roosevelt
Rayburn
Dtex
Senate
House
Guffey
D-Pa
Burke
Dneb
O'Mahoney
D-Wye
Wheeler
Dmont
White House
Treasury
Representative O'Connor
DNY
Young Betty Honeycutt Crowned Wilson Festival Queen
Betty Honeycutt of Charlotte won the Wilson Tobacco Festival and Exposition beauty crown as the two day celebration closed. She had also won the mid-Atlantic swimming meet beauty contest in Charlotte and was chosen to represent Charlotte in Atlantic City on September 6. Governor Hoey spoke urging crop diversification and home production.
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Wilson
Betty Honeycutt
Charlotte
Carolinas
Atlantic City
Mullins
D. C
Hoey
North Carolina
No Help Wanted Bartlesville
Oklahoma City salesman W OL Bridges said two men in a second car robbed him of 200 dollars after he rejected an offer from state highway patrolmen to fix a tire.
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Bartlesville
Okla
W. OL. Bridges
Oklahoma City
Bingham Leaves London To Confer With Roosevelt
Ambassador Robert W. Bingham sailed from Southampton aboard the Empress of Britain to brief President Roosevelt on the Sino Japanese crisis and British views. The trip, announced as urgent and possibly lasting about a month, aims to review Anglo American trade talks and war debt prospects.
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London
Robert W. Bingham
Roosevelt
Great Britain
United States
Southampton
Bingham
Britain
Guffey Calls for Defeat of Court Bill Opponents
Senator Guffey boldfaced seeks defeat of Roosevelt court plan opponents O Mahoney Burke and Wheeler in a radio address. He warns of a partisan battle ahead while labor leaders and Senator Lundeen warn of possible party realignments before 1940. The clash signals growing rifts within the Democratic ranks over the court proposal.
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Washington
Guffey
Roosevelt
O'Mahoney
Wyoming
Burke
Nebraska
Wheeler
Montana
White House
Jefferson Island
Harmony
James A. Farley
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
United Mine Workers
Labor
Lundeen
FL Minn
Lumber Plant to Close Indefinitely in Bolton
Waccamaw Lumber Co at Bolton owned by E L Finkenstaedt said the plant will close September 1. He argued the lumber industry cannot support large facilities and such plants become poor employers.
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Wilmington
Waccamaw Lumber Company
Bolton
Burnsville youths plan appeals after murder verdicts
Philip Ray aged 26 and Otis Chase aged 21 face second degree murder convictions for the May 8 shooting that killed James Higgins. Judge Felix Alley sentenced Ray to 12 years and Chase to seven. Bonds were set at 10000 and 5000 respectively as appeals were filed.
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Burnsville
Philip Ray
Otis Chase
James Higgins
Felix Alley
Ray
Chase
California Town Guards Water Supply Camp Amid Unrest
In Banning California deputies and special officers guard the Metropolitan water district camp at the Colorado River aqueduct after clashes with a picket line of C. I. O. union workers. Sheriff Rayburn says tear gas was used. union claims buckshot. The crowd protested a closed shop policy near the camp entrance.
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Banning
Calif
Metropolitan Water District
Colorado River Aqueduct
Carl Rayburn
Riverside County
Rayburn
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers’ Union
Cc. I. O
State officer shot to death in South Boston
Deputy Sheriff H E Boe lite said State traffic Officer N G Terry aged 62 was shot to death at his home six miles south of South Boston last night by his son Stover Terry 26. The father had been drinking and the shooting followed an argument. Commonwealth's Attorney M B Booker called it self defense. A preliminary murder warrant was issued and Stover Terry's bond was to be set today ahead of a hearing next Saturday.
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Boston
H. E. Boelite
N. G. Terry
Here
Stover Terry
Boekte
Commonwealth
M. B. Booker
Booker
Nurse Ruthlessly Attacked in Chicago Hospital
A brick wielding attacker entered a Chicago south side hospital early today and fatally injured 18 year old nursing student Anna Kuchta. Florence Palmowski, 19, found Kuchta lifeless near a bed and described a young man fleeing through a fire escape. Police note prior similar attacks and consider the suspect young, 19 to 20, wearing a white shirt dark trousers and a light cap.
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Chicago
Southside
Anna Kuchta
Miss Kuchta
Miss Palmowski
Mise Palmowski
Last Laugh in New Britain Banquet Framed by False Alarm
In New Britain Connecticut a city banquet for firemen was interrupted when police searched for the culprit behind a false fire alarm prank. After the alarm rang, authorities questioned the officers about the prank as firemen returned to the event.
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New Britain
Conn
Army Navy Get Biggest Peace Time Defense Fund
The army and navy received from the 75th Congress 31,521,062 dollars the largest national defense fund in peacetime history. It exceeds last year's high by 21,870,581 dollars and will finance expansion of manpower and fighting equipment for air land and sea.
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Washington
Army
Navy
75Th Congress
National Defense Fund
Mattern Fails To Land In Arctic Search
Jimmie Mattern reported landing conditions impossible on a 400 mile Arctic flight from Barrow to seek six missing Russian fliers. He flew by instruments through fog, landing with empty tanks as American Canadian and Soviet aviators join the hunt near Barrow.
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Barrow
Alaska
Jimmie Mattern
Arctic
Fairbanks
Point Barrow
Sigismund Levaneffsky
Lindbergh
Moscow
Oakland
Calif
Pole
Levaneffsky
Siberia
Mattern
Point Brrow
Bob Randall
Filer Zadkoff
Krassin
Sir Hubert Wilkins
Fort Smith
Northwest Territory
Aklavik
Reynolds Slated To Speak Before Carolina Alumni
ASHEVILLE Aug 21 U S Senator Robert R Reynolds D NC author Thomas Wolfe head football coach Raymond Wolf and Dean A W Hobbs of the University of North Carolina are among speakers listed for Carolina Alumni Jamboree on August 28 with Reynolds among them.
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Asheville
U. S
Robert R. Reynolds
Thomas Wolfe
Raymond Wolf
Dean A. W. Hobbs
University of North Carolina
Carolina
Caldwell Speaker at Stanly County Grand Picnic
Albemarle Aug 21 Harry B Caldwell state lecturer delivered the principal address at the third annual Stanly county grand picnic today.
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Caldwell
Albemarle
Harry B. Caldwell
Stanly County
Shanghai port destroyed as war and fire spread
Shanghai reports that foreign police estimate about eleven square miles of the seaport have been destroyed as war and fire continue to ravage the area.
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Grea
Shanghai
Heat wave grips U S amid record highs and scattered relief forecasts
Heat continued across most of the United States with highs reaching into the 90s and 100s. A high pressure front from Canada offered relief west of the Great Lakes while a new low headed toward northern Texas from Mexico and Arizona. In New England heat remained intense with high humidity as New York City and Washington DC sweltered, and hundreds slept in parks amid the heat.
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Associated Press
United States
Great Lakes
Canada
Texas
Mexico
Arizona
New England
Boston
New York State
New York City
Washington, D. C
Atlanta
Miami
New Orleans
Quiet buying lifts mood on a listless stock market
On August 21 in New York the market saw mild gains from quiet steel and specialty buying. Traders avoided boards in heat and holiday moods yet a slow uptrend emerged as investors relied on Washington's Sino-Japanese war stance and potential November Congress action. Transfers hovered near 300000 shares.
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New York
Wall Street
Washington
Shanghai
Congress
Stop Thief! Potash Mine Robbed in Ogden
K B Cornia reported eight tons of mining equipment stolen from an abandoned potash mine in Ogden Utah. The missing gear surfaced in an Ogden junk yard and police arrested a suspect.
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Ogden
Utah
K. B. Cornia
National Sunbathers Open Sixth Convention In Nude
Nudist group gathers at Sunshine Park New Jersey for the sixth annual National Sunbathers Convention. About 860 nudists from the east, south and midwest were expected as members increased from 59 to 850 in two years. Policemen checked delegates at the gate while women cooked breakfast and men prepared a convention hall from felled pines on the Egg Harbor River site.
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Sunshine Park
N. J
Great Egg Harbor
National Sunbathers Association
South
Middlewest
Lisley Boone
Hazelwood on Allowed Bond Continued On Page Two
Coroner Bruce Cox announced T D Wood would be held without bail pending an inquest into the death of 12 year old Gloria Ha. Family members, defending the former college athlete, prepared to support him as guards kept vigil at Hazelwood Hospital where the mangled body was found beneath a 120 foot bridge.
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Hendersonville
Aug
Bruce Cox
T. D. H Wood
Ravis
Cox
Gloria Ha
Hazel
Hazelwood
Miami Beach
Labor Leaders Open Conclave in Atlantic City
The American Federation of Labor executive council met in Atlantic City to draft a fall campaign against John Lewis and the CIO. Private talks indicated a plan they steered at Cincinnati last May has been highly successful and likely to be intensified for a broader membership drive.
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Atlantic City
N. J
American Feration of Labor
Cil
John Lewis
Cincinnati
Coal Prices To Rise This Winter Says Industry Vice President
L C Gunter vice president of the Southern Coal Operators’ Association predicted a 25 to 50 dollar per ton increase in coal price this fall. He noted a base wholesale price of 2.22 dollars per ton for run of mine coal set by the National Board in Washington, the highest for the region since World War II. The Cincinnati district board will apply these base prices to set rates for other coal grades.
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Knoxville
Tenn
L. C. Gunter
Soutern Coal Operators’ Associate
National C Board
Washington
Cincinati
Gunter
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